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SAN FRANCISCO, MARCH 23, 1907
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Address. JAMES F. FORSTER, Business Manager.
Telephone Market 3 1 6.
France's Art Impresario
An Ex-Shepherd who became
the Ruler of Artistic Paris
Jules Pages, the San Francisco artist who went
to Paris and there attained considerable success
has been frequently referred to by the local news-
papers as an instructor in "The Academy of Julian,"
who died the other day in Paris. Many newspaper
readers have imagined that Julian was a great figure
in the art circle world of Paris and recognized as a
great artist. The truth is that he was a very bad
artist. Despite this handicap, or perhaps because
of it, he exercised more influence in art circles in
Paris than any of the great painters or a dozen of
them combined.
Julian was originally a shepherd in the South of
France and noted in his bucolic district as a great
wrestler. It was undecided at the outset of his
career whether he was to become a professional
wrestler or a professional painter. He cast his lot
with the artists and went through the usual
struggles of the poor student who goes to Paris to
conquer fame and compel fortune with his brush
and paint box. Julian's struggle was bitter and
protracted and he finally realized that he would
have to seek success bv other methods than practis-
ing the art of a figurj painter. He organized a band
of wrestlers and exhibited them in Paris with con-
siderable success. Then he hit upon the notion of
teaching, much a., unsuccessful actors become the
heads of schools of acting and men who fail at all
occupations write books telling how vast fortunes
can be made in trade and . Deculation.
Julian's first venture in his new line was modest
enough. He rented rooms in the Passage des Pan-
iii. .mas, where the lamous Markouski had taught
two generations how to dance.
The success of the Julian Academy wr.s rapid.
The head of the institution had execu*iv~ ability,
which is the rarest of talents in the art world.
There is a story current in the ateliers of Paris
about Julian's first pupil who was scared by the
emptiness and loneliness of the academy.
"Perhaps you do not like the model" said Julian,
whose manners were always most ingratiating.
"That is doubtless why you are nervous. Ah, she
shall be changed if you desire."
No, the pupil did not object to the model. On
the contrary, the model was quite satisfactory.
"Then," said the crafty Julian, "I can guess your
reason. It is because you see no one here ; but that
is really an advantage. You will be able to work
better without neighbors and besides I did not
engage to provide you with neighbors."
The pupils soon came to a man who could angle
so dexterously for them. Before long Julian rented
more rooms and hired more models. He gave
medals that cost but little and gave him valuable
advertising. He was a business man and politician
Some of the greatest homes in Paris figured on his
combined and he became a power in the art world,
list of professors, Bouguereau, Lefebvre, Fleury and
Benjamin Constant, those were names to juggle
with and Julian knew how to handle them to the
best advantage. The fame of the ateliers of
Julian spread far and wide and attracted pupils from
all parts of the civilized world.
Eventually this clever art impresario became
powerful enough to exert an influence on the Salon
more or less direct. His pupils began to crowd it
and he was the primary cause in the split in the
Societe des Artistes Finears over which Bouguereau
presided. The secessionists headed by Meissonier
formed a rival organization called La Societe Na-
tionale des Beaux Arts to which belonged such
famous painter* as Carolus Duran, Puvis de Chav-
annes, Duez, Dagnon, Bouveret and Gervex. In
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the end Julian triumphed being the greater master
of organization and political tactics. Indeed no less
famous an authority than Zola referring to this
famous split in the art schools of Paris has called
the ex-shepherd painter "A modern Tamerlane who
directed the applause and urged his men to the
ballot boxes."
The two Salons have since merged but the
schools of Julian have not lost their identity. On
the contrary they have grown stronger and more
popular though some famous artists condemn their
methods as deadly to original talent. The conven-
tional routine of the Julian schools, it is argued,
spells ruin to genius except it be of so high an order
that nothing can smother it. Some famous American
and English artists have condemned the French
method interpreted in the Julian schools with which
Paris had become dotted before the death of the ex-
shepherd and wrestler whose political sagacity and
hustling qualities helped to found them. The pupils
think and see and act like a flock of sheep, all
impelled by the same impulse. Wm. Keith our
great California landscape painter who has studied
in Paris, Rome Munich, Spain and England never
hesitates to condemn the modern French school as
one of "decay and death."
A great deal has been said in praise of the work
which Jules Pages has done since he left San Fran-
cisco and become a professor in the Julian schools
and has succeeded in selling some pictures to the
French government. There are critics who believe
that Pages would have become a much greater
artist had he shown less implicit devotion to the
Julian method.
Calamity Howlers Discredited
Editor Charles Sedgwick Aiken is making Sunset
a far better magazine than it was before the fire,
though it was then the best American monthly pub-
lished outside New York. It was better by far than
the average metropolitan-born magazine.
Mr. Aiken in the March number of Sunset, in
which it prints some editorial comments on the good
effects of the great fire, and one which he does not
refer to is the further improvement of the progres-
sive magazine he directs.
Mr. Aiken shows in a pretty vigorous article on
existing conditions in San Francisco that the calam-
ity howler is only howl. There is nothing to his
prophesies of evil omen. He admits that "the ex-
perience of April last was rather dearly bought ad-
vertising," but it has been productive of much good.
Mr. Aiken says :
"The signs of pluck and progress that followed
were worth money to see. Banks never did such
business before. Capital has come in, and steel
sky-scrapers are making the City's business center
look like a bright red forest, while reinforced con-
crete is making every near-by creek-owning farmer
scratch gravel."
"Publicity pays, as a rule," Mr. Aiken asserts, and
there is not the slightest doubt about it. Advertis-
ing always pays, whether it be a cftizen or a city
that stimulates a liberal flow of printers' ink.
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The Firemen's Fund Insurance Company has suc-
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lar than before the great fire. When the flames were
leaping skyward for days and obliterating the busi-
ness district of San Francisco, it looked as if the
Firemen's Fund, or any other local concern, must
inevitably be "wiped off the map."
"How can any local company pay twenty per cent
of its losses after such an overwhelming catastro-
phe?" asked every cool-headed citizen who was al-
ready figuring on the financial effects of the disaster.
Within a short time, however, the Firemen's Fund
Company paid fifty per cent of its losses in cash and
the balance in stock, and now it is paying six and a
half per cent additional.
The stock given to the policy holders has a good
market value now, and as the Company is doing a
larger business than ever the stock is sure to ad-
vance rapidly.
Many holders have such confidence in its future
that they intend to keep the stock until it reaches
at least double its present value.
The good-will shown towards the Firemen's Fund
Company by San Francisco policy-holders has been
most flattering to it. Only a company which had
completely won the confidence of the community by
honesty and liberal dealing could have been given
such proofs of the friendliest regard.
It shows, too, that Californians appreciate a home
enterprise which is conducted on progressive and
honorable principles. Enjoying, as it does, such
general good-will, the Firemen's Fund Iusurance
Company is certain to attain a higher position in the
insurance business on the Pacific Coast than ever
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There have boon no developments since Wilson
Mizner returned to New York and put up at a
hotel instead of rushing into the arms of Mrs.
Mizner, who was formerly Mrs. Yerkes, the widow
of the traction magnate. Wilson must make some
kind of a decided move soon as they say his purse
is not as plethoric as it might be. By the way the
Yerkes estate is not panning out as rich as was
expected. Several banks have large mortgages on
it but still there is enough left to keep the dashing
Wilson in fine clothes and pocket money for the
rest of his life if he could only break up the com-
bination that has kept his bride away from him.
Dr. and Mrs. Butler were guests of honor yester-
day at a reception given by President and Mrs.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, at Hearst Hall, Berkeley.
1 )r. Butler is President of Columbia College
University and is here with his wife on their
wedding tour. They were married in New York on
March 5th at the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs.
Francis Kay Pendleton. Mrs. Butler was Miss
Kate La Montague, and belongs to a wealthy and
prominent New York family. Dr. Butler was a
widower, first wife having died four years ago.
Earnest La Montague who married a well known
California girl is a relative of Mrs. Butler.
President Butler will deliver the Charter day-
address at the University of California. He will
also speak at gatherings of Columbia alumni in San
Francisco and Los Angeles.
Several affairs were given for both Dr. and Mrs.
Butler, the largest being the luncheon of the Home
Club of Oakland to which a great many of the
prominent people of Oakland and Berkeley were
invited to meet Mrs. Butler.
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The Mexican Minister to Cuba and Madame
Godoy gave one of the most elaborate receptions
of the season, on March the 11th at their residence
in Washington, D. C. The occasion was the twenty-
fifth anniversary of their marriage, in San Fran-
cisco on March 11, 1882. Mme. Godoy was assisted
in receiving by the wife of the Mexican Ambas-
sador Mme. Creel.
This interesting event in Washington will call
to mind the hospitable home of the Godoys on Mis-
sion Street in the early days. The family consisted
of Madame Godoy, Miss Adele Godoy and Joseph
who is now the Mexican Minister to Cuba. Every
Tuesday evening a reception took place at the
Godoy home, surprises were always being planned
by this talented family. Dramatic readings took
place and original little pieces were acted, Mr.
Joseph Godoy and his clever sister taking part.
They formed a dramatic club to which belonged
Edward Belknap and several who afterwards be-
came prominent in the dramatic and literary worlds.
It was at a meeting of this club that Marie Bur-
roughs, then one of the pretty Arrington girls took
courage and recited and acted with Joseph ' iodoy a
scene from Romeo and Juliet.
* * *
An extremely sad death took place during the
week when Mrs. George J. Engelhardt passed away.
She will be remembered as pretty Lysbeth Painter,
who was married early last year. Since the birth
of her baby a couple of months ago, she hovered
between life and death. This is a sad blow to her
aunt, Mrs. B. F. Yemans, who reared her two pretty
nieces only to have them both die under similar
circumstances. Miss Phoebe Painter who married
Dr. Gardner Perry Pond died a few years ago from
the same cause as that which occasioned young
Mrs. Painter's death.
Despite the protracted storm, a large number of
people went down to Del Monte for the week end,
and were rewarded by sunshine. Amongst those
who registered were: Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Cole-
man, Miss Cana Coleman and Robert L. Coleman,
Jr., of Burlingame, Clinton E. Worden, George A.
Pope, Samuel G. Buckbee, Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Metcalf, of Berkeley, Ned Greenway, Dr. Frederick
William Clampett, of Trinity Church, and Mrs.
Alary Austin, the clever author.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Irwin, Miss Helena Irwin,
Miss Julia Langhorne, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Caro-
lan, Miss Mary Keeney, Miss Katrina Page Brown,
who had all been South, stopped at Del Monte on
their way home.
The friends of Charles Dickman, the artist, are
on the qui vive for him to reveal the name of the
young lady whom rumor asserts he is engaged to
marry. The young ladv is said to be a talented
writer residing at El Carmel, Monterey.
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Mrs. Florence Land May has written to The Wasp
in reply to the letter of her former tenant Mr. Robin-
son, who professed to be much aggrieved at certain
statements that obtained publicity after he had shaken
the dust of San Francisco from his shoes. Mr. Robin-
son was one of those who skiddooed after the earth-
quake and he never stopped till he got to New York.
Mrs. May claimed that in the gentleman's haste to
put three thousand miles between him and this City
he forgot all about paying his rent and furthermore
got some of her silver spoons and other household
effects mixed up in his baggage. The rent bothered
her more than anything else and she expressed her-
self rather pointedly as to how she felt on coming-
back to San Francisco and finding her house de-
serted by her tenant, everything topsy-turvy and
the precious spoons gone.
All this and more appeared in The Wasp, which
being the voracious chronicler of local Society, was
constrained to publish the popular lady's complaint.
Then appeared the "come back" of Mr. Robinson
when in far distant New York, he read The Wasp
and found that though gone he was not forgotten
by his former landlady. Mr. Robinson assumed
what may be described as the injured innocent pose,
and pointed feelingly to his hitherto stainless reputa-
tion as proof that he would neither renege on the
rent, nor appropriate the spoons, knowingly or
otherwise. To render entirely ridiculous any sus-
picion that he was implicated in the disappearance
of Mrs. May's tableware he averred that the spoons
she had left in the house when he rented it, were
only ordinary plated ones which would hardly tempt
the cupidity of a junkman.
To tell the truth Mr. Robinson's denial dwelt
overmuch upon the inferior plating of those missing
spoons and it was evident that he wished to dis-
concert the owner by making the point that she did
not use or possess such a thing as solid silver in
the table service of her handsome Broadway re-
sidence. Such an accusation, if susceptible of proof,
would of course be frightful but happily Mrs. May
is not disposed to rest under it.
The popular hostess has written to The Wasp an
exceedingly frank and somewhat voluminous reply
to Mr. Robinson's letter, in which she disposes of
the serious charge that her pantry was habitually
shy of solid silver and fine linen.
The solid silver she says she had thoughtfully
stored away and when she rented her home to Mr.
Robinson, she let that gentleman have the plebeian
plated ware, which subsequent events proved to
have been even too good for it has vanished some-
how. Where to only the law courts can determine.
Robinson says : Search me ! I haven't got it in my
belongings either intentionally or by accidental
packing up," and Mrs. May stoutly maintains that
Robinson alone is responsible .
She makes several points against her ex-tenant
that would hardly stand the test of a Supreme Court
review of the case. Robinson she declares was "an
itinerant preacher in Ireland before coming to
America," and has abandoned the pulpit to become
a mining promoter. There is nothing on record to
show any strong affinity between plated spoons
and preachers of the itinerant or any other variety.
Even if there were it would not prove that Mr.
Robinson had a magnetic effect on plated ware.
The late General Ben Butler was accused by the
Southern people and especially of New Orleans,
Mrs. May's home town of having looted every
silver spoon found South of the Mason and Dixie
line in 1862. Even if this were historically true it
would not prove that all American Generals are
not to be trusted within reach of a pantry.
It is hardly likely too that any sinister connection
between Mr. Robinson's new calling as a mining
promoter and the disappearance of Mrs. May's
spoons could be shown. Even in Tonopah they
Mr. Robinson tried to make the point against
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back the spoons carefully. Mrs. May develops a
fine vein of irony in treating this phrase of the
matter. She says : ' I have received a notice from
hi attorney to send his creditors to him and th;.*
he will pay hem. I know Sing Loo or Fat, I don't
remember exactly the :".iu, will rejoice uS he he.
shadowed me for months presenting week afu ■
week, a greasy looking bill of 'fifteen dollars for
vegetables' and i nave had to prove by witnesses
that I am not Mrs. Robinson. I hu<* about made up
my mind I'd have to pay this vegetable peddler
myself and thus 'lay his ghost' as I'd begun to
dream about him and his well worn bill."
If the matter of Mrs. May's claim should come
to '.rial in the local courts it would be a case celebre.
MISS MARIE CHURCHILL
Mrs. Nathalie Dole Latham's suicide in Paris has
of course been seized upon by the sensational news-
papers and the circumstances exaggerated and pur-
posely twisted to imbue it with which the yellow
editors call "human interest. " The bare facts are
sufficiently full of pathos without torturing them in-
to a fabrication of lies.
Mrs. Latham, who wa". an American portrait
painter of some ability went to Paris to study and
work at her profession and being very good looking
and well dressed, attracted a good deai of attention.
Her intimate friend was the countess De La Salle
of whom she painted two portraits. When she
shot herself she was painting the portrait of the
Marquis de Berenice and that young nobleman was
in the act of descending in the elevator from her
studio when the fatal shot was fired.
* * *
This incident gave the sensationalists something
to work on and theorier of murder, etc., were in-
Mrs. May that she merely hired a caterer when she
don't salt silver mines with plated ware,
entertained in the house he subsequently rented
from her. The lady replies that such things are
none of his business which is undoubtedly true.
She also scores when she says :
"He moved out bag and baggage after the earth-
quake and disappeared, taking with him some of
my belongings. If my cut glass and linen were as
worthless as he makes out, the wonder is that he
thought them worth taking."
She proposes she says to settle the affair in
Court and surely that is a wise plan. Lack of space
prevents me from printing the column or two of
withering sarcasm with which Mrs. May disposes
of Robinson's pretensions to be able to judge of the
merits of fine glassware and linen since he left the
itinerant ministry in Ireland and came to this land
of freedom and prosperity. It is well for his peace
of mind that he cannot read in cold type what the
indignant lady says of him in manuscript. He might
wish he had never turned his back on the Cove of
Cork and sailed Westward.
In conclusion she refers to his profession of
eagerness to pay any creditor in San Francisco
whom he may have overlooked in his hot haste to
depart after the earthquake, without turning the
house over to Mrs. May or her agents and counting
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vented to explain the death of a .good looking
woman in the prime of life. The letter she left how-
ever for those who mirfit first find her dead showed
clearly that the act was premeditated. Like most
women who deliberately kill themselves she had
dressed carefully and arrayed heiself in her best
attire. She had very fine blonde hair and took much
pride in it. She requested that no one should dis-
turb its arrangement.
The real pathos of this woman artist's death is
supplied by the fact that she was probably driven
to kill herself by financial distress. It turns out that
some time ago an elderly nobleman, the Baron Von
Kopfer had informed one of Mrs. Latham's well-to-
do friends in New York that she was in actual need
and a thousand francs had been sent her. This sum
does not go far in Paris or any other large city
where people have to keep up appearances and Mrs.
Latham before long found herself again in want and
in the desolation of spirit which is likely to over-
come a woman thousands of miles from home and
friends made an end of her unsuccessful life. This
is one of the tragedies in the art circles of Paris
which we hear of. Many others occur of which we
never hear of. The American painter, male or
female, who goes abroad to study art, that most
inexorable of mistresses, too often overlooks the
need of proper financial backing. There is probably
no place in the world where a penniless foreigner
is more helpless and pitiable than in the capital of
France.
At a recent tea given by Mrs. A. Palmer Dudley
of Menlo Park, the engagement of her daughter
Miss Frances Coon to Oliver Kehrlein of this City
was announced. Miss Coon is a niece of the late
Judge Coon, and also ' a niece of Mrs. Wm. F.
McNutt and Fred and Harry Loon. Mrs. Dudley
was Miss Cassie Adams of San Mateo, after the
death of her first husband she married Dr. Dudley
of New York and has resided there for years. It
was in that city Miss Coon was educated. Mrs.
Dudley has leased a very pretty place at Menlo
Park, where she and her daughter are now resid-
ing. Mr. Kehrlein is a structural engineer and was
educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities.
* * *
An engagement recently announced in Berkeley
is that of Miss Olive Chapman a former San Fran-
ciscan to Walter Babson, who is at present engaged
in business in the Southern part of the State.
Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Borel and their two daugh-
ters, Sophie and Alice, will not return to San Fran-
cisco until next Autumn, when a double wedding
will take place. Miss Sophie is the fiancee of Mr.
John Lewis and her sister is engaged to Mr. Aglett
Cotton. The Borels have spent the Winter at their
place in Switzerland and write that they have en-
joyed the visit very much.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Burneston Owens have sent
out invitations for the marriage of their daughter,
Miss Lvda Burneston Owens, to Mr. George Anson
Herrick on April 2d, at 8 :30 o'clock, at St. Luke's
Church. A small reception will follow at the bride's
home on Pacific Avenue.
* * *
Miss Ruth Morton, who is to be married to Mr.
Parker Holt, will be another April bride.
The officers of the Twenty-second Infantry were
hosts at an enjoyable hop last week. The Army
tug left the Presidio calling at all posts around the
bay. Not the least enjoyable was the return trip
to the City.
Mr. and Mrs. George Sperry will soon leave, for
a trip abroad and be gone all the Summer. Their
attractive daughter, Miss Elsie, prefers life in Cali-
fornia, and will be the guest of her aunt, Mrs.
William Crocker, during her parents' absence.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kellam, and their three chil-
dren, will soon leave for the East to be gone three
months. They have rented their home on Pacific
Avenue .to the Langley Porters. Mrs. Kellam was
Miss Edith Bishop, daughter of the late F. A.
Bishop, connected for years with the Southern Pa-
cific Company. That attractive little widow, Mrs.
Susie Allen, is a sister.
Mrs. Ryland B. Wallace and her son, Bradley,
have returned from Santa Barbara, where they have
spent several weeks.
Madame Oda Neilsen, of the Royal Theatre of
Copenhagen, Denmark, and Valdemar Weliamson,
also of Copenhagen registered at the Del Monte
during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Halvor Jacobson
came down from San Francisco to meet them.
While in San Francisco the distinguished actress
is to give songs and readings in her native tongue,
with English interpretations.
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-THE WASP
As marriages between wealthy American men
and English women are rare, the coming wedding
of George Westinghouse, Jr., and .Mis-. Evelyn
Violet Brocklebank is much discussed in New York
and London. Both of the affianced parlies are ex-
tremely wealthy, for while young Westinghouse is
the only son of the famous inventor and is said to be
heir to a fortune of S50.000,000. Miss Brocklebank's
father. Sir Thomas Brocklebank, is one of Liver-
1 1's richest shipowners and many times a mil-
lionaire.
* * *
Another fact of interest is that Miss Brocklebank
has a twin sister who so exactly resembles her that
Mr. Westinghouse has been made the subject of one
or two good-natured practical jokes, which have
sometimes left him in doubt as to whether he is
paying court to his affianced or her sister. In the
hunting field, however, he has no troubles of iden-
tity, for the future Mrs. Westinghouse is one of the
best riders in England, while his future sister-in-
law does not care for either riding or driving.
The young people have known each other socially
for years. The real family name of the Brockle-
bank-. is Fisher, but the name was changed by
"royal letters patent" to Brocklebank in 1845. Sir
Thomas Brocklebank is, socially speaking, a very
retiring man. He succeeded his father, who was the
first baronet, only a few years ago. Sir Thomas
lives in a great mansion in Woolton, one of the bet-
ter suburbs of Liverpool. He has a wonderful col-
lection of paintings by old masters, and his other
country seat, Childerall Abbey, is a favorite "show
place" for Americans who spend a day or two near
Liverpool.
Renewal of the announcement that Mrs. Collis P.
Huntington will soon wed her late husband's
nephew. Henry E. Huntington, is again reported.
going so far as to assert the marriage will take place
very shortly in Paris. Mrs. Huntington left New
York recently for Europe. Mr. Huntington also de-
parted for the same destination soon after the widow
left. It is said a home has already been purchased
abroad, and decorators have been commissioned to
refit and furnish it for a wedding in the near future.
It is reported that the magnificent country home at
Throggs Neck, and the widow's Fifth Avenue resi-
dence will pass to her son, Archer Huntington,
when she marries,
* * *
An interesting exhibition of paintings by Mr.
Walter Cox, including some fine portraits, is now on
view at the Kilby Art Gallery, 1652 Van Ness
Avenue.
* # *
For the tenth time the poem had been returned.
The poet raved and tore his hair out until he was
completely bald. Great was his fury.
"But perhaps it is not so bad after all," he solilo-
quized, as he gazed at himself in the mirror. "With-
out my long hair I cannot be a poet, so I think I
will get a pick and shovel and go to work."
And that night the poet had beefsteak for the first
time in ten years.
Miss Madeleine Maxwell, whose portrait appears
in The Wasp this week, is a talented member of the
dramatic profession and has been winning favor as
a member of leading stock companies.
The White House
Easter 1907
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Photo Rice MISS VILAS of Berkeley
Mr. William O'Connor, who has been very ill in
his apartments at the Hotel Rafael, suffering from
tonsilitis, is now able to leave his rooms. Mr.
O'Connor is a great favorite with the maids and
matrons of the Hotel Rafael.
* * *
At the San Rafael Skating Club last week Miss
Edith Jones had such a serious fall that she-fainted,
her sister Miss Gladys Jones being a witness to her
sister's accident she too fainted, for a time this
created quite a commotion at the rink. Miss
Dorothy Baker also had a serious fall at the rink
and is to be seen around the Hotel Rafael on
crutches, which she will have to use for some weeks
to come.
The Womans Auxiliary of the Society of Cali-
fornia Pioneers, whose annual reception is always
eagerly looked forward to, will this year have their
meeting at the residence of Mrs. Jane L. Martel,
2613 Buchanan Street, Saturday March 30th., from
2 :30 to 6 P. M.
Miss Helen Woolworth who has been stopping
at the Hotel Rafael for the past six months left for
New York last Friday. She will sail for Paris in a
month and join Mrs. Joseph D. Redding and to-
gether they will tour the continent, remaining away
for the next two years. Miss Woolworth is an
orphan, the daughter of the late banker, R. C. Wool-
worth. Her mother died two years ago while abroad.
The Sequoia Club will dine this evening at a
Van Ness Cafe and subsequently adjourn to the
club rooms to enjoy an informal entertainment
under the direction of the dramatic circle.
* * *
An engagement of much interest to society on
both sides of the bay, is that of Miss Sylvia Harris
and Dr. Samuel Hardy of Oakland, a graduate of
Stanford University. Miss Harris is the daughter of
the late Dr. James Harris of Virginia City, Nevada
as also a sister of Mrs. Benjamin G. Lathrop, the
talented vocalist, who is in New York at present,
but will soon return to this City. Miss Harris is a
successful physician of this City. She is also promin-
ent in the North Beach Settlement Club and has
been associated with Miss Betty Ashe on chari-
table work. They helped many poor children who
were left destitute by the fire. Dr. Hardy will assist
his friend Mr. Armstrong as best man at the wed-
ding of Miss Lida Lieb in April, and during the
coming Summer his own marriage will be
celebrated. Dr. Hardy and his bride will reside in
Manhattan, Nevada.
# * *
Miss Jane Wilshire is busily engaged buying her
wedding outfit. She will be married early in April to
Mr. Polhemus. Owing to the illness of Mr. Pol-
hemus' mother it will be a very quiet home wedding.
Mr. Polhemus has prepared for his bride a very
attractive home in San Anselmo, where they will
pass the Summer. Miss Wilshire has received
some very beautiful presents from her father's
people in the East. One gift is a gorgeous case of
flat silver. Her collection of cups is nearing the
100 mark.
* - *
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MRS. AMY TALBOT
From a minature by Mrs. Role Hooper Plotner
At Mrs. E. Walton Hedges' dinner to Miss
Loraine de la Montanya and Mr. Edward Davis
last week, some decidedly original features were in-
troduced. Over the beautiful table several cupids
were suspended by pink satin ribbons. One of the
mischievous imps had shot arrows through the
hearts of two others, while behind the unerring
bowman a smaller cupid was carrying a wedding
ring. The favors were diminutive pots of tulips
in the petals of some of these were contained
appropriate verses for the guests. In others were
hidden a ring, money and a thimble, the finding
of which excited much interest. The lucky finder
of the golden circle was Miss Edith Metcalf, Miss
Maud Payne found the money which was like a
verification of the biblical declaration that to those
that hath shall be given as she is a great heiress.
Miss Roma Paxton found the thimble. The con-
fections were frozen cupids and hearts of ice cream
and cakes. A special refrigerator had no doubt been
used to congeal the warm blooded little gods of
love. The company did not worry over the details
of the dinner however but enjoyed it thoroughly.
Amongst those present were Miss de la Montanya,
Helen de Young, Ethel Shorb, Edith Metcalf,
Roma Paxton, Maud Payne, Edward Davis, Percy
Towne, Dwight Leeper, Phil Paschal, Dr. Pressley,
and Mr. Robinson.
The New York correspondent of a local contem-
porary wrote on Sunday that "D. M. Delmas was
glad to hear from London this week that Miss
Gladys Unger, daughter of Frank Unger of San
Francisco, has written a successful play called
'Brinsley Sheridan' which is now being presented in
London." He further says that the play was offered
to E. H. Sothern a few seasons ago but he could
not consider it owing to other engagements. This
must be an elaboration of the curtain raiser
"Sheridan" that Miss Unger wrote a good many
years ago, when she was a mere school-girl, and
which 1 believe Forbes Robertson presented in
London. Its success was thought worthy of cable
dispatches to all the San Francisco papers then.
No doubt the interest felt in the young playwright
here was largely owning to the fact that Frank
L'nger is her father and that her mother, who after
her divorce from L'nger, married Arthur Jules
Goodman, the artist, who is also an ex-San Fran-
ciscan.
R. M. Saeltzer, treasurer of the big Northern
California Lumber Company which has come to San
Francisco to revolutionize the lumber industry here,
is one of the richest men in Redding. He runs, or
did run, the large store of Redding which supplies
the needs of the miners up that way. His two sons
were sent to the State University and Dudley, the
younger married not many months ago the daughter
of Professor Henry Senger of the college.
* * *
Mrs. Thomas Vivian, president of the National
California Club of New York, used to live in San
Francisco years ago and she still cherishes a fond-
ness for the old City. She was prominent in musical
circles when she lived here. Her husband, "Tom"
Vivian, wrote a popular book or two during his
rests from his work as special writer on the San
Francisco Chronicle. Mrs. Alice Moore McComas,
another of the club's officers, is the mother of the
little vaudeville star and siffleuse, Carol McComas.
Mrs. Walter E. Dean, late of our City's social elect,
is a vice-president with Mrs. Alexander Del Mar,
who lived here many years before her husband de-
cided to take his family East to reside permanently.
President Roosevelt is not the only one who
objects to the designs on our gold coins. Mrs.
Howard Gould's sister, the one who lives here and
who married a Chinaman, suggested that a head of
Christ should be placed on the coins for 1900.
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Lawrence De Foulke, the valet who stole into the
house of Mortimer L. Schiff; the young New York
banker, and tried to club him to death with a nine-
pin, is likelv to get a very heavy sentence. The
valet is a tall, slender, boyish-looking Swede, who
came from Stockholm three years ago and claims to
have royal blood in his veins. The police think he is
a lunatic, and so does Mr. Schiff. His confession
was a remarkable one. He said that he came to
this country with the idea of making $10,000, so he
could go back to Sweden and set up as an inn-
keeper.
He was attracted by Mrs. Schiff's beauty while
serving as her husband's valet.
"It was foolish of me," said he, "to fall in love
with her. Of course I knew my place as a servant
and realized my own foolishness, but it was difficult
not to admire the lady. With the utmost respect I
wrote Mrs. Schiff a letter and handed it to her my-
self, not a love letter exactly, but one expressing my
admiration for her beauty and charm.
"The next day Mr. Schiff called me before him.
He had my letter in his hands and I could see he
was very angry. He simply told me I was dis-
charge and would have to leave the house at once.
He paid me a month's wages in advance, but the
money didn't last long. It was four months ago
when I was discharged. I was living in a room at
156 East Forty-second Street.
"Last Friday night I was hungry, out of money
and fairly desperate. I really hadn't eaten for twelve
hours. I walked to Mr. Schiff's house a little after
8 o'clock with the idea of having a talk with him.
I had called several times before, but the servants
always told me that Mr. Schiff was not at home. I
intended to step right up to the front door when I
went there last Friday night and try to get a note to
Mr. Schiff or Mrs. Schiff, thinking they would be
sure to take pity on me and help me out. Then I
lost my nerve and decided to get in another way."
The valet got into the house without being seen
and as he passed the bowling alley took a nine-pin
with him.
"There was a dim light in Mr. Schiff's room," said
he, "but I saw two diamond pins on his dressing
table and I put them in my pocket. While I was
there I thought I might as well stay and have a talk
with Mr. Schiff.
"A little after 11 o'clock he came into the dressing
room and saw me before he turned up the light.
"'Why, Lawrence, what are you doing here?' he
said, jumping back.
" 'I am broke and hungry, Mr. Schiff,' I said.
"He told me to get out of the house instantly. I
was afraid he would call the police, so I hit him over
the head with the ninepin. It didn't hurt him much.
He staggered back and then threw on the electric
light. He told me I ought to be ashamed of myself
for acting that way.. Then he said he thought he
would help me.
"He told me to come down to his office at 52 Wil-
liam Street Monday afternoon, and if I wanted to
go anywhere he would give me a railroad ticket and
some money. He showed me to the front door, let
me out and put a fifty dollar bill into my hand as I
went.
"When I went to his office Monday afternoon
there were two men there that seemed to be doctors.
They watched me, asked me some questions and
then talked to Mr. Schiff. Then a man stepped out
from behind a desk and grabbed me, telling me I
was under arrest."
* * *
Mr. Schiff says that in the main his ex-valet told
the truth. He wrote an impertinent and foolish let-
ter to Mrs. Schiff , which she turned over to her
husband as soon as she got it. Mr. Schiff said that
even after the valet had hit him on the head with
the ninepin, he felt sorry for the young fellow, be-
lieving his hard luck tale, but thought that the most
sensible thing to do was to get him out of the house
as quickly as possible, without a further row. He
slipped the young man a $50 bill, told him to show
up at the office of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on the follow-
ing Monday afternoon, and promised to help him
further if he saw fit.
Not even the servants knew Mr. Schiff had been
fighting for his life with the ex-valet, and Mrs.
Schiff, in a nearby room, heard nothing to alarm
her. Even the private policeman, Charles Schu-
mann, who happened to be strolling by Mr. Schiff's
house when the banker himself opened the front
door and let his singular burglar out, didn't think so
much of it, because Mr. Schiff suggested to him that
it would be a good thing if he held his tongue.
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yesterday he was smiling and didn't appear to be
greatl) distressed by his predicament. lie was
dressed rather dudishly in a black derby hat, gray
paddock overcoat, dark sack suit neatly pressed,
blue four in hand tie, patent leather shoes and pearl
.1 spats. He seemed to like his get up.
* * *
Lord Aberdare of Duffrvn, whose son married the
actress. Camille Clifford, in London, has discovered
that the young woman is descended from a noble
family. \o one else has done so. however.
Lord Aberdare learned of his sun's marriage when
the latter and his bride appeared at the ancestral
castle after a fast automobile trip from London,
lie absolutely refused to recognize the bride, and
turned the couple away. After the first burst of
anger of the irascible old nobleman, he began to take
an interest in his daughter-in-law, and, as he could
n- it disinherit his son, he not only forgave the couple
but entered upon a determined campaign to estab-
lish a social status for the future Lady of Duffrvn
and Ava.
Camille Clifford was known when the family by
whom she was adopted emigrated to America from
Sweden some years ago as Camilla Otterson, having
assumed the family name. Lord Aberdare an-
nounced that he had found that she was the daugh-
ter of a noble soldier of fortune who had been ban-
ished from his own country and had taken the child
with him in his flight. Then the young woman
confessed to her father-in-law that she had been a
servant in a fashionable household in Boston, and
that while in the Maine woods she had formed one
of a group of maid servants whose photograph had
been taken by an itinerant photographer. She gave
into the possession of Lord Aberdare the copy of
the photograph that she had preserved. There were
thirteen others in existence, she said, as each one of
the group had bought a copy at $1 each.
Lord Aberdare forwarded the copy of the photo-
graph to the Pinkerton Detective Agency with the
sweeping commission to find the thirteen other
prints of the plate and the plate itself, and to destroy
the plate immediately it came into possession of the
detectives and send him the bits. After months of
search all over the country the commission has been
filled, it is said, and the precious evidence of plebian
extraction mailed to England. Of such are the
romances woven about the nobility these days.
Trinity Church choir will sing the following proL
gram at the Greek Theater, Berkeley, Sunday af-
ternoon, March 24th, at 4 o'clock:
Processional Hymn — "Jerusalem the Golden" (by
request ).
"God Shall Wipe Away All Tears," chorus.
"The Palms" (bass solo and chorus), Mr. Wilfred
Glenn, soloist.
"Behold the Master Passeth By" (contralto solo
and chorus). Miss Elizabeth Price, soloist.
"O Come Let Us Worship" (tenor solo and
chorus). Mr. Charles Trowbridge, soloist.
"Out of Heaven" (soprano solo and chorus), Mrs.
John Darwin Gish, soloist.
"Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" (quartet and
chorus); Airs. Gish, Miss Price, .Mr. Trowbridge,
Mr. Glenn.
Recessional Hymn — "Brightly Gleams Our Ban-
ner'' ( Eaton), .Mr. Louis H. Eaton, director.
Gaul's Passion Service will be sung at Trinity
Church Good Friday night, March 29th at 8 o'clock.
.Mrs. John Darwin Gish, soprano; Miss Elizabeth
Price, contralto; Mr. Charles Trowbridge, and Mr.
Edgar Dawson, tenors; Mr. Wilfred Glenn, Mr.
James Greenwell and Mr. Wallace Hicks will be
the soloists. Louis H. Eaton, organist and director.
* * *
I '.en Franklin was experimenting with his kite and
key,
"Wonderful !" exclaimed the curious throng, when
they saw the electric spark on the key. "But could
you perform the same experiment at night?"
''Oh, yes," replied Franklin, "but I suppose I
would have to use a night key."
For even in those days poor Richard was known
as the man who wrote jokes for his almanac.
The illustrated lecture arranged for by the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Company and delivered
on Monday evening by Mr. A. J. Marshall of New
York, was listened to with much interest by many
prominent business men. The lecturer gave a num-
ber of valuable suggestions as to the most effective
and most approved methods of illuminating build-
ings. Mr. John A. Britton is the president and Mr.
S. P. Hamilton the manager of the San Francisco
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Who is prominent in the southern social set
Kenneth Donellan, the broker who has gone in
for motoring with such a zest, was living in the
Palace Hotel at the time of the fire. He and his
fam'ly occupied a large suite and on the fateful
eighteenth had as guests some of their relatives
who had come to town to attend the grand opera.
They were on the top floor of the caravansary and
when the move was made to flee they made several
trips up and downstairs to save a few of their pos-
sessions. They moved over the hay as soon as they
could obtain a house there and the broker said then
that he would never trust himself in a tall building
again. He goes spinning in his auto every day
though and never seems to think that there is a
chance of danger. Its all in the way one looks at
those things.
Mrs. Fred Kohl is at present wearing many dark
clothes which are very becoming to her blonde
order of pulchritude, and at the same time cause
her to look smaller. Mrs. Kohl is one of the few
plump young women in Society, for most of the
younger set are bent on getting thin and keeping
thin. Mrs. Kohl is only twenty-three or four but
her size gives one the impression that she is much
older which is a great pity, for her features are
really exquisite and increasing stoutness always
renders such a face less beautiful. She has masses
of lovely yellow hair which she does high and
she has a cluster of little curls falling from beneath
her hat for her hair is naturally curly. She is
wearing a short, full, dark blue box coat and walk-
ing skirt and a dark hat. At "Madame Butterfly"
one night she was in a black spangled dress which
suits her immensely.
* * *
Miss Jennie Crocker's departure for the East has
put to an end many rumors about her possible
engagement. I hear that the charming and popular
young lady's closest friends say that it is very
unlikely that she will be married before several
years have elapsed. She is not yet twenty and
is not keen on the subject of matrimony which is
very sensible and lucky for a great heiress of that
William Hooper Jouett, a bright California
boy, but seventeen years of age has received his
appointment to the U. S, Naval Academy at Anna-
polis. He is the grandson of the late Major W. B.
Hooper, and great-grandson of Mrs. Selden S.
Wright.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. William Mintzer will soon return
from Philadelphia to their fine home on Pacific
Avenue. Mrs. William Tewksbury the mother of
Mrs. Mintzer will come back with them to San
Francisco.
Let them know!
Your friead can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
-THE WASP
13
Conried, who has resigned from his position as
director of the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company,
is not wholly without a sense of humor, as this
story, which he told during his visit here, shows.
Some of our local musicians were talking about old-
fashioned concerts, and Conried said: "Some of
your hits are well-merited. I remember one time in
Chicago an old millionaire at whose home I was
staying called out to his daughters: 'What a time
you girls take getting ready for the concert. Look
at me — a piece of wadding in each ear, and I'm all
ready.' "
During the Midwinter Fair, when the late Fritz
Scheel's orchestra was the attraction at the Vienna
Prater, the concertmaster was John Marquardt, and
the harpist was Miss Breitschuck. A very pretty
romance ended in the marriage of the head violinist
and the harpist. The Marquardts were always
favorite and prominent figures in our musical world,
and wdien they went away on a concert trip around
the world they were greatly missed.
* * *
Harry Creswall, who has presumed to criticise
our police department, is a Southerner with the
usual high ideals and strong sense of honor that
are the birthright of our Southern cousins. He has
cousins galore in society. The Thorntons, Judges,
Brooks' and Huies being among his family con-
nections.
MISS A. FOSS of Berkeley
Amongst the miniatures of well known people
that Mrs. Plotner has painted and which attracted
much favorable attention at her exhibition on
Wednesday were those of Mrs. Eleanor Martin, Mrs.
Joseph S. Tobin, Mrs. Charles Huse, Mrs. Robert
L. Coleman and children, Mrs. Amy Talbot, Mrs.
Geo. Pope and Mrs. Selby Hanna.
* * *
The late Mrs. Dunphy was a kind hearted woman.
The day of the great earthquake, and the next day
when Nob Hill began to burn the Dunphys were
most kind to the poor people who had been driven
from their homes, and were climbing the hills of
Washington Street with their few bits of baggage.
Miss Jennie Dunphy had an auto loaded with
necessary baggage and supplies for the family's
hurried flight in case the fire reached their home,
but in the midst of her preparations she found time
to speak an encouraging word to the poor refugees
who sought a place to rest, and invited them to
enter the garden and quench their thirst at the
fountain.
* * *
It seems rather odd to read in one column of a
daily that a father has been sued and forced by the
court to pay certain moneys for the support of his
invalid children," and in the Society columns of
the same paper to read that one of the "invalid
children" is in town on a visit and is being enter-
tained by a prominent society girl.
An enjoyable luncheon took place at the Palace
Hotel on Thursday last when Mrs. Baker enter-
tained ten guests at luncheon.
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The last affair given by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
to close the season of 1906-7 eclipsed all her other
efforts.
This season of gayety went out in a perfect blaze
of light, amid showers of serpentine confetti and
Spanish dancing. The spirit of the carnival pre-
vailed, for it was a' Mardi Gras affair, and every
detail of the evening's entertainment fit like a bit
of perfect mosaic.
It was nearly 11 o'clock before the guests arrived
at Mrs. Fish's home, at Madison Avenue and
Seventy-eighth Street, from dinner parties given
by Mrs. P. Cooper Hewitt, Mrs. A. Cass Can-
field Mrs. Richard Gambrill, Mrs. Moses Tay-
lor Campbell, Mrs. Karrick Riggs, and T. Suffern
Tailer.
A wealth of flowers and palms gTeeted them, and
after laying aside their wraps in the dressing-rooms
on the street floor, they made their way to the
drawing-room above, which had been converted
into a perfect bijou of a theater for the occasion.
Mrs. Fish, gowned in pale blue net, embroidered
with silver, and wearing diamond ornaments and
her beautiful turquoises, stood at the head of the
marble staircase, near the entrance to the red room,
to receive her friends, who passed on to the im-
provised orchestra stalls, made up of small gilt
chairs in the make-believe playhouse. At one end
of the drawing-room a small stage had been erected,
curtained with green and adorned with that spiney
curling fish which is the Fish coat-of-arms. There
was a tiny orchestra, carrying out the theatrical
illusion, and below the footlights there were yellow
flowers and tall ferns in rustic pots.
The vaudeville performance began with a toe
dance by Mile. Mahr, -that brought out prolonged
applause. Next on the program came Beatrice Her-
ford, who gave original monologues, and she in
turn was followed by Henry de Vries, who gave his
wonderful impersonation of the different charac-
ters in "A Case of Arson." Miss Gertrude Hoff-
man, of the Anna Held company,' also gave clever
impersonations, and Clarice Vance was heard in
some Southern songs.
The performance ended with a Mardi Gras dance
in costume, done by the five Spanish dancers from
"The Rose of the Rancho." At the end of their
number they began throwing serpentine confetti,
first in the Spanish colors and then in red, white,
and blue. Mrs. Fish's guests took it up, until there
was a carnival battle between guests and dancers.
Just then a footman appeared with hats and favors
for the audience — gorgeous Spanish sombreros
trimmed with imposing plumes and sequins pf gold ;
Continental hats with paper queues, tied up. with
black ; garden hats trimmed with all kinds of
flowers in natural colors, all made of paper by
French artists ; little Dutch hats, Directoires,
Follys, Pierrots, and Egyptian headdresses, and
with these charming little parasols that unfolded
themselves from what appeared to be mere little
sticks, and displayed sunset colors in fluted paper ;
rattles, machetes that were formidable looking, but
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turned out to be mere silver paper disguises for
harmonicons ; little hatchets, owls, and rabbits on
sticks, with bells inside; wife-beaters, as little soft
paper-covered bags with handles were called; jester
canes, and other trinkets too numerous to mention,
but all fun-provoking and immensely clever.
Decked in these hats and carrying their accom-
panying toys after the Mardi Gras battle was over,
the guesis descended to the dining-room and hall,
where an elaborate supper buffet was served.
A boss dressmaker who has just returned from
Monte Carlo and Paris, says that to be smartly
dressed this year. one must wear stripes. This au-
thority says "you should buy your coiffure as you
do your gown, by the piece. That's the way the
French women do. Do )'ou suppose they iron their
ownmair? Not a bit of it ! They wear transforma-
tions to cover the entire head. That is marcelled
and taken off at night, so that is the reason the
French women have beautiful hair. As to color,
golden brown is the popular color this summer."
"Every one in. fashionable Paris wears puffs — just
as many as she can find a place for on her head.
All sleeves are Japanese. That is to say, they are
loose at the shoulder and not clearly distinguished
from the bodice. It is hard to tell where a sleeve
begins. Some of the sleeves of the coats are slashed
under the arms so that the material of a pretty vest
shows through. Other sleeves have quantities of
material under the arms. Still others have a sort of
undersleeve corning out through the loose Japanese
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"Another startling thing is that the French
women are no longer wearing veils. Only while
automobiling and driving are they worn. The
reason for this is that as veils are bad for the eyes
and skin, they had been abandoned. Veils were
worn principally in order to keep the hair in order.
The French women have found, however, that it is
not necessary to wear them for this reason. Nets
worn over the hair, which do not interfere with the
eyes or harm the skin, take their place.
"All of the gowns worn on the streets are long,
just touching' the ground. But the French women
wear exquisite petticoats. The moment you go into
the country over there you see short skirts, but the
city gowns are all long except such as are made for
the American trade, which will not take the long
ones.
"Brass buttons, large and small, are having a rage
on all sorts of materials. There are nine tailor-made
dresses to one fancy dress. The lingerie Princesse
dress will still be the thing for summer."
* * *
'I'm wearied of the whirl," quoth she,
"Henceforth the simple life for me.
Methinks it would be very wise
To take my breakfast ere I rise —
Of coffee just a single cup."
(N. B. — Her mother brought it up!)
"And when I'm dressed," thus spoke the maid,
"I'll hie me to the elm tree's shade.
And with a book there I will find
Sweet rest and comfort for the mind."
And so in svlvin shade she read.
i X. B. — Her mother made her bed.)
"A daintv lunch will suit me best —
Salad with oil Lucca dressed ;
No steaming soup, nor heavy roast.
But broiled spring chicken rerved on toast.''
She ate it all and found it good.
(X. B. — Her mother cooked the food!)
# # *
The Bachelors Too Frisky
The Bachelors' ball, the most exclusive and
friskiest function of Philadelphia Society, ruined
$30,000 worth of gowns. The feature of the even-
ing was a miniature snowstorm, coming with abso-
lute darkness, that wreaked havoc. It was a sur-
prise, but not exactly the kind of a one that the
buds and younger matrons of Philadelphia Society
appreciated. The Bachelors' ball is even more ex-
clusive than the famous Assembly of Philadelphia.
Last year it consisted of a wonderful windstorm.
The climax of the last affair, however, was more
remarkable. The lights in the ballroom were sud-
denly extinguished, and the dancers found them-
selves in the heart of a fierce snowstorm — but the
dance went merrily on. It became darker and then
suddenly the paper snow turned to real, cold, actual
snowballs, around which could be wound no ro-
mance. For five minutes the dancers were pelted
with these, and then suddenly the lights went up
and the surprise was over. It was estimated that
from $30,000 to $50,000 worth of costumes were
ruined by the snowballs.
* * *
"Whin a wild young man wants to git married,"
mused the janitor philosopher, "he has to straighten
out before he can double up."
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One of the questions that is agitating Burlingame
at present, besides whether to be for the grafters
or against them, is whether or not to receive the
Richard McCreerys when they come out from Eng-
land. Every one is very fond of Richard McCreery,
but some of the stony-hearted matrons are lying
awake nights trying to figure out whether they
should fling open their doors to the lady or slam
them. It is a very delicate question to solve in
California, though in an older community, where
the lines are drawn more conventionally, it could
be easily settled.
* * *
The divorce of Lady Edgerton was one of the
interesting scandals of England last year. Sir
Phillip Edgerton, the husband in the case, strangely
enough objected to his wife being in love with
another man, and refused to live with her. She
brought suit against him to cause his return to his
domicile, but was only partly successful. After
the divorce Richard McCreery married the lady
and it is said they are coming to California, as, of
course, England is not the pleasantest place in the
world for an American who has been divorced from
a baronet and married again to an American, on
account of whom the rupture occurred.
* * *
There are a few Burlingame matrons who are
inflexible in their standards, but many others have
not ideals quite so prohibitive against remarried
divorcees when they have shown the proper peni-
tence by marrying millionaires. To be sure the
ordinary Mrs. Brown, Smith or Jones who gets
a divorce with a scandal, would fare pretty badly
at the hands of the same Burlingame ladies. In
fact, she might enter their gates but to be stared
at glacially. Mrs. McCreery was, however, quite
recently Lady Grey-Edgerton, and one of her an-
cestors was a Revolutionary general and if there
is any one thing that Burlingame respects more
than money, it is that in which so many of the
newly made rich are so deficient themselves and
that is ancestry. So when all the pros and cons are
duly weighed and the decision reached Mrs. Mc-
Creery will probably become the lioness of the hour.
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5oi ty will be deeply interested, however, to see
whether the Parrotts shall deviate from their well-
established rule when the distinguished visitor shall
have become one of the local smart set. Hereto-
fore the Parrotts have crossed from their visiting
list not Only divorced women hut divorced men
and they have never been known to deviate one
iota from this rule, and some of their dearest
friend-- have been heart broken to find the draconic
law applied to them after their names figured in the
divorce court records. Henceforth they received
tile strong stare instead of the glad hand of good
fellowship.
* * *
Captain George \V. Kirkman's application for
release from the military prison at Fort Leaven-
worth is like a voice from the tomb. The career of
this bright but misguided officer brought him at
oi.e time to San Francisco where he came after
leaving West Point from which he had graduated
with distinction. One of his classmates was Sydney
Cloman, who also was stationed for a while at Angel
Island after leaving West Point. The latter officer
has gone up the ladder as fast as poor Kirkman
went down and is now a military attache at London.
lie married the widow of a very wealthy South
The culminating scandals in Captain Kirkman's
checkered career was his elopment with the wife
ol a brother and the embezzlement of company
funds. His unfortunate paramour killed herself
when discovered by her husband in a New York
hotel with Kirkman. The disgraced officer is now
trying by writ of habeas corpus to get free from
prison. He married in this City an estimable young
woman who is a member of the best social set in
San Francisco. She left him years ago.
African mining man and entertains in great style at
the English capital.
* * *
Professor Henry Morse Stephens has become a
veritable lion of society in Santa Barbara where he
is delivering a series of University Extension
lectures on "The enlightened despotism of the Eigh-
teenth Century. At first it was exceedingly dif-
ficult to dispose of enough tickets for the course to
justify the lecturer in corning every fortnight but
now that the people have found that it is quite en
regie to admire the learned Englishman the honor
of entertaining him is fought for among the mem-
bers of the elite.
The Club House under the Pines and among the Flowers of Del Monte
where Society takes it's Four O'clock Tea.
The French labor leaders who have been desirous
of emulating American methods in strikes and
boycotts have run against a governmental snag
which has wrecked their hopes. The Government
threatened to use military engineers to run the
electric plants in Paris that were shut down by the
strikers and this of course brought the strike to an
end.
In the Chamber of Deputies, Mr. Jaures, the
socalist leader demanded of the Government why
it had denied the right of workingmen to strike
and he denounced the interference as an abridge-
ment of civil liberty. A strike he said was industrial
war and the strikers had the right to adopt such
tactics as would bring them victory. To this M.
Clemenceau the Prime Minister replied :
"Yes, it is war, not between two adversaries
interfering with nobody else, but war between two
adversaries on the backs of the passerby. No
Government were it Mr. Jaures' own could permit
such a war."
Mr. Clemenceau was wrong in this statement for
we constantly see such wars permitted by the State
and Municipal governments of the United States.
M. Clemenceau did not rest content with the
declaration just quoted. He said:
"Mr. Jaures asks us to give strikers a free course
and would know by what right we intervene, I
respond most simply 'By the right of society to
existance.'
"You would have us leave Paris at night a prey
to robbers and incendiaries. I ask you M. Jaures,
if as the father of a family you would. consent to
see yours indefinitely deprived of bread? It is that
same care that I have for Paris, it is the same
question that I must resolve.
"You advocate oppression of the social body by
the minority. You intimate that we would make
slaves of the workmen. The proper enforcement of.
law and order permits .nothing of that kind, but
still less would we have the workmen become
tyrants. What we wish to defend against you is
whatever present society has that is good and to
prepare for what it may hereafter have that is
better."
Referring to the threat of the striking work-
men that if soldiers entered the factories and took
the strikers places, there would be bloodshed that
night, the French Prime Minister said :
"It is I, who, in the name of the united Govern-
ment, have taken the responsibility for sending
soldiers. If you do not overthrow me today I will
do it again tomorrow."
The Prime Minister's words evoked great
applause and the Chamber of Deputies declared its
confidence in the Government by a vote of 378 to 68.
It is a significant fact "that no Parisian news-
paper defended the policy of the strikers to in-
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order as is constantly done in the large cities of
our own country force the employers to terms.
* # *
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Nearly a generation ago the Sandlotters captured the
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rascality up to that date. Never before did such a
precious lot of boodlers find themselves so admirably
placed to loot the public treasury.
Their watchword was "Ignorance." They main-
tained the enlightened doctrine that an educated man
would surely steal if trusted in public office. On this
theory they elected hardly a man except such as could
prove himself an ignoramus, and then they disproved
their own doctrine most manfully. They boodled with
more indecency and persistency than any college gradu-
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Now, after a lapse of nearly thirty years, hi>tory re-
peats itself by ample proofs that a working-man's party
is the most inefficient and corrupt of all political
parties. The reason it is so is plain. The most cor-
rupt and unscrupulous men of all other political parties
flock to a labor party when it attains power. They
grasp the control and direct the ensuing campaign of
graft.
We have had a manifestation of that fact in the
concentration of all the old Democratic and Republican
grafters who could worm their way into the present
Union Labor party of San Francisco. Ruef himself
was for many years a loyal programmer under the late
lioss Higgins of the Republican party. When Higgins,
who was the most respectable of all the bosses, died,
Kelly and Crimmins took his place and Ruef trained
with them. So also from the Democratic -party ex-
perienced and highly accomplished wire pullers and
grafters worked into the control of the Union Labor
party and presently it became, in spirit and in fact,
an organization for graft and that only.
For several years the Union Labor party in San
Francisco has utterly misrepresented every honest
workingman who belongs to it. If the Union Labor
party represented the aims and sentiments of all the
workingmen of San Francisco, we should be compelled
to regard them as a lot of the worst scoundrels in
America. Everybody knows, however, that there are
as many honest and patriotic workingmen in San Fran-
cisco as anywhere in the nation, but these honest and
patriotic men have no voice in the control of the Union
Labor party. The organized grafters who pose as
professional workingmen and friends of the sons of
toil, attend to the management. They have formed a
close corporation and most of them hold fat public
offices. Some of them hold several offices. Half a
dozen of them are actively plotting to supersede
Schmitz as Mayor of San Francisco and perpetuate the
disgrace of the City.
The expose which has followed the Grand Jury in-
vestigation will doubtless sweep all the present com-
bination-of grafters out of office for the Union Labor
party of itself could not elect anybody. It never of
itself cast over 15,000 votes at any election in San
Francisco, and its candidates, including Schmitz, have
been elected by the votes of Republicans and Demo-
crats, who for one reason or another deserted their
own parties and helped to turn over the control of the
City to the worst gang of the three.
With the Union Labor party thoroughly discredited
and irremediably disgraced by Schmitz, Ruef & Co.,
our citizens will probably come to their senses and at
the next election put in office men who will represent
something more than organized graft.
Bonds Not So Good Now
Two recent despatches from Winnepeg are of
unusual interest as showing the effect of municipal
ownership on city bonds. The first stated that the
province of Manitoba, of which Winnepeg is the
chief city, had voted for public ownership of the
telephone system by a majority of 3000. The sec-
ond is to the effect that the City. Council of Winni-
peg had petitioned the government not to enforce
the act until 1908, because of the inability of the
city to finance anything at present. The trouble is
that the Hank of Scotland has refused to renew
with the city its loan which is now expiring, appar-
ently fearing the effect of municipal ownership
on the city's ability to meet its obligations.
London furnishes another instance of credit being
impaired by municipal ownership. Ten years ago,
according to the Richmond, Va., News-Leader, its
3 per cents were quoted at par, while today they
cannot be sold above 87, and it is admitted that
any largje issue of them would bring the price down
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The German Ambassador at Washington, Baron
Speck von Sternburg has been advanced in his pro-
fession as a diplomat by the fact that he has a clever
American wife Comparatively few people know
that the Baroness was a San Francisco girl, Miss
Lily Langhame.
The German Kaiser has long been desirous of
cultivating friendly relations with the United States
and in picking out Speck von Sternburg for the
post of Ambassador was influenced considerably by
the fact that the Baron had an American wife.
This lady has helped her husband greatly and made
him one of the most influential of the foreign
diplomats in Washington. As a hostess of tact
she leaves nothing to be desired.
The best evidence of the success which the
Baron Speck von Sternburg has attained in Wash-
ington is the substantial raise of salary voted him
by the thrifty German Reichstag. He has been
raised $5,000 a year without opposition and now
draws $30,000 a year.
Every week the Washington newspapers contain
paragraphs about the entertainments given by the
California Baroness. One day it is the English
Ambassador who is dined at the German Embassy.
The next day some visiting German Prince is the
guest of the Baron and Baroness Speck von Stern-
burg.
All this goes to prove that it is not essential to
be to the manner born to shine as a baroness.
It seems but a few years ago since the Baroness
Speck von Sternburg was living with her family
at a plain but eminently respectable boarding house
in this City. From that period to the present her
life has been a remarkable one. Her father, the late
Charles E. Langhame, was a traveling salesman for
a San Francisco clothing house and when he gave
up that occupation he became a fruit grower on a
small scale in Southern California. He died on his
little ranch a few years ago.
The Langhame girls did not remain in California
with their father. His brother, Arthur Langhame of
Louisville, Kentucky, who was a wealthy horse-
breeder and land-owner, undertook the care of his
nieces and had them carefully educated in a first-
class school in New York.
When the elder girl had graduated the Uncle
sent her with her mother for a trip through Europe
and it was on an Atlantic liner that the San Fran-
cisco girl met the Baron Speck von Sternburg. The
European trip was not one of pleasure altogether
for Miss Langhame had while a child, sustained
a fall which made her lame. It was primary to seek
the services of an eminent European surgeon that
she went abroad with her mother.
The marriage of this San Francisco girl and her
titled German husband has been a very happy one.
She is a pronounced American and her influence in
that respect is most marked at the German
Embassy. It has helped to make her husband's
relations with the President so close and friendlv
that the English Government recently recalled Sir
Mortimer Durand because he could not be on similar
good terms with the chief magistrate of the
American people.
Miss Ivy Langhame the sister of the Baroness
has also through her sisters position and influence
married a titled diplomat and became the Countess
de Farramonde. She met the Count at a tea given
by her clever sister at the German Embassy two
years ago.
The younger sister Miss Violet Langhame and
her mother are at present guests of the Baroness
at the German Embassy at Washington.
Mrs. Langhame was a Miss Driffield of Chicago.
We are in the habit of criticising the phlegmatic
methods of the Englishmen and their veneration for
red tape, but nevertheless they dispatch govern-
mental business with a quiet effectiveness which is
worthy of imitation. Take that Jamaica episode for
example: The British indulged in no hysterics over
it. After the foolish letter of Governor Swettenham
had been published, the English Government let
it be known promptly that the good officer of
America in the extending of aid and sympathy to
the Jamaica sufferers were appreciated ; further
that the good-will existing between England and
the United States could not be lessened in the
slightest by the misunderstanding between the
Governor of Jamaica and the American Admiral.
That closed the really important part of the
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the line of routine. Without haste or passion
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an outsider it would look as if there was no friction
whatever. The < iovernor offered his resignation as if
the nervous shock caused by the earthquake and his
arduous duties thereafter compelled him to seek rest
and recuperation. The English Government accepted
the resignation and indulged in the usual empty
phrases about the long and excellent services rendered
by its faithful servant, and so in a very polite way
and with as much outward cordiality and grace as
the proceeding would admit of, the incompetent
Governor of Jamaica was kicked out. After all are
not those polite pretenses and conformances to rou-
tine the better way for highly civilized nations.
HARVEY BROUGHAM.
A Chat With the Kaiser
A characteristic story may be related of Emperor
Wilhelm ll's peculiarities. One morning he made
a call on Count Szoegyeny, then Austrian Ambas-
sador at Berlin. The count was dawdling over his
breakfast when his valet announced, "his majesty,
the Emperor." As the latter entered and took a
chair, he said : "I have come for a glass of beer
and a chat, as I have not seen you for so long.
I will take a cigarette. And how is your wife?"
At that moment the baroness entered the room, and
the trio held a pleasant converse for some time.
Suddenly the Kaiser looked at his watch and
jumped to his feet. "Good gracious! Have we
talked so long? I must use your telephone at once
to bid the Empress good-bve, as I haven't time to
return to the palace before starting for the maneu-
vers. I must, however, excuse myself to my wife."
Thereupon the Emperor rang up the Empress to
whom he spoke as follows: "Don't be angry. I
have chatted so long with Szoegyeny that I. must
drive to the station from here, so I cannot give you
my parting kiss. I am very sorry."
Mrs. George Pope looks very well nowadays in
a pretty blue cloth gown and blue hat which are
very becoming to her fragile blonde beauty. Mrs.
Breeden has a smart dark red walking suit with a
dark red hat. With this she wears a black veil.
Mrs. Ed Pond, who is one of the best dressed wo-
men in Society, wears a gray walking suit and a
toque.
Mrs. Tom Eastland is often seen in a dark brown
walking suit and a large beplumed brown hat. Mrs.
J. J. Moore, her sister, is wearing a brown cloth
suit with a cream hat trimmed with pink roses.
Miss Constance de Young is 'one of the Society
girls who were devout enough to go into retreat,
but several more will retire from the world during
Holy Week.
Miss Inez Estudillo was given a jolly house party
at Pleasanton last week by her aunt, Mrs.
Dougherty. Miss Estudillo made her debute last
year and has been the motive of much entertaining
and is a general favorite in Society.
Mr. Lanel, the French Consul who is leaving San
Francisco for a higher post in New York, is one of
the most quiet and retiring of Frenchmen, but he
has gone out to some extent here. He likes San
Francisco and he thinks the San Francisco girls
are very pretty. He is a bachelor, as is the Russian
Consul. There is a rumor that the Italian Consul
is to be called elsewhere, as Count Naselli is soon
leaving for Italy.
The Walter Martins are soon to build another
house at Burlingame, or rather, it is said that Mrs.
Walter is to put it up with her own money, which
she inherited from Mary Crocker Flarrison, and it
will be one of the handsomest places at Burlingame.
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under The National
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This confirms its reputation,
and its great popularity de-
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912-aii Folaom St.. ban Francisco. Cal.
STRICTLY BUSINESS
Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
The History of the Oceanic
The misfortunes of the Oceanic Steamship Com-
pany have been freely commented on by the Eastern
press and opinions differ as to where the blame
should be. The general opinion is that American
shipowners cannot overcome the difficulties under
which they struggle.
The line of steamships to the antipodes had its
beginning in the boom period just following the
Civil War. The Pacific Mail was first in the field
with a line from Sydney to San Francisco by way
of Fiji and Honolulu. There was a mail contract
then, and there was keen competition for the tour-
ist traffic, for the Pacific Mail could land the return-
ing colonial sooner in London than the Peninsular
and Oriental. Along about 1880 New Zealand
offered a mail contract and the line was altered to
take in Auckland, with a stopping of the engines
off Pagopago for the transfer of passengers and mail
to Samoa.
In the course of time the Spreckelses, then the
dominating financial interest in Hawaii, fell out with
the Pacific Mail and started an island line of their
own. With the Honolulu trade cut off from them,
the Pacific Mail had to effect a composition, as a
result of which the Spreckelses look over the line to
the antipodes. For many years they conducted a
.monthly service with small and slow boats, and
before long it became necessary to admit the Union
Steamship Company of New Zealand to one-third
interest in the line, that is to say, one boat of every
three flew the burgee of the New Zealand company,
and this steamer, was invariably better than the
American Alameda and Mariposa.
It became necessary to meet this competition
within the line itself, and the Oceanic company
built three high powered and able vessels, the Ven-
tura, Sierra and Sonoma. Just about this time the
annexation of Tutuila and Hawaii intervened to
make the competition of the New Zealand boats
impracticable under the coastwise shipping pro-
visions of the navigation laws. With the new boats
the Oceanic company began some six years ago
a service of thirteen sailings in the year, a vessel
leaving every third week. Now comes the end.
The Oceanic company lays the blame, on Congress':
New Zealand lays the blame on the short-comings
of the steamship company.
After forty years the American flag is hauled
down on a trade route of its own discovery, and this
is done at a time when direct competition has be-
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come impossible. The Canadian Pacific has long
paralleled the route by its line between Victoria
and Sydney by way of Honolulu and Fiji, and
American trade and travel seeking to follow the old
line must now be diverted to British bottoms and
through British ports.
The collapse of the Oceanic line will no doubt
afford great satisfaction to Mr. Furuseth of the
sailors' Union, who has been making it harder for
shipowners for many years, and who once boasted
that he would make the grass grow in the streets
of San Francisco.
* * *
The March of Improvement
The real estate men of San Francisco after the
fire did not wait to secure ideal locations or to erect
beautiful offices but got to work right away in the
work of restoration. Now, however, they are get-
ting into line in the matter of handsome offices.
On Monday next Baldwin and Howell will lead the
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid od all Deposits
Paid up Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans on Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D. Phelan, Pres., John A. Hooper. V. Pres., J. K. Moffutt, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Sec'y and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Asst. Cashier, A. E.
Curtis, 2d Asst, Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS A specialty
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in their
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange Bldg.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK
OF SAN FRANCISCO
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS.
PAID UP CAPITAL,
DEPOSITS JANUARY 1. 1907
108-110 Sutler Street
$693,104.68
$600,000.00
$3,772,145.83
Charles Carpy, Pres. Arthur Lcgallet, Vice-Pres. Leon Bocqueraz, Secretary
John Ginly. Asst. Secretary P. A. BerBerol, Attorney
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field In moving into their elegant new building on
Kearney Street between Mush and Pine. Their
offices are the largest and finest of any realty firm
in the city. Other realty men will follow their
example.
» * *
Clearings
The exchanges at the Clearing House for the
past week were $49,767,293.89 against $48,092,681.04
for the corresponding week last year.
* * *
The week was a very active one with the Sav-
ings. The demand for loans continues to increase
but preference is given to those who are about to
build or establish homes. Loans were quite large
during the week — one of the largest being $500,000
by the Hibernia Bank. Manager Kelly says that
there is a good margin in deposits over loans and
that the next semi-annual report will show an
increase of $2,000,000 in deposits. After the fire
deposits started at about $70,000 a day and con-
tinued to increase till the figure of $160,000 was
reached. In one instance $200,000 was deposited
in a single day. Most of the depositors in the earlier
days were small amounts of a few hundred dollars
brought in by people who received it from the in-
surance companies for furniture or clothing de-
stroyed and which has been generally withdrawn
since.
* * *
The Lumber Situation
Deliveries of lumber have been heavy for the
second week of the month. The strike in the North-
ern mills however will not have an immediate effect
on San Francisco. There are 20,000 cars of pine
lumber that cannot be sent East for want of cars
and that must come to California. Of course until
that is exhausted there is no need of raising the cry
of a lumber famine or that of a stoppage to the
rebuilding of the City. Pine is still below the list,
selling at $22 @ $23. The heavy rains have stopped
building operations and the delays from this cause
will leave the record of March much less than it
would otherwise be.
Where Knox Hats are Sold
The finest Hat Store in San Francisco has
recently been opened by Paul T. Carroll in the
Mutual Savings Bank Building on Market Street.
The fittings and appointments are very attractive,
Mr. Carroll having shown his faith in the future
of the City by expending over ten thousand dollars
on his establishment. He has secured the exclusive
agency of the celebrated "Knox" hats, which are
now on display in the various spring styles. Mr.
Carroll is well known on both sides of the bay in
aquatic circles, being a member of the Olympic and
Reliance Clubs and having acted as referee for
severaj years past of the Pacific Coast amateur
Regattas. His many friends are sure to extend to
him the patronage which his enterprise deserves.
A SURE FOUNDATION
On which to build a successful future is the
habit of methodical saving. No matter how
small your earnings may be, open a savings
account and deposit a portion regularly. We
will allow you 3 1 -2 per cent interest.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT
AND TRUST COMPANY
CALIFORNIA and MONTGOMERY STS.
West End Branch, 153! Devisadero
Mission Branch, 2572 Mission, near 22d
Up-Town Branch, I 740 Fillmore nr. Sutter
VALUABLES of all kinds
May be safely stored at
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Cor. Bush and Sansome Sts.
Safes to rent from $5 a year upwards
Careful service to customers
Trunks $! a month
Office Hours: 6 a. m. lo 6 p. m.
The German Savings and Loan Society
526 CALIFORNIA ST., San Francisco
Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31, 1906
$2,578,695,41
1,000,000.00
36,531,917.28
OFFICERS -President, F. Tillmann. Jr.; First Vice-President. Daniel Meyer
Second Viee-President, Emil Rohle; Cashier. A. H. R. Schmidl; Assistanl Cashier.
William Herrmann; Secretary. George Tourny; Assistant Secretary, A. H. Muller.
Goodfellow & Eells, General Attorneys.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS -F. Tillmann. Jr., Daniel Meyer, Emil Rohte. Urn.
Sleinhart. I. N. Waller. N. Ohlandt. J. W. Van Bergen. E. T. Kruse and W. S.
Goodfellow.
The day alter, you need Abbott's Bitters. Braces the nerves; sustains you throughou
the day and makes you feel bright and cheerful. At druggists'.
MEMBER STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE
J. C. WILSON
BROKER
STOCKS AND BONDS Kohl Bldg., 488 California St.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES San Francisco
Telephone Temporary 815
24
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Bond and Stock Exchange
There has been a moderate amount of business
done on the Bond and Stock Exchange during the
week although the market, in sympathy with New
York, was affected more or less. The ghost of
Oceanic still flits about the board room and some
unfortunate holders are offering to sell at SO cents"
a share.
Spring Valley has been weak at $22.75, Bank of
California stock has shaded off a little with $3.65
bid. Sales of San Francisco Savings Union have
been made at $6.30. There has been an advance in
California Wine stock for which $91.50 has been
bid. Sales of its 5s have been made at $98. Cali-
fornia Fruit Canners has weakened again, $103.50
bid . California Gas and Electric 5s sold at $98.
There has been an upward movement in Sugar
stocks.
* * *
The Banks
One of the results of the stock panic in the East
has been to make the local banks pull the strings
tighter. This, however, happens at a time when
the normal demand for money is less than usual
as there are no crops to be moved so that the
strain is less. The effects of the New York dis-
turbance were felt here more than a week ago and
at the time of the first flurry in Wall Street when
the Clearing House Exchanges dropped to a level
with those of 1906 for the first time since the
opening of the year. Although this was also in
part due to the lessened volume of sales on our
local mining exchange.
* * *
Mining Stocks
The tendency of the mining stock market has
been downward. New developments in the mines
are needed to give prices a lift. The industrial
troubles in Nevada have ended for the time being
and the Industrial Workers of the World who
started them have been driven from the field.
An Admirable Cafe
On account of the demand by the tra-reling
public Mr. H. C. Raap proprietor of the National
Cafe and Grill, situated at 918-920 O'Farrell Street,
near Van Ness Avenue, has decided to keep his
establishment open until three o'clock in the morn-
This will accommodate the hotel and drummer
trade, there being a good many residents in the
immediate vicinity of the cafe, who have been un-
able to obtain a meal after the usual hours. There
are three separate entrances, the main restaurant
containing thirty tables, private tables for families
and the Grill and Bar.
A special Merchants Hot Lunch including Tea,
Coffee, Wine or Beer is given daily between 11 A.
M. and 2 P. M. at 25 cents. There is a regular
dinner at 50 cents and a special Sunday dinner at
75 cents. Meals are served a la carte at all hours
until 3 A. ,M. as above stated. The meats are the
very best that can be obtained and Mr. Raap has
been complimented on his enterprise in sparing no
expense to make the National Cafe the rendezvous
for lovers of good eating. The tables are specially
arranged for the comforts of patrons, the menu is
unrivalled and at popular prices, the wine list un-
excelled and everything is so scrupulously neat and
clean that it is no wonder the establishment is
already popular.
Mr. Raap who took charge of the Cafe in January
last is from Martinez where he was interested in
promotion work for Contra Costa County for the
past twenty years. He is well and favorably known
and has decided to make his home in this City. Mr.
Raap is a native son, first vice-president of the Cali-
fornia State Board of Trade, Past Master of the
California State Grange and has a host of friends
who wish him every success in his venture.
Germania National Bank
OP SAIN FRANCISCO
IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT THEIR NEW QUARTERS
521 MARKET STREET, Bet. First and Second Streets
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
OFFICERS: W. A. Frederick. President; F. Kronenberg. Vice-President;
R. F. Crist, Vice-President; F. Kronenberg. Jr., Cashier.
Cable Address; Gel
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Stock Exchange
Goldfield, Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET, STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE. Pres.
GAVIN McNAB. Atty.
WM. CORB1N, Sec. and Gen. Mgr.
OFFICES -
COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Popular French Restaurant
Regular Dinner 75c
Meals a la carte at any hour
Private Dining Rooms
[or Banquets, etc.
497 Golden Gate Ave.
Comer Polk Street
Phone Market 2315
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Lands sake ! How careless some people are ! I'm
an honorary member of the Apothecaries' Daugh-
ters and they went and printed my name on the
executive committee as Mrs. Tabitha Twiggs.
Goodness! I can't describe the shock it gave me
when I saw it in print. I realized for the first
time how a woman of spirit must feel when she
sees her marriage notice in the papers. The com-
mittee on printing won't make such a mistake
again, I can tell you. Gracious! I'm only sorry
I didn't say more to them, for it was gross care-
lessness. They not only put me down on the
printed list as Mrs. but did the same thing to other
single young girls. Well, what do you think? In-
stead of apologizing to us the married woman who
was responsible for the error says :
"Oh, what's the difference. Everybody knows
you're all misses !"
"Is that so," I replied. "Well I can tell you I
didn't marry the first man that asked me like some
people I know."
That hit her, as Mrs. Gayleigh would say, "good
and hard."
I wish I could find a society composed only of
single women. They are much nobler and broad
minded than the married ones.
Oh dear ! Why do the daily newspapers publish
homely women's portraits and put under them such
titles as "The Lovely Mrs. Brown," or "The Beau-
tiful Mrs. Smith?" It turns their heads completely.
It really does. Mrs. Gabbe was telling me today
about one of them that's talking of getting a divorce
right away. Her husband doesn't take her round
enough, she says. She wants to show herself and
be admired by the young men. Oh mercy! It's a
shame she says that a lovely woman should be
kept in the house and have her young life robbed
of all sunshine. She's been carrying on that way
ever since she was pictured as "The Beautiful Mrs.
Plugg (nee Sourface)." Her husband is talking
about bringing suit for $50,000 against the news-
papers for alienating his wife's affections and he
married her only for her money, for she's homelier
than a mud fence. That's married life for you.
Thank heaven I'm ingle and have no desire to be
otherwise.
Mrs. Gayleigh was in today and told me about
another silly married woman that craves admira-
tion. She's been down to Santa Barbara and Los
Angeles giving teas all Winter while her husband
has been hustling around in the San Francisco
mud to pay her bills. She actually corresponds
with other men.
Oh goodness ! The other day she got her letters
mixed and sent her husband one intended for a
young bank clerk. It didn't bother him in the
least. Mrs. Gayleigh says husbands with Society
wives that are never home don't worry over trifles.
The young man who got the husband's letter
though was stunned. He was addressed as "You
stingy old bear," and told to "dig up 200 plunks"
at once. What horrible slang! If he didn't for-
ward the money she was going to draw on him
through the bank and see if he would dare refuse.
Goodness me ! That letter must have worried the
young man badly, especially as Mrs. Gayleigh says
he is having a good deal of trouble with his tailor
and his boarding house. The shock, she says, will
keep him from figuring as co-respondent in a
divorce suit this year at least. That woman has
a most extraordinary way of looking at things.
I never can understand her point of view.
TABITHA TWIGGS.
Miss Helen Woolworth has left for Europe and
she is not coming back here for years. She is de-
voted to life on the other side and she was very
glad to leave here. Her friends always imagined
that she would marry a title, but she insists upon
being married for love instead of her fortune and
declares that she will give no husband a penny of
her money.
The Auditorium
FILLMORE STREET, Comer Page
FRANK RITT1GSTEIN. Manager
A SKATING PALACE
Longest Floor Best Skating Courteous Attention to All Patrons
Special Arrangements for Private Clubs and Parties, etc.
Old Poodle Dog Restaurant
824-826 EDDY STREET
Near Van Ness Ave.
Service better than before
the fire
Formerly, Bnsh and Grant Ave.
San Francisco
Phone Emergency 63
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Automobile News
The automobile dealers are complaining of the
slow deliveries of their respective cars on this Coast,
which retards business very materially. The de-
mand for the machines is good but contemplating
purchasers want immediate delivery, not being
satisfied to wait any length of time until the
machines are received from the factories. The
numerous washouts on the railroads account in a
great measure for the delay.
Mr. W. M. Gardiner, local manager of the White
Sewing Machine Company's branch here, has re-
cently returned from a visit to the factory of the
company in Cleveland. He reports large sales
throughout the country with unusually big orders
from the Pacific Coast. He has secured additional
shipments of the 1907 White Cars for the local
house. Speaking of the merits of the White, a
well known and enthusiastic autoist said that it is
evident to the careful observer that many import-
ant improvements have been made in the new 1907
models. There is for example the simplified system
of regulation enabling the merest novice to run a
White and secure the same results as the most
experienced operator. It is still the "Incomparable
White" made by the "White Company."
Thomas Henderson, vice president of the Winton
Motor Carriage Co., accompanied by Mrs. Hender-
son, left Cleveland recently on a leisurely trip to
the Pacific Coast. Going and returning Mr. Hen-
derson will visit Winton representatives in the
larger cities of the West.
Work on the new Winton branch in Pittsburg is
progressing so rapidly that the building will un-
doubtedly be ready for occupancy by April 15th.
The structure will be one of the largest automobile
establishments and the only manufacturer's branch
house in Pittsburg. A site for the Winton branch
in Detroit will be selected within the next ten days,
and the building work will then proceed rapidly.
How Fast Hiawatha Ran
Determine how fast, asks Prof. Greenhill, Hia-
watha can run from the following data :
Strong of arm was Hiawatha ;
He could shoot ten arrows upward
And the tenth had left the bow-string
Ere the first to earth had fallen.
Swift of foot was Hiawatha;
He could shoot an arrow from him
And run forward with such swiftness
That the arrow fell behind him.
Neglecting the resistance of the air and granting
that Hiawatha could shoot one arrow a second, the
solution is as follows :
The time of flight of the arrows shot upward
must have been nine seconds. Therefore the
velocity with which they were shot, being equal
to the time multiplied into half the value of the
constant of gravity, was 144 feet a second.
Now, in shooting an arrow from him Hiawatha,
to obtain the furthest flight, would let fly at an
angle of 45 degrees, and by a simple trigonometrical
calculation we therefore arrive at the fact that the
horizontal velocity of the arrow would be rather
less than 144 feet second, and would, in fact, be
102 feet a second, or 70 miles an hour. Hiawatha
would therefore have to run faster than this. Could
he do it on a sprint?
Again having recourse to calculation we find that
an arrow shot at 144 feet a second would fly 216
yards, or nearly a furlong. Hiawatha would run
that distance in about seven seconds, so that he
would be able to give the present holder of the
record some 145 yards ftart.
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This famous cordial, now made at Tar-
ragona. Spain, was for centuries distilled
by the Carthusian Monks(PeresChartreux)
at the Monastery of La Grande Chartreuse.
France, and known throughout the world
as Chartreuse, The above cut represents
the bottle and label employed in the putting
up of the article since the Monks' expul-
sion from France, and it is now known as
Liqueur Peres Chartreux (the Monks
however, still retain the right to use the
old bottle and label as well), distilled by
the same order of Monks. who have securely
guarded the secret of its manufacture for
hundreds of years, and who alone possess a
knowledge of the elements of this delicious
nectar.
At first-class Wine Merchants. Grocers. Hotels. Cafes
Batjer & Co . 45 Broadway. New York.
N. Y., Sole Agents for United States.
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America's Dress Parade
It takes place at the Royal
Ponciana Hotel, Florida
The Royal Ponciana Hotel al Palm
Beach, Florida, is said by travelers to
paradise of the moneyed aris-
tocracy of America. The ostentatious
and vulgar display of wealth is as
gorgeous as a circus parade, and just
about as refined. The Ponciana is
one of the largest hotels in the world
and entertains about 30.000 guests dur-
ing the season. The lowest rate is
$5 a day, but you can pay $100 a day.
if spending money be your chief de-
sire. The Hotel contains 1266 bed-
rooms and 640 bathrooms and you can
walk two miles in the corridors with-
out repeating or going out of doors.
The dining room has a floor space
of 28,389 feet and seats 1600 people.
There are 1400 employes including
100 cooks, 400 waiters and 100 bell-
boys. The meats and groceries for
this great hotel are brought from New
York by express. The fish, fruits and
vegetables are obtained in Florida and
Alabama.
* * *
The exhibitions of millinery and
dress goods that are given three times
a day at the Royal Ponciana are un-
equalled in costliness and gorgeous-
ness by any in the world. Nowhere
else is there such a display of money,
for the sake of ostentation.
* * *
The morning exhibition shows off
the wealthy women at the Ponciana in
their linens and laces. As you walk
down the piazza you can see by the
hundred morning dresses of Irish
point lace that cost hundreds of dol-
lars, and long wraps to match the
dresses in style and cost.
* * *
At 11 o'clock the crowd at the
Ponciana goes to the bathing beach
to see the dress and the undress
parade — the latter in particular. The
beach is not nearly as fine as that
at Santa Cruz and several other Cali-
fornia resorts. The water is warm
at all times of the- year, because the
gulf stream comes within a mile and
a half of the land. The surf is too
heavy for delicate people, who prefi i
a big swimming pool that is sur-
rounded by a pavilion. Nearly every-
body who goes into the surf also tries
the po.,I for a little swim before
dressing, and the gallery around it is
so situated that the good-lookine om
can show their shapes to a large
audience. The bathing dresses are
made for show, usually of black silk
or satin trimmed with Irish point and
other lace and with elaborate collars
and cuffs. Some of the more showy
and shapely ladies appear in bright
colors — purple, blue and even scarlet,
with stockings, bathing slippers and
poke bonnets to match. It is need-
less to say that these bathing dresses
have been fitted to the form with
great accuracy. Some of them appear
to have shrunk so that they are un-
comfortably tight. The skirts are as
short as the law allows.
* *
After the morning dip the guests
at Palm Beach take their luncheon
and then go to the band concert
where there is the afternoon display
of finery for everyone to stare at. The
hats are very elaborate and are loaded
with gorgeous flowers and plumes,
remarkable for their length and
beauty. Parasols, stockings, slippers,
gloves and fans match the costumes
and nearly every woman has a long
"liberty motor veil," falling over her
shoulders, and sometimes tied over
her hat. It isn't fashionable to get
tanned any more. Last year and the
year before girls went around bare-
headed and bare-armed, but now they
wear long gloves and, veils so that
as little as possible of the skin may
be exposed.
Nearly every woman has a gold-
netted purse with the clasp set with
diamonds and other jewels, which of
itself is an evidence of opulence, for
they cost all the way from $500 up to
$5000.
The real dresS parade at the Royal
Ponciana Hotel is reserved for the
evening. It is at the dinner and in
the rotunda where a thousand guests
gather after dinner, that the fiercest
rivalry of clothes and jewels takes
place. Every evening, about 6 o'clock,
before they go upstairs to dress, you
will see a line of ladies standing in
front of the cashier's window gelling
their jewel boxes out of the safe.
Often when rich people go away from
home for a good time they leave their
jewels at home, but when they go to
Palm Beach rich women who intend
to enter the dress contest at Palm
Beach bring every bit of gold and
silver and precious stones the}' have.
* * *
In this rivalry of the dressmakers
and jewelers art at the Royal Ponci-
ana Hotel the native matrons have the
field almost to themselves. It is by
no means a beauty show, for girls
with the graces of a goddess are rare.
The fat dowagers are seated com-
fortably in the chairs, or stand around
gossiping, while their bare necks and
their heads blaze with diamonds.
Many of them would like to put the
price marks on their jewels and would
not be hurt if one asked permission
to read the tags.
Some day in the not far distant
future California will have resorts like
the Royal Ponciana at Palm Beach
which is supported by the rich people
of the overflowing cities on the At-
lantic Coast. They cannot stand the.
cold Winters and the frightfully hot
Summers, and flee to a temperate
zone where they can combine lavish
display with physical comfort. Before
long the great Middle West will teem
with a wealthy class, who will fre-
quent California just as the Bos-
toniaiis and New Yorkers resort to
Palm Beach. The Califonva habit is
growing rapidly.
H. C. RAAP, Manaser
Telephone Franklin 588
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 O'FARRELL ST., San Francisco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea, Coffee. Wine or Beer. 1 I a. m. to 2 p. m.
A LA CARTE al all hours.
Regular Dinner 50c Special Sunday Dinner 75c
.. CONEY J. HUFF
Kadee Hammam Baths
TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Nighl
GEARY AND GOUGH STREETS
Strictly First Class Phone West 3725
Qrir., 1NEW **
OSSIFIED
* Directory
OF SAN FRANCISCO'S
LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES ^l""
and PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE.
REVISED AffJS CORRECTED WEEKLY.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Builders^ Exchange, 226 Oak St., S. F.
Builders' Association, 96 Fulton St.
ADDRESSING MACHINES.
Elliott Addressing Machine Co., 68 Stock-
loi< St.. S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
Bolte 4 Braden, 105-107 Oak St., S. F.; phone
Park 2JJ.
Cooper Adv. Agency, F. J., West Mission and
Brady sts.
Dake Adv. Agency, Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temporary 1440.
Fisher, L. P. Adv. Agency, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Emergency 684.
Hadley, M. L., Advertising Agency, 26
Clay St.
Johnston-Dienstag Co., 2170 Post St.,
Tuttle, L. T„ 332 Delbert Block, cor. Van
Ness Ave. and O'Farrell.
Walker, Shirley, Advertiser. Midway
building, 779 Market street, phone
Temporary 1839.
A8ENTS— MANUFACTURERS.
Wlrtner, Jno. J., 2330 Vallejo St., S. F.
ARCHITECTS.
Carson, John, Vice-President and
Manager H. C. Chivers, 1627 Sut-
ter St.
Chlvers, Herbert C, 1627 Sutter St., S.
F.; Wainwrights Building, St. Louis,
Mo.
Curtis John M., 2601 Buchanan St., 8. F.
Havens & Toeplce, 611-612 Mutual Savings
Bank,
lteed Bros. Temporary Offices, 2326
Gough St.. S. F.
Thos. J. Welsh, John W. Carey, associate
architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
Galinrrh^r Bhs„ 2208 Geary St., S. F.
Gump, S. & G., 1645 California St., b. F.
aichussler Bros., 341 Grove si.
ATTORNEYS.
A. Heynemann, 2193 Fillmore St.
Phone West 6405.
Bahra, George H., 1901 Post St., cor.
Fillmore. S. F.
Campbell, Metson & Drew, 1101 Laguna St.,
cor. of Turk St., S. F.
Dorn, Dorn & Savage, 717 Van Ness
ave.
Drum, J. S., 1416 Post St., S. F.
Dlnkelsplel. Henry G. W.. 1266 Bills St.,
S. F. PHONE, WEST 2355.
Goldstone, Louis, 1124 Fillmore St.
Heller, Powers & Ehrman, Union
Trust bldg.
Hewlett, Bancroft and Ballantine,
Monadnock Bldg., Phone Temporary
972.
McEnerney, Garret W-, 1416 Post St.. S.F.
Lawlor, Wm. P., Judge, The Family
Club, 1900 Franklin St., S. F.
O'Callaghan. Chas. F.. 928 Fillmore Bt.,
S. F.
Pringie & Pringle, 2219 Fillmore st.
Ricketts, A. H. (Title Quieting Co.)
1136 O'Farrell street. Tel. Emer-
gency 788.
Shadburne, Geo., D., 904 Devisadero
at., S. F.
Shortrldge, Samuel M., 1101 O'Farrell St.,
S. F.
Edward B. Young, 4th Floor, Union Trust
Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temporary, 833.
AUTOMOBILES AND .SUPPLIES.
Auto Livery Co., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
Boyer Motor Car Co., 408 Golden Gate ave.
Phone, Emergency 655.
Leavltt, J. W. & Co., 441 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F. ; 370, 12th St., Oakland.
Lee Cuvler, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
Middleton Motor Car Co., 550 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F.
Mobile Carriage Co., Golden Gate Ave.
and Gough sts., S. F.
Pioneer Automobile Co., 901 Golden Gate
Ave., S. P.; and 12th and Oak sts.,
Oakland
Uarlg Auto Co. 1377 Broadway, Oakland.
White Sewing Machine Company,
Market and Van Ness ave., S. F.
BANKS.
American National Bank, Merchants Ex.
Bldg., S. F.
Anglo California Bank Lt., cor. Pine and
Sansome sts., S. F.
Bank of California, 424 California St.,
8. F.
California Safe Deposit and Trust Co.,
cor. California and Montgomery sts.,
8. F.
Central Trust Co., 42 Montgomery St.,
a r
Crocker - Woolworth National Bank.
Crocker Bldg., S. F.
First National Bank, Bush and Sansome
sts., S. F.
French Savings Bank, Union Trust Bldg.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
Germania National Bank, 621 Market St.,
S. F.; Phone Park 792.
German Savings and Loan Society. 626
California 8L, S. F.
Halsey, N. W. & Co.. 413 Montgomery
St., S. F.
International Banking Corporation. 2045
Sutter street, and 415 Montgomery
Hibernia Savings and Loan Society,
Jones and McAllister sts., S. F
Humboldt Savings Bank, 626 Market St.,
S. F.
Mechanics' Saving Bank, 143 Montgom-
ery st, S. F.
Metropolis Trust and Savings Bank,
1237 Van Ness Ave.
Mutual Savings Bank of San Francisco,
710 Market St., opp. 3d St.. S. F.
National Bank of the Pacific. Call Bldg.,
S. F.
Renters Loan and Trust Co., Commercial and
Savings Bank, 115 Hayes Street.
San Francisco Savings Union, N. W.
cor. California and Montgomery sts.,
S. F.
Savings and Loan Society, 101 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
Security Savings Bank, 316 Montgomery
St.. S. F.
Standard Bank, 1818 Market St., at
Van Ness, S. F.
The Market Street Bank and Safe De-
posit Vault, Market and 7th sts., S. F.
Union Trust Co., 4 Montgomery St., S. F.
Wells-Fargo Nevada National Bank,
Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
Western National Bank, Powell and
Market sts., S. F.
BATHS
Colonial Baths, 1745 O'Farrell St.
Oriental Turkish, cor. Eddy and Liar-
kin Streets, City. W. J. Blum-
berg & Bro.
BITTERS.
Lash's Bitters CD.. 1721 Mission St., S. F
BREWERIES.
Albion Ale and Porter Brewery, 1007-9 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F.
Buffalo Brewing Co., 126-12J King st,
S. F. ; Phone Main 1010.
National Brewing Co., 762 Fulton St.,
S. F.
Lochbaum, A. H. Co., 126 Kinir st, S. F.;
Phone Main 1010.
S. F. Breweries, Ltd.. 240 2d st, S. F.
Rapp, Jno. & Co., Agents Rainier Beer,
8th and Townsend sts., S. F.
ortlDGE BUILDER;..
Pac. Construction Co., 17 Spear st, S. F.
San Francisco Bridge Co., 523 Monad-
nock Blug-. S. F.
tlROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
tiutton. E. F. & Co., 490 California st.
Rollins', E. H. & Sons, 804 Kohl Bldg:
Telephone Temporary 163; a. F.
Wilson. J. C, 488 California st, S. F.
Sutro & Co., 412 Montgomery St..
S. F.
Montague. Phil S., 339 Bush st, Stock
Exchange Bldg.
Zadlg & Co., 324 Bush St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIA-
TIONS.
Continental Building and Loan Associa-
tion, Church and Market sts., 8. F.
BUTCHERS' SUPPLIES.
Pacirtc Butchers' Supply Co.. S15 Bry-
ant st, bet. 1st and 2d sts.. S. F.
CARPET CLEANING.
Spauidlng, J. & Co., 911-21 Golden Oat*
Ave.: Phone Park &»i.
CLEANING AND DYEING.
Thomas, The F. Parisian Dyeing and
Cleaning Works, 1168 McAllister st.,
S. F.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
Hub, The, Chas. Keilus & Co., King
Solomon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore
sts.. S. F.
Roos Bros., cor. O'Farrell and Fillmore
sts.. S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
Dollar, Robert Co., Steuart street dock.
Johnson Locke Mercantile Co., 213 Sansome
St., S. F.
x-laldonado & Co., Inc., 2020 Buchanan
St., S. F.; Tel. 2830.
The J. K. Armsby Co., The Armsby
Bldg., cor. New Montgomery and How-
ard sts.. S. )■
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Co., 523 Monadnock
Bldg.
Fisher Construction Co.. 1414 Post St.,
S F
Gray Rr~«>.. 2d st. adjoining W. F. & Co.
Bldg.. S. F.
S. F. Construction Co., A. E. Buckman,
ores. ; A. I. Raisch, sec. ; 636 Market ; Tel.
Franklin 256.
Trounson, J., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176 Ash
Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
Nathan Dohrmann & Co., 1520-1550
Van Ness ave.
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DENTISTS.
Oreian B. Burns. 2077 Sutter St.. West 6736.
Decker, Dr. Chas. W..13I6 Sutler st
Knox. Dr. A. J., 1615 Fillmore St.. formerly
of Grant Bldg.
Morffew & Peel. 1765 Pine St.. S. F. :
Tel. West 4301; formerly Examiner
Bldg.
O'Connell. Dr. Robert E. and Dr. George.
211 Divl.iadero St.. S. F.
Albert S. V'anderhurst. 2077 Sutter St., West
6736.
DRV GOODS— RETAIL.
E-nporlum. The. 1201 Van Ness Ave.. S.
5".: pi. .me West 1361.
Newman & Levison. Van Ness Ave. and Sutt
\j Connor. Mottlt & Co.. Van Ness Ave
and Pine St.. 9. F.
City of Paris. Van Ness Ave and Wash-
ington St.. S. F.
White House, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
St.. 3. F.
ENGINEERS.
..Mantle. Gulf & Pacific Co.. 623 Monad-
nock Bldg.. S. F.
EXPRESS.
Wells. Fargo & Co. Express. Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Fer-
ry Bldg., and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
Crescent Feather Co.. 19th and Harrison
sts . S. F.
FLORISTS AND DECORATORS.
Clels & Jacobsen, 942 Fillmore St.
near McAllister, Phone Park 363.
Fnnk & Parodi Co., 1215 McAllister
street, formerly 109 Geary street,
phone Park. 794.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Omey & Goetting, Geary and Polk sts., S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
Carew & English. 1618 Geary St.. bet.
Buchanan and Webster sts., S. F. ;
Phone West 2604.
Porter & White, 1631 Golden Gate Ave.,
3. F. ; Phone West 770.
FURNITURE.
A. B. Smith Co., 703 Van Ness Ave..
cor. Turk St., 8. F.
Breuner, John & Co.. 1491 Van Ness Ave.,
S. F.
Sanitary Bedding House, The, 778-
780 Golden Gate ave., N. B. cor.
Gough. Beds and Bedding ex-
clusively. Tel. Emergency 596.
GAS 8TOVES.
Gas Co.. The, Halght and Fillmore sts.,
S. F.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
Bullock & Jones Company, 801 Van Ness
Ave., cor. Eddy sL. S. F.
Hansen and Elrick, 1105-7 Fillmore
St., nr. Golden Gate ave., phone
West 5678.
Roberts & Bayless, Men's Furnishers, 645 Van
Ness Ave., near Turk.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
Alexander-Tost Co., Pins and Polk ats..
S. F.
Baker & Hamilton. 115 Berry St., near
3d; Phone West 3689 and 3590.
Dunham. Carrlgan & Hayden Co.. office
131-153 Kansas st . B F.
lis, John G. & Co., 827 Mission St.. S. F.
Montague. W. W. & Co., Turk & Polk
sts., S. F.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
Davis. W. & Son. 2020 Howard at. bet
16th and 17th. S. F.
Lelbold Harness and Carriage Co., 1214
Golden Gate Ave.. S. F.
HATTERS.
Korn, Eugene, the hatter, 94 6 Van
Ness Avenue.
Meussdorffer. J. C. Sons. 909 Fillmore
St.. S. F.
Porcher. J.. 716-717 Golden Gats Avt„
near Franklin. S. F. : formerly Odd Fel-
lows Bldg.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
German Hospital, Scott and Duboce
Ave.
Harbor View Sanatorium, Harbor
View, S. F.
Keeley Institute. H. L. Batchelder.
Mgr.; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
McNutt Hospital, 1800 O'Farrell 8t
S. F.
St. Luke's Hospital. 26th and Valen-
cia St.
JEWELERS.
Baldwin Jewelery Co., 1521 Sutter at..
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. K
Bofam. Bristol. Van Ness and Sacra-
mento st.
Glinderman. Wm.. 1532-1534 Fill-
more, formerly Examiner Bldg.
Shreve & Co.. cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Nes sand Sacramento Its., S. F.
LAUNDRIES.
Lace House French Laundry. Cerclat A
Co., propd. ; 1047 McAllister St.; for-
merly at 342 McAllister; Tel. Park 881.
La Grande Laundry, 234 12th St.. S. F.
Palace Hotel Laundry and Kelly Laundry
Co., Inc., 2343 Post St., phone West 5854.
San Francisco Laundry Association. 140R
Turk St.. S. F.; Phone West 793.
LIME.
Holmes Lime Co., Mutual Savings
Bank Bldg., 710 Market St.
LUMBER.
Nelson. Chas. Co.. 1st and Clay ats..
Oakland; 144 Steuait St., S. F.
Redwood Manufacturers Co.. Room 505
Monadnock Bldg, S. F.. Doors, Win-
dows, Tanks, etc.
Slade, S. E., Lumber Co., 65 Mission
street, S. F.
Union Lumber Co., office 909 Mo-
nadnock building
MACARONI AND VERMICELLI.
r, R. Podesta. 512 Washington at. 3. V
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
Bekins' Van and Storage Co.. 13th and
Mission sts.. S. F. ; Phone Park 169
and 1016 Broadway. Oakland.
St. Francis Transfer and Storage Company.
Office, 1402 Eddy st. Tel. West 2680.
Union Transfer Co., 2116 Market St.,
S. F.
Notaries Public.
Deane, Jno, J., temporarily at 2077
Sutter street and 2464 Vallejo
street, S. F.
OPTICIANS.
Mayerle, George. German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F. ; Phone West
3766.
San Francisco Optical Co. "Spences,"
are now permanently located at
627 Van Ness ave, between Gold-
en Gate avenue and Turk st.
"Branch" 1613 Fillmore near
Geary.
Standard Optical Co., 808 Van Ness ave.,
near Eddy st.
PACKERS.
Phoenix Packing Co., 118 Davis St., S. F.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
Keefe, J. H.. 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F., Tel.
Franklin 2055.
Tozer, L. & Son Co., Inc., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., near
Fillmore, S. F.
PAINTS AND OILS.
Bass-Hueter Paint Co., 1816 Market
st.
Paraflne Paint Co., 405 Union Savings
Bank Bldg., Oakland; Sales Dept
Guerrero near 15th St., S. F.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
Cal. Photo Eng. Co.. 141-143 Valencia st.
PHYSICIANS.
Bowie, Dr. Hamilton C, formerly 293
Geary St., Paul Bldg.; now
14th and Church sts.
Bryant, Dr. Edgar R.. 1944 Fillmore
st. cor. Pine; Tel. West 6657; Res.
3869 Jackson St.; Tel. West 816.
D'Evelyn, Dr. Frederick W., 2116 Cal-
ifornia st, S. F.; and 2103 Clinton
Ave.. Alameda.
Thorne, Dr. W. S., 1434 Post St., S.
F.
PIANOS — MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
Bn.awln. D. H. & Co.. 2612 Sacramento
St.. near Fillmore. S. F.; Phone West
1869.
RESTAURANTS.
Marchand's. 1424 McAllister St.
Moraghan, M. B. Oyster Co.. 1212
Golden Gate Ave.. S. F.
Old Poodle Dog. 824 Eddy St., near Van
Ness ave.
St. Germain Restaurant, 497 Golden
Gate Ave., Phone Emergency 300.
Swain's Restaurant, 1111 Poet St., S. F.
Techau Tavern, 1321 Sutter St.. S. F.
Thompson's, formerly Oyster Loaf,
1727 O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALE?
Herring-Hall Marvin Sale Co., office and
salesrooms. Mission st, bet. Seventh and
Eighth sts. ; phone Temp'y, 1037.
SEWING MACHINES.
Wheeier & Wilson and Singer Sewing
Machines. 1431 Bush st, cor. Van
Ness Ave.. S. F.; phone Emergency
301, formerly 231 Sutter street.
STORAGE.
Bekins Van & Storage Co., 13th and Mission
Sts., S. F.; Phone Market 2558.
Pierce Rodolph Storage Co., Eddy
and Fillmore Sts.. Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
Walters & Co.. formerly Shutts. Walters &
Co., 1608 1 teiner St.. S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
Bacigalupi, Peter. 1113-1116 Fillmore
st. S. F.
TAILORS.
Lyons. Charles. London Tailor, 1432 Fill-
more St., 731 Van Ness Ave.. S. F. ;
958 Broadway. Oakland.
McMahon, Keyer and Stiegeler Bros.,
Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Far-
rell and Fillmore.
Neuhaus & Co.. Inc., 1618 Bills st-
near Fillmore. S. F.
Rehnstrom. C. H.. 2416 Fillmore at;
formerly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg.
TENTS AND AWNINGS
1 horns F.. 1209 Mission St., corner of Eighth,
S. F.
Trir V» PC.
Eames Tricycle Co.. Invalid Chairs, 2108
Market St.. S. F.
WINES & LIQUORS — WHOLES A T,E
Balke. Ed. W., 1498 Eddy St.. cor.
Fillmore.
Blumenthal. M. & Co.. Inc., temporary
office. 1521 Webster st. S. F.
Butler. John & Son. 2209 Steiner st,
S. F.
Reynolds. Chas. M. Co., 514 Haight st,
Pusr-orii, Fisher & Co.. 649 Turk st, S. F.
Berman Wine & Liquor Co., family trade
S. F.
Siebe Bros. & Placeman. 419-425
Larkin street. Phone, Emergency
349.
Weniger, P. J. & Co.. N. E. cor. Van
Ness ave. and Ellis st. Tel. Emer-
gency 3 09.
Wlchman. Lute-en & Co.. formerly of 29-
31 Battery st.. S. F. : temporary office,
Warrisnn and Everett sts., Alameda.
Cal.: Phone Alameda 1179. Gilt Edge
Whiskey
WINES AND LIOUOPS— RETAIL.
Ferguson. T. M. Co.. Market street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow
Whiskey.
Fischer, E. R.. 1901 Mission street.
corner of Fifteen+h.
The Metropole.Tohn L. Herget and Wm. H.
Harrison. Props., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Streets.'
Tuxedo Tho. Eddie Granev. Prop. SW
cor, Fillmnro e^ O'FarreTl sts
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
Golden Gate Compressed Yeait Co., 2401 Fill-
more.
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Amusements
Even as the stars in their courses
fought against Sisera, so did Jupiter
Pluvius exert his best efforts to put a
crimp in the ambitions of our local
theatrical magnates last Monday night.
But old J. P. struck a serious snag at
the Alcazar Theater, for though else-
where a bare corporal's guard repre-
sented the attendance, the new play-
house was packed to the doors. The
famous "Alcazar crowd" and its sisters
and cousins and aunts turned out in a
body, making the occasion one to be
long remembered.
* * *
The three new leading people at the
Alcazar "made good" in a most satis-
factory way. From what I know of
the female portion of the Alcazar clien-
tele, Mr. Lytell will ere long be en-
throned as the "matinee idol" par
excellence of this City. Miss Lang, the
leading lady is also a capable actress
and a woman of strong personality. Miss
Lovering, the ingenue, is certainly pretty
enough, and also does very well in the
actual work of performance. The other
members of the cast are all old favorites
who won their places in our hearts in
days gone by.
* * *
A testimonial benefit will be tendered
the eminent actor, James M. Ward, at
the Colonial Theater on Monday even-
ing, March 25th, the attraction being
"Sapho." Mr. Ward is one of the oldest
and best known actors in the country,
and as he has a whole army of friends
in this locality, the Colonial will un-
doubtedly be packed with an enthusiastic
audience on this occasion. Frank Bacon
also owes considerable of his early train-
ing to Mr. Ward's paintaking efforts.
In his prime, Mr. Ward was connected
with most of the foremost theatrical
organizations in the country, having
played with Modjeska, Booth, Forrest
and Davenport. He was quite a favor-
ite in this City when he was with the
old Grand Opera House Stock Com-
pany.
* * *
"Scramble Matrimony," a new comedy
by Howard P. Taylor, has pleased large
audiences this week at the Colonial
^ICE CREAM
— '1536-8 Fillmore St:.S:F.
Theater, where an exceptionally well-
acted performance of the funny piece
has been given. Frank Bacon and his
clever company of comedians are at
their best in a play of this character.
* * *
The Colonial Stock Company will pre-
sent one of the most successful dramas
ever produced in this country next
week, beginning Monday, March 25th.
"Sapho," Alphonse Daudet's great play,
will be the bill and Izetta Jewell, the
talented leading woman, will be seen in
the title role. Miss Jewell's artistic
performance of Salome is still fresh in
the memory of local theater-goers and
in the role of Sapho the passionate wo-
man with a scarlet past she should add
to her reputation as a versatile actress.
The Olga Nethersole version will be
given in its entirety and the manage-
ment promises a magnificent scenic pro-
duction. The regular stock company
will be considerably increased for this
play.
* * *
"Kreutzer Sonata," Count Tolstoi's
most successful effort, is to follow
"Sapho" at the Colonial.
* * *
We are especially fortunate at present
for the number of high class attrac-
tions which are being presented at local
play houses. Of these, not the least in
any degree is "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cab-
bage Patch." Madge Carr Cook, in the
title role is no stranger to us, nor, for
that matter, is Vivian Ogden, who plays
Miss Hazy. These two, with an excel-
lent supporting cast, including Mr. Car-
ter who enacts the role of Hiram Stub-
bins, contribute a production of Mrs.
Rice's comedy drama that cannot be ex-
celled. A tip to the wise is sufficient.
See this show at the Van Ness Theater.
* * *
The efforts of that grand old war
horse of stage management, Mr. George
Lask, are responsible for the splendid
production of Offenbach's comic opera,
"The Nightingale" at the American
Theater. This play house, by the way,
should be a favorite resort of the music
loving people for which San Francisco
is noted, as Mr. Healy is maintaining
there a company of exceptional merit
and ability, and is doing his utmost to
offer the best musical attractions to the
public.
* * *
The Easter music at St. Dominic's
Church will this year be specially attrac-
tive. A new mass has been composed
for the occasion by Dr. H. J. Stewart,
and it will be rendered, under his direc-
tion, by an augmented choir and large
orchestra. The mass, which is dedicated
to the Rev. Father Pius Driscol. O. P..
has been written with the purpose of
conforming as far as possible to the re-
cent edict of the Pope upon the subject
of church music. There is very little
work for the soloists, and the composer
has relied almost entirely upon massive
choral and orchestral effects.
;« * *
Andrew Bogart, who is in the cast
of "The Girl and the Governor", the
Broadway production in which Jeff de
Angelis is starring, will be out here
in a short time with the attraction.
Bogart has done exceedingly well
since he gave up vocal teaching to
become a stage star. He was a pupil
of Francis Stuart in his San Francisco
days and went to London and New
York with his teacher. Stuart is teach-
ing in New York now, I believe.
Bogart is a San Francisco boy. Many
critics consider his voice the equal
of Hayden Coffin's.
FIRST NIGHTER.
Society Personals
Charity is certainly the fashionable
fad during this Lenten season, in San
Mateo as in Marin County. Burlin-
game has started a Sewing Club. The
members are Mrs. Thomas Driscoll,
Mrs. Hitchcock, Mrs. Andrey Welch,
Miss Josephine Brown and Miss Mar-
garet Doyle. At the first meeting
held last week at Miss Sullivan's, a
program of benevolent work was out-
lined.
COLONIAL THEATRE
McAllister near^Market J Phone Market 920
MARTIN F. KURTIG. President and Manage
All Market Street Cars run direct to Theater
Week Beginning Monday, March 25
The Colonial Stock Compaay in
SAPHO
Monday Night, March 25, Testimonial Benefit
to the eminent actor James M. Ward
PRICES: Evenings, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00: Satur-
day and Sunday Matinees. 25c and 50c. BARGAIN
MATINEE. Wednesday, all seats reserved, 25c. Branch
Ticket Office. Kohler & Chase's, Sutter and Franklin
Streets.
In Preparation-KREUTZER SONATA.
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RACING
New California Jockey Club
Oakland Race
Track
SIX OR MORE RACES EACH WEEK DAY
Rain or Shine
Races commence at 1:40 p. m. sharp.
For special trains stopping at the track take S. P. Ferry,
foot of Market street: leave at 12:00, thereafter every twenty
minutes until 1:40 p. m. No Smoking in last two cars,
which are reserved for ladies and their escorts.
Returning trains leave track after fifth and last races.
THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, PresiPenl.
PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary.
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TELEPHONE WEST 5854
Work called for and returned on schedule
time.
Thompson's Formerly
Oyster Loaf,
Now
Open.
1727 O'Farrell St.
All night service
near Fillmore
Popular Prices
tThe only first-class up-to-date and modern
Hammam Baths, built especially for
the purpose, in the city.
i
Oriental Turkish Batbs
Corner Eddy and Larkln Sts.
Cold water plunge.
Room including Bath, $1.00.
Phone Franklin 653
W. J. BLUMBERG Sc BRO.. Props.
Letters recently received from Mrs.
William Mayo Newhall give enthus-
iastic accounts of the jolly times she
and her daughters are enjoying in
Switzerland in sleighing, etc. They
will remain abroad till September.
Mrs. Newhall is purchasing some very
elaborate costumes for her two at-
tractive daughters, Marion and Eliza-
beth, who will make their debut in
Society this Winter.
* * *
Two other well-known California
ladies at present in Switzerland are
Mrs. McMonagle and Mrs. Fred
Moody, who are educating their chil-
dren. Mrs. Newhall's young son, Mrs.
McMonagle's son and the two sons of
the Fred Moodys are all attending the
same school.
* * *
Mrs. E. B. Cadwalader has given
up housekeeping, and with her charm-
ing daughter, Miss Linda, and son
Bert Cadwalader, have taken rooms at
the "Thomas" boarding house on
Buchanan Street. Early next month
Mrs. Cadwalader and Miss Linda will
leave for the East to be gone several
months. Miss Linda will visit Mrs.
Bourke Cochran (nee Ide) who has
been on a trip to Egypt, a part of her
bridal tour.
* * *
A well-known Washington couple
who have been greatly entertained
during their stay in California, are
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Poor, the par-
ents of Mrs. Marion P. Maus. They
have been spending several months
in Monterey with Col. and Mrs. Maus,
at their attractive quarters. Mrs.
Poor has many relatives in this City —
The Steeles, the Miltons, the Max-
wells— all connected with the family
of the late Commodore R. B. Cun-
ningham— Mrs. Percy M. Kesseler
(Lottie Cunningham) is a cousin of
Mrs. Marion Maus.
MRS. OSCAR MANSFELDT
PIANIST
Tel. West 314 1 80 1 Buchanan St., Cor. Suiter
To restore gray hair to its natural
color use Alfredum's Egyptian Henna —
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the effect is immediate.. All druggists
Bell it. Langley & Michaels Co., agents.
SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE
Attorney -at-Law
1101 O'FARRELL ST.
Cor. Franklin
San Francisco, Cal.
DR. WM. D. CLARK
Office and Res.: 255 4 California St.
San Francisco
Hours — 1 to 3 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.
Sundays — By appointment
Phone West 390
DR. H. J. STEWART
Organist of S;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Sherith Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition.
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
Church Choir
Teacher of Voice, Piano and Organ
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phone
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues-
day and Friday.
William Keith
Studio
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Contracts made with Hotels and Restaurants
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N. W. Cor. Eddy and Hyde, San Francisco
Phone Franklin 397
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"Yes, indeed," she answered, "I'll Wednesday, April 10, 1907
be contented as long as love lasts." S. S. "America Maru" (calls at Manila) . .
"Urn — yes," said the man, whose Friday, May 3, 1907
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family to his eldest daughter, "don't
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thinking of getting married."
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maid, "I haven't thought of anything
else for the past ten years."
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Maude — "Why, every night after let-
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Headguarters for Talking
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Wasted Opportunities
Green — "What do you think of Bul-
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Brown — "I think Bullem must be
crazy."
Green — -"Why?"
Brown — "With his opportunities he
should have failed for at least twice
that amount."
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After a year of mourning the
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prospective No. 2, "are you sure you
can be contented with love in a cot-
tage?"
Something Fierce
"No; sah," remarked the Kentucky
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me. I was sick all the time I was there,
sah."
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Ohio man. "Couldn't you drink the
water?"
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the Kentuckian. "I had to dring it.
Dr.WONQ HIM
1268 O'Farrell St.
Permanently Located
HERB DOCTOR
Father and Mother
Write Letter In-
dorsing Treatment.
SAN FRANCISCO
March 23. 1906
To Whom it may
i Concern: Our three-
year - old daughter,
having been ill for
some time and being
treated by the most prominent physicians,
gradually became worse, and was finally
given up by them. We were then recom-
mended to Dr. Wong Him. We started
with his treatment and within two months'
time our daughter was cured.
Respectfully,
MR. AND MRS. H. C. LIEB.
2757 Harrison St., San Francisco
SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of California, in and for the City and
County of San Franciico.
JOSEPH GOETZ, Plaintiff, vi. All persons
claiming any interest in or lien upon the real
property herein described or any part thereof.
Defendants.
Action No. 720.
The People of the State of California, to all
persons claiming any interest in, or lien upon,
the real property herein described or any part
thereof. Defendants: Greeting:
every part thereof, whether the same be legal
or equitable, present or future, vested or con-
tingent, and whether the same consist of mort-
gages or liens of any description; that plaintiff
recover his costs herein and have such other
and further relief as may be meet in the
premises.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court,
this 8th day of January. A. D. 1907.
(SEAL) H. I. MULCREVY, Clerk.
By H. I. PORTER, Deputy Cleric.
You are hereby required to appear and
nswer the complaint of JOSEPH GOETZ.
plaintiff, filed with the Clerk of the above
entitled Court and County, within three months
after the first publication of this summons,
and to set forth what interest or lien, if any,
you have in or upon that certa-in real prop-
erty, or any part thereof, situated in the City
and County of San Francisco, State of Cali-
fornia, and particularly described as follows:
First. Beginning at a point on the easterly
line of Stockton Street, distant thereon thirty-
seven (37) feet northerly from the point of
intersection of the northerly line of Sacra-
mento Street and the easterly line of Stock-
ton Street, and running thahce northerly along
■aid easterly line of Stockton Street one hun-
dred and fifty-six (156) feet four (4) inches;
thence at a right angle easterly sixty-eight (68)
feet nine (9 ) inches ; thence at a right angle
northerly eighty-one (81) feet eight (8) inches
to the southerly line of Clay Street; thence at
a right angle easterly along said southerly
line of Clay Street sixteen (16) feet; thence
at a right angle southerly seventy-five (75)
feet six (6) inches; thence at a right angle
easterly fifty-two (52) feet one-half (J^) inch;
thence at a right angle southerly twelve (12)
feet; thence at a right angle easterly eight
and one- half (8'A) inches; thence at a right
angle southerly fifteen (15) feet six (6) inches;
thence at a right angle easterly thirty (30)
feet; thence at a right angle southerly five
(5) feet seven and one-half (7J4) inches;
thence at a right angle easterly ninety-three
(93) feet nine (9) inches to the westerly line
of Waverly Place; thence at a right angle
southerly along said line of Waverly Place
ninety-seven (97) feet seven and one-half
(7J4) inches; thence at a right angle westerly
one hundred and eleven (111) feet nine (9)
inches; thence at a right angle southerly sixty-
eight (68) feet nine (9) inches to the north-
erly line of Sacramento Street; thence west-
erly along said line of Sacramento Street
twelve (12) feet ; thence at a right angle
northerly fifty-nine (59) feet; thence at a
right angle westerly ninety-three (93) feet six
(6) inches; thence at a right angle southerly
twenty-two (22) feet; and thence at a right
angle westerly forty-four (44) feet to the
easterly line of Stockton Street and the point
of beginning; being a portion of Fifty Vara
Block number one hundred and fourteen (114).
Second. Beginning at a point on the north-
erly line of Vallejo Street, distant thereon
two hundred (200) feet four and one-half
(4J4) inches westerly from the corner formed
by the intersection of the northerly line of
Vallejo Street and the westerly line of Gough
Street, and running thence westerly along
said line of Vallejo Street one hundred and
five (105) feet seven and one-half OVi) inches;
thence at a right angle northerly one hundred
and thirty-seven (137) feet six (6) inches;
thence at a right angle easterly one hundred
and six (106) feet eight and one-half (8#)
inches; and thence southerly one hundred and
thirty-seven (137) feet six (6) inches to the
point of beginning; being part of Western
Addition Block number one hundred and
sixty-six (166).
Third. Beginning at a point on the north-
erly line of Sacramento Street, distant thereon
one hundred and thirty (130) feet eleven (11)
inches westerly from the corner formed by
the intersection of the northerly line of Sac-
ramento Street and the westerly line of
Kearny Street and running thence westerly
along said line of Sacramento Street nineteen
(19) feet six (6) inches; thence at a right
angle northerly sixty (60) feet; thence at a
right angle easterly nineteen (19) feet six (6)
inches; and thence at a right angle southerly
sixty (60) feet to the point of beginning; be-
ing part of Fifty Vara Block number ninety-
one (91).
You are hereby notified that, unlesi you so
appear and answer, the plaintiff will apply to
the Court for the relief demanded in the com-
plaint, to-wit, that it be adjudged that plaintiff
is the owner of said property in fee simple ab-
solute; that his title to said property be es-
tablished and quieted; that the Court ascertain
and determine all estates, rights, titles, inter-
ests and claims in and to said property, and
The first publication of this summons was
made in The Wasp newspaper on the 19th
day of January, A. D. 1907.
SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of California, in and for the City and
County of San Francisco.
GUSTAV SUTRO. Plamtiff, vs. All persons
claiming any interest in or lien upon the real
troperty herein described or any part thereof,
•efendants.
Action No. 719.
The People of the State of California, to all
persons claiming any interest in. or Hen upon,
the real propeity herein described or any
part thereof, defendant*, greeting:
You are hereby required to appear and
answer the complaint of GUSTAV SUTRO,
plaintiff, filed with the Clerk of the above
entitled Court and County, within three
months after the first publication of this sum-
mons, and to set forth what interest or lien,
if any, you have in or upon that certain real
property, or any part thereof, situated in the
City and County of San Francisco, State of
California, and particularly described as fol-
lows:
Beginning at a point on the northerly line
of Eddy Street, distant thereon one hundred
and thirty-seven (137) feet six (6) inches
easterly from the corner formed by the inter-
section of the northerly line of Eddy Street
and the easterly line of Taylor Street and
running thence easterly along said line of
Eddy Street ninety-one (91) feet, nine (9)
inches; thence at a right angle northerly on«
hundred and thirty-seven (137) feet six (6)
inches; thence at a right angle westerly ninety-
one (91) feet nine (9) inches; and thence at
a right angle southerly one hundred and thirty-
seven (137) feet six (6) inches to the point
of beginning.
You are hereby notified that, unless you so
appear and answer, the plaintiff will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded in the
complaint, to-wit, that it be adjudged that
plaintiff is the owner of said property in fee
simple absolute; that his title to said property
be established and quieted, that the Court as-
certain and determine all estates, rights, titles,
interests and claims in and to said property,
and every part thereof, whether the same be
legal or equitable, present or future, vested or
contingent, and whether the same consist of
mortgages or liens of any description ; that
plaintiff recover his costs herein and have
such other and further relief as may be meet
in the premises.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court,
this 8th day of January, A. D. 1907.
(SEAL) H. I. MULCREVY, Clerk.
By H. I. PORTER, Deputy Clerk.
The first publication of this summons was
made in The Wasp newspaper on the 19th day
of January, A. D. 1907.
SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of California, in and for the City and
County of San Francisco.
JUDAH BOAS and A. ABRAHAMSON,
Plaintiffs, vs. All persons claiming any interest
in or lien upon the real property herein de-
scribed, or any part thereof, Defendants.
Action No. 714.
The People of the State of California, to all
persons claiming any interest in, or lien upon,
the real property herein described or any part
thereof, Defendants, greeting:
You are hereby required to appear and
answer the complaint of JUDAH BOAS and
A. ABRAHAMSON, plaintiffs, filed with the
Clerk of the above entitled Court and County,
within three months after the first publication
of this summons, and to set forth what inter-
est or lien, if any, you have in or upon that
certain real property, or any part thereof, situ-
ated in the City and County of San Francisco,
State of California, and particularly described
as follows:
Beginning at a point on the easterly line of
Montgomery Street, distant thereon one hun-
dred and thirty-seven (137) feet six and one-
fourth {6\i) inches northerly from the corner
formed by the intersection of the easterly
line of Montgomery Street and the northerly
line of California Street, and running thence
easterly parallel with California Street sixty-
four (64) feet; thence at a right angle north-
erly one (1) foot; thence at a right angle
easterly four (4) feet nine (9) inches; thence
at a right angle northerly ninety-five (95) feet
ten and three fourths (10 $4 ) inches more or
less to the south face of a concrete wall sep-
arating the property of the plaintiffs from the
property of the Italian-American Bank, a cor-
poration ; thence at a right angle westerly
along the south line of said wall sixty-eight
(68) feet nine (9) inches to the easterly line
of Montgomery Street; and thence southerly
along said line of Montgomery Street ninety-
six (96) feet ten and three-fourths (10^)
inches more or less to the point of beginning.
You are hereby notified that, unless you so
appear and answer, the plaintiffs will apply to
the Court for the relief demanded in the com-
plaint, to-wit, that it be adjudged that plaintiffs
are the owners of said property in fee simple
absolute; that their title to said property be
established and quieted; that the Court ascer-
tain and determine all estates, rights, titles,
interests and claims in and to said property,
and every part thereof, whether the same be
legal or equitable, present or future, vested or
contingent, and whether the same consist of
mortgages or liens of any description; that
plaintiffs recover their costs herein and have
such other and further .relief as may be meet
in the premises.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court,
this 8th day of January, A. D. 1907.
(SEAL) H. I. MULCREVY, Clerk.
By L. J. WELCH, Deputy Clerk.
The first publication of this summons was
made in The Wasp newspaper on the 19th
day of January, A. D. 1907.
The following persons are said to claim an
interest in, or lien upon, said property adverse
to plaintiff:
Names Addresses
Ellen Maguire, San Francisco, California.
The German Savings & Loan Society, a
corporation, 526 California Street, San Fran-
cisco, California.
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419 11th Street, Oakland
We are now filling all orders
Promptly
Pacific Butchers Supply
Company
315-319 BRYANT STREET
Bet. First and Second Streets.
Open for Business With a Full Line
of All Supplies.
PATRICK & CO.
Rubber Stamps
Stencils, Box Brands
1543 Pine Street
San Francisco
F. THOMS, The Awing Man
Canvas Work. Repairing. Canopies and Floor Covers To Rent.
TENTS, HAMMOCKS AND COVERS
1209 MISSION ST. Tel. Market 2194
Carnegie Brick and Pottery Co.
Manufacturers of
Architectural Terra Cotta, Pressed Brick
Vitrified and Terra Cotta Sewer Pipe Drain, Tile
Refractory Fire Brick of all Sizes and Shapes a Specialty
Factory; Tesla, Alameda County, Cal.
Yards: San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose
Office: Montgomery Block, San Francisco
TRicrcmco.
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1808 MARKET ST.
SAN FRANCISCO
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Bekins Van and Storage Company
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Cruse & Fils Freres Red and White Wines
Acker Rhine and Moselle Wines
AMI VIGNIER, Inc.
PACIFIC COAST AGENT
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S. E. Cor. Broadway and Battery Sts.
Tel. Temporary 1385
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The most delicate member of
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Employ a staff of skilled eye specialists who can be consulted without cost.
Bass-Hueter Paint Co.
Hueter's Fine Coach and House
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Telephone Special 1115 1532 MARKET STREET
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3766. Cut this out.
Volume LVll-No. 13
SAN FRANCISCO, MARCH 30, 1907
Price 10 cents
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Company, at 141-143 Valencia Street. Subscriptions $5.00 per
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go to press early, all advertisements printed in the same forms should be
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should also be sent in on Monday to insure publication.
Address. JAMES F. FORSTER, Business Manager.
Telephone Market 316.
Plain English
Those who give bribes are worse than the official
grafters who accept them, we are told by several
newspapers that cater to the sentiment of the Sand-
lot. The law makes no such distinction. It declares
that both are equally culpable: And so they are.
It is highly popular to down the sordid millionaire
or the soulless corporation who hands over large
wads of currency to boodling Aldermen, but we
should not forget that municipal boards are very
often organized for graft. The Aldermen or Super-
visors are really bands of blackmailers, under the
leadership of a political boss who maps out the
plan of campaign and divides the plunder.
Under the benign influence of Ruef and Schmitz,
almost every act of the municipal government had
to yield boodle. The newspapers teem with sta-
tistics of the amount of bribes paid through Ruef to
the Supervisors. But outside of these operations a
large aggregate amount of boodle has been
pocketed by municipal grafters.
The newspapers have not called attention to the
fact, but it appears to be the true fact nevertheless,
that humble property owners trying to rebuild their
burned homes have been held up by the banded
blackmailers put in office by Schmitz and repre-
senting the patriotism and honesty of the Union
Labor party.
It is an absolute fact, easily proved by an examina-
tion of the official records, that in the small matter
of putting in the side sewers of residences, the
property owners have been blackmailed systema-
tically. This work has to be done under City man-
agement though the taxpayer pays for it. The law
is an outrageous one and the Union Labor party
blackmailers have made the most of it. In some
cases the work has been delayed months while in
others, where the owners were willing to pay black-
mail the work has been done speedily. Many a
small property owner has bribed the official black-
mailers to get his legal rights. If he didn't offer the
bribe the work would not be done for him. Accord-
ing to the logic and morals of the yellow news-
papers those poor houseowners who put up bribes
to save themselves from serious loss, or perhaps
ruin, should be punished most severely. The con-
viction and jailing of the official rascals should be a
secondary consideration. Intelligent readers of
those publications will not be bamboozled by such
sophistry.
The truth of the matter is that it has been the
rule and not the exception, for Supervisors and
other officials in San Francisco to conspire to black-
mail corporations and especially those of a quasi-
public character as such are most easily made to
yield. Why should the average supervisor in years
past have devoted all his time to the business of
the city for $100 a month. In many cases Super-
visors gave up all their private business and did
nothing else but lay schemes to plunder the cor-
porations and taxpayers. The men who went in
poor or bankrupt, became prosperous on $100 a
month. Need one ask how? The check books of the
corporations and of many prosperous citizens could
furnish the answer.
The corporations and the capitalists took the busi-
ness view of it that it was cheaper to buy off the
rascals than fight them, and so it is.
So in San Francisco and in every large city in
America that is the dishonest condition of affairs,
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and the reason it continues is that the boodlers are
not afraid of the law courts. The political bosses
control the law court and can trip up justice, except
in rare instances of which the present prosecution
of grafters in San Francisco is one.
If the people of America would at once proceed to
reform their courts by taking the judges out of
politics, the power of the corrupt political bosses
would be destroyed and real reform in Municipal
Government would begin.
* * #
The Wasp has for years pointed out to the public
the great danger that lies in permitting corrupt
bosses to juggle with the law courts by nominating
and electing judges.
The present expose and prosecution of grafters in
San Francisco is purely accidental. It might not
occur again in a hundred years under our system of
politics. Ruef was only following the tactics that
other bosses had used for many years. Being <i
lawyer he was more adroit than his ignorant pre-
decessors and perhaps was more eager for the dollar
and therefore more daring in his blackmailing
operations.
Had Ruef succeeded in defeating Judge Lawlor
for the Superior Court and electing all his own
creatures whom he had nominated for the bench,
the present expose would be impossible. Firmly en-
trenched in the law courts, Ruef would have his
own grand juries and his obedient henchmen would
draw just the names he wanted. The criminals of
San Francisco would become their own inquisitors,
prosecutors, judges and juries.
I doubt very much if one in ten of the honest
voters of San Francisco fully realizes what a peril
this City has escaped and how narrow was the
escape when Ruef was checked in his attempt to
elect his own bench judges and usurp the District
Attorney's office was checked.
The election of Judge Lawlor astonished all
politicians in San Francisco and none more than
Ruef and his henchmen, for according to all political
rules Lawlor's election was an utter impossibility,
placed as he was on but one ticket, while Ruef's
candidates were on a number of tickets. The honest
voters who always resent any interference with the
judiciary by corrupt bosses rallied to Lawlor's sup-
port and elected him. This utterly unexpected re-
sult had the effect of impressing the local judiciary
with the belief that after all the people appreciate
and are willing to reward a jurist who tries honestly
to do his duty and does not truckle to bosses cr
sell his honor.
It was purely accidental however that such a man
as Judge Lawlor should have been selected for
special revenge by Ruef and should have defeated
the plans of the boss and hastened his ruin. Few
jurists have had the experience in practical politics
that Lawlor possesses. He was for years more or
less identified with the management of State cam-
paigns for the Democracy and conducted Bryan's
presidential campaign in California. He had the
united support of the press in the late election
and the fight he put up against Ruef was a most re-
markable one for its vigor and skilful tactics. It is
extremely doubtful if any other jurist in California,
no matter how well known or able could have made
such an uphill fight. Lawlor happened to be the
man of all others to win against such desperate
odds and a most fortunate thing it was for the City
of San Francisco and the State of California that
he was not defeated. His removal from the Superior
bench would have been pointed to by the corrupt
machine politicians as convincing proof that the
judges who wish to hold their places must truckle
to the ruling boss.
That being established the rest would be easy for
a man as fertile in resources as Ruef. No man how-
ever meritorious his case could be sure of an honest
hearing in the law courts and Mr. Ruef's enemies
would have to take care that he did not ruin them
in pocket or land them in the penitentiary. A boss
having such powers as Ruef aimed at and almost
attained would hold the lives, liberty and fortunes
of his fellow citizens in his hand.
Another accident which has saved San Francisco
from utter degradation and the unrestrained tyranny
of corrupt politicians was the interest taken in the
expose of the grafters by Rudolph Spreckels. Not
once in a thousand times does such a man turn up
in municipal affairs as an agent of reform. The
usual reformer is too often a disguised grafter who
shouts "turn the rascals out" that he may sneak into
office himself.
Still another class of reform is the man who means
well but has no money or standing and it takes
money to prosecute boodlers.
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Mr. Spreckels is a banker, who can command
attention in the business world. Me could raise the
funds necessary to retain legal and detective talent
to prosecute the thieves in office. Best of all he had
no political ambition nor has he any now. He
believes perhaps that "the post of honor is the
private station." This is a rare combination of
qualities in political reformers.
Still another favorable accident was the election
of Langdon as District Attorney, a position to
which his legal attainments did not entitle him.
He had no standing in the legal profession and in-
deed to most people it was a surprise to learn
that he had been admitted to practise law. He had
been associated closely with the Ruef-Schmitz gang
and everything seemed to indicate that the District
Attorney's office was about to fall into very poor
hands. Miraculous to state Langdon was barely
installed in office when he began a war on the
criminal followers of Ruef and Schmitz. For this
he was denounced vigorously as a traitor by several
Union Labor party leaders, including P. H.
McCarthy, the head of the Building Trade's Council
and special spokesman and defender of Schmitz.
All the developments that have since taken place
appear to indicate the Mr. Langdon is a man of
honest instincts and that when installed in the
position of District Attorney he realized at once
that his political associates were organized for
criminal purposes and he therefore made war on
them. He has acted honorably and courageously
and will no doubt be rewarded by the people.
Thus by what Pool Bah calls "a set of curious
chances" — seemingly were accidents — the tremend-
ously powerful criminal conspiracy of Ruef and his
official creatures has been broken up and the arch
conspirator, not only indicted but actually lodged in
prison before his trial has fairly been begun. The
best laid plans of mice and men "gang aft aglee",
and they go wrong oftenest when they are made for
purposes, of rascality. Honesty is the best policy
for a public officer or a private citizen.
The decent part of the civilized world is now-
amazed at the official degradation of San Fran-
cisco, but let us not be down cast. The exposure of
the scoundrels is worth untold millions to this
and every other American City, for it proves that in
every community there is sure to be enough latent
decency and patriotism to overthrow the official
grafters and land them in the penitentiary.
Judge Coffey as presiding judge has of course been
a strong influence for right in this remarkable trial.
The public of San Francisco has long since come to
regard Judge Coffey and honesty as synonymous.
It would be unfair not to add that the Superior
Judges with perhaps two exceptions, if not in warm
accord with the prosecution of the grafters, have not
been obstructive and in fact the conduct of the
Superior Court has been from the start more meri-
torious than that of the Supreme Bench, which at first
seemed in spots to be lukewarm toward an earnest
assault on Mr. Ruef's citadel of graft.
Too much praise cannot be given to Judge Dunne
for his conduct in the exasperating ordeal to which
he has been subjected. He has adopted the best
possible policy in forcing the grafters to trial and
in not being deterred by the raising of obstructive
technical points. Such a course is characteristic of
an honest jurist who wishes to have the evidence
on both sides presented as quickly as possible and
let the jury decide. The public also is able to
decide no matter what the verdict of a jury may be.
Now that Mr. Heney and the Grand Jury have
shown conclusively that the present City government
is the most infamously corrupt in America if not in
the English speaking world, the political party that
put the grafters in office should be held accountable
for their crimes. That is the rule in every free land.
If the Republicans saddle the City with a band of
boodlers the Republican party is held accountable. So
too with the Democracy. So also let it be with the
Union Labor party which has given us almost every
one of the official scoundrels who have disgraced San
Francisco.
When the former Board of Supervisors was trying
to hold Mayor Schmitz in check he declared repeatedly
that if he had a Board in accord with him he would
do wonders. The citizens of San Francisco to their
lasting discredit turned a good Board of Supervisors
out of office and elected Schmitz and all the boodlers
who are now associated with him. The Union Labor
party got the credit of the sweeping victory. It is
now entitled to all the odium of- the exposure of graft
and must stand or fall upon that record.
AMERICUS.
Mrs. Wiggs at the New Van Ness Theatre caught
the fancy of the town this week. Sousa's opera,
"The Free Lance," is next.
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have no handicap."
Is it strange then, considering all this, that poor
little newly-rich Mabelle Gillman should have denied
her father when Society approves the forgetfulness of
family ties?
* * *
I hear on good authority that any day now we may
learn that H. E. Huntington has wedded the widow
of his uncle, the late C. P. Huntington, for the year
is up and both are in the East.
H. E. Huntington is not younger than his aunt
as many people imagine. In fact she is a year or
two the younger. She was always devoted to him, and
it was through her influence, it is said, that Mr. Hunt-
ington obtained so much of his famous uncle's fortune.
He is mad for money and power, and it is said that
for years he has been bent on marrying his rich aunt.
* * *
At first Mrs. H. E. Huntington refused positively
to grant her husband a divorce but he gave her no
peace until she complied with his wishes. It nearly
broke her heart when the divorce came, and even now
it needs no extraordinary insight to human nature to
see that the lady is one who has had a great sorrow
in her life. Such things leave their indelible marks.
It must be a satisfaction to her, however, to know that
the father of her children was not attracted by a
younger but by an older and richer woman.
MRS. REGINALD BROOKE
Mabelle Gilman's denial of her father seemed a
little unique until one looks over Society, and then
one decides that it is not alone the successful chorus
girl who breaks up a millionaire's family and weds
him, who gets a swelled head and publicly denies that
she is any relation to her parents. On all sides in San
Francisco one knows of prominent and wealthy wo-
men who have cut their relatives because they thought
they must draw the line somewhere. One of the
haughtiest and wealthiest women at Burlingame within
the past few years was humiliated by being called
upon by the organization in her church to contribute
to the support of her own brother, who had applied
to them for aid, but the grand dame was equal to
the occasion, and in polite Burlingame English told
them to go to the bow-wows. The charitably inclined
intruders sneaked off feeling as if they had committed
the awful crime of lese majeste.
Strange enough Society rather approves of young
men and women cutting their relations and one often
hears it said:
"Oh, yes ; his family is impossible, but you know
he has nothing to do with them."
Not long since a prominent matron in speaking
of a male climber said :
"Oh, yes ; he is charming although his family is im-
possible, but he has cut them all even his brothers and
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MRS. FRANK GRIFFIN
Sin add these surmises prove correct and H. E.
Huntington marry his aunt he will have control prac-
tically of all the Huntington estate, for nothing bores
Archer Huntington as the thought of money and he
is his mother's only heir. Mrs. Collis P. Huntington
has a handsome figure of which she takes great care.
She is literary and artistic in her tastes, and cares
very little for Society. Mrs. H. E. Huntington also
cares little for Society and she seeks association with
people whom she likes regardless of whether they
figure in the smart set or not.
* * *
The news of Juliet Crosby's death was received with
real sorrow by thousands ut pla_\ goers in San Fran-
cisco. The women loved the actress, who was per-
haps the mu>t popular of her profession. When Miss
Crosby married Fred Belasco her family opposed the
union on account of their difference in religion. Mrs.
Lewis, her mother, is a member of the Baptist Church,
which is a strict sect. But the marriage proved in
every way such a happy one that the Lewises soon
got over their feeling in the matter. Had Mrs.
Ilelasco's health permitted she could have risen to the
heights of dramatic success. David Belasco would
have starred her any time, for he had a high opinion
of his sister-in-law's abilities.
* * *
An engagement which will be of great interest to
friends here and in Sonoma County is that of Miss
Mabel Lindsey and Dr. Jackson Temple, son of the
late Supreme Justice, Jackson Temple. The Temples
are amongst the oldest and best known residents of
Santa Rosa. Dr. Temple is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of California and is at present connected with
the City and County Hospital. It had- been intended
to celebrate the wedding at Trinity Chapel in this
City in July, and was to have been an elaborate affair,
but owing to the sudden death of Miss May Belle
Temple, the sister of the groom, it will be celebrated
very quietly this Summer. Miss Lindsey and her
mother are at present residing at Mrs. Hoods in Ala-
meda— having moved there after the fire. Miss
Lindsey is a very pretty vivacious and accomplished
young lady. Dr. Temple will reside in his former
home, Santa Rosa, after his marriage.
J. J. Moore has entirely recovered from his recent
injuries, which he received in Los Angeles, and is
now at his charming summer home at Fair Oaks.
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A very pretty young lady who will be a Summer
bride is Miss Lucy Mighell, daughter of the late'
James Philip Mighell, niece of Mr. William E.
Mighell and grand-daughter of Mrs. Kashow, after
whom Kashows Island was named. The fortunate
man is Mr. Thomas J. Churchill, who comes from a
prominent family of the South. His grand-father
was the famous Confederate, General Churchill.
Mrs. Churchill, mother of the groom to be was a
Miss Hooper, daughter of Dr. T. O. Hooper, who
served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army and in
later years was president of the American Medical
Society. The Churchills have only been residents of
San Francisco a few years. They live in a charming
home on Post Street and entertain in the true
Southern style. Young Mr. Churchill holds a
responsible position with the Southern Pacific
Company. He is building a residence in San Mateo
and will make that place his home after his mar-
riage. Miss Lucy Mighell's portrait appears in the
Wasp this week.
All our society skaters will be busily engaged
during the next week in planning rink parties
as Mrs. Ynez Shorb White has announced that a
masque and fancy dress ball, on skates will take
place at the Pavilion Rink on Monday- evening,
April 1st. Mrs. White emphatically states that all
on the floor must wear masks but need not don
fancy dress unless they desire to do so. Another
rule to be strictly enforced is that all who wish to
invite guests for that evening must send in their
guests' names in advance, as no tickets will be
given anybody at the door on that evening. All
members must present their membership cards at
the door on that evening as no one will be admitted
to the hall without those important pasteboards.
* * *
Miss Marie Churchill, the pretty daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. S. J. Churchill who will make her debut
the coming Winter, is a prominent member of the
younger branch of the Albert Sidney Johnstone
Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy. She will
be the maid of honor at the forth coming wedding
of her brother Mr. Thomas J. Churchill to Miss
Lucy Mighell.
Miss Mazie Coyle whose portiait appeared in The
Wasp last week is a pretty Southern girl and one
of the most graceful skaters at the Monday Even-
ing Skating Club. Miss Mazie and Angela Coyle,
gave a very large tea at the City of Paris Tea
Garden during the Winter. It was an elaborate
affair, complimentary to one of the season's brides.
* * *
bara is not putting on perky airs to think that it
has a hero, and one who is about to be decorated
by the Emperor of Germany and the King of Eng-
land, and for his gallantry on that expedition in
China.
Saturday afternoon Mrs. Christian Herter had
the relief expedition to Peking in which he took
part. The women went wild over the bravery of the
Admiral and his sailor lads and maybe Santa Bar-
Among the San Francisco people who are cut-
ting a wide swath at Santa Barbara are Mr. and
Mrs. M. H. Hecht, who have engaged a suite of
rooms for the remainder of the season. By the way
I heard that Mr. Hecht's valet is the despair of the
other servitors at the hotel where the Hechts are
stopping. He is so filled with airs and so puffed
up over belonging to the "City that was and that is
to be" that the frequenters of below stairs are cast
down and elated by turns. One thing is sure : Mr.
Hecht is a modest man compared to "Jeames".
* * *
Admiral McCalla, who was reported to be dying,
is very much alive, I am glad to state. Last week
this gallant officer at Mrs. Christine Harter's home
in Santa Barbara read extracts from his records of
another literary blowout. She was fortunate enough
to secure Father de Vey of Paris, France, to give a
series of five lectures in his native tongue and she
invited a group of the most exclusive women to
head him.
Thomas Driscoll has returned to Burlingame
and San Francisco after leaving his wife and
baby at Mrs. Driscoll's parents. Admiral and Mrs.
Albert W. Bacon, of Santa Barbara, and where the
baby is being made much of as is the custom with
grandparents and aunties the world over. Mrs.
Bowman H. McCalla gave a tea on Saturday after-
noon for Mrs. Driscoll. and the stately house, with
its immense rooms was very attractive. All Santa
-arbara and Montecito society made its way out to
the McCallas during the afternoon and everyone
seemed to have a delightful half hour. Mrs. Horace
Blanchard Chase of San Francisco, poured coffee
and Mrs. Albert W. Bacon, Mrs. Driscoll's mother,
looked very much at home beside the tea table dis-
pensing its hospitalities. Mrs. McCalla had a bright
bevy of young matrons and maids assisting her in
receiving, conspicious among them being: Mrs.
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Kingsle) Man- of Boston; Mrs. Stewart Edward
White, wife of the distinguished author: Mi>s Cora
Bowditch, Miss Antonia Mar-in, Miss Delfina Dib-
blee, Miss Elizabeth Livermore and Miss Stella
McCalla.
* * *
Mrs. Henry T. Scott and Mrs. Joseph B. Crockett
Stopped at Santa Barbara on their way up from
Coronado. They attended luncheon on hoard the
Charleston before she left Coronado for Magdalena
bay. Xed Greenway was also a guest at the lunch-
ei in.
Miss Ethel Shorb is the guest of Miss Maye Col-
burn in San Rafael.
* * *
Judge and Mrs. Morrow of San Rafael left
on the 28th of this month for Europe. The Judge
is going to consult an eminent European occulist
as his eyes have troubled him seriously for some
time. He will also take the waters at Carlsbad.
* * *
Mrs. Frank Zook, Mrs. C. P. Pomeroy, Mrs. J.
E. Alexander, Mrs. L. L. Baker were a few San
Rafael ladies who entertained at enjoyable bridge
yaiiies during the past week.
* * *
Hotel Rafael has been crowded during the past
week with Raymond excursionists. They seemed
most favorably impressed with California though
seeing it in its most unfavorable aspect, during one
of the most disagreeable Winters on record. The
excursionists were a very nice looking people and
evidently represented the better classes of the
Quaker State.
A large and enjoyable luncheon was given last
week by Mrs. Robert Davis of Ross Valley in
honor of her daughter Miss Constance. Many
charming buds from San Rafael were present.
* * *
Mrs. Cyrus El wood Brown gave a "coffee and
Lenten conversazione" on Saturday last at her
beautiful home 3301 Pacific Avenue. Among those
present were : Mrs. Selden L. Wright, Mrs. O. D.
Baldwin. Mrs. John McGaw, Mrs. S. W. Holloday,
Mrs. E. B. Holloday, Mrs. Walter D. Mansfield,
Mrs. W. B. Craig and Miss Roberta Thompson.
* # *
All the beauty doctors in the world could not
persuade Alice Neilson to part with the large mole
that some think disfigures her cheek. The little
prima donna does not exactly consider that the
mole adds to her beauty but she believes it means
good luck. Moles in certain positions on the face
or body are mascots and this mole according to the
luck-interpreters, is particularly well placed.
* * *
Mrs. Harry R. Bostvvick will be hostess at an elab-
orate bridge party on April 6th at the residence of her
mother on Laurel Street. Invitations read half after
one o'clock. It will be a very large affair, and the
prizes will be very handsome.
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MISS GERTRUDE McFARLANE
I hear that Miss Upton of Los Angeles, who will
soon be introduced to us as the bride of Charlie
Dickman, the artist, is a fine pianist. The announce-
ment that Dickman was to marry again did not sur-
prise those of his intimates who knew of his atten-
tions to Miss Upton. His_ former wife, Grace Pat-
terson, who is now Mrs. Clarence Eddy, was also
a musician, but a singer, and their temperaments
were not at all harmonious. Charlie is a Bohemian
of the Bohemians, and the former Mrs. Dickman is
not in the least of that disposition. She is extremely
happy with her present husband, who is an ideal
mate for her, always attentive to her wishes and
studying in all things to please her. Artists who
have met Miss Upton tell me that she is charming
and will be just the one to preside graciously and
gracefully over the Di'ckman bungalow in Mon-
terey.
Miss Lillian Brechemin, whose engagement to
Dr. Gillespie of New York was announced in this
week's papers, used to attend the Girls' High School
in this City, before her father. Dr. Brechemin, was
ordered to the Philippines. Mrs. Brechemin sang in
one of the church choirs and was also teacher of
singing in the high schools. The Brechemins are
a charming family, and in Manila made hosts of
friends. It was in Manila that Miss Lillian made
her formal debut in Society.
The Rev. Mr. Morgan, who will succeed Mr.
Weeden as rector of St. Luke's, is not a stranger in
San Francisco, for he was at the Good Samaritan
Mission for some time. He is an Englishman, and
has the real British accent and manner. He came
from Bakersfield, where he was an intimate friend
of the Will Tevises. The report that he has an in-
dependent fortune of recent acquisition, by inheri-
tance, added to the fact that he is a bachelor, should
make St. Luke's particularly popular among the un-
married young women of Society. Grace church
used to be in high favor among the girls of the smart
set until Miss Susie Le Count stepped in and car-
ried away the rector, or rather stepped to the altar
with him. There is something eminently attractive
in a bachelor clergyman to impressible feminines.
* * *
I hear that one of the artists who is "doing the
big stuff" in Santa Barbara is Mr. Davis. He has
one of the little group of studios in the Abadie
Gardens. Quaint, moss-grown fences, beyond which
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makes an environment fit for the artists that occupy
the studios. There Fernand Lungren, that indom-
itable digger; Gamble, Howard, Davis, and last but
inn least, Alexander Marnier, who owns the places
and whose pictures of early days are painted con
amore. Mr. Davis' charming daughters are reign-
ing belles at the I'otter, where they are established
for the season, and there is scarcely a Saturday or
Wednesday evening that they do not give a dinner,
and each dinner ends in the guests repairing to
the ball-room for the dance.
* * *
Mr>. Sheffield of Santa Barbara was nearly kept
from the wedding of her son, Eugene Sheffield, who
married Florence Ward in Berkeley on Saturday,
and it was only by the greatest bit of luck that she
was able, when the railroads proved a brittle reed,
to get a berth on the steamer. A friend succeeded
in securing a state-room of one of the officers — and
I understand that the several officers made more
from the bonuses paid them on that trip by passen-
gers from Santa Barbara, who cared not a whit for
the money, but who would prefer death on the rail
or by shipwreck to remaining a day after deciding
to go, than they could have earned by several jaunts
MRS. JOSEPH S. TOB1N
From a minilure by Rose Hooper Plolner
up and down the coast. Well, as one of the gold-
braided officers remarked while pacing the deck
and thinking of the warm bed he had resigned at the
call of the coin of the realm : "Tourists have their
uses and abuses."
Mr. Louis Martel left last Wednesday for a visit
of several weeks to Los Angeles. It is a pity that
Society sees so little of this wealthy and attractive
bachelor. At all the elaborate functions of his charm-
ing mother, Mrs. J. L. Martel, and his well known
sisters, Miss Addie Martel, Mrs. J. M. Masten and
Mrs. C. J. Stoval, who are constantly entertaining, he
can never be persuaded to join in the festivities. His
bachelor friends wonder if the trip south is at all
significant.
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THE WASP-
The early week dispatches from Boston recorded
the news that Mrs. Lucy Banning Bradbury has
taken a matinee stage idol as her second matrimonial
choice, one Mace Greenleaf, unknown, so far as I
know, out this way. This knocks on the head the
rumors current in Los Angeles for some months
after Mrs. Bradbury went abroad that a certain
wealthy clubman of the Southern metropolis had a
good chance of winning her hand, and had followed
her to Paris to press his suit. This was a good
while after her divorce from her husband, John
Bradbury. The lady is said to be even more
beautiful now than in her youthful days when she
succeeded in fascinating an Englishman who was
temporarily residing in Los Angeles to such an
extent that he foreswore his allegiance to his lawful
wife and contemplated an elopement. The pair were
not permitted to have their way and give up the
world for love, for a merciful providence intervened
to frustrate their plans. The pretty, foolish young
wife who had probably overfed her mind on trashy
literature was forgiven by her husband and taken
back to his heart and home. The Englishman came
to a tragic end, falling from a train and being killed,
the act generally being commented on, if I re-
member aright, as suicide. The Bradburys suffered
a season of financial stringency, and went to Arizona
and Mexico, but returned to Los Angeles richer
than ever and Mrs. Bradbury took her place as
leader of the inner circle of the aristocracy down
South. She was the most popular hostess in the
lively set and her parties were considered the most
original and successful ever given in Los Angeles.
* * *
Miss Ella Bender, the clever society girl who
quite recently gave a reading at Mrs. Homer S.
Kings residence on Broadway is a niece of Mrs.
E. B. Crocker of Sacramento, who was Miss
Bender. The Benders have been very prominent in
Nevada and Sacramento society. Their home on
Green Street was burned in the great fire and since
that the family has been living in Sausalito. Miss
Bender received her first instructions in public
reading from the late Mrs. Francis Edgerton, the
sister of Mrs. Homer S. King.
When Miss Bender went East last year it was
thought she would go on the stage but she only
took a course in elocution at the Boston School of
Oratory. She does not need to work for a living
and though the stage naturally possesses fascina-
tion for her she has said positively that she will not
become an actress but will use her talent in dramatic
recitation alone. Mrs. Sarah Cowell Le Moyne, with
whom she studied in Boston, is one of the finest
Browning interpreters in America, and during her
period of vacation from the stage gave Browning
recitals all over this country. She gave a series for
the Channing Auxiliary. Miss Bender took up
Browning under Mrs. " LeM oyne and .has made a
great success in her readings of that complex poet's
works. The appreciation of her artistic efforts is
best shown by the fact that her delighted -circle of
admirers gladly pay the admission fee of a dollar a
ticket.
Mrs. John Taylor's gowns have been greatly
admired during her present visit, her first since she
was Daisy Van Ness. She designs all her frocks
herself, I am told, and it was well known that when
she lived here she was the most successful amateur
dressmaker in society. She made her own hats, too,
and they had the real Parisian air.
Mrs. David Bixler's handsome home was the scene
of an elaborate dinner oarty on Saturday evening
last. Sixteen guests enjoyed her hospitality, the oc-
casion being a birthday anniversary of her brother,
Rothwell Hyde. Much amusement was occasioned by
the huge cake with one bright candle, Mr. Hvde being
too modest to acknowledge his age. All present were
expected to guess how many candles might be added,
as some of the guests present had danced with him
when they made their debut, and on this occasion their
daughters sat around this festive board. Mr. Hyde
had to stand considerable raillery, but fortunately was
equal to the occasion.
The Lakeside Skating Club of Oakland has been
revived for the Spring season, by Joseph Rosborough.
Tuesday evenings have been set for the club's gather-
ings. This arrangement will enable the buds from
this City and San Rafael to join in the gayety. Five
meetings will take place, the last -one being in June.
* * *
From the number of distinguished foreigners who
have engaged rooms at the new Fairmont Hotel, San
Francisco is evidently going to be the mecca of the
globe-trotters this year. The commanding view which
this hotel affords will give the tourist an idea of
the natural beauties of our City, of which, heretofore,
the visitor has had only a passing realization gained
by chance glimpses of the bay and hills. As the pres-
ence of visiting notables always prods the hospitality
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of the negligent Summer hostess the "between
-<>m" i- not apt to be a^ « lull thi> year as usual. In
fact there are already a number of smart dinners
and luncheons planned t" take place at this Fair-
mont during the "silly season
* * *
h was Inn a short time ago that John T. Doyle,
the able and well-known lawyer, passed away at
his fine residence in Menlo Park. Another death
took place at the Doyle home on Monday last, when
Miss Frances Doyle, the daughter, followed her
father to the grave. Miss Doyle was an accom-
plished young girl, with ample means to enjoy life
and Society, but cared nothing whatever for it.
she preferred to engage in social settlement work in
San Francisco. She fell from a second-story win-
dow of the Children's Hospital last April and sus-
tained injuries from which she never recovered, and
linalh . after great suffering, death relieved her.
Miss Doyle is a cousin of Mr. Jack and Miss Daisy
( lasserly of this City.
* * *
The latest wanderer to return is Joseph Ros-
borough, the popular San Francisco and Oakland
Society man. who has been the guest of General
and Mrs. Frisbie in Mexico. Mr. Rosborough and
some sixty Californians who were visiting Mexico
at the same time were given an audience by Presi-
dent Diaz. The San Francisco man was chosen to
speak for his fellow countrymen, which he did, it is
said, in his usual clever way.
* * *
The fraternal dinner which that warm-hearted
and popular merchant prince, Raphael Weill, gives
every year to the veterans of the "Old Guard" of
the Bohemian Club will take place this year on
April 13th. Those seasoned sons of Bohemia have
no superstitious terrors of the fateful number 13.
The invitation which has been sent out to the
brotherhood was as follows :
"Dear Old Brother in Bohemia: Why should
we not meet this year? Has anything happened
since we last met? Something did, which has en-
deared to me all the old boys, and it is my greatest
wish to have you join us at a banquet on April the
13th at the Palace, to celebrate the ninetieth birth-
day of our dear old high priest and friend, 'dear
old Uncle George.' "
What pranks old Father Time_ has played with
the contemporaries of Raphael Weill since they
were gay young fellows together away back in the
sixties, when those annual dinners were inaugur-
ated. "Alas the flying years," as old Horace says
when he bewails the symptoms of aproaching bald-
ness and the premonitory twinges of rheumatism
that make even a gay Bohemian sedate. Old
Charon would have to take an afternoon off and
check off his passenger lists before he could tell
how many of the "Old Guard" have paid their
obolus and crossed his ferry. Two went over the
dark river during the past year and will be sadly
missed at the coming dinner at the Palace Hotel.
The sudden death of S. D. Brastow lessened the at-
tenuated ranks by one loyal and greatly beloved
member, and recently a much younger and equally
popular one dropped out of sight forever when
Thei "I. >re I 'avne died.
The list of guests to whom Mr. Weill has sent
invitations for the dinner on the 13th proximo i> as
i' ■Hows :
II. R. Bloomer, X. J. Brittan, George T. Bromley,
Hugh M. Burke, David Bush, Jennings P. ( ox, \.
VfcFarland Davis, L. II. Foote, Clay M. Green, I.
Gutte, R. C. Harrison. A. G. llawes. Barton Hill,
I lorace L. Hill, Thomas Mill, J. X. 1 1. Irwin. ( leorge
T. Ives, Charles Josselyn, John Landers, Barbour
Lathrop, R. II. Lloyd, Jerry Lynch, Ben Clark,
George II. Mailer. Samuel D. Mayer, James M.
McDonald, Jasper McDonald, G. A. E. Muecke,
\\ .men Payne, George C. Perkins, Peter Robert-
son, Charles Warren Stoddard, Benjamin R. Swan,
Frank L. Unger, Raphael Weill and Dr. J. Younger.
* # *
Mr. ami Mrs. George Sperry, who left here re-
cently for a tour abroad, have arrived in Xew York.
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Photo Rice
MRS. MIDDLEHOFF
Nordica is never so much rushed by the culturines
of Society as are some of the musical stars that come
this way. Nordica is charming in company but she
does not crave the notice of the smart set and prefers
a few friends' company to large affairs in her honor.
She is great chums with the De Youngs, however,
and is quite the friend of the house there. Melba, too,
is always invited to the De Youngs when she comes
to San Francisco, and the Burlingamites are devoted
to Melba. Emma Eames was the prima donna over
whom Harry Holbrook and Dr. Harry Tevis enthused
so publicly during her first season here. The second
time the divine Emma came West Mr. Holbrook was
a benedict and so it was up to Dr. Harry to do most
of the entertaining in Mrs. Story's honor. On her
previous visit, it will be remembered, Mr. Holbrook
hosted a dinner in the statuesque prima donna's honor
which was thought to be the feast that decided "who's
who" in Society here. His guests were- chosen with
such care that many who had hoped to be invited had
to chew the cud of disappointment for months after-
ward. -But the next time t-he-prima donna-carae West
— not the concert tour but in grand opera — the earth-
quake put an untimely end to the season thereby giv-
ing Dr. Tevis a chance to show her the generous
measure of his hospitality at his country place.
* * *
Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Nettie
Sexton to Mr. Edwin Dow on April 6th at the resi-
dence of the bride's father, Mr. William Sexton, on
Washington Street. It will be a pink and white wed-
ding, with little Miss Betty Dow, the niece of the
groom, as flower girl. Miss Lucille Levy and Lavania
Giesting will be bridesmaids and Wallace Dow, brother
of the groom, the best man. The young couple after
the honeymoon will reside with Mr. Sexton, who is
a widower. Mr. Sexton is the well known and popu-
lar insurance man. Mr. Dow is a member of the
firm of the Dow Pump Works Company. Percy Long,
the ex-City and County Attorney, married the elder
Miss Sexton.
* * *
Mrs. Marguerite Hanford, who has been passing
the Winter in an attractive flat on Broderick, with
Mrs. E. Walton Hedges, will leave early in April
for an extended Eastern tour. She will visit her old
home in Montreal before her return to California.
In the meantime Mrs. Hedges will for the coming
month have Mrs. Florence Pfingst and Mrs. Shirley
as her guests, until May, when Mrs. Hedges will
leave for Plainfield, N. J. Mrs. Pfingst was a Miss
Florence Porter, the daughter of the late John Por-
ter, banker of Watsonville. She is a brilliant and ac-
complished woman, having traveled extensively
abroad. She is a linguist of rare ability, speaking
French, German and Spanish as fluently as her
native tongue. Her mother's magnificent country
home in Watsonville is one of the show places
Let them know!
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
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45
LADY ABERDEEN
of the surrounding country, where hospitality
is dispensed with a lavish hand. Mr. War-
ren R. Porter, the only son and brother, is now our
Lieut. Governor of California. Mrs. Warren Porter
was the pretty daughter of the Rev. Giles Eaton of
Berkeley before her marriage.
$ * *
According to an English Society writer the di-
vorced wife of Mr. Richard McCreery and his pres-
ent wife, who was Lady Grey Edgerton, have met
several times since the recent marriage of the San
Francisco clubman. The first Mrs. McCreery has
been living at Tunbridge Wells, where she has taken
a house, as her little son is in delicate health and
cannot live in town. The two ladies met one day
at Claridge's restaurant, where both were taking
lunch. Again both were at the St. James Theatre
one evening. They sat in boxes facing each other.
The ladies did not appear uncomfortable, but Mr.
McCreery kept well in the background.
* * *L
Edgar Mills will soon start for Paris, and will
make that place his headquarters for some time.
Mr. Mills has always been ready to offer his ser-
vices for any worthy charity. He has a glorious
voice and will be greatly missed from Bohemian
circles. While in Paris two years ago Mr. Mills
studied under de Reszke. Apropos of the de Reszkes,
Jean de Reszke has a much patronized singing
school in Paris, while his brother, Edouard, has
opened one in London, for which he charges $10.50
for a half hour's lesson. He has all the pupils he
can attend to.
Another young Society girl who has recently
taken up literature is Miss Elsie Clifford, whose
sister was married a few months ago to Mr. Syl-
vanus Farnum of Oakland. Mrs. Clifford is prom-
inent in local Society.
* * *
Announcement cards have been received of the
marriage of Miss Eleanor Theresa Thorne Geissler,
daughter of Louis F. Geissler, formerly of this City,
to Albert Joseph Diesinger, of Philadelphia, on
March 16th, at Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadel-
phia. Miss Geissler made her debut in this City
and shortly afterwards moved to Philadelphia with
her parents, where a few months later her mother
died. Since that time Miss Geissler has been keep-
ing house for her father. Mr. Diesinger is the son
of an old Philadelphia family, and is a wealthy New
York stock broker. Owing to the recent death of
Mrs. Geissler the marriage was very quiet. Miss
Carrie Mills and Miss Grace Hammond of San Fran-
cisco, who have been visiting Boston, went to Phila-
delphia to attend the bride. After the wedding tour,
Mr. and Mrs. Diesinger will reside in Cranford,
N. J., where the groom has a handsome home.
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Emma Eames Story's action in applying for a di-
vorce was not surprising to those who knew her, for
she has not been on very good terms with her hus-
band and his family in some time. When she was
out here, her brother-in-law, Waldo Story, was in
the City, too, but she did not see much of him. The
Story boys were brought up in Italy, educated at
Oxford, and it is difficult for one reared in Italy to
accept the Anglo-Saxon standard of constancy with
any great seriousness. Edith Story is the Marquise
di Medici, and lives at Florence, where Julian Story
resides. As Emma Eames earns much more than
her husband, he will miss the loss of her income.
William Story, the father of the Story boys, was a
famous sculptor, who for years inhabited the Bar-
berine Palace at Rome. He married the daughter
of General Waldo of Revolutionary fame. His
father was Chief Justice Story and he, himself, was
a lawyer who had written a few law books, but he
had no. practice and was sent abroad by the citizens
of Boston to study art and to make a statue of his
father, for he was always dabbling in art. When he
returned to the United States he found life unliv-
able. packed up his things, took his family and went
to Rome, where he had an immediate success. He
was a friend of the Brownings, and he wrote many
books on art, several volumes of poetry and several
novels. No American ever more completely -identi-
fied himself with Italian life than he. His son,
Waldo Story, the sculptor, was here at the time of
the fire, and he is thinking of returning here to live.
Two attractive sisters who are being welcomed
back to the City are the Misses Bessie and Ardella
Mills, who have been passing the last five months in
New York and Washington. Miss Bessie, who has
gained distinction as a clever writer, has had her
songs published.
* * *
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Clampett have purchased
a bungalow at Carmel-by-the-Sea and with their
children have passed the Winter there.
* * *
Box parties were numerous during the opera sea-
son. A notable one was that chaperoned by Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Eastland, which included Mrs. Fred
Kohl, Miss Virginia Jolliffe, Miss Ethel Dean, Ed-
ward Tobin, Thornwell Mullaly and Enrique Grau.
Mrs. Eastland wore a striking gown of pink cloth
with picture hat covered with white plumes. Mrs.
Kohl was a striking figure in black net and jet with
black hat covered with white feathers. Miss Dean
wore a dark green opera cloak over a white gown,
and a big black hat. Miss Jolliffe's opera wrap was
a beautiful one of Irish lace. She wore a white pic-
ture hat.
Mr. and Mrs. George Cadwallader chaperoned a
party that included Miss Genevieve Harvey, Miss
Janet von Schroeder, Harry Stetson and Cyril
Tobin. Mrs. Cadwallader was a picture in a cafe-
au-lait-colored frock with picture hat covered with
white plumes. Miss von Schroeder wore pink silk,
and Miss Harvey was also in pink.
" If you need a bracer in the morning tiy a glass of soda and a little of Abbott's Bitters.
You'll be surprised how it will brighten you up.
One of the prettiest women at Del Monte this
week is Mrs. Wilbur Gleason Zeigler, wife of the
San Francisco lawyer and novelist. Mrs. Zeigler
went down last Friday with her little son.
The E. J. de Sablas are receiving much attention
at Santa Barbara, where they have gathered around
them a brilliant group, many of whom are from San
Francisco and the bay cities. They — Mr. and Mrs.
de Sabla — gave a dinner at the Casa de Brabo on
Sunday, which was one of the most effective affairs
of the week. After the dinner tiny senoritas danced
the fancy steps of Spain to the tinkling strains of
mandolin and guitar.
An army marriage of interest to San Francisco
people is that of Lieut. Frederick Mears, Eleventh
Cavalry to Miss Jennie Pound Serrell, daughter of
Mrs. R. P. P. Wainwright. The wedding will take
place on April 6th at Fort Clark, Texas. Lieut.
Mears is well known in San Francisco, where' his
mother and sister reside. He is the son of the late
General Mears.
Cards are out for the forthcoming wedding of
Miss Flazel Cynthia Marston, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Allen Marston of Alameda to Fred-
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a disc- playing
Talking Machine of any kind,
who will send us their name
and address will receive, free
of charge, each month for one
year, a handsome little souvenir booklet containing the names
of the latest records and a brief history of a few of the most
prominent contributors.
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..rick Winslow Read, the attorney of Stockton. The
ceremony will take place on April 11th at S o'clock
at Christ Church, Alameda. A large reception will
follow at tile residence of the bride's parents, 1716
Encinal Avenue. Alameda.
* * r.
Much In the regret of his friends. Mr. Jose Costa
has resigned as the Consul of Uruguay at this port.
The duties of Consul for Uruguay it is thought, will
In performed h\ Mr. DalzeJl Brown, the well known
financier, as Mr. Costa has expressed a desire that
Mr. Brown should succeed him. Mr. Costa has been
a resident of San Francisco for thirty years and is
a very wealthy man, who has large interests both
here and in Uruguay. He will leave in a week for
Washington, where he will visit the Mexican
Minister to Cuba, Joseph Godoy. From Washing-
ton Mr. Costa will proceed to Spain and remain
abroad a year or two.
* * *
By the arrival of the new Spanish Consul Antonio
Suque with his charming wife and two children,
San Francisco has made a distinct social gain. The
Consul is a highly cultivated and scholarly gentle-
man and a remarkable linguist. He and his family
are guests at the Hotel Cecil. The Spanish
Consulate has been located in the Montgomery
Block, where Senor Suque will be assisted in his
official duties by his clever associate O. M. Gold-
aracena the Vice-Consul.
, * * *
As pretty Miss Linda Cadwalader will leave about
the middle of April for an Eastern visit and be
gone some months, man}' friends are now planning
luncheons and dinners for this charming girl. A
large dinner was given on Wednesday evening by-
Miss Genevieve King, at the residence of her
parents, Mr and Mrs. Homer S. King, on Broadway.
* * *
A large tea will be given by Mrs. A. W. Foster,
at her home Fair Hills, San Rafael, on Thursday,
April 4th, in honor of Mrs. William Foster of
Mendocino, who has been visiting her husband's
parents. Several pretty buds will assist in receiving
the guests. Many people from this side of the bay
will be present on this occasion.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Elkins, of Elkins Park, Phila-
delphia, have arrived at Del Monte in their luxurious
private car "The Republic." Accompanying Mr. and
Mrs. Elkins are their son, Mr. George W. Elkins and
his bride. Miss Louisa Elkins, Miss Beulah Elkins,
Mrs. W. L. Elkins and Mr. Fred H. Dillon.
J. C. Edouard Noetzlin, a banker of Paris and one
of the best known financiers of Europe, is a guest
at Del Monte. He is making a tour of America. Mr.
Noetzlin negotiated the great Russian loan and also
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's $60,000,000
loan. His object in visiting the country is to see for
himself the wealth of California. The great financier
is most favorably impressed with the State.
Monsieur Noetzlin goes to Portland, Oregon and
then East by the way of Salt Lake.
<>n the occasion of the opening of the Fairmont
Hotel on April 19th, Edward M. Greenway will be
the Master of Ceremonies, in the ballroom, so the
success of the affair is assured. In the bright lexicon
ol the Czar of Society, there is no such word as
failure. I le has never yet scored one.
A jolly party of congenial friends leave this week
for a visit to the Hawaiian Islands, as the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knight. The lucky ones are:
Mrs. Bush Finnell, Mrs. Augustus Xewell and Mrs.
Edgar Keithley. They will be gone all Summer. Mr.
Knight. Mr. Finnell and Mr. Xewell intend join-
ing the party later, returning to the City with
their wives.
On April 3rd, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. McEnery will
give one of their delightful dinners at their home on
Broadway to Major William Stephenson and his
sisters, who will leave next Friday for the Philip-
pines. Major Stephenson and his sisters will be
greatlv missed.
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MENU
Wednesday, April 3
Swedish Timbales
Sweetbreads in Scollop Shells
Chicken Croquettes
Chocolate Pudding
Mrs. Jean Sinclair
Demonstrator
Lectures on domestic science and the economical operation of the gas range
every Wednesday and Friday, at 3 o'clock sharp, in the assembly room of [he Gas
Company, at 925 Franklin street. Every user of gas invited.
Demonstration in Bread and Cake Baking, Monday and Saturday, 2 to 4.
The art of Bread Making is taught here so you can make your own "home-made
bread."
GAS COOK BOOK given to every lady attending.
"AT YOUR SERVICE"
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Over the Lunch Table
A diurnal discussion of men and things
by three plain citizens. Scene, a mer-
chant's cafe in the business district;
parties to discussion:
Jones— A pessimist.
Brown—An optimist.
Robinson— Don't much care either way.
Brown — Well. I see that the grafters are in a
pretty bad way. Looks as if Ruef would go to San
puentin for two or three hundred years, if he's con-
victed on half the indictments against him.
Jones — Serve him right if he did. Schmitz and
the whole Board of Supervisors ought to go with
him.
Robinson — It's a terrible revelation.
Jones — No revelation at all. Every man, woman
and child in San Francisco has known for six years
that the municipal government was nothing but a
band of grafters.
Robinson — Do you really think that the working-
men of this City who have supported Schmitz believed
he was crooked?
Jones — I don't think most of them cared one way
or the other. They voted for him because they thought
he would side with them and not with the employers
in case of any trouble and thus help to keep up the
high rate of wages.
Robinson — Help them to keep up the high standard
of living. Eh?
Jones — What do you mean by a high standard of
living?
Robinson — The American workingmen's standard
of living is a high standard.
Jones — From his standpoint. Yes.
Brown — Oh, I should say it's a high standard from
any standpoint.
Tones — Well let's see about that what makes it
high?
Brown — The wages of course. He gets the highest
wages in the world.
Jones — According to that theory if a Mexican peon
got higher wages than the American laborer his stand-
ard of living would be also higher.
Brown — The Mexican peon doesn't live like the
American laborer in any way.
Jones — He eats, doesn't he?
Brown — Yes, but not porterhouse steaks three times
a day.
Jones — Then a high standard of living is based
upon the mastication of porterhouse steak three times
a day, is it? Suppose a man is vegetarian like mil-
lions of people in the world. Steak three times a day
wouldn't represent a high standard to him would it?
Brown — Oh, you can't establish a standard that will
be regarded as high by everybody on earth.
Jones — I beg your pardon. You can establish one
that all civilized people will acknowledge as very
high but it must be based on something more than
porterhouse steak.
i Brown — The American workingman has other ad-
vantages than food. He wears better clothes.
Jones — Better from his standpoint and certainly
more expensive. But an educated East Indian or
Persian or Turk wouldn't wear European or American
clothes at any price. You couldn't impress them by
a high standard based on a sack or cutaway coat and
creased pants.
Brown — The American workingman is better
housed.
Jones — That's a mere matter of opinion too. The
tenement and the flat are regarded as atrocities by
millions of highly civilized people.
Brown — Well. You'll admit he has more money
and time for amusements.
Jones — What are his amusements. If you mean
vaudeville shows where cheap comedians swap stale
jokes and prize-fights where pugs swap blows, I can't
say I am impressed by your high standard of living.
The educated Italian who prefers opera to slapstick
comedy would regard vaudeville as pretty low and
the Spaniard would rather see a brutal bull-fight than
a brutal prize-fight. So you can't establish a high
standard on the American workingmen's amusements.
Robinson — Well what can you establish a standard
GOVERNOR FOLK OF MISSOURI
-THE WASP-
49
FRITZl SCHEFF
on that would be accepted the world over?
Jones — On a combination of education, intelligence,
honesty, industry and thrift. In all the discussions
you hear about the American workingmen scarcely
a word is said about these. All the talk is about the
high wages and the short hours. Not a word about
establishing technical schools and raising the standard
of skill but plenty of words about preventing Ameri-
can boys from becoming apprentices and learning use-
ful trades.
Brown — But don't you think that as workingmen
Kings, when a Browning afternoon will be enjoyed.
are well paid and have short hours, the other desir-
able things will follow in time.
Jones — I certainly hope so. It is easy to improve
on the present order of things.
Brown — How do you think they will be im-
proved?
Jones — If at all, it will be by the high schools and
the universities. They are likely to create an Am-
erican standard in which money will not be the be-
ginning and end of everything. With such a stand-
ard established the government will be in the hands
of the intelligent and patriotic classes, and not as now
very largely in the hands of the illiterates and the
grafters.
A Change of Heart
Since they made their amazing recital of the graft
in the administration the members of the Board of
Supervisors have a new buss. Heretofore, ever
Mnce their election, the Supervisors have "reported
on" to Ruef; they consulted him about every move
and no resolution or ordinance was allowed to pas*
unless it had been approved by him ; in this way
they protected themselves and him from the pos-
sible chance of allowing to escape any measure or
interest which might be made to yield more graft.
It was from Ruef, too, that Gallagher received the
bribe sack for distribution to his fellows.
But that is all changed now. The Supervisors
no longer report to Ruef, for two reasons, one being
that Detective Burns will not let them approach the
imprisoned boss, and the other and more important
being that they find it more to their taste to report
to Burns and Heney and Rudolph Spreckels. This
was illustrated the other day when the telephone in
Heney 's office rang and the following conversation
took place :
"Hello; is this Mr. Heney's office?"
"Yes."
"Well, this is Gallagher — Supervisor Gallagher.
I merely called up to ask if anything were wanted of
me today."
"No, nothing today," was the answer from
Heney's representative, "we'll let you know later."
MRS. VICTOR METCALF
Some of the labor leaders who have not been in
complete accord with Schmitz are getting into print
by denouncing the grafters generally, and declaring
that they should all go to jail with the bribers as well.
It is worthy of note, however, that those hostile
leaders have heretofore represented a very small mi-
nority in the Union Labor party. The influential
leaders representing the majority were all taken care
of by Schmitz and quartered on the City in various
important and remunerative positions. Almost every
union labor president with a political pull holds some
kind of an office. The City has been governed by union
labor presidents and other union labor leaders. Never
before has the City had so many public officials of one
political party. From the Mayor down, almost every
department is filled with the most active union labor
politicians, and the net result of this is that the gov-
ernment is the rottenest on record. The exposures of
boodling are the most appalling, and the evidence over-
whelming" and conclusive that under Ruef and Schmitz
the Union Labor party of California has been or-
ganized for graft.
the present Board of Supervisors were up to his
moral and intellectual level.
The citizens of San Francisco should ponder over
this fact and prepare themselves to vote intelligently
at the coming election. Until the Supervisors fell
down and confessed their rascality Schmitz was the
slated candidate for Mayor for the next two years.
The question of his honesty cuts no figure whatever :
If he were ten times the boodling rascal he has been
represented his party leaders were ready to exert
every influence to re-elect him. Why? Because they
saw in Schmitz a man who was willing to grant illegal
privileges no matter how improper as long as they
gave him in return their political support.
When the voters of San Francisco six years ago
took Schmitz out of an orchestra and made him Mayor
of San Francisco they committed a crime. They ag-
gravated the offense when they re-elected him to a
second term, but when they made this incompetent
and unfit man the Mayor of this great City a third
time they placed a stigma upon their City which it
will take fifty years of good government to efface.
Supervisor Boxton has been quoted by one of the
newspapers as saying that the late Supervisor, Sammy
Braunhart, "protected" the Pacific States Telephone
Company. Even admitting that this insinuation of
crookedness were true how could it help Major Boxton
out of the deep hole into which he has apparently
fallen with the other Supervisors. It would be better
for him to observe the old classical maxim and "say
nothing of the dead but what is good." Braunhart
had his imperfections like the rest of mankind but
it would be well for San Francisco if the average of
Do you get up tired and feel tired all day? Try a taWe-.pooafu] o' AS'aott's Bitters in
sweetened water before meals. At grocers and druggisK.
While San Francisco was never before so honey-
combined with official rascality as under this disgraced
Union Labor administration we have had sporadic
cases of boodling equal to the pettiest against the
present Board of Supervisors. Not so many years
ago there was a gang of grafters in office which be-
came ' so inured in boodling that the members were
in the habit of just stepping out in the open hallway
to take bribes. In these halcyon days a German Su-
pervisor on the street committee, not being able to
get coin for his vote bartered it far a ham with antPhu
grocer who wanted to violate the building ordinances
and construct the steps of a new house so that they
projected two feet out on the sidewalk.
So the Supervisors are through with Ruef, and
though they have eased their consciences by yielding
up the shameful tale of wrong-doing they stand in
such mortal dread of Burns and Heney that they
are not willing to make a move without letting them
know of it. It is quite amusing, in view of the
earlier conduct of the Board, to see Gallagher and
Lonergan and Boxton and the rest of them not
daring to be seen or heard except with the consent
of the two men whom they know have it in their
power to send the whole delectable bunch to State's
prison. When Heney and Burns first began the
investigation into graft the Supervisors were as
loud as Ruef and Schmitz in denouncing them and
applying to them all the names they could think of;
and when Ruef instructed them to vote Langdon
out of office and put him in they put through the
program as willingly as they did any of the steals
that brought them from $750 to $5000 apiece. Hence
the smile when Lonergan called up the other day in
great alarm to say that one of the papers had sent
an automobile for the purpose of taking him to the
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THE WASP
51
office to make a statement. He asked Burns what
he sould do about it. Burns replied. "Don't you
go," whereupon Lonergan responded, "All right,
Mr. Burns, I won't."
The change that has come over public sentimenl
is also one of the striking features that have fol-
lowed in swift succession the wholesale confessions.
There were many who "pooh-poohed" the investi-
gation from the time the French restaurant cases
were presented, saying that lleney and Burns had
failed t" "make good" if that was the best they
could do. They did not know that the returning of
those indictments was merely a "blind" to cover up
the real investigation, the developments of which
were t" come later. Particularly among union men
is this change of sentiment to be noted. Some of
them were loyal in their support of the administra-
tion when it was thought that nothing but the ex-
tortion in the restaurant cases had been uncovered;
but the revelations made during the past two weeks
have turned the balance and now union men are
Strongest in their denunciation of the men whom
they accuse of betraying them and making of the
Union Labor Party a synonym for graft.
Judge Mogan, since his elevation to the Superior
bench, is not well liked by the reporters who used
to regard him as a "good fellow" while he was hold-
ing forth in the Police Court. The estrangement is
due to a little error made by the Judge the day he
assumed the higher office. Wishing to show his
friendliness to the reporters he sent to their room
at the Temple Israel a box of cigars with his com-
pliments and heartiest wishes for a continuance of
their relations. Some of the newspapermen tried
the cigars and wondered what they were. One less
chivalrous than the rest took the box across the
street to a cigar dealer and asked their price. "A
dollar twenty a hundred," was the response. Now
none of those reporters smoke — at Judge Mogan's
expense.
J. 1. Dwyer, one of the force of lawyers assisting
Henev in the procurement of indictments against
the grafters, was met on the street the other day by
Father Philip O'Ryan, who said :
"Isn't this news overwhelming? Can it be true
that the City officials were so corrupt? Are the
confessions of the Supervisors true?"
"Well, I'll tell you," replied Dwyer; "take all you
read in all the papers and believe it; then double all
that and then double that, and then you haven't it
all."
Until a few days ago Herbert George, local head
of the Citizens' Alliance, occupied the rooms ad-
jacent to those at the St. Francis which are occu-
pied by Elisor Biggy and his prisoner, Ruef. He
has moved to other apartments since, but not be-
cause he objected to the proximity to the fallen boss.
He was asked the other day what he thought of the
Schmitz administration now and what explanation
he had to make of the statement made by him the
day after the last election that he "could get more
his crowd than from Partridge
from Schmitz an
and his."
"1 believe that now just as firmly as I did then."
replied the Citizens' Alliance man, "and events have
justified my belief. [ meant by it that the Schmitz
crew were so thoroughly corrupt that if we wanted
anything from them all we would need would be to
buy them."
"But they were supposed to be union men."
"Pshaw!" exclaimed George. "Why, there were
three men on the Schmitz ticket who were Citizens'
Alliance men ; we had none on the Partridge ticket."
Dr. Redmond Payne
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THE WASP
They are beginning to talk in Europe and the
East about the permanent occupation of Cuba by
United States troops. English subjects have the
tidy sum of two hundred million dollars invested in
Cuba, and they are very timid about being left to
the tender mercies of Cuban patriots who have no-
body over them. At present Uncle Sam retains a
provisional governor at Havana, and everything
goes along smoothly, thanks to the wholesome fear
of the American bluejackets, who are more or less in
evidence in Havana harbor.
An interesting and well-authenticated story is told
about the Cuban idea of overturning a government.
The story was first related by a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Havana. He was opposed to the
Palma government and, while he did not take an
active part in politics and was not publicly known
as a sympathizer with the liberals, the leaders of that
organization ascertained his sentiments and one of
them, who is still among the most conspicuous man-
agers of that party, went to him for financial as-
sistance. After some preliminary conversation the
emissary asked the capitalist if he were supporting
the Palma government. The capitalist declared
frankly that he was not, and then the following dia-
ABE HUMMEL
The convicted lawyer on whom Jerome relied
logue took place :
"Would you give financial assistance to a revolu-
tion?"
"I would. How much do you want?"
"We need $5000."
"What are you going to do with it?"
"We are going to start a revolution."
"How are you going to do it?"
"By removing President Palma. You know there
is a door connecting the office of the alcalde with
the interior of the palace. I have twenty picked
men whom I can trust and a friend of mine, who is
employed in the alcalde's office, will give us the
keys, so that they can gather there on the first con-
venient night and when a suitable hour has arrived
they can make their way quietly through the door to
the private apartments of the family, where they
will kill President Palma and his family and in the
morning we will proclaim Jose Miguel Gomez presi-
dent of Cuba."
"Why kill the family?"
"Because that may be necessary to prevent identi-
fication. The president and his family sleep in ad-
joining rooms, and it will be difficult to get to his
bed and get away without being discovered by some
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-THE WASP-
53
member of the family."
"I don't quite approve of that kind of a revolution,"
said the capitalist, "and I cannot promise to furnish
any funds for such a purpose."
"Then you are not a true friend of Cuba." was
the a-ply.
HARVEY BROUGHAM.
I Wonder
I wonder if the robin that has found himself a mate
Sits down as soon as she is his to gravely meditate?
I wonder if the lady bird upon some other limb
Has charms that set him yearning, since she cannot
be for him?
I wonder if the lioness is never satisfied
With any den her tawny lord is able to provide?
I wonder if she secretly, as soon as she is mated,
Begins to think she might have done much better
had she waited?
I wonder if 'tis only man that, being loved, is prone
To think some other lovelier than she who is his
own?
I wonder if the woman lives who, knowing she's
adored
By him whose name she has to bear, is ne'er a little
bored? .
"Guess I'll have to dig the Canal Myself."
From the ChicagoRccord Herald.
Patriotic Treatment
"How is the baby, Mrs. A.?"
"Oh, I am dreadfully worried about him. You
see, that careless nurse left him too near the steam
radiator and he actually turned red."
"Gracious !"
"Then we rushed him out in the cool air and he
turned white."
"You don't mean it?"
"Yes, and when we gave him his bath he turned
blue."
"Oh, I wouldn't worry over him. He is just a
genuine American baby. Hurrah for the 'Red,
White and Blue.' "
Easiest Way
The "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company was playing
a one-night stand in a small town.
"The ice!" cried Eliza, standing on the brink of
the pasteboard river. "How shall I ever cross the
ice?"
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What Is the Matter With the Clearing House?
For the past three weeks the Clearing House Ex-
changes have not come up to their usual standard
this year. With the exception of these weeks, the
exchanges for the present year have been on the
whole from four to eleven million dollars larger
every week than those for the corresponding weeks
in 1906 — some weeks a gain of 25 per cent has been
scored. Last week, however, the gain was a bare
$3,739,827.32. Another of these weeks there was a
loss compared with last vear, while another week
the gain was merely nominal.
Now, what is the matter? Has business fallen
off, or why has so sudden a check been given to the
financial prosperity shown by the exchanges?
There has been a dullness in business caused by
the abnormal weather, although in most lines it
has been fully up to that of last year and in some
has even surpassed it. But the principal reason
has been the withdrawal of Eastern money from
the mining stock market of this City. This has
been brought about by the panic. Eastern specu-
lators had to take to cover. Brokers had to call for
more margins and their clients, many of them, had
to- withdraw the money deposited here for invest-
ment and to sell the stocks that they had purchased
in this market.
* * *
The Savings Banks
The complaint of the Savings Banks in San Fran-
cisco today is not for lack of patronage. A well-
known bank president says that "the demand for
loans is greater than ever before and that it is very
hard to satisfy it. There is no end of applications.
Every one wants to be accommodated at once.
People who owned house or store property or had
homes before the fire are starting to rebuild all at
once, and all want money. Before the end of the
year fully $150,000,000 will be needed by borrowers
and I do not see where it is to come from."
* * *
The deposits being made in the Savings Banks
are greater than ever before and in some cases have
been doubled since the fire, but loans and with-
drawals have been heavy and are very close to the
amount of deposits.
* * *
A Great Staple
We are now at the end of one salmon season and
the beginning of another, and a glance at the con-
dition of things in one of the most important lines
of Coast industry may not be inapt. The advent of
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every season is usually ushered in by predictions of
a light pack and high prices, and 1906 was no ex-
ception to the rule. But the pack on the Coast was
nevertheless a large one, while prices began to de-
scend rapidly as soon as the fact became known.
Alaska contributed 1,200,000 to the Coast pack,
while the total was in the neighborhood of 3,000,000
cases with a value of $12,000,000. There was little
or no money made in the business last year, and as
the stock on hand is light — 150,000 cases — and the
consumption in the East great, the market for the
new pack is advancing and Alaska Red will bring
$1.05 at the opening of the season, but will go up
higher later on.
* * *
Alaska salmon at the present prices is cheaper
than any description of meat, and if the run should
be large this year all the packers will make money.
The expenses, however, are much greater than those
of last year — freights, wages and cans all being-
dearer than they were a year ago.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid up Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans on Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D. PheU, Pres,. John A. Hooper, V. Pres., J. K. MolTatt, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Slory, Sec'y and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Assl. Cashier, A. E.
Curlis, 2d Asst. Cashier.
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CAPITAL AND SURPLUS.
PAID UP CAPITAL.
DEPOSITS JANUARY I, 1907
108-110 Sutler Street
$693,104.58
$600,000.00
$3,772,145.83
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-THE WASP-
55
Business on the Bond and Stock Exchange has
been decidedly at a discount during the week. One
Bay there were only two transactions recorded. The
Dullness of the week may be traced to the bad effects
of a falling market in Wall Street. The local specu-
lators, many of them, have all they can do to pro-
tect their interest in the Xew York market, hence
they have paid little or no attention to the local one.
[There has been quite a Hop in Spring Valley, which
has sold at $21.50. Contra Costa is quoted at $62.50
hid. Associated < >il has dropped and has sold at
B4Q.50, Sugar stocks have been steady. Hawaiian
Commercial was held at $S3 bid; Paauhan at $14.75.
Hutchinson sold at $16; < )nomea was held at $34.50
bid ; Union at $45 asked.
L'nited Railroads 4s dropped heavily, owing to
facts developed in the Grand Jury investigation and
sold down to $75. Bank Stocks are steady. Bank of
California is held at $3f >4 bid. California Wine at
590 asked. For California Fruit Canners $103.50
lias been asked. For Pacific T. and T. there were
ii" Kids and no asking figure.
Savings Accounts
are cordially welcomed at the Home
Office or any of the branches of the
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT
AND TRUST COMPANY
3 I -2 per cent interest is paid on
regular savings deposits and 3 6-10
per cent on term deposits.
HOME OFFICE
CALIFORNIA and MONTGOMERY STS.
West End Branch, 1531 Devisadero
Mission Branch, 2572 Mission, near 22d
Up-Town Branch, 1 740 Fillmore nr. Sutter
The withdrawal of money from San Francisco by
Eastern investors who have needed it to save their
foldings in Wall Street, has demoralized the market
ind though there have been various attempts made
:i> keep it up it seems impossible to do so. Mean-
while the work of development goes on. The new
ire in Florence runs from $500 to $1000 per ton,
while $3500 ore has been met with. In Silver Peak
jvery day's work is adding $60,000 to the ore re-
serves blocked out in the mine. The Tonopah Com-
pany is now about making a clean-up. The West
Extension in Bullfrog has shown ore running from
?1 5,000 to $20,000 per ton. And so it goes.
* * *
It is to be hoped that no sane citizen will en-
Burage the crazy agitation to annul the franchise
if the L'nited Railroads. Every merchant and
wage-earner is dependent for his living on the street
Hjlroads. It is hard enough to do business now
,vith the business district scattered in every direc-
ion. If we cripple the Railroad Company we will,
>nly injure ourselves seriously. Many of the bonds
hat have been depreciated by the agitation are
eld here in San Francisco by people of limited
neans who bought them on investment. These
leople are entitled to fair treatment. There is a
iroper legal way of proceeding against the officers
f the L'nited Railroads if they are guilty of an
ndictable offence, but to raise a howl about con-
seating franchises is both improper and insane,
nd only calculated to do great injury to the
omniunity.
# * *
Here on the Stock Board the market continues to
uctuate within certain limits, the trend lately be-
ig on the whole downward. Mohawk, of which
here is hardlv ever a sale, has $17 bid; Tumbo has
3.80 bid; Red Top at $3.50, while Silver Pick sold
own to $1.17j/>, and Goldfield Combination at $8.
Hjiopah Nevada was held at $16; Florence sold
own to $3.40.
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Trunks $1 a month
Office Hours: 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
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Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31, 1506
$2,578,695,41
1,000,000.00
38,531,917.28
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Second Viee-President, Emil Rohte; Cashier, A. H. R. Schmidt; Assistant Cashier,
William Herrmann; Secretary, George Toumy; Assistant Secretary, A. H. Muller.
Goodfellow & Eells, General Attorneys.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS -- F. Tillrranr, Jr., Daniel Meyer, Emil Rohte, Ign.
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-THE WASP'
The Absorption of Gold
Notwithstanding the fact that the production of
gold has increased and is increasing at an unusually
rapid rate, the amount of gold in the leading banks
of great money centers of the world is very little in
excess of what it was a year ago. The question is
what has become of the $400,000,000. Of course a
part of if has gone into manufactures and the arts,
but still the vast amount taken from the earth is not
accounted for. A well-known banker of this City
says, "last year the production of the precious
metals reached $500,000,000 in gold and silver.
Much of that has been distributed from London to
countries where no account is taken of the move-
ments of the precious metals, and, too, no statistics
are ordinarily given of the stocks of gold in pro-
vincial cities in Europe or of the banks of the United
States, only the amount in the United States treas-
ury. More, too, is held by firms and by private in-
dividuals than there used to be. The abundance of
gold has produced an inflation in values and what
may be termed the floating stock is increasing be-
cause individuals are obliged to handle more to
meet their expenses than they were formerly." This
is no doubt true of San Francisco, where not only
has the stock in the banks increased largely, but
that in the possession of private individuals as
pocket money has increased largely also.
General Business
There is no doubt but that the bad weather of
the past three months has interfered with general busi-
ness to a certain extent, but the greater part of the
leading wholesale houses, when spoken to on the
subject, agree that business is very good for this
time of year. Indeed, one wholesaler told the
writer of these lines that business was better with
him since January 1st than it had been at the same
time for the two preceding years.
Jack — "Did Miss Suddington give you an im-
mediate answer when you proposed?"
Tom — "No, indeed. She sent it by a messenger
boy."
Germania National Bank
OP SAIN FRANCISCO
IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT THEIR NEW QUARTERS
521 MARKET STREET, Bet. First and Second Streets
SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA
OFFICERS: W. A. Frederick. President; F. Kronenberg. Vice-President;
R. F. Crist, Vice-President; F. Kronenberg, Jr., Cashier.
Cable Address; Germania
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Stock Exchange
Goldfield, Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write (or Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET. STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE, Pres.
GAVIN McNAB. Any.
WM. CORBIN, Sec. and Gen. Mgi.
OFFICES -COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Dr. Cortelyou's Golden Relief
From the Washington Post
Popular French Restaurant
Regular Dinner 75c
Meals a la carte at any hour
Private Dining Rooms
(or Banquets, etc.
197 Cioldcn Gate Ave.
Comer Polk Street
Phone Market 23 15
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57
Monday. — My! Aren't women deceitful. Mrs.
Mugsby has been telling me for weeks about the
awful time there was going to be in Sausalito. They
were going to refuse an invitation to a young matron
of that place to a swell charity affair. Oh, dear.
Such gossiping and conspiring in all the dark cor-
ners to accomplish their fell purpose. And just to
think of it. After all the plot failed miserably. The
young woman walked in boldly in the wake of her
mother and not one of the committee said "boo."
They just wilted, Mrs. Mugsby says. The mother
is one of the leaders of what they call the "Hill Set,"
and they didn't dare make a scene. If they did, the
first thing they knew they might find themselves
some fine day looking wistfully from the sidewalk
at guests going into a tea they were just dying to
attend. Well, women are queer creatures — that is,
married women. They are always plotting terrible
things that don't amount to shucks.
Tuesday. — Mrs. Gayleigh came in today to bor-
row my best prayer book.
"Thank goodness, Ethel," I said, "you are turn-
ing over a new leaf."
"Oh, I don't intend to turn over many of these
leaves, Tabby," said she. "It's only a bluff. I'm
going up to St. Simon's on the Avenue to see the
new rector. They say he's a lovely young man, and
what's better, he has quite an income outside of his
salary."
Heavens ! I stared at the woman in amazement.
Judging a preacher bv his looks and his income !
What morals !
"Oh, yes, Tabby," the shameless woman con-
tinued, "all the girls in the parish will be consumed
with piety now. I'm lucky if I get a seat next Sun-
day."
Really, I was speechless on hearing such senti-
ments. Before I could collect my thoughts she
rattled on.
"But I suppose," said she, "he will soon get mar-
ried and lose all his popularity. That's always the
way with a handsome young preacher. Somebody
captures him and just as like as not 'twill be some
widow with lots of money. They seem to have a
mortgage on good looking clergymen and carry
them off before the single girls have time to lay
their nets."
Really, I couldn't stand it an}- longer and excused
myself, saying I had a headache and must go and lie
down.
"You'd better come up on Easter Sunday your-
self, Tabby. Who knows but you may be the lucky
one," she called out as she went downstairs, in the
hearing of the hired girl.
Gracious! I was so mortified I got a real head-
ache that staved with me all day. I really ought to
cut that woman before she gets me in some serious
trouble.
Wednesday — Goodness me ! I've had enough of
Bohemian women. Mrs. Shoddy got me invita-
tions to the Madrone Club, where she said all the
witty people in town meet. They're so bright that
they hardly need any gas at their meetings, she
says. Mrs. Gayleigh says the artists and the news-
paper writers furnish more gas, in fact, than is
needed.
Well, gracious! After dinner, just think, all the
men began to smoke in regular California style, but
it took my breath away when several women took
out cigarettes and lighted them just like a man.
Heavens! I couldn't get out quick enough. Mrs.
Gayleigh, who stayed, of course, till the end, tells
me that after Mrs. Shoddy and myself went the
women kept on smoking till you'd actually think
the room was on fire. Oh dear! no more bohemian-
ism at the Madrone Club for me.
Thursday — Well, such an idea. Mrs. Gayleigh
went out to the Chutes to see the opera and was
surprised to see all the women with very high cut
dresses. She thought 'twas on account of the cold,
cold.
"Oh dear, no," said Mrs. Spanker, the Pacific
Heights Society leader. "It's on account of Lent."
Then she went home and played bridge for big
stakes till 2 o'clock next morning.
Well, for the land sakes ! What people there are
in this world.
TABITHA TWIGGS.
Miss Blanche Cushman of Berkeley and J. H. Wolfe
will be married at the residence of the bride's parents
in Berkeley on April 3d. Mr. Wolfe is a prominent
mining engineer.
The Auditorium
FILLMORE STREET, Corner Page
FRANK R1TTIGSTEIN. Manager
Championship Trophy Cup Game
ROLLER POLO
Vallejo vs. San Francisco
Friday Eve. March 29
Grand Concert and Skating Party
League of the Cross Cadet Band
Skating 7:20 to 11:00 P. M. Wednesday Eve., April 3
58
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Personalities
The death of "Silent" Smith in Tokio on his
honeymoon tour is an occurrence similar in some
respects to the untimely death of Hugh Tevis in
Japan on his wedding trip after marrying Cornelia
Baxter. Mr. Smith was reputed to have inherited
fifty million dollars from his bachelor uncle, who
made his fortune by buying Chicago real estate
just after the fire and before the boom struck the
town. In September last Mr. Smith married Mrs.
William Rhinelander Stewart, the divorced wife of
William Rhinelander Stewart of New York. She
obtained a Dakota divorce to marry the wealthy
bachelor whose name had become linked with hers.
Mr. Smith was a Wall street broker and unknown
to Society before his uncle's death. Mrs. Stuy-
vesant Fish became his Social mentor, and his
elaborate entertainments dazzled New York. About
two years ago it began to be rumored in his social
set that Mrs. Stewart was likely to apply for a
divorce and she did.
I hear there is an awful storm brewing in San
Rafael over the quandom Coachman Jevenesky,
who has become the lion of the fashionable suburb
by turning skating professor. Jevenesky skates
divinely on one toe or ten with equal facility and
never throws flip-flops like some of the Society
beaux. It is not wonderful then that all the belles
and buds who wish to. show to the best advantage
prefer the professor with the Nihilist name, to the
eligible but awkward squad of Society. There is
talk of a vigilance committee and terrible deeds
if this state of affairs should continue. No auto-
mobile rides or invitations to the theater are to be
extended to maids and matrons who show a decided
preference for Javenesky after April 1st when any
kind of foolishness is permissible.
* =i= *
Several years ago M. A. Gunst betook himself to
Burlingame and builded him a house in the very
shadow of the splendid establishments of our very
rich and particular aristocrats. There was a great
deal of comment among those in the smart set and
they made no attempt to conceal their displeasure
at the invasion of the sacred precincts by one de-
voted to a vulgar trade. Now it looks very much as
though Gunst had a little the best of it, and if Heney
and Burns live up to the promises made by them
Gunst will be one of the few wealthy men remain-
ing at the social colony after the Grand Jury work
is over. The peerless investigators assure us that
before the end of this prosecution1 of bribery and
graft is reached there will be such an hegira of the
wealthy and fashionable aristocrats toward Marin
County that Burlingame will be desolated. Upon
the homes of many of the exclusives will be posted
such signs as "Closed during the absence of the
owner." and "To let for a long term." But the por-
tal of the Gunst mansion will remain open to the
embarrassment of those who objected to the visita-
tion of the Cigar magnate. It would be poetic jus-
tice if Mbse erected some "General Arthur" adver-
tising boards on the property of the absentee land-
lords.
Miss Margaret Stow of Santa Barbara, who has
been the guest of the Vanderlyn Stows and of Mrs.
Leroy Nickel has returned to her home in the South.
A dance for extremely youthful girls will be given
at the City of Paris Tea Garden on April 4th. This
affair was organized by Miss Ruth Slack and Miss
Elva de Pue. The patronesses are Mrs. Charles S.
Wheeler, Mrs. Edgar de Pue, Mrs. Charles W.
Slack, Mrs. John Martin and Mrs. E. D. Bullard.
About 100 young people not yet out in society will
be present.
* * *
Mrs. Fred Fenwick gave a box party followed by
a supper on last Monday evening, her guests in-
cluded : Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clarence Breeden, Mr.
and Mrs. M. H. La Boyteaux, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Pond and William Sanborn.
A popular bachelor, Mr. Laurence Harris, brother
of Mrs. Andrew Carrigan, will leave next week for
the East, while en route he will visit Captain and
Mrs. Sturgis, at Fort Wingate, N. M. Mrs. Sturgis
was Miss Edna Montgomery.
Miss Helen Baker, to the regret of her friends, was
taken ill a few days ago and brought to town from
Hotel Rafael to the Adler Sanitarium. This is the
second time this charming girl has been obliged to
enter a sanitarium in the past year. It is said en-
tering too actively into the social activities of San
Rafael after her first serious illness proved too much
for her constitution.
* * *
Mrs. Fred Chapman (Miss Katherine Powers), who
was recently married in San Rafael, and left imme-
diately for her home in Detroit, Mich., writes of her I
happy life in her new surroundings. Mrs. Chapman
is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George H. Powers,
prominent people of San Rafael and this City.
Miss Guinette Henley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B.
Henley, who has recently been the guest of Mrs.
Eleanor Martin, will leave on the transport sailing
this week for Manila. Miss Henley will be gone sev-
eral months.
Invitations recently received for a large tea, which
is to be given by a charming young lady at her at-
tractive home in Alameda on Easter Sunday, have
caused great commotion among her friends, as it is
said her engagement will be announced, to a well-
known young man whose people are wealthy resi-
dents of Fruitvale, and whose late father was a
director of one of the leading banks of San Fran-
cisco.
At the residence of Mrs. F. E. Farrington, 1829
Arch Street, Berkeley, last week, Miss Florence
Marshall Ward became the wife of Eugene Shef-
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59
field. The bride is a member of the Alpha Phi
Sorority and graduate from the University of the
das- of 1906. -Mr. Sheffield is a member of the
Sigma Chi Fraternity, and a graduate with the class
of 1904. He is a mining engineer and will take his
bride to Alaska this summer.
* * *
Miss Brooke Rose, an attractive young lady of
the exclusive set, who recently left for a trip to
Honolulu, writes enthusiastically of her life there.
She i- at present a guest of the Ernest Robinson's.
very wealthy people of Makaweli, Kawai, and will
extend her visit until late in the Fall.
* * *
At a recent concert given in Paris bv Dr. and Mrs.
Younger, the guests had an opportunity of hearing
two talented San Francisco girls, Miss Bessie Bonie,
a singer, and Miss Sherman, a violinist. Among
those present were Colonel and Mrs. Dodge, Mrs.
Blumenberg of New York, Count Leon de Tinseau,
and Holman Black.
* * *
Mrs. Henry Clarence Breeden gave a dinner last
week in honor of Mr. Breeden's birthday. Her
guests were Mrs. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. William
Porter, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. A. Miller, Mr. and Mrs.
Wakefield Baker, and Mr. La Barton.
* * *
Mrs. Fred Sharon has been the motif for a great
deal of entertaining during her short stay here in
her old home. Mrs. Sharon was the guest of honor
at a recent tea given by her friend, Mrs. Harry
Mendel!. Mrs. Sharon left last week for another
tour abroad. Mrs. Mendell is a girlhood friend of
Mrs. Sharon, and came out here from the South
many years ago.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton E. Worden. and Mrs.
Towne, have recently purchased some beautiful fur-
niture and sent it to the Del Monte, intending to
furnish their rooms in this attractive hotel and make
this place their home for some time to come.
* * *
Mrs. Bond, her three children, and her mother,
Mrs. Dore, who have been visiting New York, the
guests of Mrs. Philip Wooster, have returned to
California after an absence of six months. Mrs.
C. A. Spreckels, daughter of Mrs. Dore, entertained
her relatives during their New York visit.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stubbs are guests at the Palace
Hotel, after an enjoyable visit to their daughter,
Mrs. John Sunderland, of Reno, Nevada.
* # #
Mr. William Penn Humphreys, the well-known law-
yer, was registered this week at a Xew York hotel.
As his trip is one purely of business Mrs. Humphreys
did not accompany him. Mrs. Humphreys, before
her marriage, was Miss Paula Wolf, the handsome
daughter of a well-known capitalist.
An interesting exhibition of paintings by Mr.
Walter Cox, including some fine portraits, is now on
view at the Kilby Art Gallery, 1652 Van Ness
Avenue.
Automobile News
The fine weather of the past few days has given
an impetus to the automobile business. Demonstra-
tors now have an opportunity of displaying the
various features of their respective machines and
are out in full force.
* * *
Another former devotee of foreign cars has de-
serted them for the ones made in his own country
and as a consequence Norman E. Selby, once better
known as Kid McCoy, will pilot his own Thomas
Forty runabout during the coming season. He has
just placed his order with Harry S. Houpt, of New
York.
D. L. McDonald, a Texas real-estate agent, finds
his Winton invaluable in making land sales. "If it
were not for this car," he says, "I simply could
not do business, for our land is far away from rail-
roads and trolleys, and I have yet to find a team
of horses that could handle a load of seven pas-
sengers at the speed and over the grass-grown
country that the car negotiates easily."
The United States Government report concedes
to the White automobile its superiority over all
othercarson account of its ease in controlling speed,
free and smooth running and freedom from violent
vibration. This machine attracted a great deal of
attention at the recent show last month. Its first
appearance in competition was in the New York-
Rochester endurance run in 1901. The four Whites
which started, made perfect scores. The latest
appearance of the White in competition was last
October in the London Tower Carriage competi-
tion, in which the leading makers of the world were
entered. The White Steamer received the highest
award — a gold medal — only one other machine be-
ing si'mularly honored.
H. C. RAAP, Manaser
Telephone Franklin 588
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 O'FARRELL ST., San Francisco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea, Coffee, Wine or Beer. II a. m. to 2 p. m.
A LA CARTE al all hours.
Regular Dinner 50c Special Sunday Dinner 75c
'<
AL. CONEY J. HUFF
Kadee Hammam Baths
TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Night
GEARY AND GOUGH STREETS
Strictly First Class Phone West 3725
N^W
(mi i fr r^ cry -7s
LASSIFIED
OF SAN FRANCISCO'S
LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES ^'"
a/vo PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE.
REVISED AND COfeRECTEJD WEEKLY.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Builders' Exchange, 226 Oak St., S. F.
Builders' Association, 96 Fulton st.
ADDRESSING MACHINES.
Elliott Addressing Machine Co., 58 Stock-
ton St.. S. P.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
Bolte & Braden, 105-107 Oak St., S. F.; phone
Park 289.
Cooper Adv. Agency, F. J., West Mission and
Brady sts.
Dflke Adv. Agency, Midway Bldg., 779
Market st. Phone Temporary 1440.
Fisher, L. P. Adv. Agency, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Emergency 584.
Hadley, M. L., Advertising Agency, 26
Clay st.
Johnston-Dienstag Co., 2170 Post St.,
Tuttle, L. T., 332 Delbert Block, cor. Van
Ness Ave. and O'Farrell. .
Walker, Shirley, Advertiser. Midway
building, 779 Market street, phone
Temporary 1839.
AGENTS— MANUFACTURERS.
Wlrtner, Jno. J., 2330 Vallejo St., S. F.
ARCHITECTS.
Carson, John, Vice-President and
Manager H. C. Chivers, 1627 Sut-
ter St.
Chivers, Herbert C, 1627 Sutter St., S.
F.; Wainwrlghts Building, St. Louis.
Mo.
Curtis, John M., 2501 Buchanan St.. S. F.
Havens & Toepke, 611-612 Mutual Savings
Bank.
Reed Bros, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough St., S. F.
Thos. J. Welsh, John W. Carey, associate
architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
Gallagher Bros., 2208 Geary St., S. F.
Gump, S. & G„ 1645 California St., S. F.
Schussler Bros.. 341 Grove St.
ATTORNEYS.
A. Heynemann, 2193 Fillmore St.
Phone West 6405.
Bahrs, George H.. 1901 Post st., cor.
Fillmore, S. F.
Campbell, Metson & Drew, 1101 Laguna St.,
cor. of Turk St., S. F.
Dorn, Dorn & Savage, 717 Van Ness
ave.
Drum, J. S., 1416 Post St., S. F.
Dlnkelspiel. Henry G. W., 1265 Ellis st,
S. F. PHONE, WEST 2355.
Goldstone. Louis, 1124 Fillmore st
Heller, Powers & Ehrman, Union
Trust bldg.
Hewlett, Bancroft and Ballantine,
Monadnock Bldg., Phone Temporary
972.
McEnerney, Garret W.. 1416 Post St.. S.F.
Lawlor, Wm. P., Judge, The Family
Club, l'JOO Franklin St., S. F.
O'Callaghan. Chas. F., 928 Fillmore St.,
Pringie & Prlngle, 2219 Fillmore st.
Ricketts, A. H. (Title Quieting Co.)
1136 O'Farrell street. Tel. Emer-
gency 788.
Shadburne, Geo., D., 904 Devlsadero
st., S. F.
Shortrldge, Samuel M., 1101 O'Farrell st,
S. F.
Edward B. Young, 4th Floor, Union Trust
Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temporary, 833.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
Auto Livery Co., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
Boyer Motor Car Co., 408 Golden Gate ave.
Phone, Emergency 655.
Leavltt, J. W. & Co., 441 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F.; 370. 12th st, Oakland.
Lee Cuvler, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
Middleton Motor Car Co., 550 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F.
Mobile Carriage Co., Golden Gate Ave.
and Gough sts., S. F.
Pioneer Automobile Co.. 901 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F.; and 12th and Oak sts.,
Oakland
Karig Auto Co. 1377 Broadway, Oakland.
White Sewing Machine Company,
Market and Van Ness ave., S. F.
BANKS.
American National Bank, Merchants Ex.
Bldg., S. F.
Anglo California Bank Lt, cor. Pine and
Sansome sts., S. F.
Bank of California, 424 California St.,
S. F.
California Safe Deposit and Trust Co.,
cor. California and Montgomery sts.,
S. F.
Central Trust Co., 42 Montgomery st,
S. F
Crocker - Woolworth National Bank,
Crocker Bldg.. S. F.
First National Bank, Bush and Sansome
sts., S. F.
French Savings Bank, Union Trust Bldg.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
Germania National Bank, 521 Market St.,
S. F.; Phone Park 792.
German Savings and Loan Society, 626
California st, S. F.
Halsey. N. W. & Co., 413 Montgomery
st, S. F.
International Banking Corporation, 2045
Sutter street, and 415 Montgomery
Hlbernla Savings and Loan Society,
Jones and McAllister sts.. S. F.
Humboldt Savings Bank, 626 Market st,
S. F.
Mechanics' Saving Bank, 143 Montgom-
ery st, S. F.
Metropolis Trust and Savings Bank,
1237 Van Ness Ave.
Mutual Savings Bank of San Francisco,
710 Market St., opp. 3d St., S. F.
National Bank of the Pacific. Call Bldg.,
S. F.
Renters Loan and Trust Co., Commercial and
Savings Bank, 115 Hayes Street
San Francisco Savings Union. N. W.
cor. California and Montgomery sts.,
S. F.
Savings and Loan Society. 101 Mont-
gomery st., S. F.
Security Savings Bank. 316 Montgomery
st, S. F.
Standard Bank, 1818 Market St., at
Van Ness, S. F.
The Market Street Bank and Safe De-
posit Vault, Market and 7th sts., S. F.
Union Trust Co., 4 Montgomery st, S. F.
Wells-Fargo Nevada National Bank,
Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
Western National Bank, Powell and
Market sts.. S. F.
BATHS
Colonial Baths, 1745 O'Farrell St.
Oriental Turkish, cor. Eddy and Lar-
kin Streets, City. W. J. Blum-
berg & Bro.
BITTERS.
Lash's Bitters Co.. 1721 Mission Bt, S. F.
BREWERIES.
Albion Ale and Porter Brewery, 1007-9 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F.
Buffalo Brewing Co., 125-129 King st,
S. F.; Phone Main 1010.
National Brewing Co., 762 Fulton St.,
Lochbaum, A. H. Co., 126 Kins st, S. F. ;
Phone Main 1010.
S. F. Breweries, Ltd.. 240 2d St., S. F.
Rapp. Jno. & Co., Agents Rainier Beer,
8th and Townsend sts.. S. F.
BRIDGE BUILDERS.
Pac. Construction Co.. 17 Spear st, S. F.
San Francisco Bridge Co., 523 Monad-
nock Bldg.. S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
Hutton, E. F. & Co., 490 California st.
Rollins'. E. H. & Sons, 804 Kohl Bldg:
Telephone Temporary 163; S. F.
Wilson. J. C, 488 California st, S. F.
Sutro & Co., 412 Montgomery St..
S. F.
Montague, Phil S., 339 Bush st. Stock
Exchange Bldg.
Zadig & Co., 324 Bush St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIA-
TIONS.
Continental Building and Loan Associa-
tion. Church and Market sts., S. F.
BUTCHERS' SUPPLIES.
Pacirlc Butchers' Supply Co., 316 Bry-
ant st, bet 1st and 2d sts.. S. F.
CARPET CLEANING.
Spauidlng, J. & Co., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave.; Phone Park 59L
CLEANING AND DYEING.
Thomas, The F. Parisian Dyeing and
Cleaning Works. 1158 McAllister St.,
S. F.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
Hub. The, Chas. Kellus & Co., King
Solomon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore
sts.. S. F.
Roos Bros., cor. O'Farrell and Fillmore
sts.. S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
Dollar, Robert Co.. Steuart street dock.
Johnson Locke Mercantile Co., 213 Sansome
St., S. F.
itlaldonado & Co., Inc., 2020 Buchanan
St., S. F.; Tel. 2830.
The J. K. Armsby Co., The Armsby
Bldg., cor. New Montgomery and How-
ard sts.. S. V.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Co., 523 Monadnock
Bldg.
Fisher Construction Co., 1414 Post St.,
S C
Gray Bros., 2d st, adjoining W- F. & Co.
Bldg.. S. F.
S. F. Construction Co., A. E. Buckman,
ores. ; A. J. Raisch, sec.; 636 Market; Tel.
Franklin 256.
Trounson, J., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176 Ash
Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
Nathan Dohrmann & Co., 1520-1550
Van Ness ave.
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DENTISTS.
Oreian B. Burns, 2077 Sutter St.. West 6736.
Decker. Dr. Chas. W.. 1316 Sutter St.
Knox. Dr. A. J., 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
Morffew & Peel. 1765 Pine St., S. F.;
Tel. West 4301: formerly Examiner
BldB.
O'Connell. Dr. Robert E. and Dr. George,
211 Divisadero at. S. F.
Albert S. Vanderhurst, 2077 Sutter it.. West
6736.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
Emporium. The. 1201 Van Neas Ave., S.
F. ; Phone Weat 1361.
Newman & Levison. Van Ness Ave. and Suit
O'Connor, Moffit & Co.. Van Neaa Ave.
and Pine at., S. F.
City of Parla. Van Ness Ave and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
White House, Van Neaa Ave. and Pine
St., 8. F.
ENGINEERS.
.itlantlc, Gulf & Pacific Co.. 623 Monad-
nock Bldg.. 3. F.
EXPRESS.
Wells, Fargo & Co. Express, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Fer-
ry Bldg., and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
Crescent Feather Co.. 19th and Harrison
sts.. 8. F.
FLORISTS AND DECORATORS.
Clels & Jacobsen, 942 Fillmore St.
near McAllister, Phone Park 363.
Frank & Parodl Co., 1215 McAllister
street, formerly 109 Geary street,
phone Park, 794.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Omey & Goetting, Geary and Polk sts., S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
Carew & English, 1618 Geary St., bet.
Buchanan and Webster sts., S. F. ;
Phone West 2604.
Porter & White. 1631 Golden Gate Ave..
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
FURNITURE.
A. B. Smith Co., 702 Van Ness Ave.,
cor. Turk St., S. F.
Breuner, John & Co., 1491 Van Ness Ave.,
Sanitary Bedding House, The, 778-
780 Golden Gate ave., N. E. cor.
Gough. Beds and Bedding ex-
clusively. Tel. Emergency 596.
GAS STOVES.
Gas Co., The, Halght and Fillmore sts.,
B. F.
GENT'S FURNI8HERS.
Bullock & Jones Company. 801 Van Neas
Ave., cor. Eddy St., S. F.
Hansen and Elrick, 1105-7 Fillmore
St., nr. Golden Gate ave., phon»
West 5678.
Roberts & Bayless, Men's Furnishers, 645 Van
Ness Ave., near Turk.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
Alexander- Yost Co., Pine and Polk sts..
S. F.
Baker & Hamilton. 115 Berry St., near
3d: Phone West 3589 and 3590.
Dunham. Carrigan & Hayden Co.. offlcs
131-153 Kansas St.. S. F.
lis, John G. & Co., 827 Mission St., S. F.
Montague. W. "W. & Co., Turk & Polk
sts., S. F.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
Davis, W. & Son, 2020 Howard at, bet.
16th and 17th, S. F.
L-elbold Harness and Carriage Co., 1214
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
Korn, Eugene, the hatter, 946 Van
Ness Avenue.
Meussdorffer, J. C. Sons, 909 Fillmore
St.. S. F.
Porcher. J.. 716-717 Golden Gate Ave.,
near Franklin, S. F. : formerly Odd Fel-
lows Bldg.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
German Hospital, Scott and Duboce
Ave.
Harbor View Sanatorium, Harbor
View, S. F.
Keeley Institute, H. L. Batohelder,
Mgr.; 262 Devlsadero St., S. F.
McNutt Hospital, 1800 O'Farrell et.
S. F.
St. Luke's Hospital, 26th and Valen-
cia St.
JEWELERS.
Baldwin Jewelery Co., 1521 Sutter at..
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. ».
Bohm, Bristol, Van Ness and Sacra-
mento st.
Gllnderman, Win., 1532-1534 Fill-
more, formerly Examiner Bldg.
Shreve & Co.. cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Nes sand Sacramento ttv, S. F.
AUNDRIES.
Lace House French Laundry. Cerclat at
Co., props.; 1047 McAllister St.: for-
merly at 342 McAllister; Tel. Park 881.
La Grande Laundry, 234 12th St.. S. F.
Palace Hotel Laundry and Kelly Laundry
Co., Inc., 2343 Post St., phone West 5854.
San Francisco Laundry Association, 1408
Turk at.. S. F.; Phone West 793.
LIME.
Holmes Lime Co., Mutual Savings
Bank Bldg., 710 Market at.
LUMBER.
Nelson. Chas. Co., 1st and Clay sts..
Oakland; 144 Steuatt St., S. F.
Redwood Manufacturers Co.. Room 506
Monadnock Bldg. S. F.. Doors, Win-
dows, Tanks, etc.
Slade, S. E., Lumber Co., 65 Mission
street, S. F.
Union Lumber Co., office 909 Mo-
nadnock building
MACARONI AND VERMICELLI.
T, R. Podesta. 612 Washington at. S. F
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
Bekins' Van and Storage Co.. 13th and
Mission sts., S. F. ; Phone Park 169
and 1016 Broadway, Oakland.
St. Francis Transfer and Storage Company.
Office, 1402 Eddy St. Tel. West 2680.
Union Transfer Co., 2116 Market St.,
S. F.
Notaries Public.
Deane, Jno, J., temporarily at 2077
Sutter street and 2464 Vallejo
street, S. F.
OPTICIANS.
Mayerle, George. German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.; Phone West
3766.
San Francisco Optical Co. "Spences,"
are now permanently located at
627 Van Ness ave, between Gold-
en Gate avenue and Turk st.
"Branch" 1613 Fillmore near
Geary.
Standard Optical Co., 808 Van Ness ave,
near Eddy St.
PACKERS.
Phoenix Packing Co., 118 Davis St., S. F.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
Keefe, J. H., 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F„ Tel.
Franklin 20S5.
Tozer, L. & Son Co., Inc., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., near
Fillmore, S. F.
PAINTS AND OILS.
Bass-Hueter Paint Co., 1816 Market
St.
Paraflne Paint Co., 405 Union Savings
Bank Bldg., Oakland; Sales DepL
Guerrero near 15th St., S. F.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
Cal. Photo Eng. Co., 141-143 Valencia St.
PHYSICIANS.
Bowie, Dr. Hamilton C, formerly 293
Geary St.. Paul Bldg;.; now
14th and Church sts.
Bryant, Dr. Edgar R., 1944 Fillmore
St.. cor. Pine; Tel. West 6667; Res.
3869 Jackson st.; Tel. West 816.
D'Evelyn, Dr. Frederick W., 2116 Cal-
ifornia St.. S. F.; and 2103 Clinton
Ave., Alameda.
Thorne, Dr. W. S.. 1434 Post St., S.
F.
PIANOS — MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
Ba.uwln. D. H. & Co., 2512 Sacramento
st.. near Fillmore, S. F.; Phone West
1869.
RESTAURANTS.
Marchand's. 1424 McAllister St.
Moraghan. M. B. Oyster Co.. 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
Old Poodle Dog, 824 Lddy St., near Van
Ness ave.
St. Germain Restaurant, 497 Golden
Gate Ave., Phone Emergency 300.
Swains Restaurant, 1111 Post St., S. F.
Techau Tavern. 1321 Sutter St., S. F.
Thompson's, formerly Oyster Loaf
1727 O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALES.
Herring-Hall Marvin Safe Co.. office anrf
salesrooms. Mission St., bet. Seventh an*
Eighth sts.; phone Temp'y, 1037.
SEWING MACHINES.
Whee.er & Wilson and Sinter Sewing
Machines. 1431 Bush St.. cor. V»»
Ness Ave., S. F.; phone Emergencj
301, formerlv 231 Sutter street.
STORAGE.
Bekins Van * Storage Co.. 13th and Missioi
Sts., S. F.; Phone Market 2558.
Pierce Rodolph Storage Co., Edds
and Fillmore Sts.. Tel. West 828
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
Walters fc Co.. formerly Shutts, Walters &
Co., 1608 : teiner St., S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
Bacigalupl, Peter, 1113-1116 Fillmore
St.. S. F.
Lvons. Charts. TI^ndon Tailor, 1432 Fill-
more St.. 731 Van Ness Ave.. S. F.,
958 Broadway. Oakland.
McMahon, Keyer and Stiegeler Bros.,
Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Far-
rell and Fillmore.
Neuhaus & Co., Inc.. 1618 Ellis at
near Fillmore. S. F.
RehnsVom. C. H ,..2416 Fillmore , . ;
formerly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg.
'TENTS AND AWNINGS.
Thorns F., 1209 Mission St., corner of Eighth,
S F
TPICYCLEB.
Eames Tricycle Co., Invalid Chairs, 2108
Market St.. S. F.
WINES & LIQUORS— WHOLESALE
Balke. Ed. W., 1498 Eddy St., cor.
Fillmore.
Blumenthal. M. & Co.. Inc.. temporary
office 1K21 Webster St.. ». r.
Butler John & Son. 2209 Steiner st,
Re^nrfl'ds, Chas. M. Co.. 514 Halght st
Ruscfni, Fisher & Co.. 649 Turk st, S. F
Berman Wine & Liquor Co., family trade
Siebe Bros. & Placeman. 419-425
Larkin street, Phone, Emergency
349
Weniger. P. J. & Co., N. E. cor. Van
Ness ave. and Ellis st. Tel. Emer-
gency 309.
WIchman. Lutgen & Co.. formerly of 29-
31 Battery st. S. F.; temporary office,
Harrison and Everett sts., Alanieda,
Cal.: Phone Alameda 1179. Gilt Edge
Whiskey.
WINES AND LIQUORS— RETAIL.
Ferguson, T. M. Co.. Market street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow
Whiskey.
Fischer. E. R.. 1901 Mission street,
corner of Fifteenth.
The Metropolejohn L. Herget and Wm. H.
Harrison. Props., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Streets.
Tuxedo The. Eddie Graney. Prop.. SW
cor. Fillmore «• O'Farrell sts
YEAST MANUFACTURERS
Golden Gate Compressed Yeast Co., 2401 FiH-
more.
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Amusements
The opera! What would Society do without it?
Its musical interest is subordinated to clothes, but
nevertheless the faithful ones who reck little of the
bavardes and their sartorially descriptive effusive-
ness, turned, struggled through the rain and slush
away out to the far distant Chutes. For the life
of me I cannot see how any impresario could have
such faith in the weather to set his company down
in the suburban sandhills in the very depth of the
rainy season in San Francisco and expect to make
money. I believe the San Carlo venture has been
a losing game from the start and it would be a
miracle were it otherwise.
February and March are usualjy the two worst
months in the year and rain is fatal to an opera
season under conditions such as have existed in
San Francisco since the fire.
It was different in the olden days when Society
could drive down over well-paved streets to the
Grand Opera House and go thence for supper in
luxurious hotels and cafes located within a few
blocks of the theater;'' A storm under such condi-
tions could not be a serious deterrent, but as things
are now a March down-pour is a tragedy for opera-
goers, who have almost to take the China steamer
to 'reach the scene of music, light and joy.
* * *
And for what should fashionable and musical San
Francisco leave its dry and warm firesides often
enough to struggle out to the Chutes through seas
of mire and deluges of rain — to hear Nordica, whom
they have so often seen, and applauded popular
Alice Nielsen at $3 per seat. Really, it is too serious
a strain to place upon the enthusiasm of any com-
munity, much less one which has had a year of too
strenuous experiences already and is now sighing
for some of its old-time ease and pleasure amidst
pleasurable surroundings.
So the San Carlo opera venture has passed into
stage history as an ill-timed and unlucky venture in
which anything but good judgment was exercised
in the preliminary arrangements.
As to the other array of talent which I happened
to see in the performance of "Faust," Nordica was
Nordica. I cannot recall anyone whose playing of
"Marguerite" was as satisfactory. Aside from
Madame Nordica, Madame Monti-Baldini was the
only one whose performance distinguished her. The
other members of the cast were mediocre if not or-
dinary, and the orchestra was barbarous.
What with charges of official graft, charges that
his theatre is a dangerous fire trap and the vigorous
boycott of the aggressive Irish, Supervisor Davis,
the manager of the Davis Theatre, has his hands
full. If Mr. Davis does not land in that other place
with his supervisorial associates he is likely to land
in bankruptcy, so many are his troubles.
What a fool any manager is to quarrel with the
Irish in America. No other nationality has half the
political pull of the Irish, and when they concen-
trate their batteries on a man who is lampooning
their race in a fire-trap theatre built in defiance of
all the municipal ordinances, his finish is in sight.
While a great many educated Irishmen and Jews
and Germans can laugh good-naturedly at the cari-
catures of their races put on at cheap show houses
like the Davis Theatre, thousands of others are en-
raged by the horrible impersonations of their people.
Nationalities that have been subjected to oppressive
government like the Irish and Jews are particularly
sensitive. Only the cheapest class of theatres,
which cater to the lowest order of playgoers, en-
courage such caricatures, and even in them the
practice is not a paying one. With the Davis
Theatre it is likely to prove ruinous, for the Irish
politicians will surely have Davis' flimsy and dan-
gerous structure pulled down by the municipal au-
thorities.
* * *
The hits of the Orpheum during the week have
been Julien Tannen's specialty, and Merri Osborne's
playlet, "Taming an Actress."
* * .. *
The Auditorium is in favor as a skating place,
despite the rainy weather of recent weeks. The
polo games have attracted widespread interest.
y fCE CREAM
^1536-8 Fillmore St.. S.F.
DR. H. J. STEWART
Organist of S;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Sherith Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition.
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
Church Choir
Teacher of Voice, Piano and Organ
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phone
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues-
day and Friday.
MRS. OSCAR MANSFELDT
PIANIST
1 60 1 Buchai
William Keith
Studio
After Dec. 1st 1717 California St.
SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE
Attorney-at-Law
i St., Cor. Sutter
1101 O'FARRELL ST.
Cor. Franklin
San Francisco, Cal.
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RACING Amusements
New California Jockey Club
Oakland Race
Track
SIX OR MORE RACES EACH WEEK DAY
Rain or Shine
Rata commence al 1:40 p. m. sharp.
For special trains sloppins at the track take S. P. Ferry,
foot of Market street: leave at 1 2:00. thereafter every twenty
minutes until 1 :40 p. m. No Smoking in last two cars,
which are reserved for ladies and their escorts.
Returning trains leave track after fifth and last races.
THOMAS H. WILLIAMS. President.
PERCY W. TREAT. Secretary.
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Work called for and returned on schedule
time.
Thompson's Formerly
Oyster Loaf, op7n.
1727 O'Farrell St., near Fillmore
All night service Popular Prices
T The only first-class up-to-date and modern
• Hammam Baths, built especially for
* the purpose, in the city.
\ Oriental Turkish Baths
Corner Eddy and Larkln Sts.
Cold water plunge.
Room including Bath.Si.oo.
Phone Franklin 653
W. J. BLUMBERG & BRO.. Props.
"Kreutzer Sonata," a dramatization
mi ("..tint Tolstoi's great >tory, will
receive it> initial production in this
City next Monday night at the Col-
onial Theater. Two different ver-
sions of this thrilling Russian play
are heing produced with considerable
success in the East by Blanche Walsh
and Bertha Kalisch. "Kreutzer Son-
ata" was undoubtedly one of Tolstoi's
best efforts and when it was first
published caused a most profound
sensation. The demand for the book
was so great that the book stores
were unable to fill the orders.
The play is replete with dramatic
situations and the story dealing with
life in Russia among the upper set
is intensely interesting. An unfaithful
wife who plans to elope with a farmer
sweetheart is the thread upon which
the story hangs. The climaxes are
admirably conceived and Tzetta Jewell,
the charming leading woman of the
stock company will have another op-
portunity to display her ability in this
line. The cast will be considerably
strengthened for this production,
while the management promises some
new and novel scenic effects.
A famous old Sanskrit comedy,
"The Little Clay Cart," written by
King Shudraka about 600 A. D., win
be presented, in English translation,
by the English Club of the University
of California in the Greek Theater
at eight o'clock Saturday evening,
April 6th.
This is a love drama, with a politi-
cal intrigue interwoven. Only twice
before has the occidental world bad
an opportunity to see this ancient
play — at the Odeon in Paris in 1850
and at the Royal Theater in Berlin in
1900. The version to be presented at
the Greek Theater is the work of
Dr. Arthur W. Ryder, instructor in
Sanskrit in the University of Califor-
nia, who has published the translation
of this play in the Harvard Oriental
Series.
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:olor use Alfrcdum's Egyptian Henna —
1 vegetable dye — perfectly harmless and
[he effect is immediate.. All druggists
sell it. Langley & Michaels Co., agents.
COLONIAL THEATRE
McAllister near Market Phone Market 920
MARTIN F. KURT1G, President and Manner
All Market Street Cars run direct to Theater
Week Beginning Monday, April 1
First time in San Francisco of the dramatization
of Count Tolstoi's Thrilling Story
KREUTZER SONATA
A Big Scenic Production with
an All-Star Cast
PRICES: Eveninas, 25c. 50c. 75c, $1.00; Satur-
day and Sunday Matinees. 25c and 50c. BARGAIN
MATINEE, Wednesday, all seals reserved, 25c. Branch
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Streets.
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use
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DR. WM. D. CLARK
Office and Res.: 2554 California St.
San Francisco
Hours — 1 to 3 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.
Sundays — By appointment
Phone West 390
Contracts made with Hotels and Restaurants
Special Attention given to Family Trade
Established 1876
THOMAS MORTON & SON
Importer of and (~*(~\ A I
Dealers in KsKJ**.L*
N. W. Cor. Eddy and Hyde, San Francisco
Phone Franklin 397
Wichman, Lutgen & Co.
Formerly of
29-3 1 Battery Street, S. F.
Cor. Everett and Tarrison Avenue
ALAMEDA, CAL.
Phone Alameda 1179
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A prominent lawyer, who formed) » Til ill Iv I^FIVI
practised at the bar of Kansas City, tells lWt&. 1 VlU lYlkjLill
of a funny incident in a court thei ■< : dui I Hi^^W ,. . t1~,tt
ing a trial in which a certain young l| L'BS^ft IC A I \ H A
doctor was called as a witness. 1 1 ^^^V IfciHUlin
Counsel for the other side, in cross- (Oriental Steamship Co.)
examining the youthful medio, gave ut-
terance tO Several Sarcastic remarks Have Opened Their Permanent Offices at
,. . ., , it .... Room 240 James Flood Building
tending to throw down upon the ability _
r San Francisco
of so young a man.
One of the questions was: ''y"ou are S. S. "Hongkong Mam"
entirely familiar with the symptoms of Wednesday, April 10, 1907
concussion of the brain?" S. S. "America Mara" (calls at Manila) . .
"I am." Friday, May 3, 1907
"Then," continued the cross-exam- S- S- "Nippon Mam" (calls at Manila) . . .
iner, "suppose my learned friend, Mr. Friday, May 31, 1907
Taylor, and myself were to bang our , §"?""? ™$ l™,™ wl,»rf-, c,°,""" ,Fi,st »>"|,Brannan Su.,
. 1 P. M., for Yokohama and Hongkong, calling at Hono-
lleads together, should We get COn- lulu, Kobe. (Hiogo), Nagasaki and Shanghai, and con-
„ • „r ., , •_ -ji, necting at Hongkong with steamers for Manila, India, etc.
CUSSlOn Of the brain? No cargo received on board on day of sailing.
"Your learned friend, Mr. Taylor, Round-trip tickets at reduced rates
J ror rreight and passage apply at ottice, Z1U James Mood
might," Suggested the young phy- Building. W. H. AVERY, Assistant General Manager.
sician.
Memory Helps.
Oldbach— "What have you got that
string tied around your finger for?"
Oldwed — "I'm going to do some
shopping for my wife, and the string
is to remind me that I have a knot
in my handkerchief."
Oldbach— "And what is the knot
in your handkerchief for?"
Oldwed— "Oh, that's to remind me
that I have a list of the things my
wife wants on a slip of paper in my
vest pocket."
Limit Absolutely
Gunner — "That grocer is the meanest
man I ever met."
Guyer— "Why, didn't he give you a
pretty calendar for the month of Jan-
nary ?"
Gunner — "No ; he gave me a calendar
for the month of February because it
had three days less."
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Headguarters for Talking
Machines, Records
and Supplies
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"Yes, he's going to train you for
the hunting field "
"Oh! Is that it? I thought he meant
the sausage mill."
Love Laughs at Zero
They sat out on the frosty porch, un-
mindful of the chilly blasts.
Dreamily she gazed at the stars.
"Up there," she said, romantically, "is
the great dipped."
"And down here," he laughed, snatch-
ing another kiss, "is the 'great spoon.' "
And Cupid came out in a fur-trimmed
overcoat and shot another dart.
Dr. WONG HIM
1268 O'Farrell St.
Permanently Located
HERB DOCTOR
Father and Mother
Write Letter In-
dorsing Treatment.
SAN FRANCISCO
March 23, 1906
To Whom it may
t» Concern: Our three-
Ik* year- old daughter,
having been ill for
some time and being
treated by the most prominent physicians,
gradually became worse, and was finally
given up by them. We were then recom-
mended to Dr. Wong Him. We started
with his treatment and within two months'
time our daughter was cured.
Respectfully,
MR. AND MRS. H. C. LIEB,
2757 Harrison St., San Francisco
Volume LVII-No. 14
SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 6, 1907
Price 10 cents
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Address. JAMES F. FORSTER, Business Manager.
Telephone Market 316.
Plain English
The testimony of Mr. E. S. Pillsbury, the well-
known and eminent attorney, sheds a flood of light on
the blackmailing operations of Abe Ruef and his muni-
cipal associates connected with the government of
Mayor Schmitz. According to Mr. Pillsbury, who
undoubtedly told only the bare truth, Ruef had been
holding up the Pacific States Telephone Company for
several years. The sum of $1200 had been paid to
Ruef every month out of the treasury of the telephone
company for the past two years. Ruef's name was not
on the pay rolls of the company. His monthly graft
was charged up ag-inst the account of Theodore
V. Halsey, but Attorney Pillsbury gave his testi-
mony to the effect that Ruef had regularly received
his monthly blackmail. If the payments were de-
layed a few days, there was always a gentle re-
minder sent to Halsey that other telephone com-
panies were seeking to enter the local field and
that the usual remittance of currency would be
acceptable.
At the time that Ruef was bleeding the Pacific
States Telephone Company for protection against
a rival corporation, he was planning to hold up the
Home Telephone Company for a still larger sum,
and finally took the money of the Home Company,
promising to secure it a franchise, although he re-
ceived a salary from the Pacific Stages to shut it
out. His double dealing brought him into difficulties
with the Pacific States people, but he managed to
appease them, upon certain conditions, and had not
thi graft prosecution intervened, he would probably
be still playing one corporation off against the
other.
Without the co-operation of the Board of Super-
visors and Mayor Schmitz, of course, no political
boss could hold up corporations as did Ruef. The
Boss and his confederates rigged up the scheme j
of blackmail by which all were to put money in
their purses and so it has been for thirty years in
San Francisco. Ruef was the most avaricious and
audacious blackmailer of all and so the expose of
his rascality has been the most astounding.
By what method of reasoning do certain news-
papers and public individuals arrive at the con-
clusion that the most culpable of all in this graft
scandal are the rich men or corporations who paid
the blackmail. If they didn't pay it they would be
robbed of nearly all they possessed.
The unpleasant position in which many prominent
men have found themselves by yielding up to Ruef
and his blackmailing confederates of the Union
Labor Party may have the salutary effect of making
rich men and corporations fight the blackmailing
political bosses in future. If they spent as much
money in doing that as in bribing the blackmailers
to keep their hands off them the tribe of Ruef would
decrease rapidly.
Again The Wasp takes occasion to remark that
we should appoint our judges of the law courts and
not elect them. In that way they would be removed
from the direct and pernicious influence of black-
mailing political bosses and would become a real
terror to them. See how an honest and fearless
judge like Dunne and a prosecutor like Heney has
brought down Ruef's citadel of graft as if it were a
house of cards. Suppose that every judge on the
Superior and Supreme bench were as independent
of p.litical bosses as Judge Dunne, how impotent
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gi afters like Ruef and his confederates would
become. The first man they tried to shake down
might land them in the penitentiary.
In telling his story of Abe Ruef s rapacity, Mr. E.
S. Pillsbury furnishes no information calculated to
surprise San Francisco people who have had any
insight to what has been going on in this City
several years. Ruef's hunger for money" has been
such that he spared neither friends nor foes.
Not very long ago a saloonkeeper in the tender-
loin who had done many political favors for Ruef
and accounted himself as immune from blackmail
desired some small privilege from the powers that
be. He applied to Ruef as a matter of form expect-
ing that the request would be granted as soon as
asked. He was coldly informed that he would have
to put up $250 in cash for the favor he asked and
had to pay it. Needless to say he expresses no deep
sorrow over the present plight of the avaricious
boss.
Apropos of the discovery of a secret treasure
chest in the house formerly occupied by Mayor
Schmitz it is said in political circles close to the
dishonered Mayor that he did not keep all his loose
cash in that secret receptacle under his bed. It is
said that before he . went to Europe a certain
National bank in this City issued to him a draft for
over six hundred thousands dollars, and some of
his intimate associates were surprised that he ever
returned from Europe. This story emanates, not
from the Grand Jury room, or the political enemies
of the Mayor, but from the people with whome he
has been closely identified. It should be easy to
prove whether any National bank issued him a
large draft.
Julius C. Saulman, who has protested against the
payment of salaries to a lot of tax-eaters, who hold
places not legally created, is one of the best-
posted men in San Francisco as far as City Hall
affairs are concerned. Saulman has a genius for
spotting dishonest tax-eaters and can corner a City
Hall grafter with the unerring persistency of a
ferret on the trail of a terrified rat. Saulman's
appearance causes as much cackling and com-
motion in some City Hall departments as the
shadow of a chicken hawk when it falls across a
barnyard.
City Treasurer Bontel who is requested to return
$8500 of the City's money illegally kept by him,
would not be in the fashion as a patriot of the Union
Labor Party if he performed his duties without getting
into trouble with the Grand Jury. It is to be hoped
that by the time the next election comes around,
the people of San Francisco will be convinced that
it isn't the best policy to take unknown men from
mean stations in life and elect them in a day to the
positions of the greatest prominence and responsi-
bility.
In private enterprises shrewd business men do
not go out in the street and take drivers of bakery
wagons, cheap barkeepers, barbers, fiddlers and
little coffee and doughnut merchants and make
them the heads of concerns that have millions at
stake. Yet that is what the voters of San Francisco
are doing continually. They take unknown men
without education, training, honesty or intelligence
and make them the law-makers and the rulers. The
Democrats have done it and so have the Republicans
and the acme of public asininity has been reached
under the sway of the Union Labor Party.
In the event of a serious strike on the Western
railroads it will be interesting to see the attitude
the Washington Government will assume. In Paris
recently when the electricians undertook to cripple
the industries of the city, the French Government
interposed. M. Clemenceau threatened to put
military engineers in the places of the strikers and
the Chamber of Deputies voted to sustain him in
that policy. When asked by the Socialist leader M.
Jaures, why the Government interposed, M. Clemen-
ceau replied "By the right of organized society to
its existence." He did not propose that the com-
munity at large, should suffer by the quarrel be-
tween the electrical workers and their employers.
This is practically the policy which Secretary
Root formulated some months ago when the
Japanese question came up here. He declared that
the tendency should be to prevent any fraction of
the United States from jeopardizing the peace of
prosperity of the whole Nation. Now if this be
true of States it must also be true of the people of
those States. If a State cannot be allowed to tangle
up the American people in a quarrel, certainly no
society or organization of capitalists or working-
men should be permitted to involve the majority of
the population in costly trouble. Applying this rule
to a specific case the American Federation of Labor
which contains only a million and a half of members
could not be allowed by the Federal Government to
involve the Nation in a railroad strike, injurious to
interstate commerce." If the American Federation of
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Labor could not do so, a mere combination of
railroad hands certainly could not.
This theory of subordinating the privileges of the
few to the rights and interests of the Nation will no
doubt be more strongly upheld in the coming years
and especially so if President Roosevelt should be
succeded by a Republican like Secretary Taft.
Rufus P. Jennings has presented a very cheerful
report of the good work accomplished during the
past year by the California Promotion Committee.
I have no doubt that Mr. Jennings and the gentle-
men associated with him are earning their salaries,
but I was somewhat surprised the other day when
a gentleman who had just come back from a tour
of the leading Eastern cities told me that he was
amazed by the ignorance of the Eastern working-
man as to the opportunities in San Francisco. The
gentlemen in question is a well-known and very
intelligent citizen, who has made a large fortune by
industrial enterprises and for the past two years has
been traveling all over the world. He is a keen
observer and has risen from the ranks of labor him-
self.
Mr. Jenning's enthusiastic reports are calculated
to give one the impression that California is
thoroughly advertised in the Eastern cities and all
the facts about the advantages of life here are
generally known. Of course it is true that the rail-
roads have done a great deal to advertise our State,
but my friend, the retired capitalist, avers that the
ignorance of the workingmen he interviewed in
Boston and New York were dense and surprising.
It would be most advisable that Boston should be
well informed of the high wages here, for the pay of
the Bostonians in the building trades is not nearly
as high as it is here. Of course the Labor Unions
here are not likely to enlighten the Bostonians or
New Yorkers about plumbers in San Francisco get-
ting $9 a day, -plasterers $7 and all other building
tradesmen wages in proportion. On the contrary
the Umions here continually discourage immigra-
tion.
This is quite natural, they have a fine rich field
and are in no hurry to see it divided up for the
benefit of new arrivals from the East.
The general public of San Francisco however is
desirous that the City should be rebuilt with the
greatest possible celerity and that cannot be done
if the Unions maintain an artificial scarcity of labor.
Whatever influx of labor we have had since the
fire, has been due chiefly to the free advertising our
City got by the letters of Newspaper correspond-
ents, all of whom have referred to the high wages
ruling here. Newspapers advertising is the only
true method of attracting working people to a new
state in the hope of getting higher wages and better
living.
Mr. Jennings speaks in his report about the
"bulletins of progress that are issued each month
giving conditions in California and which are dis-
tributed all over the world." The truth is that Mr.
Jennings or any other promoter cannot reach one
thousandth part of the population by circulars, that
are reached by newspapers. It is a prodigious task
to put out a million circulars and only one in
twenty is ever read or reaches the right person. Yet
the newspapers of America reach thirty millions or
people every day and are closely read. One interest-
ing item sent by the Associated Press from San
Francisco to the Eastern newspaper and telling
about the very high wages here would reach more
readers in twenty-four hours than Mr. Jennings
with all his best efforts at dissemination of news by
bulletins, could reach in a year. The trouble about
most promotion committees is that they swallow up
too much in salaries and leave too little for the
really effective part of the work.
The celerity with which the arrest of Theodore
V. Halsey followed his indictment struck terror to
the hearts of those who have been skeptical con-
cerning the work of the prosecution. Scarcely half
an hour had elapsed from the time of the filing of
the indictments in Judge Coffey's court when the
news was flashed across the ocean from Manila :
"Halsey under arrest, waives extradition." The
fact that the message was signed by the head of
the United States Secret Service in Manila was an-
other circumstance that had a remarkable effect
upon those who have been scornfully regarding the
efforts of Heney and Burns, for it showed that the
mighty arm of the United States Government was
back of the local prosecutors and could stretch
across the sea just as easily as across the con-
tinent.
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in Washington from an incurable cancer of the neck.
Both Mrs. Boardman and her sister, Mrs. Keyes, are
very popular young matrons, and deep sympathy is
felt for them in this blow which has fallen upon their
family.
* * *
An esteemed contemporary which is usually well
posted on Society affairs says that "rumor is very busy
coupling the names of two well-known Society folk
these days, and the little romance is discussed with in-
terest over the tea cups. The man is a well-known and
popular Army officer, and the lady, a widow moving
in the most exclusive set." In this instance our con-
temporary has not scored a centre shot, as both the
lady and the officer deny strenuously that there is a
solid foundation for the rumor. The lady, by the way,
is one of the noted leaders of San Francisco Society.
To say any more would be almost equivalent to pub-
lishing her photograph and putting her name in large
type under it.
* * #
That popular hostess, Mrs. E. Walton Hedges, did
not carry out completely her startlingly original scheme
of inviting seven eligible and dashing widows to meet
at supper after the skating masque seven gay bach-
elors of eminent social status. The supper took place
on Monday evening, after the masquerade, and the
seven ladies invited by Mrs. Hedges proved to be Mrs.
Hanford, Mrs. Henry, Mrs. Pfingst, Mrs. Darragh,
Mrs. Carr, Mrs. Gamble, Mrs. Shirley, Mrs. Towne,
Mrs. Shorb White. The lucky men who found their
feet under the mahogany to meet this bevy of matronly
beauty were Lieutenant Barnes, Baron Von Horst,
Mr. Sweeney, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Benedict Taylor,
Mr. James Reid, Mr. Runyon, Dr. Pressley and Mr.
Paschal.
MRS. HENRY T. SCOTT
From a miniture by Rose Hooper Plotner
The death of Sidney Salisbury was one of those
deplorable affairs that furnish the many dark shadows
of life in great cities. The gifts of the gods in too
much profusion prove the undoing of many a fine
young fellow, who finds no restraining hand strong
enough to hold him back from temptation.
Sidney Salisbury, thanks largely to the genius of
his very remarkable mother, found the stage of life
set pleasantly for him. He had gifts that made him too
popular and the doors of polite society swung open to
him. He was a wholesome, good-looking young fel-
low, a clever tennis player and a fine dancer whom that
most exclusive of social sets, the Gaiety Club, wel-
comed to all its gatherings. The young man's whole-
heartedness made him many friends — too many, per-
haps— and like others who lacked the necessary
parental guidance, he began to go the pace that kills.
He quickened it as the climax approached and thereby
alienated himself from his sisters, Mrs. Keyes and Mrs.
Boardman. The newspapers have already told the
melancholy story of his suicide by inhaling gas. It
was the culmination and the end of his troubles
brought on by debt and dissipation. The social prom-
inence of the unfortunate young man has thrown a
glare of light on the tragic occurrence, but in many
another family in San Francisco than that of Sidney
Salisbury there are sad relatives who lament the way-
ward course of high-spirited young fellows, who are
hurrying to an untimely if not dishonored grave. The
lights of the great City are flames that continually
scorch to death.
The proverb that misfortunes never come singly
was verified by the lamentable death of young Mr.
Salisbury, for a few days before that occurrence his
sister, Mrs. Danforth Boardman, was called to the
bedside of her father, Monroe Salisbury, who is dying
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Haig Patigian. the talented young artist, who is to
marry Miss Hollister in September, is a brother of the
late Horen Patigian, who did considerable work for
The Wasp and other San Francisco publications.
Horen Patigian was a young Russian of extraordinary
talent and ambition for his death was most untimely
and deplorable, for it was a distinct loss to the world
of art. He contracted pneumonia and died after a
very brief sickness a few years ago. Three very tal-
ented young California artists have died at the thresh-
old of what promised to be brilliant careers. Young
Barhans, who went to Munich to study, died there
of fever brought on by overwork in poor lodgings.
He would have made a great painter. Patigian, who
died before he was twenty-four, was a splendid
draughtsman and had the genius of a painter. Young
Confer, who died suddenly a few years ago from pul-
monary trouble, was another man of remarkable tal-
ent. San Francisco has produced more than its share
of artists.
& * *
Earthquake stories are rather out of date, but that
particular one about D. M. Delmas will never grow old.
It deals with a chapter of Mr. Delmas' life antecedent
in his sudden leap to national fame as the star attorney
in the Thau case.
On the morning of the awful earthquake of April
rocked perilously. Mrs. Delmas, like thousands of
others, at that moment was terror stricken. Her emin-
ent husband was as composed as Jove sitting amidst
the clouds of Olympus. The clash of nature's Titanic
forces and the wreck of cities were trifles.
"lie calm, my dear, be calm!" he exhorted. "No
doubt this appalling phenomenon is a presage of death,
but where can we find a more comfortable or a more
beautiful spot in which to meet it?"
* * *
Miss Anita Harvey, who was bridesmaid at the
wedding of her friend. Miss Constance Crimmins, the
other day, came near being aunt by marriage to that
young lady, for at one time the bachelor uncle of Miss
Crimmins, who was out here, was a suitor for Miss
Harvey's hand, and it was thought she might marry
him. She chose instead Oscar Cooper, a less wealthy
but a younger man. Miss Harvey is having a home
wedding, because Mr. Cooper is a Protestant. It is
expected that her sister's engagement to Mr. Stetson
will be announced soon after the wedding.
* * *
Mrs. Clinton Cushing, of Washington, D. C, has
taken a house in London, where she will reside per-
manently. Since Dr. Cushing's death Mrs. Cushing
has traveled constantly. Dr. and Mrs. Cushing's home
in this City on Sutter and Taylor Streets years ago,
was a centre of social attraction. The Cushings were
lavish in their hospitality.
Captain John Metcalf left last week for a short
business trip to Honolulu.
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The April number of Sunset has been a record
breaker in the matter of sales on the newsstands.
Everybody in San Francisco wanted the magnifi-
cent number containing the articles and illustra-
tions on the restoration of San Francisco. Sunset's
motto is indeed excelsior. It improves every
month.
* * *
Mr. Muchmore, who was formerly very promi-
nent in local Society, has returned from the East
and is visiting Mr. and Mrs. William Lindsey Spen-
cer at Sausalito. His wife, who was Miss Alice
Masten, will soon arrive from the East and join
him.
* * *
Dr. Riggs of the United States Navy, who was
such a social favorite in San Francisco, and who
set the tongues of the gossips to wagging about a
possible engagement to a lovely blonde matron who
is suing for divorce, has gone to his new station
in the Orient.
John F. Boyd gave an enjoyable bridge party on
Tuesday last at her beautiful home. As usual, the
prizes were very handsome.
* * *
A new bridge club has been organized in San
Rafael. It held a meeting at Mrs. Le Favre's on
Wednesday last. Among the members of the club
are Mrs. Boyd, Mrs.' L. L. Baker, Mrs. Smedberg,
Mrs. Hoffmann and Mrs. Madison.
* * *
Those popular officers of the Pensacola at Yerba
Buena Island were hosts at an enjoyable dinner on
Wednesday evening on board the ship. Among
those present were Pay Inspector and Mrs. Rey-
nolds, Mrs. Kate Shirley, Mrs. Ynez Shorb White,
Miss Ethel Shorb, Miss Edith Metcalfe, Mrs. A. H.
Voorhies, Mrs. Malcolm Henry, Mrs. E. Walton
Hedges and Mrs. Marguerite Hanford. The hosts
on this occasion were Dr. Biddle, Lieutenant
Barnes, Dr. Stebbins, Dr. Abeken, Paymaster Hel-
micks and Paymaster Beecher.
The published report that Mrs. Malcolm Henry
had applied for passage to Manila on the transport
sailing this week caused some surprise in Society,
as it was thought this popular and handsome
matron would remain here pending the divorce for
which she has applied.
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs has not broken with Col.
and Mrs. Jay over her late husband's will, for Col.
and Mrs. Jay were with her and Harry Black at
Florida a few days ago. Mr. Black is the presi-
dent of a New York construction company and has
been so much in her company for the past year
that the gossips all predict a remarriage.
st= ^ *
Mrs. Samuel E. Dutton, whose husband died the
other clay in San Francisco, has been living for the
past two years in New York with her widowed
daughter, Mrs. Leland. and her unmarried daughter,
Mr. Leland was a chaplain in the United States
army that came here with a volunteer regiment
during the Spanish war and married Miss Dutton.
He died about a year after. Mrs. Dutton is a sister
of Mrs. Russell Wilson. They were the King girls,
daughters of James King "of William." Samuel E.
Dutton was a brother of Wm. J. Dutton, the well-
known insurance man. •
^ % ^
Mrs. B. G. Lathrop, who has been visiting in
New York, will return to San Francisco very
shortly to attend the wedding of her sister, Miss
Sylvia Harris, to .Dr. Hardy, which will take place
some time this month.
Miss Brooke Rose, whose picture appears in this
week's Wasp, belongs to one of the oldest and most
aristocratic families of San Francisco. She is a
very well-known Society girl, a prominent member
of the Society of Colonial Dames. She is at present
in Honolulu visiting friends.
* * ^
Bridge is as popular as ever in San Rafael. Mrs.
Dr. and Mrs. McEnery gave a large dinner party
on Wednesday evening in honor of Major Stephen-
son, who sailed on Friday for his new station in
the Philippines.
* * *
The opening of the Fairmont Hotel on April 19th
will undoubtedly be one of the great social events
of San Francisco. A large number of prominent
people have reserved tables for the occasion.
Amongst the latest to do so are Miss Jennie Blair,
Edward M. Greenway, Thomas Magee, Marshall
Hale, J. J. Mack, W. S. Porter, A. A. Watkins, Leo-
pold Michaels and Nathan Bell.
California will soon be well-represented at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis if all the voting San
Francisco boys are fortunate in passing the rigid
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examinations necessary to their entrance. Ralph
C. Hani-.. n. son of Mrs. Chrystal Harrison, of this
. is the latest appointee. Young Harrison is
a very bright youth, who is yet in his teens.
* * ' *
Senator George Russell Lukens was bust at a
large luncheon given at the Claremont Country
Club "ii Thursday last, in honor of Mrs. Clarence
Martin Mann. After luncheon the guests attended
the Minetti Quartet Concert at the Greek Theater,
Berkeley.
* * *
Mrs. Charles M. Sadler gave a large and fash-
ionable tea at her residence in Alameda on last
Sunday afternoon, when she announced the engage-
ment of her daughter. Miss Mae Lydia Sadler, to
Mr. Lewis Reisdon Mead of San Francisco. The
young ladies who assisted in receiving on this occa-
sion were Miss Ruth Sadler, Miss Flossie Sloper,
Miss Evelyn Hussey, Miss Mazie Coyle, Miss An-
gela Coyle, Miss Marion Mills and Miss Gertrude
Mills.
feared, will end in the bottomless t>it."
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. James Follis have left the Hotel
Rafael, where they have been spending the Winter,
and moved into their handsome new home in San
Rafael.
* * *
Grover Cleveland, twice President of the United
States, was 70 years old on March 17th and spent
his birthday fishing in South Carolina, while in New
York the flags were flying on the City Hall and the
Mayor was suggesting that the next new public
place of importance should be named Cleveland
Square. There were many spirited discussions in
New York as to why the flags were flying on the
City Hall. Some said it was in honor of holy St.
Patrick, and others said that the tribute was to
Cleveland. The Hibernian janitor of the building
settled the question quite diplomatically. '"Tis for
both of those grate min," said he.
The terrible Father Vaughan is as much feared by
the smart set of London as Savonarola was bv the
licentious aristocracy of Italy in his day. Divorced
nobles who try to sneak up to the altar to remarry
do so in fear and trembling of this modern John the
Baptist who rails at the excesses of modern Societv.
* * *
In one of his latest sermons Father Vaughan lashed
the fair sex for its sins and foibles. He cited dog
worship as one of the evils of the hour, and asked:
"Will not the practice of lavishing upon brutes love
which should be bestowed upon a husband and child
bring M>me horrible curse with it?"
"During the past week," said the priest, "as a wo-
man was taking her pet dog to a dog party she
began to talk to the little beast in her arms in French.
When asked why she did so, she answered:
' 'This darling little child of mine understands
every word I say when I speak my native tongue,
and I should not like him to grown vain like Bertha.'
"Yet this woman, who was wearing on her hat a
plume torn from a living bird of paradise, did not
realize that she was making a disgusting exhibition
of herself.
"While this degrading practice is on the increase,
the birth rate is on the decrease and infant mortality
has already reached one-fourth of the total number
of deaths.
"If drinking has decreased among men, it has been
made up for by the increase among women. Mental
deficiency is growing among them. Now blindness
and skin, bone and nervous diseases, like locomotor
ataxia, are becoming prevalent.
"Do they want the causes of these evils revealed
to them ? I read in a work sent me last week that
wealthy business men and men of leisure are in the
main impure and that women in the same class hold
conversations that imply more than I care to express.
All the large towns in Great Britain are morally on
the down grade. England and France, embracing
each other in an entente cordiale, are tobogganing
together down the slimy steep which it is much to be
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It has just come to light that Mrs. T. P. O'Con-
nor, a daughter of the Lone Star State and wife
of the well-known London journalist and Member
of Parliament, is the author of "The Stronger Sex,"
one of the successes of the London theatrical sea-
son. Her identity had been veiled under the name
of "John Alexander." The great dramatic success
follows the production of several plays from the
pen of the gifted Texas girl. Mrs. O'Connor is
president of the Society of Women Journalists,
and among her successful productions are "A Lady
from Texas," "The Lost Leader," and "Madame
Delphyne." The talented lady is well-known in San
Francisco where her former husband has been for
many years connected with the newspapers.
* * •*
House boats are appealing to American million-
aires at last, and this Summer they doubtless will
be as popular on the Hudson, the Potomac, and
other picturesque streams as they are on the
Thames and the Cherwell. Senator and Mrs. Elkins
intend entertaining friends on the little rivers of
West Virginia. The Upper Potomac and the Cheat
River are attractive for house-boat life, and they
have numerous outlets among mountains wild and
picturesque. Senator and Mrs. Knox shortly will
go to Palm Beach, where they will spend a few
weeks in the house boat of Henry Frick. Mr. Frick
has explored every nook of the east coast of
Florida, and he and Mrs. Frick prefer this manner
of living to any other away from their hearthstone
in Pittsburg. House-boat parties soon will start
for Thomasville, Ga., with the south coast as their
place of cruising. Mrs. Payne Whitney, who will
occupy her uncle's home there, will entertain Mr.
and Mrs. James Wadsworth, Jr., and their chil-
dren and several New York friends before starting
on a voyage of adventure in the bayou regions. San
Francisco Bay is an ideal place for house boats,
but so far only a few people have taken advantage
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of the pleasures of outdoor life in an ark. If some
fashionables would take to the amusement no doubt
the sheltered shores of Marin County would be
studded with arks before long.
* # *
Mrs. Potter Palmer is making ready for a most
determined effort to enter the "inner circle" of King
Edward's set this season, and her first move has caused
considerable interest. She and her niece, the Princess
Cantacuzene, have installed themselves at the Hotel
du Palais, the very hotel in which the King and his
suite were housed, at Biarritz.
One of the jokes of last season was the "match"
which every one declared King Edward wished to
bring about between the Hon. Sir Schomberg Kerr
McDonnell and Mrs. Palmer. The rumor arose
through a jocose remark to Sir Schomberg by the
King, who said: "Why don't you marry a really rich
woman, like Mr-, rainier, for instance?" Sir Schom-
berg, who is forty-six years of age, is a brother of
the Earl of Antrim and secretary of the office of
works. He was for years private secretary to the
late Lord Salisbury. One of Mrs. Palmer's devoted
suitors is Sir Algernon West, a widower of seventy-
five, with three children, but he is now considered
to be out of the running. Mrs. Palmer will start her
London season in May at I lampden House, Park Lane,
She has given up her custom of inviting royalty in
the matter of sailing in to dinner alone before her
guests.
* * *
Many of our California people will pass the
Summer abroad the latest to join the wanderers
are Mr, and Mrs. James Flood, who will leave in
May to sail for Paris on June the first. Mr. Flood
recently purchased a $12,000 automobile in which
he will tour Switzerland with Mrs. Flood. They
will not return to the City until late in the Winter.
Mrs. Ella Hotaling, who has been traveling
abroad and intended making an automobile trip
through France, has been obliged to abandon this
tour, on account of small pox in several towns
on the route. Mrs. Hotaling with true California
pride writes that she has met many travelers
abroad, who have told her of their intentions to
visit San Francisco next Summer.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Whitney have decided not
to leave San Francisco and Mr. Whitney has gone
into the real estate business. Mrs. Whitney is
already a great pet of her mother-in- law, I hear.
The young lady cares little for the whirl of society.
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Always original, the President's married daughter
is preparing to astonish New York with a novelty in
footgear which it is prophesied will be truly startling,
even to Fifth Avenue. Everything in feminine attire
is going to be symphonic pretty soon, it's predicted,
and if that's the case Mrs. Longworth is in advance
of the fashion. Anyway, she likes to be a symphony
in one color or another — preferably in her favorite
blue. She has discarded the widely copied Alice blue
in favor of a lighter tint, but she's as fond of the
color as ever. And now she will appear in the me-
tropolis in baby blue shoes. Cerulean bootines have
been worn outside the ballroom, 'tis true, but only
by two-year-olds in recent years, anyway. Mrs. Long-
worth's new shoes are of blue kid with cloth uppers
of the same hue. They match her cloth gown exactly,
and, of course, her hat and gloves. In addition, a
blue purse will swing from her arm, and her umbrella
or parasol, according to the weather, is to be of the
same shade. The only relief to the prevailing blue
will lie in the gold links on her purse.
The large attendance of friends who listened to
the dramatic readings of Miss Ella Bender on March
22d showed great appreciation of this talented young
lady's efforts. Mrs. Homer King, an early day friend
of the family, besides throwing open her fine home
for the occasion, invited about one hundred old Ne-
vada friends to tea after the reading and an old-
fashioned enjoyable time was passed for a couple of
hours. On April 3d Mrs. Herbert Gee of Burlingame
came to town with a party of young ladies to
attend the second reading of Miss Bender's at Mrs.
Kings, when a Browning afternoon will be enjoyed.
Miss Bender reading Robert Brownings' "Pippa
Passes."
James P. Donahue, who is writing New York
letters for the Sunday Chronicle is an old and re-
liable journalist. He was educated at Santa Clara
College and began as a reporter on the Examiner
over twenty years ago. He has been connected with
some leading New York journals, as well as with
the best newspapers in California. He is unexcelled
as an accurate reporter of conventions and legisla-
tive bodies, having had great experience in that line.
The Chronicle cannot fail to be well served with
such a reliable man as Mr. Donahue acting as its
New York correspondent.
Every year the Shillings, the Volkmans, with
some of their friends, come down to Del Monte for
a family reunion and a general jollification. This
year they chose the Easter week, and the party
consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schilling. Rud. and
Walter Schilling, Mr. and Mrs. William Volkman,
Dan Volkman. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hannan, Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. Davis, Kenneth Davis, Miss Davis
and Miss Anna Bell.
Spring has made Del Monte more beautiful than
ever. After the storm the sunshine is much ap-
preciated, and long walks and drives are in order.
A favorite constitutional is the new wide board
walk from the Bath House to Monterey. It is not
quite completed, the eight-foot planks only being
laid as far as the Monterey Station, but it is to
continue on to the picturesque old Custom House.
The view along the stretch of beach is a most
alluring one — on both sides a sweeping curve of
white sand ; at the right Pico Blanco, standing out
above the blue Gavalan range and the dunes. In
the other direction you see the fishermen's boats
and wharves below the town, which rises up like
a fortification, and as you look closely you see
that there is one with mounted cannon and soldiers
guarding the gates of the Presidio. All this can
now be enjoyed without ploughing through thick
sand, without dampened boots or salt-sprayed
garments..
Del Monte's ball room has always been an at-
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N'euhaus, who is living at Pacific Grove, and Harry
Fonda, now of Monterey.
A. 1). Shepanl ami Mi-- Marjnric Shepard spent
Easter week at Del Monte.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coleman, Robert L. Cole-
man. Jr., Miss Carra Coleman and 11. R. Simpkins
made a short visit to Del Monte this week.
* * *
( >ne of the prettiest weddings of the season took
place on Tuesday evening. April 2d, when .Miss
l.vdia Burneston Owens became the bride of George
Anson Herrick. The ceremony took place at St.
Luke's Church, several hundred friends being pres-
ent. The decorations were exquisite. The bride
made a beautiful picture in her wedding gown of
chiffon satin and rare lace, with her flowing veil
of tulle; she carried a shower bouquet of lilies of
the valley. Miss Nina Currey was maid of honor.
The bridesmaids were Miss Marion and Miss
Jeanette Wright. Miss Anita Davis and Miss Ruth
Morton. Mr. Herrick was supported by Hugh
( Iwens as best man. The ushers were Alan Dia-
mond. "Williartl Barton, Lathrop Ellinwood and
Dr. Herbert Moore. A reception followed at the
residence of the bride's home. After a wedding
lour the bride and groom will reside in this City.
* * *
Mrs. Charles Hadenfeldt has issued invitations to
the marriage of her daughter, Wanda Florence, to Mr.
Henrv Clinton Melone. The wedding will take place
on Wednesday. April the 10th at high noon, at the
First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco. Miss Ethel
Melone. the groom's sister, will be the only attendant,
and Arthur Goodfellow will officiate as best man.
After the wedding tour the young couple will reside
at the beautiful country home of the Melones, Oak
Knoll. Napa County, where the bridegroom's widowed
mother and sister also reside.
Miss Hadenfeldt is a sister of Miss Joan Hadenfeldt,
a young woman of striking beauty, who made her
debut at the Orpheum a few years ago, and for whom
George Aspden, a newspaper man, committed suicide
in his desperation over her refusal to marry him. He
was the author of the sketch "The Cycle of Love,"
which she played on the Orpheum circuit. The hand-
some actress is now the wife of Elmer Woodbury, a
Southern California hotel keeper.
Young Mr. Melone is the son of the late Drury
Melone, whose second wife was Miss Woodward, one
of the daughters of the celebrated founder of the
Woodward's Gardens, a famous early-day show place
of San Francisco on Mission Street, near Thirteenth.
Mr. Woodward acquired a great deal of property,
which has since become very valuable, though most of
the large fortune he left has been lost by his heirs.
Mrs. Melone is, of all the Woodward heirs, the
one whose patrimony has been best preserved. Her
late husband, Drury Melone, who was once Secretary
of State for California, was a very shrewd man and
for years steadfastly refused to allow the estate of his
father-in-law to be cut up and divided amongst the
heirs. Finally this was done, but meantime Mrs.
Melone's share had become so valuable that she fared
best of all the heirs. Robert J-. Woodward, Mrs.
Melone's brother, sold all of his valuable real estate
at a sacrifice.
Mr. Melone's first wife was a Miss Mesick of Sacra-
mento, and is still alive. She married again a few
years after her separation from her first husband.
Mrs. Melone, senior, has two sisters, Mrs. George
Raum and Mr.. E. Hutchinson.
* * *
Judge W. C. Van Fleet, who has been recom-
mended for the new United States District Judge-
ship, is very well known both here and in Sacra-
mento, his boyhood home. His first wife was a
Miss Carey, who died very shortly after the birth
of her son, Carey, who is now the well-known So-
ciety man. The Judge remained a widower many
years. His second wife was Miss Lizzie Crocker,
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Clark W. Crocker.
Judge Van Fleet is a cousin of Chief Justice
Beatty, their mothers being sisters. They were all
well known and prominent in early days in Sacra-
mento.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huse left last week for
their home in Chicago. They hope to return to
San Francisco in the very near future for a stay
of many months.
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-THE WASP
Portrait by Genthe
A mature and experienced Society woman was
recently asked what is the hardest problem a young
girl has to solve in her social campaign for a hus-
band. The woman of experience answered off-hand,
"widows."
"Young or old?" was next asked the lady.
"That depends," said she. "The elderly widow is
dangerous to a young man and the old stagers go
crazy the minute they get within magnetic range of a
frisky young widow. The poor debutante or the more
mature bud don't seem to have a chance in a hun-
dred with those artful widows. They angle for the
stupid male sex so dexteriously that they have fish
on their lines all the time."
But of course this kind of talk is only broad gen-
eralization. There are widows and widows. Some
are professional heart-smashers, while others are as
demure and domestic as a devout young quakeress.
San Francisco has its full share of widows, young
and old, frisky and demure, and more then its share
of those ladies who are blessed with a large share of
this world's goods.
Amongst the young and charming widows who
have places in local Society are Mrs. Langsdale,
who was the charming Miss Sidney Smith ; the
young and wealthy Mrs. Jane Ewell, who was Jen-
nie Masten ; Mrs. John D. Tallant, widow of the
banker and daughter of the late Judge Selden S.
Wright ; Mrs. Austin Tubbs, formerly Anne Tal-
lant; Mrs. J. O'Neil Ries, who was Belle Brooks;
Mrs. Walter Newhall, who was Nellie Trowbridge ;
Mrs. Stafford Parker, who was Edith Young; Mrs.
George Rowe, who was the charming Miss Clara
Rice of San Francisco; Mrs. Ynez Shorb White,
Mrs. James Sperry, Mrs. Susie Allen, Mrs. Bessie
Riddell, who was Bessie Tilden, the daughter of
that genial Bohemian, Joseph Tilden. She has an
independent fortune which was inherited before her
husband's death. Mrs. R. C. Storey, Miss Marie
Wilson, who was scarcely a bride before she was a
widow ; Mrs. Jimmie Robinson, who was Miss
Carrie Hawes, daughter of the late Horace Hawes.
One really does not think there are so many-
widows prominent in Society here, until you begin
to review the list. In addition to those already
named there are Mrs. C. F. D. Hastings, widow of
Dio Hastings, son of the late Judge. She owns
acres upon acres around Suisun. Mrs. Murray
Taylor, who was the fascinating May Thornton ; Mrs.
Charles Alexander, who was one of the Carroll girls
of Sacramento ; Mrs. Edgar Preston, mother of
those attractive matrons, Mrs. W. Ames and Mrs.
Williard Drown.
Amongst the widows of more mature years there
may be mentioned the wealthy Mrs. George Gibbs,
Mrs. Gen. Bidwell, who gave an immense tract of
land to the town of Chico, providing no saloon
should be allowed ; Mrs. Veronica Baird, Mrs.
Irving M. Scott ,Mrs. Eleanor Martin, Mrs. J. M.
Goewy, Mrs. Abby Parrott, Mrs. Easton, grand-
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widow of the late well-known lawyer, and mother
of Mrs. Clarence Sperry; Mrs. Jane L. Martel, Mrs.
F. F. Low, widow of the late governor and mother
of Miss Flora Low ; Mrs. Thomas Breeze, mother
of Mrs. Benson ; Mrs. Gardner Lawton, Mrs. Rus-
sell Wilson, mother of Miss Emily Wilson and Mrs.
George Cadwalader; Mrs. Henry Wetherbee, Mrs.
M. M. Estee, Mrs. L. L. Baker, Mrs. Robert Hamil-
ton, sister of Mr. James Carolan ; Mrs. Alexander
Hamilton, mother of those attractive Society girls,
Mrs. George Martin, Miss Edna and Alexander
Hamilton ; Mrs. Henry Newhall, who was the
daughter of Rev. .Mr. Wyatt; Mrs. Milton S.
Latham. Mrs. Henry Crocker, widow of Henry S.
Crocker; Mrs. Jeremiah Clark, Mrs. Hopkins, the
mother of Mrs. Eugene Murphy and Airs. Warren
Clark; Mrs. J. De Barth Shorb, Mrs. Annie Murray,
widow of Sir John Murray, the English Consul at
Maine. Mrs. Murray is very wealthy and is a
cousin of Dr. Rafaelle Lorini, the well-known
Society physician. There is also Mrs. E. B. Cad-
walader, widow of George Cadwalader, the well-
known lawyer; Mrs. William Burling, mother of
Mrs. John Evelyn Page; Mrs. Henry L. Dodge,
Mrs. Gale, Mrs. S. Rosenstock, mother of Mrs.
Nuttall ; Mrs. Lincoln, widow of Jerome Lincoln;
Mrs. Norwood, sister of J. A. Hooper, the lumber
man ; Mrs. Joseph B. Crockett, mother of Mrs.
Lawrence Scott.
The list seems endless as one writes it. All
wealthy widows and prominent in San Francisco
Society are Mrs. John I. Sabin, Mrs William Kohl,
Mrs. Emma Hunt, Mrs. John A. Bauer, Mrs. Nicho-
las Van Bergen, Mrs. Lawson Adams, Mrs. Lloyd
Baldwin, Mrs. George Bliss, Mrs. Talbot, Mrs.
Alexander Boyd, Mrs. George L. Bradley, Mrs.
Julian Reis, Mrs. Thomas R. Hayes.
All those I have named are what a realist might
call "Sod" widows, as distinguished from those to
whom the appellation of "grass widows" is com-
monly applied. The task of enumerating the latter
is too great to be undertaken lightly, and the list
grows every month. At this moment I know of at
least six prospective grass widows who are con-
sulting their lawyers and calculating whether it is
better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others
that we know not of.
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-THE WASP -
There is about twenty years difference in the
ages of L. R. Mead and his just-announced fiancee,
Miss Mae Sadler of Alameda. Mr. Mead has not
been very long a widower and so the announcement
that he is soon to re-wed came as a great surprise
to his old friends of the Bohemian Club and else-
where. His wife was a most charming woman, and
an intimate friend of Mrs. Henry Wetherbee of
Fruitvale. The Meads used to entertain house-
parties at their home, a roomy cottage near Byron
Hot Springs, of which resort Mr. Mead is the
owner. His son, Dr. Louis Durant Mead, manages
the Springs' hotel. He lately returned with his
wife from a trip to Tahati. Miss Sadler, who is to
become the wife of Mr. Mead, has been out in
Society over the bay a number of years. She is
a pretty woman, and a bright talker. She has been
abroad and converses entertainingly on the coun-
tries she visited.
The announcement of Miss Sadler's engagement
was made at a tea to which several young women
piominent in Society had been invited. They had no
idea that Miss Sadler had made up her mind to marry
Mr. Mead.
This engagement was a double surprise to the young
lady's most intimate friends, as a certain young man
who had been deeply interested for many moons was
thought to be the lucky suitor. In fact the girls re-
ceiving were perfectly astonished when anonuncement
of Mr. Mead's name was made. On the morning of
the tea the unlucky youth received a telegram from in-
timate friends, who congratulated him upon his forth-
coming marriage, little thinking that the missive was
calculated to have the opposite effect on his feelings
from that intended.
Mr. Mead is a man of affairs and one of the leading
citizens of San Francisco. He was for many years the
head of the Risdon Iron Works, and also owned the
Byron Springs, which is one of the noted resorts of the
State. Mr. Mead is a good-looking and well-preserved
man, who dresses well and does not appear to be within
twenty years of his age. His son, who is thirty-two,
was married about a year and a half ago to Miss Lan-
neau, who is a relative of Bishop Kip and belongs to a
fine-family of South Carolina. Mr. Mead junior and
his wife reside at Byron Springs. Mr. Mead senior
has been a widower about a year. His wife was a Miss
Blanch Durrant and belonged to a well-known family
of the Dominion. The wedding of Mr. Mead and Miss
Sadler will take place during the early summer.
It is announced in Washington that the wedding of
Miss Isabel Harrison Glennon, daughter of Com-
mander and Mrs. Glennon, and Lieut. Matthew Arthur
Cross, U. S. A., will take place Wednesday, April 17,
at 12 o'clock at St. Thomas' Church. The engagement
of Miss Glennon calls to mind that the hospitable and
attractive home of the Randolph Harrisons in this City
was the centre of the ultra-fashionable and exclusive
set years ago. Mrs. Glennon, the mother of the bride
to be, is a niece of Mrs. Randolph Harrison. Mrs.
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Glennon was pretty Susie Blair, who was one of a trio
of beautiful cousins, left orphans at an early age. They
were all reared by their aunt, Mrs. Randolph Harrison
of this City. Mrs. Lester, who was fascinating Elsie
Allen, now the wife of Mr. Lester, the attorney, of the
firm of Lester and Drown of this City, was another.
Mrs. Knapp, who was Lily Harrison, now the wife of
Commander Knapp, was the third.
Another member of the Harrison household was
Miss Tazer Harrison, now Mrs. Eberle, the wife of the
well-known navy officer. Mrs. Knapp, Mrs. Glennon
and Mrs. Eberle were not long since resident at Mare
Island, where .they contributed greatly to the social
activity of that place. These three cousins are now
prominent in Washington, D. C, where their husbands
are all at present stationed. These ladies are related
more or less closely to the prominent families of the
Thorntons, Huies, Thompsons, Craigs and Salis-
burys.
* * *
There are several interesting portraits in The Wasp
this week. Miss Geraldine Bonner, whose portrait ap-
pears this week, is the noted California author ; Miss
Marietta Havens is one of the most prominent young
Society women in Oakland ; Miss Mae Lydia Sadler's
engagement to Mr. Mead, the rich iron-master, has
just been announced ; Mrs. B. C. Lathrop is one of the
prominent young matrons in local Society.
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• in Wednesday, Vpril 3d, Miss Ruth McNutt, the
daughter of Dr.' ami Mrs. \Y. F. McNutt, of this
City, was married in Paris to David R. C. Brown, a
wealthy mining man of Denver. Col. Mr. Brown is a
widower, with two grown daughters. He has been in
lovi with Miss McNutt for a long time, and has fol-
lowed her from place to place, persuading her to marry
him. She could not make up her mind, though her
mother was very anxious for the match, it is said.
Miss McNutt at last and rather quickly made up her
mind. She is one of the prettiest girls in Society here.
Two or three years ago announcement was made of
her engagement to an army officer, who belonged to
the well-known family of Fitzhugh Lee. Miss McNutt
went South to visit the family, and upon her return
her friends were surprised to hear of the broken en-
gagement. She never could be persuaded to tell even
her intimate friends why she suddenly broke the en-
gagement. Miss McNutt has been abroad for some
time, traveling with her mother and sister, Mrs. Ash-
ton Potter.
* * *
Amongst the portraits in The Wasp this week is
one of Mrs. Henry T. Scott, which is engraved
from a miniature painted by Airs. Rose Hooper
Plotner. Mrs. Scott, who is very prominent in the
Burlingame social set, is the mother of Mrs. Walter
Martin and Harry and Prescott Scott.
Much sympathy is felt for Mrs. C. P. Pomeroy
and Miss Christine, as Mr. Pomeroy, the well-
known lawyer, is lying dangerously ill at his home
on Bell Avenue, San Rafael. He was attacked with
pneumonia about a month ago and was scarcely out
of danger when jaundice set in. Mr. Pomeroy's
beautiful home on Hyde Street, was burned last
April and since that time Mr. Pomeroy and his
family have been residing in San Rafael. Miss
Christine recently returned from abroad.
* * *
Colonel Kirkpatrick is to give a large dinner to
some of his friends this evening at the Palace Hotel.
The Colonel is a genius for planning a perfect
dinner. In fact Colonel Kirkpatrick does everything
well, and that is one reason why the Palace has
under his regime enjoyed the most enviable repu-
tation as a perfectly conducted hotel of the highest
class.
* * *
The long-talked-of Duck and Dimity dance to be
given by the Sausalito Assembly Club, which will
take place this Saturday evening at the San Fran-
cisco Yacht Club, promises to be an exceedingly
jolly affair. All Sausalito's smart set and many
guests from town will be present. Mrs. Gaston
Ashe and Mrs. Kilgarif have the affair in charge.
The duck and dimity costumes, which are to
characterize the affair this evening, suggest remi-
niscences to the early inhabitants of the ancient
regime in the seaside burg before the water
front fell under the baleful sway of the poolroom
gamblers and the crabfishers. Those were glorious
days. The hill-tribe ruled both politically and so-
cially, and it was a mark of eminent social dis-
tinction to carry a lantern in the gloaming to avoid
tumbling off the main road and landing half a mile
down the canyon in poison oak or mud.
* * *
Miss Helen Chase Scoville, daughter of Mrs.
Helen Gardiner Scoville, was married in New York
on April 2d to Earl Talbot of San Francisco. The
ceremony took place in St. Andrews' Church at
Fifth Avenue and 127th Street. Mr. Talbot is the
only son of Mrs. Amy Talbot of this City. She was
pretty Amy Bowen before her marriage, which
proved a very sad one. Mrs. Talbot's picture, from
a miniature, appeared in last week's Wasp. She is
still a beautiful woman.
* * *
Lieut-Colonel Louis Brechemin, United States
Army, and Mrs. Brechemin announce the engage-
ment of their daughter Lillian to Dr. David H.
Moffat Gillispie of New York. The wedding will
take place in the Autumn. Miss Brechemin has
made many friends while in California. She is an
attractive girl, and like her mother, is a fine vocalist.
Saturday, April 20th, is the date set for the wed-
ding of Miss Jane Wilshire and John Hart Pol-
hemus. The ceremony will take place at four
o'clock, at the residence of the bride's parents on
Buchanan Street, and will be performed by Rev.
Dr. Clampett. Owing to the illness of the groom's
mother, it will be a very quiet affair. Only rela-
tives and intimate friends being present. Miss
Doris Wilshire will be her sister's only attendant.
The bride and groom will pass the Summer in San
Anselmo.
Miss Margaret Gros has gone to Philadelphia to
visit friends, and will rejoin her mother in New
York, whence they will sail for Paris.
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opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOODES
Via Kelseyville P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cal.
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Pholo Gen the
MRS. B. G. LATHROP
Hard Knocks for the Socialistic Fad
In his lecture before the students and professors
of Columbia University, W. H. Mallock has dealt
the Socialistic mania some hard knocks. State
Socialism is condemned as slavery. He said :
"Socialists demand what they call the emancipa-
tion of labor, and by the emancipation of labor they
mean emancipation from what they have been
taught to call wagedom. What this cry means we
are now able to see clearly. It means, if it means
anything, the emancipation of the average mind
from the guidance of any mind that is in any way
superior to itself, or is able to enhance the pro-
duction of an average pair of hands.
"But these very Socialists do not propose that
men shall relapse into the primitive condition in
which each man works with his hands, as best he
can, in isolation. If they are asked for an illustra-
tion of the kind of system which they would in-
troduce if they got their way they invariably refer
us to a State institution like the post-office.
"The intellectual simplicity of the men who argue
thus is astonishing. If all production were organized
like a State post-office there would, it is true, be no
private capitalist ; but would the laborer have
achieved the economic freedom, the emancipation,
which Socialists at present take so much pleasure in
talking about?
"The most ardent Socialist in the world would
very soon join in denouncing the principles of
economic emancipation, if a postman who happened
not to approve of Socialism threw the Socialist's
letters into the river instead of putting them into
his letter box. In what conceivable way, then, has
a postman employed by the State any more econ-
omic freedom than the messengers of a private firm?
Nor, again, does the manner in which the labor of
the State employee is remunerated, and by which
the performance of his duty is secured, differ in any
way from the wage system which prevails in a
private firm. Conformity to the directions given
him by some organizing authority is the condition
of which this remuneration is awarded him ; and
though Marx and his disciples propose to substitute
labor checks for dollars, this is merely the wage
system called by another name."
Mr. Mallock referred to what the latest school of
Socialists, including Sidney Webb and Bernard
Shaw, are proposing as an alternative for the wage
system — to make "an equal provision for all an
indefeasible condition of citizenship, without any
regard whatever to the relative specific services of
different citizens." The rendering of such services,
instead of being left to the opinion of the citizen
with the alternative of starvation, would be secured
under one uniform law, precisely like other forms
of taxation or military service.
"Such, then," said Mr. Mallock, "is the alterna-
tive to the wage system put forward as the last
word of the most intelligent Socialists of to-day
and escape from the wage system, beyond a doubt,
it is; but on escape into what? It is neither more
nor less than an escape into economic slavery. For
the very essence of the position of the slave, as
contrasted with the wage paid laborer, in so far as
the direction- of his industrial actions is concerned,
is that he has not to work as he is bidden in order to
gain a livelihood but that his livelihood, being
assured to him no matter how he behaves himself,
he is obliged to work as he is bidden in order to
avoid the lash or some similar form of punishment."
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It would be very interesting if the Grand Jury
made the saloon keepers tell how much money they
put up to elect Schmitz the last time he ran. It
is well known that $500 apiece was demanded from
many saloon-men and a good many of them paid
the money of which Ruef had the handling. This
must have placed an immense fund in his
possession. How much of it was spent and how
much stuck to the finders of the collectors?
The political sensation of the week has been the
passing of the lie between Harriman and the President.
Mr. Harriman's record in Wall Street, where he has
been well known as boy and man, is that of a person
whose primary thought and action are all for his own
interests. That is no crime, but at the same time it is
no recommendation to the voters of the United States
to believe, that when Mr. Harriman bobs up as a factor
in national politics it is solely for the nation's good,
and not to further his own interests. The Harriman
attack on Roosevelt is for the purpose of breaking
down the influence of the President on the nomination
of his successor. There will be one of the greatest
political battles in American history over Roosevelt's
successor. The Roosevelt policy of interference with
great corporations has antagonized, bitterly, Mr. Har-
riman and many men like him, who believe that it is
their lawful privilege to set themselves above the law
and use the public as their oyster. They will exert
every possible influence to replace Roosevelt by a
President who will relapse to the old order of things,
when the combined might of capital in controlling
national legislation was unquestioned. The people can
be relied upon to defeat this scheme if given the
chance, but there is the rub. They will never get the
chance if the railroad and the other moneyed barons
can control the national nominating conventions and
put up the candidates they want. If the people win at
the next Presidential election, the nation will be on a
better footing than ever before, for all the trusts will
be made obedient to the law. The trusts of capital are
already more docile, and the equally great if not
greater labor trust will at last be crushed and shown
that it cannot violate with impunity the constitutional
rights of the American public.
Because the Building Trades Council, which is an-
other name for P. H. McCarthy, has had a quarrel
with an electrical workers' union, a strike has been
called by McCarthy, and work has been suspended on
the great Fairmont Hotel. Here is another fine object-
lesson to the long-suffering and much-abused business
men of San Francisco.
McCarthy is. a prominent 'member of the Schmitz-
Ruef cabinet, and has generally held one or more
public offices by favor of the chief grafters. He it was
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giver and a health preserver. All druggists.
who presided some months ago at the red-flag meeting
which passed resolutions in favor of the Idaho mur-
derers, and which after adjournment inarched down
Market Street under the red flag and attacked the
police.
Voters of San Francisco should begin to get ready
to put McCarthy and all his political gang out of office
next November.
The news that until further notice mail facilities
with Australia and New Zealand will be cut off is
unwelcome to the people of the United States as a
whole, and to those of California in particular. The
government should make some arrangements for
the continuance of our mail service with the anti-
podes. There is no reason why it should not be
done temporarily by way of Vancouver. The line
from Vancouver to Sydney is supported by Eng-
land and colonial subsidies, and it has temporarily,
at least, knocked out the American line. Of course
our merchants cannot give up the trade that it has
taken so many years to establish and most of that
trade is in American goods. The greater part of
these is Eastern, hence the government has more
than ordinary inducements to prevail upon Congress
to support the line. This is a fact, not a condition,
and in the presence of facts that threaten the very
existence of a flourishing trade, even the most stub-
born opponent of subsidies must needs be silent.
The English line that will for a time at least enjoy
much of this trade is supported by subsidies. The
cost of running American vessels is greater than
that of English, and it is only fair that it should be
made up by a grant of public moneys. The manage-
ment of the line has been hampered by labor
troubles and strikes, and altogether its path has
not been a smooth one.
HARVEY BROUGHAM.
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Skating Carnival
While the Monday Evening Skating Club had a
jolly time at the Fancy Masque Carnival of Monday
evening last, and many pretty and effective costumes
were in evidence, the affair was a bad second to the
recent hal skating masque at San Rafael.
Three startling costumes were the short-socked
babies, who proved to be Miss Mazie Coyle, Miss
Angela Coyle and Miss Ethel Amwig, who had as
escort Oliver Lansing, clothed in the familiar Buster
Brown costume. Late in the evening, Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Newhall chaperoned a party of fifteen boys and
girls in yachting costumes. Alma Newhall being the
captain. Edwin Newhall, Jr., on this occasion dressed
as a young lady. Many girls from San Rafael were in
this party, the Misses Foster, Miss Lanell and others.
Another large party was composed of Miss Marion and
.Miss Jeanette Wright, Miss Betsy Angus, Miss Nino
Curry, Lieut. Anderson St. George Hope. Three light
blue silk dominos that attracted much attention were
discovered to be Mrs. Hanford, Mrs. Selby Hanna and
Mrs. J. M. Gamble. Mrs. Fred McNear, as Mary had
a little lamb, appeared leading a huge toy lamb. The
timid beast not being used to a crowd, the fair matron
was obliged to carry it in her arms all evening. The
clever make-up of Mr. Joseph Carrigan caused quite a
commotion in the early part of the evening. He was
dressed as a trained nurse, and insisted upon doing a
highly effective dance in which he displayed rather too
much of his lower anatomy to suit the prudes in the
grand stand. Tabitha Twiggs remarked it was ex-
tremely indelicate, whereupon another remarked,
"Where did you ever see a young lady possessing such
large ankles, who could boast blue blood in her veins ?"
Miss Lucy Gwin Coleman and Miss Gertrude Bal-
lard were costumed as twins, wearing beautiful red
broadcloth walking costumes, with green velvet col-
lars. A handsome costume worn by Miss Ynez Estu-
dillo, was that of a colonial lady, and Miss Marie
Churchill as Temptation, Miss Lucy Mighell as Sis
Hopkins, Miss Ruth Powers as a student, Miss Mary
Shafter, Syrian fortune teller, Miss Sophie Woods,
Queen of hearts, Miss Marie Rose Deane, a fencing
girl, were all notable figures. Miss Ethel Shorb was
effectively costumed as a tiger lily.
* * *
Soda Bay Springs
This famous Summer resort, which will be opened
for the season on May 1st, is situated on the pic-
turesque shores of Clear Lake in the foothills of
Konocti, or "Uncle Sam Mountain," in Lake
County. It recommends itself to the pleasure-seeker
as well as the invalid. The hotel and cottages
have been thoroughly renovated and will accommo-
date some 150 guests. There is an excellent large
ball room, where "hops" can be indulged in. The
grounds are extensive, having a shore line of two
miles. There are fine bathing, hunting and fishing
facilities. A splendid launch has been built to
order expressly for excursions on the lake. One of
the important feature will be an excellent table with
fresh vegetables and dairy products ; also an up-to-
date club house. Every convenience has been pro-
\ided for the comfort of guests and ;. visit to Soda
Bay Springs cannot fail to remain a pleasant mem-
ory. The route is by way of the Northwestern
Pacific Railroad, leaving the Ferry at 7:30 a. m. I In
alighting from the train visitors tak< automobiles
and arrive at the Springs at 2 p. in., a saving of
nearly three hours over the old journey by stage,
which has been superseded. A round trip ticket,
including train and automobile, and good for six
months, lor $9. Mr. George Robinson and Agnes
Bell Rhoads are the managers.
Dr. Redmond Payne
Eye, ear, nose, throat, resumed practice at 9 1 5 Van Ness
cor. Ellis, hours: 1-3; tel. Franklin 331.
C. H. REHINSTROM
Tailor and Importer
SPRING AND SUMMER STYLES
NOW READY
Formerly of
The Mutual Savings Bank Building
2415 FILLMORE STREET
Telephone West 5769
'JUST A SHADE OIN OTHERS'
Weinhard
The Peer
of Bottle Beer
CALIFORNIA BOTTLING CO.
SOLE BOTTLERS
1255 HARRISON STREET
PHONE MARKET 977
Weinhard is the Delicious Beer served at Cafe Francisco, The
Louvie, Tail's and many other Cafes
£g££S?R>R President's Taste
Macaroni, Vermicelli, Spaghetti
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REACHES ACROSS THE CONTINENT — From the N. Y. World
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Home Work
A little fellow in Altoona, Pa., not long ago
hustled into a grocery with a memorandum in his
hand.
"Mr. Jones," said he, "I want fourteen pounds
of tea at twenty-five cents."
"All right," said the grocer, noting down the sale
and instructing a clerk to put up the purchase.
"Anything else, Tommy?"
"Yes, sir. I want thirty pounds of sugar at nine
cents."
"Loaf sugar? All right. What else?"
"Seven and a half pounds of bacon at twenty
cents."
"Anything more?"
"Five pounds of coffee at thirty-two cents; eleven
and a half quarts of molasses at eight cents a pint ;
two nine-pound hams at twenty-one and a quarter
cents and five dozen jars of pickled walnuts at
twenty-four cents a jar."
"That's a big order," observed the grocer, as he
made out the bill. "Your mother wants it charged,
or do you pay for it now?"
The boy pocketed the bill. "Mother hasn't a
thing to do with this transaction," said he. "It's
my arithmetic lesson, and I had to get it done
somehow."
The Marquis de Favieres, notorious for his im-
pecuniosity, called on a man of means named Bar-
nard, and said :
"Monsieur, I am going to astonish you. I am
the Marquis de Favieres. I do not know you, and
I come to borrow five hundred louis."
"Monsieur," Barnard replied, "I am going to as-
tonish you much more. I know you, and I am
going to lend them."
La Boheme
First Class Italian Restaurant
1558 BUSH ST-
Between Van Neu and Franklin
SPECIALTY: Italian and French Cuisine
FEUX PIANTANIDA. Manaser
Formerly Proprietor of the ORIGINAL COPPA
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BathS Ladies' Department, 8 to 1 2 a. m. week days
REGULAR PRICES
NOW Open 1745 O'Farrell St., near Fillmore
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Grafting in England
The reading public is well aware that crooked
American officials are always trying to muzzle the
press. The reason is that the liberty of the press
in our country is the terror of gratters.
In England there is a goodly share of grafting
too, but the newspapers there are afraid to publish
the facts. The newspapers know- all about it, and
they know who are the grafters, but they do not
dare to expose the situation, owing to the exceed-
ingly strict libel law.
Not so very long ago a certain speech was re-
ported in one of the London newspapers. The
speechmaker was indignant, for neither the subject
matter of the speech nor the circumstances under
which it was delivered were creditable to him, and
he brought a suit for damages on the ground that
the libel laws had been violated. It was not claimed
that the speech was incorrectly reported; indeed it
was admitted that the report was substantially
without error, yet nevertheless heavy damages were
awarded to the plaintiff on the grounds that the
plaintiff's reputation had been injured and that the
publisher could not show that the publication of
the report was of benefit to the public.
Under the English law a boodler cannot confess
and escape prosecution. Some time ago it was
suspected that members of the council of a London
borough had been accepting bribes from contractors
who were furnishing materials and supplies. Detec-
tives were put upon the case and the facts were
run down. Certain of the contractors and Council-
men, confronted with these facts, confessed and
promised to go upon the stand in court and testify
to the truth. In due time one of the guilty men took
the stand as promised, and told the story as agreed.
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He was immediately arrested as a criminal under
the law as it stands, and slated for an early trial.
This chilled the enthusiasm of the others who had
promised to confess, and they changed their minds
promptly and irrevocably. As the prosecution was
thus left without witnesses the investigation was
brought to an abrupt close.
Foreign diplomats are not as much afraid of ask-
ing for a raise of salary as Americans. When James
Bryce was named for English Ambassador to
\\ ashington he declined the honor as he could not
afford to take it at the salary. To make it pos-
sible for Mr. Bryce to accept the place the salary
was raised $10,000. Sir Mortimer Durand, who pre-
ceded Mr. Bryce, managed to save a considerable
part of his salary as Ambassador, but the Durands
gave only one or two formal dinners a year and
lost touch of Washington life so much that Sir
Mortimer lost his position.
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Popular Dining Room
NOW OPEN
91 1-913 O'Farrell St.
Bet. Van Ness and Polk
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PAPER
1 400-1 450 POURTH STREET
TELEPHONE MARKET 3014
Private Exchange Connecting all Departments
STRICTLY BUSINESS
Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
Bond and Stock Exchange
The past week has been a quiet one in bond and
stock exchange circles. A good many of the pat-
rons of the Exchange have been interested too in
Wall Street and have not always been on the right
side of the market. This helps to make things slow.
Spring Valley improved somewhat during the week
— light sales being made at $21.62^. The stock
has not quite recovered from the depression caused
by the resolution of the Supervisors, but it is un-
questionably stronger. Hawaiian 5s. sold at
$102.50. There have been some sales of United
Railroads 4s at $75.50 — a slight improvement on the
past week, but very slight. Alaska Packers sold
in small lots at $41 to $40.50. Associated Oil is
lower, selling at $39.50. California Wine is weaker
— $87 asked. California Fruit finds bidders at
$103.50. There has been very little change in Sugar
stocks but the market as a whole is weak. For
Hawaiian $83 has been bid, so here the market is
strong. Honokaa sold at $10.50. For Hutchin-
son $15.50 was bid and for Paauhau $14.50, and for
Onomea $36. The transactions in these stocks have,
however, been very small for some considerable
time past.
The Mines
The opening of the San Francisco Mining Ex-
change on Monday was quite an event. Chairman
Turnbull had around him quite a distinguished
company and the Board has started on its way with
encouraging omens of success. Meanwhile the de-
velopments in Southern Nevada continue of
greater or less importance.
The sales of mining stock last week were on some
days as high as 500,000 shares. There were few
sales of the more important stocks — for Mohawk
$17.25 has been bid — a slight improvement. Jumbo
was quotable at $3.85 bid, and Red Top at $4.00
asked. Silver Pick sold at $1.25, an improvement.
Goldfield Combination sold at $8.00, so that it had
neither advanced nor retrograded. Florence sold
up to $3.60. Tonopah Nevada did not change, $16
bid. Daisy sold at $2.05. Combination Fractions at
$4.30 to $4.40. Great Bend at $105. Tumbo Exten-
sion at $2.22. Nevada Hills at $3.60. West End
at $1.30. Kewanas at $1.30 to $1.40, and St. Ives
at $1.50. There was a general feeling of improve-
ment all through. There will be a much better
feeling when the labor troubles are over.
Lucky Policy Holders
The Fireman's Fund Insurance Company of San
A Sovereign Remedy
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never fails. Try it. Sold by all Druggists.
Francisco has been floated off the rocks on which it
found itself after the unparalleled disaster of April
last. Almost everybody predicted that this local com-
pany would become a complete wreck, with little left
in the way of salvage. How could it pay such ap-
palling and unprecedented losses, even though known
to be admirably managed? In twelve months it has,
however, paid in cash nearly sixty per cent of its losses,
and in doing so has paid out the enormous sum of
almost eleven million dollars.
It has assessed, and collected from, its stockholders
over two million dollars. This bare statement does
not actually represent what the local company has
done, for it played on policy holders none of the
scurvy tricks of some of the foreign companies. Many
of these scaled down the claims of policy holders
twenty-five per cent before attempting to pay their
losses.
The Fireman's Fund Company appraised its losses
at their face value. Nothing could be fairer or more
liberal, and on that appraisement the company has
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid up Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans on Approved Securities
OFFICERS-- James D. Phelan, Pres.. John A. Hooper, V. Pres., J. K. Moffatt, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Sec'y and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Assl. Cashier, A. E.
Curtis. 2d Asst. Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS A specialty
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in their
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange BIdg.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK
OF SAN FRANCISCO
108-110 Sutter Street
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $693,104.68
PAID UP CAPITAL, $600,000.00
DEPOSITS JANUARY 1. 1907 $3,772,145.83
Charles Carpy, Pres. Arthur Legallet, Vice-Pres. Leon Bocqueraz, Secretary
John Ginty, Asst. Secretary P. A. Bergerot. Attorney
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already paid nearly sixty cents on the dollar in cash,
and besides given stock for the balance. This stock is
rapidly appreciating in value. At the lowest possible
calculation the policy holders of the Firemen's Fund
have already, therefore, fared far better than nine-
tenths of the people who were insured in some of the
so-called "dollar for dollar" companies.
The Fireman's Fund Company is doing a fine busi-
ness and any policy holder who keeps his stock for
some time is likely to make money thereby.
It certainly will be a great triumph for this deserv-
ing company if its policy holders should, in a short
time, have received not only a hundred cents on the
dollar of their full losses, but a hundred and twenty
cents. This would be equal to a payment of ISO per
cent by some of the companies that first scaled down
their appraised losses and then paid from 75 to 90 per
cent of the appraisements.
It seems to have become a matter of local pride in
San Francisco to see the Fireman's Fund Insurance
Company reestablished more firmly than ever, and that
i- now an accomplished fact. The company starts out
again with unimpaired record and ample capital.
Insurance Rates
There is no doubt that in particular cases present
insurance rates add much to the cost of running a
business or handling a property. For frame build-
ings in the burned district from 5 to 8 per cent, is
charged when they are used for dwellings. The dif-
ference is due to location and other circumstances.
Thus an S8000 building costs at the lowest rate $400
a year or $33.33 2-3 a month. Here the rate is
doubled and the additional cost has to be added to
the rent. This without taking into account the
increased cost of building is a sufficient excuse for
the landlord in the districts that were swept by the
fire, but outside of it the rate is $1.00 to $1.40.
Here the increase on an $8000 building would make
a difference of only about $32 or $2.66 a month.
This is not excessive.
Mr. Ryan's Successor
That highly efficient and popular railroad man, the
late R. X. Ryan, has been succeeded by J. J. Geary,
who had been associated with Mr. Ryan since his con-
nection with the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Com-
pany. Mr. Geary is now the acting General Passen-
ger and Freight Agent and had been discharging those
duties for some time as Mr. Ryan's illness was a pro-
tracted one. The loss of his wife, which occurred a
few weeks ago, no doubt hastened the demise of the
able and conscientious railroad manager, whose death
is deplored by a large circle of friends.
The California Insurance Co.
This company which stood the brunt of the fire
so heroically is adding $400,000 to its resources and
should receive the unqualified support of the busi-
ness community. It is a worthy successor of its
namesake the old California, which had so success-
ful a career in past days.
The first thing in the morning, if you need a bracer, should be a tablespoonful of Abbott's
Bitters in an ounce of sherry or a glass of soda. Try it.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT
AND TRUST COMPANY
For the greater convenience of its patrons
has established branches in various parts
of the city. The company
Cordially Invites You
to Open an Account
at any one of these or at the Home Office.
2 per cent interest paid on deposits subject
to check and 3 1-2 per cent on regular
savings accounts.
HOME OFFICE
CALIFORNIA and MONTGOMERY STS.
West End Branch. 1531 Devisadero
Mission Branch, 2572 Mission, near 22d
Up-Town Branch, 1740 Fillmore nr. Sutter
VALUABLES or all kinds
May be safely stored al
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Cor. Bush and Sansome Sts.
Safes to rent from $5 a year upwards
Careful service to customers
Trunks $1 a month
Office Hours: 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The German Savings and Loan Society
526 CALIFORNIA ST., San Francisco
Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, Decetnbei 31, 1906
$2,578,695,41
1,000,000.00
38,531,917.28
OFFICERS -- President, F. TiUmann, Jr.; First Vice-President, Daniel Meyer
Second Viee-President, Emil Rohte; Cashier, A. H. R. Schmidt; Assistant Cashier,
William Herrmann; Secretary, Georae Toumy; Assistant Secretary, A. H. Mullet.
Goodfellow & Eells, General Attorneys.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS - F. Tillmann. Jr.. Daniel Meyer, Emil Rohte, Ittn.
Sleinhart, 1. N. Waller, N. Ohlandt, J. W. Van Berjen. E. T. Kmse and W. S.
MEMBER STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE
MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO MINING EXCHANGE
J. C. WILSON
BROKER
STOCKS AND BONDS Kohl Bldg., 488 California St.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES San Francisco
Telephone Temporary 815
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Will Cause a Boom
i If the Congressional Committee which visited
Panama be not misinformed the Canal will be com-
pleted in eight years and will prove a much less
difficult task than was anticipated-. Its completion
will have the effect of making San Francisco a very
large city and should have an extraordinary effect
on real estate values here.
The Rich Man's Panic
The recent panic in Wall Street like the great
fire which swept San Francisco last year appears to
have been most disastrous to the very rich men. It
isn't every day that such capitalists as John Jacob
Astor, Robert W. Goelet and Cornelius Vanderbilt
are cinched to the tune of between eight and nine
millions of dollars. That is the aggregate of the
losses of these three solid citizens, as appraised by
Wall Street rumors. This rich man's gambling
panic does not seem to have lessened the real
prosperity of the Nation so far.
Building Up the City
Said a bank president last week in answer to the
question "how is the demand for money?" "It is very
great — everybody wants money now. They have
come to the conclusion to build to improve their prop-
erty, and they all want to do it at once. It would take
at least $300,000,000 to carry out their ideas, of which
$100,000,000 will be wanted this year. The Savings
Banks will do all they can to help the rebuilding of
the City, but they cannot do it all."
Will Bank Exchanges Decline
It is intimated in some quarters that bank exchanges
may fall away during the rest of the year. The
reasons assigned for this are the losses by floods and
the completion of insurance payments. But the latter
has been practically settled since the first of the year
and would have made its effect felt in January and
February. These two months were, however, far
ahead of the same months in 1906. It is true the
March record came very close to that of last year, but
the cause can be traced to the effect the Wall Street
panics had on the speculative movement here and to
the interference with business, which the long pro-
tracted storm had caused.
INVESTOR.
A Pretty Souvenir
The Continental Building & Loan Association
has issued a very pretty souvenir in the form of a
card suitable for hanging in a guest room. Mr.
Corbin, the manager of the Association, got the
idea from a friend, who when visiting Scotland
recently, stopped for the night at one of the hos-
pitable homes for which that country is noted. He
was assigned to the spare bedroom at the time of
retiring, and just as he was preparing to put out
the light, his eyes caught sight of this particular
poem hanging by the side of his bed. The words
were so good, the sentiment so pure, and the time
(bed-time) so appropriate, that it made him sleep
sweeter than he had ever slept before. On arising
in the morning he copied the poem and gave it to
Mr. Corbin on his return to America. The enter-
prising manager of the Continental thought it
would be a good idea to send it to his patrons and
so he had it printed in gold and it makes a very
pretty souvenir.
Many readers of The Wasp are no doubt familiar
with the poem :
Sleep sweetly in this quiet room,
Oh thou my honored guest ;
And let no mournful yesterday's
Disturb thy peaceful rest.
Nor let tomorrow break thy rest
With dreams of coming ill,
Dame Nature watches over thee,
Her love protects thee still.
Dismiss the world and all its cares,
Put out each glaring light,
The stars are watching overhead,
Sleep Sweetly then.
GOOD NIGHT.
Germania National Bank
OF SAIN FRANCISCO
IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT THEIR NEW QUARTERS
521 MARKET STREET, Bet. First and Second Streets
SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA
OFFICERS: W. A. Frederick, President; F. Kronenberg, Vice-President;
R. F. Crist, Vice-President; F. Kronenbers, Jr.. Cashier.
Cable Address; Germania
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Stock Exchange
Goldfield, Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET, STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish lo rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE, Pr«.
GAVIN McNAB, Atty.
WM. CORBIN, Sec. and Gen. Mgr.
OFFICES -COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Rooms 7 to 11
Telephone i'mpy. 1415
W. C. RALSTON
Stock and Bond Broker
Member San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
Mining Stocks a Specially
Bedford McNeill
Western Union
Leibera
368 BUSH STREET
San Francisco
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Friday. — Well, dear me ! What silly things young
girls are. One of them was telling today at Mrs.
Shoddy's tea about the lovely time she had at Del
Monte and the awfully nice man she had such a des-
perate flirtation with. Goodness me ! She came right
out with the man's name and kept repeating it, though
I could see the woman that sat next to her kicking her
on the feet to shut her up. When we came away Mrs.
Gayleigh said :
"Did you ever see such a fool as that girl?"
"The idea," said I, "of her talking of such things in
public."
"Yes, and the man's wife was sitting right there,
listening to every word of it. Didn't you see me kick
her. I bet her shins are black and blue. But it didn't
do any good."
"She'll feel mighty cheap when she finds out what
a fool she made of herself," said I.
"Not a bit," said Mrs. Gayleigh. "That kind of a
girl is too full of conceit to have anything like that
worry her. She'll just be tickled to death that she
made some other woman jealous."
Gracious ! I hope that husband gets what's coming
to him. It does me good to see the villains Gripped up
and exposed once in a while. I suppose his wife is a
lovely woman. That's always the way. It's the
reprobates that go around passing themselves off as
gay bachelors and winking at every girl they meet that
have the most devoted and amiable wives. I've noticed
it and that's one reason I've kept from marrying.
Well, goodness me ! How fickle young girls are.
Mrs. Gabbe and Miss Gushwell were in to see me
today. They were telling me all about an Alameda
girl that gave a tea, as everybody thought to an-
nounce her engagement to a nice young man in
Fruitvale. Well what does she do but turn around
and announce that she is going to marry Mr.
Meadow, who is old enough to be her grandfather.
"I suppose the old man is rich ?" I remarked when
Miss Gushwell and Mrs. Gabbe, who were at the
tea, told me all about it.
''He's suspected of wealth, but he mightn't be so
guilty as people think," said Mrs. Gabbe.
Then they went on talking about all the San
Francisco and Oakland people, that have married
f<T money and got badly fooled.
Goodness me! I should think a lot of people's
ears would have burned.
Mrs. Gabbe, who remembers away back to '49,
says that one of the worst cases on record was
when old Colonel Brannigan married the most
beautiful Norwegian blonde in the Mission. She
was pretty enough to make every man on the street
stop and gaze after her, and the old Colonel was
homely enough to stop every clock he looked at.
He was a chambermaid in a livery stable, Mrs.
Gabbe says, before he made a lot of money in
the stock market. Then he bought a mansion on
Nob Hill and used to drive to the matinees in a
coach and four. The style he put on was killing.
Well goodness me! It all amounted to nothing.
Mrs. Gabbe says they rigged up a game on him
in the stock market and took all his money away
and now the beautiful wife is working for her living.
Oh mercy !
Gracious, if I married an old bear for his money
and got fooled I'd feel terrible. But pshaw, I
wouldn't marry the best man that ever lived if he
had millions.
TABITHA TWIGGS.
J. F. Rossi Resumes Business
The many friends and patrons of John F. Rossi,
the well-known and popular merchant will be
pleased to learn that he has entirely recovered from
the serious accident he met with on the fateful
18th of April last. He was incapacitated from at-
tending to any business for many months, but he
has now got into harness again and has opened a
well-appointed and handsome retail liquor store
at his former location on Washington Street near
Front.
"Purity" is the standard under which Mr. Rossi
has made his establishment noted among consumers
of this City for over a generation. He has paid
every attention to the household trade and handles
the celebrated double stamp Belmont Whisky, the
famous Loveland Rye and the Italian-Swiss Col-
ony Wines in addition to the best brands of do-
mestic and imported case goods. At the present
time J. F. Rossi is busy receiving congratulations.
Popular French Restaurant
Regular Dinner 75c
Meals a ta carte at any hour
Private Dining: Rooms
[or Banquets, etc.
497 Golden Gate Ave.
Comer Polk Street
Phone Market 2315
26
-THE WASP
WWMWrtMSfflM
^miiitamama^m^ai»MMM»MM«M»iF:
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
of San Francisco, Cal.
JOTWITHSTANDING its tremendous losses in trie San
Francisco disaster, this veteran company has been restored to
splendid financial strength. Cfllts stockholders have paid into
the company an assessment of over $2,000,000 in cash.
€JAt no time since the San Francisco disaster of April 1 8,
1 906, have its agents or policy holders been left unprotected or uncared for.
fJThrough the medium of a new Corporation, the safety of its outstanding policy
holders has been secured and guaranteed, ^f All losses that have occurred since
the San Francisco conflagration have been paid promptly in full and in cash.
<JThe Company has paid and discharged on account of the San Francisco con-
flagration, the enormous sum of $ 1 0,800,000.00. Being the largest amount
of loss ever sustained by any insurance company in the history of
underwriting. <JThe rehabilitated Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
now presents to its Agents and to the public the following statement of its
financial condition:
ASSETS
Bonds, Stocks, Mortgages and other Approved Securities . . $5,772,374.28
LIABILITIES
Reserve for Additional Dividend to San Francisco Claimants
Reserve for Outstanding Losses
Reserve for Unearned Premiums on Outstanding Policies
Capital Stock paid up in cash
$ 650,000.00
291,653.00
2,702,606.75
1 ,600,000.00
528,114.53
Net Surplus
Total $5,772,374.28
SURPLUS TO POLICY HOLDERS ...... $2,128,114.53
WM. J. DUTTON, President BERNARD FAYMONVILLE, Vice-President
J. B. LEVISON, Second Vice-President and Marine Secretary LOUIS WEINMANN, Secretary
THOMAS M. GARDINER, Treasurer
MMItMMMMMMMMMMilHM^^
THE WASP-
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Automobile News
The $6000 match made by the Pope-Hartford and
i Hdsmobile representatives here terminated by the
latter car reaching San Francisco from Los' An-
geles last Saturday morning, having got through
the fearful roads caused by rain storms and wash-
outs in safety. The Pope-Hartford met with dis-
aster in the Tejon Canyon forty-five miles from
Bakersfield, where the rear axle was badly sprung
and the car was put practically out of the race at
that point. The Elmore car, another entry in the
hazardous race, was stalled several miles in the
rear of the Pope-Hartford car. Thus ends the first
chapter in this much talked of race, the Oldsmo-
bile taking all the honors ami incidentally the cash.
* * *
During last year's selling season the White Co.
manufactured and sold more automobiles by a
liberal margin than any other maker of large tour-
ing cars in the world. This has been the case for
several years past. While they are naturally grati-
fied at this numerical demonstration of the popular-
ity of the White Steamers they take much more
pride in the fact that their cars are purchased by
individuals who are particularly well fitted to make
an intelligent choice. The sales up to the present
time have far exceeded the most sanguine expecta-
tions of the Company and they bid fair to run far
ahead of last season.
For a family auto there is none better than the
White Steamer. Instead of starting with a heavy
crank the White starts, not uncertainty, but posi-
tively, at the flash of a match and three minutes
later, can be on the road. After steam has once
been raised, the car may then be started and
stopped, left standing for hours and restarted at
will. Simplicity pervades it throughout.
* * *
Herbert Dee, of Oakland, was showing his new
Oldsmobile to a number of admiring friends before
the "U Auto" cafe in Oakland last Friday, when a
mild appearing gentleman came up and, after com-
plimenting him upon his car, its racy appearance,
etc., suggested to Dee he heard it was customary
to have a number on the back of the machine and
asked him why he didn't have one. "Oh," said
Dee, "they are not particular over here.- I run that
way all the time." "All right," replied the mild
appearing one, "you may take me down to the City
Hall and tell that little story to the booking ser-
geant." Now, when any one wants to talk to Dee,
they must give their name, address and occupation.
* * *
One of the interesting social events for this
Saturday afternoon is the bridge party to be given
by Mrs. Harry Bostwick at her mother's home at
the corner of Washington and Laurel Streets.
Several guests will come in later to tea at 4 o'clock.
* * #
In Florida
"Are there an)r sharks around here, Captain?"
"I don't know. Never stopped at the hotel."
An interesting exhibition of paintings by Mr.
Walter Cox, including some fine portraits, is now on
view at the Kilby Art Gallery, 1652 Van Ness-
Avenue.
LIQUEUR
Peres Chartreux
CREEN AND YELLOW
Liqueur
Peres Chartreux
The Choicest
After - Dinner
Liqueur
This cut represents the bottle and label
employed in the putting up of the
article since the removal of the
Carthusian Monks from the Monastery
of La Grande Chartreuse in France
to Tarragona, Spain.
At first-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafes,
Batjer & Co., 45 Broadway, New York, N, Y.
Sole Agents for United States.
H. C. RAAP, Manager
Telephone Franklin 588
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 O'FARRELL ST., San Francisco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea, Coffee, Wine or Beer. 1 1 a.
A LA CARTE al all hours.
Regular Dinner 50c
to 2 p. m.
Special Sunday Dinner 75c
\L. CONEY J. HUFF
Kadee Hammam Baths
».
TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Night
GEARY AND G0UGH STREETS
itricdy Fim Class Phone West 3725 J
.ASSIFIED
* "Directory
F SAN FRANCISCO'S
LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES
and PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE.
REVISED AlfG CO&RECTEJd WEEKLY.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Builders' Exchange, 226 Oak St., S. F.
Builders' Association, 96 Fulton St.
ADDRESSING MACHINES.
Elliott Addressing Machine Co., 68 Stock-
ton St.. S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
Bolte & Braden, 105-107 Oak St., S. F.; phone
Park 289.
Cooper Adv. Agency, F. J., West Mission and
Brady sts.
Dake Adv. Agency, Midway Bldg., 779
Market st. Phone Temporary 1440.
Fisher, L. P. Adv. Agency, 836 North
Point St.. S. F.; Phone Emergency 684.
Hadley, M. L., Advertising Agency, 26
Clay st.
Johnston-Dienstag Co., 2170 Post St.,
Tuttle, L. T„ 332 Delbert Block, cor. Van
Ness Ave. and O'Farrell.
Walker, Shirley, Advertiser. Midway
building, 779 Market street, phone
Temporary 1839.
AGENTS— MANUFACTURERS.
Wlrtner, Jno. J., 2330 Vallejo St., S. F.
ARCHITECTS.
Carson, John, Vice-President and
Manager H. C. Chivers, 1627 Sut-
ter St.
Chivers, Herbert C, 1627 Sutter St., S.
F.; Walnwrlghts Building, St. Louis,
Mo.
Curtis John M., 2601 Buchanan St.. S. F.
Havens & Toepke, 611-612 Mutual Savings
Bank.
Reed Bros, Temporary Offices, 2326
Gough St.. S. F.
Thos. J. Welsh, John W. Carey, associate
architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
Gallagher Bros., 2208 Geary st, S. F.
Gump, S. & G., 1645 California St., S. F.
Schussler Bros., 341 Grove St.
ATTORNEYS.
A. Heynemann, 2193 Fillmore St.
Phone West 6405.
Bahrs, George H., 1901 Post st., cor.
Fillmore. S. F.
Campbell, Metson & Drew, 1101 Laguna St.,
cor. of Turk St., S. F.
Dorn, Dorn & Savage, 717 Van Ness
ave.
Drum, J. S., 1416 Post st, S. F.
Dlnkelsplel. Henry G. W., 1266 Bills st,
S. F. PHONE, WEST 2355.
Goldstone, Louis, 1124 Fillmore st
Heller, Powers & Ehrman, Union
Trust bldg.
Hewlett. Bancroft and Ballantine,
Monadnock Bldg., Phone Temporary
972.
McEnerney, Garret W., 1416 Post St.. S.F.
Lawlor, Wm. P., Judge, The Family
Club, 1900 Franklin st., S. F.
O'Callaghan. Chas. F., 928 Fillmore St.,
Pringie & Pringle, 2219 Fillmore st.
Ricketts, A. H. (Title Quieting Co.)
1136 O'Farrell street. Tel. Emer-
gency 788.
Shadburne, Geo., D., 904 Devisadero
St., S. F.
Shortridge, Samuel M., 1101 O'Farrell st,
S. F.
Edward B. Young, 4th Floor, Union Trust
Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temporary, 833.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
Auto Livery Co., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
Boyer Motor Car Co., 408 Golden Gate ave.
Phone, Emergency 655.
Leavltt, J. W. & Co., 441 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F. : 370, 12th St., Oakland.
Lee Cuvler, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
Middleton Motor Car Co., 550 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F.
Mobile Carriage Co., Golden Gate Ave.
and Gough sts., S. F.
Pioneer Automobile Co., 901 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F. ; and 12th and Oak sts.,
Oakland
Karig Auto Co. 1377 Broadway, Oakland.
White Sewing Machine Company,
Market and Van Ness ave., S. F.
BANKS.
American National Bank, Merchants Ex.
Bldg., S. F.
Anglo California Bank Lt., cor. Pine and
Sansome sts., S. F.
Bank of California, 424 California St.,
S. F.
California Safe Deposit and Trust Co.,
cor. California and Montgomery sts.,
S. F.
Central Trust Co., 42 Montgomery st.,
s F
Crocker - Woolworth National Bank,
Crocker Bldg.. S. F.
First National Bank, Bush and Sansome
sts., S. F.
French Savings Bank, Union Trust Bldg.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
Germania National Bank, 621 Market St.,
S. F.; Phone Park 792.
German Savings and Loan Society, 626
California st, B. F.
Halsey. N. W. & Co., 413 Montgomery
St. S. F.
International Banking Corporation, 2046
Sutter street, and 415 Montgomery
Hlbernia Savings and Loan Society,
Jones and McAllister sts.. S. F.
Humboldt Savings Bank, 626 Market st,
S. F.
Mechanics' Saving Bank, 143 Montgom-
ery st, S. F.
Metropolis Trust and Savings Bank,
12 37 Van Ness Ave.
Mutual Savings Bank of San Francisco,
710 Market St., opp. 3d st, S. F.
National Bank of the Pacific, Call Bldg.,
S. F.
Renters Loan and Trust Co., Commercial and
Savings Bank, 115 Hayes Street.
San Francisco Savings Union, N. W.
cor. California and Montgomery sts.,
S. F.
Savings and Loan Society, 101 Mont-
gomery St.. S. F.
Security Savings Bank, 315 Montgomery
St., S. F.
Standard Bank, 1818 Market St., at
Van Ness, S. F.
The Market Street Bank and Safe De-
posit Vault. Market and 7th sts., S. F.
Union Trust Co.. 4 Montgomery st, S. F.
Wells -Fargo Nevada National Bank.
Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
Western National Bank, Powell and
Market sts., S. F.
BATHS
Colonial Baths, 1745 O'Farrell St.
Oriental Turkish, cor. Eddy and Lar-
kin Streets, City. W. J. Blum-
berg & Bro.
BITTERS.
Lash's Bitters Co.. 1721 Mission st, S. F.
BREWERIES.
Albion Ale and Porter Brewery, 1007-9 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F.
Buffalo Brewing Co., 126-129 King at,
S. F.; Phone Main 1010.
National Brewing Co., 762 Fulton St.,
S. F.
Lochbaum, A. H. Co., 125 King St., 8. F. ;
Phone Main 1010.
S. F. Breweries, Ltd.. 240 2d St., S. F.
Rapp, Jno. & Co., Agents Rainier Beer,
8th and Townsend sts.. S. F.
oKIDGE BUILDERS.
Pac. Construction Co., 17 Spear St., S. F.
San Francisco Bridge Co., 623 Monad-
nock Bldg.. S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
Hutton, E. F. & Co., 490 California st.
Rollins'. E. H. & Sons. 804 Kohl Bldg;
Telephone Temporary 163; S. F.
Wilson. J. C. 488 California st. S. F.
Sutro & Co., 412 Montgomery St..
S. F.
Montague. Phil S., 339 Bush St.. Stock
Exchange Bldg.
Zadlg & Co., 324 Bush St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIA-
TIONS.
Continental Building and Loan Associa-
tion, Church and Market sts., 8. F.
BUTCHERS' SUPPLIES.
Pacldc Butchers' Supply Co., 316 Bry-
ant st, bet 1st and 2d sts.. 8. F.
CARPET CLEANING.
Spauidlng, J. & Co., 911-21 Golden Oat*
Ave.; Phone Park SSL
CLEANING AND DYEING.
Thomas, The F. Parisian Dyeing and
Cleaning Works. 1168 McAllister St..
S. F.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
Hub, The, Chas. Kellus & Co., Kin«
Solomon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore
sts.. S. F.
Roos Bros., cor. O'Farrell and Fillmore
sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
Dollar, Robert Co., Steuart street dock.
Johnson Locke Mercantile Co., 213 Sansome
St., S. F.
..la) don ado A Co., Inc., 2020 Buchanan
st, S. F.; Tel. 2830.
The J. K. Armsby Co., The Armsby
Bldg., cor. New Montgomery and How-
ard sts.. 8. F.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Co., 523 Monadnock
Bldg.
Fisher Construction Co., 1414 Post st,
S F
Gray Rros.. 2d st, adjoining W. F. & Co.
Bldg.. S. F.
S. F. Construction Co., A. E. Buckman,
ores. ; A. J. Raisch, sec; 636 Market; Tel.
Franklin 256.
Trounson. J., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176 Ash
Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
Nathan Dohrmann & Co., 1520-1550
Van Ness ave.
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DENTISTS.
Oreian B. Burns. 2077 Sutter St.. West 6736.
Decker, Dr. Chas. W., 1316 Sutter St.
Knox. Dr. A. I.. 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
Morffew 4 Heel. 1766 Pine sL. S. F.:
Tel. West 4301: formerly Examiner
Bldg.
O'ConneM. Dr. Robert E. and Dr. George.
211 Dcvlsadero at, S. P.
Albert S. Vanderhurst, 2077 Sutter St.. West
6736.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
Emporium. The. 1201 Van Ness Ave., S.
F.; Phone West 1361.
Newman & Levison. Nan Ness Ave. and Sutt
O'Connor. Mofflt A Co.. Van Ness Ave.
and Pine St., S. F.
City of Paris. Van Ness Ave and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
White House, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
It, S. F.
ENGINEERS.
.Ulantlc. Gulf & Pacific Co.. 623 Monad-
nock Bldg.. 3. F.
EXPRESS.
Wells. Fargo A, Co. Express. Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Fer-
ry Bldg., and 3d St. Depot. S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
Crescent Feather Co., 19th and Harrison
sts.. 8. F.
FLORISTS AND DECORATORS.
Clels & Jacobsen, 942 Fillmore St.
near McAllister, Phone Park 363.
Frank &. Parodi Co., 1215 McAllister
street, formerly 109 Geary street,
phone Park, 794.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Omey St Goetting, Geary and Polk sts., S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
Carew & English. 1618 Geary St.. bet.
Buchanan and Webster sts.. S. F. ;
Phone West 2604.
Porter & White. 1631 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
FURNITURE.
A. B. Smith Co.. 702 Van Ness Ave..
cor. Turk St., 8. F.
Breuner. John & Co.. 1491 Van Ness Ave.,
Sanitary Bedding House, The, 778-
780 Golden Gate ave., N. B. cor.
Gough. Beds and Bedding ex-
clusively. Tel. Emergency 596.
GAS STOVE8.
Gas Co.. The. Halght and Fillmore sta.,
8. F.
GENTS FURNISHERS.
Bullock & Jones Company, 801 Van Ness
Ave., cor. Eddy sL, S. F.
Hansen and Elrick, 1105-7 Fillmore
St., nr. Golden Gate ave., phone
West 5678.
Roberts & Bayless, Men's Furnishers, 64S Van
Ness Ave., near Turk.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
Alexander- Yost Co., Pine and Polk ata..
8. F.
Baker A Hamilton. 115 Berry at, near
3d; Phone West 3689 and 3690.
Dunham. Carrigan & Hayden Co., office
131-153 Kansas St.. 3. F.
lis, John G. & Co., 827 Mission St.. S. F.
Montague, W. W. & Co., Turk & Polk
sts., S. F.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
Davis, W. & Son. 2020 Howard at, bet
16th and 17th. S. F.
Lelbold Harness and Carriage Co., 1214
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
Korn, Eugene, the hatter, 946 Van
Ness Avenue.
Meussdorffer. J. C. Sons, 909 Fillmore
St.. S. F.
Porcher, J., 715-717 Golden Gate Ave.,
near Franklin, 3. F. ; formerly Odd Fel-
lows Bldg.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
German Hospital, Scott and Duboce
Ave.
Harbor View Sanatorium, Harbor
View, S. F.
Keeley Institute, H. L. Batehelder,
Mgr.; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
McNutt Hospital. 1800 O'Farrell at.
S. F.
St. Luke's Hospital, 26th and Valen-
cia St.
JEWELERS.
Baldwin Jewelery Co., 1621 Sutter al-
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., 3. *.
Bohm, Bristol, Van Ness and Sacra-
mento St.
Glinderman, Win., 1532-1534 Fill-
more, formerly Examiner Bldg.
Shreve & Co.. cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Nes sand Sacramento sts., S. F.
:.AUNDRIES.
Lace House French Laundry. Cerclat &
Co.. propj. : 1047 McAllister at; for-
merly at 342 McAllister; Tel. Park 861.
La Grande Laundry. 234 12th at. S. F.
Palace Hotel Laundry and Kelly Laundry
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Amusements
L. R. Stockwell, one of the oldest
and most popular comedians that has
ever appeared in this City, has been
prevailed upon to once more appear
in one of his favorite roles. Mr.
Stockwell will present "The Cricket
on the Hearth" at the Colonial for
one week, beginning next Monday
night. The star will be seen as Caleb
Plumber and will be supported by
the members of the Colonial Stock
Company. It was in this character
that the late Joe Jefferson achieved
so much success. The production
will be elaborately staged and the
many friends of the veteran comedian
are planning to give him a rousing re-
ception at the opening performance.
"Kreutzer Sonata," the strong Rus-
sian drama which opened so aus-
piciously Monday last, is pleasing
large audiences at the Colonial this
week and will continue to be the at-
traction up to and including Sunday
night, with Saturday and Sunday
matinees. Izetta Jewell does some
exceutionally clever emotional work
as Olga Nevel. A. Burt Wesner
shares the honors with the star.
Frank Bacon does what he is called
upon to do in his usual inimitable
manner, while the balance of the com-
pany are well cast.
* * *
A Tschaikowsky violin concerto,
with Alexander Petschnikoff, the Rus-
sian violinist, as the soloist and with
the accompaniment of the full Uni-
versity Orchestra, will be the particu-
lar novelty of the next symphony
concert, to be given in the Greek
Theatre by the University Orchestra
at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, April
11th. Mr. and Mrs. Petschnikoff will
also play, with the University Or-
chestra, the Mozart Concertante Sym-
phonie for violin and viola, never be-
fore given by any San Francisco sym-
phony orchestra. Only once before
has the University Orchestra partici-
pated in the rendition of a concerto —
a month ago, when Moriz Rosenthal,
the Austrian pianist, was the soloist.
The University Orchestra is to play
also the First Symphony by Schu-
mann. The recent programmes of the
University Orchestra have been de-
voted to ultra modern music — to
Richard Strauss, the bete noire of the
devoted classicist, to Debussy, a rep-
resentat've of present-day French
composition, and to the Slavic inno-
vators, such as Rimsky-Korsagow,
Naprawnik, and Seroflf. This next
programme, with Schumann and
Mozart as its principal composers,
will delight the hearts of those who
love best of all the older masters,
while the addition of a Tschaikowsky
concerto supplies the modern note as
well.
Petschnikoff, as soloist for the day,
will play an Amati, famous among vio-
lins and reputed of extraordinary
sweetness and charm of tone.
On Thursday week — April 18th — the
students of the University are to pre-
sent in the Greek Theatre the stately
Eschylean tragedy, the "Eumenides,"
in the original Greek, with the beauty
and dignity that the columned stage
of the Greek Theatre makes possible.
On Thursday, April 25th, the Uni-
versity Chorus, with the accompani-
ment of the University Orchestra, will
present Rheinbergers Christoforus,
and the present season of concerts and
plays in the Greek Theatre will close
with two more symphony concerts,
on May 2d a symphony cencert with
Hekking, the 'cellist, as soloist, and
on May 9th with a programme wholly
from the works of Richard Wagner
and Richard Strauss, the two moderns
who most have affected recent de-
velopments in the art of music.
She (after accepting him) — "And you
have a rich bachelor uncle?"
He— "Yes."
She — "Mamma is a widow, you.
know."
He— "Well?"
She — -"Can't we induce them to marry
and thus keep the money in the family?"
"In Arkansaw" is ihe play which
is in its second week at Ye Liberty
Theater in Oakland. It is from the
pen of H. C. Cottrell, the stage man-
ager of that play house. The enor-
mous revolving stage of Ye Liberty,
eighty-five feet in diameter, is used
to good advantage in the farm scene. I
Horses, cows, sheep and other farm
animals play a large part in the en-
semble of this scene. William Blair, '
to whom much of the credit for the
staging of this performance belongs, ]
is one of the head men in his profes- I
sion. Altogether the performance is 1
a notable one in the annals of stage j
setting on the coast.
* * *
"Fantana" at the American Theater a
is a very enjoyable performance. By
this I do not mean that the perfor- I
mance I saw on Easter day is a per-
fect production. Far from it. It was I
extremely crude in spots, nor were I
the spots infrequent. At the same
time, the piece has possibilities which
in a few performances should have I
been seized upon by the actors. No j
doubt by now they have done so. )
The comedy element in "Fantana" is I
of the delicate and refined order. 1
There is none of the boisterous slap I
DR. H. J. STEWART
Organist of S;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Sherith Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition.
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
Church Choir
Teacher of Voice, Piano and Organ
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phone
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues-
day and Friday.
MRS. OSCAR MANSFELDT
PIANIST
Tel. West 314 1801 Buchanan Si., Cor. Sutler
William Keith
Studio
After Dec. 1st 1717 California St.
SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE
Attorney-at-Law
1101 O'FARRELL ST.
Cor. Franklin
San Francisco, Cal.
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Races commence al 1:40 p. m. sharp.
For special Irains slopping at ihe tract lake S. P. Ferry,
fool of Market street: leave at 12:00. thereafter every twenty
minutes until 1 :40 p. m. No Smoking in last two cars,
which arc reserved for ladies and their escorts.
Reluming trains leave track after fifth and last races.
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PERCY W. TREAT. Secretary.
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Phone Franklin 653
W. J. BLUMBERG & BRO., Props.
~tick tommy rot which tends to bore
sensible person to tiie utmost
extreme. The lines are original and
bright, anil the few interpellation; by
Teddy Webb do little, if any, harm.
In fact. I think that one of the fun-
niest happenings took place in the
audience. My friend of the itching
palm, Supervisor Gallagher, was pres-
ent and appeared somewhat uncom-
fortable when a reference to the
Grand Jury was made on the stage.
Later on, wdien a fling at Abe Ruef
was indulged in, Mr. Gallagher
quietly withdrew, "Sic transit gloria
mundi." James' $26,250 must have
been in the same frame of mind when
he "put through" the removal of
Keane, secretary „f the Board of Su-
pervisors on Monday. I note in the
"Help Wanted" columns of a local
daily that circus performers are
wanted for a circus going East. "Big
Jim" should obtain a ticket-of-leave
from the Grand Jury and' join the
show as an acrobat. As Raymond
Hitchcock used to sing in "The Yan-
kee Consul": "Isn't it funny what a
difference a few hours make."
* * *
Florence Sinnott, the newly im-
ported soubrette, is the bright par-
ticular star of "Fantana." Dainty
and chic, with a personal charm that
carries from back drop, out over the
footlights to the very lobby, she sings,
talks and dances in a manner that
convinces the auditor that she is the
best as well as the most attractive
soubrette that has ever appeared in a
local production. She is a splendid
team mate for Webb, who has, in
this piece, a role that suits him to
perfection — suits him as no other has
since he played Sammy, the Tiger
in "The Toreador" at the old Tivoli.
Joe Miller, as Henri Pasdoit, the
bogus count, does a clever piece of
character work in this production.
This is also his first appearance here,
but he has a record behind him that
would vouch for his ability, if his
exceedingly clever work in "Fantana"
needed further guarantee.
Miss Beatty possesses a trifle too
much embonpoint to flit girlishly
about as Fantana should, but even at
that her singing is excellent. Carl
Haydn makes a manly lieutenant and
his fine voice is heard to advantage.
Mr. Wallerstedt also acquits himself
with credit.
The musical numbers are all good
but those that stand out strongly are
"Drop in On Me at Luncheon," "The
COLONIAL THEATRE
McAllister near Market Phone Market 920
MARTIN F. KURTIG, President and Manager
All Market Street Cora run direct to Theatre
Week Beginning Monday, April 8
Special Engagement of San Francisco's
Popular Comedian
L. R. STOCKWELL
Supported by the Colonial Stoclc Company in
Cricket on the Hearth
Joe Jefferson's Great Success
PRICES: Evenings, 25c, 50c, 75c. $1.00; Satur-
day and Sunday Matinees, 25c and 50c. BARGAIN
MATINEE, Wednesday, all scats reserved, 25c, Branch
Ticket Office, Kohlcr & Chase's, Sutter and Franklin
Streets.
Monday, April 15, "Love's Tournament"
DR. WM. D. CLARK
Office and Res.: 2554 California St.
San Francisco
Hours — 1 to 3 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.
Sundays — By appointment
Phone West 390
Contracts made with Hotels and Restaurants
Special Attention given to Family Trade
Established 1876
THOMAS MORTON & SON
Importer of and PA A I
Dealers in \*\Jrll-
N. W. Cor. Eddy and Hyde, San Francisco
Phone Franklin 397
Wichman, Lutgen & Co.
Formerly of
29-31 Battery Street. S. F.
Cor. Everett and Tarrison Avenue
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Farewell Waltz," "Darby and Joan,"
"My Rickshaw of Bamboo," and "Just
My Style." Thfs last, by the way, is
a melody that has become the rage
of two continents. Yes, taken all in
all, "Fantana" is well worth seeing.
¥ * *
Joe Cawthorne defies the theory
and practise of Dr. Osier. His youth
and the puppyhood of Heck are al-
most synonymous. He reminds me
of a progressive jack-pot that rises
from jacks to aces and back again.
I have seen him in all roles from
near-minstrelsy to Mother Goose, and
now, lo and behold! the festive
Joseph blooms like the century plant
as a recurrent star of comic opera.
Of "The Free Lance" Joe is the
whole show. Miss Nella Bergen and
the others are "also rans;" but Joe
is "IT." When he is "on stage" "The
Free Lance" moves. Exit Joe, and it
droops. Sousa's music, however, is
Sousaesque- enough to give the piece
an individuality that makes attend-
ance worth while.
* * *
Barney Bernard seems to have
patched up his differences with Kolb
and Dill so a revival of "Fiddle-de-
dee" holds the boards at what The
Call terms, ham Davis' firetrap. With
due deference to The Call's sinister
forebodings as to the ultimate fate
of Davis' patrons, "Fiddle-de-dee" is
quite as amusing as it ever was and
I would just as soon risk a singeing
to see the show. I wonder if The
Call would be as pessimistic if Davis
restored his patronage to the adver-
tising columns of Mr. Spreckels' jour-
nalistic experiment.
"The Love Route" at the Alcazar
is a pretty play, prettily staged and
acted.
* * *
The Orpheum keeps up the stan-
dard of its attractions to the high
level set since its removal down town.
* * *
Match games of roller polo' are
the chief attraction at the Auditorium
Rink these days. As a skating place
for ladies in the day time the rink
maintains its great popularity.
* * *
The baseball season reopens toaay
at the now grounds at Fifteenth and
Valencia btreets. The district has
been greatly improved since the fire.
A new theater is being constructed
in this locality also.
"THE FIRST NIGHTER."
ti
T0Y0 KISEN
KAISHA
(Oriental Steamship Co.)
Have Opened Their Permanent Offices at
Room 240 James Flood Building
San Francisco
S. S. "Hongkong Mam"
Wednesday, April 10, 1907
S. S. "America Maru" (calls at Manila) . .
Friday, May 3, 1907
S. S. "Nippon Maru" (calls at Manila) . . .
Friday, May 31, 1907
Steamers will leave wharf, comer First and Brannan Sts.,
I P. M., for Yokohama and Hongkong, calling at Hono-
lulu, Kobe, (Hiogo), Nagasaki and Shanghai, and con-
necting at Hongkong with steamers for Manila, India, etc.
No cargo received on board on day of sailing.
Round- trip tickets at reduced rales.
For Freight and passage apply at office, 240 James Flood
Building. W. H. AVERY, Assistant General Manager.
Peter Bacigalupi & Son
Headguarters for Talking
Machines, Records
and Supplies
1113-1115 Fillmore Street, San Francisco
Albion Ale or Porter
Is a Greal Flesh Builder, Tonic and Pleasant
Drink. Pure F-xtract of Malt and Hops.
BURNELL & CO.
1007-1009 Golden Gate Ave., Near Laguna St.
Dr. WONG HIM
1268 O'Farrell St.
Permanently Located
HERB DOCTOR
Father and Mother
Write Letter In-
dorsing Treatment.
SAN FRANCISCO
March 23. 1906
To Whom it may
r Concern: Our three-
year- old daughter,
having been ill for
some time and being
treated by the most prominent physicians,
gradually became worse, and was finally
given up by them. We were then recom-
mended to Dr. V/ong Him. We started
with his treatment and within two months'
time our daughter was cured.
Respectfully,
MR. AND MRS. H. C. LIEB,
2757 Harrison St., San Francisco
Volume LVII-No. 15
SAN FRANCISCO. APRIL 13, 1907
Price 10 cents
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Address, JAMES F. FORSTER, Business Manager.
Telephone Market 316.
Plain English
The defeat of Mayor Duune in Chicago was an
awful blow to Socialism, Hearstisrn and the labor-
unionism in polities. All were combined to re-elect
the Mayor, who went into office on the issue that the
people should own the public utilities. Socialism has
had set-backs in every direction during the past twelve
months. Germany, where it has been on the increase
for years, gave it a kick. Hearst met his Waterloo in
New York, and now Chicago, the hotbed of anarchy
and the worst governed municipality in the civilized
world, San Francisco not excepted, has defeated
Mayor Dunne and elected a Republican Mayor, who
is pledged to oppose nearly every ism the defeated
Democratic candidate stood for.
The American Federation of Labor aided Mayor
Dunne to the fullest. The day before the election,
Emmet T. Flood, the general organizer of the Federa-
tion, published the statement in the leading Chicago
newspapers that "all the union labor men of Chicago
are with Mayor Dunne. They will vote for him almost
■to a man."
places which employed only union labor, and Mayor
Dunne got overwhelming majorities. Despite the
strong support given him by the union labor poli-
ticians, however, and apparently of the members of
labor unions. Mayor Dunne was defeated in a most
decisive manner.
The unavoidable inference is that in the city of Chi-
cago, strong union labor city though it be, the unions
cannot elect a mayor unless they are aided by other
citizens not enrolled in the American Federation of
Labor.
A moment's reflection will show that the union labor
vote of America, unaided, is but a puny force in any
great political contest where the American people may
be fully aroused to go to the polls and express their
preference. The Ml membership of the American
Federation of Labor is only a million and a half, and
fifty per cent, of these members are foreigners who
have no votes. There are ten millions of people en-
gaged in agriculture alone, and none of them belong
to the Federation of Labor.
In this great nation of eighty millions of people,
the political strength of the Federation of Labor is
insufficient of itself to accomplish much. It has been
so skillfully handled, however by shrewd politicians
that the American public overrates the strength im-
mensely, the strength of the organization, and gives it
credit for victories that it has never won.
We have had a fine example of this in San Fran-
cisco, where the Union Labor party of itself has cast
over eleven thousand votes, and yet has been accred-
ited with electing Sehmitz three times, though in any
year when only two candidates ran, it required thirty
thousand vote's to give a majority. How could the
Union Labor party of eleven thousand citizens give
Sehmitz thirty thousand votes ? It never did. Other
interests and influences were exerted for Sehmitz and
helped to make up his majority, and the Union Labor
party got the credit of a victory it could never have
won.
Straw votes were taken in many factories and other
We now hear a great deal in San Francisco about
the thousands of mechanics who are coming here, at-
tracted by the high wages, and we are told that at the
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next election their votes will be potent to elect all
the Union Labor candidates that may be nominated.
There is more exaggeration and bluff than plain truth
in such statements. Workingmen are coming here in
great numbers, itfis true, but a large majority of them
are foreigners. 'A visit to any large building in
course of construction will show you how numerous
are the alien tradesmen.
The other day I desired to speak with the superin-
tendent of a prominent construction company and
asked half a dozen carpenters if they had seen him
around the building. The men were all Swedes and
Germans and most of them could speak but little
English. A very intelligent young American laborer,
who in appearance and speech was far superior
to the mechanics around him, gave the informa-
tion I required. This man spoke like a person of edu-
cation, yet he was performing the commonest drudgery
for $2.50 a day, while the foreign mechanics were paid
from $5 to $6 a day. Everywhere in this city you can
find similar instances. The foreigner is the highlv
paid building mechanic who belongs to the union, and
the educated American is handling the shovel or pack-
ing boards on his back to the carpenters, and glad to
do it for enough to keep body and soul together. When
it comes to election day, the union labor politicians
who want City Hall jobs cannot vote the foreign
mechanics, and they are by no means sure of the
American laborer's vote. He may have intelligence
enough to reflect that when he was a boy and might
have learned a trade, he was prevented by rigid union
rules that exclude American boys from the constitu-
tional right to enter any workshop as apprentices, and
thus fit themselves for the struggle of life.
Before many years, the fathers and mothers of
America will become fully aroused to the great crime
against the youth of our nation which prevents them
from learning good trades and forces them into the
ranks of degraded labor, or else makes loafers and
criminals of them.
Not every young man without a trade and with only
a common school education to rely upon can become a
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BRIDGE-From N. Y. Life
-THE WASP-
nk president or a captain of industry. The average
mill, deprived of a trade ami left to hustle in the
nUs of common manual labor, stands an excellent
an if becoming a hobo in his youth, a member of
■ mty poorhouse in his age, ami a truant of the
itter's field when death ends lii.s wretched career.
AMER1CUS.
City lie brought considerable of the atmosphere
along with him."
Wasp Portraits
Among the portraits appearing in this week's
Wasp are the following well known society ladies
and prominent members of the "Colonial Dames"
Mrs. Selden S. Wright, .Mrs. Walter D. Mansfield.
Mrs. Arthur Dudley Cms*., Mrs. F. liurke Holladay,
Mrs. Louise Wright McClure, Mrs. S. W. Bolliday.
Mrs. Seldon S. Wright the president of the
Colonial Dames is one of the most remarkable
women in the country. Though the great grand-
mother of a boy old enough to be named for an
appointment to Annapolis, she is as bright mentally
and as alert physically as a woman of forty.
Mrs. Siebe whose portrait appears this week is
one of the handsome young matrons of this City.
Miss Frances Wilson whose picture appears in
this week's Wasp is a talented member of the
Mansfield Club, who has distinguished herself by
her wonderful musical ability.
Hugh Hume has exemplified an old adage "once
a newspaperman always one." Hugh is now publish-
ing in Portland a weekly journal called "The
Spectator." It is a first class publication, well
written, well printed and deserves the hearty sup-
port of the city where it is issued and which never
before could boast of such a journal.
Scene the Park Hotel. Alameda. E. K. Taylor
the newly elected Mayor is seated at dinner. Enters
in hot haste an election badge pinned to a man who
dashes up the Mayor grabs his hand and while try-
ing to shake it off his body proclaims :
"Well, we didn't do a thing to 'em, eh? Snowed
'em under, well I guess yes."
All the guests stare in open-eyed astonishment
for none of them knows the boisterous statesman,
who seems desirous to be regarded as the Hotspur
of the campaign just closed.
While guesses are being swapped all round as to
the newcomers identy a quiet individual in a corner
remarks to his friend :
"That chap — Oh that's Ruhlman — never heard of
him? Well, that's strange. Lindholm & Co., the
Frisco furniture people could tell you all about
him."
"He seems to have been quite a factor in the
campaign judging by the way he talks to the new
Mayor" replies the 'friend.
"He must have been inasmuch as he's only four
months in the State and it takes a year's residence
in California to vote. But then he's from Chicago.
"His manner is quite breezy."
"Yes — when he packed his grip in the Windy
"Little Billee" Wright — or W. Spencer Wright, as
his professional and proper name is — is making good
in Xew York as all his friends here expected he would.
He is still working for the Paul Elder Company and
his letter-designs and illuminations are winning him
praise and. what is better, sheckels. Wright belonged
to the Coppa clique of artists and had his studio in
the same building in Merchant Street where Mrs.
Mersfelder and others were housed. Like them, he
lost all his belongings, but did not lose his courage
and talent. Wright is the younger sou of Ben C.
Wright, for many years church editor of the Bulletin
and later of the Chronicle. His brother Allan is a
lawyer and prominent in Society. The Wrights' home
on Gough Street was spared by the fire but was
slightly injured by dynamite.
lust as all was in readiness for the wedding of
Miss Anita Harvey to Oscar Cooper on April 17th
words comes from New York of the illness of the
young lady. I hear that she has undergone the
mastord operation for the ear and is not expected
to be able to leave the hospital for at least a month.
The wedding has therefore been postponed in-
definitely.
Gumps for Art
They have been making numerous improvements at
Gump's store at 1645 California Street, near Van Ness,
and it is now as attractive to admirers of art as was
the famous old place on Geary Street before the fire.
The result of Alfred Gump's business trip to Europe
is visible in many ways in the new store, as the firm
is continually seeking the latest and best to be found
in he studios and ateliers of the old world. In Orien-
tal art goods, too, Gump's is unrivalled. The claim of
his firm to be the only western one to encircle the
globe in research for the finest in art is eminently cor-
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MRS. E. BURKE HOLLADAY
General Mae Arthur's transfer from the command of
the Pacific division to Milwaukee was by his own re-
quest. The General found it impossible, while dis-
charging the manifold duties of commander ?in-ehief
of the important military division with headquarters
at San Francisco to carry out his cherished scheme of
completing the elaborate report he was charged to
make by the War Department upon the results of his
long trip of inspection in the Orient. The preparation
of this elaborate report, it is thought, will occupy the
remaining years of the General's active service, and,
as things are moving fast in the Orient just now, the
report may be ancient history by the time it is ready.
The General is an able man, but almost too conscien-
tious.
By the way, when the General does retire, he will
buy a home in Milwaukee, his native city, and remain
there for the remainder of his life.
* * *
The popular Mrs. Duneen Draper, of Lexington,
Kentucky, before leaving Santa Barbara the other
day for her home, gave a tea to Mrs. Chauneey Wins-
low of San Francisco. Mrs. William Miller Graham,
Mrs. Harry Dater, Jr., and Miss Bisphem poured tea,
and about one hundred women and men dropped in,
Governor and Mrs. Herrick of Ohio being among the
number. Mrs. Winslow also shared the honors at a
dinner given the same evening at the Potter by Miss
Bispham, of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Harold
Richardsv/n, Governor Herrick and Mrs. Herrick being
the honored guests. Other affairs have been given for
Mrs. Winslow, and still others are planned.
William A. Dunlap, whose engagement to Miss Lav-
ender Byers, a fascinating manicure artist connected
with a New York fingernail studio, occasioned such a
thrill along Broadway, is not the famous hatter, but
the famous hatter's son. There is big money in hats.
Young Mr. Dunlap, at 36 years, finds himself, thanks
to his dad, a large Nevada mine owner and all sorts of
a bondholder. He has had previous experience in
matrimonj^. Twelve years ago he married Miss Lulu
B. Freer of Monticello, New York, after a brief but
romantic courtship, and kept dark the secret of his
wedding for months. The happy pair quarreled, as
happy pairs that romantically marry will sometimes
do.
The second choice of the famous hatter's son is of
the Gibsonesque type, under eighteen, tall and slender,
and was born in Hackneydown, England. The major-
ity of immigrants from England are either the sons of
noblemen and country squires or the daughters of dis-
tinguished clergymen of the Episcopal church. Miss
Byers' family, too, can boast of aristocratic connec-
tions, and, as it is highly fashionable in the smart
London set just now to earn one's own living, she
became a manicurist in a Broadway shop. Male pa-
trons nocked to the place and laid their hearts on
her table, so to speak, but it took the wnirlwmr1 court-
ship of the hatter with the famous name to win the
prize. He had his nails manicured on a Thursday
and feasted his eyes for the first time on the fair
English girl, while the owner of the shop deftly
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the western edge of civilization, we must have set up
a pretty high standard of artistic merit or else the
glorious climate forces talent.
The Eastern papers are making a great fuss over
the engagement of young Westinghouse, of Pittsburg,
t«i Miss Evelyn Violel Brocklebank, the daughter of
Sir Thomas ami Lady Brocklebank, of Liverpool, Eng-
land. The young man is the son of the noted Westing-
house, of electric motor fame, and belongs to Pittsburg,
that city famous f ir smoke, millionaires and scandal-
ous divorces. Young Westinghouse got an attack of
typhoid fever, which is quite natural in Pittsburg, and
his English fiancee, like the heroine of a novel, flew
across the Atlantic to his bedside. Pittsburg went
into ecstaeies and the smoke-grimed citizens read little
for weeks but romances about the first meeting of the
ironmaster's son and the Liverpool millionaire's
daughter. Happily, everybody survived it, and,
though the strain must have been awful on the men-
tality of Pittsburg, the crop of divorce, and murders
was no larger than usual for the month. Mr. Westing-
house, it is pleasant to relate, is well again and Miss
Brocklebank has recrossed the seas and is safe once
more with her distinguished parents at "The Hollies,"
outside Liverpool, which in several respects is pretty
nearly as undelightful a town to live in as smoky
Pittsburg. The wedding is to take place next year.
# * *
C. D. Robinson, the well-known artist who had the
distinction of being one of the few artists in town
who painted the fire as it went on, is now engaged in
painting an enormous picture of the fire to be sent
East and to Europe for purposes of exhibition.
wielded her files and scissors on his digits. Next day
he called again, and once more fell into the wrong
hands. On Saturday he came determined to win, and
dashed straight to Miss Byers' table. His fingers hav-
ing been manicured, he prolonged the joyous moments
by having his face massaged, and when he paid his
check he had progressed so far that the high-born
manicuress had consented to take supper with him.
Over that feast of love he proposed marriage. Miss
Byers being under age, the consent of mamma had to
be asked. The good woman, though taken aback by
the suddenness of the request, was equal to the emer-
gency, and after she gave her blessing she clinched
matters by telling the secret to some close friends,
who at once rang up the newspapers. So the amorous
hatter, who had planned to keep the affair very dark,
got even more of a surprise than his Broadway friends
when they read all about it next day.
^ # #
Gordon Ross, who did such clever work for the
Sunday Chronicle, and who resided with his pretty
wife and interesting little girl in Sausalito, is drawing
for the Xew York Times and making a fine reputation
in the matropolis. Every artist and writer who has
been accounted a good one here and has moved to New
York, has scored a success in that larger circle. In
fact, some of those who have been considered rather
mediocre in San Francisco have done well in the me-
tropolis. All of which proves that for a raw town on
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■THE WASP
The death of Florence Uhlhorn Duprey was not a
surprise to her friends who knew that she had been dy-
ing of cancer for several years. She was a full
sister to Mrs. Ashton Stevens and half sister to Ger-
trude Atherton. They were three very handsome sis-
ters. Eugene Duprey, her husband, died about a year •
ago. She leaves one little daughter. The Uhlhorn
family is one of the best known in New York City
and she was related through her father to many of
the old Dutch families. On her mother's side she
was the grand-daughter of Stephen Franklin, and the
great great grand niece of Benjamin Franklin.
Mrs. Duprey was married twice. Her first husband
was Jack Craig, who belonged to a good family here.
He was what is popularly known as a "good fellow"
and like many others died young and not in the best
of circumstances. He was a wonderful penman and
in his adverse condition was tempted to put the name
of the late Irving M. Scott to a check. Mr. Du-
prey was also married twice. His first wife was a
Miss Hiller, a member of a very well-known family.
The couple were divorced after living many years
together and rearing a family.
The marriage of Miss Ruth McNutt and Mr.
Brown marks a union of June and December. The
groom is very rich. The McNutt family have con-
tracted several wealthy marriages. Maxwell McNutt
married one of the rich Treadwell girls, and "Mamie"
McNutt, as she is called, married Ashton Potter, the
son of Howard Potter of New York, and brother
of James Brown Potter. Ashton Potter came here
as a lieutenant of the United States Army on the way
to Manila and fell in love with Miss McNutt. The
handsome young lady and her mother accompanied
by Mrs. Robinson Reilly went to Manila and there
Lieutenant Potter and Miss McNutt were married.
The bride's health suffered in the climate of the Philip-
pines and she came back after a residence of a year
or so much altered in appearance from the handsome
girl she was when she left San Francisco. Military
life, with its changes from one post to another, did
not please young Mrs. Potter, and she insisted that
her rich husband should resign. It is a tradition
around the posts that she absolutely refused to know
army people and she wondered what they meant by
calling on her. Miss Ruth McNutt, who went to
see her sister at one of the posts, met Fitzhugh Lee,
the son of General Lee, fell in love with him, and
against the wishes of her family, became engaged to
him. However the engagement did not last very long
and was broken. There seemed to be no hard feel-
ings over the matter however, as the McNutts enter-
tained Fitzhugh Lee's mother when she came out here
about two years later. The Lees like many distin-
guished Southern people, have more family pedigree
than wealth. Miss McNutt's marriage to Mr. Browne
is eminently satisfactory to Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Mc-
Nutt. Mrs. Brown will pass her time between Denver,
New York and Europe, for Mr. Brown is an English-
man and travels a great deal.
Dr. H. J. Stewart, whose mass was the feature of
the Easter services at St. Dominic's, is an example
in pluck and ambition. He once showed his love
for his adopted city by resigning a lucrative post
as organist ■ in one of Boston's big churches ; his
heart called him back to San Francisco. He showed
it again when, after the destructive 18th of April
he found himself homeless and despoiled of his
accumulations of more than two-score years, he yet
would not leave for more cheerful work-fields which
beckoned him with gold-lined, welcoming hands.
Lots of others, in his place, after such heavy losses
in earthquake and fire, would have shaken the dust
of the strickened city from their oxfords with a
murmured "23." Dr. Stewart wasn't built that way.
He was the first burnt-out musician, I believe, to
come over here and establish himself in a studio
near the ruins. This mass is the first work he has
had publicly performed since the calamity, all his
other manuscript compositions having been de-
stroyed.
* * *
I have often wondered, by the way, why those
bright comic operas, three of them, that Dr. Stewart
wrote to librettos by respectively Dan O'Connell,
Peter Robertson and Clay Greene, should never
have made fortunes for their authors and composer.
"Bluff King Hal" was a big success as presented by
the amateurs of the Bohemian Club, with Mrs.
Grace Dickman and Mrs. Mary Wyman Williams in
the cast, and so was "His Majesty" which was later
given a long season at the Tivoli, with Gracie
Plaisted, Tillie Salinger, Ferris Hartman and other
brilliant singers. The third ran for quite awhile at
the Grand Opera House, presented by the South-
well Opera Company. Why were they never pushed
to financial profit in the East and Europe? It seems
a pity that so much wit and melody should have
been wasted upon purely local audiences.
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-THE WASP
The tea given by the A. \V. Fosters' was, as is
usual with the Marin County carl and countess
when they dispense hospitality, a most democratic
affair. Mrs. Foster is a lesson to snobs i'>r she never
neglects an old friend, whatever her social standing,
v. hen she sends out invitations for a [unction. The
consequence is that there is plenty of cheerful
converse and an entire lack of Stiff formality. All
the Foster children have been brought up to be
nice to everybody and not to reckon lack of bank
account and stylish clothes against anybody when
it comes to shaking hands. They are a perpetual
rebuke to the snobbish Burlingamites and some of
their own neighbors in San Rafael, whose names
1 need not particularize.
* * *
Harry Stetson, whose engagement to Miss
Harvey, the younger of Downey Harvey's
daughters, is at this time of writing daily expected to
be announced, has always been regarded as one of the
most elusive bachelors in Society. He was once
popularly supposed to be the fiance of Miss Ella
Hobart, because of a mutual taste for tennis and
Gibson pictures, which made them constant com-
panion-, but Miss Hobart married Charlie Baldwin,
and that rumor had to die the death. Then it was
thought that he and Miss Olive Holbrook might be
a happy pair, but again the marriage of the lady to
another quashed the report. Harry Stetson is an
all-round athlete, a fearless polo player, agile at
tennis and golf, and great at steering a motor-car.
He is rich and, though not handsome, is dis-
tinguished looking. He has the qualities that please
women, and there is more than one society girl who
envies Miss Harvey.
* * *
A. A. McCurda, who has just been appointed
president of California College in Highland Park,
is as well-known in musical as in educational
circles, though the papers in mentioning his appoint-
ment did not touch on his musical accomplishments.
He belongs to a prominent quartet and is choir
leader in the First Baptist church.
* * *
James Graham Stokes, the New York multi-mil-
lionaire, who married the Jewish cigarette worker,
Rose Pastor, it' is said will soon visit California.
He comes of the eccentric Stokes family, which is
not content with living the life of the conventional
New York smart set. One of them is a clergyman,
one is the owner of fast horses. One of the girls
married a settlement worker, and James Graham
Stokes, who is a Socialist, has passed years in the
New York settlements. Curiously enough, after
he married a daughter of the people he gave up his
life in the settlements, and many are wondering if
it was not the daughter of the people who tired of
living so close to the soil, for he for many years had
chosen that life as his. Air. and Mrs. Stokes and
Mr. and Mrs. English Walling (Anna Strunsky) are
great friends and lived together in the same settle-
ment in New York.
* * *
The dance for young people \yhich Mrs. Charles
Slack. Mrs. Martin and Mrs. de Pue arranged to take
place last week at the Paris Tea I ,arden, was a delight-
ful affair, and the participants who have not yet made
their formal bow to Society enjoyed themselves thor-
oughly. A dainty supper was served after the dance
\mong those present were Miss Ruth Slack. Miss
Edith Slack, Miss Klva de Pue, Miss Helen Smith,
Miss Eleanor Marcin. Miss Natalie Hunt. Paige Mont-
eagle. Alan Van Fleet, Herbert ( iould, Eyre Pinckard,
and others.
Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann is to give a dinner to
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Phelps Stokes, the Socialistic
apostles who have come to the ultimate West. In
deference to the tastes of the guests, who are supposed
to be keen on the simple life, the dinner will not be
on the scale of magnificence for which Mrs. Mann is
justly famous. Mrs. Mann's father, the late Win.
S. Gage, and the father of Mrs. Stokes were, I believe,
old friends in New York, if not relatives.
* * *
Two well-known young ladies left last week for the
East and Europe, the Misses Helen and Virginia
Gibbs. Mrs. Paul Bancroft made them the motif for
a large card party just prior to their departure.
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Lady Mary Ward, who has been in New York dur
ing the Lenten season, has been the recipient of no end
of attention on the part of the smart set, who have
entertained her continuously, though quite informally,
at luncheons and theater parties. She is here with her
husband, the Hon. Bobbie Ward, who is the younger
brother of Lord Dudley, former viceroy of Ireland.
With the party, which arrived in this country some
weeks ago, came the Hon. Robert's sister, Lady Wol-
verton, and Lord Wolverton.
Lady Mary is a granddaughter of the Duchess of
Devonshire by her first marriage to the Duke of Man-
chester. She is a disciple of the severe in clothes
rather than the ornate. At the opera, where she was
entertained many times, she wore on one occasion a
simple white satin princess and very few jewels. In
company with Miss Gladys Mills one morning on the
avenue, she was. dressed in a tailor-made royal blue
broadcloth, with a short jacket and walking skirt,
trimmed only with broad black braid. Her picture
hat of dark blue velvet was trimmed high on one side
with coquel plumes.
♦ * *
The Princess Chimay's romance has been in a
measure repeated by the elopement of the Hungarian
Countess Vilma Testetics with a Gypsy fiddler, who
fascinated her by his wild hair and his playing in the
orchestra of a cafe chantant in Munich. The father of
the Countess, it is said, offered the Gypsy fiddler
$5,000 to stop his love-making. The whole bunch
should come to this country and exhibit in the dime
museums. A count from Hungary who has $5,000 to
throw away on anything, or a gypsy fiddler who could
reject an offer of $5, much less $5,000, are amongst the
wonders of the twentieth century.
* * *
Worthy of imitation was the secret philanthropy of
the late Sir Frances Tress Barry, an English member
of Parliament, who for twenty-three years sent a
bright new silver sixpense on Christmas to every child
in the London poorhouses and poorhouse schools.
The money was sent anonymously to Henry Labou-
chere, the editor of the London weekly paper Truth,
and with the contribution came regularly a five-pound
note to pay the cost of distribution. Labouchere
wished to thank the donor personally, ^ut never dis-
covered his identity until it was revealed by the phil-
anthropist's death. Of late years the gift had been
sent to 11,000 children. So in the twenty-three years
his veiled charity must have cost him at least $25,000.
No doubt he got much more than the worth of it in the
satisfaction that came of a good deed.
M. Bonnat, the great French portrait painter who
has just completed a portrait of President Fallieres,
is now seventy-four years old and says that this is the
last portrait he shall paint. He says he has earned a
little rest. He has painted all the Presidents in suc-
cession except MacMahon and Casimir-Perier. Our
great local painter, Wm. Keith, is pretty nearly as
old as Bonnet, and so far from seeking rest, his
friends have to put weights on him to keep him from
working day and night. Such a glutton for work
was never heard of. It is his pleasure and pastime,
and, as in most men of that temperament, abides to
the end.
The famous old masters were called prodigious
workers and turned out innumerable pictures. Of
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-THE WASP-
MRS. SELDEN S. WRIGHT
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modern painters who attain great fame, the most pro-
lific, perhaps, was Turner. He left a \ery large col-
lection of paintings and sketches, which netted an
immense sum. Keith had several thousand paintings
and sketches piled up when the fire swept through his
studio last April. While the collection was still blaz-
ing, the veteran painter, who had been driven from
San Francisco by the flames, had resumed work in
his other studio in Berkeley. This is a record for in-
dustry which is unmatchable. Keith's laborious and
successful life certainly has verified the current pro-
verb. "Labor Omnia Vincet. "
When Mark Twain, twelve years ago, found himself
bankrupt by the failure of the publishing house in
which he held a large interest, he declared that he
would pay his debts by a lecture tour round the
world. He was 60 years old at the time. Not only
did the proceeds of the tour wipe out all the humor-
ist's debts, but they left him enough to live on. He
has just bought a 180-acre farm near West Redding,
Connecticut, where he is erecting a residence, and will
use it as a permanent home for his family, as it is
easily accessible from New York. His youngest daugh-
ter is an invalid. The venerable author expects to end
his days in this home on the crest of a hill on his
modest farm. Usually when Mark Twain is referred
to by Eastern publications the fact is mentioned that
he began as a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in
Virginia City, Nevada. The fact is never mentioned
that he also worked on the Call in San Francisco.
* # *
Hon. James Bryee, the new English Ambassador, is
a gallant champion of the American woman. "She is
the intellectual equal, if aol the superior, of the Amer-
ican man," declares Mr. Bryce. "Her opinion," he
says, "is understood by both sexes to be worth as
much as the man's. More often man not she takes
the burden of conversation from him. darting along
with a gay vivacity which puts slower wits to shame."
Ami this "gay vivacity" is no screen for inward
vacuity. She bus declares .Mi'. Bryce, "a livelier
interest in the things of the mind." "Three causes
combine to create among American women a higher
average of literary taste and influence than exists
anywhere else. These are the educational facilities
they enjoy, the recognition of the equality of the sexes
in the whole social and intellectual sphere, and the
leisure they possess in comparison with men." Not
only is the "provision for woman's education ampler
and better than in any European country," but the
women make full use of their chances.
According to Mr Bryce, "the American nation as a
whole owes to the active benevolence of its women and
their zeal in promoting social reforms benefits which
European customs would scarcely permit women to
confer. In no other country has woman borne so con-
spicuous a part in the promotion of moral and philan-
thropic causes. Nowhere else has she attained to a
fuller participation in the work of the world. Those
who know the work they have done and are doing
in many a noble cause will deeply admire their energy,
their courage and self-devation." Mr. Bryce has more
to say in this strain, and when he has done supporting
his eulogy with concrete instances, the caitiff knight
has doubtless bitten the dust.
* * #
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"but it doesn't seem to take with the public."
"No wonder," rejoined the wise guy. "You
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THE WASP-
Colonel Kirkpatrick's trip to Europe is under-
taken for the purpose of learning the very latest
things in the hotel business. The Colonel's obser-
vations will be turned to account in the new Palace
Hotel, which will undoubtedly be one of the finest
in the matter of construction and the best con-
ducted in the world.
Colonel Kirkpatrick is a man of remarkable ex-
ecutive ability and accomplishes the greatest amount
of work with the least fuss. The old Palace Hotel
was a model place in every respect, yet the Colonel
was never aggressively or obtrusively in evidence.
Now and then you caught a glimpse of him passing
in a leisurely way through the hotel and apparently
not noticing anything. As a matter of fact the
Colonel is Argus-eyed and every retainer who has
served under him knows that if he neglects his duty
he will be seen and called to account. The Colonel
himself never stops to point out the small de-
ficiencies. He passes on as if he saw nothing, but
just as sure as fate, the delinquent retainer will be
hauled over the coals before the day is over by the
head of the department. The smallest omission in
the routine of the hotel is sure to be noted at once
by the watchful Colonel, and equally certain to be
corrected promptly. This is what makes for perfect
discipline and that was the secret of the success and
the popularity of the old Palace Hotel. The tem-
porary Palace Hotel at once took on the same char-
acter, and so will any establishment over which
Colonel Kirkpatrick presides. His going away to
Europe was made the occasion for a farewell ban-
quet at the Post Street temporary Palace Hotel.
The affair, which was most fraternal and enjoyable,
was arranged by J. Downey Harvey, who is himself
a most genial companion, Harry Stetson, Mr.
Michaels, the physical featherweight of the legal
profession ; Walter Hobart, Dr. MacMonagle and
Grant Selfridge. This bunch could arrange a feast
fit for LucuIIus.
* * *
There is another man in San Francisco who has
been engaged in the entertaining of the public
though on a different line from Colonel Kirkpatrick,
and who has the same keen eye for details. And an
eye for details is the secret of business success.
The man I refer to is Jake Techau, who has started
a number of large restaurants and made every one a
paying property where nine out of ten men would
have failed. The way he established Techau's
Tavern on Mason Street was little short of a mir-
acle, considering all the difficulties attending the
conversion of an old church into an after-theatre
resort, and in the midst of unending labor strikes.
Techau sold out before the fire and is now an im-
patient man of leisure, like all active business men
who seek rest. Rest for such people means rush,
and is only a dream, for they keep on hustling in
some way till the end.
After the fire Techau went into a much-fre-
quented uptown cafe to have lunch and found one
of his former stewards acting as manager. The
new manager was priding himself that he was run-
ning the place in great shape, and told the veteran
restaurateur as much.-
"Yes, you're doing pretty good," said Techau,
"but why don't you keep the place clean ?"
"Clean ! Why, 'tis clean. What's the matter
with it ?" protested the manager.
"Look at those chairs over there," said Techau.
"Don't you see there's a couple of specks of dust on
the lower rungs ?"
"You might see them with a magnifying glass,"
replied the manager.
"Well, that's just it. If you want to succeed in
business you must look at things through a magni-
fying glass. Now, when I came in here I found a
piece of mashed potato fully as big as the head of a
pin on this chair I'm sitting on. Have you fired the
waiter that neglected to wipe off the chair carefully
when the last customer left?"
"No, I haven't."
"Well, you should, the next time he does it. Now
another thing I noticed right off when I came in
was — "
But the manager couldn't stand any more of it
and skipped.
* * :|i
These are lovely Spring days at Del Monte and
many people from the bay cities are taking advan-
tage of them to visit the famous hotel. Mrs.
George McNear, Jr., took her children down for
a few days. Mrs. Ella Morgan is preparing to re-
main all the Summer. Miss Alice Warner and
Miss Marjorie Shepard, who are attending Miss
Head's school in Berkeley, spent their Easter vaca-
tion at Del Monte. A. D. Shepard was down for a
few days. Professor R. E. Allardice, of Stanford,
who is a golf enthusiast, often goe* to Del Monte
for the week end. Prof, and Mrs. R. M. Lasen, of
Stanford, were recent visitors. Captain Frank L.
Winn, who was down last week, expects that he
will be ordered to accompany General MacArthur
to Milwaukee. Harry C. Sessions spent the week
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with his mother; and Mrs. Charles Stewart Cushing
was the guest of Mrs. Sessions. Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Marx i M i:-s Reine Weill) are enjoying their
honeymoon at Del Monte. Amongst the Berkeley
\ i>it"r- are Mr. and Mrs. John I!. Metcalf and
George D. Metcalf. Miss Dita Bradley, Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. McCullough, W. C. Colson and i leorge
W. Phelps were als. ■ down from the University
town. Come Oakland visitors are Mr. and .Mrs.
Henry Stern. Win. J. Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs.
George M. Condit and Miss Virginia Deaver, Miss
Vgnes Rendegard, 0. W. Wiles and M. S. Arm-
strong. Edward W Howard and Frederick S.
Whitwell, of San Mateo, were at Del Monte last
week.
The number of Eastern visitors to I VI Monte is
still large.
# * *
Local society is to lose Mrs. E. Walton Hedges, at
least temporarily, for this popular matron will de-
part on May 3d Eor her husband's home in Plainfield,
New Jersey. Dr. Hedges is a prominent member of
the International Medical Society and that important
body will soon hold its annual convention at; Atlantic
City, which is one of the great summer resorts of the
other side- of the continent. You can see more people
in a day at Atlantic City than in the whole season at
Santa Cruz. Master Sunday in Atlantic City is a
sight, to remember. Mrs. Hedges will be on the recep-
tion committee at the coming convention of the In-
ternational Medical Society. Yesterday being Mrs.
Hedges' birthday, her sister, Mrs. Clarence Breeden,
gave a large dinner anil theater party in her honor.
On last Tuesday evening Mrs. Hedges gave a bridge
party for Miss Doran, sister of Mrs. Marix, wife of
Captain Marix. who is stationed at Yerba Buena
Island. Miss Doran will pass the summer in Cali-
fornia.
# * *
I have been asked to correct the statement that
Mrs. Ynez Short White had started a fencing class.
She has no such idea. Miss Ethel Short, who has
been spoken of as being so proficient with the foils,
knows nothing about the art of fencing, except it
might be with Cupid.
# * #
The friends of Miss Nettie Sexton are still talking
of the rare and gorgeous presents she received on
the occasion of her marriage last Saturday evening
to Mr. Edwin Dow. The souvenirs she herself pre-
sented to her bridesmaids are gold cresent pins set
with rare pearls. Seldom has a bride received more
numerous or costly remembrances where the wedding
was confined to intimate friends and relatives. The
popularity of this charming young girl has been thus
testified to in a most convincing manner.
# # #
A novel and rather amusing scene not on the pro-
gramme the night of Miss Burnie Owens' wedding to
Geo. Herrick was furnished by the impromptu il-
lumination of the church. The accident to the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Company's plant left the
city in darkness. What was to be done? The inven-
tive genius who always saves the day at such a mo-
ment was fortunately not missing. A dozen street-
car headlights were hastily obtained and their com-
bined affulgence made the wedding scene a brilliant
affair, literally and figuratively. But it looked de-
cidedly funny and primitive to see such expedients
in use at a smart wedding in a fashionable church.
The social climbers never tire. 1 witnessed an
amusing scene the other day at that charity affair at
the Centra.] Theater. One of the actors in this scene
not on the stage was a young and much celebrated
matron, who moves in the smart set. The other was
an old lady, who has more money than position and
is dying to cut a dash amongst the top-notchers.
Finding herself rubbing elbows with the young
woman, the venerable climber leaned over and said:
"You don't remember me, Mrs. Dasher, do you?"
The lady addressed lifted her eyebrows and said
politely that her memory was equal to the task.
"Why, I knew you so well when you were Miss
Millyuns," persisted the old lady, who is fully thirty
years the older.
The young matron looked the stranger over care-
fully.
"I think I do remember you now. Why. yes.
You're Mary McPap, my old nurse, arn't you?"
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-THE WASP-
MRS. WALTER D. MANSFIELD
Prince Robert de Broglie, who was recently starving
in New York, with his alleged wife, and who is at
present earning a precarious livelihood in Europe by
showing himself before the footlights of cheap cafes
chantant and vaudeville shows, while the American
soi-disant Princess de Broglie sings a couple of songs,
has now become an outlaw and an exile from France,
where a warrant is out for his arrest the very moment
that he ventures to set foot on French territory. The
offense with which he is charged is desertion from the
military which, under the French law, citizens are com-
pelled to render. The Prince had contracted with one
of the cheap cafes chantant of Paris to appear with
his American wife in vocal duets, but the military
prosecution caused him to skip. The wife is described
as a very handsome woman. She was Miss Estelle
Alexander of New York before she took the title of
Princess. It is said that the Prince committed bigamy
in marrying her. as he already had a wife, the Bar-
oness Madeline des Landes, whom he married in Eng-
land. The union was not recognized in France, how-
ever, as the Prince had not secured the consent of his
parents. As he was over twenty-one when the mar-
riage took place it was valid in England. The name of
de Broglie possesses special interest to Americans as
one of its most distinguished members, Prince Victor
de Broglie, served through the war of independence in
this country, as a lieutenant of General the Marquis
de Lafayette. He was afterward guillotined by Robes-
pierre in 1794. His son married the daughter of the
celebrated Mme. de Stael, and the present and sixth
Duke de Broglie is her great-grandson. He is a sailor
by profession, and retired some years ago from the
navy with the rank of lieutenant.
* * *
The Easter hat is the paramount question now,
so the views of a woman, straight from Nice and
other Winter resorts of the blessed, are listened to
here with due reverence. Says this woman, who
is a friend of Larv Isabel Howard, now in this
country : "American women are the only ones who
dread the girlish in the headgear. Now, in Paris a
woman with marriageable daughters, and even with
granddaughters, calmy takes the simple shape with
rosebuds and other emblems of the opening bud.
Also, she lets the youngsters select anything they
want. The round hat, garlanded with small roses,
with knots of pink ribbon and tulle, will, with
artistic treatment of the face, make the woman of
forty look under twenty. The Princess of Wales
who is known to be past her first youth and facing
forty, habitually wears the most juvenile pinks,
blues, and whites, with all the girlish trimmings
imaginable. The way to do it is to ask the milliner
for a hat for your sixteen-year-old daughter, have
it boxed at once and depart. The hat which the
artist designs for sweet sixteen is the thing, not
one trimmed up girlishly for any age. The European
women have mastered this art, and are far ahead
of their American sisters.
A New York fashion writer tells how some of the
richest and most noted society women appeared at
the Metropolitan Opera House on a gala night.
"Mrs. Clarence Mackay who made her first public
appearance since the birth of her little son on Jan.
28th wore a black chiffon gown and her dark hair
showed a filet-like tiara in Greek key pattern of
diamonds, the band not being over an inch and a
half wide, the diamonds being of the same size,
apparently. On the corsage gleamed a large ir-
regularly shaped bowknot with two curving ends
in large and small diamonds. Her three-quarter
length coat was of black velvet, half covered with
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-THE WASP-
13
MRS. ARTHUR DUDLEY CROSS
band embroidery done in black silk. It had a
straight back and iron, and the sleeves, also straight.
were faced up inside for several inches with ermine
fur. The collar, some eight inches wide, was of the
sort that is turned up high about the face, or else
is laid flat on the coat, and this, too, was faced
with ermine, that showed a flat collar eight inches
wide when it was turned over the coat. The two
ends of each side front of this ermine collar were
cut in rounded tabs, the upper one being shorter to
make the collar fit.
"Mrs. Edmund C. Randolph, slender and alert
with a noticeable simple, quaint coiffure, and Mrs.
Richard Stevens, wearing an imposing crown with
the points topped by large pearls, were two fasci-
nating ladies entertaining in a box. They had many
callers and evidently were ready with bright replies
for all comments and sallies. One noticed the sparkle
of wit as well as that of the jewels. The Countess
of Strafford was as much interested as her hostess.
the always much interested Mrs. William Douglas
Sloane. Mrs. James A. Burden, jr. (Adele Sloane),
in a soft black silk gown and wearing her sable
cloak, arrived with Mrs. Sloane, but listened to the
opera from the 'dark red shadows' in the back of
the box.
"Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, in a gown that was
either white or very pale gray, had Miss Janet
McCook in her party. Her silver-gray hair parted
over her forehead had only a simple ornament, but
she wore a beautiful pearl collar, below which there
hung a single strand of diamonds. Mrs. Adolph
Ladenburg with a high white aigrette in her hair,
sat shoulder to shoulder with that other sports-lov-
ing young woman, Mrs. Tames B. Eustis, who was
very smart in all black. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney
who, with Mr. Whitney and Miss Dorothy Whitney,
expected to leave for Aiken this week, was present
raring a simple satin gown. < inc of Mrs. John J.
Wysong's guests was Airs. Alfred Kessler. She
wore black, while her sister, tin- Countess of Straf-
ford wore a dark blue gown, apparently black. Mis.
Robert Goelet. in a modified empire gown of silver-
gray satin, with a high while ornament in her
hair, vivaciously entertained a party of young mar-
ried people, including Mrs. Forsythe Wickes, who
was noticed in her beautiful red opera-cloak when
she entered. Miss Rosamond Street, in a cerise
gown with flowers in her corsage, was one of the
prettiest of the fair-haired girls present, and Miss
Janet Fish, wearing a pailletted gown of sapphire
blue with the usual quaint ribbon around her neck,
won compliments from the critics below.
The artist was being shown about the multi-
millionaire's stables by the proud owner. You
know what a millionaire's stables nowadays are
like — floors and walls of translucent white tiles,
drinking fountains of marble, .mahogany mangers
silver trimmings, and so forth and so on.
"Well, said the millionaire, proudly, "is anything
lacking?"
" '1 can think of nothing,' said the artist, 'ex-
cept a sofa for each horse.' "
* * *
Mrs. Francis Carolan, who usually sets the fashions
at Burlingame, has abandoned her favorite color,
black. This Spring she is wearing a parrot green hat
with a grey gown which is very smart. Mrs. Caro-
lan's friend, Mrs. Walter Hobart. is also wearing
green, and she has a green velvet dress.
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-THE WASP
That highly exclusive organization, the National
Society of Colonial Dames of America, has, since
1895, given an annual breakfast which has served as
a reunion of the members resident in California.
Last year the breakfast was given in the Sorosis Club,
which the fire of April wiped out. This year the
gathering took place at Tait's Cafe, ninety-five mem-
bers and guests attending. The decorations and
general arrangements were on the colonial style. Re-
porters being an unknown quantity at festive gather-
ings of clubwomen in those far off days, all ordinary
itemizers were rigidly excluded, but the Wasp, which
is always exceptional in the recording of social
events, is cognizant of every detail.
The piece de resistance of the menu was chicken a
la Maryland, and this was flanked by colonial dishes
in abundance.
His Grace Bishop Nichols delivered the invoca-
tion, which was followed by an eloquent speech of
welcome by Mrs. Selden S. Wright of the Virginia
Society.
Mrs. C. Elwood Brown of the New Jersey Society
was toasrmistress and responses were made as follows :
"Ye Daffodils, Cowslips, Lavender and Thyme, " by
Mrs. Leigh Richmond Smith of the Massachusetts
Society: "Old Time Posies," by Mrs. Laurilla M.
Hathaway of the Massachusetts Society; "Fruits,
Herbs and Sun Dials," by Mrs. Grace Goodyear Kirk-
man of the Connecticut Society.
The officers of the Society are: President, Mrs.
Selden S. Wright; vice-presidents, Mrs. C. Elwood
Brown and Mrs. J. Goddard Clark; hon. vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. Charles H. Hedges; corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. Walter D. Mansfield; treasurer, Mrs.
George E. Whitney; registrar, Mrs. J. D. Tallant;
historian, Mrs. W. A. Brewer ; genealogist, Miss Sarah
Louise Kimball.
The California Society of Colonial Dames was the
first to be organized outside of the thirteen original
Colonial States. Mrs. Selden S. Wright was ap-
pointed in 1895 by the national president, Mrs.
Howard Townsend of New York, to organize the so-
ciety in California; and for twelve years has been the
president of the local branch, the members refusing
to let her resign.
The Society of Colonial Dames receives no applica-
tions for membership, as that is gained solely by in-
vitation. Eligibility to the Colonial Dames Society
is derived from lineal descent from high officials
who came to this country before 1750, and closes with
the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Revolutionary service carries with it no eligibility
whatever.
Among the prominent Californians who belong to
the Society of Colonial Dames are Mrs. Louis Aldrich,
Mrs. Wm. Ashburner, Mrs. Wm. T. Baggett, Mrs.
Wm. H. Beatty, Mrs'. T. Z. Blakeman, Mrs. John F.
Boyd, Mrs. Wm. A. Brewer, Mrs. C. Elwood Brown,
Mrs. Wm. Craig, Mrs. Arthur D. Cross, Mrs. Sidney
B. dishing, Mrs. Harvey Darneal, Mrs. Horace Davis,
Mrs. Henry Glass, Mrs. 'Edwin S. Newhall, Mrs. E. B.
Holladay, Mrs. S. W. Holladay, Mrs. George H. Hell-
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Mrs. John R. Jarboe and many others.
The couple who got married on a California street
car stole a march on the reporters, for not a word of
it got into the daily newspapers. It was certainly a
novel conceit to use a street car as the vehicle to carry
them over the line of single blessedness into the stale
of matrimony. As the car was rolling downtown the
couple stood up suddenly with the best man and
bridesmaid, the minister rattled through the servic*
and presto, the deed was done. Then the laughing
wedding party got off and hastened away, presumably
to the wedding lunch, for the hour was late even foffl
a wedding breakfast.
* * •*
Mrs. Florence Pflngst arrived in town during the
week on a visit to Mrs. E. Walton Hedges. Mrs.
Pflngst and Mrs. Shirley will remain as her guests
until this charming lady starts for the East. Many
entertainments are being planned by this attractive
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15
A wedding of interest took place in Berkeley on
Wednesday last when Miss Blanche ('ashman, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Burke Cushman. and
Mr. J. II. C. Wolfe of this city and Tonopah were
married. Rev. Cecil Marrack officiated. The bride is
well known in Berkeley society. Mr. Wolfe is a min-
ing engineer.
* • •
The Paris Tea Garden has been the seene of a
number of very delightful and fashionable a (fairs this
winter. The dance given last week by the Friday
Evening Club was like all the parties of this club, a
very jolly affair. The patronesses are Mrs. J. P.
Langhorne, Mrs. Wakefield Baker, Mrs. Louis Mon-
teagle, Mrs. George Moure, Mrs. Geo. Ashton. A
dainty supper closed an enjoyable evening.
* • *
Berkeley Chapter of the Phi Chi fraternity gave
a delightful ball at the Paris Tea Garden last week
and the Unitarian Club of California celebrated the
Sixteenth Ladies' Night there. Addresses were made
by Prof. Francis G. Peabody of Harvard University,
and Prof. William Frederic Badi of the Pacific Theo-
logical School.
* *> *
Miss Emily Marvin will be married to Roy Somers
on April 20th at St. Luke's Church at 8:30 a. m.
Owing to a death in the groom's family, the wedding
will be very quiet, only a few intimate friends will
be entertained at the bride's home. The bride will
be attended by her sister, Miss Marion Marvin, as
maid of honor, and Miss Maude Payne, Miss Ruth
Casey, Miss Marie Brewer, Miss Floride Hunt as
bridesmaids. The best man on this occasion will be
Frank Somers, the groom's brother. [The ushers
will be Edward Robinson of Los Angeles, Carlton
Curtis, Harold Plummer and Charles Norris.
* # #
At a charming tea recently given by Mr. and Mrs.
A. A. Watkins of Sausalito, they announced the en-
gagement of their attractive daughter Mabel to Capt.
Orrin Rawson Wolfe, U. S. A., of the Twenty-second
Infantry. The wedding will take place in June. Miss
Watkins made her debut three years ago and has been
a general favorite in Sausalito society, as also in this
city. She was assisted in receiving at her recent
tea by Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. Battams, Mrs. Frank Find-
ley, Miss Edith Cutter, Miss Edith Miller and Miss
Etalka Williar. Many quests from
the bay were present.
bulh sides of
Mrs. .J. C. Jordan, who has been dazzling local
society by the originality and magnificence of her en-
tertainments, leaves tomorrow for the East and Eu-
rope, where it is possible she may be joined later in
the summer by her friend, Mrs, Hedges. Mrs. Han-
Cord, who has been occupying an attractive flat with
Mrs. Hedges during the winter, is also going East
tomorrow. She hopes to arrange her schedule so as
to make a visit abroad before returning to California
next winter. Mrs. Hedges will also return next win-
ter to take part in the social activities.
• • •
The Engineer Officers, U. S. A., will give a large
hop in their new barracks room, Fort Mason, on
April 20th. On the 19th the officers at Yerba Buena
Naval Training Station will be hosts at an enjoy-
able dance on that evening. Every Thursday evening
the officers of the Twenty-second Infantry are hosts
at a hop, many society people going over to the Island
from the cities around the bay. In about two weeks
the officers of Alcatraz will be hosts at an enjoyable
dance.
On Tuesday last, April 9th, Mrs. Humphreys, wife
of Capt. Humphreys, U. S. A., gave a large luncheon
at her home, Alcatraz Island. Many prominent so-
ciety women from this city were guests of this charm-
ing hostess.
One of the most elaborate bridge parties of the
season was given by Mrs. Malcolm Menry on last
Saturday, at the residence of her parents, Dr. and
Mrs. A. H. Voorhies. The guest of honor was Mrs.
Jocelyn, wife of Colonel Jocelyn, who is visiting here.
The prize winners were Mrs. James H. Bull, Mrs.
Stephen Jocelyn, Mrs. Butters, Mrs. Henry L. Dodge
and Mrs. Henry Mendell, Jr. Among those present
were Miss Jocelyn, Mrs. Henry L. Dodge, Mrs. Rich-
ard Bayne, Mrs. Hellman, Mrs. M. H. de Young, Mrs.
James II. Bull, Mrs. W. A. McEnery, Miss McEnery,
.Mrs. Jordan, Mrs. E. Walton Hedges, Mrs. Henry
Clarence Breeden, Mrs. George H. Mendell, Mrs.
John Rodgers Clark, Miss Dean and Mrs. Butters.
I hear that the published statement, that Mrs.
Henry contemplates a trip to the Orient is wholly
without foundation.
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A pretty soubrette who brightens the local stage
Mr. Lanel, who has been promoted to be French
Consul General to New York, is the first French
Consul who in a long time has not been reduced in
rank, for the French Colony .here is not easy to please.
Mr. de la Lande was very glad to leave here, and two
of his successors came to an unhappy end. The Mar-
quis de Trobiand got grey at his post here, and was
finally forced to beat an inglorious retreat. I believe
on; of the Marquis' Paris friends told a visiting Cali-
fornian that the antipathy to his noble compatriot was
based on his refusal to get the decretion of the Legion
of Honor for every French restaurant keeper in town.
The local purveyors of frog-legs and rum omelets on
the other hand declared that the Marquis was a pig
of an aristocrat, and anyhow the Marquis slid down
the diplomatic scale instead of up, and in middle life
was relegated to an obscure post in Spain which paid
him about a thousand a year.
When Monsieur Lanel arrived here to relieve the
unpopular Marquis the French greeted him with that
effusiveness so characteristic of the nimble Celtic tem-
perament. The Consul took it all in and indulged in
no bursts of oratory that might cause people to think-
that another Mirabeau had arisen. The new Consul
was petted in American drawing rooms, but he never
made a more personal remark than, "It's a beautiful
day." "Do you think it will rain tomorrow?" or Cali-
fornia is a beautiful State." The Americans said,
"What a droll Frenchman." The French said, "Mais,
that Consul is an imbecile. Why does he not exhibit
more decision."
Shrewd observers noticed that the Consul got
mixed up in no feuds. He was always courteous and
was a genius for keeping his mouth shut at inop-
portune moments. Now his reward has come. He
has performed the perilous feat of living in the French
Colony for five years without getting into trouble
with anyone. His government regards him as a jewel
among diplomats and there is no limit to what he
may not achieve by silence and sawing wood.
ENTRE NOUS.
Eva — "And is she really so very much in love
with him?"
Katharine — "Is she? Why, she actually believes
that every blot in his love letters was intended
as a kiss."
MRS. JOHN SIEBE
IRENE OUTTRIM
One of the noted members of the Local Stock Talent
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&rank, Criticism cf Current Stents
After the war closed the German government en-
tered into negotiations with Spain for the purchase
of all her possessions in the Pacific. The price was
fixed at twenty-three millions of dollars and the con-
tract was practically closed when the facts became
known to the British government. Queen Victoria
sent a second message to President McKinley, and by
a singular coincidence it also came on a Sunday.
Lord Pauncefote went to the White House on Sunday
afternoon to deliver it. This time he said that he
was instructed by her majesty to advise the President
that the British government would sincerely deplore
any disposition of the Philippine Archipelago that
removed the islands from the jurisdiction of the United
States. He told the President about the negotiations
between Spain and Germany and explained the reasons
why Great Britain and other European powers could
not permit the Kaiser to obtain such a solid foothold
in the Pacific. McKinley immediately cabled the
facts and appropriate instructions to the American
peace commissioners at Paris and that is the reason
the United States paid $20,000,000 for an archipelago
in the Pacific that it did not want, and cannot get rid
of. That "white man's burden" was placed on our
shoulders by Great Britain. Germany purchased the
Caroline Islands and the other remaining Spanish
possessions in the Pacific for $3,000,000.
It is considered quite probable in Washington that
King Edward may openly favor the acquisition of
Cuba by the United States just as his mother did
the purchase of the Philippines by us. The geograph-
ical location makes Cuba practically part of this
nation, and the natives seem, unable to solve the
problem of self-government for many years to come.
A large part of the population is made up of illiterate
negroes.
As the Italians are pouring into the United States,
and California has a very large colony of them, it is
interesting to know that, according to recent statistics,
they are the most temperate people in Europe. Ger-
many, which is a beer drinking and not a whisky
drinking nation, consumes proportionately almost five
times as much alcohol as Italy. France, which is an-
other temperate nation, absorbs nearly four times as
much alcohol as Italy. This is the relative consump-
tion per capita of alcohol. In the matter of divorces,
separations, illegitimate births, outrages against public
decency and suicides, Italy's percentage is below that
of both France and Germany. Germany and Italy
have both a very small rate of divorces and separa-
tions, and France a very high rate — almost ten times
that of the other two countries. Strange to say that,
with all its temperance and moderation in other re-
spects, Italy's record for murder and wounding is far
higher than that of France or Germany. The pro-
portion per 1,000 inhabitants is 1.46 in France, .80, in
Germany, and 8.42 in Italy. Evidently the modern
Italian has preserved a good deal of his old Roman
ancestors' quickness of temper and readiness to use
his weapons. High as the Italian record is in this
respect, our own record of murder in the United States
is unfortunately higher. Taking all his traits into con-
sideration, his great temperance, his good physique,
his domestic virtues and his thrift and industry, the
Italian should prove one of the most useful of the
immigrants that come to our shores, and with the new
opportunities here offered ought to become an impor-
tant factor in the industrial, commercial and political
life of the republic.
An exhibition of Paintings of Indian Life by Grace Hudson, will be held
from April 17th to 27th at the Schussler Gallery, 1218 Sutter Street.
FAIRMONT HOTEL
SAN FRANCISCO
Dinner De Luxe, 6 p. m.
EVENING OF APRIL 1 9TH
ALL TABLES MUST BE RESERVED
SUPPER SERVED TILL MIDNIGHT
CONCERT BY THE FAIRMONT ORCHESTRA
SWAIN'S CAFE p'ost'st.
Have added to their heretofore Excellent Equipment
A Modern Grill Service
With Schlitz and Wurzburger
Beer on Draught
Music under the direction o
Mr. Edgar Bayliss
A tables poonful of Abbott s Bitters in
greatest aid <o digest on known.
glass of sweetened water after meals is the
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Regular Dinners served svery Evening, including Sunday, at former prices
326 BUSH STREET
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-THE WASP-
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The Nevada Legislature is modest in only asking
that the i nties of Inyo, Mono, Alpine, Lassen and
Modoc be taken from California and made part of
Nevada. Why not extend the list and take in all the
norther unties, including San Francisco. In that
way Nevada ■•■•utd train so £ the population ii lias
been Losing Eor the pasl twenty years. Some time ago
it became a serious question whether it was fair to
allow her a representation of two senators in the
United Stairs Senate. The rush to the minis of
Southern Nevada has slightly improved her statistics
of population, but hardly enough to justify her in
absorbing California. This demand Eor five of our
mining counties looks like a come-back for our talk
alioiit using the waters of Lake Tehoe, half of which
inland sea belongs to Nevada.
HARVEY BROUGHAM.
The house which William Ellis Corey, president of
the United States Steel Corporation, is said to have
purchased in New York for Mabelle Oilman, the act-
ress, stands on a lot only 25x100 feet on Fifth avenue,
Earing ( Vntral Park. It is in the midst of a cluster of
millionaires' mansions. A property of that size in
New York is considered large and only millionaires
can buy it. Here we have been used to fifty-vara
corners and some stately old houses have had whole
blocks to themselves. But that order is changing, and
the flat dweller is becoming omnipresent. It seems to
lie settled that Corey will rush on his fate, and, despite
all criticism, marry Miss Oilman and install her in
this newly bought Fifth avenue mansion.
.Macon officiating, Miss Dora Tate, was maid of
ir. .Miss Pearl Swanton of Santa Cruz and ill--.
Nellie Vance of San Francisco were bride's maids.
.Mr. and Mrs. McCafferty will reside in Oakland.
Mrs. William A. McEnery and her sister Miss
Threasa McEnery gave one of the largest bridge
parties of the season, on Tuesday afternoon last.
At which they entertained sixt) | :Sts.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gardiner arrived recently
from theii Lome in Cleveland, Ohio, and are visiting
in Sausalito, as the guests of Mrs. Finley, the mother
of Mrs. Gardiner. This is Mrs. Gardiner's first visit
to her old home since her marriage three years ago.
I hear from New York that young Louis Bru-
guiere is immensely popular and that not only
widows, divorcees and matrons throw themselves at
his feet, but maidens themselves. Society is trying
to decide whether he intends to wed Gladys Vander-
bilt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, or
Laura Swan, daughter of Mrs. Elisha Dyer by her
Baltimore husband, from whom she is divorced.
Both will be heiresses to vast sums of money some
fine day, and either is an extremely good match,
although neither has great claims to beauty. Miss
Vanderbilt is rather artistically inclined, as are the
Bruguieres, and so she and Louis have much in
common. Louis is scarcely known in San Fran-
cisco, for he never returned here after he went to
Harvard about ten years ago. He studied law in
New York, but my impression is that Society so
captivated his mind that he gave up all idea of being
admitted to the bar. He is one of the handsomest
men at Newport and his good looks and charming
manners win his way wherever he goes. Mrs. Bru-
guiere, his mother, has been with him for several
years. The Bruguieres fit. very easily into New
York life, for their father came from there and be-
longed to one of the best- old French families of the
set in which the Durands and La Montagnes move.
On Thursday April 11th, Miss Lucille Dunham
was married to Mr. Frank McCafferty, at the
residence of her parents in Oakland. Rev. Clifton
C. H. REHNSTROM
Tailor and importer
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2415 FILLMORE STREET
Telephone West 5769
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1255 HARRISON STREET
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Weinhard is the Delicious Beer served at Cafe Francisco, The
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THE WASP-
Photo Gembe MISS FRANCES WILSON
Some years ago The Wasp advised a tax be
placed upon every gun used in shooting game and
on every rod used in angling for game fishes. Several
sporting editors and local sportsmen worked them-
selves into a fit over the suggestion as highly un-
American if not actually infamous. Time sets all
things right however and I note that the editors and
the sportsmen have now come to think that a tax
of $1 on every gun used in killing game would be a
very good thing.
It would not be bad for a starter but the tax
should be $2.50 and not $1. Anv man who can
afford the time and expense to hunt quail or grouse
or snipe can pay $2.50 for a license and the money
will help to pay wardens to protect the game of
the State, which should be one of its valuable assets.
The State of Maine makes a great deal cf monev
out of its game.
Every man who fishes for trout and salmon
should also be taxed. You and I and all the other
taxpayers dear reader, put up our good money to
pay for the propagation of game fishes and the
stocking of streams with them. Why not make the
man who gets all the fun of catching them, if it's
fun to him, pay for the pleasure. Cigar makers or
brewers or distillers do not go and stock saloons
or hotels with cigars, beer or spirits for him to drop
in and enjoy them witho it paying a cent. Every
trout planted in a stream and watched by a fish-
wc.-den costs money to the taxpayers. Let the
sportsman pay for his fun. Every true sportsman
will be found willing to do it and every pot hunter
will be found protesting that the tax is an out-
rage. But the money collected will help to swell the
funds available for paying fish-wardens and it is
necessary to employ such officers. The fish supply
of the State of California is very valuable.
Several years ago The Wasp pointed out that the
Fish Commissioners were neglecting their duty by
not protesting loudly against the wholesale
slaughter of striped bass, which were planted in
these waters some twenty years ago by the late
B. B. Redding, father of J. D. Redding, the well-
known lawyer and clubman. It was against the law
to catch striped bass for severa. years and in that
time they multiplied amazingly. As soon as it
became lawful to catch them, the markets were
filled with tons of them. In season and out of
season the slaughter was continued and in five
years this splendid table fish has become so scarce
that another year or so will see them almost ex-
terminated. It was argued, stupidly, that the fish
could not be exterminated, though Italian fishermen
with seines, hundreds of yards long swept the
bays and sloughs incessantly and took the fish
large and small. Now the sight of a fine striped
bass in a San Francisco fish market is rare and
the public has lost a valuable supply of cheap food,
which with a little care and by the exercise of a
little intelligence could be preserved for all time.
To make up for their apathy the Fish Commissioners
now want a hatchery established so that striped
bass can be propagated at public expense for the
benefit of Mr. Paladine and his associates of the
fish monopoly. You and I kind reader will get it in
the pocket again by this expedient for fish hatcheries
cost money. The crops of bass and salmon we pay
to raise, are gathered bv the industrious net fisher-
men. It is a very profitable industry indeed. How
could it be otherwise. It would be a verv fine
scheme if the State raised cattle by the thousands
and then turned them out on free ranges where
a meat moi.opolv could send in its cowboys to
La Boheme
First Class Italian Restaurant
1558 BUSH ST.
Between Van Ness and Franklin
SPECIALTY: Italian and Trench Cuisine
FEUX PIANTANIDA, Manager
Formerly Proprietor of the ORIGINAL COPPA
Colonial Tub and Shower Baths
BathS Ladies' Department, 8 to 1 2 a. m. week days
Now Open
REGULAR PRICES
1745 O'Parrell St., near Fillmore
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COL. K1RKPATRICK
round them up and drive them off to the slaughter
houses. Really the loads that are put on the honest
taxpayer in this Republic of ours make him the
most patient and long suffering ass in Christendom.
And we all pay taxes directly or indirectly. If you
don't pay it on real estate, you do in rent to the
landlord who is assessed.
Captain Mooney keeps on arresting saloon
keepers for selling liquor to women and then Judge
Conlan and the other high minded jurists of the
Police Court dismiss the cases on "technical"
grounds and the newspapers tell us the "captain is
discouraged. The proceeding is all wrong. The
ai rests are not made at the right end of the chain.
Let them begin on Chief Dinan and a couple of
Police Judges and land them where 'they belong
rightfully and Captain Mooney or any other police
officer will find no difficulty in enforcing the laws.
Just the Opposite
"How is your brother, Harker?"
"Oh, he is in a business that will open your eyes.'
"You don't say! What is it?"
"Why, he sells alarm clocks.'
"That's funny. My brother
will close your eyes."
"Really? What is it?"
"Why, he markets onions."
in a business that
Woes of the Newly Rich
Stubb — "Yes, old Justrich is going to Paris to
select some art and he is going to carry that young
man with him."
I'enn — "Ah, 1 see. The young man is a connois-
seur?"
Stubbs — "No, old Justrich says he is the connois-
seur, but he is going to take the young man along
to pronounce the word when he wants to use it."
Keeping Still
"From Kentucky, eh?" said the young drummer
in the hotel lobby. "Well, is it true they really
make moonshine whisky in Breathitt County?"
"It may be, pardner," replied the tall gentleman
in the wide hat, "but you better not breathe it if
you happen to be around there."
Gentle Hint
"Yes," sighed the heavy tragedian,
rough time in Bacon Ridge."
"Really?" replied the sweet singer.
audience 'hand you a lemon?' "
"No, they handed us an egg."
"What did that mean?"
"Thev wanted us to 'beat it.' "
'we had a
"Did the
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Much capital and energy are being applied to the
development of suburban properties. What The
Wasp has been prophesying for years about the San
Mateo Valley has come true. The flood of suburban
dwellers promises to cover the entire valley with
the homes of people who do business in San Fran-
cisco.
The Leland Improvement Company's project to
sub-divide a tract of 1000 acres below Palo Alto,
and adjoining the Leland Stanford University
promises to give a fresh boom to that already very
flourishing district. The improvement of Palo Alto
has been even more remarkable than that of Berkeley
which real estate men regard as phenomenal. In
a few years Palo Alto has changed from a village
to one of the important towns of California and it
can boast of a class of residents, which would do
credit to any comunity. Such towns become
magnets that attract other people of the better
classes and after a while they establish good
government so firmly that the character of their
town becomes established.
The rapidly improving, and now excellent train
and car service down the San Mateo Valley is
sure to have the effect of making every man who
can afford a modest home do business here and
sleep in the country. This is a peculiarity of large
cities and the greater they grow the more marked
becomes the desire of their business people to
escape_ from the din and flurry and seek quiet sub-
urban homes. San Francisco will develop this
habit more rapidly than New York, for our suburbs
in the Southern direction are not only very acces-
sible but very beautiful and will become more so
every year as people of means settle along the
valleys and build pretty homes and plant shade
trees and gardens.
The Leland Improvement Company was founded
by W. B. Nash the cashier of the Market Street
Bank and a number of well-known business men
are associated with him in the undertaking. They
propose to create an ideal residence and industrial
city with thirty-seven miles of streets laid with
smooth bitumonous pavements, cement sidewalks,
an artistic park system and a main boulevard 150
feet broad with a double driveway lined with six
rows of palm trees. This ideal town we are assured
is to have what Palo Alto, by the way, has never
yet produced — a fine modern reinfoced concrete
hotel of 350 rooms with a roof garden over its
entire length of 600 feet. The ambitious plans of
A Sovereign Remedy
Dr. Parker's Cough Cure, one dose will stop a cough. It
never fails. Try it. Sold by all Druggists.
Mr. Nash and his associates contemplate the
erection of a library, gymnasium, public baths and
opera house — in fact every detail which is con-
sidered necessary to a perfect city but is seldom
attained. The streets are not to be torn up as the
feed wires and pipes will be laid in subways owned
by the Improvement Company itself. Part of the
1000 acres to be thus elaborately developed will be
sold for factory sites and connected with the water
front and the railroad. The residential part of the
town will however have no railroads. An auto-
mobile service will furnish the inhabitants trans-
portation at a minimum cost.
All this is certainly most alluring and as Mr.
Nash and his associates are practical men they no
doubt feel assured that they can develop their plains.
They are not the first to conceive the project of
an ideal town in the Valley, but the time jwas
never so favorable to the scheme as now. It Will
be interesting to watch the development of their
plans.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid up Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans on Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D. Phelan, Pres,, John A. Hooper. V. Pres.. J. K. Moffatt, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Secy and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Asst. Cashier, A. E.
Curtis, 2d Asst. Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS A SPECIALTY
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in their
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange Bldg.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK
OF SAN FRANCISCO
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS,
PAID UP CAPITAL.
DEPOSITS JANUARY 1, 1907
108-110 Sutter Street
$693,104.68
$600,000.00
$3,772,145.83
Charles Carpy, Pres. Arthur Legallet, Vice-Pres. Leon Bocqueraz, Secretary
John Ginty, Asst. Secretary P. A. Bergerot, Attorney
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Belasco's Fine Hand
The fine hand of Dave Belasco, which directs a
publicity bureau as well as blue-pencils and im-
proves plays, evidently dictated the dispatch last
week accrediting Frances Starr with having turned
down a Milwaukee millionaire in favor of a plain
actor. James Durkin. Not that Miss Starr is not
charming enough to have fascinated twenty
millionaire brewers, for she is quite able to have
accomplished that feat, as those who remember her
at the Alcazar are willing to swear. But to let us
know that she is betrothed to James Durkin, the
leading man at the Alcazar when she was ingenue
and who was largely the cause of her leaving us —
that is where the cleverness of the dispatch lies.
Mr. Durkin was married when he played leads at
the local theatre. Miss Starr said he was her fate,
and that it was not her fault that he should have
fallen in love with her while there was a Mrs.
Durkin in the way. No doubt fate has been kind
and relieved Durkin of his matrimonial partner
through natural means or the divorce court. Since
.Miss Starr was a universal favorite when she was
with us. uj) to the time of the Durkin episode, I
presume nobody will grudge her happiness. She is
a star now in stage language as well as by birth,
and has won praise all along the line in the play
Belasco made out of Dick Tully's old "Juanita of
San Juan."
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Carlisle have announced the
marriage of their daughter, Florence, to Leslie
W'eedon llroughton, on Wednesday evening, April
10th, at Rose Cottage, Sausalito.
Mrs. Henry Fortman of Alameda will leave the first
of May for a trio abroad, to be gone several months.
An engagement recently announced followed by
a speedy marriage was that of Miss Grace Hilborn
of Pasadena and A. L. Jenkins of San Francisco.
They were married on Friday April 12th. Miss
Hilborn is the daughter of the late S. G. Hilborn, at
one time a congressman from the Third California
District. Mr. Jenkins is well known in San Fran-
cisco business circles.
The dance at the Naval Training Station, Yerba
Buena Island last week was one of the largest
affairs of the year. Two hundred invitations were
issued. Among the guests were officers from the
Buffalo, Milwaukee and Albatros. Captain James
H. Bull, commandent of the Training Station led
the grand march with Miss Marjorie Bull. The
Training Station band furnished the music.
Miss Critic — So she was led to the altar at last.
Miss Spite — Led! Led! I guess you didn't see
her. She didn't have to be led. When she started
down the isle you couldn't have headed her off
with a regiment of cavalry.
It's the proper thins to take Abbott's Bitters with a glass of sherry or soda before meals:
gives you an appetite. At all druggist;.
SAVE A LITTLE
Save regularly and systematically and
deposit your savings with the
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AND TRUST COMPANY
We pay 3 1-2 per cent interest on
regular savings deposits and 3 6-10
per cent on term deposits.
Your account will be welcome.
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West End Branch, 1531 Devisadero
Mission Branch, 2572 Mission, near 22d
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SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
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Safes lo rent from $5 a year upwards
Careful service lo customers
Trunks $1 a month
Office Hours: 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The German Savings and Loan Society
526 CALIFORNIA ST., San Francisco
Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits. December 31, 1906
$2,576,695,41
1,000,000.00
38,531,917.28
OFFICERS - President, F. Tillmann, Jr.; First Vice-President, DanieJ Meyer
Second Vice-President, Emil Rohte; Cashier. A. H. R. Schmidt; Assistant Cashier.
William Herrmann; Secretary, George Toumy; Assistant Secretary. A. H. Muller.
Goodfellow & Eells, General Attorneys.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS -F. Tillmann, Jr.. Daniel Meyer. Emil Rohte. l|rn.
Steinharl. I. N. Walter, N. Ohlandl, J. W. Van Bergen. E. T. Kruse and W. S.
Coodfellow.
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MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO MINING EXCHANGE
J. C. WILSON
BROKER
STOCKS AND BONDS Kohl Bldg., 488 California St.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES San Francisco
Telephone Temporary 815
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A FEW WORDS TO THE WISE
The Navy Department is about to advertise in the
newspapers for recruits. It formerly used posters
on the dead walls and found that system unsatisfac-
tory. It will find newspaper advertising a hundred
times better. Every sane business man who wants to
reach the general public uses the newspapers and finds
that such advertising pays. Of course, one must use
judgment in selecting the newspapers.
Many of our business men waste a great deal of
money by using poster advertising almost exclusively.
It is one of the most expensive methods, yet some
business men labor under the delusion that it is cheap.
So also with circulars. They are costly and ineffective
when an advertiser wishes to reach the general public.
In selecting newspapers, an advertiser should know
what class he wants to reach. Thus, for instance, a
journal like the San Francisco Chronicle will surely
give good returns if you advertise to attract the better
classes. I have a friend who deals in real estate, and
he swears by the Chronicle. Not long ago he adver-
tized in the Chronicle a $16,000 property and got a
dozen answers from likely buyers. To test the merits
of another large morning paper, which claims an
immense circulation, my friend inserted in it the same
advertisement, word for word, for the same length of
time, and got no answers at all. The newspaper in
question no doubt has a large circulation, but evi-
dently does not reach the people who are able to buy
pieces of property worth $16,000.
Just before the fire last April my real estate friend
put a small reader in the Chronicle advertising a good
piece of property and got over a hundred answers.
At that time the market was booming. He tried other
morning papers, but without anything like the same
result. He sold the property to one of the men who
answered through the Chronicle.
These are absolute facts and not published for the
purpose of underrating other newspapers to benefit
the Chronicle, but are related to show that the quality
of a newspaper circulation is the important consider-
ation. Some papers are read and supported by the
people of intelligence, culture and wealth, and some
by the rabble. An intelligent advertiser will find that
it pays best to use the medium that reaches the
people whose trade he desires.
But on general principles newspaper advertising-
gives more satisfactory results to the advertiser, and
is far cheaper in the end, than any other kind. This is
why the great advertiser of the world, who spends
millions in publicity, uses newspapers and periodicals
exclusively. You never see their names on dead walls.
THE PROSPECTIVE SKYSCRAPER.
There is a good deal of talk about monster sky-
scrapers that are to be erected soon, but the labor
conditions will have to be improved before we see them
towering up in every direction. The demand for fire-
proof buildings is growing greater, but property own-
ers must see some profit in building or they will not
improve their holdings. So far a most creditable
amount of work has been done in the downtown dis-
trict, but men engaged in the building industtry on a
large scale declare that the difficulties are increasing
instead of becoming less. We must get rid of all the
labor demagogues in public office before the work of
building skyscrapers can be started in earnest. There
could be no satisfactory progress in a city where the
government was run for graft and the main object was
to cinch the employer and the property owner. That
is partly stopped now by the indictment of Ruef and
Schmitz. If half a dozen of the official grafters could
be sent to the penitentiary and the rest kicked out of
office, San Francisco would grow as if by magic.
COMPLETION OF YOSEMITE RAILROAD
The new steam railroad between Merced and Yosem-
ite will be in operation this summer and will make
the great valley a more famous resort than ever. Al-
ready there is talk of H. E. Huntington's running
an electric road into the valley from Fresno. Surveys
are being made for it. The Tevises, W. H. Crocker,
and local capitalists are entitled to the credit of
having run this first steam railroad from Merced into
the valley.
Germania National Bank
OP SAM FRANCISCO
IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT THEIR NEW QUARTERS
521 MARKET STREET, Bet. First and Second Streets
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
OFFICERS: W. A. Frederick, President; F. Kronenberg. Vice-President;
R. F. Crist, Vice-President; F. Kronenberg, Jr., Cashier.
Cable Address: Germania
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Stock Exchange
Goldfield, Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write (or Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET, STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE, Pres.
GAVIN McNAB. Atty.
WM. CORBIN, Sec. and Gen. Mgr.
OFFICES -COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Rooms 7 to 11
Telephone Trapy, 1415
W.
C.
RALSTON
Stock a
nd Bond Broker
Member San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
Mining Stocks a Specialty
Codes
Bedford McNeill
Western Union
I Leibers
368 BUSH STREET
San Francisco
THE WASP
25
Saturday — Goodness! Why don't men leave their
whiskers mi or keep them shaved oft' all the time so
yon ran know tlirui.' [ was going down Van Ness
avenue today and mel a stout man I thought was
Deacon Fish, with his whiskers shaved oft'. Lands
sake! Twasn't the Deacon at all, and I never knew
it till I'd shaken hands with him. Oh. heavens! He
had ;i strong foreign accent, and, my! how he smelled
of beer and tobacco. lie said he couldn't remember
my name, but knew my face well. He held on to my
hand and wanted to know if I'd been in to see his new
place, and then he handed me a card with saloon
printed on it. Heavens! What would I do if some of
my friends came along. I don't know how I got away
from the awful man. As I ran down the street I
heard him shouting after me: "Hold on till I intro-
duce you to mein friend, Jake Stein." Oh, my! How
my poor head aches. I've drank ten rups of tea al-
ready, and it's still splitting.
Sunday. — How coarse marriage makes a woman in
every fibre. The Count Raviola met several of us on
the avenue today as we walked home from church,
where we listened to a sermon by that handsome new
clergyman all the girls are raving over. Mrs. Gay-
leigh got the poor Count chatting at once, and, though
he speaks the most terrible English, she had the nerve
to tell him that anyone would think he was from
Boston, his accent was so lovely.
He tried to explain that the reason he spoke such
perfect English — oh, mercy ! — was that some American
lady was teaching him, but, oh, gracious! what the
man said was awful.
"I speeka eet gooda so," said he, "because I hava
Merican meestress."
Goodness! I was ashamed to death ! Those women
just roared. Mrs. Gayleigh, of course, was the worst.
Instead of passing it over, she kept the poor count
telling all about his "meestress," and every time he
used the word those married women just laughed
louder. If marriages are made in heaven, all I can say
is that they don't make the married women an-
gels. I got away from this crowd as quickly as possi-
ble and came home and spent a comforting afternoon
reading the "Pilgrim's Progress."
Monday Mrs. Gebbe came in today to tell me
about Mrs. Shoddy being blacklisted by the Colonial
Dauies. who are to have a great breakfast this week.
They're awfully exclusive, it. seems, and unless your
great-great-grandfather was some high government of-
ficial you can't gel in. Mrs. Shoddy paid $75 to some
man in Boston that found a pedigree dating back
to an ancestor who sold a bale of hay to Paul Beyere
after bis famous ride. For $.") more she could have got
an ancestor that gi med Paul's horse, ami for $7.50
additional one of the boatmen that rowed George
Washington over the Delaware. But, no! She's that
mean she won't spend a cent more than is actually
necessary. My! Wasn't she hopping mad when the
Colonial Dames sprung that new rule on her that the
ancestors must be high officials. Mrs. Gebbe says
she's going to apply for admission to the Cousins of
the Confederacy, as she can prove that her father was
born in South San Francisco.
Tuesday. — It did me good today when Mrs. Gay-
leigh told me that all the clubmen in town are just
seared to death since they read about that woman
that aroused her husband's jealousy by talking in her
sleep. It appears that she told so much that her hus-
band concluded he had better watch her, and the very
next night he caught her flirting with some man, and
they had a shooting scrape. Isn't it terrible? Oh,
my ! Mrs. Gayleigh says that a lot of the Bohemian
Club men that never went home before till 2 a. m.
go to bed now with the chickens, and you couldn't get
them to eat Welsh rabbit or broiled lobster for supper
if you gave them the town. No one that talks in his
sleep, she says, is safe if he eats anything heavier than
weak tea and toast before going to bed. Goodness ! I
should think from all she's told me that weak tea
would give some of those clubmen delirium tremens.
The Horace Blanchard Chases are staying at Mira-
mar, where they have a very picturesque cottage. Mrs.
Chase has been there for weeks and Mr. Chase went
clown Easter week. Santa Barbara society has been
very attentive to them. The other day Mrs. Chase
gave a luncheon of eight covers. The guests present
were Mr. and Mrs, William Miller Graham, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Dater. Jr., Mrs. Arthur Lord and C. C.
Felton.
Popular French Restaurant
Regular Dinner 75c
Meals a la carle al any hour
Private Dining: Rooms
for Banquets, etc.
497 Golden Gate Ave.
Comer Polk Street
Phone Market 2315
26
-THE WASP
Of Social Interest
The concert for the benefit of the organ fund of St.
Dominic's church, will take place at Tait's this evening
from eight to eleven and will doubtless attract a large
audience. Miss Florence Roberts will recite the cele-
brated "Ballad of Despair," by Bemberg. Others who
will take part are Miss Camille Frank, Mrs. Thomas
Nunan, Mrs. J. E. Birmingham, Miss Elsie Arden,
Miss Viola Van Orden, T. G. Elliott, Frank Figone,
Harold Pracht, Harry Samuels, violinist, and Theo.
Marc, cellist. Mile. Blanche Leviele will tell stories
from the French, and Mrs. E. J. Birmingham will sing
an obligato, with violin, cello and piano accompani-
ment by I. Fewster, Theo. Marc and Dr. H. J. Stewart.
Dick Hotaling will auction off the tables. The pat-
ronesses of the affair are Mrs. Eleanor Martin, Mrs.
J. M. Dricoll, Mrs. De Young, Mrs. Stanley Stillmann,
Mrs. Ed. L. Eyre, Mrs. Ortmann, Mrs. Walter Dean,
Mrs. Lansing Kellogg, Mrs. Ynez Shorb White, Miss
Alice Hager, Mrs. J. M. Allen and Mrs. Fred Pick-
ering. The patrons are Ed. M. Grieway, Fred.
Greenwood and Jas. D. Phelan.
* * *
All the arrangements for the promenade concert at
the Fairmont Flotel next Tuesday evening, under the
direction of Dr. H. J. Stewart, are complete, and the
event will beyond question be the greatest charitable
affair given up to this date in San Francisco. It is no
exaggeration to say that all the ladies of influence in
San Francisco are working for it and many of them
have had a wide experience in arranging such affairs
so as to insure success. Society en masse will attend this
great concert, which is for the benefit of the San
Francisco Nursery for Homeless Children, The Doc-
tors' Daughters, and the San Francisco Polyclinic.
Among those taking part in the musical program will
be the Stanford and Berkeley Glee Clubs, the De Koven
Glee Club, the Swedish Singing Society, the Fairmont
Hotel Orchestra, Mrs. Bermingham, Miss Helen
Heath, Miss Camille Frank, Mrs. Charles Camm, Mrs.
Markt, Miss Virginia Pierce, and Mr. Romeo Frick.
The arrangements for the concert have been made by a
joint committee of ladies from the three charities in-
terested, of which Mrs. H. de Young is the head.
* * *
A wedding of interest to old Californians took
place in Washington, D. C, on April 4th, when Miss
Frances Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Garner
Williams of California and South Africa was mar-
ried to William Wallace Mein, also of California and
South Africa. The ceremony was performed at noon
in St. Thomas' Episcopal Church by Rev. C. Ernest
Smith, before a company of distinguished guests
prominent in Washington society. The ushers were
Representative Butler Ames of Massachusetts, Fred
Faust Thomas Riggs, Jr., and Clarence Follis of
California. The maid of honor was the bride's sister,
Miss Gertrude Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. Gamer Williams were well known
and prominent in early day society in San Fran-
cisco. Wr. Williams is a brother of Mrs. Thomas C.
Van Ness and uncle of those two popular matrons,
Mrs. William Denman, the former Miss Leslie Van
Ness, and Mrs. John Taylor, who was attractive
Daisy Van Ness. Mrs. Robert Williams of South
America is also a brother. All early day Califor-
nians will remember the two beautiful Gluyas girls,
of Napa and San Francisco. One married Robert
Williams and the other married James M. Thompson.
Mr. Gluyas, the father, held some important Federal
positions here in early days. Mrs. Robert Williams is
living in New York at present, having recently re-
turned from abroad, where she was educating her
children. One son, a bright young man, is taking
a mining covtrse at Columbia College. Mrs. Williams
and Mrs. John Tallant, together with their daughters,
Miss Elsie Tallant and Miss Queen Anne Williams,
have been enjoying the pleasures and sights of New
York together.
Miss Nonie Williams married a very wealthy gen-
tleman from Finland, whom she met while traveling
abroad. Mrs. Chambers, another daughter, is the
brilliant woman journalist "Kate Carew," at pres-
ent engaged by a New York paper, together with her
literary husband.
* * *
Miss Evelyn Norwood and Miss Ethel Lincoln, who
had been at Del Monte, have returned to town.
BURNS HAMMAM BATHS
LADIES' DEPARTMENT
OPEN
817 Eddy Street
..Phone Franklin 2245
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
. GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOODES
Via Kelseyville P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cal.
j. r. rossi
Domestic'*"'1 Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Depot of Italian-Swiss Colony Wines
Specialties: Belmont, Jesse Moore, A. P. Hotaling's O. P. S., Loveland Rye,
King \Vm. Fourth Scotch, Glenrosa Scotch, Dew of the Grampian?, A. V. H.
Gin, Buchu Gin, Cognac Brandy, Bisquit Dubouche Cognac, Fernet Branca
Italian Vermuth, French Vermuth.
217-219 Washington St., Bet. Front and Davis
-THE WASP-
27
Automobile News
Within thirty days a new and distinctive type of
highpower runabout will be on the market.' It is
the product of the E. R. Thomas Motor Company
of Buffalo, X. Y.. and is in answer to a demand
for tliis class of car and of this make that has been
insistent since the buying season began last fall.
The most distinctive feature of the new model is
a special motor of great power with four cylinders
cast seperately and a five bearing crank shaft. The
other features follow the general lines of the well
known Thomas Fiver and include two sepcrate and
independent systems of ignition, a transmission
with four speeds forward and reverse, three disc
metallic clutch, drop forged I-beam axles, front
and rear, and double side chain drive with 36-inch
wheels. The double ignition system includes a
Bosch imported magneto and batteries working
through an Atwater-Kent spark generator each
with a seperate set of spark plugs. The new run-
about will seat three, two in front and one in a
rumble seat in the rear where the tool box will also
be located. The price of this car is $4,000. Tests of
the new model car have been in progress at Buffalo
during the past sixty days and have shown that it
developes great speed and power and has the quality
of reliability to a marked degree.
* * *
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr.. has recently
purchased one of the new White steamers. This
car will be the third successive model of this make
which she has owned. Mrs. Vanderbilt is at present
in Europe, and the order for the car was given to
the White garage in New York by her sister, Airs.
< klrichs. When making the purchase Mrs. Oelrichs
explained that Mrs. Vanderbilt has been touring in
England with her sister-in-law, the Duchess of
Marlborough, in the latter's White steamer, and,
learning from the manager of the White branch in
London that only a few of these cars remained un-
sold, she cabled to her sister to make the purchase
for her at once. Although her husband has a garage
full of high-power foreign cars. Mrs. Vanderbilt
has always shown a marked preference for the
\\ liite, and this is the only make which she tries
to drive herself. She is frequently seen scurring
along the Long Island highways in her White at a
pace which makes the drivers of the sterner sex sit
up and take notice.
John H. Gibson, of Des Moines, drove his model
K Winton 22,000 miles with great enjoyment, there-
by adding fresh evidence of Winton reliability,
"Another 22,000 miles on top of this," says Air.
Gibson, "will not hurt her any."
# * *
Many of the factories find themselves overrun
with orders for immediate shipment, and for lack of
ability to meet the demands placed upon them are
losing orders. Others being more fortunate are
able to cope with conditions, showing that their
early claims for prompt shipment have not been
exaggerated. This is the case with the II. H. Frank-
lin Manufacturing Company, who are shipping
seventy-two cars a week, a large percentage of
which is the Type 1 >. with a considerable number
of the six-cylinder cars, similar in construction to
the trans-continental car and the Chicago-New
York record breaker.
* * *
A distance of 16,835 miles in rental service, and
still doing business every day. is the record of a
Winton Model K owned by the Hub Rental Co.. at
Los Angeles.
* * *
After a thorough inspection of all the 1907
models shown in the salesrooms of that city the
Pittsburg Elks decided by a unanimous vote to
buy a Thomas Flyer. The committee was composed
of experts who are either members of the lodge or
were asked to serve by it. The car will be the
grand prize to be given away at the Elks carnival to
be held soon.
One of the minor changes made in the construc-
tion of the Thomas Flyer this year, but one which
shews the care taken in making every possible
improvement, is the placing of the ratchet of the
back stop safety device inside the rear hubs in-
stead of on the outside rim. By this change of
location the ratchet is protected from dust and mud
which might tend to clog it.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mackenzie made a trip to
Santa Cruz on Friday last, going via Gilroy, in
their model "A" Oldsmobile. They report the roads
in a deplorable condition. In several places the
water was so deep that it was above the hubs. At
one point on the route, they met a man with a cart
who stopped them and insisted that they do not
try to go further — that it would be absolutely im-
possible for them to get through. "I have had such
good luck so far in fording streams and getting
through bad roads, that I am no longer afraid of
any of them," said Mr. Mackenzie, and thev arrived
in Santa Cruz very much pleased with the per-
formance of the car.
H. C. RAAP. Manatjet
Telephone Franklin 568
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 O'FARRELL ST., San Francisco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea, Coffee, Wine or Beer. I I a.
A LA CARTE al all hours.
Regular Dinner 50c
Special Sunday Dinner 75c
AL. CONEY J. HUFF
Kadee Hammam Baths
TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Nishl
GEARY AND GOUGH STREETS
Striclly First Class Phone West 3725
J
DIRECTORY
OF LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE
MISCELLANEOUS.
Builders' Exchange, 226 Oak St., S. F.
Builders' Association, 96 Fulton St.
ADDRESSING MACHINES.
Elliott Addressing Machine Co., 68 Stock-
ton St.. S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
Bolte & Braden, 105-107 Oak St., S. F.; phone
Park 289.
Cooper Adv. Agency, F. J., West Mission and
Brady sts.
Dake Adv. Agency, Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temporary 1440.
Fisher, L. P. Adv. Agency, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Emergency 584.
Hadley, M. L., Advertising Agency, 26
Clay st.
Johnston-Dienstag Co., 2170 Post St.,
Tuttle, L. T., 332 Delbert Block, cor. Van
Ness Ave. and O'Farrell.
Walker, Shirley, Advertiser. Midway
building, 779 Market street, phone
Temporary 1839.
AGENTS— MANUFACTURERS-
Wlrtner. Jno. J., 2330 Vallejo St., S. F.
ARCHITECTS.
Carson, John, Vice-President and
Manager H. C. Chivers, 1627 Sut-
ter St.
Chivers. Herbert C. 1627 Sutter St., S.
F.; Wainwrights Building, St. Louis,
Mo.
Curtis John M., 2601 Buchanan St.. S. F.
Havens &. Toepke, 611-612 Mutual Savings
Bank.
Reed Bros, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough St., S. F.
Thos. J. Welsh, John W. Carey, associate
architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
Gallagher Bros., 2208 Geary St., S. F.
Gump, S. & . G., 1645 California St., S. F.
Schussler Bros., 341 Grove St.
ATTORNEYS.
A. Heynemann, 2193 Fillmore St.
Phone West 6405.
Bahrs, George EL, 1901 Post St., cor.
Fillmore. S. F.
Campbell, Metson & Drew, 1101 Laguna St.,
cor. of Turk St., S. F.
Dorn, Dora & Savage, 717 Van Ness
ave.
Drum, J. S., 1416 Post st, S. P.
Dinkelspiel, Henry G. W., 1266 Ellis St.,
S. F. PHONE, WEST 2355.
Goldstone, Louis, 1124 Fillmore st.
Heller, Powers & Ehrman, Union
Trust bldg.
Hewlett, Bancroft and Ballantine,
Monadnock Bldg., Phone Temporary
972.
McEnemey, Garret W., 1416 Post St., S.F.
Lawlor, Wm. P., Judge, The Family
Club, 1900 Franklin St., S. F.
O'Callaghan. Chas. F., 928 Fillmore St.,
Pringie & Pringle, 2219 Fillmore st.
Ricketts, A. H. (Title Quieting Co.)
1136 O'Farrell street. Tel. Emer-
gency 788.
Shadburne, Geo., D., 904 Devisadero
St., S. F.
Shortrldge. Samuel M., 1101 O'Farrell st,
S. F.
Edward B. Young, 4th Floor, Union Trust
Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temporary, 833.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
Auto Livery Co., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
Boyer Motor Car Co., 408 Golden Gate ave.
Phone, Emergency 655.
Leavitt, J. W. & Co., 441 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F.; 370, 12th st, Oakland.
Lee Cuvler, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
Middleton Motor Car Co., 550 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F.
Mobile Carriage Co., Golden Gate Ave.
and Gough sts., S. F.
Pioneer Automobile Co., 901 Golden Gate
Ave., S. F. ; and 12th and Oak sts.,
Oakland
Karig Auto Co. 1377 Broadway, Oakland.
White Sewing Machine Company,
Market and Van Ness ave., S. F.
BANKS.
American National Bank, Merchants Ex.
Bldg., S. F.
Anglo California Bank Lt. cor. Pine and
Sansome sts.. S. F.
Bank of California, 424 California st,
S. F.
California Safe Deposit and Trust Co.,
cor. California and Montgomery sts.,
S. F.
Central Trust Co.. 42 Montgomery st.
s F
Crocker - Woolworth National Bank,
Crocker Bldg., S. F.
First National Bank, Bush and Sansome
sts., S. F.
French Savings Bank, Union Trust Bldg.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
Germania National Bank, 621 Market St.,
S. F.: Phone Park 792.
German Savings and Loan Society, 626
California 8t. 8. F.
Halsey, N. W. & Co., 413 Montgomery
International Banking Corporation, 2045
Sutter street, and 415 Montgomery
Hibernia Savings and Loan Society,
Jones and McAllister sts.. S. F.
Humboldt Savings Bank, 626 Market st,
S. F.
Mechanics' Saving Bank, 143 Montgom-
ery st, S. F.
Metropolis Trust and Savings Bank,
12 37 Van Ness Ave.
Mutual Savings Bank of San Francisco,
710 Market St.. opp. 3d St.. S. F.
National Bank of the Pacific. Call Bldg.,
S. F.
Renters Loan and Trust Co., Commercial and
Savings Bank, 115 Hayes Street.
San Francisco Savings Union. N. W.
cor. California and Montgomery sts.,
S. F.
Savings and Loan Society, 101 Mont-
gomery st, S. F.
Security Savings Bank, 316 Montgomery
St.. S. F.
Standard Bank, 1818 Market St., at
Van Ness, S. F.
The Market Street Bank and Safe De-
posit Vault, Market and 7th sts., S. F.
Union Trust Co., 4 Montgomery st, S. F.
Wells-Fargo Nevada National Bank,
Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
Western National Bank, Powell and
Market sts.. S. F.
BATHS
Colonial Baths, 1745 O'Farrell St.
Oriental Turkish, cor. Eddy and Lar-
kin Streets, City. W. J. Blum-
berg & Bro.
BITTERS.
Lash's Bitters Co.. 1721 Mission st, S. F.
BREWERIES.
Albion Ale and Porter Brewery, 1007-9 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F.
Buffalo Brew;-ig Co., 125-129 King st,
S. F. ; Phone ulaln 101U.
National Brewing Co., 762 Fulton St.,
S. F.
Lochbaum, A. H. Co., 125 Kins St., S. F. ;
Phone Main 1010.
S. F. Breweries. Ltd.. 240 2d st, S. F.
Rapp, Jno. & Co.. Agents Rainier Beer,
8th and Townsend sts., S. F.
oi-tlDGE BUILDERS.
Pac. Construction Co., 17 Spear St., S. F.
San Francisco Bridge Co., 523 Monad-
nock Bldg., S. F.
UROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
tuition, E. F. & Co., 490 California st.
S. F.
Rollins, E. H. & Sons. 804 Kohl Bldg:
Telephone Temporary 163: S. F.
Wilson. J. C. i8S California St. S. F.
Sutro & Co., 412 Montgomery St..
S. F.
Montague, Phil S., 339 Bush St.. Stock
Exchange Bids.
Zadig & Co., 324 Bush St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIA-
TIONS.
Continental Building and Loan Associa-
tion. Church and Market sts.. S. F.
BUTCHERS' SUPPLIES.
Pacific Butchers' Supply Co.. 315 Bry-
ant st. bet. 1st and 2d sts.. S. F.
CARPET CLEANING.
Spauidlng, J. & Co.. 911-21 Golden Qatt
Ave.; Phone Park KfcL
CLEANING AND DYEING.
Thomas, The F. Parisian Dyeing and
Cleaning Works. 1168 McAllister st,
S. F.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
Hub, The, Chas. Kellus & Co., King
Solomon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore
sts.. S. F.
Roos Bros., cor. O'Farrell and Flllmorfl
sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
Dollar, Robert Co.. Steuart street dock.
Johnson Locke Mercantile Co., 213 Sansome
St., . S. F.
.Aaldonado & Co., Inc., 2020 Buchanan
St., 3. F.; Tel. 2830.
The J. K. Armsby Co., The Armsby
Bldg., cor. New Montgomery and How-
ard sts.. S. K.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Co., 523 Monadnock
Bldg.
Fisher Construction Co., 1414 Post St.,
S F
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Bldg.. S. F.
S. F. Construction Co., A. E. Buckman,
ores. ; A. J. Raisch, sec. ; 636 Market ; Tel.
Franklin 256.
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Ave., S. F.
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of Grant Bldg.
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Bldg.
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211 Dcvldadero St., S. F.
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6736.
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F. ; Phone West 1361.
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and Pine St., S. F.
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ington St., S. F.
White House, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
»t.. S. F.
ENGINEERS.
.itlantlc, Gulf & Pacific Co., 523 Monad-
nock Bldg., 8. F.
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Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Fer-
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FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
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sts.. S. F.
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Korn, Eugene, the hatter, 946 Van
Ness Avenue.
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S. F.
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cia St.
JEWELERS.
Baldwin Jewelery Co., 1521 Sutter St..
and 1261 Van Ness Ave.. S. r.
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mento st.
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more, formerly Examiner Bldg.
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and Van Nes sand Sacramento Its., S. F.
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Co., props.; 1047 McAllister st ; for-
merly at 342 McAllister; Tel. Park 881
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Co.. Inc., 2343 Post St., phone West 5854.
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Turk st. S. F.; Phone West 793.
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Monadnock Bldg. S. F.. Doors. Win-
dows, Tanks, etc.
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street, S. F.
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nadnock building
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F.
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Savings
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Mission sts.. S. F. ; Phone Park 169
and 1016 Broadway, Oakland.
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Office, 1402 Eddy st. Tel. West 2680.
Union Transfer Co., 2116 Market st,
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Notaries Fublic.
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Sutter street and 2464 Vallejo
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opticians. '
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Golden Gate Ave., S. F.; Phone West
3766.
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are now permanently located at
627 Van Ness ave, between Gold-
en Gate avenue and Turk st.
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Geary St.. Paul Bldg. ; now
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Golden Gate Ave.. S. F.
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St. Germain Restaurant, 4 97 Golden
Gate Ave., Phone Emergency 300.
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Techau Tavern. 1321 Sutter St., 8. F.
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1727 O'Farrell St.
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salesrooms. Mission St., bet. Seventh ani
Eighth sts.; phone Temp'y, 1037.
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Machines. 1431 Bush st, cor. Vai
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Lyons, Charlos. London Tailor, 1432 Fill-
more St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F.;
958 Broadway. Oakland.
McMahon, Keyer and Stiegeler Bros.,
Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Far-
rell and Fillmore.
Neuhaus & Co., Inc., 1618 Ellis st
near Fillmore. S. F.
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formerly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
Thorns F., 1209 Mission St., corner of Eighth,
S. F.
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Market St.. S. F.
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Balke. Ed. W., 1498 Eddy St., cor.
Fillmore.
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office. 1521 Webster st. S. F.
Butler. John & Son, 2209 Steiner st,
Revnnids. Chas. M. Co., 614 Halght »L
S. F.
Rusconi, Fisher & Co.. 649 Turk st. S. F
Berman Wine & Liquor Co., family traoff
S. F.
Siebe Bros. & Placeman, 419-425
Larkin street. Phone, Emergencj
349.
Weniger, P. J. & Co., N. E. cor. Van
Ness ave. and Ellis st. Tel. Emer-
gency 3 09.
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31 Battery St.. S. F.: temporary office,
Harrison and Everett sts., Alameda,
Cal.: Phone Alameda 1179. Gilt Edge
Whiskey
WINES AND LIQUORS— RETAIL.
Ferguson, T. M. Co., Market street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow
Whiskey.
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corner of Fifteenth.
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Harrison. Props., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Streets.
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Amusements
For the week beginning Monday
night, April 15th, the Colonial Stock
Company will be seen in Milton
Royle's successful four-act comedy-
drama, "Friends," the play in which
the author himself scored such a big
hit when it was first produced.
"Friends" is an intensely interesting
play of American life in New York,
and every character admirably por-
trays life as it is lived. The piece
will be mounted in most elaborate
fashion. Monday night will also mark
the local debut of Morgan Wallace,
the new leading man engaged by
Manager Kurtzig to replace Wilfred
Roger, who is now starring in "Sa-
lome." Mr. Wallace has played with
E. H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe, Jos-
ephine Cohan, Madame Kalich, Wil-
ton Lackaye, and Max Figman. He
has also taken most important parts
in such high-class stock companies
as Belasco's, Keith's, Huntington,
Ulica and Crawford. Miss Jewell, the
talented leading woman, will also be
in the cast, as well as Frank Bacon,
A. Burt Wesner, Norval McGregor,
Walker Graves, Jr., R. Peralta-Ga-
lindo, Bessie Bacon, Jane Jeffery, and
the balance of the company.
* * *
To the person of ordinarily happy
disposition the dramatic efforts of
Florence Roberts are somewhat ag-
gravating. It seems to me that an
actress of the undoubted ability of
Miss Roberts could spend her time
and her talents much more profitably
than enacting the sordid dramas to
which she seems addicted.
Of course we all know that there
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is enough sordiclness in real life, and
it is hardly fitting that I should enter
here into the advisability of producing
such dramas. What I do quarrel with
is Miss Roberts predilection for ap-
pearing in such plays exclusively.
Margaret Anglin and Blanche Bates
are emotional actresses, but they re-
frain from day in and day out pro-
duction of the class of dramas which
Miss Roberts favors. I remember
Miss Anglin's repertoire during her
last visit here. "Zira" was an abso-
lutely emotional drama. "The Lady
Paramount" was far from it, while
the third piece was an absolute
comedy. Contrast with this Miss
Roberts' repertoire: "The Strength of
the Weak," "Marta of the Lowlands/'
and the like. All sordid.
As a sarcastic friend of mine says,
"I hate to see Miss Roberts always
groveling about in the dirt." And the
worst of it is that his remarks are
just, though somewhat severe.
* * *
The Augustin Daly Opera Company
is presenting a somewhat musty pro-
duction in "The Country Girl." It
is a distinctively British musical
comedy in both scene and song and
dialogue, and while some of the num-
bers are catchy it leaves no lasting
impression. I hope "The Cingalee"
will be better.
* * *
"The Pit" at the Alcazar is alarm-
ingly strenuous for that genteel play-
house. Miss Lang and Mr. Lytell
seem to be somewhat out of their
depth in this society drama which
verges on melodrama. "The Pit" does
not compare at all favorably with last
week's production, "The Love Route."
* * *
Barney Bernard seems to be the
attraction at the Davis Theater,
where Kolb and Dill were becoming
somewhat stale. Barney, in himself,
however, is somewhat of a "lemon"
and wouldn't be worth going across
the street to see without his German
co-workers. "Fiddle-de-dee" is also
stale. It is time for Kolb and Dill
to give us something real brand
NEW.
* # #
"Fantana" at the American Theater
is by far the best thing yet produced
at that pretty little play house. Miss
Sinnott, the new soubrette, and Joe
Miller, the clever character actor, are
a great addition to the company. To
my mind, Miss Ruby Norton is amply
DR. H. J. STEWART
Organist of S;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Sherith Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition.
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
Church Choir
Teacher of Voice, Piano and Organ
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phone
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues-
day and Friday.
MRS. OSCAR MANSFELDT
PIANIST
Tel. West 314 1801 Buchanan Si.. Cor. Sutler
William Keith
Studio
After Dec. 1st 1717 California St.
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Attorney-at-Law
1101 O'FARRELL ST.
Cor. Franklin
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Returning trains leave track after fifth and last races.
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W. J. BLUMBERG & BRO.. Props.
deserving of mention. Sin- i- pretty,
nil and can sing. I prophecy
that -lu- will in- ! eard from ere long.
Gladys Graham is another young
lady of ability wliose light has been
hidden of late. Merc's to its early
reappearance.
* * *
The only daughter of the multimil-
lionaire was green with envy when she
gazed upon the startling millinery of
Iter rival.
"The idea!" she exclaimed, wrath-
fully. "Just to be bizarre she has had
her hat trimmed with silver pheasants."
Then after a pause:
"But I shall eclipse her yet. Just
wait."
And, going to the telephone, she or-
dered her milliner to decorate the most
expensive Paris creation with gold
eagles.
* * *
"Where arc you going, old chap?"
asked the first youth.
"Going to send Myrtilla a kiss through
the telephone," replied the second youth.
"Why, you are slow. Don't you know
a kiss through the telephone loses its
flavor?"
"Just why I am using the telephone,
old man. I have been eating onions."
* * *
"These bridge disasters are terrible,"
remarked the man who was reading of
bridges being swept away by the river
floods.
"I should say so," replied his friena;
"my wife lost all of her year's pin
money in a game of 'bridge' last night."
* * *
"Beg pardon, sir," said the barber,
scrutinizing the proffered tip, "but this
dime is mutilated. It is full of hacks."
"So was your razor," chuckled the
humorous patron, as he hurried out.
* * *
Green — "What do you mean by say-
ing John Brown is a distant relative
of yours? I thought he was your
brother."
Brown — "Well, there are twelve
children in our family. He's the old-
est and I'm the youngest."
* * *
"Nazareth," the Passion Play writ-
ten by Clay M. Greene and presented
at Santa Clara College during the gold-
en jubilee celebration in 1901, and re-
peated in May, 1903, will be reproduced
at Santa Clara next month on an
elaborate scale, which justifies the
comment of Charles Warren Stoddard,
the poet, that Santa Clara is the Ober-
COLONIAL THEATRE
McAllister near Market Phone Market 920
MARTIN F. KURTIG. President and Manaaer
All Market Street Cars run direct to Theatre
Week Beginning Monday, April 15
Milton Royle's National Success
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Sundays — By appointment
Phone West 390
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Established 1876
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ammerzon of America. No doubt this
coming Passion Play will attract a
great deal of attention and be a most
impressive spectacle. For this year's
cast many of the former actors have
returned to their original roles, among
them being John J. Ivancovich, as
Judas; James A. Bacigalupi, as
Jechonias, and Joseph Farry, as Dath-
ian. There are thirty-five speaking
parts in the play, and 175 students and
members of the alumni will participate
in the production.
I should judge by the tone of the
New York newspapers that Mme.
Calve is not the singer she was. The
Sun's musical critic said:
Mme. Calve made her second appear-
ance in West Thirty-fourth street yes-
terday afternoon at the Manhattan
Opera House, singing Santuzza in Mas-
cagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana." A
large audience greeted her and ap-
plauded an old favorite whose reputa-
tion signified more than her present
abilities. Her interpretation of the
wronged Sicilian girl was disappoint-
ing to those who recalled its former
dramatic and vocal qualities.
Mme. Calve was never absolutely
certain as to pitch, and yesterday af-
ternoon she was mostly uncertain.
Her singing of the incisive music of
Mascagni was characterized by poor
quality of tone and by prevailing in-
accuracy of intonation. Her lower
tones were hollow and hard and her
upper ones exceedingly shrill and un-
musical. Only in the middle voice was
there a trace of the warm color which
used to imbue every impersonation
with sensuous charm, even when the
delivery was questionable in respect
to style.
It used to be a failing of Mme. Calve
to sing sharp, but yesterday she ap-
peared to be singing with continual
effort which made it impossible for her
to rise to the pitch. She sang flat so
much that at times listening to her be-
came a feat of endurance. The com-
bination of unpleasant tone and false
intonation rendered her delivery of the
music merely a display of rude
strength with but little vocal beauty
to commend it. Furthermore, she
forced her voice so much that any-
thing like a moderate seemed to be
beyond her reach.
Her action, too, was no so full of
detail and significance as it used to be.
The lithe and sinuous grace of former
days was missing.
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Volume LVII-No. 16
SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 20, 1907
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Address. JAMES F. FORSTER. Business Manager.
Telephone Market 316.
Plain English
The New York Times, which is a very ably edited
journal and a splendid newspaper, has obtained the
expressions of a great number of editors on the popu-
laiitv of President Roosevelt. All sections of the
United States have been addressed by the Times and
the answers denote that if the editors of America could
have their way, Theodore Roosevelt would be forced
to become the next President of the United States.
Fully seventy-five per cent of the editors inform the
Times that Mr. Roosevelt's popularity is "greater than
ever." Some editors say that the Harriman affair, in
which the Piesident and the railroad magnate politely
declared "you're another," has helped rather than
injure Mr. Roosevelt. Many of the journalists com-
ment on the extreme popularity of the President
amongst Democrats. This is really the secret of Mr.
Roosevelt's strength. Since Bryan and Hearst scared
all the decent conservative Democrats out of the party
the leaderless Jeffersonians have had no one to follow
but Roosevelt. His sturdy Americanism as exempli-
fied in many ways has given patriotic Democrats much
satisfaction and comfort. He has brought the rail-
road barons to realize that they are not above the law,
and his utterances and actions have given the equally
dangerous labor trust no comfort but. much uneasiness.
He recently caused a sensation in labor circles by
publicly coupling the names of E. H. Harriman and
Moyer and Haywood, who are charged with the hor-
rible murders in Idaho.
Although Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, the
officers of the Western Federation of Miners, are
charged with many atrocious crimes, hardly a news-
paper in America has dared to mention the facts of
their case and even the slightest allusions to it are rare.
This week they will be placed on trial in Boise City,
Idaho, for the assassination of Governor Steunenberg,
who was blown to pieces at his own gate by a bomb
placed there by Harry Orchard, who declares he was
hired to commit that and many other crimes by the
officers of the Western Federation of Miners. One of
Orchard's murderous exploits was to kill and wound
about thirty non-union miners by blowing up a rail-
road platform.
Organized American labor has since the day Moyer,
Haywood and Pettibone were arrested, assumed that
these men are innocent and are being railroaded to
prison by the mine owners of Idaho. The many
crimes which were committed — the blowing up of
mines and of non-union miners, and finally the killing
of Governor Steunenberg are all charged by organized
labor to the mine owners. These fiends in human
form we are asked to believe concocted the whole
hellish plot and injured their own property and finally
assassinated their friend, Governor Steunenberg, so
that the Western Federation of Labor might be broken
up and the wages of the union miners reduced.
On such an assumption every union man in America
has been taxed to supply the largest defense fund ever
raised in the world, for men charged with horrible
crimes. For two years the best legal talent in America
has been fighting to prevent the trial of Moyer, Hay-
wood and Pettibone. One of the lawyers for the de-
fense is Patterson of Colorado, who is said to have
had a retainer of $10,000 a year from the Western
Federation of Miners, and who found the votes of that
organization very powerful in electing him to the
United States Senate.
That President Roosevelt should mention Moyer,
Haywood and Pettibone in the list of people dangerous
to the public good, naturally caused a great stir it;
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labor circles, and he has been denounced more or less
bitterly by the more hot-headed leaders, and prin-
cipally by the foreign socialistic element. At a meet-
ing of the Central Federated Union in New York the
other day, the President was arraigned for his ex-
pression. It was declared to be only proper to refrain
from opinions of the guilt of Moyer and his com-
panions until the case is decided, but the unions have
themselves already decided that the men are innocent
and are collecting an immense fund on that theory.
The prosecution is denounced as a band of blood-
thirsty scoundrels who would railroad innocent men to
jail, though it has taken two years since their arrest to
get them to the first stage of the trial. In addition to
this the present Governor of Idaho has received hun-
dreds of letters threatening him with the same fate as
Steunenberg unless the prosecution be abandoned.
In view of these facts it is not remarkable that as
outspoken a man as President Roosevelt should have
classified Moyer and Haywood as he did, and it is this
candor in his treatment of the people whom he regards
as enemies to the public welfare and to the principles
of true American liberty that make Mr. Roosevelt so
strong with the independent voters of the United
States. Of these there is a great host that grows
stronger every year, and in its ranks can be found
thousands of intelligent union workingmen who vote
on election day as their consciences dictate and not
as any political boss may order.
It is said on good authority that managing
editor Fremont Older of the Bulletin withdrew his
charges against editor Barrett and W. R. Hearst
of the Examiner, because the Examiner threatened
to desert the reform movement. The Examiner
created and elected Schmitz and has never been
regarded as in full accord with the Grand Jury
investigation. The editors have sneered at it open-
ly and gone so far as to try and place Rudolph
Spreckels in an unpleasant position.
Editor Older went to Washington a month after
Schmitz was elected the last time, and induced
Francis Heney to come here. He also had. a talk
with President Roosevelt and persuaded him that
the graft so rampant in this City extended even
into the federal service. To the President's in-
terest in the reform movement is due the engage-
ment of Heney and Burns in the prosecution of
the organized bandits who have held this city in
their grip for several years.
Mr. Older wisely concluded that the public in-
terests would be better observed by concentrating
action against Ruef, Schmitz & Co., than in
expending effort to indict the editor and the pro-
prietor of the Examiner for alleged ballot-box
stuffing, and so he withdrew his serious charges
against Barrett and Hearst.
AMERICUS.
Wasp Illustrations
Mrs. Edgar Peixotto whose portrait appears in
"The Wasp" this week, is the wife of the well
known attorney. Mrs. Jack London is the wife
of the socialistic lecturer and alleged novelist. Mrs.
Crowe, Mrs. Blanche Tisdale and Miss J. A. Tuschu
are all prominent in society on the other side of
the bay. Miss Bessie Bacon is known to and
admired by all theatre-goers. Mrs. Spencer Eddy
was the beautiful heiress, Miss Lurline Spreckels.
Miss Etelka Wilbar is prominent in local society
here. Her engagement to Lieutenant Max Garber,
U. S. A., was recently announced. Mrs. O. H.
Burridge is prominent in Santa Barbara society,
and is famous for having made chicken raising a
paying enterprise. The pretty little native daughter
whose portrait is printed is the daughter of J. F.
Rossi, a merchant of this city.
The ladies photographed in a Winton automobile
are Mrs. De Young with associate committee mem-
bers of the successful charity concert at the Fair-
mont Hotel ranged around her. Mrs. De Young
sits at the wheel and noticeable in the group are
Mrs. W. D. O'Kane, Mrs. Herman Whirlow, Mrs.
W. D. Fennimore, Mrs. J. D. Clark, Mrs. Jacob
Bertz and Mrs. Martin Regenberger.
David Roch, the successful real estate operator,
won the fine automobile at the raffle.
Judge Sloss whose portrait is printed is the highly
esteemed young supreme judge.
Mr. Paul Verdier, of the City of Paris, has been
the recipient of a very beautiful testimonial from
his employes. Mr. Verdier is going to Europe for
several months and as a mark of their esteem his
City of Paris employes presented him with a mag-
nifiicient loving-cup of strapped silver. On one
side is inscribed "Presented to Paul Verdier by the
employes of the City of Paris, San Francisco." On
the other side are the words, "Bon Voyage, April
18, 1907", and the graven figure of a viking. The
presentation was made in a most graceful manner
by Mr. George M. Lonergan at a supper given in
the Paris Tea Garden to all of Mr. Verdier's em-
ployes. The parents and sister of Mr. Verdier were
out here on a visit last April and went through the
startling vicissitudes of the great calamity. They
reutrned to Paris six months ago.
Mr. Charles E. Gibbs, who died in this City
on Monday last, was a well-known pioneer. His
daughters, Mrs. Hooke and Mrs. Fred Johnson, and
Miss Helen and Virginia Gibbs, are prominent in
social circles here. They are exceedinly charitable
people. The two young ladies left last week for a
tour abroad intending to be gone six months and
had just arrived in New York where they will re-
ceive the sad news of their father's death. Mr.
Gibbs was a brother of the late George Gibbs. He
was a man 75 years of age.
The concert at Tait's for the benfit of the organ Mrs. Lester Herrick gave a large and enjoyable
fund of St. Dominicks church was a great success, bridge party at her home on Steiner Street on
Thanks to the energy of the patronesses and the Tuesday last. Dainty refreshments and handsome
splendid musical ability of Dr. H. J. Stewart. prizes closed an exciting game.
-THE WASP-
Wednesday — <>h, clear! Those awful rents will
drive me mad. 1 received notice of another raise to-
d:iy. That's the third in three months. I went out
to look for an apartment with Mrs. Gebbe, and at one
place we saw them taking in a lounge through a
fourth-story window. Heavens! The flat was so
small that the chairs were all that could be carried
up the stairs.
"I'll bet the rent is big enough, though," Mrs.
Gebbe remarked.
That woman knows everything. She could tell half
a block off that the lounge was one given to a rich
young bride who married a month ago, and if I'd
asked her I suppose she could have told me the price.
It's only millionaires who can afford a flat where
the furniture doesn't have to be taken in through the
windows now,, she says.
Another thing she told me was that the landlords
are thinking of making a new rule to charge by the
cubic inch instead of so much a room. Oh, gracious!
I may have to camp out this summer and I've got no
one to chaperone me.
Thursday — We were talking today about that
wild juryman, Miles Wayward, and Mrs. Garleigh
said that he is not the only one that is giving his
relatives bunches of gray hair. One of her club-
men friends went home from the Fairmont Hotel
concert on Tuesday night in an auto and visited so
many cafes on the way that he fell asleep in the
car and wouldn't get out. Mercy on me!
"Let me snooze," said the inebriated youth.
"Well, goodness me! What do you think? The
chauffeur just did as he was told and fell asleep him-
self dreaming of the lovely time he'd have in the
morning when he woke the young man up and pre-
sented his bill for $5.00 an hour. Oh, gracious !
Well the young man woke up first and sneaked
into his apartment house, and goodness me, such a
time as there was. The chauffeur raised a fearful
i row."
"I demand" said he to the landlady, "that you
give me the name of the young man that came
home with an elegant jag last night."
"You foolish fellow." the landlady replied.
There's eighty -seven young men in this respectable
Ik inse and every mother's son of 'em came home that
way last night. Skiddoo !"
Mrs. Gayleigh says sure as fate that chauffeur
will run over somebody purposely sunn, he's so
hopping mad.
Friday — Hear me! What an awful thing money
is. I was up to the charity tea of the Dorcas So-
ciety today and Mrs. Weeds came in and sat near
us. Iler husband was buried last week.
Mrs. Shoddy asked us in a whisper if < >ld Weeds
had left the widow well off.
"Oh, fabulously wealthy", said Mrs. Gabbe, who
likes to exaggerate everything. "You know that
he was right in with the municipal grafters from
the start."
"Poor dear," said Mrs. Shoddy sympathetically,
"I must go and ask her to my bridge party tomor-
row."
"Those words, "fabulously wealthy,' worked like a
charm," snickered Mrs. Gabbe, as the leader of so-
ciety went over to comfort the widow.
Gracious! What an age we live in.
TABITHA TWIGGS.
The great promenade concert with which the
Fairmont Hotel was opened not only came up to
the highest expectations of the enthusiastic pro-
moters but exceeded them. The ladies who got up
the affair for the benefit of several most deserving
charities are entitled to the highest praise. The
affair netted nearly $25,000 for charity. The do-
nations alone amounted to $10,000, and $8,000 were
taken in for the sale of admission tickets. The
raffle for the splendid Winton automobile, which
was won by David Rich, the well-known real estate
man, contributed $4500 to the grand total.
No hotel could have had a more auspicious
opening and the Hotel Fairmont management can-
not complain that the inaugural night was not in
every respect one that should give Messrs. Law
and their able staff the utmost satisfaction
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We've added another floor to our exclusive shop. Had to have
more room to re- habilitate in detail our ju.tly celebrated dress clolhes
studio. Dispensing good clothes at correct values creates legitimate
prosperity.
We are out-and-out clothiers. Mens clothes here—nothing
eke. The class of clothes we sell doh't necessitate gift offeringr.
We warrant solid, sound values. While our prices may appear
high, they're consistent with qualities—no guessing contest or
subterfuge here. We let "Lottery Clothiers" do that stunt.
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Jl Weekly Summary of Social Activities and Complications
Pholo Genlhe MRS. EDGAR PEIXOTTO
It has transpired that Mrs. James E. Martin, the
wealthy New York widow who leased her Fifth
Avenue mansion to William Ellis Corey, the head of
the United States Steel Trust, refused to lease it to the
steel magnate at all if he intended to occupy it as a
bachelor. She insisted that the lease should specify
that the mansion is to be occupied by "Mr. and Mrs.
Corey." Mr. Corey has no wife at present, so it is as
good as settled that Miss Maybelle Gilman, the actress,
with whom the trust president has been so deeply in-
fatuated, will be the mistress of the Fifth Avenue
abode. The house is rented furnished and leased for
one year. Mr. Corey has done himself no particular
good by his amatory complications. Public sentiment
has been altogether with the wife who stood by him
from the days when he was neither rich nor well
known, and who was forced to divorce him by reason
of the great scandal in which he involved her.
Mrs. Martin's object in specifying that her Fifth
Avenue mansion should be occupied by "Mr. and Mrs.
Corey" is plain. She did not want to have Mr. Corey's
fiancee installed in the house until the wedding bells
shall have rung for her. It might not do her property
any particular good to be made the focus of a newly-
stirred scandal which has hitherto revolved around
Miss Gilman's Parisian residence.
# * *
Army men have been much interested in the court-
martial of Major Francis P. Fremont, U. S. A., son of
the famous Generaljohn C. Fremont, who got into such
serious trouble by doing up several banks that honored
his promissory notes. The Major is about fifty years
old. Some time ago he was divorced by his wife, who
later married Captain Woodbury, a well-known army
surgeon. He has one son, Benton, a youth about
twenty years old. Major Fremont is in the neighbor-
hood of fifty years old. He borrowed in all about
$4000, which he got by giving thirty and sixty-day
notes for the amount of his monthly salary of $291.67.
The National Bank of Plattsburg, N. Y., and the First
National of Pittsburg resolved to place the gallant son
of Mars on the carpet for conduct unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman, and directed the attention of
the War Department to his peculiar financiering. The
War Depaitment, on finding that the notes were made
payable as a rule on the day that Major Fremont's
check was due, construed his actions as a violation of
army regulations, which forbid an officer to assign pay
that is yet to be earned.
* # *
It is said that he won the confidence of the cautious
bankers by representing falsely that he owned valuable
water-front property in San Francisco, which his
famous father acquired in early days. Fremont Street
is called after the old General. The gay Major also
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MRS. JACK LONDON
declared that he possessed plantations in Cuba which
have turned out to be like the airy palace of Claude
Melnotte by the Lake of Como. The Major tried to
give his creditors the slip quite artfully by seeking to
be declared a bankrupt, but the alert bankers headed
him off there. They made the point that the bank-
ruptcy act does not apply to army officers and also be-
cause his debts were incurred by downright crooked-
ness and desire to defraud. Whether the bankruptcy
act applies to army officers or not, I cannot say. I am
unable to see why the profession of arms should
exempt a man from its operation any more than might
any other calling. However, the influence of the
bankers was sufficient to Dring the gallant Major face
to face with the unpleasant ordeal of a court-martial
at Governor's Island. The Major is well known in
this bailiwick.
% * *
Madame Bavarde, in describing the fads and fancies
of the local smart set, attributes to dear old Ned a craze
for collecting miniatures, and says that he has com-
menced on his second lot. That first art collection of
the social czar had more panel pictures than miniatures
in it. for the ladies of the ballet cannot get all their
attractions into an abbreviated photo. Ho,w many
romances were contained in that first elaborate collec-
tion, which went up in smoke last April. How can the
second assortment ever equal that which the flames
devoured, for as our school-day copybooks informed
us, "Art is long but Life is short." The chorus, peren-
nial in its art goes on forever capering with the exuber-
ance of a young goat, but its admirers grow bald, fat
and sixty, and finally lose all appreciation of the fine
lines of the female form divine. A man who at three-
score could begin and hope to gather a second grand
collection of stage beauties' pbotos, each enshrined in
a tender memory, would make a good mate for Rider
Haggard's "She."
* * *
The death of Judge Lawlor's sister, Katherine, in
New York after a brief illness has been announced.
Although the Judge has spent the last twenty-five
years in California, he retains a strong affection for
his folks and has twice made short visits to them.
He contemplated another trip to New York this
summer and was anticipating a longer visit to his
relatives, so the news of his sister's death is quite
a shock to him.
* * *
James I'. Donahue, the reliable New York cor-
respondent of the Chronicle, described in his latest
letter how Colvin B. Brown, manager of the Cali-
fornia Promotion Committee's Eastern bureau is
hustling for this State. Mr. Brown has started a
series of "Dutch treat" dinners at an Italian res-
taurant on Forty-first Street, which all the floating
Bohemian element attends, including Will Irwin,
Henry Kowalsky, Henry Todd, et id genus omne.
This is joyful news to the business men of California
who are putting up so liberally for the Promotion
Committee. It will bring them such a lot of husky
plasterers, carpenters, plumbers and horny-fisted
colonists to take up small farms and develop the
State. Oh yes, oh yes.
* * *
Miss Ethel Shorb leaves next week for a visit to
Mrs. W. B. Hooper at her delightful summer home,
Mountain View. Mrs. Hooper is a brilliant, witty
woman — one of the attractive wealthy widows of San
Praneisco. I hear that she contemplates giving many
week end parties this summer.
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Miss Jennie Blair, who was one of the prime
movers in the entertainment that opened the Hotel
Fairmont, and which incidentally added dollars to
the treasuries of several charities, is one of the
richest bachelor maids in Society. Her father, Cap-
tain Samuel Blair, amassed a large fortune and
though his widow and daughter have always spent
money liberally they were not spendthrifts and
consequently the earthquake did not so materially
curtail their incomes as it did those of others of their
set. Miss Blair has another fad besides charity —
shecollects slippers, not real slippers of kid but
models of the shoes worn by famous beauties. I
imagine her collection of silver slippers was lost
in the fire that destroved her home, for I have
heard nothing of it of late.
* =;= *
The Doctor's daughters, of which Miss Blair is
a shining light, was originally formed by Dr. Mac-
kenzie of the First Presbyterian Church ; the young
ladies banded themselves together to do good work
in his name. Miss Gertrude Severance was one of
the original members. She was a beautiful girl,
tall and brunette, and was an intimate friend. of
Miss Blair. Her father was appointed Minister
to Hawaii by the President. He took his family
to Honolulu to live, and I believe Gertrude married
there. The two Stetson girls — Sallie (Mrs. Wins-
low), and Nellie (Mrs. Oxnard) — were original
Doctor's daughters, and so were the Crocker sis-
ters— Mrs. Van Fleet, Mrs. McCreary and the late
Mrs. Sam Buckbee.
* * *
About the same time that Dr. Mackenzie was
fathering this little charitable club, the First Con-
gregational Church, through the efforts of Mrs.
Breyfogle, organized an almost similar club, the
Helping Hand Society, with Mrs. James Alva Watt
and some of her friends as leading workers. The
Helping Hands used to give very stunning enter-
tainments at which Society was pleased to assist.
One of the gifts received by "Uncle" George
Bromley on his 90th birthday was a bottle of white
wine that survived the earthquake and fire in a
down-town wine vault. The bottle is quite a cur-
iosity being coated with a thick dust burnt in.
Mrs. Guy Scott, who is visiting her parents, Dr.
and Mrs. Voorhies, for a week or two on her way
East with her husband and children, was the beauty
of the four Voorhies' sisters. Though the youngest
she is now a substantial looking matron with four
children.
* * *
The Girls' High School Alumnae will meet this
Saturday to eat and exchange reminiscences, but one
of the brainiest of the Alumnae will not be present.
This is Miss Jean Klink — by the way, she writes
herself "Jane" now. Miss Klink was lately appointed
Professor of Sociology in the American International
College of Springfield, Illinois. She was once a school
teacher here but took a course at the University of
California, after teaching a short time, and graduated
with honors. Then she went East and the next heard
of her she was working as a domestic in Boston
homes, to find out for herself the true inwardness of
the servant question. Her views were published in
the Atlantic Monthly. Miss Klink has made studies
of several branches not laid down in a college curri-
culum. For instance she studied palmistry and the
handmarks in their relation to criminal characteristics,
as Pudd'nhead Wilson studied thumb-prints.
The death of "Silent Jim" Smith was a lesson to
our local bachelor millionaires who have not yet be-
gun to live and enjoy their wealth. "Silent Jim"
began to search out the joy of living till too late in
life. Perhaps he was still young enough to take
some pleasure out of his first steps in New York
Society, but after all it is only between the age of
eighteen and thirty that one can grasp the best life
has to offer. After thirty enthusiasm has evaporated.
It seems a thousand pities that $2S0,000,000-Smith
should not have met his matrimonial fate earlier in
life, for when he did find her and lost his heart he
had to wait until she got rid of her then husband
before he could call her his. All his millions could
not dissolve those strong bonds that bound her to
William Rhinelander Stewart until the courts had
attended to the matter. And that is why I ask our
local bachelor millionaires to pav heed to the sad
end of "Silent Jim," dead before he really lived. Man
must marry before he may be said to have gathered
all the sheaves in life's wheat field. There are some
nice girls and pretty widows who would no doubt
be very glad to help those popular bachelors James
Phelan, Louis Sloss, Dr. Harry Tevis and some others
of our unattached millionaires to spell matrimony.
* * *
John Brenner's ex-partner, "Ed" Bowes, went to
Tacoma without announcing his engagement, and the
tabbies were much disgusted at his omission. They
had been having him engaged for some months and
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Mrs. Mott- Smith Cunningham exhibitor in
Paris Salon of 1 906 announces that her Studio
Shop at 1 622 Pine St., a few doors from Van
Ness Ave., is now open for the .sale of her jewelry
■THE WASP
tu one particular Society girl. Mr. Bowes is going
to boom Tacoma with some capitalists with whom he
has identified himself. There arc- a great many prettj
English girls in Tacoma and the tabbies begin to fear
that then- is no longer hope that Mr. Bowes will
cl se a bride in the city where he made his start
in life.
* * *
"Pidgie," otherwise Griffith, Kinzie arrived from
the East this week and has been hunting up his old
friend- ever since. He finds them hard to locate, but
in locating the new quarters of the Press Club he
managed to feel less a stranger here. "Pidgie" is a
life member of the Press Club and also belongs to
the Olympic, the Elks and the San Francisco Art
Association. He is one of the rich bachelors of the
Unitarian set.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. John Charles Adams of Oakland have
sent out cards announcing the arrival of "Master
Adams" on March 17th. This is the second boy in
the John Charles branch of the Adams clan though
they have three little girls. Mrs. Adams was
Ernestine Haskell before her marriage, and is re-
garded as one of the most beautiful brunettes in
Societv on both sides of the bay.
* * * *
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Peixotto and their children,
nurses, maids, goods and chattels are installed in one
of the prettiest flats on Presidio Heights, in the 3800
block. Mrs. Peixotto is even handsomer now than
when she came here as a bride, and her children are
much like her.
* # *
The late Charley Strine was a great friend to news-
paper men, and was never haughty in his dealing with
the press as so many impresarios are. But Strine was
at one time a newspaper man himself, before he be-
gan doing press work for concert and operatic enter-
prises and from that occupation gradually became
managerially interested in stars. When he was at
the Tivoli he brought his wife and little girl to San
Francisco, and they lived in Pine Street near Octavia.
Mr. Strine was extremely fond of his family and
especially made a pet of his pretty little daughter.
An old timer, who has a pedigree of our smart set
at his tongue's end, makes objection to a paragraph
that appeared in last week's Wasp, anent Louis Bru-
guiere and the Newport smart set. The old timer
says that it is stretching a point to say that the Bru-
guieres belong to one of the "best old French fam-
ilies," when Louis Bruguiere's paternal grandfather
was a gardener. The Sathers considered it a terrible
mesalliance when Josephine married Mr. Bruguiere.
But all the Bruguiere boys are distinguished looking
so there may be something in the idea that their
French blood is blue. Moreover are we not all de-
scendants from the first gardener.
* ' * *
Mrs. Fred Kohl gave one of the most elaborate
luncheons of the season on last Sunday at the
Burlingame Club, in honor of Mr. Rice of Boston,
who came out here to be the best man at the
Harvey-Cooper wedding. There, were eighteen
guests present. Mr. Rice was a college chum of
( Iscar Cooper. He is a young gentleman with very
polished manners and made a most favorable im-
pression. After luncheon Mr. Stetson took for a
spin in his handsome auto Miss Genevieve Harvey,
Miss Linda Cadwalader and Mr. Rice. Miss
Harvey had the front seal, a fact of which due
notice was tkaen. The party spent the afternoon
at the golf links. Mr. Rice returned during the
week to his home in Boston, as the wedding of
Miss Harvev and Mr. Cooper has been postponed
indefinitely owing to the voting ladv's illness.
# # •
Mrs. E. B. Cadwalader and her attractive
daughter. Miss Linda, will leave early in May for
a prolonged Eastern tour. Their first stop will be
in Chicago, where they will be the guests of Gen-
eral Greely, after which Miss Linda will go to
Xew York to visit her friend, Mrs. Bourke Cochran,
nee Ide, while Mrs. Cadwalader will visit her son
in Iowa.
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-THE WASP-
Pholo Belle Oudry
MRS. CROWE of Oakland
Any Californians who visit New York should
carry some large railroad spikes with them and nail
up the doors of their bedrooms against sneak
thieves. How simple Mayor Schmitz ever got
through without losing all the contents of the plush-
lined box is a wonder, seeing that Abe Ruef was
fooled so easily.
* * *
The recent robbery of Boss Cox in Cincinnati was
an ordinary bit of metropolitan hotel thievery, but
it astonished the countryman. He couldn't make
out how he lost $8000 and neither can the detectives,
who are evidently the same breed of sleuths as we
have. Mrs. Cox gave the Boss $8000 worth of
jewelry to keep safely for her, and he put it in a
small bag and slipped it into the hip pocket of his
trousers. He put the garment on a chair close to his
bed and when he got up in the morning the bag of
rings was gone. So was his purse who $800 in
greenbacks. The door of the room was locked, yet
the valuables had been spirited away. Mr. Cox and
his sorrowing wife made loud complaint to the man-
agement of the Hotel Knickerbocker, but that pro-
ceeding is waste of time in New York. They always
tell you that you must have been robbed on the
street cars, or insinuate that you have been playing
against some bucket shop. The robbery of a politi-
cal boss is the most contemptible of crimes. Is there
no honor amongst gentlemen?
That was a very funny mistake which the
newspapers made in announcing the marriage of A.
Aronson, the real-estate operator, to Mrs. Rosen-
thal, the celebrated "Diamond Queen." Mr. Aron-
son no doubt failed to see the joke, for several
powerful reasons. In the first place, he hadn't mar-
ried the buxom toba'ccpnist, but Miss Nettie Rosen-
thal, the sister of his former wife, who died four
years ago, and who has been a member of the Aron-
son household since her childhood.
The famous lady who was mentioned as having
married the capitalist was one of the celebrities of
old San Francisco. Something like thirty years ago
she and her husband kept a cigar store on Mont-
gomery Street, near Sacramento, so she can be no
spring chicken by this time. She has had some
matrimonal experience, and amongst others mar-
ried a wandering count, who did not prove entirely
satisfactory, though his title was a good advertise-
ment of the tobacco shop. Mrs. Rosenthal's habitual
display of jewelry won her the sobriquet of "The
Diamond Queen." After the fire she got into
trouble in Berkeley, where a storekeeper accused
her of getting some of his goods mixed up with her
own. Mr. Aronson must have received many con-
gratulations from his friends when it was announced
that he had married this distinguished lady.
Mr. Aronson was originally a furniture dealer on
Stockton Street, near Vallejo. He prospered by
close attention to business and became a capitalist,
but his large coups were all made during the past
six years. He was the first man to see that there
was big money in taking unimproved downtown
property and erecting modern buildings on it. He
put up a number of structures and sold them quickly
and may be said to have started the boom in that
line. He soon had several enterprising imitators.
The fire caused him to lose heavily. He is a very
well-preserved, good-looking man and attributes his
good physical condition to salt-water bathing. Be-
fore the fire he took a long swim every day in the
Lurline Baths tank before walking home to his
dinner. There are several prominent San Fran-
ciscans who have great faith in the virtues of salt
water as an invigorator and preserver of youthful
vitality.
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-THE WASP-
Photo Bdle Oudry MISS BLANCHE TISDALE of O Jtland
The action of Oliver N. Moxey against Attorney
Chapman shows what a risky thing it is to plunge
into a lawsuit. Incidentally the case reveals how
much Moxey stood to get by marrying the old lady
who became infatuated with him when he was act-
ing as instructor in Hoover's academy of physical
culture on Market Street, near Tenth.
# * *
Hoover had a plan of converting sedate and pudgy
females into young Venuses by kicking up their
heels and doing other stunts in knickerbockers. It
was a weird sight to see all the hoary antiquities in
his gymnasium going through their calisthenics in
the hope of baffling old Father Time. Moxey was
Hoover's right-hand man and an old lady from Bos-
ton, who lived in the St. Nicholas Hotel became
wild over him. Her children tried to squelch the
romance with the usual result. The infatuated
matron became wilder than ever about her young
suitor, and so they were married. Now Moxey
wants Attorney Chapman to pay him about forty-
seven thousand dollars which he avers that attorney
collected from the sale of Mrs. Moxey's valuable
property in Boston.
* * *
The attorney candidly admits that he collected
all the money as figured out by Moxey. The total
reached the tidy sum of nearly one hundred and
fifty-three thousand dollars, which isn't so bad for a
Boston estate. When the attorney charged off all
the expenses, however, Moxey was in his debt in-
stead of it being the other way. There was a very
bitter lawsuit, as Mrs. Moxey's Boston relatives
wanted to have her declared incompetent and the
property placed out of her reach. The court did de-
clare her incompetent, but later on she was declared
competent and all this represented a great expendi-
ture of time and talent by Attorney Chapman, for
which he charged some forty- four thousand dollars.
The estate has been swallowed up in litigation. It is a
very old story in a new form. Mrs. Moxey, prior to
her marriage to the physical culturist, was enjoying
an income of $4000 from her property, but that was
not enough to satisfy her. She had the feminine
desire to be loved and for herself and preferably by a
young man, and she got her wish. Poor woman.
There is nothing more valuable in this world than
to know when you are well off. But so few know it.
The marriage of Miss Wanda Hadenfeldt and
Henry Clinton Melone was celebrated at high noon
on Wednesday April 10th at the First Presbyterian
Church. Miss Ethel Melone was bridesmaid and
Arthur Goodfellow best man. The ushers were
Benjamin Deane, James Deane, Philip Paschel and
Carl Hadenfeldt. The small nephew of the bride was
the ring bearer. The bride, who is a beautiful girl,
looked doubly so in her wedding robes of point lace
applique. Her prettiest adornment, however was a
wonderful Armenian wedding veil of silver, the gift
of an Armenian girl friend. It was most effective as
the shimmering silver falling over the rare lace of the
wedding gown, made a pretty picture. An elaborate
wedding breakfast followed at the Palace Hotel. Mr.
and Mrs. Melone will be at home after May 1st, at
Oak Knoll, the Summer home of the Melones, but
will spend the coming Winter in town.
* :': *
Miss Ella Bender netted a handsome sum by her
recent dramatic readings at the residence of Mrs.
Homer S. King on Broadway. I understand that
Miss Bender has no difficulty in getting $50 for an
hour's reading at an afternoon affair.
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-THE WASP-
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shortridge
will regret to hear that Mrs. Shortridge has been
so very ill that it was deemed advisable to remove
her to a sanitarium. She was suddenly attacked by
some kind of a febrile malady. Typhoid fever has
been very prevelent on account of the awful water
supply by Spring Valley and it was feared that Mrs.
Shortridge's illness might develop into something
of that kind.
* * *
H. L. Ricks of Eureka announces the engagement
of his daughter Adaline to Walter Montgomery
Murphy, of Detroit, Mich. Miss Ricks is the niece
of Mr. Barclay Henley the well known lawyer of
this City, and made her debut at a recent tea given
by Mrs. Henley. Mr. Murphv is the son of the
millionaire lumberman A. M. Murphy of Detroit,
and looks after his father's interests in California.
The wedding will take place early in June.
* * *
Before her departure for the East last week, Mrs.
Hanford was the guest of honor at a tea given by
Mrs. Selby Hanna. Although informal, it was an
elaborate affair and the costumes of the ladies were
of rare elegance. On the following morning as
Mrs. Hanford arrived at the ferry to take the boat
on her Eastern journey, what was her horror to
discover that the stupid expressman had taken her
carefully packed dress suit cases to Third and
Townsend Streets. Telephone messages being of
no avail, Mrs. Hanford was obliged to start on her
trip minus even a tooth brush and trust to luc1' to
purchase such articles as best she could en route
until the grip could be forwarded.
=i: * *
All Mr. Selby Hanna's friends are grieved to
hear that he is ill again. He but recently recovered
from a severe attack of grip.
Miss Loraine de la Montanya is very busy these
days preparing for her wedding to Mr. Edward
Davis, which takes place early in June. I am told
her wardrobe is one of unusual beauty and elegance.
* * *
The Engineer Officers, U. S. A., will give a large
hop in their new barracks room at Fort Mason
this Saturday evening. This will also be the occa-
sion of the last appearance here of Major-General
and Mrs. MacArthur, as they leave soon for the
East.
Mrs. Ynez Shorb White's skating club met last
Monday evening, all the buds and belles attired in
their Summer costumes, their hats trimmed in flow-
ers and fruits. The masculine contingent was large
and distinguished. A lady remarked, a noticeable
feature of skating rinks is the manner in which it
rejuvenates beaux and belles who were prominent
in society when the water came up to Montgomery
Street. It was a matter of comment at last Monday
night's skating party that Mr. Everett Bee carries
his age most marvellouslv. He is as airy as a
zephyr floating around the rink with buds of
eighteen. Mr. McAfee also held his own well twixt
boy and youth, which was apparent in the grand
march. So it is true age is a matter of feeling, not
years. Mr. Paschal and Mr. Robson of the younger
generation skated for all they were worth the entire
evening. Dr. Bruce Foulkes seemingly desperately
determined to reduce his increasing avoirdupois,
skated with unceasing energy until a pretty girl
tripped him up, and Oh my, what a mighty fall
there was. The hall trembled and caused the
nervous ones to have momentary visions of another
eighteenth of April. Mrs. Frederick Palmer, just
returned from abroad, skated gracefully all the
evening, showing off to advantage her costume
with the stamp of Paris upon it. As there is to be
but one more meeting, everybody skated with added
zest. Mrs. White never looked prettier than in her
becoming Summer costume.
* * *
Mr. A. N. Drown and his daughter, Miss Newell
left last week for the East and Europe. It will
be six months before local society sees them again.
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Boardman, who have been
occupying Mr. Drown's home since their own
beautiful home was burned, have taken a house
in San Anselmo for the summer.
* * *
Mrs. Stuart Rawlings has recently come to the
city from her home in Mexico, on a visit to her
parents Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Warner. Mr.
Rawlings has extensive mining interests in Mexico.
* * #
Mrs. Clarence Breeden's dinner and theatre party,
which took place last week in honor of her sister
Mrs. Hedges, was a most enjoyable affair. The
party included Mr. and Mrs. Breeden, Mr. and Mrs.
Ed. Pond, Mrs. R. P. Schwerin, Miss Sara Drum,
Lieut. Com. Halsted, U. S. A., Edward M. Green-
way and Mr. Woodruff.
* * *
Hotel Rafael as usual will be crowded this Sum-
mer. The latest to engage apartments for the sea-
son are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foster Dutton.
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Tlarc is much speculation in local Society as
t" whether the well-known heiress, who left sud-
denly for New York recently on the eve of her
marriage, will change her sudden resolution not
to wear her trousseau. I believe it was almost
finished, and the friends of the bride-to-be were
anxiously looking for the invitations, when they
were amazed t" read in the newspapers that the
ladv had packed her trunk and gone East. She can
go anywhere she pleases, as she is in the enjoyment
of an income of about a couple of thousand dollars
a month. The prospective groom is the son of a
famous statesman who once ran for the distin-
guished office of Vice-President of the United
States, lie is a polished gentleman and esteemed
by his large circle of friends. The young lady who
has thus suddenly halted at the foot of the altar,
so to speak, was once before a prospective bride,
but at the last moment the engagement was called
off much to the surprise and disappointment of
Societv. When a girl has an income of twenty
thousand a year, or thereabouts, she is usually not
the easiest prize in the world to win. However she
may change her mind again and let the wedding
bells ring.
* * *
The recent Scoville-Talbot wedding at New
York was a fashionable affair. Miss Helen Chase
Scoville, the bride, is the daughter of Mrs. Helen
M. Gardner Scoville of New York. The bridegroom
is the son of Mrs. A. X. Talbot, now of Washing-
ton, formerly of this City. He is a graduate of
Stanford University. One of the bridesmaids was
Miss Elsie Kimble of San Francisco, who went
East to attend the wedding. Mrs. Amy Talbot, the
groom's mother, was formerly pretty Miss Amy
Bowen, daughter of the well-known member of the
wholesale grocery firm of Goldberg-Bowcn & Co.
* * #
The death of J. Henley Smith of San Francisco
reminds one that the old generation of Californians
has almost passed out of sight and memory. Few
of the present day politicians or people in Society
remember Mr. Smith, who was a handsome man,
and very prominent in the social world. He was
one of the best dressed men in the City. Mr.
Smith, with his air of distinction, his fashionable
clothes, and high social connections, would be a
strange contrast to the present combination of
grafters that comprise the Board of Supervisors.
* * *
Mr. Smith was elected in the days when the
Southern wing of the Democracy still held the reins
of power and dictated nominations. He had fought
on the Confederate side in the Civil War and was
the great-grandson of John Henley, who was one
of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
He held several prominent positions in the business
community of San Francisco, and was the original
organizer and vice-president of the Pacific Transfer
Company and the United Carriage Company. Mr.
and Mrs. Smith lived for many years at the old
Occidental Hotel and were very prominent in the
exclusive Southern social set. Mrs. Henley was a
Miss Rebecca Young of Baltimore,
* * *
For the past liften years the 1 Icnlev-Smiths had
been absent from San Francisco. They made their
home in Washington, D. C, and occupied a promi-
nent place in the Society of the Capital. Mr. Hen-
ley retired from active business ten years ago,
having acquired an ample fortune. His death oc-
curred at the Anglo-American Hotel, Florence,
while he was traveling in Europe. His wife and
sister were with him. Mr. Smiths health had been
precarious for some time.
* * #
Mrs. J. C. Jordan has been the motive of much
entertaining during the short time remaining before
her departure for the East and Europe.
Mrs. James H. Bull has issued invitations for
a bridge breakfast at her home on Yerba Buena
Island, on April 23rd. Sixteen guests will be en-
tertained on this occasion.
* * #
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Anderson Chanslor are
enjoying the sights of New York. Miss Elsie
Kimble, sister of Mrs. Chanslor, was one of the
bridesmaids at the Scoville-Talbot wedding which
took place in New York on April 3rd, and for which
event Mr. and Mrs. Chanslor went East.
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-THE WASP-
Phoio Belle Oudry BESSIE BACON
A handsome and talented member of the
Colonial Theatre Stock Company
The New York Court of Appeals has decided
that Howard Gould must pay Architect Abner J.
Haydel something more than $30,000 for the plans
for Castle Gould at Sands Point, L, I., and inci-
dentally for the deep wound which was inflicted on
Mr. Haydel's feelings when Mrs. Gould called him
a "damn architect." The Court of Appeals refused
to reopen the case. The Gould's housebuilding
troubles were first aired in court two years ago.
The jury gave the architect a verdict of $24,183.75.
The cost of carrying the case through the higher
courts has added something over $6000 to the orig-
inal sum. Castle Gould was planned to be an exact
reproduction of Kilkenny Castle in Ireland. The
Goulds didn't like the plans and at the first trial
of the case Haydel's counsel told the Court that an
interview with Mrs. Gould at the Waldorf had
ended when she told her servant to "throw the
damned architect out." It is not of record that he
waited for this assistance in making his exit.
* * *
The sale of the late Stanford White's collection
of carvings, bronzes, tapestries, etc., attracted a
highly distinguished company of bidders to the
White residence at 121 East Twenty-first Street,
New York, where the auction was held. While the
sale was in progress Mr. White's slayer was on trial
for his life in another New York building. Admis-
sion to the sale was by card only, and cards were
hard to secure at the rooms of the American Art As-
sociation. Among the bidders were Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney, Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mrs. Worth-
ington Whittredge and Miss Whittredge, Mrs.
George Bliss and Miss Bliss, David Belasco and
William R. Hearst.
The auctioneer had arranged hanging green vel-
vet curtains and a slender legged stand in one end of
the music room on which to display the various art
objects. As each number was called out two liveried
negroes appeared from behind the green curtains
with the carving or candle branches and supported
them under a group light on the little stand before
the green plush. The sale was brisk. A majolica
statue of Venus brought $160. David Belasco paid
$330 for two old-fashioned powder horns heavily
embossed and fringed with faded red. There was a
great assortment of brasses. Fully a dozen Dutch
warming pans went at prices ranging from $25 to $40.
There were church plaques from Spanish cathedrals
and Dutch churches, and Italian monstrance
and a Louis XV. monstrance. an antique
wall clock, which likewise appealed to Mr. Belasco.
Mr. Hearst bought in one of the Italian plaques.
Two Spanish silver chancel lamps brought $840.
C. N. Coolidge, the artist, paid $300 for an old ruby
red Genoese altar cloth. Two Henry II. tapestry
pillows brought $335. An old cushion which would
be dear at $30 was sold for $170. The fact that Mr.
White as an art connoisseur should have bought it
seemed to quadruple the price of the article. David
Belasco paid $105 for a red velvet Genoese embroi-
dered despatch bag, which will no doubt figure as
one of the properties of some Belasco drama.
# * *
The barber who was elected to the New Jersey
Legislature and wants a bill passed taxing men who
wear whiskers, has caused more of a stir than he
thought possible. A graded tax has been suggested
as some whiskers are more of an offense than others
to the eye of a tonsorial artist. For the purposes of
taxation the whiskers have been classified as fol-
Let them know!
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
■THE WASP-
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Pholo Belle Oudry MISS S. A. TUSCHER of Oakland
lows : Plain whiskers, earguards, face fins, weather-
cocks, face fungus, holdalls, hearth rugs, cutlets,
paint brushes and the whiskerette. As moustaches
should also be taxed for the same statesmanlike
reason that barbers must have work, they have also
been classified. The different orders are: Plain
moustaches, the inverted eyebrow, the walrus, .and
the soup-strainer. While a modified moustache like
an inverted eyebrow might escape with a tax of
$5 a year the wearer of a fierce "walrus" or a "soup-
strainer" should be considered lucky if let off with
less than $100.
# # *
Pittsburg became so restive under the taunt that it
produces more millionaires and scandals than any city
in America, that the Chamber of Commerce got up a
list of spotless citizens. Every man was to have a
character eighteen carats fine and warranted to stand
the acid of hostile criticism. All the saints were to be
embalmed in a beautiful book, which was to be opened
at a grand dinner given by the Chamber of Commerce
the other day. Lo and behold, when the festive event
took place the book of saints was found to contain
only twenty-eight pictures and certificates of good
character. For a city of about half a million inhabi-
tants this was a pretty bad showing. San Francisco,
even with the Grand Jury raking all the millionaires'
clubs with a fine-tooth comb, could do better than that.
Now comes the distressing news that the list of spot-
less Pittsburgers has to be reduced as one of the
righteous twenty-eight has gone and got married to a
divorcee, and social Pittsburg is much perturbed over
the wedding. The recreant is named Nevin and is a
rising young composer. The lady in the case was a
Mrs. Mazy Lyman Dean. About twelve years ago she
came to Pittsburg as governess in, a lawyer's family
and married Dr. Dean, who was the family physician.
Composer Nevin had been a schoolmate of the Doctor,
so what was more natural than that he should become
a frequent visitor to the Dean home. Equally natural
in Pittsburg, perhaps, was it, that he should develop a
tender regard for Mrs. Dean and that her husband
should give him a walloping. The divorce which
followed was also in the regular order of things Pitts-
burgian. Great secresy was maintained in the trial of
the case and by some hook or crook all the papers were
spirited away from the courthouse. Now that the
righteous Mr. Nevin has married the divorcee all the
facts come out and Pittsburg is in tears. It has only
twenty-seven leading citizens entitled to wear tin halos
on the public streets, and no one can tell what minute
some of the saintly twenty-seven may stub his toe and
break his trade-mark.
Chief Justice Beatty left the City last week to
attend court in Los Angeles. Mrs. Beatty did not
accompany him, but left the following day to visit
her son Oscar Beatty and wife at their beautiful
home at Woodside. In the meantime Mrs. Brooke
M. Wright, their attractive daughter, will have Miss
Daisy Polk as her guest at the Beatty home on Octavia
Street.
* # *
The D. A. Benders have leased the Hoffmann
residence in San Rafael and will pass the Summer
there with their daughters Miss Ella and Miss Cherry.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. E. Burke Holladay are entertaining
Miss Pardee, a very interesting yoimg lady from the
East, who will spend some time in San Francisco.
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-THE WASP
Uncle George Bromley's birthday dinner which
was given by Raphael Weill was of course a great
success. Mr. Weill never gave a dinner which was a
failure. There were about fifty guests and John
Lander's was the toast master. Ned Hamilton declared
that "Raphael Weill's dinners speak for him, and
dinners around the world are eloquent of him" —
Which is indeed true, for dishes from Paris to San
Francisco are named a la Raphael Weill. Benjamin
Ide Wheeler made the best speech and attributed the
youthful spirit of the ninety year old philosopher to
his laughter at the foolishness of those who under-
standing little of the universe make such a serious
business of living. He went on to say that Uncle
George had passed ninety years in the University of
Goodfellowship, and then Dr. Wheeler went through
the ceremony of conferring on the veteran Bohemian
the degree of L. L. D. which he metamorphosed into
Doctor of Laudable Lawcosness.
* * *
Harry Melvin of Oakland opened his remarks with
"when I left the Metropolis this evening." The idea
of Oakland being the metropolis was certainly worth
a laugh. Continuing his remarks the Judge said that
when he entered the University years ago he received
a letter from Uncle George saying: "I am glad you
are going to a University — I never had an opportunity
to go to a University. The nearest I ever came to it
was being second mate on a schooner that was carry-
ing granite for Gerard College.
Ned Hamilton read the "Round Robin" that came
out from the Lambs to Uncle George and he said he
been asked to do so because of his sonorous voice
and his empty head. When he came to the names of
the signers, he said :
"I will now turn these over to my friend Louis Sloss
because as he has had most of them on I. O. U's, he
will be able to decipher them better than I can."
Uncle George said that as he listened to all the
kind things said about him he grew so puffed up that
by the time the dinner was over he felt that he should
speak to no one, but himself. He said it reminded
him of the time when he went as Consul to Tsin
Tsin, in China, and they had never before realized
what a Consul was really like. They had never seen
any one like him except General Grant, when that
great soldier was on his tour of the world, and there
was considerable doubt in the Chinamen's minds
whether the Consul was not the greater man. Uncle
George has had more dinners given him than any one
in San Francisco and yet he alwavs receives them in
the same graceful way. Raphael Weill was to have
left for Paris a year ago, but the earthquake and fire
changed his olans as they did those of many others,
i he past year has been an eventful one for the famous
merchant and having arranged his affairs in satis-
factory shape he gave the dinner on Saturday night
which was at once a tribute to Uncle George and au
revoir to his friends of the Bohemian Club and the
"old guard" in particular. He left on Thursday for
Europe.
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Miss Maude Payne is one of the luckiest girls alive
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and thoughtful as a fond parent can be. Miss Payne
is what may be described as terribly good looking and
she spends real money as if 'twere the stage article.
Forty dollars for a plain linen washed skirt doesn't
cause her a pang. Not long since the mother of
this fortunate young lady said to her when her birth-
day anniversity came round.
"Maude have you everything you want?"
"Everything Mother" was the reply.
Then Mrs. Freeman led the girl over to the window
before which stood a ravishingly lovely 1907 auto-
mobile.
"But you haven't an automobile," said the fond
parent.
"No, but you have mother"
"That's not your own though."
"No, that's one thing I haven't."
"How do you like that car?"
"I love it."
"That's yours" said Mrs. Freeman.
They say : "It's better to be born lucky than rich '"
but a combination of both can't be beaten.
* * *
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Lilley, who married Miss Juliet William-., sister of
Mrs. Walter riobart. Mr. Burns was horn in Colum-
bus, Ohio, where the Lilleys live and whence the
Williams' family hail.
* * *
The A. A. Moores after Mrs. Moore finishes her
buildings are going to make a tour of the world.
* * *
James Follis has decided to become a resident of
Marin County, and is running for office of trustee of
the town of San Rafael, which burg is at present in
the throes of a campaign.
* * *
General L. P. Jocelyn, who has just retired from
the Fourteenth Infantry, is at Del Monte with Mrs.
Jocelyn, Miss Jocelyn and Mrs. Hume. A number
of the officers of the Monterey Presidio have been
over to pay their respects to General Jocelyn, who
is very popular in both army and social circles.
* * *
Mrs. George W . Kingsbury, of San Francisco,
with Mrs. William H. Devlin, of Sacramento, are
at Del Monte to remain several weeks.
* * *
George Heazleton has been putting in a few days
at Del Monte, and enjoying the pleasures of the
fine golf links.
:!: * *
Horace Piatt and A. D. Shepard were at Del
Monte for the week end. Other well known people
who registered during the week were John Caffrev,
C. S. Aiken, D. Ghirardelli, F. M. Ames, H. K,
Montgomery, A. E. Hughes, J. S. Dinkelspeil, S. B.
Dinkelspeil, S. D. Gordon, Max Lorenz, T. W.
Read, Dr. H. O. Hornett, F. F. Runyon, H. A.
Klyce, William Kelley, J. Brewster, F. E. Booth
and John G. lis.
Mr. and Mrs. Rawlinson M. Reade, and Mr. and
Mrs. R. L. Laughlin are two young couples now
at Del Monte. Mrs. Reade is a neice of Parker
Whitney, and a very attractive girl.
* # *'
Miss Claire Sweigert, daughter of the well known
capitalist surprised all her friends by quietly marry-
ing Mr. John J. Clayton on the 9th inst. Almost
everybody expected that she would be a June bride.
The groom is the son of the late James A. Clayton
of San Jose, a prominent real estate operator. Rev.
Dr. Guthrie was the officiating clergyman at the
wedding. Neither the bride nor the groom had any
attendants. The young couple will live with Mr. and
Mrs. Sweigert on Presidio Avenue,
e * #
Mrs. Rosa Hooper Plotner has started a class for
miniature painting, which meets every Wednesday
afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock, at her studio 1625
California Street. Mrs. Plotner has many new orders
for miniature painting that take up so much of her
time and will devote Saturday afternoons to informal
teas at which she will receive her friends.
An exhibition of Paintings of Indian Life by Grace Hudson, will be held
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-THE WASP
MRS. SPENCER EDDY CLurline Spreckels)
The New York Sun, which devotes a great deal of
attention to painters and their work, refers as fol-
lows to the collection of pictures which Mr. Keith
sent recently to one of the leading New York
dealers :
half a dozen others it is marked sold. There are some
very harmonious examples, like No. 20, "The Berkeley
Hills" (Cal.) ; or the beautiful "Gray Day, San
Ramoan Valley" — also sold. Mr. Keith is happy in
his portrayals of misty, golden mornings. The
"Autumn, Sonoma Creek" (No. 6), a tranquil pool
reflecting an early evening sky, would have pleased
Diaz. This exhibition is attracting many lovers of
art who are not in the mood for brilliant virtuosity or
the blistering sunshine paint of the new men.
* * *
The New Yorkers have been trained by innumer-
able exhibitions to regard "blistering sunshine" as the
real thing in art, the true tone and the quality which
denotes the complete mastery of the painter over his
subject. It is very significant however that Keith's
low-toned pictures, which are so suggestive of many
of the old masters, sell as readily in New York as in
San Francisco. The Sun's criticism on one of Keith's
pictures that it "would have pleased Diaz" is praise -in-
deed. Any picture which could please Diaz would
please for all time. If it did not possess the essentials
of true beauty and perfect technique a master like
Diaz would condemn and not commend it. The sombre
pictures of Wm. Keith will live and be treasured
when thousands of "blistering sunshine" studies will
be hung in the attics, or thrown in ash barrels and the
world of art will have forgotten whether the painter's
themselves were living or died peacefully ' in their
beds.
* * *
It is rather amusing to read the Sun's reference
to the "physical effort" expended by Keith in painting
"At the Macbeth Gallery, 450 Fifth Avenue, are
now hung two dozen landscapes of the veteran Cali-
fornia painter, William Keith. In the San Francisco
disaster Mr. Keith, who is not far from 70, lost the
work of years. He was not dismayed, as this pres-
ent collection testifies. In less than twelve months
he painted these pictures, and, apart from the physi-
cal achievement, there is no sign of haste, no lack
of finish. As you enter Mr. Macbeth's rear gallery
you are sensible of a gracious, dark scheme of color.
Sombre in color rather than in spirit are the Keith
canvases. He is not modern. He does not disturb
the optic nerve in tone or theme. He is a tonalist,
who loves a full, rich pate — flowing brush work and
a poetic situation. Too often the note of senti-
mentality obtrudes ; but other days, other ways. A
glance at the handsome, distinguished head of Keith,
a head in its form not unlike Meissonier's though
more romantic in the expression, tells you that
here is a painter who early conceived a particular
ideal of beauty and has never modified it throughout
the years. Realists, impressionists, symbolists, in-
timists, have come and gone, but Keith still paints as
he painted forty years ago. And, after all, it is
something to stick to one's standards. He has
studied Gainsborough, Diaz, Constable ; but he
paints only in California, so his subject matter is
fresher than the English or French masters. "Ap-
proaching Storm" — you see the white thunder heads
over the treetops — is a satisfying composition. With
MISS ETELKA WILUAR
-THE WASP-
17
two dozen pictures in twelve months. It might have
taxed the old veteran's staying powers if he had been
compelled to paint them in two weeks, but I should
hate to bet a thousand dollars that he couldn't pro-
duce them in that time. The well-known fact in local
art circles is that Keith can paint a first class and
highly finished picture while the average artist is
wondering how to start on it.
* * *
Mrs. Bowditch Morton has been in town for the
first time since her divorce several years ago from
Dr. Morton, who was of a famous New York family
and who gave Mrs. Morton who was a dream of a
dark-eyed woman the entree to the Burlingame set.
There she became a pal of Mrs. Frank Carolan.
Nothing more was necessary for social success than
after Mrs. Morton got her divorce there were rumors
that she was to marry a noted polo player, but instead •
she went to Europe and remained for some time. Now
she is at Goldfield, Nevada, with her father, Mr. Smith
a wealthy mine owner and she will remain there for
some time. When she went away Mrs. Morton was
a dazzling brunette, but she came back a blonde to
the grief of her friends for those transformations
seldom add to the attractiveness of a really pretty
woman.
Mrs. de Young and daughters are thinking of leav-
ing soon for Europe, where they will spend some
months. The de Young girls always come back with
trunks full of gowns for the Winter season.
• * »
Miss Amy Porter whom the newspapers have re-
ferred to as visiting the Dumonts at Palm Beach,
Florida, is the daughter of Mrs. J. N. Porter of
Sacramento who was Miss Minnie Clarke, daughter of
C. W. Clarke, the rich cattle raiser and land owner.
His partner was Senator Fred Cox. The Clarkes live
in a beautiful home on Presidio Terrace, where Mr.
A. S. Baldwin and Mrs. Baldwin nee Clarke also
reside. Miss Porter and her mother have traveled
abroad a grate deal. The late Jack B. Wright, the
well known railroad manager married Laura Clarke,
the youngest of the Clarke sisters.
ENTRE NOUS.
"According to this book," said Mrs. DeStyle,
"seals sometimes shed tears just like men do."
"I don't see why they should," rejoined her
husband. "They don't have to pay for sealskin
jackets."
THE WINTON WHICH WAS WON
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&mnfc Criticism of Current Stents
Union Labor's attempts to side-step responsibil-
ity for the government by banded plunderers, to
which San Francisco must submit, till some of them
are in jail, are as much a discredit to it as anything
that has occurred. To be game and honest, even
when mistaken, is a virtue that atones in some
degree for error, but, the workingmen of San Fran-
cisco, who have been so fearful of an administration
that would enforce the laws without fear or favor,
in time of strikes as well as during industrial
peace, that they were willing to let Abe Ruef do
a lot of plundering — this crowd is doing the baby
act now by asking everyone to believe that union
labor had no part in it, and is to be commiserated
for its unfortunate position, not blamed.
For some years past the average workingman
has voted for the Schmitz gang, in spite of all
evidence that could be put before him that graft
was rampant.
"The other fellows would steal if they were in,"
he has said, "and anyway we'll not have policemen
on the trucks while Schmitz is mayor."
Now that they know Schmitz has betrayed them,
now that the astounding tale of the career of the
Reuf crew of pirates has been unfolded, union
labor is solicitous that all shall know Schmitz and
his crowd were never a union labor administration.
The papers are helping them out of course, but
deceiving no one. Livernash is fulminating against
the gangsters and showing that union labor is
blameless. He is trying to immortalize Casey and
Furuseth and such leaders, who by the way never
had the courage to fight the men who were mis-
leading the workingmen, that they might black-
mail and rob and betray. The daily press generally
joins in a chorus for the prosecution of the "big
fellows," whose riches corrupted the poor, weak
supervisors.
By all means prosecute the bribers, but waste
no tears over the corrupted officials, who have been
as greedy and wolf-faced a crowd of theives as
ever set out to plunder and stop at nothing. And
their elevation to office is a stigma union labor
must bear and high-sounding resolution will not
alter the fact.
Doubtless new union labor politicians will try
to seize the power wrenched from Ruef and
Schmitz. P. H. McCarthy and O. A. Tveitmoe
are a pair that will probably make a try for it
unless the electricians keep them too busy trying
to maintain their labor trust in the building trades.
They will fail, for they have no following outside
the building trades. Furuseth and Casey, and
Macarthur, are men who fear the bad effects of
politics on the union labor cause, and none of them
is likely to consent to become a candidate. Any
of them would be snowed under this year. No
candidate taken from amongst the bunch of San
Francisco labor leaders will have a ghost of a
chance this year. Every man with a following has
been holding one or more offices under Schmitz
and is more or less tarred with the same brush
that has besmeared the magisterial fiddler. The
others, who were given no offices because they
belong to the order of cranks, or have no following,
can not get the nomination, and if they did it would
only prove to be a political gold brick.
There is much discussion in San Francisco as to
whether the disagreement of the jury in the Thaw case
was a triumph or defeat for Delmas. It is evident that
the other lawyers in the case who are jealous of the
clever San Francisco barrister would like to have it
understood that Thaw should have been acquitted.
For myself I think that the young Pittsburger is lucky
that he has not been hurried along to the deadly
electric chair. If ever anybody committed a deliberate
murder he did and at the outset of the trial most
people thought he would be lucky if he got off with a
verdict of murder in the second degree, Delmas
made the most of the case and should be credited
with having scored a success in getting his client
a disagreement.
There was a touch of his first choice of a profes-
sion, which showed itself in Mr. Delmas' action
when in describing Harry Thaw after he had
killed Stanford White, the lawyer stretched out
his arms like a priest after a sacrificial ceremony.
Long years ago when Mr. Delmas was at
the Jesuit College of Santa Clara he studied to be
a priest and the Jesuit fathers thought that it was
his vocation. He was most pious and it was not
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until he was nearly read} to enter Yale that he decided
to live in the world instead of a monastery.
lames (iillis. who died in Sonora on April 13th,
Las a famous old pioneer and i-. said to have been
the original of Iiret Harte's "Truthful James."
lie was a great friend of the novelist in the early
mining days. Mr. Gillis was the brother of Mrs.
Henry Williams of this city, whose husband the
late Henry Williams was president of the Cali-
fornia Safe Deposit Company for years. Henry-
Alston Williams is a nephew.
John Butler, whose death at Rome has been an-
nounced, was immensely popular with the sports-
men of San Francisco and was known on every
fishing stream in California. He was a thoroughly
Americanized Englishman and as honest a man as
ever lived. < »ld Izaak was not more devoted to
"the gentle art" than John Butler, and every
festive gathering of the riy-casters found the genial
old veteran as gay as a boy of eighteen. He was
the father of the late Miss Ella Butler, a remark-
able talented girl, who had a great success in
vaudeville. His aged wife, to whom he was much
attached died two years ago. Mr. Butler leaves
one son, Bonis Butler, who had been his active
partner for several years, and a daughter, Mrs.
A. II. Rising. Few men had more sincere friends
or will be as much missed as genial and honest
John Butler.
Mrs. Daniel E. Hungerford, the mother of Mrs.
John \V. Mackay, died in Rome la>t week at the
age of 84 years. Mrs. Hungerford had made her
home with Countess Telfener, her daughter, who
had been a widow for a number of years. The
Countess was educated at the College of Notre
Dame in San Jose,, and was much loved by her
school companions. When yet a young girl she
went abroad with her sister, Mrs. John W. Mackay.
Her marriage was said to have been a very happy
one. Colonel Hungerford, the father, died in Rome
in 1896. He served in the Civil War and headed
the Twenty-sixth Regiment of the New York Vol-
unteers.
\ noteworthy feature of the clebration of the
high mass last' Sunday at Sacred Heart, Oakland,
was the singing of a solo by Mr. Joseph
Rosborough, the well known member of the Bo-
hemian Club. Miss Amelia Maytorena assisted
with a violin obligato. The organist was Miss Lily
Arrillaga.
The Allalba Cottilon held its last dance this sea-
son on Saturday evening. The Paris Tea Garden
was daintily decorated for the occasion and mem-
bers of the "club asked many guests. A few of those
present were Miss Etta Kreutzmann, Estella Rud-
dock Marv Shaife. Elsa Kempff, Rose Gardner,
Emma Bazet, the Misses Reddin, Harry Hund Ar-
thur Skaufe. Bernard A. Schmidt. Endicott Gard-
ner and Ernest West.
A well-known young girl here, not yet out of her
teens has been in love with a youth from Fresno,
whose father is a physician. The young man him-
self is in a trade. He keeps a candy store and his
sweetheart's family deem the occupation not quite
elevated enough for a future son-in-law. The love-
stricken bud informed her parents of her determina-
tion to marry. A stormy scene took place with
the result that the daughter fled the house, took
refuge at a girl friend's home, and left the next
morning for the South, where it is said the marriage
was to take place. All her friends are waiting at
this writing to hear from her, and the parents are
distracted.
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The Japanese and Korean Exclusion League is
giving a few weak kicks just to show it is merely
dead and not so far decayed as to be unduly odor-
iferous. Students of history may or may not have
noticed that the exposure of all the municipal
grafters by the Grand Jury and the collapse of the
Japanese and Korean League were simultaneous
Several eminent patriots, whose eloquence helped to
stimulate the League, are now so busy dodging
prosecution by Mr. Heney that they have no time
for international statesmanship. The public hears
no more of the Yellow Peril and incidentally it may
be remarked that you can't see one of the Mikado's
subjects anywhere outside the bounds of a few blocks
in the Western Addition, where they all concen-
trated after the fire. They are so scarce that you
can't get a Jap to cook for you or clean your house
or wash your windows for love or money. In a
month there will be a howl from the fruit raisers
who see their crop likely to rot on the trees for want
of help to pick and pack it. The Japanese problem
in California has never been anything but a political
one, manufactured by demagogues who want office,
and no one knows that better than the employers of
California and the farmers in particular. When you '
cannot get Japanese for 35 cents an hour — $2.80 a
day — to wash your windows or sweep your floors' in
San Francisco, there can be no deluge of cheap
coolie labor threatening to submerge us.
the very night when the National Democratic Club
held its festivities in the Hotel Waldorf and listened
to the eloquence of Judge Alton B. Parker and some
prominent Southern statesman. From this "feast of
reason and flow of soul," Mr. Bryan also was
missing. Fraternal harmony would not seem to be
the dominant characteristic of the National Democ-
racy just at present.
Mr. Elmer C. Leffingwell has been describing to
the reporters all the trouble the Board of Education
has had in evicting squatters from the City's prop-
erty at the corner of Fifth and Market Streets. If
Mr. Leffingwell would tell the reporters how the
trespassers came to squat there in the first instance,
and what political pull they relied on to enable them
to use public property unlawfully, it would make it
much more interesting.
It will be very hard to classify Mr. Wm. R. Hearst
politically before many more years shall have
passed. According to the reports emanating near the
White House, he is in cohorts with E. H. Harriman
to manipulate the next Republican National Con-
vention and elect some reactionary like Foraker of
Ohio. In the last election in New York he was
neither fish, flesh nor red herring, so to speak. One
day he was a Tammany Democrat, the next the
idol of the wild-eyed Socialists, and the day after an
Independence Leaguer with his knife out for Tam-
many and all allied thereto. The other day he re-
fused to put his elongated extremities under the
same Democratic banquet board with his old friend
and co-worker in the cause of class-hatred, Wm.
Jennings Bryan. Mr. Hearst, in declining the
honor, didn't even take the trouble to give a reason
beyond stating that it would be impossible for him
to attend. His declination did not, it seems, occa-
sion any surprise to the friends of Mr. Bryan. In
order to show that he was not missing anything by
refusing the invitation to the Bryan dinner, Mr.
Hearst got up one of his own and gathered around
him the remains of his Independence League cab-
inet. Significantly enough, he gave the dinner on
There is no reason why English influence should
not have as much influence on the Cuban situation
as it had on the Philippine. Had it not been for a
message Queen Victoria sent to President McKinley
one Sunday afternoon, Germany would have been
bearing that "white man's burden" instead of the
United States.. Lord Pauncefote made two visits to
the White House during the McKinley administration
to deliver personal messages from Queen Victoria.
The first was on the afternoon of the Sunday follow-
ing McKinley's proclamation calling upon Spain to
get out of Cuba. When Victoria read his proclama-
tion, she cabled Lord Pauncefote to tell the President
that the British government would sustain him in
every effort he made to carry out the policy fore-
shadowed by his announcement. No message was ever
more welcome, because just at that time, there were
grave doubts whether France, Austria and Germany
would permit us to interfere in Spanish colonial
affairs. With Great Britain behind us, we knew that
there would be no interference, and when the people
of Spain heard that news they stoned the British
legation in Madrid. And the Spaniards declare to
this day that they would have whipped the United
States if England had not interfered to protect us.
HARVEY BROUGHAM
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"Grandpa had the lumbago the other day."
"Indeed! What did they do for him?"
"Oh, they used the old-fashioned remedies. They
soaked his feet in a tub and put ten home-made plas-
ters and poultices on him. Then they dosed him
with herb teas until he was red as a beet. After the
lumbago was gone they put him in bed and sent for
the doctor."
"Gracious, what did they need the doctor for?"
"Why, to cure him of the effects of the old-
fashioned remedies."
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A Young Native Daughter
Sorry He Spoke
"Maria," remarked Growler, over his coffee and
eggs, "this paper says that in New York and Wash-
ington the ladies carry Roosevelt bears as a fad.
Why don't you get a bear?"
"Because," replied Mrs. Growler quietly, "I got a
bear when I got you."
And then Growler said he thought it was time to
catch a train.
Financial Failure
First Stranger — "Do you consider marriage a
failure ?"
Second Stranger — "You bet I do."
First Stranger — "By the way, how long have
you been married?"
Second Stranger — "Never married at all ; but I
once proposed to an heiress and she gave me the
frosty digit."
He Believed Her
She had just finished telling him that he was the
first man she had ever kissed.
"Well, well !" he exclaimed.
"Do you presume to doubt me?'' she asked, in-
dignantly.
"Oh, no," he replied, "but I was just wondering
how you managed to do it so well without practice."
There to Stay
"Well," said the tattoo artist, as he dropped his
needle, "I have put an elephant on your arm and a
ship on your chest and now I want my money."
"I ain't going to pay you a cent, lad," chuckled
the old salt, "and what is more, I have the advantage
of you."
"In what way?"
"Why, you can't take it out of my hide."
And above the deep baying of the hounds came
a shrill voice from the gallery :
"Aw, git a pair of ice skates!"
By the Old Piano
Jack — "You are not playing very loud this even-
ing?"
Eva — "No, I am afraid of disturbing the neigh-
bors. There are some keys I only touch at night."
Jack — "Ah, I see. They are night keys."
Wedding Cakes and Fancy Ices
and Tarts
iECHTfIL
LECHTEN BROS. £&%& Dev^ , ^,,
Phone West 2526
F. W. KRONE, Proprietor
IThe Original San Francisco
Popular Dining Room
NOW OPEN
91 1-913 O'Farrell St.
Bet. Van Ness and Polk
Largest and Handsomest Dining-Room in the City--An Ideal Kitchen. For
Paeons Invited to Call and Inspect Our New Rooms and Equipment.
BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE
PAPER
1400-1450 FOURTH STREET
TELEPHONE MARKET 3014
Private Exchange Connecting all Departments
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Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
Eastern Money in San Francisco
It will certainly take Eastern money to help in
the rebuilding of San Francisco. The Equitable,
the New York Life and the New York Mutual are
all mentioned as amongst the companies that may
lend money here. The Prudential according to a
leading bank president is in the field now. It will
loan money on realty but then there is a string to
it. If they let you have $100,000 as a loan on your
property, they will give you $75,000 in cash and
the balance in insurance on your life.
A Big Week
The savings banks are loaning out money quite
liberally. During the past week the accomodations
amounted to $1,300,000. The largest loan was
$300,000. There was another of $250,000.
The money market here has become tight while
in New York money has been easier. These finan-
cial fluctuations are like waves. We feel the effect
of those that start in New York a month or so
after the disturbance. Our local bankers have
always been very conservative and whenever they
think there is a financial gale brewing they take in
sail promptly. The impression in Eastern circles
is that there has been so much talk about hard
times coming, that they won't come. They generally
sneak in unannounced. Besides why should we
have hard times with the country producing
abundant crops and all labor well employed.
What That Fifty Millions Did
The United States Treasury has a surplus of
$50,000,000 derived mainly from duties on imports.
The leading financiers of New York were unceas-
ing in their efforts to have the government deposit
this amount in the National banks so as they could
borrow it out again and stave off the impending
crash in stocks. At last they succeeded, but not
before they had received a big scare. Meanwhile
arrangements were made by New York financiers
to borrow in London and much gold was secured
for shipment to New York.
More or less of this English gold was sent to
New York but when it became apparent that our
government would help the perturbed New York
speculators the flow of the yellow metal across the
Atlantic was stopped. This occurred none too
soon however, as the flurry on Wall Street had
caused much financial disturbance in Europe. Dis-
counts rose to seven per cent in Germany. The
A Sovereign Remedy
Dr. Parker's Cough Cure, one dose will stop a cough. It
never fails. Try it. Sold by all Druggists.
banking firm of Lazard Freres, who are well known
in San Francisco, had several million dollars ready
for shipment and made $10,000 by the difference in
the price of exchange between the time they bought
and sold.
The financial situation on the whole has much
improved within the year. The banks belonging
to the New York Clearing House have $19,000,000
of surplus over reserve, where as a year before they
were a little over two million dolars short of having
enough reserves. There is $50,000,000 more gold in
the United States Treasury than there was a year
before. The business of the country has grown
largely in the year and it takes more monfiv to carv
it on — that is all. And speaking of this reminds me
that the amount of monev in circulation in the
country, most of it gold, is largely in excess of what
it ever was before, being somewhat above three
billions of dollars or 443 per capita nearly.
Prices are in general higher and it takes more
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid op Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans on Approved .Securities
OFFICERS-- James D. Phelan, Pro,, John A. Hooper, V. Pres.. J. K. Moffatt, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Sec'y and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Asst. Cashier, A. E.
Curtis, 2d Asst. Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS A specialty
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in their
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange Bldg.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK
OF SAN FRANCISCO
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS,
PAID UP CAPITAL,
DEPOSITS JANUARY 1. 1907
108-110 Sutter Street
$693,104.68
$600,000.00
$3,772,145.83
Charles Carpy, Pres. Arthur Legallet, Vice-Pres. Leon Bocqueraz, Secretary
John Ginty, Asst. Secretary P. A. Bergerot, Attorney
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monej to do business. This results Erom the great
addition of gold to the circulation in all civilized
o'untries bv reason of the large yield of the mines.
On Change
There was a little, very little more activity in
the Bond and Stock Exchange during the past
week than in the previous one. As usual bonds
formed the staple of business. Spring Valley 4-
sold at $89.25, rather low. The Stock sold in the
Board at $21.62j/2. A good many shares of
Associated Oil sold at $43.25 during the week.
United Railroads sold at $75.75. Sugar stocks held
their own, Hawaiian Commercial being quoted at
$83. Paauhau sold at $14.50. Onomea at $36.25 and
Hutchinson at $15.50.
California Safe Deposit sold at $128.50, while
for Bank of California. $361 was bid. Alaska
Packers sold at $41.50. For California Fruit Can-
ner's $103.50 was bid and for California Wine
§84.50. Gas and Electric sold at $82.50.
The Mines
The market for mining stocks differed in no
important particular from that of other weeks.
There was enough margin of gains and losses on
different days just to make a market while a large
number of shares of stock changed hands. But
there was no essential change in the market or
important developments in the mines.
Sugar Up
The Sugar Market has been advancing steadily
abroad and this week the Crockett Refinery put up
the price 20 points and was promptly followed next
morning by the Western. Sugar Stocks should
advance.
The French American Bank
The French American Bank in its new home is
quite a contrast to its surroundings. It continues
to increase its resources — deposits being in excess
of withdrawals. It is doing its share in rebuilding
the city. Its assets January 1st were $2,641,549.
93. The president is Chas. Carpy. The vice-presi-
dents, Arthur Legallet and Leon Bocqueraz, the
cashier, John Ginty, the assistant cashier, M. Girard.
The French Savings Bank
The assets of this bank were $4,483,345.11 on Jan-
uary 1st. Its deposits were $3,772,145.11. The
president is Charles Carpy, the vice-president, Ar-
thur Legallet. The secretary, Leon Bocqueraz. Its
last dividend was at the rate of 3J4 per cent. Its
next is expected to be at the rate of 3^4 per cent.
INVESTOR
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sharon, who arrived in New
York last week and stopped at the St. Regis, will
sTail this week for Europe, and spend the Summer
in France, returning here, in the Autumn, when
their new home in San Mateo will be completed.
The day after, you need Abbott's Bitters. Braces the nerves; sustains you throughout
day and makes you feel bright and cheerful. At druggists.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
Absolute safety for your important papers or valuable
personal property is afforded by the Safe Deposit
Boxes and Vaults of the
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT
AND TRUST COMPANY
They are convenient of access and there are private
rooms for examination of papers, etc. Rates are very
reasonable.
HOME OFFICE
CALIFORNIA and MONTGOMERY STS.
West End Branch, 1531 Devisadero
Mission Branch, 2572 Mission, near 22d
Up-Town Branch, 1740 Fillmore nr. Sutter
VALUABLES op all kinds
May be safely stored at
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Cor. Bush and Sansome Sts.
Safes to rent from $5 a year upwards
Careful service to customers
Trunks $1 a month
Office Hours: 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The German Savings and Loan Society
526 CALIFORNIA ST., San Francisco
Guaranteed Capita] and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31, 1906
$2,578,695,41
1,000,000.00
38,531,917.28
OFFICERS - President, F. Tillmann, Jr.: Finn Vice-President, Daniel Meyer
Second Viee-President, Emil Rohte: Cashier, A. H. R. Schmidt; Assistant Cashier,
William Herrmann; Secretary, George Toumy; Assistant Secretary, A. H. Muller.
Goodfellow & Eells, General Attorneys.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS -F. Tillmann. Jr., Daniel Meyer, Emil Rohte, Inn.
Steinhart. 1. N. Waller. N. Ohlandt. J. W. Van Bersen. E. T. Kruse and W. S.
Goodfellow.
MEMBER STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE
MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO MINING EXCHANGE
J. C. WILSON
BROKER
STOCKS AND BONDS Kohl Bldg., 488 California St.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES San Francisco
Telephone Temporary 815
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The Torrens System
HIGHLY UNSATISFACTORY EVERYWHERE
IT HAS BEEN TRIED.
i The real estate market has been dull for months
and there seems to be an idea that the application of
the Torrens System would act as a strong stimulant.
The theory of the Torrens system is beautiful, but
unfortunately all beautiful theories do not work
equally well in practice. The truth about the Tor-
rens system is that it has not worked well anywhere
in the United States, and it is rather Utopian to ex-
pect that San Francisco, with its miserable govern-
ment, will prove an exception.
The theory of the Torrens system is that it will
expedite, cheapen and simplify the sale of real
estate so that a person can turn a house and lot into
cash or borrow money on it about as easily as one
can on gilt edge bonds. The County Recorder is to
be the magician to do the trick. His certificate will
be all that is necessary to prove ownership.
To start with, you must get a valid title. This
can be done under the McEnerney Act, by which
the Superior Court can give you valid title. Having
this valid title no more abstracts and searches and
legal opinions will be needed. You take your court
judgment of valid title to the County Recorder and
he issues you his certificate. When you sell the
property the buyer gets his certificate and when he
sells it the next fellow gets a new certificate. All
through the Recorder's office.
Could anything be more beautiful. A says to B at
lunch, "I'll buy that lot of yours on Market Street
for $5000 a front foot."
"It's yours," says B, and forthwith they pay their
bill, tip the waiter, and if no blockade occur on the
United Railroads, they hie them to the Recorder's
office, get the sale registered. A walks off with his
brand new certificate and B with a fat check in his
pocket and all is lovely .
If A should wish to raise money on his new pur-
chase he takes his Recorder's certificate down to
some hard-fisted banker and that personage, after
glueing his eye on the document to see that it is
O. K., orders the cashier to hand out the Mazuma.
If County Recorders and their offices were all that
the community could wish, tilings might work as
beautifully as described. But, unfortunately, while
grafters are thick as flies in every municipal govern-
ment from Alameda to Hoboken, and carelessness
and stupidity are more notable than care and intelli-
gence in municipal departments, no prudent man
will pin his faith on a County Recorder's certificate
for a land purchase.
The Torrens system has been tried in Illinois,
Oregon, Minnesota and the Canadian Province of
Ottawa and nowhere has it commended itself.
In Chicago the Torrens law went into operation
in 1899. In eight years 2000 pieces of property have
been registered, representing a total valuation of
$10,000,000. It takes from thirty to thirty-five days
to get a title through, provided the applicant
promptly and cheerfully renders his assistance in
curing any defects that may be discovered.
The system was used so little in Chicago that
finally a law was passed requiring estates to register
their real estate. This has been opposed as inviting
attacks on titles when they pass to widows and
orphans and cannot be defended. The system has
received little if any indorsement, and buyers gener-
ally have refused to accept Torrens titles. Those
who register their properties are obliged to go to the
additonal expense of guaranteeing their titles with
title insurance companies.
In 1903 the number of deeds recorded under the
old method was 147,998. Under the Torrens system
only 410 were filed. Last year 972 were filed under
the Torrens law and the value of the property thus
recorded was onlv one million seven hundred thous-
and. That doesn't look like a boom for the Torrens
system in Chicago.
In Minneapolis the Torrens system has been in
operation since 1901. During the first four years
only 349 original certificates of registration were
filed and 252 reissues made. March, 1906, the
number of examiners was cut down from three to
one. On December 30, 1905, the County Commis-
sioner commented on the bill of the County Exam-
iner of Titles Westfall as follows :
"If there ever was a rank farce perpetrated, this
Torrens law is it. Here is Ramsey County paying
to this examiner official fees averaging $200 and
over monthly and a salary of $50 per month — for
what? In order that private individuals, owners of
property may have their titles examined free of
charge. On what score has any person the right to
have the county pay out its money for attending to
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Slock Exchange
Goidfield, Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET, STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODCE. Pres.
GAVIN McNAB. Any.
WM. CORB1N, Sec. and Cen. M»r.
OFFICES -COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Rooms 7 to 11
Telephone Tmpy. 1415
W. C. RALSTON
Stock and Bond Broker
Member San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
Mining: Stocks a Specialty
Bedford McNeill
Western Union
Leibers
368 BUSH STREET
San Francisco
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his private business? I believe this is money thrown
ftway.
"It has cost the county something like $3500 this
year to pay this official his fees and salary, and the
county, I understand, has derived out of the propo-
sition the magnificent sum of $189.81."
Ohio passed its law in 1896. It was declared un-
constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1897, and
the law was repealed in 1898, since when no effort
has been made to pass a constitutional law.
In Oregon the law has been in operation since
1901, but is used so little that advocates are trying
to get it made compulsory so as to force its general
adoption.
Hatton the Sphinx
Probably the Grand Jury never had a more sphinx-
like witness to deal with than George F. Hatton.
One of Hatton's closest friends once said to me that
he did not believe that he really knew George, that
though they had been chums for years, and had
worked side by side, he never felt that he knew Hatton
so well as Hatton knew him. He has a personal
magnetism that draws friends to him without effort.
His old offices in the Crocker building used on some
afternoons to be filled with men who dropped in
merely to pass the time of day, and particularly did
newspaper men enjoy such calls. For Hatton always
has "good stuff" to tell the boys, stuff that makes
good copy for the paragraphers and news purveyors.
He used to write a letter himself, in the Oakland
Tribune, on political subjects, before he became so
close to the political powers that be.
Mr. Hatton is not an American, though he has be-
come so prominent in California politics. He is
English, or rather, Irish, though his family is best
known in London. If he liked, he could sport a crest
on his stationery, and the F in his name really stands
for the hyphenized Finch-Hatton which is his family
name. But the man who managed Senator Perkins'
campaigns disdains hyphens and he is more republi-
can in his ideas than are some of his associates who
were born on this side of the Atlantic. One of the
standing jokes with Hatton's "Cabinet" camarades is
his penchant for jewelry. No other man outside of
the red-light district habitues would dare to sport rings
and scarfpins and such gew-gaws, but George F. Hat-
ton would not be himself without his ornaments. When
the cartoonists scratch off caricatures of Hatton they
magnify his jewel-habit. Before the disaster he used
to put all his spare cash into the purchase of diamonds
and he had a tin box devoted to them that he kept in
his office. There must have been over ten thousand
dollar's worth, all shapes and sizes. Their owner's
heart was well-nigh broken because the diamonds
were lost ; it was impossible to climb to the eighth
floor of the building and attempt a rescue. Even
Raffles would have balked at such an ascent.
"Hatton's luck" is a proverb with sportsmen over
Emeryville way. He has a "system," it is understood,
that knocks all others to smithereens. When he at-
tends a race meeting it is fun to watch the men who
hover a few feet back of him, eyes and ears alert to
catch hints from his play. To be sure he doesn't al-
ways win, but he gets his share.
Hartley Peart, his friend, colleague and secretary,
appears more English than his chief, but I believe he
is a native of New England. He is seldom seen
without his pipe, for he shares the affection of Barrie
and Jerome K. Jerome for that form of smoking the
fragrant weed.
Miss Ethel G. Rockefeller, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Rockefeller, one of the greatest heir-
esses in America, is engaged to be married to
Marcellus Hartley Dodge. Miss Rockefeller, who
made her debut a couple of Winters ago, is a niece
of John D. Rockefeller. She has two brothers,
William G. Rockefeller and Percv A. Rockefeller,
each of whom married one of the Stillman girlsi
She goes about a good deal in Society, but, like
all her family, is domestically inclined. A clever
horsewoman, she has exhibited at some of the
country horse shows, and she is fond of outdoor
sports. She spends much of her time at the Rocke-
feller country home. The family's town residence
is at 689 Fifth Avenue, New York. Mr. Dodge,
who lives with his grandmother, Mrs. Hartley, at
232 Madison Avenue, is popular in Society. He in-
herited great wealth while still at college from his
grandfather, the late Marcellus Hartley, whose for-
tune was estimated at $60,000,000. The bulk of
this fell to young Dodge, who found himself while
an undergraduate elected to the directorate of the
International Banking Company and a trustee of
the Equitable Life Assurance Company. He was
president of his class, manager of the track team
of the Y. M. C. A., and coxswain of his class crew.
On his graduation in 1903 he, with his aunt, Mrs.
Helen Hartley, Jenkins, gave a $300,000 dormitory
to Columbia University as a memorial to his
grandfather.
A year ago young Dodge took a party of friends,
including several college professors, on a trip up
the Amazon on his yacht Wakiva, stopping on the
way at Cuba and Porto Rico. No date has been
mentioned for the wedding, but this will probably
not be long delayed after the formal announcement
of the engagement.
Popular French Restaurant
Regular Dinner 75c
Meals a la carte at any hour
Private Dining Rooms
for Banquets, etc.
?S^ <^-w
497 Golden Gate
Comer Polk Street
Phone Markel 2315
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The Viavi System of Treatment
ITS BASIC PRINCIPLES
VIAVI STANDS FOR—
<|An intelligent, recognition of the fundamental laws of physical well-
being. Observance of these laws means health. The penalty of their violation
is ill health. An immense amount of needless suffering is the result of igno-
rance. Most of it could be avoided by a knowledge of the facts as they are.
VIAVI STANDS FOR—
<JA dissemination of these facts.
t§ For health and happiness in the family and the home.
<JFor healthy fatherhood, motherhood and sturdy babyhood. Viavi be-
lieves that motherhood is the highest honor to which a woman can attain.
<| For Nature as the sole curative power. No man or medicine can cure.
The best that one can do is either to get out of Nature's way or to furnish her
such assistance as she may need.
C|In the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal," under date of Novem-
ber 29, 1906, a prominent Massachusetts physician says this : ' ' Nature is the
real curative agent. ' Nature alone can heal. This is the highest law of practi-
cal medicine and the one to which we must adhere. Nature creates and main-
tains. She must, therefore, be able to cure.' The physician then really can do
little more than to supply for his patient the most favorable conditions and
materials with which Nature is to work. ' '
<| ' ' First, perhaps, we should name the blood as the agent which supplies
all the material from which tissues are built and from which the glands of the
body elaborate their secretions. The same blood stream is the principal agent
for tearing down and removing the old and obstructing material. An emi-
nent clinician has well remarked, 'it is the blood that heals.' "
<| ' ' Second in importance in the work of reconstruction of the body is the
part played by the nerves, as the nervous system dominates all the phenomena
of organic life. It is well said, 'The cells are the artisans in the organs' work-
shop, but the nerves are the overseers.' Hence it is often necessary in the
work of therapeutics to rouse the nervous system to more vigorous work."
•J In the "New York Medical Journal," December 16, 1906, a Philadelphia
physician has this to say : "No cell can be sick or diseased, except as a result
of a direct injury, if it be supplied with the proper quality and quantity of
blood and have its waste products properly removed."
"All curative measures must be directed to the restoration of the normal
quality, and quantity of blood to the part or parts effected."
THIS HAS BEEN VIAVI DOCTRINE FOR TWENTY YEARS
<J Viavi is not a cure-all. Within the range which it covers, however, it is
an effective aid to Nature in removing the cause of suffering.
<| Vis.vi stands for natural as opposed to operative measures. It does not
claim that an operation never is necessary. At its best, however, it is a bad
last resort, and an unnecessary or reckless operation is as criminal as homi-
cide.
CJ Viavi condemns the reckless surgical tendency. to unsex womanhood.
VIAVI STANDS FOR—
<fl The education of young manhood and womanhood in matters vital to
their physical well-being.
The uprooting of the tradition which makes health vulgar and intelli-
gence vicious.
THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE CATASTROPHE OF APRIL I8TH FINDS VIAVI
IN ITS NEW HOME ON PINE STREET, EAST OF STOCKTON, TO VISIT
WHICH IT CORDIALLY INVITES ITS FRIENDS, OR THOSE WHO MAY BE
INTERESTED IN THIS NATURAL SYSTEM OF TREATMENT.
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Automobile News
The new Model "G" White steamer is a larger,
roomier ami much more powerful car than any
previously manufactured. It is conservatively
rated at 30 steam horsepower. Purchasers may
choose between a Pullman body, seating seven, and
a touring body, seating five, and having ample
provision for carrying baggage.
The Model "II." White is a .car that follows elos-
ly the lines of the highly popular and successful!
Model "1'"". but with shorter wheel-base and certain
other changes and improvements. The White peo-
ple maintain that their car is the simplest one on the
market in operation, in number of parts and ever)
particular where simplicity is a criterion.
.Mr. S. ( ). Johnson, of the McCloud River Lumber
Company, McCloud, Cal., and owner of two Thomas
"Flyers," recently returned from Honolulu, where he
had one of his "Flyers" with him and toured between
two and three thousand miles on the Islands. He
states the roads there are ideal, being made of coral
and shells, and that he had a most delightful trip.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Ish, of Goldfield, are visiting
in this City for a few days and on Sunday last
made a trip around the bav in their Model '
Olds.
The .Model "M" Winton, ordered by Mr. W
Tubbs. arrived from the factory and will be
livered to Mr. Tubbs this week.
Messrs. Louis Metzeger, W. F. Fries and Roy
Francis of San Francisco, and United States Sen-
ator George D. Nixori and Mr. W. J. Stoneham of
Tonopah, Nevada, last week purchased Thomas
"Flyers" from the Pioneer Automobile Company.
Mr. R. M. Tobin's Thomas Limousine arrived
from the factory and was delivered to him on
Tuesday of this week. This car is one of the most
exquisite machines ever shipped to this Coast.
'A"
B.
de-
New Branch Just Opened
For the convenience of the public the San Fran-
cisco Gas and Electric Company has opened elegant
new offices and show rooms at Polk and Sutter
streets, where will be be displayed gas and electric
appliances. Amongst other innovations there will
be installed original lines of electric lighting and
instantaneous hot water heaters. Mr. S. P. Hamil-
ton, the superintendent of the Gas Contract De-
partment, will be in charge and will have his head-
quarters there.
Art in Wall Paper
The demand for wall paper in all its varieties
has grown with great rapidity in San Francisco,
and here as elsewhere, art and fashion assert their
sway, and the patterns, in variety of design and
richness, may be called veritable works of art. The
most expensive descriptions turned out by the man-
ufacturers of the East find a ready market here. To
know of the wonderful beauty of some of the wall
papers now in use one must visit the emporium of
L. Tozer & Son. of 1527 Pine street near Van W-ss.
or at 2511 Washington Street, near Fillmore, where
every attention is paid by those in charge to the
The opening of the Fairmont Motel was the first
event since the great fire to give San Francisco
some of its old time gaiety, This was apparent
in the leading uptown places and most noticeably
in the temporary Palace Hotel, corner Post and
Leavenworth Streets. This popular place took
on the semblance of the old Palace on gala nights
before the fire. The Palace has a strong hold on
the affections of the best class of people in San
Francisco.
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOODES
Via Kelseyville P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cal.
H. C. RAAP, Manager
Telephone Franklin 588
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 O'FARRELL ST., San FrancUco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea. Coffee. Wine or Beer. II a. m. to 2 p. m.
A LA CARTE at all hours.
Regular Dinner 50c
Special Sunday Dinner 75c
AL. CONEY
J. HUFF
Kadee Hammam Baths
TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Night
GEARY AND GOUGH STREETS
Strictly First Class Phone West 3725
/
Established 1890
J. F. ROSSI
D°„m«Xicnd Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Depot of Italian-Swiss Colony Wines
Specialties: Belmont, Jesse Moore, A. P. Hotaling's O. P. S., Loveland Rye,
King Wm. Fourth Scotch, Glenrosa Scotch, Dew of the Grampians, A. V. H.
Gin, Buchu Gin, Cognac Brandy, Bisquit Dubouche Cognac, Fernet Branca
Italian Vermuth, French Vermuth.
217-219 Washington St., Bet. Front and Davis
DIRECTORY
OF LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
COOPER ADV. AGENCY, F. J., West Mis-
sion and Brady Sts.
DAKE ADV. AGENCY, Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temp'y 1440.
FISHER, L. P. ADV. AGENCY, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Emergency 584.
JOHNSTON-DIENSTAG CO., 2170 Post St.,
S. F.
ARCHITECTS.
REID BROS, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough St., S. F.
THOS. J. WELSH, JOHN W. CAREY, asso-
ciate architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
GUMP, S. & G„ 1645 California St., S. F.
SCHUSSLER BROS., 1218 Sutter St.
ATTORN EVS.
DORN, DORN & SAVAGE, 717 Van Ness
Ave.
DINKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W., 126-5 Ellis
St., S. F. Phone West 2355.
HEWLETT, BANCROFT AND BALLAN-
TINE, Monadnock Bldg. ; Phone Temp'y
972.
EDWARD B. YOUNG, 4th Floor, Union
Trust Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temp'y 833.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
PIONEER AUTOMOBILE CO., 901 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F. ; and 12th and Oak Sts.,
Oakland.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO., Market
and Van Ness Ave., S. F.
AUTO LIVERY CO., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
BOYER MOTOR CAR CO., 408 Golden Gate
' Ave. Phone, Emergency 655.
LEE CUYLER, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
MIDDLETON MOTOR CAR CO., 550 Gol-
den Gate Ave., S. F.
MOBILE CARRIAGE CO., Golden Gate
Ave. and Gough Sts., S. F.
PACIFIC MOTOR CAR CO., 376 Golden
Gate Ave. •
BANKS.
ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK, Ltd., cor.
Pine and Sansome Sts., S. F.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST CO., cor. California and Montgom-
ery Sts., S. F.
CENTRAL TRUST CO., 42 Montgomery St.,
S. F.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Bush and San-
some Sts., S. F.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK, 108 Sutter St.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, 526 California St., S. F.
HALSEY, N. W. & CO., 413 Montgomery
St., S. F.
HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, Jones and McAllister Sts., S. F.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO, 710 Market St., opp. 3d St.,
S. F.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, N.W.
cor. California and Montgomery Sts., S. F.
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, 316 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
THE MARKET STREET BANK AND
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, Market and 7th
Sts., S. F.
UNION TRUST CO., 4 Montgomery St., S. F.
WELLS FARGO-NEVADA NATIONAL
BANK, Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
BREWERIES.
ALBION ALE AND PORTER BREWERY,
1007-9 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
S. F. BREWERIES, LTD., 240 2d St., S. F.
BRIDGE BUILDERS.
ROLLINS, E. H. & SONS, 804 Kohl Bldg. ;
Telephone Temp'y 163; S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
MONTAGUE, PHIL S., 339 Bush St., Stock
Exchange Bldg.
ZADIG & CO., 324 Bush St., S. F.
WILSON, J. C, 488 California St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIA-
TIONS.
CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION, Church and Market Sts.,
S. F.
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE, 226 Oak St.,
S. F.
BOLTE & BRADEN, 105-107 Oak St., S. F. ;
Phone Market 2S37.
CARPET CLEANING
SPAULDING, J. & CO., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave. ; Phone Park 591.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
HUB, THE, Chas. Keilus & Co., King Solo-
mon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore Sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
JOHNSON LOCKE MERCANTILE CO.,
213 Sansome St., S. F.
MALDONADO & CO., INC., 2020 Buchanan
St., S. F. ; Phone West 2800.
CONTRACTORC AND BUILDERS.
FISHER CONSTRUCTION CO., 1414 Post
St., S. F.
TROUNSON, T., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176
Ash Ave., S. "F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
NATHAN DOHRMAN CO., 1520-1550 Van
Ness Ave.
DENTISTS.
KNOX, DR. A. T., 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
CITY OF PARIS, Van Ness Ave. and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
WHITE HOUSE, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
St., S. F.
EXPRESS.
WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Ferry Bldg.,
and 3d St. Depot, 'S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
CRESCENT FEATHER CO., 19th and Harri-
son Sts., S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
OMEY & GOETTING, Geary and Polk Sts.,
S. F.
CAREW & ENGLISH, 1618 Geary St., bet.
Buchanan and Webster Sts., S. F. ; Phone
West 2604.
PORTER & WHITE, 1531 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
GAS STOVES.
S. F. GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Franklin and
Ellis Sts.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
BULLOCK & JONES COMPANY, 801 Van
Ness Ave., cor. Eddy St., S. F.
HANSEN & ELRICK, 1105-7 Fillmore St.,
nr. Golden Gate Ave. ; Phone West 5678.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
ILS, JOHN G. & CO., 827 Mission St., S. F.
MONTAGUE, W. W. & CO., Turk and Polk
Sts., S. F.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
DAVIS, W. & SON, 2020 Howard St., bet.
16th and 17th, S. F.
LEIBOLD HARNESS AND CARRIAGE
CO., 1214 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
DILLON, TOM, Van Ness Ave. and McAllis-
ter St.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
KEELEY INSTITUTE, H. L. Batchelder,
Mgr. ; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
JEWELERS.
BALDWIN JEWELRY CO., 1521 Sutter St.,
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. F.
SHREVE & CO., cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Ness and Sacramento St., S. F.
".AUNDRIES.
LA GRANDE LAUNDRY, 234 12th St., S. F.
PALACE HOTEL LAUNDRY and KELLY
LAUNDRY CO., INC., 2343 Post St.
Phone West 5854.
UNION LUMBER CO., office 909 Monad-
nock Bldg.
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
BEKINS' VAN AND STORAGE CO., 13th
and Mission Sts.. S. F. ; Phone Market 13
and 1016 Broadway, Oakland.
ST. FRA..CIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COMPANY, Office 1402 Eddy St.; Tel.
West 2680.
Notaries Public.
DEANE, JNO. J., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Sts.; Phone West 7261.
WARE, JOHN H„ 307 Monadnock Bldg.,
Depositions carefully attended to. Phone
Temp'y 972.
OPTICIANS.
MAYERLE, GEORGE, German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F. ; Phone West 3766.
SAN FRANCISCO OPTICAL COMPANY,
"Spences," 627 Van Ness Ave. ; "Branch,"
1613 Fillmore.
STANDARD OPTICAL CO., 808 Van Ness
Ave., near Eddy St.
PACKERS.
KEEFE, J. H., 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F.;
Tel. Franklin 2055.
TOZIER, L. & SON CO., INC., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., near Fillmore,
S. F.
PAINTS AND OILS.
BASS-HUETER PAINT CO., 1532 Market
St.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
CAL. PHOTO ENG. CO., 141-143 Valencia
St.
PHYSICIANS.
BOWIE, DR. HAMILTON C, formerly 293
Geary St., Paul Bldg., now 14th and Church
Sts.
BRYANT, DR. EDGAR R., 1944 Fillmore
St., cor. Pine; Tel. West 5657.
D'EVELYN, DR. FREDERICK W., 2115
California St., S. F.
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MRS. O. H. BURBRIDGE
Indian Complications
Refusing to occupy a coffin which
her husband had purchased for her
at a bargain when she was ill, Jos-
ephine Dog Soldier swears in her
divorce petition that Dog Soldier, a
Rosebud Indian, threatened to shoot
her to permit funeral arrangements
to proceed as planned. He finally
drove her from home.
This is but one of twenty divorce
suits started by Rosebud Indians for
trial at the forthcoming term of State
Court. It is the tirst session since
the abolition of the Indian Court, and
the order f<<r all Indian cases to be
tried by whites.
James Ghost Hawk asks a divorce
from Bessie, and the custody of their
only child, Mollie Three-Thighs-
Ghost-Hawk. The accusation is that
the wife eloped with Walking Soldier.
Another elopement figures in the case
of Alice Good-Muskrat against
Henry, who is charged with running
away with Alora Walks-as-She-
Jumps. Plaintiff wants her maiden
name of Alice High-Kicker restored.
yourself almost as ridiculous as if you
were to spell tho with a ugh."
But One Deduction
The Clergyman — You should seek
work, my friend. You know Satan
finds employment for idle hands.
The Hobo — T'anks, kind sir. Many
times before I've been told to go ter
de devil, but never in such dipply-
matic langwidge.
In Brooklyn
Park Slopely— What! A death in
the Remsen family! This is terribly
sudden! Who is it?
Livingston Adams — Mrs. Remsen's
eldest rubber plant died early this
morning, before they could get a
florist.
Simplicity, Ad Infinitum
"Divorce?" repeated the man of the
future, with a laugh. "Oh, bless me,
no. There are no divorces any more.
Everybody goes in for the simplified
morals, now. Why, if you were to
try to get a divorce, you would make
Excused
Foreman Waterville Hose Com-
pany No. 1 — Hurry up an' come on,
Si! Woolsey's barn's hurnin'.
The Newest Volunteer — Sorry,
Heck, luii I can't. Both m'red shirts
are in the wash.
At the Butcher's
"Some venison today, ma'am?"
"No, I don't care for it."
"But it's very cheap, ma'am."
"It may be cheap, but venison is
deer at any price."
JUDGE SLOSS
THORNE, DR. W. S., 1434 Post St., S. F.
BALDWIN, D. H. & CO., 2512 Sacramento
St., and Van Ness at California.
RESTAURANTS.
MORAGHAN, M. B., OYSTER CO., 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
OLD POODLE DOG, 824 Eddy St., near
Van Ness Ave.
ST. GERMAIN RESTAURANT, 497 Golden
Gate Ave.; Phone Market 2315.
SWAIN'S RESTAURANT, 1111 Post St.,
S. F.
THOMPSON'S, formerly Oyster Loaf, 1727
O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALES.
HERRING-HALL MARVIN SAFE CO.,
office and salesrooms, Mission St., bet.
Seventh and Eighth Sts. ; Phone Market
1037.
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER & WILSON and SINGER SEW-
ING MACHINES, 1431 Bush St., cor.
Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; Phone Emergency
301 ; formerly 231 Sutter St.
STORAGE.
BEKINS VAN & STORAGE CO., 13th and
Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 2558.
PIERCE RUDOLPH STORAGE CO., Eddy
and Fillmore Sts.; Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
WALTERS & CO., formerly Shutts, Walters
& Co., 1608 Steiner St., S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
BACIGALUPI, PETER, 1113-1115 Fillmore
St., S. F.
TAILORS.
LYONS, CHARLES, London Tailor, 1432
Fillmore St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; 958
Broadway, Oakland.
McMAHON, KEYER AND STIEGELER
BROS., Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Farrell
and Fillmore.
REHNSTROM, C. H., 2415 Fillmore St., for-
merly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
THOMS, F„ 1209 Mission St., corner of
Eighth, S. F.
TRICYCLES.
EAMES TRICYCLE CO., Invalid Chairs,
1808 Market St., S. F.
WINES & LIQUORS — WHOLESALE
,BALKE, ED. W., 1498 Eddy St., cor. Fill-
more.
BUTLER, JOHN & SON, 2209 Steiner St.,
S. F.
REYNOLDS, CHAS. M. CO., 912 Folsom
St., S. F.
RUSCONI, FISHER & CO.. 649 Turk St.,
S. F.
SIEBE BROS. & PLAGEMAN. 419.425
Larkin St. ; Phone Emergency 349.
WENIGER, P. J. & CO., N. E. cor. Van
Ness Ave. and Ellis St. ; Tel. Emergency
309.
WICHMAN, LUTGEN & CO., Harrison and
Everett Sts., Alameda, Cal. ; Phone Ala-
meda 1179.
FERGUSON. T. M. CO., Market Street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow Whiskey.
FISCHER, E. R., 1901 Mission St., cor. of
Fifteenth.
THE METROPOLE, John L. Herget and
Wm. H. Harrison, Props., N. W. cor. Sutter
and Steiner Sts.
TUXEDO, THE, Eddie Granev, Prop., S. W.
cor. Fillmore and O'FarreTI Sts.
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
CO.. 2401 Fillmore.
STERLING OIL CO., 1491 Post St., cor.
Octavia, S. F.
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THE WASP-
Amusements
"Moths," a dramatization of Ouida's
famous novel, one of the most success-
ful as well as powerful dramas ever
produced in this country, will be the
offering at the Colonial Theater for
the week commencing Monday evening,
April 22d. The Wallack Theater, New
York, version of this delightful play
will be used with an exceptionally strong
and well balanced cast, including Frank
Bacon, one of the most popular comed-
ians that has ever appeared here. One
of the features in connection with the
presentation of this drama will be' the
staging. George Lask, acknowledged to
be one- of ---the greatest stage directors
in the profession, having been specially
engaged to look after this end of the
production.
"Moths" is highly dramatic but re-
plete with bright comedy scenes, being
equal in merit and interest to "The
Charity Ball" and "The Wife." It was
first played here by the original New
York Company and later by the Fraw-
ley Company at the Columbia Theater.
* * *
There can be no better indication of
the rehabilitation of our City than is
afforded by the theatrical situation at
present. This is especially significant
in view of the fact that one year ago
today every theater in town, with the
exception of that at the Chutes was
destroyed utterly. Today we have more
theaters and better ones, as well as a
greater diversity of high class attrac-
tions than we ever had before.
The captious theater-goer can find no
cause for complaint today. Is his taste
for vaudeville? The Orpheum and a
half dozen smaller houses are there to
cater to it. In musical comedy the
American, The Van Ness or the Davis,
all are drawing well, and in utter
tragedy we have Miss Roberts in "Maria
Rosa" at the Novelty.
The Alcazar this week excels in
comedy with Leo Dietrichstein's farce
"All on, Account of Eliza," and the
Colonial with the comedy drama
"Friends." Out at the Chutes they have
another comedy drama "In Arkansaw,"
v ICECREAM
-0536^8 Fiu.MOSEST:,SiR s
while the Central is still the home of
the strictly up-to-date "melo-drammer"
with the "Gambler of the West."
Even the circus has come to town, and
baseball flourishes like the green bay
tree. Surely this is a supremely good
showing to be made by a City that ex-
actly one year ago lay in ruin and devas-
tation.
* * *
"The Cingalee" at the Van Ness
Theater is much better than the "Coun-
try Girl." The music is brighter and
prettier, the dialogue better, and the
scenery and costumes superb. Ray-
mond Hitchcock will give one return
performance of "The Yankee Tourist"
there on Sunday, and on Monday night
Lillian Russel will open in "The
Butterfly."
* # *
"All on Account of Eliza," as is pre-
sented to big houses at the Alcazar. It
is one of the funniest farce comedies
ever presented here and is well suited
to the capabilities of the stock com-
pany at the pretty new play house.
-,; * *
"The Tenderfoot" at the American is
strongly reminiscent of old Tivoli days.
The music is as catchy and tuneful as
ever. It is rumored that the Frawleys
are coming for a season at the Amer-
ican.
* * #
The Orpheum continues to present
excellent vaudeville. Jimmy Brockman,
the sweet singer, is, to my mind, the best
feature on the bill.
* * *
Morgan Wallace, the Colonial's new
leading man, who replaces Wilfred
Roger, has proven a great find. Mr.
Roger has gone on a tour with "Sa-
lome," and while we shall miss him,
his place is most acceptably filled by
Mr. Wallace. The other members of
the Colonial stock are all well cast in
"Friends," and Miss Jewel and Frank
Bacon, Norval MacGregor and JSurt
Wesner — all are at their best.
* * *
Bishop's players are doing a good
business at the Chutes in the rural
comedy drama, "In Arkansaw."
There was a peculiar sound from
the direction of the woods as the
member of the Birdlover's Society sat
in the window of her friend's country
home one summer afternoon.
She quickly took her, small "Bird
Guide" from her ever present bag,
and rapidly turned the leaves. At
last she paused with a smile of satis- I
faction, and listened, with her finger
between two leaves of the little book,
till the sound came again.
When it was repeated an expression
of doubt fitted across her features, but ■
still she was hopeful.
"You probably know many of the *
bird notes, living so near the woods
and in such a quiet spot," she said to ■
her friend. "Can you tell me what
bird that is?"
"That said her friend, briefly, "is
our goat. We shall have to move him
further off."
* * *
At one time there lived in Worces-
ter, Mass., an old negro who had a ]
tremendous influence, religious and I
political, in the settlement where he :
lived. He occupied a Ht Lle house
owned by a prominent banker, but
had successfully evaded the payment
of rent for many years. No trouble
came, however, until the banker was
DR. H. J. STEWART
Organist of S;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Sherith Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition.
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
Church Choir
Teacher of Voice, Piano and Organ
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phone
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues-
day and Friday.
MRS. OSCAR MANSFELDT
PIANIST
Tel. West 314 1801 Buchanan Si.. Cor. Sutler
William Keith
Studio
After Dec. 1st 1717 California St.
SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE
Attorney-at-Law
1101 OTARRELL ST.
Cor. Franklin San Francisco, Cal.
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RACING
New California Jockey Club
Oakland Race
Track
SIX OR MORE RACES EACH WEEK DAY
Rain or Shine
Races commence at 1:40 p. m. sharp.
For special trains slopping ol ihe iraclc take S. P. Ferry,
foot of Market street: leave at 1 2:00, thereafter every twenty
minutes until I .40 p. m. No Smoking in last two cars,
which are reserved for ladies and their escorts.
Reluming trains leave track after fifth and last races.
THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President.
PERCY W. TREAT. Secretary.
The best YEAST for all
Kinds of Baking;
FRESH DAILY AT YOUR GROCER
Thompson's Formerly
Oyster Loaf,
Now
Open.
1727 O'Farrell St., near Fillmore
All night service Popular Prices
▼ The only first-class up-to-date and modern
t* Ham mam Baths, built especially for
the purpose, in the city.
♦ Oriental Turkish Baths
I Corner Eddy an J Larkin Sts.
w Cold water plunge.
t Room including Bath, Si. oo.
♦ Phone Franklin 653
♦ W. J. BLUMBERG & BRO., Props.
PATRICK & CO.
Rubber Stamps
Stencils, Box Brands
1543 Pine Street
San Francisco
nominated to run for ■> political office.
The next day the old negro came hob-
bling into hi- office.
"Well. Sam," said the hanker, "I
suppose you've come in to pay me
some rent."
"Oh, no, bos,," replied the old man.
"I's jnst come in to say I's glad yo is
nominated, and I'll tell de rest of
dese no 'count niggers to vote for
fo' you, an to mention to you at the
same time dat de roof of my house
is a-lcakin' an' if it ain't fixed I'll have
to move out directly.
The multibillionaire was in great
agony when he found he would
probably be compelled to die rich.
"Money," he exclaimed, piteously;
"nothing but money! Is it not a
punishment?"
"Yes," replied the beggar at the
gate, "and I call it capital punish-
ment. Suppose you give me your
wealth and die a happy man?"
But the multibillionaire shook his
head.
"No," he answered dolefully, "when
a man is condemned to capital punish-
ment he generally deserves it, so I
shall take my medicine like a man."
And then he called out his $10,000
bulldogs and drove the beggar off
the premises.
"Who is your favorite composer?"
inquired the artistic person.
"I can't say just at this moment,"
answered Mr. Comrox, with an ap-
pealing glance at his wife, "but it's
somebody whose music I can't re-
member and whose name I can't pro-
nounce."
* * *
Amelia Bingham, the actress, who
is so well known here, made an awful
fizzle in New York in her new play,
"The Lilac Room," which was written
by Beulah Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf
and damned by every competent critic
in Gotham. So severe were the roasts
given Miss Bingham that she took to
her bed and missed one performance,
which proceeding caused it to be said
that she was afraid to appear. She
showed up the next night and contra-
dicted the report by a speech, in
which she said:
"When I took this play I thought
I had a good property. I have no
right to complain, for out of six
plays I have selected five money
makers. No one can tell what a play
COLONIAL THEATRE
McAllister near Market Phone Market 920
MARTIN F. KURTIG. President and Manaaer
All Market Street Cars run direct to Theatre
Week Beginning Monday, April 15
The Wallack Theater, New York Version
of Ouida's Famous Novel
MOTHS
An Emotional Drama in Three Acts
PRICES: Evening. 25c. 50c, 75c, $1.00; Satur-
day and Sunday Matinees, 25c and 50c. BARGAIN
MATINEE, Wednesday, all seats reserved, 25c. Branch
Ticket Office, Kohler & Chase's, Sutter and Franklin
Streets.
DR. WM. D. CLARK
Office and Res.: 2554 California St.
San Francisco
Hours — 1 to 3 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.
Sundays — By appointment
Phone West 390
Contracts made with Hotels and Restaurants
Special Attention given to Family Trade
Established 1876
THOMAS MORTON & SON
Importer of and /""/"l A I
Dealer, in \AJJ\L.
N. W. Cor. Eddy and Hyde, San Francisco
Phone Franklin 397
Wichman, Lutgen & Co.
Formerly of
29-31 Battery Slreel, S. F.
Cor. Everett and Tarrison Avenue
ALAMEDA, CAL.
Phone Alameda I 1 79
GILT EDGE WHISKEY
To restore gray hair to its natural
color use Alfrcdums Egyptian Henna —
a vegetable dye — perfectly harmless and
the effect is immediate., All druggists
sell it. Langley & Michaels Co., agents.
32
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ELECTRO
SILICON
Is Unequalled lor
Cleaning and Polishing
SILVERWARE.
Send address for a FREE SAMPLE, ov 15c. in
fitamps for a full bos.
Electro-Silicon Soap has eqoal merits.
The Electro Silicom Co., 30 Cliff St., New York,
Grocers and Druggists sell it.
cLEIBOLD,
Harness & carriagTco.
1214 GOLDEN GATE AVE.
BET. WEBSTER AND FILLMORE
A pc°j*ive CATARRH
Ely's Cream Balm
is quickly absorbed.
Gives Relief at Once.
It cleanses, soothes I
heals and protects I
the diseased mem-
brane. It cures Ca- I
tarrh and drives!
away a Cold in the I
Head quickly. Lii-UAy FFVFR
stores the Senses of Mfl I Ft! bit
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will be — or Charles Frohman wouldn't
have refused 'The Lion and the
Mouse,' would he?
"I played this play for six months
on tour to profitable business. But I
admit that most of the stops were
one-night stands, and that the house
was sold out in advance. If you want
to learn the truth about a piece you
must come home to find it out. If I
have a bad piece of property I am
glad that my friends on the New York
papers have had the kindness to tell
me that I am wasting my time.
"They have said that the play is
bad, that I am bad, and that the pro-
duction is bad," continued the actress.
"In addition to all this, I have to-
night received a telegram from the
authors saying that they are going to
get an injunction. They say that I
have added lines. Well, I have added
lines — and it is a blessed good thing
I did, too. If you don't believe that
come to my house, and see the orig-
inal manuscript. If there is any in-
junction lying around loose nothing
would please me better than to have
them come and serve it on me."
Everybody applauded the plucky
actress but the two authors, who
happened to be in the house. They
got up in a huff and flounced out.
"THE FIRST NIGHTER."
, SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of California, in and for the City and
County of San Francisco.
SIDNEY W. SCOTT, Plaintiff, vs. ISABELL
SCOTT, Defendant.
Action brought in the Superior Court of
the State of California in and for the City
and County of San Francisco, and the com-
plaint hied in the office of the County Clerk
of said City and County.
The People of the State of California, send
greeting to ISABEL SCOTT, Defendant.
You are hereby required to appear in an
action brought against you by the above
named Plaintiff in the Superior Court of
the State of California, in and for the City
and County of San Francisco, and to answer
the Complaint filed therein within ten days
(exclusive of the day of service) after the ser-
vice on you of this Summons, if served within
this City and County ; or if served elsewhere
within thirty days.
The said action is brought to obtain a
judgment and decree of this Court dissolv-
ing the bonds of matrimony now existing
between Plaintiff and Defendant, on the
ground of Defendant's wilful desertion of the
Plaintiff; also for general relief, as will
more fully appear in the Complaint on file,
to which special reference is hereby made.
And you are hereby notified that, unless
you appear and answer as above required,
the said Plaintiff will take judgment for any
moneys or damages demanded in the Com-
plaint as arising upon contract, or will apply
to the Court for any other relief demanded
in the Complaint.
Given under my hand and the Seal of
the Superior Court of the State of California,
in and for the City and County of San Fran-
cisco, this 16th day of March, A. D. 1907.
(SEAL) H. I. MULCREVY, Clerk.
By L. J. WELCH, Deputy Clerk.
JOSEPH H. TAM, Attorney for Plaintiff,
San Francisco, Cal.
Action No. 7076.
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will be the effect if the carmen strike next month.
Many employers may prefer to close their places and
thus lose only their rent. In fact, it has been suggested
that if the carmen strike the employers will at once lay
off their employes in every line and keep their stores
and factories closed until the railroads resume opera-
tions.
Plain English
For the first time in years this Spring finds unskilled
labor so plentiful that laborers are offering $3 a head
to employment agents in Chicago and New York to
obtain work for them at $1.50. The great railroads
have paused in their operations and the thousands of
men they needed for track-laying are seeking work in
other directions. The rate for common labor in the
East this year is about SO cents a day less than last,
with the demand slack. Things are getting down to
the normal after several years of headlong and unpre-
cedented prosperity. The nation cannot go back, for
its resources are as great as ever, but it can lessen its
feverish energy for a year. Many shrewd business
men say that such a breathing spell would do no harm.
The strike of the carmen for greatly increased
wages would be most inopportune, as wages have a
tendency to drop in all the large cities of the East, and
money has become tight. A corporation like the
United Railroads, which is heavily mortgaged and
must pay its interest regularly, cannot afford to give
carmen $3 a day for eight hours work. It is true that
hod-carriers get nearly twice that amount in San
Francisco, and plasterers and plumbers have been paid
from $7 to $8 a day, but such wages cannot be kept
up, and are only temporary. A corporation like the
United Railroads cannot raise its men's wages one
day and drop them the next. It must fix a scale which
will be as nearly permanent as possible, and leave the
company a sure margin of profit to meet its regular
expenses and all extraordinary ones that may be in-
curred.
The wages now paid carmen in San Francisco are
the highest in America, and that is equivalent to saying
that they are the highest in the world. Carmen's work
is trying and needs intelligence, but it is not a skilled
trade which requires years of apprenticeship. Any
fairly intelligent laborer might become a competent
motorman in a month, and a good conductor can be
produced out of very ordinary material in two months.
It is fair, then, to assume that the average carman is
not over twenty-five per cent superior in any way to
the average laborer. If so, what should be his wages?
Let us see what the ruling rate is in the Eastern States
at present.
The talk of a street-railway strike next month is
what might be expected. For months there has been a
continuous howl about the United Railroads and sug-
gestions of confiscating their franchise. All this has
been most ill-advised, for anything which "reduces the
efficiency of our street-railway system is a blow at the
entire business of San Francisco. Immediately after
the fire last year we saw that without street railways
in operation the business of the City stopped. Such
A year ago laborers were so scarce at $2.25 a day
that the labor agencies were unable to meet the de-
mand. This Spring the employment agencies are
thronged by laborers, eager to get work at $1.50 a
day. Track-layers this year get from $1.40 to $1.60 a
day and there are more than are needed. Admitting
that the average carman should get 25 per cent more
than the average track layer, the wages for carmen
would according to that be from $1.75 to $2 in the
-THE WASP
East. Let us say it eosts more to live here than in the
East, though that is very doubtful, for New York and
Chicago are very expensive places in which to reside.
Allow 25 per cent more for living in San Francisco
and the highest wages of the local carmen would be
$2.25 a day. They want $3 for an eight-hour day
and make this demand on a falling labor market and
when money is becoming scarce for the first time in
seven years. The demand does not seem to be
prompted by wisdom on the part of the carmen, and
it is very unlikely that so determined and shrewd a
man as Mr. Calhoun will grant it.
Following is President Roosevelts reply to the Illinois
socialist who complained because the President had
spoken disparagingly of Moyor, Haywood and Petti-
bone, who are charged with the atrocious assassination
of Ex-Governor Steunenberg of Idaho. The unions
throughout the Nation have been assessed to raise an
immense defense fund for the accused men. President
Roosevelt's letter is the most outspoken declaration
that has ever come from the White House in answer to
the complaint of a labor leader.
"April 22, 1907 — Dear Sir: I have received your
letter of the 19th instant, in which you inclose the
draft of formal letter which is to follow. I have
been notified that several delegations bearing sim-
ilar requests are on the way hither. In the letter
you, on behalf of the Cook County Moyer-Haywood
conference, protest against certain language I used
in a recent letter, which you assert to be designed
to influence the course of justice in the case of the
trial for murder of Messrs. Moyer and Haywood.
I entirely agree with you that it is improper to
endeavor to influence the course of justice, whether
by threats or in any similar manner. For this rea-
son I have regretted most deeply the action of such
organizations as your own in undertaking to accom-
plish this very result in the very case of which
you speak. For instance, your letter is headed
'Cook County Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Confer-
ence," with the headlines : 'Death cannot, will not
and shall not claim our brothers.' This shows that
you and your associates are not demanding a fair
trial or working for a fair trial, but are announcing
in advance that the verdict shall only be one way,
and that you will not tolerate any other verdict.
Such action is flagrant in its impropriety, and I join
heartily in condemning it.
"But it is a simple absurdity to suppose that
because any man is on trial for a given offense he
is therefore to be freed from all criticisms upon his
general conduct and manner of life. In my letter
to which you object I referred to a certain prominent
financier, Mr. Harriman, on the one hand and to
Messrs. Moyer, Haywood and Debs on the other as be-
ing equally undesirable citizens. It is as foolish to as-
sert that this was designed to influence the trial
of Moyer and Haywood as to assert that it was
designed to influence the suits that have been
brought against Mr. Harriman. I neither expressed
nor indicated any opinion as to whether Messrs.
Moyer and Haywood were guilty of the murder of
Governor Steunenberg. If they are guilty they cer-
tainly ought to be punished. If they are not guilty
they certainly ought not to be punished.
"But no possible outcome either of the trial or
the suits can affect my judgment as to the unde-
sirability of the type of citizenship of those whom
I mentioned. Messrs. Moyer, Haywood and Debs
stand as representatives of those men who have
done as much to discredit the labor movement as
the worst speculative financiers or most unscrupu-
lous employers of labor and debauchers of Legis-
latures have done to discredit honest capitalists
and fair dealing business men.
"They stand as the representatives of these men,
who by their public utterances and manifesto; by
the utterances of the papers they control and in-
spire, and by the words and deeds of those asso-
ciated with or subordinate to them, habitually
appear as guilty of incitement to or apology for
bloodshed and violence.
"If this does not constitute undesirable citizen-
ship, there certainly would never be any desirable
citizens. The men whom I denounce represent the
men who have abandoned that legitimate movement
for the uplifting of labor, with which I have the
most hearty sympathy ; they have adopted prac-
tices which cut them off from those who lead this
legitimate movement. In every way I shall support
the law abiding and upright representatives of
labor, and in no way can I better support them
than by drawing the sharpest possible line between
them upon the one hand and on the other hand
those preachers of violence, who are themselves the
worst foes of the honest laboring man.
"Let me repeat my deep regret that any body
of men should so far forget their duty to their
country as to endeavor by the formation of societies
and in other ways to influence the course of justice
in this matter. I have received many such letters
as yours. Accompanying them were newspaper
clippings announcing demonstrations, parades and
mass meetings designed to show that the represen-
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-THE WASP
gatives of labor, without regard to the facts, de-
mand the acquittal of Messrs. Haywood and Moyer,
when such meetings can, of course, only be de-
signed to coerce Court or jury in rendering a ver-
dict, and they therefore deserve all the condemna-
ti. hi which you in your letter say should be awarded
to those who endeavor improperly to influence the
course of justice.
"You would, of course, be entirely within your
rights if you merely announce that you thought
Messrs. Moyer and Haywuod were 'desirable citi-
zens.' though in such ease I should take frank issue
with you and should say that, wholly without re-
gard to whether or not they are guilty of the crime
for which they are now being tried, they represent
as thoroughly an undesirable type of citizenship as
can be found in this country — a type which, in the
letter to which you so unreasonably take excep-
tions, I showed, not to be confined to any one class,
but to exist among some representatives of great
capitalists, as well as among some representatives
of wage workers.
"In that letter I condemned both types. Certain
representatives of the great capitalists in turn con-
demned me for including Mr. Harriman in my con-
demnation of Messrs. Moyer and Haywood. Cer-
tain of the representatives of labor, in their turn,
condemned me because I included Messrs. Moyer
and Haywood as undesirable citizens together with
Mr. Harriman. I am as profoundly indifferent to
the one condemnation in one case as in the other.
I challenge as a right the support of all good
Americans, whether wage-earners or capitalists,
whatever their occupation or creed, or in whatever
portion of the country they live, when I condemn
both the types of bad citizenship which I have
held up to reprobation. It seems to me a mark of
utter insincerity to fail thus to condemn both and
to apologize, for either robs the man thus apologiz-
ing of all right to condemn any wrongdoing in
any man, rich or poor, in public or in private life.
"You say you ask for a 'square deal' for Messrs.
Moyer and Haywood. So do I. 'When I say 'square
deal' I mean a square deal to everyone; it is equally
a violation of the policy of the square deal for a
capitalist to protest against denunciation of a capi-
talist who is guilty of wrong-doing as for a labor
leader to protest against the denunciation of a labor
leader who has been guilty of wrong-doing. I stand
for equal justice to both, and so far as in my power
lies I shall uphold justice whether the man accused
of guilt has behind him the wealthiest corporations,
the greatest aggregation of riches in the country.
or whether he has behind him the most influential
labor organization in the country. Very truly
yours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." '
I understand that it cost the Hotel Del Monte $5,000
to prepare for the permanent exhibition of paintings
by California Artists which is now attracting so much
attention. All the noted artists are represented. Even
Keith who usually refuses to exhibit anywhere has two
fine pictures on view. The spacious ball room of the
Hotel makes a splendid picture gallery, the walls
having been toned for the purpose under artistic
supervision. This permanent exhibition at Del Monte
means much for the artist> of California and they have
to thank Mr. A. D. Shepard for it. Charles Sedgwick
Aiken is secretary of the exhibition. Dr. Genthe, chair-
man and Mr. Fred Woodworth, curator. This exhibi-
tion should become of National reputation soon.
New Location of the Poodle Dog
Those who enjoy good living will rejoice to learn
that the Xew Poodle Dog Restaurant and Hotel
has located permanently and centrally at the corner
of Polk and Post Streets. The grill and cafe en-
trance is on Post Street and the hotel entrance on
Polk Street. The establishment opened for busi-
ness on Wednesday evening, and henceforth will
be Mecca of all epicures, for the experienced cater-
ers who preside over the Poodle Dog, employ none
but culinary artists of the first rank. No earth-
quake cookery ever defiles the cuisine of the Poodle
Dog. The chef was for years head of the famous
Palace Hotel staff and his assistants are experienced
artists. E. Yialette, one of the managers, was di-
rector of the famous old Poodle Dog at Mason and
Eddy Street, and his associates, Theo. Soulages and
A. Bouysson, are men who know all about con-
ducting a first-class restaurant and hotel. Their
fine grill room, where meals are served either table
d'hote or a la carte, is capable of seating 150 people
comfortably, and the hotel contains thirty-six suites
with bath in each and elegantly furnished. Tour-
ists and travelers of all kinds will find this centrally-
located hotel a boon and delight. The proprietors
have taken a lease for ten years, so they mean busi-
ness on the most finished plan and will certainly
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A Weekly Summary of Social Activities and Complications
MRS. CLARENCE MARTIN MANN
Willard Merrall, whose marriage with Miss Hope
White, daughter of the Kellogg Whites of Berkeley,
was an event of last week in Berkeley, enjoys the
distinction of being the real "Gibson Man." You
can see his picture any time in any collection of the
Gibson pictures. He was the model for the Gib-
son man. I have heard that Mr. Merrall, who is in
the First National Bank of Berkeley, is a friend of
artist Charles Dana Gibson, who admired his fine
proportions and idealized him in his sketches as
the "American man." The marriage of Miss White
and Mr. Merrall was celebrated in Clovne Court
and was quite the smartest wedding that has taken
place in Berkeley for many a moon.
From a correspondent in Southern California IJ
learn that Ashton Stevens is very much improved
in health and may return soon to take his place
on the Examiner. Stevens has spent nearly a year
recuperating in Santa Barbara, living the simplest
and quietest of lives, reading a little but spending
nearly all the time in the open air. His wife is]
with him.
* * *
A correspondent in New York writes me that a
tale is current there that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's!
father and brother, who were not mentioned in any!
of the stories told of her antecedents during the
trial, are still living in Scotland. The father is a
plate-layer on a railway in Stirlingshire and the!
brother works in an iron foundry. The father says
that his wife deserted him one day and went across
the seas with her four youngest children and .the ■
next heard of her she had a place as cook in Ham-1
ilton, Ontario. This knocks on the head the gen-
erally believed story that Evelyn was born inl
Virginia and her father was a lawyer.
George Ade was only in town a few days, staying
at the Majestic with four companions, but a fe™
good fellows had the chance of meeting him and
hearing some of his stories. He told one about
when he was in Monte Carlo, recently, when he saw
a young man in American clothes, a young woman
in American clothes and a boy in American clothes.!
"I'm going to play," said the young woman, "I'm I
going to risk five francs. I'm going to risk it on;
Little 1 alace Hotel
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j Post and
Leavenworth
Streets
The same excellence in cuisine and service that obtained
in the Old Palace is duplicated in the new 'Little Palace'
-THE WASP-
MRS. LUCIUS ALLEN
my age." She ran her eyes over the three columns
)f figures and set a five franc piece on 18.
"Rien ne va plus," said the croupier, and the little
Spite ball wheeled around, clattered a bit and
rested finally on 28.
"Gosh hang it," cried the girl, looking at the
young man in American clothes, "I've lost. Eigh-
teen didn't win a thing."
"Say, Minnie," said the little brother, it's a pity
you didn't bet your real age. You'd have won
then, wouldn't you?"
Ade said that when he was in London one of his
hostesses asked him if the women of his country
smoked. His reply was: "The women don't, but
the ladies do."
There was not such a large and complete
gathering of the Girls' High Alumnae on
Saturday as there might have been if the notices
had been sent out to everyone of the graduates.
Most of those who registered last year were not
notified of the meeting and so until the affair was
over they knew nothing about it. One of the best
speeches was made by Mrs. Scipio Craig, who as
Mrs. Hoffman used to be of the High School's
faculty years ago. Mrs. James Alva Watt was
among the singers who rendered solos.
# # *
Mrs. Grace Hudson, who is holding an exhibition
of her pictures, was the first to bring the little
Indian babies into popularity as subjects for paint-
ings. The pappoose in its basket cradle that the
California Northwestern Railway uses on one of
its booklets as die cover design, was from a "Hudson
pappoose." Mrs. Hudson is a I'kiah girl, a sister
of Grant Carpenter, lawyer and newspaper man,
and as she lived for years in Mendocino County
she had g 1 opportunity of studying the Mendo-
cino Indian on his native heath.
* • *
I'kiah has produced quite a number of clever
writers and a few aniM> to help make fame for our
State. Anna Morrison Reed, the poetess, is a
Ukiah woman, or rather from Laytonville, though
she publishes her paper, the Northern Crown, in
I'kiah. ( Ine <>f Mrs. Reed's daughters married Hit-
tell, the historian.
* ••■ *
.Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Larzalere are domiciled at
the Fairmont as permanent guests. Mrs. Larzalere
is one of the best-gowned women in San Francisco,
and at the ball celebrating the hotel's opening she
wore a stunning costume. She is a brunette
with extremely fair skin that forms a striking con-
trast to her dark hair and eyes. The Larzaleres
were among the "burnt out" of last April.
* •:: *
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs for some time refused to
sell the Fairmont Hotel. I have heard it was her
mother's (Mrs. Fair) cherished desire to build a
grand hotel on the hill. Mrs. Fair built a fair-
sized one, the Bella Vista, but she always wanted
to erect a larger one. Her children, in projecting
the Fairmont, were therefore but carrying out their
mother's plan.
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From London comes the news that Mrs. Northesk
(Northwest?) Wilson, lecturing there on colors and
music, one in terms of t'other, avers that Melba's
voice is blue splashed with purple. Forbes Robertson,
said the lecturer, has a violet voice speckled with
green, which is the color of the depressed.
We should like to get a paint brush and describe a
few voices. We know somebody with a blond voice,
and another that is blond enough for all practical
purposes, but has a tendency to dark brown at the
roots. There's Hearst : His voice we should paint as
gamboge with cute little speckles of tomato antique
and raw umber. Ruef's vocals are black and tan, with
a tiny spot of white in the lower left-hand corner.
Schmitz's enunciation is a sort of drab, beautifully
rococoed with scarlet. There is a judge with a bottle-
green voice, which we might also attribute to Carrie
Nation. Calve's is carmine. Lawyer Ach's is a
shrimp-pink with lemon-hued polka dots alternating
with rich brassy barnacles and a border of forget-me-
nots. Supervisor Boxton's is invisible blue, with
stripes in lighter tone.
Mrs. Wilson, we dedicate this effusion lovingly to
you. Your voice is the real sky-blue, without a cloud.
The floral decorations at Miss Jane Wilshire's wed-
ding to John Hart Polhemus, on last Saturday, were
artistic in the extreme. The bay window where the
bridal couple stood, was decorated with smilax en-
twined with golden cord, from which cloth of gold
roses were profusely scattered. During the ceremony
the roses and vines kept gently swaying, making an
effective picture. Baskets in the shape of hearts, cut
from golden paper, and filled with roses enhanced the
pleasing effect.
Rev. Dr. Clampett, of Trinity Church, performed
the ceremony. Miss Doris Wilshire was the bride's
only attendant. Thomas C. Van Ness, Jr., was the
best man.
The ushers were Edward Polhemus, Dr. Alfred B.
Spaulding, Joseph L. King, and Ernest McCormick.
The presents were of unusual elegance, comprising
rare laces, Persian rugs, silver, china, and many valu-
able jewels. Mr. Polhemus gave his bride a pin of
sapphires and pearls. Mrs. Wilshire, the mother,
presented a diamond pendant, Mr. Roth Hyde a
brooch of rare pearls.
The bride had always expressed a desire for a
horse shoe pin, deeming it a lucky gift, so Miss Ruth
Adams, aware of the fact, gave her a handsome pearl
and gold horse shoe pin.
From the East were sent valuable rugs, paintings
and silver. Seldom has bride received handsomer
tokens.
When the bride tossed her bouquet, Miss Jolliffe
captured the portion with the ring attached. Miss
Constance De Young found the thimble. Before start-
ing on their wedding tour the bride and groom went
to say goodbye to the groom's mother, who was too
ill to attend the wedding.
When a man is an ex-Mayor, an ex-husband, 88
years old, has a six-cylinder income, and is known as
"Uncle," he deserves all the kind treatment he asks
for. So claims John Bryson, who fulfills all the above
requirements, and is from Los Angeles besides. The
kind treatment is accordingly bestowed by Mrs. Gladys
L. Lambertson in the professional capacity of nurse.
Both nurse and charge are divorcees. Obviously the
matter is one for humanitarian remark, not legal in- I
tervention. Bryson's former wife and his eldest son, j
however, have brought suit to have the old gentleman
declared mentally incompetent. With 88 annual nicks
from Father Time, Bryson asserts himself still able
to retain and make fortunes, and that none of his sonsH
can, much less afford a nurse.
The family on their part fear that the nurse's fee
is amounting to $4000 a month, income of the Bryson .;
Block in the navel orange town ; also that the 88-year-
old has at times handed her little tips, one the Bonnie
Brae house, in which she has been living; and in addi-
tion is arranging to leave her all the rest of hisM
property when Death will have some to expert Time's |
accounts.
You guess right, that all this is denied by UncleH
John's retinue, who aver that Mrs. Bryson received her Ji
share at divorce thirteen years ago. If this latter be j
true, one must say that even the mentally incompetent 11
can be independent to have nurses, autos, theatres and IS
dinners for whatever they wish to pay. Besides an J!
88-year-old sport would be a good advertisement for 1 1
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THE WASP
The following poem was wnllen by Miss M. Florence Wendling
of ihe Hamlin School
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9®te$feu6e
There was a young man with a critic's eye,
Who fell in love with a maiden shy,
And this, you see, was the reason why,
She bought her things
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Her suit was of the latest shade,
You could see in a minute 'twas Paris made;
By the style it gave to the pretty maid,
You'd know it was bought
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Her waist beneath her cutaway coat
Of exquisite taste and elegance spoke.
Her belt and real-lace collar denote
That they also were bought
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
As the man and the maid walked past the door,
He said, "I am told that in this big store
They've furniture, bric-a-brac, rugs galore.
Such lovely things you ne'er saw before,
Let's buy ours now
AT THE WHITE HOUSE."
The maiden blushed and made reply —
"Oh! this is so sudden! but I think that I
To resist the temptation will not even try,"
And so they stopped
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
In the haberdashery he found a tie,
And then other things so pleased his eye, —
"For the happy day," he said, "I'll buy
My things right here
AT THE WHITE HOUSE."
Quoth the maiden shy, "Here above every place,
I am suited in silks, gloves, ribbons and lace,
For no other store can as yet keep pace
With the stock that they have
AT THE WHITE HOUSE."
Brushing aside a lock of hair,
She said — "Did you ever see linens so rare?
Such patterns and texture so fine! I declare
We'll have to buy ours
AT THE WHITE HOUSE."
Spoke the man and the maid as a single voice
To Raphael Weill — "Such a line and so choice!
You surely have cause, indeed, to rejoice
At the unequalled stock
AT THE WHITE HOUSE."
He replied — "In Europe twelve buyers we keep.
Who, alert and keen, are never asleep.
For fifty-two years these mysteries deep
Have been solved by them
AT THE WHITE HOUSE."
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-THE WASP-
Photo Genlhe
JACK LONDON
Jack London denounces the collection of the bills
against his little boat, "The Snark," as a bourge-
ois trick. , On the high moral plane, which ordinary
mankind has not yet reached, but which Jack
touches daily with his dome of thought, there are
no such awkward distinctions as mine and thine.
It is all ours. Everything is in common and base
is the slave who pays.
In the world of ideal Socialism of which Jack
London is an advanced guard he could fit out a
whole fleet of "Snarks" without being bothered by
writs of attachment that had to be satisfied before
he could weigh anchor. Somebody would some-
how supply him with spars and sails and provisions
for his seven years' voyage while he sat on the
wharf and smoked cigarettes. At the psychological
moments he would step aboard and sail away amidst
showers of bouquets and good wishes. Not one
distressing word about bills would mar the har-
mony of the occasion.
Such a high-minded idealist as Mr. London must
therefore have received a horrible jar when bills
aggregating about $3000 were slammed under his
nose. "The Snark" was nailed fast to the wharf
by a writ of attachment issued from the United
States District Court. To designate such a scurvy
conduct as "a bourgeois trick" is the limit on mod-
eration. Job himself could not be more patient
under unmerited affliction. If Mr. London had
mustered his hundred or so of faithful disciples on
the Pacific Coast, and precipitated the downfall of
capitalism and the destruction of established gov-
ernment which they have scheduled for 1919 he
would have served the Federal power and his sordid
creditors just right. Fortunately for the common-
wealth of individualistic greed, the novelist kept
cool and drew his check-book instead of his re-
volver. In the beautiful school-boy cheirography
for which he is noted he wrote check after check
until all the attachments were all lifted and "The
Snark" was free to pull out into the stream and
complete the final preparations for her seven-year
cruise.
As Mr. London made his literary start writing a
scornful letter to a dunning grocer it is eminently
proper that he should sustain his celebrity by get-
ting into trouble with the tradesmen who have
equipped "The Snark." It is something like seven
years since the novelist and his Oakland grocer had
that memorable tilt. The purveyor of. bread and
coffee had seen the arrears grow until they reached
the alarming sum of $30. That might be a baga-
telle to Mr. London nowadays when he can draw
checks for $3000 to free his yacht from attachments;
but in that early period when large wads of re-
turned manuscript came more regularly than drafts
from his publishers, thirty "bucks" represented i
wealth. The novelist's letter of hot defiance and :
scathing sarcasm was enough to turn the grocer's
rolls of butter into liquid axle grease. Not only ;
did Mr. London refuse to pay the bill or set the
date when the grocer might expect something on i
account, but he withdrew his patronage there and i
then from the presumptious creditor. He let the <
varlet understand clearly that it was a privilege to i
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Motti
["he more you're in public, fame closer
MISS LEILA SHELBY
supply groceries to a man of genius without receiv-
ing cash for them, and if he was too dull to com-
prehend that fact it was a meritorious task to
sharpen his intellect by lessening his profits. So
the novelist's unpaid bills he might paste in his hat
for a reminder, or put them in the salt mackerel tub
for preservation. Future patronage from Jack Lon-
don, esquire, author and lecturer on socialistic
ethics, he need never more expect. Strange to say
the grocer instead of going out and hanging him-
self in the hay-barn by his suspenders went and
hired an attorney to sue the novelist in the Justice's
Court. Jack London at once became illustrious in
the world of letters and ever since has moved in
an orbit of fat checks, and regular meals. The
existence and habits of corner grocers have no
further interest for him.
OUR JACK IS LIBELED.
Come, children, I'll tell you a tale of Jack London;
Of speeches and stories he's many a ton done.
A skipper of note he became with the "Snark";
His creditors feared he would skip in the dark.
They thought, had he done so, each dollar he still
owes
Would outlaw at sea with each lap of the billows.
But Jack had the money he got from the editors
For writing such essays as "Down with the Credi-
tors !"
A Socialist he, of the people? That's raw.
When he censured the villians, he cried "You're
bourgeois !"
Do you think the affair will chagrin our Jack? No
sir, his
(He leapt into fame by not paying for groceries.)
* * *
The Marie Antoinette lintel in New York has
been so famous for social oddities that there was
little surprise when its wine check clerk turned out
to be an Italian count. And nothing extraordinary
of course that a count should place a plain gold
band on the finger of an heiress, should his finances
be equal to that expense.
Count Ferouli was given the title because he
looked the part. He was knighted by the waiters
of the Marie Antoinette and Waldorf-Astoria.
Which is all to his favor, for some pedigreed counts
do not tip the scales of beauty to an ounce.
Miss Ioma Meyer, heiress to a several hundred
thousand dollar estate, admired the count's air. His
every word, every gesture manifested that impal-
pable yet unmistakable thing called air. His attire
had it too. His fortunes and his title were that
intangible thing called air. The Countess Ferouli's
parents died within the last few years, leaving her
a home in Whitehall, New York, and a cottage at
Saratoga.
The wedding was quiet, news of it being broken
first to the manager of the Marie Antoinette, and
thence given broadcast. Friends of the countess
are now wondering if a frankly imitation count
may not prove in the end more of a treasure than
some of the genuine ones have been. The trouble
with most of them have been : Not enough count
and too many countesses.
* * *
Mrs. James H. Bull, who has gone south, will spend
two or three weeks in Santa Barbara, visiting old
friends. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton B. Hale have taken the
fine house belonging to Captain and Mrs. Bull on
Upper State Street, and will remain there for several
months.
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-THE WASP-
Santa Barbara is on the eve of a gay month, for
the Milwaukee is in the channel and the other ships
of the Pacific Squadron are to join her the third
of May, after which they will all stay for probably
three weeks. Such preparations as go on when-
ever the bluecoats arrive, and such entertainments
as are given them !
* * *
Three engagements marked Santa Barbara's Society
group last week. The first on the list is that of
Augustus B. Higginson and Miss Ednah Sherman
Girvan. Mr. Higginson is a noted architect with a
handsome home in the Montecito. He has been a
widower for several years, and Miss Girvan is the
second cousin of his first wife. She is a noted jeweler,
fashioning all sorts of beautiful things from metal and
using semi-precious jewels in most picturesque way.
The wedding will take place next month, whereat there
is much rejoicing.
Miss Anna Howard is engaged to Wymond Brad-
bury, a son of Dr. and Mrs. Edwin P. Bradbury, of
''Las Tunas", Montecito, and his brother, Edwin
Bradbury, Jr., is betrothed to Miss Howard's cousin,
Miss Vira Norris of Pasadena. The Howards are at
the very head and front of the old aristocracy of Santa
Barbara and Miss Howard is a most popular young
woman. The Bradburys are mightily pleased with
the matches.
* * *
Mrs. Charles H. Hopkins, one of Santa Barbara's
wealthiest and most aristocratic matrons, is spend-
ing two months in San Francisco.
* * *
The latest news of Mrs. Horace Hill reports her
serious illness in Philadelphia, where she has been
passing the Winter. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hill regret
exceedingly their hasty sale of their beautiful home on
Laguna Street, which Mr. Miller purchased after the
fire. I am told they long for California and will re-
turn to San Francisco to live in the near future.
Miss Amy Gunn left last week to visit friends in
the southern part of the State.
Before leaving for her home in Washington, D.
C, Miss Emma Mullan confirmed the report of her
engagement to Senator Russ Lukens of Alameda.
Miss Mullan is a great friend of Mrs. Eleanor Mar-
tin, and has spent much time at this hospitable
home, where she met Senator Lukens.
* * #
A wedding, which will be on an elaborate scale,
will be celebrated in San Jose on April 30th, when
Miss Lida Lieb, the daughter of Judge and Mrs.
S. F. Lieb, will be married to Mr. Armstrong of
Nebraska. Many guests from this City and Oak-
land will go to the Garden City for the event. Judge
Lieb's residence on the Alameda in San Jose is one
of the handsomest places in Santa Clara Valley and
well adapted for entertaining.
* * #
Miss May Foulkes gave an informal but most
dainty appointed tea at her home on Spruce Street
last week in honor of Mrs. Guy Leavitt, who passed
through the City with her husband on her way to
Boston, where they will take up their permanent
residence. Mrs. Leavitt was the former attractive
Society girl, Miss Julie Reed, daughter of Captain
and Mrs. Reed, U. S. A., well known in army cir-
cles. This is Mrs. Leavitt's first visit since her
marriage four years ago. The tea was a pretty
reunion of girl friends. An amusing feature of
the affair was that it proved to be like the play of
Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark left out of the
cast. Owing to a blockade on the street railway the
guest of honor was one of the last to arrive.
* * *
A recently announced engagement is that of Miss
Beda Sperry of this City, and Charles A Bodwell
of Lakeville, Sonoma County. The bride to be is
a daughter of Mrs. Austin Sperry of this City and
sister of Dr. Mary Sperry and Horace B. Sperry,
also a cousin of Mrs. W. H. Crocker. Mr. Bodwell
is the owner of the Bodwell ranch near Petaluma.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kohl have been spending the
week in town as the guests of Mrs. William Kohl.
* * *
Mrs. Sylvanus Farnham gave a luncheon on
Wednesday to Miss Emily Marvin and her bridal
party. Miss Elsie Clifford entertained the guests of
her sister Mrs. Farnham on the same afternoon at
bridge. Miss Marvin will be married next week.
* * #
At her attractive Summer home, Fair Oaks this
Saturday, Mrs. J. B. Coryell will entertain the
Woman's Auxiliary of the Society of California
Pioneers. The guests are to leave the City at 11 :30
A. M. returning at 5 P. M. Conveyances will meet
guests on arrival of the train. A glorious time will
be had.
Miss Emily Marvin who will be married to Roy
Somers the last of this month, is being extensively
entertained. Miss Emily Johnson gave an elaborate
luncheon in honor of the fair bride-to-be.
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Miss Mary Louise Foster and her cousin Miss
Mina Van Bergen gave a children's party to sixty
young misses and youths yet in their early teens,
on last Saturday evening at "The Hacienda" the
handsome home of the C. J. Fosters in Ross Valley.
The Hacienda, stands in a tract of eleven acres,
beautifully improved and is an admirable home for
entertaining. Guests from San Rafael and all over
the valley were present.
* # *
Mrs. E. Walton Hedges entertained at a delightful
dinner and bridge partv on Thursday the 18th inst.
Handsome prizes fell to Capt. Bull, Mr. Hanna and
Mrs. Pfingst.
W. F. Herron, editor of the Sequoia, received an
up-to-date advertisement by the refusal of the Palo
Alto co-eds to read the issue in which appeared his
poem. "Bathsheba." Some people have the power
of making anything a sudden success merely by
withdrawing themselves from it. The result in this
case was that three San Francisco publishing
houses raced after the author.
Dr. Charles Gardiner, Stanford's chaplain, states
that the poetical version of the Bible story omits
the moral, the arraignment of David by Nathan,
and therefore constitutes a grave literary offense.
We are used to think the other way : that a moral
is considered poor art. It is left to the reader.
The most interesting thing about "Bathsheba" is
the refusal of the co-eds to peruse it ; the next best
question, how many of them have actually not read
it? And lastly, who held out the longest?
BATHSHEBA IN PALO ALTO.
Dear co-eds, why seek ye so quickly to quarrel
About a poor poem that's lacking a moral .J
Why is all this flutter and fury and fumin'
About an old king and a bold army woman?
You've frequently read without showiifg dismay,oh,
Of scandals like that, right here at Vallejo.
Of course, it was wrong, when the king saw Bath-
sheba,
To wigwag his hand and say, "Come, meine liebe."
Especially, knowing the dame had a hubby,
The best we can say is, Dave's actions were
scrubby.
But why put the hemlock of scorn in the cup
Of the brave Stanford bard who showed Israel's
bard up?
If you say unto Herron, "We'll none of your
gravy,"
It seems that your sympathy must be with Davie.
Now that we have two April 18ths to remember,
the second a day of some comfort, that date does
not bear the same sinister aspect with which the
City viewed it for a year.
* * *
The mariage of Miss Gertrude V. Gabbs to Frank
W. Erlin will be celebrated quietly today, Saturday,
at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Cora Clinton
Gabbs in Escalle. The ceremony, will be performed
out of doors and Archbishop Emery will officiate.
Miss Gabbs is the daughter of the late Albert Gabbs,
a well known mining expert. She has been for some
time connected with journalism in this City. Mr.
Erlin is with the firm of Itaker & Hamilton.
* • •
The Hotel Del Monte will of course be a focus
of social activity during the Summer, for this un-
equalled resort offers every opportunity for out-
door enjoyment and indoor comfort.
* * *
The State Convention of the doctors at Del Monte
caused the automobiles to whirl between San Fran-
cisco and Monterey and the weather was perfection
and the roads fine. Many of the Medicos took their
families with them and the great hotel was filled
to overflowing.
* * *
Captain and Mrs. Lawrence H. Westdahl are
spending their honeymoon at Del Monte. Mrs.
Westdahl was Miss Alma Irene Sevening, whose
pretty wedding took place last week at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Franz Collischon, of Alameda. Mr.
and Mrs. Anson Herrick are another happy young
couple at Del Monte.
* * *
Mrs. Harry M. Sherman and her children are
at Del Monte with her mother, Mrs. Jonalton Kittle,
and Mrs. Benjamin Dibble.
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-THE WASP-
RICHARD M. HOTAUNG
In "Mrs. Warren's Profession," Bernard Shaw
sketches a degenerate Englishman of title, who in-
vests his money in Mr. Warren's "private hotels,"
and thereby obtains high interest on his money.
Shaw's study is no doubt photographic in its ac-
curacy. The novelist doubtless knows some de-
graded nobleman who uses his money in the man-
ner described. It is not necessary to go all the
way to London to find people of more or less social
prominence who derive large incomes from infa-
mous and criminal enterprises. Here in San Fran-
cisco it would be easy to name persons, who like
Shaw's depraved man of title keep up the appear-
ance of respectability on money, directly or indi-
rectly, drawn from the earnings of fallen women.
•The wave of civic reform which is sweeping over
the United States, if not the entire world, is lay-
ing bare the secrets of many such people.
In days not so long gone by the possession of
wealth silenced all criticism as to how it was ac-
quired. As long as a man or woman could show
a bank account of a million dollars Society opened
its doors to the possessors, and held it to be bad
form to ask questions about the new-comer's ante-
cedents.
* * ^c
There is a charge in the public estimate of wealth
and the owners of great fortunes have themselves
caused it. The richest, like John D. Rockefeller
and Andrew Carnegie, seem to be oppressed by
their mountains of gold and eager to give part of
them for philanthropic work.
* * *
But to find the really worthy objects of charity
and to have the gifts accepted with a good grace
are problems that worry the billionaires. Is their
vast wealth worth all the cares it creates ? The
world is beginning to answer in the negative and
to take a saner view of life. So far only the mi-
nority takes this philosophic view, but the minority
of today may grow into the majority of another
generation.
Beyond question the money madness of our peo-
ple is declining and every year a larger proportion
tries to get more out of life, and fewer work with
insane absorption at the task of accumulating vast
fortunes for lawyers to fight over and heirs to
squander. The growing sanity of the public on
money causes the better classes to become more
and more critical of the methods by which large
fortunes are acquired. An example of this has been
furnished by the indictment of several very promi-
nent Southern capitalists for conducting the Hon-
duras Lottery, which is the successor to the old
Louisiana Lottery. General Pierre G. T. Beaure-
gard, who was for years commander of drawings
of the Louisiana Lottery Company, was regarded
as one of the leading citizens of New Orleans. Pub-
lic opinion in Louisiana would regard his occupa-
tion quite differently today'. The Louisiana Lottery
Company obtained a twenty-five-year charter from
a reconstruction legislature.
* * *
Notwithstanding the lawful character given to
Let them know!
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
-THE WASP-
13
THE LATE LOUIS MORRISON
the Louisiana Lottery by its State Charter the bet-
ter sentiment in Louisiana in later years condemned
the enterprise and even the social position of Gen-
eral Beauregard was lowered thereby. Another
prominent citizen who had been a principal owner
in the lottery was Charles T. Howard. The Louis-
iana Jockey Club, which ran the famous Metarie
race track, actually blackballed Howard, because
of his connection with the Louisiana Lottery.
Howard sold the mansion he had built in New Or-
leans and went to reside elsewhere. His wife tried
to make amends for her husband by building
churches and doing charitable work.
The Louisiana Lottery made millions for its
stockholders and like all such enterprises was un-
fair to its patrons. The unsold tickets were always
put in the wheel and often drew the prizes. Its re-
ceipts were about $4,000,000 a month in its palmy
days.
* * :(:
The Honduras Lottery is the old Louisiana Lot-
tery transplanted in another land to evade the laws
of the L'nited States. In this it has not been en-
tirely successful as twenty-five indictments have
been returned against the stockholders, some of
whom move in the millionaire sets of New York
and New Orleans. Its profits have been about
$6,000,000 a year. Evidence showing an organiza-
tion throughout the country has been gathered by
the Government through its raids and the admis-
sions of some of the men implicated. This organ-
ization called for huge expenditures all the way
along the line, but even after they were paid there
was plenty left for the men "higher up." When
the cases are tried, it is said, the country will be
astonished at the revelations of the widespread
operations of this big gambling scheme, despite all
the efforts of the Government to stop them.
* * *
A Professor Hopkins of Yale, an American
Oriental Society, and a session in Philadelphia,
might not be a promising combination. It proved
a treatise on the kiss in ancient India. The popu-
larity of the kiss has never been attributed to its
long-standing usage. Yet it is pleasant to know-
that precedent could be established if necessary.
And those primeval people had very little — no auto-
mobiles, no moving pictures, no French restau-
rants; it was only just to them that they should
have kisses. Of course, that clime has always been
famous for diamonds and rubies, and thereby may
be some clue to the beginning of the custom.
However, the professor thinks there was a time
when there were no kisses on the face of the earth,
as the records disclose none in the early period he
cites. The logic is not sound, though it smacks of
some ratiocination. Imagination could smack
sweeter.
Mrs. Martin Lalor Crimmins will shortly arrive
from the Philippines with her children on a visit to
her mother, Mrs. Cole, and sister, Mrs. Charles
McCormick. Capt. Crimmins' regiment the Six-
teenth Infantry will not leave until the middle of
August.
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-THE WASP
The marriage of Jane Wilshire and Jack Pol-
hemus came near being postponed at the last mo-
ment because of the critical illness of Mrs.
Polhemus, who was hovering between life and
death for several days preceding the wedding. The
guests were not allowed however to know of the
critical state of Mrs. Polhemus and so the wedding
occurred according to schedule.
* * *
The handsome and aristocratic-looking Father
Sesnon will no longer be the swell of the Roman
Catholic Church in California, for the new bishop
who succeeds the late Archbishop Montgomery is
a scion of royalty itself, being the uncle of the
King of Portugal. Judging by the way Santa Bar-
bara Society tumbled over itself to lionize that
courtly monk who has been lecturing down there,
local Society, which is a shade less exclusive than
that of the Channel City, will try to monopolize
the clerical prince who has come amongst us.
Smart brides intent on having ultra smart wed-
dings will have the opportunity of their lives. They
may not only succeed in having the scholarly and
dignified Archbishop Riordan perform the cere-
mony but may induce the mitred uncle of a reign-
ing king to assist in the ceremony. Such a pros-
pect would be enough to tempt a Puritan maiden,
Priscilla of the smart set, to turn proselyte — that
is if the smart set be speckled by any Puritan
Priscillas. However that may be it is a foregone
conclusion that there will be keen rivalry for the
distinction of being the first in San Francisco to
have a royal prince officiate in sacerdotal robes
at a wedding.
* * *
It was certainly a shrewd stroke of the pontificial
power to send such a prelate to San Francisco,
where it happens that a number of the oldest and
socially most prominent families belong to the
Catholic faith. Burlingame is particularly strong
in such and it was to Mrs. Francis Carolan, the
queen of Burlingame, so to speak that the princely
bishop brought his social passports in the shape
of letters from Charles Page Bryan, the American
Minister at Portugal. The new bishop will there-
fore become acquainted with Burlingame first and
the rest of San Francisco Society will be eager to
see him after such .a debut.
Amongst the most prominent Catholic families
here are the Tobins, the Martins and the Parrotts.
Mrs. Will Tevis, as a Pacheco, is of course a devout
Catholic, and Mrs. Rudolph Spreckels is also of that
faith. There are few cities in America where the
Catholic Church has more socially prominent and
wealthy members than San Francisco. A good
many of Father Yorke's constituency were in hopes
that the honor of succeeding Bishop Montgomery
would fall to him, but it is evident that the Vatican
has not been as much impressed by the brilliancy
of his talents as are his south-of-market-street ad-
mirers. Although the Catholic Church has a larger
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membership amongst the working classes than any
other Christian denomination, its tendencies have
for a thousand years been aristocratic, and even
here in our democratic nations it prefers to cultivate
the favor of the latter classes than to play to the
mob.
* * *
Mother, may I go out and marry?
No, my darling daughter.
Wait a few months and become a June bride ;
• Until then, don't go near the water.
And do, do, my huckleberry do,
Remember what you do do.
With contraband weddings and quick wooers why
do?
Remember and do as I do.
And the daughter did, on a technicality, so that
she was soon heard saying, Come in, the water is
fine. Miss Ethel Wilson, a banker's daughter of
New York, discovered that her mother's marriage
had been an elopement ; so she followed the leader
exactly. All would have gone merrily as a real,
widely advertised wedding bell, with bridesmaid
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marriage certificate. The groom, Edmund Putnam,
one of G. P. Putnam's sons, the New York pub-
lishers, kept worrying about that marriage certificate
until he felt he must go back to Chaplain Warren
and get another. He feared the missing document
might go into some sort of spontaneous combustion
and end his marital career, which he was just begin-
ning at a cafe. Also the little slip of paper might
fall into wrongful hands. It did. No sooner lost
than found by a meddler, who conveyed it to papa.
Papa, as President of the Lincoln Trust Company,
took up his telephone and quoted the rules to young
Putnam. He was so excited he wanted every-
body, the Chaplain included, to change their votes.
But with two certificates, the couple took the honey-
moon trail, and nothing but death or ennui will
ever part them.
* * *
Those California beaux seem to walk right into
the good graces of the New York smart set as
soon as they set foot in Gotham. Sherrill Schell,
so well known and popular in San Francisco So-
ciety, seems to be mingling with the smartest in
New York, for "Cholly Knickerbocker" says in one
of the large New York dailies :
"Society is becoming accustomed to shocks, vary-
ing from the latest escapades of young millionaires
to the reported heart concerns of pretty widows;
but Sherrill Schell, a prominent San Franciscan, is
the hero of the very latest Society shock.
"The other night, at Delmonico's, Mrs. Oliver
Harriman handed to Mr. Schell an electric lighted
parasol, as a cotillion favor.
"Mr. Schell simply couldn't become interested in
anything else until he took a peep at the works.
He does not take on when hurt, so he did not
scream, in fact, his language, though Heavens
knows what he said mentally, was almost apolo-
getic. At any rate, no action for damaged feelings
is contemplated. The Californian learned consid-
erable from his investigation."
# * *
The Fairmont Hotel certainly opened in a blaze of
social glory when Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and her
party from New York inscribed their names on the
vergin page of the register. Mrs. Vanderbilt is the
mother of young Cornelius Vanderbilt who married
Miss Grace Wilson of New York. Mrs. Shephard of
the party, was a Vanderbilt. Miss Gladys Vanderbilt
is one of the richest heiresses of New York. The dis-
tinguished guests left for the East by way of Portland
last Saturday night in their special car.
Should the Palace Plotel people lease the Fairmont
Hotel for $105,000 a year plus the taxes and insurance,
the Messrs.Lawswillbe entitled to congratulations and
no doubt so will be the lessees. Starting a great hotel
is a gigantic feat, calculated to try the purse, patience
and talents of any man on earth and especially one not
used to the business. The Palace Hotel people have
experience, great prestige and ample resources, and
An exhibition of Paintings of Indian Life by Grace Hudson, will be held
from April 17th to 27th at the Schussler Gallery, 1218 Sutter Street.
would beyond doubt make the Fairmont a paying in-
vestment at once and one of the best conducted places
in America.
* * #
Mr. I Ialton has retired from the management of the
Hotel Rafael to engage in another line of business.
Mr. I". N. Orpin the new manager who has been in
charge for several months has become so very much
of a favorite by his ability and urbanity that every-
body is delighted at his flection to fill the vacancy.
* * *
Mr. and Paul Bancroft will spend the coming Sum-
mer at the beautiful Bancroft ranch near Concord. Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert H. Bancroft and Miss Lucy, will
also remain during the entire Summer, as also Paul
and Philip with their families.
* * *
The old timer, who writes that Louis Bruguiere's
paternal grandfather was a gardener, apparently
does not know what he was talking about. The
Bruguieres in New York were friends of the Ward
McAllisters thirty-five years ago and that puts an
end to the statement that Louis' grandfather was
a gardener, for Ward McAllister was not suffi-
ciently democratic to seek his associates amongst
the horny-fisted sons of toil. An old-timer from
New York tells me that all the New York set re-
ceived Louis Bruguiere so cordially because his
grandfather knew theirs.
* * *
The Lillian Russell engagement helped to
emphasize the fact that San Francisco is as gay as
ever socially. There were theatre and supper
parties galore. Mrs. La Boyteaux gave a dinner
followed by a box party. Her guests included Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Breeden and Mrs.. Henry Foster
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PWolo Genthe
MISS MAY RE1S
Miss Edwinna Hammond recently left for
Arizona, where she will remain some time with
her brother, who goes for the benefit of his health.
The space writer is always glad to record the do-
ings of the Woman's Interdenominational Mission-
ary Union of the District of Columbia. The title
of the organization is not only longer than usually
falls to the lot of the scribe who is paid on the 50-
vara plan, but the word "Interdenominational"
takes up space for three words and causes a three-
ply smile to displace a little professional cynicism.
* * *
Fifty thousand women of that Union have lately
resented the statement of Senator Reed Smoot in
which he said that the ladies have discontinued
their hostility toward him. By formal resolution
the hostility is declared continuous.
But the bullet which put Stanford White into
"Thanatopsis" gave New Yorkers a fashionable
auction ; and his antiques were divided among
them, at prices a la mode. Artistically, Society did
not confirm Harry K. Thaw's plea that the deceased
architect was an enemy to that body.
The picture sale aggregated $51,532, and with!
the house furnishings amounted to $177,337. A
portrait of the Earl of Dorset, early Spanish school,
brought $3200; a sofa pillow, perhaps of the
Evelyn Nesbit school, $170. Mrs. Payne Whitney
blew herself for $100, taking an old China oviform
jar.
David Belasco, George Crocker, Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney, Elsie de Wolfe, Imperial Commis-
sioner of the Shah of Persia, H. H. Topakyan, I.
N. P. Stokes, Mrs. Robert Goelet, and the Prince-
ton Club also bought.
% :•: *
The Carnegie smile and the Rockefeller leer have
been exchanged by typewritten letter. John D. dic-
tated : "Hearty congratulations for your grand ef-
forts to help your fellow men." And Andrew:
"Many thanks, fellow-worker, in the task of dis-
tributing surplus wealth."
The operatic tendencies of the Emperor of Japan
have never been given much attention, as far as
we know. Politically, though, an Emperor's mu-
sical tastes have some weight. The Mikado does
not fancy the tricksy comic opera that bares his
name. His esthetic embassy in London have inti-
mated that the revival of "The Mikado" in Eng-
land's capital is unnecessary, inadvisable. There-
fore, a $25,000 production has been sacrificed to in-
ternational good will.
Sullivan, when composing the music, was hoaxed
into using a coarse song of the tea-houses for
the Japanese National Anthem as entrance music
for the Mikado. It was like making England's
monarch enter to "Razzle Dazzle," or peradventure
worse than that, for all one knows of the subtler
meanings of Japanese tea-house odes.
Comic opera themes have ever made a scapegoat
of diplomacy and kings ; but here the goat be-
came owner of some battle-ships. Perhaps, if Siam
should rise to a world power, we would lose
"Wang."
* * *
Sarah Bernhardt has always had a complete work-
ing knowledge of that embodiment of art known
to the world as the "Divine Sarah." She is now
tempted with the Grand Cross of the Legion of
Honor. Certain officials have desired her to accept
the distinction, which is accredited to her not as
a tragedienne but a "professor." The distinction
between the two terms seems to be merely one
between the generic and the specific. Honor is fre-
quently technical. In this case it insinuates that
Sarah's technique is not quite honorable — honor-
able in the sense of the intended decoration.
To this, Bernhardt in the stage part of "Adrienne
Lecouvrier" makes reply : "I am one of the high
priests of my age. Do you know what my art is?
Think you I will turn from it? It is noble, inspir-
ing. It educates. It preaches sweetly what is
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MRS. GASTON M. ASHE
rudely preached in other ways. It evokes vice, but
only to put vice to shame. It sings the beauty of
life. It glorifies God. It awakens patriotism. It
knocks at all brains, at all hearts. It moves, trans-
ports, electrifies. It chastens, scourges, pardons."
So too the audience thought, and gave applause
that resounded to the gods on Olympus.
The Battle of Cocktails goes brightly on as
Washington club men sit and bedate of Perry Bel-
mont's difficulty in entering the Chevy Chase Club.
Belmont was not blackballed ; his friends whisked
away his name to prevent such a calamity. The
unsuccessful applicant blames President Roosevelt
for the affair. The brilliancy in laying the onus
of mischief on Theodore has worn off within the
last two or three seasons. The practice has become
hackneyed. Still, a man who has some truth to
express is not always concerned about its sparkling
originality.
* * *
When Belmont was in Paris, the home of sin-
cerity, he was heard to remark that he did not
think Roosevelt is sincere. After that, it was in
some way hinted to him to forget the combination
on the White House door. One of his enemies is
Thomas Xelson Page, the author. Page's outlook
on Society is a condemnation of the frivolous
class which he claims Belmont occupies. Besides
that, the outlook of Page's home in Washington
is on a triangular piece of ground which he had
desired be reserved by the government as a park,
but which Belmont now occupies, too, with the in-
tention of building.
The millionaire will again submit his name when
his friends tell him that victory is winged his way.
* * *
In the rooms of the Fontenelle Club, Omaha, the
picture of John M. Thurston, ex-Senator from Ne-
braska, is turned to the wall. Pasted on the back
of the canvas is a newspaper clipping showing why.
The why is an anti-Roosevelt speech which Thurs-
ton delivered in Philadelphia. While the Senator
is pleased enough to wear his Roosevelt sentiments
on his back, the vista between the portrait and the
Republican club wall is not enchanting.
* * *
The Countess Eliza De La Vaulx, who died the
other day in Paris of pneumonia, had just returned
from an American trip with her daughters, Miles.
Clothilde and Louise De La Vaulx. They visited
relatives in St. Louis and Orange, N. J. She was
born in St. Louis in 1864, and was the daughter of
Patrick M. Dillon, one of the first of St. Louis' mer-
chants. The late John A. Dillon, a newspaper man,
of St. Louis and New York, was her brother. Her
husband was the late Roger, Count De La Vaulx, of
Rosoy Aisne, formerly of the Papal Zouaves and hon-
orary captain in the French army in 1867.
* * *
Andrew Bogart, the famous San Francisco bari-
tone, is back at his home in Buchanan street and
his friends who planned to give him a rousing
welcome at the opening night of the Jefferson De
Angeles Opera Company's engagement, at the Van
Ness Theatre in June, will be disappointed. The
company closed its season at New Orleans last
week. Mr. Bogart has not sung in his native city
since his debut in "The Senerade," in the old
Tivoli three years ago. Meantime he has sung
in opera in England and studied for six months in
Florence with the celebrated Vannuccini.
Miles Baird, whose forgery of a check with at-
torney John S. Partridge's name attached thereto
brought him into more notoriety, has been through
the divorce court too. His wife, who was the
exceedingly pretty Miss Ruth Jackson, had the
marital bonds severed. The lady is half Spanish
and on the mother's side is descended from one
of the old Spanish governors.
ENTRE NOUS.
District Attorney Langdon is on record with the
announcement that he will not be a candidate for
Mayor, and that he desires nothing but to succeed
himself in his present office that he may continue
the work on which he is now engaged in driving
to jail the grafters that infest the City. His an-
nouncement was publicly made at the banquet of
the merchants at the Fairmont on the anniversary
of the earthquake and is therefore to be considered
as having more weight than if had been delivered
in the way of an interview to the press. Langdon
made a frank and open disclaimer that he is seek-
ing to lift himself into the Mayoralty by his pro-
secution of the grafters and declared that he does
not want the office out of which he is seeking to
drive Schmitz.
This declaration by Langdon will go a long way
toward disproving that charge that the "whole
thing is a political scheme", a statement which
has been hurled about the heads of the prosecutors
by the grafters ever since the investigation was
begun. There has been frequent repetition of the
expression that Hearst through Langdon was at-
tempting to turn the prosecution to his political
account by electing Langdon to the Mayoralty and
filling all the appointive offices with Hearst men. In
fact, Hearst gave color to this belief by publishing
in his Chicago paper a full page in which Langdon
was hailed as the one who had taken the initiative
in the prosecution and to whom all the credit be-
longed.
Many thought at the time that Hearst had gone
too far in this matter, as the boosting of Langdon
gave the cold shoulder to Rudolph Spreckels,
Fremont Older, Francis J. Heney and all the others
who had labored for months on the investigation
before Langdon was even made aware that an in-
vestigation was on. But now Langdon is out with
a flat declaration that he does not want the Mayor's
office, so the prosecution will go on smoothly and
there will be no lack of . brotherhood among those
who are enlisted in the work.
It would not require the cleverness of Detective
Burns to discover that Langdon acted the part of
a good Indian in going up to that banquet and de-
livering himself of his disavowal of political seek-
ing. It is strongly suspected that the leaders in the
prosecution told Langdon that the announcement
was due from him in order to allay the suspicion
that the investigation was merely political, and that
Langdon obeyed their orders in making the an-
nouncement that was desired of him.
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Anyone seeing Supervisor Sanderson on thel
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it hard to believe the tear-dripping stories of a part
of the yellow press that he is "on the verge of
death", and that the ravages of consumption are
about to carry him to a grave unlined by the profits
of graft. Sanderson may be a sick man, but he
certainly does not look the part of the death-bed
confessor. Many are inclined to believe that his
condition was- represented to him by the shrewd
detectives to be much worse than it really is in
order to get from him the evidence which proved an
entering wedge for the dragging out of confessions
from all the rest of the bunch of grafters whose
hands are soiled with corporation bribes.
The decision of the graft investigators to give the
supervisors complete immunity in return for their
confessions is. having a bad effect in more ways
than one. It is a shocking example to set before the
youths who are being taught in the public schools
the wisdom of ethics and a high order of honesty in j
public office. But worse than that it has emboldened
the supervisors to such a point that in addition to
strutting the streets and boasting of their ac-
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ways to enrich themselves at the expense of the
public.
The latest scheme of the boodling gang is in
connection with the reorganization of the amateur
fight clubs. Sixteen of the supervisors (Tveitmoe
and O'Neill being out of it i have organized eight
clubs which will ask for permits for the carrying on
of amateur boxing contests in the City. Two super-
visors belong to each club and there is a third
member of each club, too, who is an outsider, and
in whose name all the business of the club is
transacted. The supervisors are silent partners and
the stock is equally divided in each club, each super-
visor and each outsider having one-third.
The supervisors plan to get very rich from the
profits of the fights. They have long cast hungry
eyes at the spoils of the fighting game which are
known at large, the success of CofFroth, Graney and
Britt having convinced them that it was a game
wi irth the candle. So through these amateur clubs
they plan to grab the entire fighting business and
divide the profits. They ought to be on their way to
San Quentin. It is a disgrace to the community to
have such men making its municipal ordinances.
I think Mr. Heney and the public-spirited gentle-
men associated with him in the cleansing of the
City government should be very careful lest im-
munity to the self-confessed grafters may not prove
a boomerang. Uncompromising prosecution of the
rascals, even though they be restrained by the
end. Thousands of good citizens in San Francisco
chafe under the disgrace of being governed by such
rascals, even though they be restrained by the
terror of prosecution for felony. Any sort of a
peaceful compact with such people is dangerous.
The safer course is usually to treat them as pirates
with whom there can be no compromise and take
the speediest means to land them in jail. If the
decent people become disgusted by seeing those
municipal boodlers left unmolested in office, no one
can tell how the vote may go at the next election.
The N. S. G. W. has undergone a sort of pre-
cipitation and come up translucent again, leaving
Abe Ruef in the sediment. While this sediment is
being tried by a jury of his peers, Gallagher is still
a Native Son. The difference is, Gallagher has con-
fessed, and Ruef has not. The logic may be confus-
ing to some ; but one should not ask too much in these
reconstruction days. We have learned that there are
degrees of crime and complicity. This explanation
floats down the River of Truth like a swan, and disap-
pears. But Ruef is no longer a Native Son. He
might as well have been born on the moon, the asso-
ciation has so little use for him. California disowns
him, yet will not give up possession.
From the standpoint of a thriller, in the eyes of an
epicure of sensation, graft news is having a few dull
moments now. At first the exposure was exciting.
Ruef's appeals all on account of the elisor were in-
teresting. Shortridge's contempt and Ach's ptomaines
retained one's attention. But there is a general de-
mam 1 for something new. This is said in no spirit
of mischief. Anti-Ruefism was a high sea when the
indictments began. But after all, public feeling is
merely dramatic instinct. Ami woe is unto the man
who gives it a throb one day and on the second day
fails to give two throbs, and so on. For a real shocker,
why not prove somebody innocent ?
The demand by the Legislature of Minnesota that
President Roosevelt shall accept a third term indicates
that the movement to compel the President to forget
his promise is likely to become very strong. .,
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put through it has no need to appeal to Tveitmoe.
Photo Genthe
UNCLE GEORGE BROMLEY
That eminent thinker and spieler, O. A. Tveitmoe,
who was so ready only a few months ago to hurl de-
fiance at President Roosevelt and to wire red-hot
messages to Mayor Schmitz at Washington that there
must be no sui render on the Japanese question, is a
very much subdued person just now. So much so, in-
deed, that he did not reply with his usual crushing
weight of argument to Secretary Root's speech on the
Japanese controversy. His Japanese and Korean Ex-
clusion League has forgotten when and where it meets,
and Tveitmoe is sticking pretty close to his labor union
job and saying as little as possible.
Tveitmoe broke into public office at a most unfor-
tunate time. He has been put in the position of a
rabid champion of Schmitz and Ruef just at the time
when the confessions of the Supervisors disclosed to
the world what a precious pair of thieves Gene and
Abe have been. The swag was all distributed before
he got within reach of it, and now he must walk or
take a street car while Gallagher, Boxton and a lot
more of the Schmitz pirates whirl about in their own
automobiles. And the illustrious exclusionist has not
even the satisfaction of being of importance to the
Grand Jury. The "big stick" dismisses Keane and
O'Grady and other Ruefites without a word to Tveit-
moe. If it wants a measure for decent government
Also Tveitmoe is subdued by virtue of a crack on
the jaw which a painter hit him because he had abused
the wood-dauber in his labor journal. Tveitmoe is a
huge fellow, with hands like hams, but when the
painter, two-thirds his size, cut loose at him, the
Swedish giant fairly frizzled up and sat where the
painter put him until interfering friends made it safe
for the flabbergasted statesman to get up.
P. H. McCarthy, also, is beginning to be a name but
little heard. He and his clique have not the courage
to denounce the grafters, and they dare not any longer
assert confidence in the integrity of the labor union
administration they so stoutly upheld and praised
through years of public plunder.
Myrtile Cerf, the faithful henchman of Abe Ruef,
is much aggrieved. The Grand Jruy will not indict
him. It just ignores him. He is too small for them
even to take a good swift kick at and he is sore about
it. He would like to be a martyr, to be indicted along
with Ruef and Schmitz and the millionaires who
bribed them, to be right in the lime-light as a man who
was such a thorough-going crook that he would rather
go to jail with Ruef than desert his standard for an
instant. But Myrtile is small fry. The Grand Jury
can't waste time with him and he fairly hates that
Grand Jury for its lack of consideration.
Supervisor Lonergan is the first of the bribed Super-
visors to be kicked out by his associates. The Bakery
Wagon Drivers' Union refused to re-elect him as its
delegate to the Labor Council. The Blacksmiths'
Helpers' Union re-elected Supervisor Furey, after his
confession of crime, both as its president and delegate
to the council. Mike Coffey, the ex-Buckley lamb and
perennial agitator, is still the delegate of the Hack-
men's Union, though he has confessed his crimes and
treason to union labor.
Lonergan has the distinction of being the only one
of the piratical band who has broken away from Grand
Jury restraint long enough to tell his story of admin-
istration crime to a newspaper. The Examiner got
his story through the combined talents of its news
editor, John P. Barrett, and an office boy. Barrett's
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father is foreman in a bakery owned by the office
boy's father and Loncrgan used to drive a wagon for
the same establishment. The Examiner sent the office
boy out to find Loncrgan and he got him and brought
him in. Then Lonergan, by some mysterious influ-
ence, was induced to talk. Barrett wrote the inter-
view and it was the best piece of reading that has been
turned out since the graft exposure began.
Secretary Root's discussion of the Japanese con-
troversy made the State rights cry of the exclusionists
sound very ridiculous. His argument was very close
and proved conclusively that State rights will not give
any State the power to cancel treaty provisions law-
fully made by the President and ratified by the Senate
of the United States.
The Federal Government is the sole treaty-making
power and valid treaties annul State laws not con-
sistent with their provisions. Treaties with "most
favored nation" clauses have been held valid from the
earliest years of the nation. Under the treaty with
Japan, if California admits other aliens to her public
schools she must admit the Japanese. California may
exclude all aliens or may choose to have no public
schools under the cherished reserved right doctrine.
Hut Root shows that the one thing she was doing was
the very thing she had no warrant under the Constitu-
tion to do.
It is rather amusing to see some stalwart Republican
editors in San Francisco fighting so fiercely for the
sacred doctrine of State rights. Twenty years ago it
was the custom of most Republican editors to sneer
at State rights as something that had no magic outside
of the Solid South. When the Solid North convinced
the Confederacy that it could neither keep slaves nor
set up its own government, the doctrine of State rights
was knocked endways. It went the way of many an-
other doctrine into the historical ash barrel and be-
came but a recollection.
As a matter of fact the doctrine of State rights was
originally invented to give a handful of men the power
to rule the country. When the landed aristocracy of
the South saw the Northern constituencies of shop-
keepers and mechanics becoming so numerous as to
dominate the national legislature, the blue-blooded
planters became more intensely devoted than ever to
the State rights doctrine. The war made an end of it.
and the new doctrine is and will be one for all and all
for one. No section of the United States will be
allowed to jeopardize the peace or prosperity of the
entire nation, nor will any set of men banded together
to enjoy special privileges be allowed to oppress the
public, and rob their fellow citizens of their constitu-
tional rights.
HARVEY BROUGHAM
Wedding Cakes and Fancy Ices
and Tarts
-ECHtiE
LECHTEN BROS
1242- 1244 Devlsadero Street
Bel. Eddy and Ellis Phone West 2526
F. W. KRONE, Proprietor
[The Original San Francisco
Popular Dining Room
NOW OPEN
91 1-913 O* Far re II St.
Bet. Van Ness and Polk
Largest and Handsomest Dining-Room in the City--An Idea) Kitchen. Former
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BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE
PAPER
1400-1450 FOURTH STREET
TELEPHONE MARKET 3014
Privale Exchange Connecting all Departments
STRICTLY BUSINESS
Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
The money tightness has affected the operations
of the Bond and Stock Exchange. The business
however showed some improvement on previous
weeks but was on the whole devoid of any great
activity. Bank Stocks were rather stronger. Bank
of California selling at $362, an advance of $1.
California and North Western S's sold at $108.
Alaska Packers went up a couple of dollars to
$43.25. United RR's weakened to $75.25. Spring
Valley sold at $21.25, a slight reduction, but went
up again to $21.62j4.
There were sales of California Wine at $83, a
reduction, but it rallied again. Associated oil was
lower, $42.75. Pacific Electric S's brought $107.50.
Spring Valley 4's sold at $89.75, Sugar Stocks weak-
ened in some instances. For Hawaiian $82. was bid.
Paauhau sold down to $14.25. Hutchinson kept
firm at $15.75. Makaweli sold at $29 @ $29.50.
Onomea had $35.75 bid. Union $42.50, while Hon-
okaa sold at $10.87>4.
Mutual Electric still sells in a small way and the
other day a lot of 100 shares brought $13. But
these are not good days for gas or water securities.
A Great Source of Wealth
California sells in the markets of the East from
forty-five to fifty million dollars' worth of fruit
yearly and will reach the latter figure this year.
We send besides a large quantity of vegetables.
The amount this year will probably be eleven
million dollars worth.
Dollar Wheat
The movement in favor of holding wheat till it
reaches a dollar a bushel has been gaining great
headway during the past year and soon will have
taken good hold in California. It is just a farmer's
trade union and Canada is helping the scheme
along.'
A dollar a bushel was formerly a not unusual
price in this State. Such a price would again give
an impetus to wheat production in California.
Wheat which was our greatest crop has of late
years come to be one of our smallest. We formerly
exported as much as 50.000,000 bushels in a single
year. Such a crop would require a fleet of six
hundred vessels of 1500 tons each to carry it to
market.
The Mines
The one satisfactory feature that characterizes
A Sovereign Remedy
Dr. Parker's Cough Cure, one dose will stop a cough. It
never fails. Try it. Sold by all Druggists.
this week's operations in the Southern Nevada min-
ing camps is the cessation of the labor troubles.
This at once produced a favorable effect on the
market. The next thing is the weeding out of the
wild cat stocks. This must be done by the ex-
changes. Goldfield stocks gained as much as a
dollar over the week preceding though the merger
fell off to $8.75. Mohawk went down as low as $15.
No Strike
I understand that the majority of the carmen are
averse to a strike. They realize that they are getting
good wages and that the great boom in the labor
market has reached its turning point. If the matter
were left to those men there would be no strike. It
is to be hoped their influence will prevail for they
understand pretty well that the strike idea is worked
up by political grafters who would welcome any]
disturbance that might divert attention from their
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid op Capita] and Surplus, $620,000
Loans on Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D. Phelan. Pres,. John A. Hooper, V. Pres.. J. K. Moffatt, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Sec'y and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Asst. Cashier, A. E.
Curtis, 2d Asst. 'Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS A specialty
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in their
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange Bldg.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK
OF SAN FRANCISCO
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS,
PAID UP CAPITAL.
DEPOSITS JANUARY I. 1907
108-110 Sutter Street
$693,104.68
$600,000.00
0.772,145.83
Charles Carpy. Pres. Arthur Legallel, Vice-Pres. Leon Bocqueraz, Secretary
John Ginty, Asst. Secretary P. A. Bergerot. Attorney
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inefficiency and dishonesty. The United Railroads
bond* ami .slocks arc Mire to advance in the event
of the carmen being sensible enough to avoid a
strike.
Call Loans
The capitalists of the City every now and again
make a turn in the New York market when money is
badly needed there.
"They can do it with more safety than they can
here," said a leading banker to me the other day. "In
New York a call loan is a call loan — here you have to
call for the loan pretty frequently and in the end have
to take legal steps to recover it. That has been our
experience sometimes."
In New York, however, a call loan is a call loan
and is always paid on demand. There are banks there
that insure the payment of call loans for yi per cent,
so that a capitalist of this City, when call money brings
15 per cent, is sure of 14j/> per cent and his money
back whenever he wants it. If it is 10 per cent he gets
9^4, if it is 5 per cent he gets 4yi. There is always a
big demand for these loans in New York. They are
gamblers there. Only a small minority speculate here
in stocks. Hence the attraction that Wall Street has
for our capitalists.
The Building Prospects
The value of new building contracts recorded for
the week was slightly in excess of $800,000, while the
loans on realty for the week, in round numbers,
reached almost a million dollars. This indicates that
April will be as good a month as March. None of the
loans made during the past week were very large — all
below $100,000. Deposits continue to be large, but
withdrawals and loans are also large and the latter
are necessarily restricted.
"L'ltalia," the representative daily of Latin San
Francisco and the Pacific Coast, has issued a special
edition, commemorating the disaster of April 18th
and Italian participation in the ensuing year of
progress. An elaborate cover drawing and sixty
pages of special articles, business statistics and
wholesome enthusiasm makes a creditable showing
of the post-seismic energy that many have noted in
the Italian quarter. In fact, it has been remarked
that nowhere has been shown a district displaying
wider rebuilding activity than North of Montgomery
Avenue. Ettore Patrizi is an up-to-date editor, and
succeeded in making up and printing the entire
edition in the press rooms and offices of "LTtalia."
An enterprising journal of the high character of
L'ltalia is a great aid to the Italian Colony and
helps to bring it into close touch and thorough
harmony with the American community.
With the collapse of the Oceanic Steamship Com-
pany it might be expected that Australian trade would
receive a temporary set-back. Still it was hard to see
that the revenue and subsidies attached to a carrying
worth roughly three million dollars a year should be
surrendered without a struggle
Do you get up Bred and feel tired all day? Try a tablespoonru of Abbott's Bitters in
sweetened water before meals. At grocers and druggists. ,
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT
AND TRUST COMPANY
Cordially invites you to open an account
at their Home Office or branch most
convenient to you. Liberal interest is
paid on all forms of accounts, and our
customers are accorded every courtesy
consistent with conservative banking prin-
ciples.
HOME OFFICE
CALIFORNIA and MONTGOMERY STS.
West End Branch, 1531 Devisadero
Mission Branch, 2572 Mission, near 22d
Up-Town Branch, 1 740 Fillmore nr. Sutter
VALUABLES of all kinds
May be safely stored at
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Cor. Bush and Sansome Sts.
Safes to rent from $5 a year upwards
Careful service to customers
Trunks $1 a month
Office Hours: 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The German Savings and Loan Society
526 CALIFORNIA ST., San Francisco
Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31, 1906
$2,578,695,41
1.000,000.00
38,531,917.28
OFFICERS - President. F. Tillmann. Jr.; First Vice-President. Daniel Meyer
Second Viee-President, Emil Rohte; Cashier, A. H. R. Schmidt; Assistant Cashier,
William Herrmann; Secretary, George Toumy; Assistant Secretary, A. H. Muller.
Goodfellow & Bells, General Attorneys.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS -F. Tillmann, Jr.. Daniel Meyer, Emil Rohte, Ijtn.
Steinhart. 1. N. Waller. N. Ohlandt. J. W. Van Bersen, E. T. Kruse and W. S.
Goodfellow.
MEMBER STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE
MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO MINING EXCHANGE
J. C. WILSON
BROKER
STOCKS AND BONDS Kohl BIdg., 488 California St.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES San Francisco
Telephone Temporary 8 1 5
24
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Jim Hill's Retirement
Although Jim Hill has resigned as president of
the Great Northern Railroad, in favor of his son
L. W. Hill, the veteran magnate will not cease to
be an influence in the management of the affairs
of the corporation. The Great Northern has been
so distinctly a James J. Hill enterprise and its
prosperity has been considered so largely due to
his personal management that it has been deemed
advisable that every arrangement be made for a
continuation of his policies. It had been under-
stood for some time that whenever Mr. Hill re-
tired he would be succeeded by his son, Louis W.
Hill. The latter is a Yale graduate who on leaving
college entered the operating department of the
road and has since perfected himself in the school
of railroading. He is now vice-president of the
Great Northern, with offices in St. Paul, and is con-
sidered a very capable railroad man. Gradually,
it is expected, he will take upon himself more and
more of the responsibility of the management,
though it will doubtless be long before James J.
Hill's position as chairman of the board becomes
a nominal office. Mr. Hill is said to have felt that
the time was propitious for him to withdraw when
last fall he had made arrangements for the issue of
$60,000,000 new stock and had completed the lease
of the ore lands to the Steel Corporation. It is
believed his withdrawal would have been announced
then had not the Minnesota State authorities at-
tacked the legality of the stock issue.
The policy of the Savings banks is most conservative,
and for that reason there is no immediate prospect of
a wild boom in building. There cannot be unless the
banks become very liberal in giving accommodations.
The next Republican National Convention—From N. Y. World
The fall in price of pine lumber is significant. It has
been explained that the fall is due to lack of railroad
facilities to transport the lumber to the Eastern
markets. The fact is that the stock of lumber in local
yards is increasing and the first wild rush to build at
any price is over. Next look out for the drop in the
ridiculously high wages paid in the building trades, and
also to plumbers.
Long Term United States Bonds Offered
The United States Treasury Department stands
ready to refund $50,000,000 of the outstanding 4
per cent loan of 1907 into long term 2 per cent
bonds between now and June 30th, the end of the
fiscal year. The residue of the loan, after the re-
funding, has been completed, and will be held for
redemption and will cease to bear interest July
2d next. Owners of the bonds in question are at
liberty to retain the securities, but they will receive
no interest. The whole outstanding loan amounts
to a little more than $100,000,000. The amount
outstanding on December 1st of last year, which
was $116,000,000, has been reduced lately by pur-
chases under various circulars issued by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to relieve the money market.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave a hint of her inten-
tion of purchasing an estate near Santa Barbara the
other day while she was there and the property owners
of the Montecito and of the little city itself have be-
come dizzy over the idea.
INVESTOR
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Stock Exchange
Goldfield. Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET, STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE. Pr«.
GAVIN McNAB. Any.
WM. CORBIN, Sec. and Gen. Mgr.
OFFICES- COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Rooms 7 to 11
Telephone Tmpy. 1415
W. C. RALSTON
Stock and Bond Broker
Member San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
Mining Stocks a Specialty
Code
Bedford McNeill
Western Union
Leibers
368 BUSH STREET
San Francisco
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Saturday — Dear me. I believe I won't be able to
get a hat this year! I can't make out those mil-
liners. Whatever has got into them since the fire.
I was in Bluefeather's today with Mrs. Gavleigh
looking at some hats. Such prices! Oh mercy!
They took my breath away and the milliners didn't
care whether you bought or not. Mrs. Gayleigh
says they've made so much selling $3 hats for $45
that it's a compliment for them to take your money.
The girl that waited on us at Bluefeather's made
me very nervous. I could see the poor thing was
out of her head and imagined that she was Mrs.
Yanderbilt. She got worse every minute. She
said the cheapest hat they had was $35 and they
only kept it as an accommodation to Society leaders
from Oakland and Alameda. They might jump off
the ferryboat if they had to go back without a
San Francisco creation. Oh gracious !
When I told her I'd worn nice hats all my life
and never paid over $4.50 for one she screamed
and ran to the back of the store. Mrs. Gayleigh
said she thought the girl must be going to tele-
phone to the police.
"They stand in with all the bunko games in town
now," said she.
Heavens! I got out of that store mighty quick.
Dear me ! Where on earth am I going to get a
Summer hat?
Sunday. — Well such a woman as Mrs. Gabbe is !
She hears everything. She told me today about
the funeral of old Skinner who left his family nearly
a million. He's been dead only a few weeks and
his family are getting fat already. He preferred to
die at Vallejo, because the coffin trust isn't estab-
lished there and caskets are twenty per cent
cheaper. Young Skinner told Mrs. Gabbe at the
funeral that 'the coffin he bought for $85 in Vallejo
he couldn't buy less than $115 in San Francisco.
After they'd figured the cost of bringing the re-
mains down as slow freight, they found that the
old man was $7.30 ahead by dying where he did.
Oh mercy ! Did you ever hear of such a thing !
The widow is undecided whether to go to Europe
next month or wait until she gets married again
and take it in on her honeymoon. 1 didn't like
the remark a bit that Mrs. Gabbe made when she
was telling me all about it.
"Tabby." said she. "isn't it a shame that old hens
like that have husbands to burn while a nice wo-
man like you can't get even one!"
The idea! As if I ever gave a thought of mar-
riage, or would take the best man that ever lived!
Monday. — Dear me! Those old married women
of fifty are awful, when they get giddy. Mrs.
Mugsby tells me that all Ross Valley is talking
about one that thinks she's sixteen and single. She
is seen around a great deal with a young army
officer who must be supposed to be feeble-minded
and shortsighted. Her husband met her for the
fourth time last week walking in a bosky dell with
the young lieutenant, and what do you think lie
said?
"Hello, mommer! Is this your young grandson
from West Point I've heard so much about?"
Oh my! Mustn't it have made her mad. Mrs.
Mugsby says she's going to apply at once for a
divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty.
TABITHA TWIGGS.
you
This bit of repartee was indulged in at the Ruef
trial before Judge Dunne the other day :
Attorney Ach. examining a juror: "Have
ever visited any of the French restaurants?"
Juror: "Yes, I have at times."
Ach : "How often ?"
Juror: "Well, I can't say; not very often."
Ach : "Well, about how often ? As often as I do,
for instance, every day?"
Hiram Johnson, interrupting: "Oh! for Heaven's
sake, Mr. Ach, please do not inject your personal
habits into the record of this case."
One of the most delightful teas of the season, al-
though totally informal, was given last Saturday after-
noon by Mrs. Rosa Hooper Plotner, at her artistic
studio on California Street, many artists and friends
dropping in during the afternoon.
Popular French Restaurant
Regular Dinner 75c
Meals a la cane at any ho
Private Dining Rooms
for Banquets, etc.
497 Golden Gate Ave.
Comer Polk Street
Phone Martel 2315
26
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Of Social Interest
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bothin will pass the summer
in Ross Valley.
Miss Ruth Morton whose marriage to Mr. Parker
Holt took place at the Morton home on Thursday,
is the granddaughter of Win. T. Garratt, who was
one of the Mayors of San Francisco, in the days
when respectable citizens aspired to that office. The
Holts are also an old and respected pioneer family.
Miss Mabel Watkins and Capt. Orrin R. Wolfe,
Twenty-second Infantry, U. S. A., will be married
on Tuesday, June 11th, at Christ Church, Sausalito.
A reception will follow at the residence of her
parents Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Watkins. Mrs. Frank
Finlay will be matron of honor, a bevy of pretty
Sausalito girls will be bride's maids.
The marriage of Miss Ida Larkey and John
Benjamin Jordan has been named for May 8th. It
will be a large affair at a prominent church in
Oakland and will be followed bj' a reception.
Mrs. George H. Hellmann has closed her
attractive home on Belle Avenue, San Rafael, and
will pass the next three months at her mountain
home, ten miles above Healdsburg. Many friends
have already been invited by this hospitable hostess
to visit her during the Summer.
Mr. and Airs. Willard Merrall are spending their
honeymoon at Monterey. The bride, who is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg A. White of
Berkeley, is accomplished and popular. She is an
expert horsewoman. The young couple will reside
in Berkeley, where Mr. Merrall is connected with
the First National Bank.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr., Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt, Miss Cameron, Mrs. Shepard and Mrs.
E. F. Babcock, who are touring the country in Mrs.
Vanderbilt's private car, "The Wayfarer," stopped
over at Del Monte to take the Seventeen Mile Drive,
the fame of which is spread throughout the East.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Johnson, formerly Carmen
Selby, will leave early in June for their long con-
templated trip across the continent. They have
changed their minds with regard to taking their
tiny daughter with them, and will leave her with
relatives in San Rafael. When the baby was only
a few months old, they took it on a long automobile
trip in, the mountains. That doubtless convinced
them that babies and long motor trips do not go
well together.
The last sitting of the Card Club which meets
throughout the Winter season in San Rafael, was
held last week at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Vincent Neal. This Club is composed of experts.
After an enjoyable game, followed by a dainty
supper, handsome prizes were distributed. Mr. and
Mrs. Neal have recently moved into their attractive
new home in San Rafael.
On Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gamble
gave a circus party, followed by a supper at Taits.
The week has been taken up with bridge dinners,
theaters and suppers.
On Tuesday evening Mrs. J. Eugene Freeman
gave a bridge party.
Wednesday Mrs. Eugene Bresse was hostess at
bridge.
On Thursday Mrs. Clarence Breeden gave a
large bridge party in honor of her sister Mrs. E.
Walton Hedges.
Mrs. H. E. Huntington gave a dinner for Mrs.
Hedges at the Palace Hotel last Monday and a
theater party after. The Company occupied boxes
and witnessed Lillian Russell's performance. A
supper followed. On Thursday May 2nd, Mrs.
Hedges will be at home both afternoon and even-
ing to say adieu to her many friends in this City,
as she leaves next day to rejoin her husband and
family in the East.
A great deal of entertaining has been done in
honor of Capt. Cafferrey, who recently came to San
Francisco. He is English and a friend of Dr. and
Mrs. McEnery. They were all guests of Captain
An enjoyable picnic was also given on Mare Island
in his honor.
MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO
HUNTER
WHISKEY
WAS PUT UPON THE MARKET,
AND EVERY YEAR ADDS TO
ITS SPLENDID REPUTATION.
RIPENED BY AGE, ITS MEL-
LOWED EXCELLENCE REMAINS
ABSOLUTELY UNSURPASSED.
CHARLES M. REYNOLDS CO.
Agents for California and Nevada
912-914 Folsom Si.. San Francisco, Cat
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'['he ball given at Alcatraz Island by the officers
and ladies of the Twenty-second Infantry in honor
of the newl) arrived officers of the Fourteenth
Cavalry, was a brilliant affair. The dance took
place in the Imp room of the now barracks. A
large crowd from all points around the bay attended.
Mrs. Ynez Shorb White chaperoned a merry party.
The Aloha Xui pave its last cotillion on Thurs-
day, April 18th, tinder the able leadership of Mr.
Milliliter at the Paris Tea Garden.
The I'aris Tea Garden was the scene of the first
dance of the Yorktown Society April 20th and
proved to be a brilliant affair. It was under the
patronage of Mrs. J. McHenry, ]r., Mrs. G. E.
Mayhew, Mrs. j. Orr. Mrs. A_. Raisch, Mrs. W.
Halstead, Mrs. W. T. Baggett, and Mrs. C. A.
Warren.
A dainty club luncheon and afternoon will be
given today at the Paris Tea Garden, by the ladies
of the Forum Society.
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Flood sailed from Xew
York during the week and will pass the Summer in
Europe.
Although Mrs. Huntington spent all last Summer
abroad she is contemplating another European tour,
in which she will be gone until late in the Autumn.
Late California arrivals in Paris are Mrs. C. O.
Alexander and Miss Berger. who are enjoying a
tour around the world.' They are with Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Spreckels and Mrs. Irvine and expect to re-
main abroad all Summer.
Mrs. Bull's breakfast bridge for Mrs. James C.
Jordan, took place at her home on Yerba Buena
Island on Tuesday last. Sixteen guests were enter-
tained. After the game an informal tea was held
from 4 to 7 o'clock.
On Friday afternoon last. Mrs. Marix, wife of
Capt. Marix of Yerba Buena Island gave a large
luncheon to Florence Roberts, the noted actress.
Many ladies from this City went to the Island to
attend the affair.
Automobile News
The "White" Company is justifiably proud of its
Model "G" thirty horse power car. It is roomy and
luxurious, almost like a little parlor on pneumatic tires.
Its improvements and interesting details make it a
delight to the expert and yet prove a simple matter to
the amateur. There is no back-breaking hand-pump-
ing of tires on this machine. Uniform steam pressure
is maintained.
the making, will be greater and better than ever
before. There are wonderful business opportunities
on the Coast for young men of ability, especially
in the sale of automobiles. Motor cars have so
emphatically demonstrated their usefulness under
severe conditions, in cities, country and mining
camps, that sales are made to far Western buyers
with considerable less effort than in the East,
where details rather than general practicability
wield an influence out of proportion to their im-
portance. Western buyers lack nothing in shrewd-
ness and they demand the best cars, but what they
demand above all else — in their level-headed way —
is power and durability."
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOODES
Via Kelseyville P. O. Soda Springs. Lake Co., Cal.
H. C. RAAP, Manage.
Telephone Franklin 588
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 O'FARRELL ST., San Francisco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea, Coffee, Wine or Beer. 11 a. m. to 2 p. m.
A LA CARTE al all hours.
Regular Dinner 50c
Special Sunday Dinner 75c
J. HUFF
Kadee Hammam Baths
TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Night
GEARY AND GOUGH STREETS
Strictly First Cla:
Phone West 3725
Thomas Henderson, Vice-president of the Li-
censed Association of Automobile Manufacturers
and of the VVinton Motor Carriage Co., has re-
turned to Cleveland from a month's trip through
the far West.
"I was astonished," he says, "at the remarkable
prosperity of the Western country, particularly of
the Pacific Coast section. San Francisco, now in
Experienced tutor, having college education desires a few pupils, in
mathematics, languages, etc. Especially college entrance examinations.
Address: D. H. Coddington, 1431 Webster Street, San Francisco.
Established 1890
J. F. ROSSI
Domeg.t,ica"d Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Depot of Italian-Swiss Colony Wines
Specialties: Belmont, Jesse Moore, A. P. Hotaling's O. P. S., Loveland Rye,
King Wm. Fourth Scotch, Glenrosa Scotch, Dew of the Grampians, A. V. H.
Gin, Buchu Gin, Cognac Brandy, Bisquit Dubouche Cognac, Fernet Branca
Italian Vermuth, French Vermuth.
217-219 Washington St., Bet. Front and Davis
MISCELLANEOUS.
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE.' 226 Oak St.,
S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
BOLTE & BRADEN, 105-107 Oak St., S. F. ;
Phone Market 2837.
COOPER ADV. AGENCY, F. J., West Mis-
sion and Brady Sts.
DAKE ADV. AGENCY, Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temp'y 1440.
FISHER, L. P. ADV. AGENCY, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Emergency S84.
JOHNSTON-DIENSTAG CO., 2170 Post St.,
S. F.
ANTIQUE DEALERS.
THE LOUIS XIV. Curios, Objects d'Art,
Miniatures, Paints, Porcelains, Jewels, etc.,
C. V. Miller, 1117 Post, near Van Ness.
ARCHITECTS.
REID BROS, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough ot., S. F.
THOS. J. WELSH, JOHN W. CAREY, asso-
ciate architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
GUMP, S. & G., 1645 California St., S. F.
SCHUSSLER BROS., 1218 Sutter St.
ATTORNEYS,
DORN, DORN & SAVAGE, 717 Van Ness
Ave.
DINKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W., 1265 Ellis
St., S. F. Phone West 2355.
HEWLETT, BANCROFT AND BALLAN-
TINE, Monadnock Bldg.; Phone Temp'y
972.
EDWARD B. YOUNG, 4th Floor, Union
Trust Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temp'y 833.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
PIONEER AUTOMOBILE CO., 901 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F. ; and l2th and Oak Sts.,
Oakland.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO., Market
and Van Ness Ave., S. F.
AUTO LIVERY CO., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
BOYER MOTOR CAR CO., 403 Golden Gate
Ave. Phone, Emergency 655.
LEE CUYLER, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
MIDDLETON MOTOR CAR CO., 550 Gol-
den Gate Ave., S. F.
MOBILE CARRIAGE CO., Golden Gate
Ave. and Gough Sts., S. F.
PACIFIC MOTOR CAR CO., 376 Golden
Gate Ave:
BANKS.
ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK, Ltd., cor.
Pine and Sansome Sts., S. F.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST CO., cor. California and Montgom-
ery Sts., S. F.
CENTRAL TRUST CO., 42 Montgomery St.
S. F.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Bush and San
some Sts., S. F.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK, 108 Sutter St.
and Van Ness and Eddy.
GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN SO
CIETY, 526 California St., S. F.
HALSEY, N. W. & CO., 413 Montgomery
St., S. F.
HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, Jones and McAllister Sts., S. F.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO, 710 Market St., opp. 3d St.,
S. F.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, N.W.
cor. California and Montgomery Sts., S. F.
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, 316 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
THE MARKET STREET BANK AND
SAFE' DEPOSIT VAULT, Market and 7th
Sts., S. F.
UNION TRUST CO., 4 Montgomery St., S. F.
WELLS FARcO-NEVADA NATIONAL
BANK, Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
BREWERIES.
ALBION ALE AND PORTER BREWERY,
1007-9 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
S. F. BREWERIES, LTD., 240 2d St., S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
MONTAGUE, PHIL S., 339 Bush St., Stock
Exchange Bldg.
ROLLINS, E. H. & SONS, 804 Kohl Bldg.;
Telephone Temp'y 163; S. F.
ZADIG & CO., 324 Bush St., S. F.
WILSON, J. C, 488 California St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION, Church and Market Sts.,
S. F.
CARPET CLEANING.
SPAULDING, J. & CO., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave.; Phone Park 591.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
HUB, THE, Chas. Keilus & Co., King Solo-
mon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore Sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
TOHNSON LOCKE MERCANTILE CO.,
213 Sansome St., S. F.
MALDONADO S: CO., INC., 2020 Buchanan
St., S. F. ; Phone West 2800.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
FISHER CONSTRUCTION CO., 1414 Post
St., S. F.
TROUNSON, J., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176
Ash Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
NATHAN DOHRMAN CO., 1520-1550 Van
Ness Ave.
DENTISTS.
KNOX, DR. A. J., 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
CITY OF PARIS, Van Ness Ave. and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
WHITE HOUSE, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
St., S. F.
EXPRESS.
WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Ferry Bldg.,
and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
CRESCENT FEATHER CO., 19th and Harri-
son Sts., S. F.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
OMEY 6fc GOETTING, Geary and Polk Sts.,
S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
CAREW & ENGLISH, 1618 Geary St., bet.
Buchanan and Webster Sts., S. F. ; Phone
West 2604.
PORTER & WHITE, 1531 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
GAS STOVES,
S. F. GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Franklin and
Ellis Sts.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
BULLOCK & JONES COMPANY, 801 Van
Ness Ave., cor. Eddy St., S. F.
HANSEN & ELRICK, 1105-7 Fillmore St.,
nr. Golden Gate Ave. ; Phone West 5678.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
ILS, JOHN G. & CO., 827 Mission St., S. F.
MONTAGUE, W. W. & CO., Turk and Polk
Sts., S. i'\
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
DAVIS, W. & SON, 2020 Howard St., bet.
16th and 17th, S. F.
LEIBOLD HARNESS AND CARRIAGE
CO., 1214 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
DILLON, TOM, Van Ness Ave. and McAllis-
ter St.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
KEELEY INSTITUTE, H. L. Batchelder,
Mgr. ; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
JEWELERS.
BALDWIN JE.WELRY CO., 1521 Sutter St.,
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. F.
SHREVE & CO., cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Ness and Sacramento St., S. F.
LAUNDRIES.
LA GRANDE LAUNDRY, 234 12th St., S. F.
PALACE HOTEL LAUNDRY and KELLY
LAUNDRY CO., INC., 2343 Post St.
Phone West 5854.
LUMBER.
UNION LUMBER CO., office 909 Monad-
nock Bldg.
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
BEKINS' VAN AND STORAGE CO., 13th
and Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13
and 1016 Broadway, Oakland.
ST. FRA..CIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COMPANY, Office 1402 Eddy St.; Tel.
West 2680.
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
DEANE, JNO. T., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Sts.; Phone West 7261.
WARE. JOHN H„ 307 Monadnock Bldg.,
Depositions carefully attended to. Phone
Temp'y 972.
OIL COMPANIES.
STERLING OIL CO., 1491 Post St., cor.
Octavia, S. F.
OPTICIANS.
MAYERLE, GEORGE, German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F. ; Phone West 3766.
SAN FRANCISCO OPTICAL COMPANY,
"Spences," 627 Van Ness Ave.; "Branch,"
1613 Fillmore.
STANDARD OPTICAL CO., 808 Van Ness
Ave., near Eddy St.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
KEEFE. J. H., 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F.;
Tel. Franklin 2055.
TOZER, L. & SON CO., INC., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., near Fillmore.
PAINTS AND OILS.
BASS-HUETER PAINT CO., 1532 Market
St.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
CAL. PHOTO ENG. CO., 141-143 Valencia
St.
PHYSICIANS.
BOWIE, DR. HAMILTON C, formerly 293
Geary St., Paul Bldg., now 14th and Church
Sts.
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BRYANT, DR. EDGAR R., 1944 Fillmore
St.. cor. Pine; Tel. West 5657.
D'EVELYN, DR. FREDERICK W., 2115
California St., S. F.
THORNE, DR. W. S., 1434 Post St., S. F.
PIANOS— MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS
BALDWIN. D. H. & CO., 2512 Sacramento
St., and Van Ness at California.
REAL ESTATE
IIIl KS & MACK. Rial Estate n ' I
surance, 2091 Fillmore Si. I'll West
7287.
RESTAURANTS.
MORAGHAN, M. B., OYSTER CO., 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
OLD POODLE DOG, 824 Eddy St., near
Van Ness Ave.
ST. GERMAIN RESTAURANT. 497 Golden
Gate Ave.; Phone Market 2315.
SWAIN'S RESTAURANT, 1111 Post St.,
S. F.
THOMPSON'S, formerly Oyster Loaf, 1727
O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALES.
HERRING-HALL MARVIN SAFE CO.,
office and salesrooms. Mission St., bet.
Seventh and Eighth Sts. ; Phone Market
1037.
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER & \. ILSON and SINGER SEW-
ING MACHINES, 1431 Bush St.. cor.
Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; Phone Emergency
301; formerly 231 Sutter St.
STORAGE.
BEKINS VAN & STORAGE CO., 13th and
Mission Sts.. S. V.: Phone Market 2558.
PIERCE RUDOLPH STORAGE CO.. Eddy
and Fillmore Sts. ; Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
\\ U.TERS & CO., formerly Shutts, Walters
& Co., 1608 Stciner St., S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
BACIGALUPI, PETER, 1113-1115 Fillmore
St., S. F.
TAILORS.
LYONS. CHARLES. London Tailor, 1432
Fillmore St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; 958
Broadway, Oakland.
McMAHON, KEYER AND STIEGELER
BROS.. Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Farrell
and Fillmore.
REHNSTROM, C. II., 2415 Fillmore St.. for-
merly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
TIIOMS. F., 1209 Mission St., corner of
Eighth, S. F.
TRICYCLES.
EAMES TRICYCLE CO., Invalid Chairs,
1808 Market St., S. F.
WINES AND LIQUORS— WHOLESALE.
BALKE, ED. W„ 1498 Eddy St., cor. Fill-
more.
BUTLER. JOHN & SON, 2209 Stciner St.,
S. F.
REYNOLDS, CHAS. M. CO.. 912 Folsom
St.. S. F.
RUSCONI. FISHER & CO.. 649 Turk St.,
S. F.
SIEBE BROS. & PLACEMAN. 419-47'
Larkin St. ; Phone Emergency 349.
WENIGER, P. J. & CO., N. E. cor. Van
Ness Ave. and Ellis St.; Tel. Emergency
309.
WICHMAN, LUTGEN & CO.. Harrison and
Everett Sts., Alameda, Cal. ; Phone Ala-
meda 1179.
WINES AND LIQUORS-RETAIL
FERGUSON, T. M. CO.. Market Street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow Whiskey.
FISCHER, E. R., 1901 Mission St., cor. of
Fifteenth.
THE METROPOLE. John L. Herget and
Wm. H. Harrison, Props., N. W. cor. Sutter
and Steiner Sts.
TUXEDO. THE. Eddie Graney, Prop., S. W.
cor. Fulmorc and O'Farrell Sts.
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
CO.. 2401 Fillmore.
[February 25, 1905.
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A CARTOONISTS PROPHECY
This Cartoon was published in "The Wasp" over two years ago, when Schmitz and Ruef seemed immune from danger.
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Amusements
And once again, airy, fairy Lillian
is among us. I believe that there
never has .been a reviewer yet who
in writing of Miss Russell has omitted
to qualify her as "airy" and "fairy."
I refuse to be an exception.
To see Miss Russell in "The Butterfly"
marks a distinct epoch in one's life.
We all remember her as she was in
other days. Those of us who were
fortunate enough to have had time
and money for Eastern trips probably
best remember her as she appeared
in the Weber and Field musical bur-
lesques. Still others whose memories
serve them well can tell of her com-
paratively youthful days when she
frisked before the footlights fifteen
or sixteen years ago.
In "The Butterfly" one becomes
aware of preconceptions gone away.
Miss Russell retains, it is true, some
of her prima donna mannerisms, but
beyond that and her remarkable
beauty, she has not one symptom of
former times in evidence. As an
artist in portraying a character role,
she is superb.
"The Butterfly" is windy in the
extreme, I can forgive extreme lo-
quacity when it finally arrives some-
where, but this piece reminds me of
a certain ''coon song," entitled "Noth-
ing From Nothing Leaves YOU,"
and the "YOU" in this case is Lil-
lian Russell. She is the whole show,
with beauty, and her remarkable
voice. Her able presentation of her
somewhat languid role is all there is
to it.
To consider the other members of
the company is a waste of time. They
are all puppets, but to see Miss Rus-
sell is worth while for anyone.
* * *
Florence Roberts gave a complete
presentation of Sapho at the Novelty
Theater this week. I say "complete"
with deliberation, for there seems to
be not one salacious detail of Daudet's
nauseating drama left out. If Miss
Roberts don't change the character
of her plays ere long a movement
&• Candies
s^ AND ,
ICE CREAM
'1536-8 Fillmore ST..S.F.
ought to be set afoot to suppress her.
It is a relief to know that the house
will be well ventilated next week with
a splendid production of "Robin
Hood."
* * *
"There and Back" is a hilarious
farce comedy which was splendidly
done by the Alcazar people this week.
The entire company was acceptably
cast.
* * *
Izetta Jewel and the other mem-
bers of the Colonial Stock Company
will have an unusually fine oppor-
tunity during the coming week in
David Belasco's revised edition of the
dramatic novel in four chapters "La
Belle Russe/' the highly emotional
drama in which Jeffries Lewis, Clara
Morris and Rose Coghlan starred
with so much success. The play has
been brightened up and under the
direction of such a capable and
skilled stage director as George Lask,
will receive a most artistic presen-
tation.
"La Belle Russe" was written by
Peter Robertson and David Belasco
.and was first produced at the old
Baldwin Theater with Jeffries Lewis,
Osmond Tearle, Gerald Eyre, John
W. Jennings and Jean Clara Walters
in the cast. It scored such a tre-
mendous hit that the play was imme-
diately put on at Wallack's Theater,
New York, with Rose Coghlan as
Geraldine. During its New York run
the great emotional actress, Clara
Morris, saw it and became so im-
pressed with the merits of the pro-
duction that she closed a deal where-
by she secured the road rights to
produce it and toured in it for several
seasons. It is such a powerful drama
that David Belasco two years ago
in looking around for a new vehicle
for Leslie Carter decided to re-write
it and it is this version of "La Belle
Russe" that will be put on at the
Colonial Theater Monday night.
This production is in keeping with
the new policy of the management
of the Colonial to put on standard
plays that have proven successful.
"Moths" which is pleasing large
audiences this week is the first of a
series of high-class plays that are
underlined for an early staging at
this theater.
* * *
The University Orchestra will give
the Twentieth Symphony Concert,
with Anton Llokking, the 'cellist, as
soloist, in the Greek Theater of the
University of California at 3 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, May 2d. Mr.
Hokking is a musican of brilliant
reputation and his concerts in San
Francisco some months ago won the
highest praise. He will play the
D'Albert Concerto for the Violincello.
The Symphony which Conductor J.
Fred. Wolle has chosen for the day
is the Second Symphony of Brahms.
The Symphony and the Concerto will'
be followed by an Italian Serenade,
by Wolf, and by the Berlioz Over-
ture, "A Roman Carnival."
After next Thursday's concert but
one more symphony concert remains
of the present University series. This
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TEACHER OF SINGING
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New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
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Teacher of Voice, Piano and Organ
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phone
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues-
day and Friday.
MRS. OSCAR MANSFELDT
PIANIST
Tel. West 314 180! Buchnnan Si.. Cor. Suller
William Keith
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1101 O'FARRELL ST.
Cor. Franklin San Francisco, Cal.
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Oakland Race
Track
SIX OR MORE RACES EACH WEEK DAY
Rain or Shine
Races commence at 1 :40 p.
sharp.
For special trains stopping at the track lake S. P. Ferry,
fool of Market street: leave at 1 2:00, thereafter every twenty
minute* until 1 :40 p. m. No Smoking in last two ears,
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Returning trains leave track after fifth and last races.
THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President.
PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary.
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W. J. BLUMBERG & BRO., Props.
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i> announced for 3 o'clock Thursday
afternoon. May "tli, when Conductor
Wolle and hi^ men will close the
year's events in the Greek Theater
with a Wagner-Richard Strauss pro-
gram,
THE FIRST NIGHTER.
To kiss a miss may lead to bliss,
To kiss amiss may lead to this:
Your kiss may miss miss, which I wis
Would seem to miss to he remiss,
But chance like this you'd not dismiss
To even kiss a miss amiss!
— New York Life.
* * *
Prepring for the Worst
A French gentleman anxious to
find a wife for a nephew went to a
matrimonial agent, who handed him
his list of lady clients. Running
through this he came to his wife's
name, entered as desirous of obtain-
ing a husband between the ages of
twenty-eight and thirty-five — a blond
preferred. Forgetting his nephew, he
hurried home to announce his dis-
covery to his wife. The lady was
not at all disturbed. "Oh, yes," she
said, "that is my name. I put it down
when you were so ill in the Spring
and the doctors said we must prepare
for the worst."
* * *
Jailyard Persiflage
There were two prisoners in the
jail. One was in for stealing a cow.
The other was in for stealing a watch.
Exercising in the courtyard one
morning, the first prisoner said taunt-
ingly to the other:
"What time is it?"
"Milking time," was the retort.
No Somnambulist
Finley Peter Dunne, author of "Mr.
Dooley," is an occasional visitor at
a certain academy not far from New
York. On a recent visit there he was
accompanied by a well-known banker,
who, being impressed by the beauti-
ful surrounding country, suggested
that they should take a walk the next
morning at six o'clock.
"Thank you," replied Mr. Dunne,
"but I never walk in my sleep."
* * *
The ardent Frenchman looked ten-
derly at the fair young mistress of
his soul. "Je t'adore!" he murmured.
"Maybe I'd better," she returned.
"You can't never tell who's listening-
in this yere house."
COLONIAL THEATRE
McAllister Dear Market Phone Market 920
MARTIN F. KURTZIG. President and Manner
All Market Street Cars run direct to Theatre
Week Beginning Monday, April 29
David Belasco's Story of Double Life
The Celebrated Play in Four Chapters
La Belle Russe
Splendid Cast--Superb Eff.cs--New Scenery
PRICES: Evenings, 25c, 50c, 75c. $1.00; Satur-
day and Sunday Matinees. 25c and 50c. BARGAIN
MATINEE, Wednesday, ail seats reserved, 25c. Branch
Ticket Office, Kohler & Chase's, Sutler and Franklin
Streets.
DR. WM. D. CLARK
Office and Res.: 2554 California St.
San Francisco
Hours — 1 to 3 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.
Sundays — By appointment
Phone West 390
Contracts made with Hotels and Restaurants
Special Attention given to Family Trade
Established 1876
THOMAS MORTON & SON
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Dealers in \*KJrkLt
N. W. Cor. Eddy and Hyde, San Francisco
Phone Franklin 397
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S. S. "America Maru" (calls at Manila) . '.f
In Old Egypt Frida)'' May 3- l907
The camel express had come and S- S- "Nippon Maru" (calls at Manila) . . .
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SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of California, in and for the City and
County of San Francisco.
SIDNEY W. SCOTT, Plaintiff, vs. ISABELL
SCOTT, Defendant.
Action brought in the Superior Court of
the State of California in and for the City
and County of San Francisco, and the com-
plaint hied in the office of the County Clerk
of said City and County.
The People of the State of California, send
greeting to ISABEL SCOTT, Defendant.
You are hereby required to appear in an
action brought against you by the above
named Plaintiff in the Superior Court of
the. State of California, in and for the City
and County of San Francisco, and to answer
the Complaint filed therein within ten days
(exclusive of the day of service) after the ser-
vice on you of this Summons, if served within
this City and County; or if served elsewhere
within thirty days.
The said action is brought to obtain a
judgment and decree of this Court dissolv-
ing the bonds of matrimony now existing
between Plaintiff and Defendant, on the
ground of Defendant's wilful desertion of the
Plaintiff; also for general relief, as will
more fully appear in the Complaint on file,
to which special reference is hereby made.
And you are hereby notified that, unless
you appear and answer as above required,
the said Plaintiff will take judgment for any
moneys or damages demanded in the Com-
plaint as arising upon contract, or will apply
to the Court for any other relief demanded
in the Complaint.
Given under my hand and the Seal of
the Superior Court of the State of California,
in and for the City and County of San Fran-
cisco, this 16th day of March, A. D. 1907.
(SEAL) H. I. MULCREVY, Clerk.
By L. J. WELCH, Deputv Clerk.
JOSEPH H. TAM, Attorney for Plaintiff,
San Francisco, Cal.
Action No. 7076.
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March 23. 1906
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as there is of the ocean. We have had the flood
for many years and it should not surprise or dismay
anybody if we have the ebb for a while. It will
give people time to breathe and think and a good
many of our citizens need such a pause. Some of
them have lost their sense of proportion, so fast
have they been carried along on the crest of the
wave of prosperity.
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Several Eastern newspapers that are controlled
by Wall Street influences are making a great deal
out of the suspension of new construction work by
the railroads. They think it will impress President
Roosevelt and the voters of the United States, with
the conviction that the railroads can make good
or hard times by going ahead, or calling a halt.
This does not look to me like wisdom. If we should
have a spell of hard times I don't think it would
be advisable to have the thousands of unemployed
men believe that it was deliberately and unnecessar-
ily caused by the railroads, or any other combina-
tion of capital.
There is no good reason why we should expect
a spell of hard times. We may look for a gradual
subsidence of the great boom which has made work
so abundant, and wages so high for the past eight
years. That certainly followed in the regular order,
the long depression which was brought about by
the free silver craze and Bryan's organization of
all the disaffected elements. No nation however
great its resources can maintain a perpetual indus-
trial or commercial boom.
There is an ebb and flow of the financial tides,
The railroad financiers, who have been buying
roads for ten or fifteen millions and capitalizing
them for sixty or a hundred and putting most of
that money in their own pockets, have certainly
lost their sense of proportion. So too have the
trades unionists, who have doubled their wages by
restricting membership and shutting out appren-
tices. The business men who have formed combi-
nations to gouge the public, are also troubled with
a derangement of their sense of proportion. A
period of lessened rush will help them all to get
down to legitimate and solid business, and the
country will be all the better for it in a very short
time.
It is foolish to think that any change can stop
all the wheels of industry and commerce in a nation
of eighty millions of courageous, progressive and
energetic people. If we have the expected breathing
spell it will be soon followed by another revival of
activity in trade and manufactures as great if not
greater than ever before.
Mayor Schmitz is fast becoming a social outlaw.
Some few radicals still quote that a man is inno-
'cent in the eyes of the law until he is proved guilty,
but they are few in number. In the eyes of the great
majority of residents of the City of which he is
Mayor, the City of his birth, the City for which he
has professed such deep love, Eugene Schmitz is
regarded as a criminal. His ascension of the social
ladder is stopped. Neither millionaires, musicians,
nor brick-layers care to be caught hobnobbing with
him now.
When Fillmore Street was gay with bunting and
crowded from McAllister to California on the night
of April 18th, Schmitz had the bad taste to show:
himself prominently along that thoroughfare in an
automobile with a couple of boon companions. His
demeanor at the start showed plainly that he ex-
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pected an ovation. He hoped that his numerous
attempted diversions of public attention to other
things than graft, the false cry of Citizens' Alliance
persecution, the friendship of his administration for
the tenderloin element, and such influences would
make him still the idol of the masses. But not a
cheer was raised for him anywhere along the
street. He was conspicuous as ever, a fine figure
of a man in his silk hat. Every one saw him but
no one cheered. In fact there was much subdued
muttering. Schmitz knows at last that his race
is run. The best he can hope for now is obscurity.
What a lesson for those who think that public office
is onlv a chance to graft.
on to establish a good stiff tariff on everything he
sells, but that will be secondary consideration if
the viands be excellent and the service first class.
Roosevelt's hold upon the American people is
strikingly illustrated by the .declarations the other
day of three United States Senators for him for a
third term. On the same day La Follette in San
Francisco, Flint in I.os Angeles and Beveridge
ome where in the East all came out strongly for
him, right in the face of Harriman denunciation
on the one hand and labor union hysterics over the
"undesirable citizens" classification of Moyer and
Haywood on the other. The President undoubtedly
makes some mistakes, but he is doing his best to
correct many grave abuses. He is the great, the
fearless and tireless enemy of graft and class ty-
ranny and the people know it and are with him.
Probably no influence strong enough can be brought
to bear to make him accept a third term, but the
allegiance of the people to him will not be shaken
by the combined assaults of Hearst, Harriman,
Foraker, and the men who say Moyer and Hay-
wood must and shall not be punished irrespective
of their guilt.
The Cliff House. in early days was sacred to a
fast set which made money easily and quickly spent
it as it came. There were no street-car lines in
those days and noboby visited the seaside resort
except people who owned teams or hired them to
ride out there over the seven miles of good road.
Flush stock gamblers paid twenty-five cents a drink
for whisky without being particular as to the brand,
and the wine-drinking gang was equally easy to
please. The house was run on the theory that
people who went there had no other place to go
with their teams and that was about the truth of it.
San Francisco, however, changed wonderfully in
the decade before the fire of last April and the ocean
beach evoluted from a lonely strand to a public re-
sort connected with the heart of a great city by
rapid electric car lines. Mine host Wilkins was
unlucky enough to come on the scene when the
change was in progress and the old order -was giving
place to the new. He didn't seem to have the Na-
poleonic genius necessary to wipe out all the tra-
ditions of the Cliff House and make a fresh start
on new lines. There must be a fortune in- the place
for some man who has the right ideas about running
it and perhaps Tait is the chap. It will be interest-
ing to watch the developments. He can be relied
1 think there cannot be any doubt as to the
effect of President Roosevelt's fearless and most
admirable reply to the Chicago Anarchist who ob-
jected to the President's classification of Moyer
and Heywood with E. H. »Iarriman as "undesir-
able citizens." Organized labor in the United States
has been assessed for a year past to provide a de-
fence fund for Moyer, Heywood and Pettibone,
who are charged with a series of cold-blooded and
brutal murders. The labor leaders of this country
have already pronounced these defendants innocent
though the testimony against them seems to be
overwhelming. The prisoners "must and shall not
be found guilty" declare the heads of organized
labor, and so far have they intimidated the press
of the United States that only about four daily
papers dare to discuss the matter at all.
Never before in America were three men charged
with a series of such terrible and desperate crimes
and never was such an immense fund raised by
assessment to prevent their prosecution.
Inasmuch as the accused men are the heads of
a labor union it is held by the labor leaders of the
United States that they cannot be guilty, should
not be tried, and must not be convicted. The only
inference to be drawn from this defiant declaration
is that the leadership of organized labor has passed
into the hands of men who set themselves above the
law and claim privileges denied to all people out-
side their organization. Such is the fact, generally
speaking.
The aggressive element which aims to control
organized labor in *\merica is ostensively Socialistic
but in reality Anarchistic. It would not do for its
leaders to call themselves Anarchists and flaunt the
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red Mag as that would at once array against them
many forces that arc now dormant. They there-
fore proclaim themselves advocates of Socialism
ami at the same time violate all its principles.
Socialism, theoretically, is an ideally perfect form
of government under which all men arc on an
equality. Fierce and selfish competition is elimi-
nated and the world uplifted by the cultivation of
the fraternal and patriotic spirit.
The Socialists, who arc so aggressive in the
labor movement in America, cultivate the fraternal
and patriotic spirit in a most extraordinary manner.
They war relentlessly on all workers outside their
own organization and exclude American boys from
the workshops so that they may not learn trades and
increase their chances of becoming useful and pros-
perous citizens.
These so-called Socialists have decided that it
i- a crime for one of their members to enlist in the
militia. At the same time it is well known that
in Pennsylvania and other strongholds they are
arming secretly so as to resist the lawful authorities.
and if possible overturn our government, inaugu-
rate anarchy and confiscate all property for division
Imongst themselves.
That is their program and any man who has
given the subject serious consideration cannot for
a moment be in doubt of it. The Washington
authorities are not in any mental fog on the matter.
They understand it fully and they know that the
tremendous effort being made to prevent Mover,
I ley wood and Pettibone from going to trial or be-
ing convicted is not the work of the honest toilers
of the United States. Scarcely one man in a thou-
sand, of the million and a half of members in the
American Federation of Labor, has a word to say
about its management. A mere handful! of men
run the organization just as a few wirepullers run
the finances and -the politics of our nation. The
board of directors which controls the American
Federation of Labor has not been changed in seven-
teen years. The same set of men, or their represen-
tatives have controlled the organization during that
period.
Thus far the avowed Anarchists have not been
able to seize the reins of power, but they live in
high hopes of doing so. Their influence was pow-
erful enough when they rallied to the support of
Mover and Heywood and their associates to free
the heads of the Federation of Labor to join in
the movement.
A year or two before Ex-Governor Steunenberg
of Idaho was blown to pieces by a bomb at his own
door, Moyer and his fellow officers of the Western
Federation of Miners had left the American Fed-
eration of Labor, and became loud in their denun-
ciations of it. Their hostile expressions about
< lumpers and the American Federation of Labor
were frequently quoted in the Colorado and Idaho
newspapers.
When Harry ( Irchard. the professional assassin.
made his appalling confession of crime alleged to
have been done by him in obedience to the orders
of Mover. Hevwood and Pettibone, all the Anar-
chists in America rallied to the aid of the accused
men. The boldness and brutality of the crimes
laid by (Irchard at their doors made the accused
labor officials heroes and patriots in the eyes of
their sympathizers. Mow powerful the influence
of those sympathisers must have been in the
American Federation of Labor is shown by the as-
sessment of every member to pay lawyers for the
defense of Mover, Hevwood and Pettibone — the de-
fense of men who not long ago were the avowed
enemies of the organization and endeavoring to
cast discredit upon and destroy it.
President Roosevelt's letter to the Chicago Anar-
chists has practically served notice on the leaders of
organized labor that their turn is coming next. The
labor trust will not be allowed to enjoy special and
unconstitutional privileges any more than the oil trust
or the railroad combines. If John D. Rockefeller
and E. H. Harriman cannot be permitted to crush
out opposition in trade why should the American
Federation be allowed to monopolize the labor market
in a nation of eighty millions of people. There is
no question as to the Federation being just as much
of a trust as any combine of capital. It exceeds all
other trusts in the boldness of its unconstitutional oper-
ators and their extent and has capped the climax
by declaring, as in the Moyer and Heywood case, that
the criminal courts shall not treat its members like
ordinary citizens. President Roosevelt's ringing reply
is. figuratively speaking, the first gun fired at Fort
Sumter. We may look for war along the labor
union front from New York to San Francisco very
soon, and when it is over the Constitution of the
United States will be found more firmly established
than ever
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It is well that San Rafael and Petaluma have not
the military equipment of Rome and Carthage ;
otherwise we should have a dark whirling imbroglio
into which East and ^'est would be drawn, and the
Japanese question go down in the chaos like a
bumble bee in boiling molasses. Total disarmament
is their salvation now — disarmament and the bring-
ing of Javeniski to neutral territory. If you are a
student of Society, you will remember that Javeniski
was a coachman in San Rafael, statuesque and im-
movable on his seat, yet ignored by high-priced
citizens, until he became a skating instructor. Then
the fashionables took turns in his arms while he
taught them to glide over the maple as gracefully
as Jack Frost o'er a winter landscape.
Even Kings have favorites : so why not
Javeniski? Thereof did he fall. He was deposed,
destroyed by the minions on whom he had bestowed
his favors. Like Coriolanus he was mostly pride,
and the rest revenge. To Petaluma, aye, to yon
eternal-shimmering, classic, imperial, plymouth-
rock and leghorn Petaluma. There he established a
skating rink. There he taught the egg-pickers to
do the roll glorious. But that is not the worst of it.
He tutored the simple farm-girls, the bucolic
beauties, the Arcadian shepherdesses, the freckled
hen-herders, into the same elegant graces he had
shown the damsels of San Rafael. But he made it
personal. He would say, "Come hither, Amaryllis,
heed unto the very pirouette which I taught Miss
Cladys van Slamme." "Look you, Lulu, this is the
whirlaway I did inculcate unto that world-re-
nowned Victorienne de Vere-Vaux. It is now yours.
Let us excel the San Rafael haughticrats." Perhaps
such perfidy should not be lightly narrated. If
traged}r should ensue, we should be afflicted with
remorse for having failed to view the matter with
due solemnity. Like Coriolanus, Javeniski said,
"I shall not return until I am sent for." The question
is. will they send for him? And after that, is it not
barely possible that Petaluma has had an advance
in culture which may make it San Rafael's most
terrific competitor for some time to come?
San Francisco is well constituted to make history,
but has little of the art of writing it. We are not
taking pains to answer the questions posterity will
ask, nor diligently watering the .spot where futures
will see the laurel. Somewhat suddenly the other
day came the thought that, one of the City's most
picturesque figures is Judge J. C. B. Hebbard. He
does not receive as much bolt-upright praise as Mr.
Heney, yet is undeniably a rarer type. Honest men
who will prosecute crime are met here and there
every now and then. But where will you find a
Court who appears suddenly in one place with a
six-shooter, and in another with a volume of poetry?
Creating a rough-house one minute and discoursing
art the next. Half cowboy, half scholar, and all
interesting. In hotels, vociferating a visionary
revenge ; on the bench excusing his vagaries in
wine. Jocular, abstruse, melancholy, generous,
independent, romantic.
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Interesting men are historically a richer posses-
sion than those who make honesty a specialty.
Hebbard is tragi-comedy ; Heney is melodramatic.
Hebbard is a character study; Hehey merely a hero.
We should have many Heneys; there is but one
Hebbard. Some Sunset Thackeray, Scott or Dumas
may discover this blithe judiciary and make him the
characteristic man of our epoch. While we are
dodging the bullets (which he has not yet fired)
let us appreciate his artistic possibilities.
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Wanted — By a European monarch, to correspond
with an American girl (daughter of a Trust Monster
preferred) : object, matrimony, civil war in Spain,
and a throne. Send photograph of bankbook to
Don Jaime, Prince de Bourbon ; business address,
care of the Moulin Rouge, Paris.
Here is a chance for some daughter of finance to
throw a few duchesses and countesses into social
hysterics. It will take but a few millions to become
queen pretender to the Spanish throne. Then, if
the Carlists are successful, palaces, scepter, crown
jewels, blue blood. Some hurry in sending your
name is advised, as there is already a list of eligibles.
The crown may eventually go to Miss P.lanche
Lervy Shoemaker, daughter of the Xew York
banker. She is one most prominently mentioned.
A Carlist army would not require much food per
man. A few speckled beans, and they could loot
the wine from shop-, as they .^j along. Should you
tl\ to Paris without notice, go to iIk' Rue Benjamin
Godard, a new Rue off the Square Lamartine. Any
(Airli>i hanging around the corners will direct you
to the fifth floor of an apartment house, where you
will meet the would-be king and your royal sister,
the Princess of .\>tnrias (pretending) and make
arrangements for the coronation.
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It is quite a tax upon the skill of the artist and
caterer these days to furnish hosts with new ideas.
One of the most artistic of decorations was in
evidence at the luncheon Mrs. Richard Queen re-
cently gave to Miss Louise Redington, a prospective
bride. An electric fountain surrounded by a
wealth of pink roses, ferns and sea shells, played
in the center of a large round table, over which
was spread a cloth embroidered with pink rose
buds. Ten guests were present.
* * *
The San Francisco Yacht Club had a jolly dance
at Sausalito last Saturday afternoon, followed by
many dinners; later jinks were held. The patron-
esses of this dance were Mrs. Wm. Lindsley
Spencer, Mrs. W. R. Harrison, Mrs. Chas. Shiels,
Mrs. Geo. E. Billings, Mrs. J. R. Hanify and Mrs.
Emmett Rixford. All these young matrons are
well known in Sausalito's exclusive set.
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The wedding of Miss Stella McCalla and Mr.
Slayton will take place in the near future and be
one of the social events of Santa Barbara.
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Miss Winifred Burdge who recently announced
her engagement to Walter Dayton Cole, an attorney
of Tonopah, Nev., is a sister of Mrs. Bernard P.
Miller; both are well known in exclusive circles of
Oakland. Mrs. Burdge. a ward of Frank M. Smith,
has been identified with relief work. It was while
giving her services to the public and engaged in
caring for the suffering that she first met Mr. Cole.
He is a graduate of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and
member of a prominent mining firm of Nevada. No
date has been set for the wedding.
* # *
Mrs. Bobby Harrison gave a charming tea on
Sunday last at her home on Green Street, in honor
of Miss Richardson, a member of the Lillian
Russell Co. Mrs. Harrison will soon leave for San
Rafael where she will pass the Summer. Mr. Allen
Wardner, the brother of Mrs. Harrison, an eligible
Society man here, Mr. Allen Wright and Mr. John
F. Bowie, will spend some time in San Rafael,
having pitched a tent on the grounds of Mrs.
Harrison's Summer home.
The last meeting of the San Rafael Skating Club
held a week ago, was preceded by many dinners.
An unusual crowd was present. Miss Louise Boyd
had as her guests from the City, Miss Genevieve
King, Miss Emily Parrott, Miss Barbara Parrott
and Frank King. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd chaperoned
the party. Miss Genevieve Harvey was a guest of
the Von Shroeders at the Hotel Rafael that evening,
going later with a merry party to the Skating Rink.
The Club has been discontinued for the present,
though many of the younger members expect to
gather and enjoy themselves every Wednesday
evening during the Summer months.
It is with sincere regret that Mrs. Dan Shaen's
friends read of the death of her little baby boy, at
the children's hospital on Sunday last. Mrs. Shaen
was attractive Ursula Stone, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. B. Stone, sister of Mrs. Florence Darrah,
and niece of Mrs. L. L. Baker. She is a general
favorite in Society and recently returned from the
Philippines, where she has been since her marriage
a couple of years ago. While awaiting the arrival
of her husband, she has been residing with her
parents in this City.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Poett and their little son
have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Carolan at
the Hotel Rafael. Mrs. Poett was the former pretty
Genevieve Carolan.
A young matron who is being welcomed by her
friends and relatives in San Rafael, is Mrs. Allen
Lewis of Portland, Oregon, who is visiting her
sister, Mrs. George Boyd. Mrs. Lewis was the
well known society girl Miss Dottie Kittle, daughter
of Mrs. N. Kittle and niece of Mrs. A. W. Foster,
and once was a champion tennis player here, easily
beating all records, and winning many trophies.
A wedding of interest on both sides of the bay
took place on Saturday evening last in Oakland,
when Miss Anita Oliver was married to George C.
Jensen of Alameda. Rev. C. R. Brown of the Con-
gregational Church performed the ceremony. Miss
Oliver is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Letts Oliver, who are among the best known
residents of Oakland. The invitation list to the
Church was very large, but the reception at the
Oliver residence on Vernon Heights was confined
to relations and intimate friends. The bride was
attended by Miss Ruth Wilder, Miss Ruth Kales of
Oakland, Miss Catherine Allen and Miss Helen
Cole of San Francisco. Lee Robinson was best
man. The ushers were Harold and Leslie Oliver,
brothers of the bride, Dr. Gaskill and Ralph Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. Jensen will reside in their own home
on Vernon Heights, which was the gift of Mr.
Jensen, Sr.
A motoring party in three automobiles, left last
week for a trip through Sonoma valley. The three
cars contained Mr. and Mrs. George A. Newhall.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pringle, Mr. and Mrs.
Laurence Scott, Mr. and Mrs. George Lent, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Harry W.
Poett, and Harry Simpkins.
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The San Rafael Bridge Club, meeting every two
weeks and composed of many fashionable matrons
of that burg, gathered last at the residence of Mrs.
John S. Partridge. The members are Mrs. Part-
ridge, Mrs. Frank B. Anderson, Mrs. Southard Hof-
fann, Mrs. Dibble. Miss Towle, Mrs. L. L. Baker,
Mrs. Madison, Mrs. John Crooks, Mrs. VV. R.
Smedberg, Mrs-. Pence and Mrs. Zook.
Miss Carrie Gevin, took apartments at the Hotel
Rafael during the week and will remain there all
Summer.
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San Rafael is becoming crowded with Summer
ts and dinners, drives and bridge parties take
place daily. Mr. ami Mrs. Henry Foster Dutton,
who arc stopping at the Hotel Rafael, recently gave
a dinner at Pastori's. Their guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Jules Brett, Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield Baker,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clarence Breeden. Late in the
week the same party left for Del Monte, on an
automobile tour remaining over Sunday.
* * *
San Rafael is much interested in its forthcoming
series of concerts beginning on Ma\ lltli and
organized by well known young ladies under the
name of the Grace Freeman String Quartette. 'The
members are Miss Grace Freeman, 1st Violin; Miss
Miriam Hall, 2nd Violin ; Miss Lillian Spink. Viola;
Miss Lucy Fuhrer, Cello.
Let us try to be serious with the Log Show.
There was a provoking desire to grin as soon as one
entered the door. A number of last years quips and
puns came to mind, and one wondered if his friends
had beard of them, or if he might safely work off
one or two. Society took more than a passing
interest in the affair and on the days of judging, the
grand stand was filled with maids and matrons, to
hear what lucky dogs or rather owners were
awarded prizes. However there were many sur-
prises, as a number of hitherto invincible canines
were defeated. Miss Jennie Crocker, who came in a
special car from Xcw York to enter her dogs for
the Show was disappointed in her prize Boston
terrier, which was defeated by Mrs. W. H. Deming's
pet in three different competitions. Three beatings
for a champion was certainly plenty. Miss Crocker
carried off prizes in other classes, but I believe her
pride was in the Boston terrier class, so her luck
outside that competition was not enough to atone
for the disappointment. Other prominent society
people who exhibited five dogs and carried off
ribbons were Mrs. George Newhall and Miss
( renevieve Harvey. Amongst the society people
seen around the judging ring were: Mrs. W. H.
Taylor, Mrs. Gus. Taylor. Mrs. Chesebrough and
Miss Helen Chesebrough, Capt. and Miss Margery
Bull, Mrs. McEnery, IMiss Jennie Crocker, Miss
Harney, Mrs. Henrv Bothin, Miss Maud Payne.
Miss Ethel Deane, "Miss Isabel McLaughlin, Mrs.
Fred Palmer. Miss May Foulkes, Mrs. Rav Talyor,
Mrs. R. Porter Ashe.
There has always been some misgiving as to what
a prize dog actually is. None save the owners and
the judges seem to know. Blood sometimes tells
the desparity between an animal that has the benefit
of nursemaid and French dinners and one that
roams the streets like a waif. But as between two
dogs that have a slight variation in curvature of
the tail, the question of awarding prizes is, as the
losers declare, a matter of very close margin. And
as for a close margin in dogs, why at all ? But
these fine distinctions cut no figure with the crowd
which goes to an affair because it has the social
stamp upon it. Not one in a hundred understands
the libretto of Italian Opera, but the town goes into
ecstas) over it nevertheless.
* * *
Dr. II. J. Stewart's new mass in I) minor, com-
posed for the Easter service of St. Dominic's
Church, will be repeated on Sunday. May 5th, by
the regular choir augmented with a number of
extra voices and accompanied by a full orchestra.
The soloists are Mrs. 11. Apple, Miss Leola Spofford
Stone, Mr. T. G. Elliott and Mr. Harold Pracht.
Dr. Stewart has composed a special offertory for
the occasion, to the words of the hymn "Coelestis
L'rbcs Jerusalem." ,
* * *
The goodly countenances around the Forum
Club's Annual Breakfast refuted the idea that the
word "annual" has any more than a festive signifi-
cance. The Paris Tea Garden, last Saturday, was
the scene of their toasting, which was done in song.
"Spring," "Absent Ones," "Patriotism," and "Guid-
ing: Star" were responded to by Mrs. J. J. Apple.
Mrs. Freygand and Mrs. Wetmore. A loving cup
was presented to Mrs. Fredericks, the retiring
president.
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Los Angeles beating the Military Team in the recent Polo Tournament
Mr. and Mrs. George Cadwalader have been en-
termained a good deal since their recent wedding.
That .most eligible and popular bachelor, Knox
Maddox, gave a theater party for them last week.
Miss Linda Cadwalader, who was one of the guests.
will leave for the East soon.
highly respected Californians. Young Fritz Hinck-
ley was the first husband of Miss Florence Blythe,
the great heiress, who is now Mrs. A. A. Moore.
Mr. Hinckley died rather suddenly about a year
after his wedding, having been seized with an at-
tack of appendicitis.
Mr. Knox Maddox gets part of his name from his
mother, who was Miss Virginia Knox, the only
child of Air. Knox, a banker in Santa Clara County
and very wealthy. She married Colonel C. H.
Maddox, a handsome Southerner, who represented
Santa Clara County in the Legislature at the time
when the rich Barney Murphy of San Jose was such
a power in Democratic politics. The Maddoxes
bought the fine old Joshiah Belden mansion in San
Jose and lived there for many years. The place
was sold to the syndicate which has erected the
Hotel Vendome on the site of the old home. Mrs.
Maddox lost both her daughters. One child died
in Europe while she was traveling with her hus-
band and mother. The death of her daughter Mil-
dred some years ago was a heavy affliction to the
esteemed lady. Knox Maddox is a Harvard grad-
uate. Through his mother and grandmother he
will some clay inherit a large fortune.
* * *
It was no surprise to her friends when they read
that Mrs. Mary G. Hinckley had sued her husband,
Harry Gray Hinckley, for a divorce. Mrs. Hinckley
was Mamie Grayson of Oakland, daughter of the
well known cattle king. The late Robert Grayson
was her brother. Mr. Hinckley is a son of Air.
Hinckley of the Fulton Iron Works. Airs. Hinck-
ley has supported herself for the past five years by
keeping boarders, first in the Williams' house on
( ktavia Street, and before the fire she had just
bought and renovated the Plymouth Hotel. I have
been informed it was her father-in-law who fur-
nished the money for her enterprise. The Hinck-
leys have been married for twenty-three years and
have five children, the eldest being nineteen years
of age. Airs. Grayson died a year or two ago and
was deeply mourned by her family and friends. She
had been identified with the social life of Oakland
since early days, the Graysons being old and
It was a great compliment to Willis Polk to have
been invited by the United States Government to
take part in the preparation of plans for the new
building of the Bureau of American Republics,
which is to be erected in Washington. Only ten
architects in America were invited by Secretary
Root to take part in the competition. Air. Polk is a
very busy man these days in San Francisco and was
compelled to decline the honor. As the local repre-
sentative of D. H. Burnham & Co. he has his hands
full with important construction work. Competi-
tion in drawing plans for great buildings is no new
thing for Mr. Polk. He won three open compe-
titions against the best architects of America while
he was in the East, for several years, and associated
with that most famous of architects, Dan H. Burn-
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Burlingame defeating Los Angeles in the Polo Tournament
General Arthur MacArthur has been given numer-
ous evidences of the high regard which is enter-
tained for him by local associations of prominent
people such as the Pacific Union and other clubs.
The dinner given in his honor by the Pacific Union
was a particularly representative affair. The Gen-
eral is a man of the highest character and deserves
all the honors that can be showered upon him.
With General and Mrs. MacArthur has gone Col-
onel Frank L. Winn. Miss Dora Winn did not ac-
company her father but remained with her grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Boardman. Colonel
Winn has been a widower many years. The pretty
Miss Dora Boardman, whom he married, died a few
days after the birth of her baby, and the little one
was tenderly reared by grandparents.
When Cheever was brought up before the judge
the next day Coey was present. His ire had van-
ished in the meantime, especially since his car had
not been hurt in any way.
"I don't want to be hard on him, judge," he said,
"but I do think something should be done to teach
him a lesson. I am willing to let him work out his
bill with me. We need a washer and he can have
the job."
Cheever jumped at the chance and, the judge be-
ing willing, the young man was soon industriously
scrubbing dust and mud from the Flyers stored in
Coev's garage.
Harry Pendleton will, as usual, pass the summer at
the Hotel Rafael.
From being the proud occupant of a luxurious
sixtv-horse-power limousine to a lowly job as auto-
mobile washer is the remarkable reversal of position
recently suffered by George Cheever, Jr., of An-
dover, Mass.. and to make the drop all the more
momentous for him the young man managed to
negotiate it within the short space of twenty-four
hours.
Cheever landed in Chicago a short time ago and
put up at the Auditorium Annex, where he engaged
an expensive suite of rooms. A few days after his
arrival he went to the desk and inquired whether
he could rent an automobile. C. A. Coey, the
Chicago representative of the Thomas cars, and
who conducts an automobile livery business on the
side, happened to be at the desk at the same time
and to him the clerk referred Cheever. Coey was
so taken up with the young man that he offered him
his personal car, a white limousine, trimmed in gold.
Cheever was delighted, so pleased, in fact, did he
appear that he did not return that day and it was
well into the second day before the warrant the
somewhat worried Coey had had sworn out reached
him.
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-THE WASP-
The opening recital for the new organ recently
built by the Austin Organ ' Company of Hartford,
Connecticut, for the First Congregational Church,
will be given on Monday evening, May 6th, b}r Dr.
H. J. Stewart, assisted by Miss Camille Frank,
Miss Elsie Arden, and Samuel D. Mayer, organist
of the church. The program is as follows : First
Sonata, in F minor, Mendelssohn ; Communion in
F, Grison ; Barcarolle in A, Hofmann ; Polonaise
in A, Chopin; "In Paradisum" and "Fiat Lux,"
Dubois ; Grand March, Pomp and Circumstance.
Elgar.
$ * ^
Mr. Charles Keilus, of the "Hub," is on his way-
East to study styles of the coming season. Mr.
Keilus is one of those progressive merchants who
knows the advantage of seeing- yearly what the
great East is doing.
Geraldine Bonner has gone East to remain for a
year or so but she intends coming back to get into
touch with California atmosphere, which she loses,
she says, when she remains away too long. Miss
Bonner is at work on a novel of old California life
with which she expects to make a hit.
* * *
Miriam Michelson is home for a short stay, but
she will leave very soon for Europe, where she
intends to remain for some months, but she will
be back again in the Fall. She has more work con-
tracted for than she can finish.
Eleanor Gates, whose "best story" is being so
widely advertised by Editor Aiken of Sunset, should
write the story of her own life, or rather her love
story, for that would make splendid reading. It
was seven }'ears ago that Ma}' Eleanor Gates, as
she wrote herself then, was working for the Oakland
Enquirer. One da}' she was sent to "do" what
was either a murder or a suicide in Berkeley. That
same day, "Dick" Tully, who was the Enquirer's
representative in Berkeley, had gone to the matinee
in San Francisco, and that was why Miss Gates
was sent on the detail. It was the famous Brandes
case, and Miss Gates had stumbled on one of the
most interesting stories she had ever worked on
up to that time. Brandes had murdered his little
daughter by beating" her so cruelly that she died
from her injuries. But it was alleged that the little
girl had killed herself.
* * *
Miss Gates did not believe the suicide theory and
when young Tully finally turned up after the mati-
nee was over she set him to hunt up details of the
Brandes family, ordering him about just as if* she
had been his city editor, and while he did her bid-
ding she wrote that part of the story she had
gleaned herself. Between them they wrote one of
the most sensational newspaper stories that the
Enquirer had ever published, and it led to the trial
and conviction of the unnatural father who was sent
to jail for ten years. I believe he was recently
released. It was shortly after this that Tully and
Miss Gates both entered the Universitv at Berkelev
as students. They were sweethearts then, for the
meeting over the Brandes story had resulted in a
case of love at first sight. They were married
some time later, secretly, during Tully 's senior year,
but until their college life ended they did not tell
a soul of their union. It has turned out one of
the most harmonious marriages on record.
Professor Henry Morse Stephens really ought to
make a home for himself in Santa Barbara, for
the people are simply crazy over him there. Ther
fight for the privilege of having him as guest dur-
ing the day and night that he is there giving his
lecture, and he could visit for a year and still find
that there were others soliciting the honor. He
stayed with Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Boyd Dore-
mus while in the Channel City last week, and when
he returns to speak before the California Bankers'
Association, the dear knows what will happen. 1
hope that he may not be put up to the highest
bidder. It must be oppressive to be so great a
favorite with the intellectual.
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Santa Barbara and Montecito arc very proud of
Mrs. Deming Jarves, of "The Breakers," Montecito,
who has been abroad with her husband since Spring,
motoring through Europe, and who was heard ol
recentlj as the winner in the Cannes Golf Tourna-
ment, when she carried off the (.rand Duke Mich-
ael's prize in the women members' handicap event,
the troph) consisting of a solid gold tea service, of
seven pieces, enameled in deep red. and with raised.
finely carved flowers on the outside. Mrs. Jarves
also won the Duchess of Devonshire's prize, a hand-
some gold jewel case. The tea service is highly
prized and many ladies go From England each year
to try for it. ( Inly once before has such a triumph
come to America and that was in 1896, when Mrs.
Franz Zerrahn of Boston, formerly Miss Whitney,
carried off the prize. The Dannes golf club was
started in 1890 by the Duke of Cambridge, who was
its first president. The Grand Duke Michael is
now president.
Mrs. Bowman II. McCalla gave a canyon party
the other day at her home in Santa liarbara, when
fully 250 of the fashionable people of that city
and Montecito were present. The affair was so
different from the ordinary garden fetes that it
made quite a little babble of conversation and in
strict confidence it may be said that every young
matron and belle had on the prettiest shoes that
ever gladdened the eyes. Of course it is not very
good for high heels to scramble up and down the
rugged canyon paths and they may have suffered
but it is not every day that their wearers get the
opportunity. Mrs. Albert W. Bacon, Mrs. Dris-
coll's mother, poured tea; Miss Nellie Stow poured
coffee; and Miss Antonia Marin served ice cream.
Mrs. McCalla was assisted by Miss Stella McCalla,
Miss Elizabeth Livermore, Miss Davis. Miss Ednah
Davis, Miss Cora Bowditch, Miss Callahan and her
sister. Miss Marian McElrath, and a few other San
Franciscans, which goes to prove that those from
the City on the Bay are loyal to their old towns-
people.
with "copy," the editor of the Cosmopolitan will
yell "copy" and "boy" in vain.
Therein, Tack made almost an error. He could
write for none more appropriately than the an-
archist readers of the Cosmopolitan, who will think
the "Snark" the first vessel that ever carried an
author to the South Seas. India and thereabout-
When the adventurer comes upon the footprints
of Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and
Lafcadio Hearn, he had better not send his impres-
sions to the 25 and 35 cent magazines but, depart-
ing, leave behind him, long, hurried, pell-mell foot-
prints i in the sands of time.
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It is said that Willie Hearst and Jack London
are no longer on good terms. The break should
be advantageous to both of them. It will make
both more popular with the Socialists: Hearst, be-
cause Jack is thought to be turning plutucrat ; and
London, because it will mean a financial loss, the
ideal of all Socialists.
Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine, the organ of
biff-bang pessimism, includes most of London's
audience. He may now perforce turn to the
Century, organ of bouquet optimism. The author
refuses to go around the world placarded with
Journal. So he will not write for the Cosmopolitan
the articles which that magazine has been prefac-
ing and pre-illustrating for some months. "For
Cosmopolitan readers only," they advertised, in-
tending to sustain interest in the articles for seven
years, the schedule of the cruise. But now, when
the Captain of the "Snark" rushes into some port
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The Victorious Burlingame Polo Team
Winners of the recent Tournament in the South
There is a ghost at Lyndhurst, the family man-
sion of the Thaws. It is not of the late unlamented
Stanford White, but a lady ghost. She has been
in the haunting business since the Spring of 1902,
previous to that time being the wife of a Presby-
terian minister in Kentucky and related to Mrs.
William Thaw. On a visit to Lyndhurst she ap-
propriated death to herself with a rope and was
found hanging in the bathroom. News of the affair
was muffled by influential friends ; but the departed
soon became chief of the Ancient Order of Skele-
tons with headquarters in the family closet. The
old lady Thaw desires to sell the place and the
hereditaments corporeal and incorporeal, as she has
grown superstitious.
It is said that Harry Thaw frequently urged the
sale, and would never sleep there without a light
in his room. Spooks have always had idiosyncra-
cies. The use of cocaine and morphine in some way
attracts their supernatural instincts. Every time
young Thaw, high-life weary and money-spent, re-
turned home for the gold cure, the spectre would
come hankering around and do the dance of the
seven veils at his bedside in the purple-playing shad-
ows of the night.
* * *
Miss Helen and Miss Bessie Ashton have been
visiting at the Hotel Rafael recently. These two
girls are general favorites and are always welcome
guests at San Rafael, where they are the recipients
of much entertaining.
* % %
Mrs. Beaver and the Misses Beaver, who have
been residing in Berkeley since their old home on
Taylor Street was burned, will soon buy and build
on this side of the bay.
At a delightful tea given in Sausalito last week,
Mrs. Robbins made Miss Mabel Watkins, who will
be a June bride, the guest of honor. Miss Williar
looked very happy upon this occasion, both these
girls have been the motif of much entertaining.
Miss Williar has not yet named her wedding day.
Let them know!
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
-THE WASP-
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A Society Muster in the Southland
Charles W. Clark's horse beating Dr. E. J. Boescke's for the A. B. Spreckels Challenge Cup
at the Country Club Course, Coronado
Marie Corelli is happy as a Peace Congress these
days, on hearing that the absinthe habit is feeling
the iron heel of virtue in Europe. Marie's "Worm-
wood" was ostensibly a reckless, record-breaking
spurt of reform. But the work skidded. Thousands
who read that book, and to whom absinthe was but
hearsay, went to the decadent beverage for a new
sensation. They yearned to see gamboge tigers
with ombre stripes following them at eve from the
streets to their stairways. They longed for visions
of classic marble hung with immortelles, at the price
of a few cents. Loss of appetite, hallucinations,
ranting fancies, patent medicine symptoms made
lovely, became widespread expectations, especially
among the Bohemian class. To sip grandeur from
the reseda drink they believed possible on the word
of the author. But the only elation some of them
experienced was the inability to walk through a
crowd without disturbing the peace: also, perhaps,
farce-comedy slumps in the coin pocket. They
therefore voted Marie a goddess of false hopes and
a faker.
The fault lay in the fact that the Anglo-Saxon is
too practical and has too big an appetite to make
an ideal lunatic. Parisians know the art of being
insane without going crazy. A French workingman
can go through his work on a bubble omelet, an
absinthe and a little quinine. At eve. he satisfies
his patriotism with a riot or a naughty song. But
Americans want more for their money. Few vices
are ever crushed out.. Let them flourish in France,'
where the people know how to use them to advant-
age and glory.
Miss Lita Schlesinger planned a pleasant sur-
prise for her friends last week. She invited a
number for bridge and during the afternoon an-
nounced her engagement to Rev. John Rowland
Lathrop, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of
Berkeley. Miss Schlesinger is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Schlesinger of Oakland, well known
in the social set there. Mr. Lathrop is a graduate
of Harvard, also of the Leadville Theological
School. Since his coming from his home in Jackson,
Miss., he has made many friends in Berkeley.
Although no date has been set, the wedding, it is
said will occur in the near future.
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-THE WASP-
Mrs. W. G. Henshaw of Oakland is receiving
much attention at the Potter, in Santa Barbara.
She is accompanied by several Oakland women.
* * * *
Miss Sydney Davis, who is at Santa Barbara,
was painted by Carle J. Blenner of New York just
before he took his departure for Gotham. She posed
in an easy chair, her hands filled with great pink
roses, and a bower of the same blossoms making
a background for the figure in a white gown. On
her head is a gyps)' hat, with roses wreathing the
crown and peeping from the brim. I hear that her
distinguished father is greatly pleased with the
picture.
Denver has a restaurant where a man can win a
bride between the salad and the entree. It is near
the Denver Court House, whose statesmen say the
proprietress knows how to make a good meal as
well as a match. In order to get Societv in action,
she endeavored to insert the following delicious ad
in the newspapers. But the managers wiggled and
refused. Here it is, and the ad-writer for the
Caliph Haroun al Raschid could not have done
better:
"Wives furnished for eligible gentlemen without
delay. Why waste time in writing and exchanging
photographs? Our combination cafe and marriage
bureau saves time and brokers' commissions. Meet
your wife at the dinner table. Get something good
to eat and get acquainted at the same time. You'd
have to eat somewhere, anyhow. Let us know by
phone the kind you prefer, and we will do the rest.
Cozy corners, soft lights and dream)' music with-
out extra charge. .Finest a la carte service in the
City. Get in now while the good ones last. You'll
never be any younger."
The pousse cafe courtship is not a bad idea. It
might not produce as stalwart a country vote as the
old oaken bucket plan. Still, as the lady says they
must eat somewhere, so they will marry somewhere.
Why not among themselves?
The interior of the home which William E. Corey
has furnished for Maybelle Gihnan is an extrava-
ganza of color and upholstery. Mrs. Elizabeth
Corey-Riggs, sister of the steel magnate, guided a
few reporters through the establishment ; so it
looks as if May 7th, set for the wedding in Paris, is
no press agent's story. Descriptions from New
York certainly make it a gay shack where this co-
respondent will reside. No bed room of mirrors or
plush-covered swing is mentioned ; but there is an
array of buff and gold, rose and cream, splashed
damask, huge roses, white marbles, mahogany sur-
faces, carved legs, draperies, divans, pillows and
lounging places.
Corey has defiantly stated that Society must re-
ceive his bride. There is a dream of beauty in that
word "must." Why must? Otherwise, what will he
do? Will he quit making steel and let Society go
short on carving knives for a while? It may be
that only the defied ones know what he is talking
about. He might happen to know who is trembling
when he says, You must. It might just be a case of,
It's time for all good fellows to stand in together.
Which reminds us of the old, old questions : What
is a good fellow? and. Why does he cross the road?
The "Old Timer" has been squelched as a
searcher of ancestors. Emile Brugiere, writing to
the Wasp from Monterey, replies to him as follows :
"I am not surprised that the Old Timer should
doubt that I even had a paternal grand-father, as
such is a scarcity in some of the Smart Set of San
Francisco. My paternal grand-father, Amadee de
Brugiere, was born in the south of France in a
town that still bears the name of Brugiere. His
great grand-father was the Baron de Sorson, a man
of great cultivation. His translation of Shakespeare
into French and Chinese, and other works of his,
both historical and scientific, are still referred to in
libraries fortunate enough to possess these books.
The original volumes are in my mother's home at
Newport, R. I. On coming to America, he decided
to drop the "de," believing that a man of noble birth
should not advertise the fact in a democratic
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-THE WASP
13
country, lie- was a merchant in New York City.
I lis vessels sailed t" the Four corners of the world,
and in those days he did a business of over a million
dollars a year. Iris not very difficult for the wise
■ Timer to look up the histor) of Amadee de
Brugiere in the History of Merchants of New York
City; and if the ' >1<1 Timer who has a pedigree of
niir Smart Set on his tongue's end, should desire
any further information regarding my family histor)
on the paternal or maternal side. I would he pleased
to furnish him some, free of cost, even in this com-
mercial age."
* * #
Mrs. Ynez Shorh White's Skating Club, held the
final meeting of the season on last Monday night.
( >uing to the Bachelor's Ball, which took place in
Berkeley on the same evening, many prominent
skaters were missed. Mr. Aimer Newhall and
Southard Hoffmann, however, led a jolly crowd
from San Rafael. Mrs. John Metcalf is as yet too
timid to venture upon the floor without an in-
structor, but by the time Capt. Metcalf returns from
his tour, he will note great improvement, as his
wife took her first lessons in skating on the eve of
his departure. Miss Irene Sabin, who lately
returned from the East, was present and was the
recipient of much attention. Miss Ethel Shorb
looked extremely pretty in a light summer gown.
Miss Bates is an untiring skater. Mr. Paschal, Mr.
Robson. Mr. Vogel, Mr. Bee, Mr. McAfee scarcely
paused during the entire evening. Mr. Lester
r.urnette. and Mr. Punnitt, each tangled themselves
ftp most gracefully and like William the Conqueror,
laid hold of the floor with both hands, but joined
agreeably in the laugh. It was suggested by some
of the ladies on leaving the hall, that a vote of
thanks and some testimonial of appreciation be
presented to Mrs. White, for her kindness during
the season. Totally oblivious of self, she sees that
all her guests have a good time.
* * *
The many friends of Mrs. Samuel Shortridge will
be grieved to hear that she has been removed to
the Livermore Sanitarium, where her condition
remains so serious as to cause her husband and
family great anxiety. It is hoped the perfect quiet
and rest will entirely restore her health'.
* * *
A marriage which was quietly celebrated last
Saturday, was that of Mrs. Mabel Moore Eaton
and Jesse Wilber Glover, U. S. R. C. S. The
ceremony was performed at the home of Rev. Brad-
ford Leavitt, of the First Unitarian Church. Capt.
Glover is commander of the revenue cutter Thetis.
After a short wedding tour, he will leave on Mav
15th for Point Barrow, Alaska. The bride was the
widow of Ward Eaton, brother of Lloyd Eaton
and son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eaton of this Citv.
Ward Eaton died in Tonopah, Nevada about two
years ago. Mrs. Fred Eaton was Miss Rose Miller,
of San Jose, sister of Mrs. George Ladd, who after
the death of Mr. Ladd. went East and abroad, and
while on her travels, she married a Mr. Mitchell,
some years her junior. But the match proved a
ver) happy one. They are now living in the East.
* * * *
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Dutton, and Miss Mollie
will leave the Citj early in August for a tour abroad
They will visit the Orient, thence journey to
Egypt and Europe, during an absence of about a
year.
Judge Sloss has been enjoying a few day-, rest
at Santa Barbara and was the host at a small
luncheon at Montecito the other day.
* * #
Mr. and Mrs. Jules I'.rett, who, when in California,
makes Hotel Rafael their home, will soon leave for
a trip to Mexico and be gone several months.
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-THE WASP
MRS. CHAS. E. HUGHES
Wife of the Governor of New York who defeated Hearst.
Our office boy is compiling a set of statistics to
determine what occupation a poor girl might enter
with most favorable chances of meeting and marry-
ing a millionaire. The records thus far give chorus
girls the first place, with trained nurses second. His
method may be inaccurate, for he gets his data not
only from the society columns but includes the
heroines of popular songs. In might have been
this practice that placed waitresses third on the
winning list. But last week he tallied one from
real life in the latter's score.
Hitherto the name of Miss Jennie Donohue has
not been featured in the social page, but will when
the lady goes East as the wife of F. E. Boris, a
high-rater among Pittsburg brokers. Down at
Catalina Island she has been wasting her smiles
among the Tuxedoless johnnies who would wait for
her after 8 P. M. at the back door of the Hotel
Metropole. The prices of rubies, pearls and roses
must go up considerably before we deign use them
as attributes of her lips, teeth and complexion.
And as for starry eyes, none of your common,
ordinary stingy stars seen from City thoroughfares,
but those of amethystine ray that glow in the
mellow firmament above an Oriental rose garden or
the alligator streams of Jacksonville. Florida, her
native burg.
* * *
The engagement of Miss Mary Patten to the
Danish Minister, Mr. Constantin Brun, has been
rumored in Washington and neither been affirmed
nor denied by the parties most interested. Miss
Patten, the eldest of five daughters, is rapidly near-
ing that mysterious age when it is impossible to
classify an unmarried woman. The young girls
look on her as a being of another world and the
married women with grown children exclaim when
the}' see her name in the Society columns, "Oh, my.
Why I went to school with May at Miss Bird's
so many years ago." But like May herself they
stop short at counting the years.
The Patten sisters are the daughters of the late
Edward Patten and Mrs. Patten of Virginia City,
Nevada. Mr. Patten was a miner and accumulated
a great fortune. After his death his widow came
to San Francisco, where she and her family lived
in very expensive style. She placed her five
daughters in the College of Notre Dame, San Jose,
and later on took them to the convent of Notre
Dame, Paris, where they remained so long in the
completion of their education that the sisters wrote
to Mrs. Patten that the young ladies had passed the
Miss May Sutton in a lively Tennis Game at Coronado
-THE WASP-
17
school-girl stage and sin mid be launched in Society.
This she did and soon after purchased a fine house
in Washington, which has since become a center of
social interest at the capital. The wits of Wash-
ington termed the Patten home on Massachusetts
Avenue "The Irish Legation." but such shafts did
not deter the Californians, and they have stormed
successfully, the citadel of Washington exclusive-
ness. Mary, the eldest girl, was once reported as
engaged to Bourke Cochran. Augusta, the second
daughter, married Congressman J. .Milton Glover
and ha.- been divorced. Edith, whose name is now
spelled Edythe by the Washington Society report-
er-, married General Corbin. The other daughters,
Josephine and Nellie, are unmarried. The social
campaign of this noted family has therefore not
been distinguished by many brilliant matrimonial
alliances. The Patten sisters are noted in Washing-
ton for their keen wit. of which Society is more
or less apprehensive. Lord Bacon, in one of his
famous essays, tells us that people of keen wit
should consider that their victims have long mem-
ories.
Mr>. Patten died many years ago and divided her
large estate amongst her daughters, who have stead-
ily steered their social course by the needle point
of their ambition to move amongst the elect ol
Washington.
* * *
Emma Eames and her husband have been
judicially subdivided. ( )n the other hand May
Yohe recently telephoned to the Little Church
around the Corner that her third was ready with the
dominie's fee. Boni de Castellane has appealed
from the countess' divorce. Lillian Russell is here
in our City attending strictly to business. If she
were not, we would have heard of the fact a week
before her arrival.
Eames has such a Minervalike personality that
a divorce has no effect upon her, even in the sight
of that most fastidious institution in the world,
yellow journalism. Yohe is not as fortunate. She
is frequently kept after school by Mrs. Grundy for
refusing to do homework. In her behalf an
emergency call was sent to the pastor for a mid-
night ceremony. The other party is I. Newton
Brown, claimed by both New York and Phil-
adelphia. Reason for the haste is not given. Surely
no one objected to Mrs. Hope-Strong acquiring
another home. And no wise parent would frustrate
Mr. Brown, as the marriage could not be viewed to
run more than a season at the Casino anyway, and
might be cheaper in the end. However, the Little
Pastor around the Corner was not at his post, and
a still alarm was sent in to a clergyman who is
famous for marriages at all hours. But he failed to
respond this time. The hotel clerk thought he
would be calling May's bluff by suggesting an
alderman to do the exercises. Whereupon she asked
for a continuance, and went with Mr. Brown to the
Champagne Springs on Broadway.
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£/rhnk, Criticism cf Current Stents
Why doesn't Schmitz get up a weird and wooly
tale like P. H. McCarthy's about a conspiracy to
chloroform and murder him. A story of that sort
about secret agents of the Mikado laying for him
with carboys of chloroform and razor-edge butcher-
knives might lift him temporarily out of the deep
shadow of the penitentiary.
The Call's notable scoop of the stenographic re-
port of the confessions of the Supervisors came like
a thunderclap in a clear sky. The Examiner,
Chronicle and Bulletin had regarded that testimony
as' hermetically sealed and overlooked the one
chance of breaking into it. The Call got its scoop,
not from Rudolph Spreckels, nor Heney, nor Lang-
don, but from Louis Glass, who demanded the testi-
mony on which the indictment against him was
returned. It will be remembered that the Call's
great scoop covered only the telephone bribery
story. That of course was the only testimony fur-
nished to Glass.
A good many people here imagine that Kearny
Street was named after the late Dennis Kearney,
and they invariably spell it with an "e" in the last
syllable. But Kearny Street was not named after
the agitator, but after General Phil Kearny, who
was out here before most of us were born. Prop-
erly pronounced it is "Karny," like Kate who "lived
by the banks of Killarney."
James Henry Smith, now "Silent" forever, has
bequeathed more money than silence to his rela-
tions, and there is likelihood of some sonorous
probating over his estate. His sister. Lady Cooper,
putdown an unfinished cutlet and left London like
a one best bet, on learning the widow was on her
way to New York. Accompanying the English
matron, is Sir George Alexander Cooper, with
Smith's will and the moneybags to bring home the
winnings. The Coopers have been pegging along
with a meagre $50,000,000, which milady inherited
from "Chicago" Smith. With "Silent's" money she
would have about a hundred millions, and be the
richest thing in hairpins that Society editors can
remember.
Mrs. "Silent," soothed and petted by the Duke
and Dutchess of Manchester, arrived here last Sun-
day. She is said to have been "cut off" with
$5,000,000. One of her New York friends, claiming
more information than theory, states there are ex-
pectations of another heir with the widow who is
now more forty than fair and fat. Thi= little pilgrim,
unprovided for in another will, would be stronger
lis the propel thing to take Abbotts Bitters with a glass of sherry or soda before meals:
gives you an appetite. At all druggists.
than all the lawyers of New York to break the testa-
mentary document merely by uttering its birth-cry.
In any event, the prospects for a contest are bright
as a diamond sunburst. There are at least six
surviving heirs, outside of Lady Cooper. The spoils
would seem sufficient to make victors of all con-
cerned. Yet when a little lopsidedness in the division
can make one woman the richest in the world, the
denouement is interesting enough to give the
posthumous heir the birth-mark of a lemon on its
funny-bone.
The returns for 1906 from the Hamburg-
American, the North-German Lloyd and the
Cunard lines show the largest profits in theirj
history. The Hamburg-American line, however, in
some of its branches shows a falling off in returns
and has felt the keen edge of Japanese competition
in the far East. This last in itself is quite signific-
cant and indicates what is in store for ourselves.
The Wasp has several times pointed out the im-
possibility of our competing with Japan in the
ocean carrying trade on the Pacific. Not only is
the American shipowner handicapped by costly
ships and high wages, but he is at the mercy of]
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-THE WASP-
19
labor agitators, who strive day and night to ruin
his business. When he appeals to the courts to
stop their lawless acts, he obtains no redress.
the Colorado Senator. The young couple, it is
said, had long; been secretly engaged.
\i tin- writing the carmen are undecided whether
to strike or not. It is to be Imped that they may
disregard the advise of their false friends and remain
at work for the strike would be a bad thing for the
City and equally SO for the strikers. The wave of
prosperity is subsiding" in the Kasl and wages there are
falling. In I'ittslmrg, which is one of the most pros-
perous of Eastern cities plasterers gel only $3 a day
and expect that rate to he reduced. Painters and
carpenters are also over numerous and their wages
are inclined to drop. Common laborers are idle in the
thousands and eager for work at $1.40 a day. Ten
thousand men could be found in the Eastern cities
eager to take the carmen'-, places here, if permitted to
work. It is not likely that Mayor Schmitz will have
much to say as to the repression of violence if the
strike should occur. If the matter be passed up to
< iovernor ( lillett, that official would not be chary about
using militia, and Major General Funston might be
made a factor in the quarrel if the militia failed. The
public sentiment is strongly against the strike and the
carmen will receive little sympathy should the mer-
chants of the City close their stores, and lay off thou-
sands of clerks, there being do business to justify their
employment. There can be no business in a City like
this when the street cars cease to run. It is to be hoped
that the carmen will realize that they are now the best
paid railroad hands - in America and avoid the
mountain of trouble a strike would bring on them
and their fellow citizens.
HARVEY BROUGHAM
San Francisco pleasure seekers will be delighted to
learn that the Hotel Vendome has reopened and is
more attractive and comfortable than ever. It has
been rebuilt on lines that make it earthquake proof,
and has a complete system of scientific plumbing, new
bathrooms, telephones in every room and vacuum air
cleaning. With its beautiful grounds, bowling alleys,
tennis courts and magnificent bathing pavilion, it is an
ideal summer resort, only an hour's ride from the City.
Thirty-five trains daily connect it with San Francisco.
At an elaborate luncheon given recently at Wash-
ington. Pa., by Miss Amy Dunlap, the engagement
of Miss Helen Dent Wreneshall to Chaffee Grant,
of San Diego, Cal., was announced. Miss Wrene-
shall is the third daughter of the late Edward
Wreneshall. Mr. Grant is the eldest son of
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., of San Diego, and is a grand-
son of General Grant and of the late Senator
Chaffee of Colorado. With the announcement of
this engagement old memories will be revived, when
U. S. Grant. Jr., was in San Francisco, about
twenty-five years ago. It was on this occasion his
own engagement was announced to a well-known
heiress. Later the engagement was dissolved, and
young Grant married Miss Chaffee, daughter of
Miss Lita Schlessinger, whose engagement was
announced this week, is quite a young girl. She
is very musical and has a fine voice which has been
well cultivated. She is a sister of one of the most
popular youths over the bay, ( )sear Schlessinger.
Their mother was one of the Sawyer sisters, one
of them being Mrs, Calvert Meade of ( lakland.
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-THE WASP^
McCarthy's Croak
Fearsome Tale of a Labor Financier
It was a Labor Financier,
Who stoppeth one of three.
"By thy red mustache and eyes that flash,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?"
He raises his Trades Council hand;
"There was a plot," quoth he.
"Skiddoo, McCarthy," said the friend.
But P. H. took "no 23".
The friend stood by the rosewood bar,
And sipped his cool steam beer ;
And thus spoke on P. H. McC.
That bright-eyed financier :
"The votes were cast, the town aghast ;
Merrily did we join.
In City Hall and Bricklayers' Ball,
To use the City's coin.
"But the grand jury came, and they
Were virtuous and strong.
They brought indictments by the ream
They've kept up right along.
"The graft was here, the graft was there,
The graft was all around ;
It leapt from pits of shame to Schmitz
And people wide renowned.
"Things grew so loose, our Union goose
That laid the golden egg,
Grew fat on graft, as loud we laughed
And pulled the City's leg.
"It ate the food it ne'er had ate,
And round and round it flew.
The City it half threw a fit,
But Ruef he steered us through.
"A good trade wind sprang up behind;
The big fat goose did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the Mayor's hollo.
"God save thee, Labor Financier;
Why look'st thou like the deuce?"
"I must not cavil ; with my gavel,
I killed our big fat goose.'
"Ah, I had done a hellish thing,
But I didn't care a peg.
And all averred I had killed the bird
That laid the golden egg.
"Day after day, day after day.
I stood without emotion.
As idle as a painted fish
Upon a painted ocean.
"Except that when they needed help
For Jerry, Gene or Abe,
At their caprice I spoke my piece,
As guiltless as a babe.
"Heney, Heney everywhere,
And all the Boards did shrink
The Supervisors and Police
And Railroads, too, I think.
"There passed a time, a weary time ;
A warning came to me ;
And what is more, one day I saw
A dark conspiracy.
"A house close to a lonely swamp
They rented in false name ;
Then bought a rope and chloroform
And sponge to use the same.
"Oh, horrid to be gagged and bound!
(To me a gag's the dickens)
Kidnapped, forlorn, from night till morn,
Awhile the foul plot thickens.
"The plotters they did plot their plots,
With poison, gun and thud.
I heard them come with fee-faw-fum.
To smell my Union blood.
"With growl and curse, they brought the hearse
Right up to where I dwell.
With caution, I did not reply
To the electric bell.
"Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone in a dark, dark hall.
The Black hand outside, that wants my
To the keyhole then I crawl.
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"About, about, with fear and doubt,
The death-chills danced all night.
And every word my spirit heard
i 'as >i 'I o'er me like a blighl
'"They arc not carpenters,' I thought.
'Bricklayers, nit : hodcarriers, nix!
By Herbert George! they arc none but
Electric Workers \'o. 6.'
['For I from them a whisper heard:
'The batteries have given out.'
\i>\\ who except with bells adept.
Such things would know about?
"1 went unto the Building Trades,
And, by the Wizard of ( >z !
Each man in place, and on each face,
An eight-hour wink there was.
"The Council band each waved his hand;
It was a woeful sight.
Thev closed their teeth and grinned beneath.
The beggars would not bite.
"Anil thus I go from man to man;
I have strange power of speech.
My tale I tell, for I know well
The lobster I can teach.
"IK- worketh well who grafteth well;
(With rich and poor he canl"
The morrow morn his friend arose,
A gladder and a badder man.
Everett Lloyd, editor, custodian, engineer and
rakeman of the Tramp Magazine, dropped joy-
msly into the Wasp office last Saturday afternoon,
ust as we were officially forgetting all about wed-
ftgs, diamonds and teas for the week. Lloyd is
heavyweight, smooth-shaved tramp, reminding
ne of Ysaye. the violinist. Nothing but his blue
annel shirt would indicate he is not on the Cotil-
ton List. He invited George W. Entre Nous out
or a drink and informed us how to edit magazines
rom a brake-beam. He does not do that him-
elf, but could if he were without the money for
Pullman. Lloyd is a friend of Jack London, and
ecentlv joshed the Klondyke Lad on the subject
f hoboisni, saying that Jack's road life is all poppy -
ock. whatever that may mean. San Francisco will
ave an issue of this vagabondiana in about a week.
Vhereupon the tramp editor will take his well
aveled smile and his advertising contracts to Los
ngelcs.
Hansen's painting "A Comanche Chief's Return"
as just been sold in Santa Barbara to the Count
iQShkoff, of Moscow, Russia, who with the Countess
as been at the Potter for a brief stay. The Count
dtnires Mr. Hansen's work immensely. The
mint came over here because political matters
made it rather warm in his own country, but things
have Settled down now and lie is g"iug back. They
will leave for the east this week.
Dr. Arnold Genthe, who could have photographed
a gorgon and made her look not only sentimental but
intellectual, possesses a volume of George Sterling's
poems with complimentary quatrian on the fly-leaf.
Sterling who interpreted the heavens in his
"Testimony of the Suns," is as much at home along
the Galactic Circle as some of us are on Van Ness
Avenue. So his statements of light and shade are
authoritative. These are the lines to Genthe:
"Master of light, thy mind to beauty true.
Hath taught a nobler service to the ray.
And mingling subtler shadows with the day
Hath shown to art a country fair and new."
The Jack Spreckels are going to have a country
home of their own and are building in San Rafael
where they intend to live in the future. At first papa
Spreckels was like a Spartan father with the young
people, giving them very little money, but now they
have everything they want, a town house and a country
house. Mrs. Jack is another handsome member of the
house of Spreckels, which has so many good looking
members already.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harrison have rented a
house on Petaluma Avenue, San Rafael, for the
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Bond and Stock Exchange
Trading was light this week owing to the tight-
ness of the money market and the fears of labor
strikes that might tie up the business of the City.
The weaker stocks felt the depression most and
Spring Valley, which has been groggy for some
time was very wobbly. Captain Payson's open con-
fession of the tragic condition of the affairs of the
Water Company has had the worst effect of course
on the stock. The confession should not have sur-
prised anybody however for it has been notorious
for a long time that the Spring Valley has been
one of the worst managed corporations in America.
People who have had very little financial interest
in it beyond drawing salaries have been in control,
with the usual result in such cases. I would not,
however, advise any holder of Spring Valley to
sacrifice it at present prices.
New San Francisco
I hear that the Palace Hotel Company is by no
means decided whether to rebuild a great hotel on
the site of the old Palace, or to erect a fine office
building there. The Palace people have now a lease
of the Fairmont and will certainly make that a
famous and successful house, and there is talk of
their controlling the St. Francis. It requires a great
deal of hard thought to decide how New San Fran-
cisco is going to reshape the business districts in
the next ten years. One thing which is certain, is
that Market Street will remain the artery of the
City and be an ideal location for office buildings
and great retail places like the Emporium, Hales,
and firms that cater to the general public. The
location of the White House at the corner of
Grant Avenue and Sutter Street will have a power-
ful influence in anchoring the fashionable shopping
district around it. The rebuilding of the Palace
Hotel would also tend to keep the shopping dis-
trict down town.
It is almost certain however that New San Fran-
cisco will be different from the old in the matter
of having nine-tenths of its retail business trans-
acted in the area of a few blocks down town.
Since the fire the Mission has developed an immense
local trade and stores that formerly paid $75 a
month now pay $250 and $300 a month. There
are banks and theaters in the Mission and at night
Mission Street from Sixteenth to Twenty-seventh
is filled with people and brilliant with the lights of
A Sovereign Remedy
Dr. Parker's Cough Cure, one dose will stop a cough. It
never (ails. Try it. Sold by all Druggists.
well-patronized stores. I do not see how these
smaller shops are to be again attracted down town.
The}' are now located in the midst of their patrons
and most assuredly the Mission will grow and de-
velop very rapidly.
So also in the Western Addition where Fillmore
Street has become a busy thoroughfare and Van
Xess Avenue has entirely changed its character.
Polk Street is growing in importance very rapidly!
and all these streets will certainly retain a consider-
able share of trade even when the great firms go
down town again.
It becomes clearer every month that in future
San Francisco will have several important busi-
ness districts instead of one. and as in larger citiesi
of the East and Europe, the classes of business!
done in these districts will be different. Thus
down town we will have the great department
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid up Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans on Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D. Phelan, Pres,, John A. Hooper, V. Pres., J. K. Moffatt. 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Sec'y and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Asst. Cashier, A. E.
Curtis, 2d Asst. Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS A specialty
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in their
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange Bldg.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK
OF SAN FRANCISCO
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS.
PAID UP CAPITAL.
DEPOSITS JANUARY I, 1907
108-110 Sutter Street
$693,104.68
$600,000.00
$3,772,145.83
s Carpy, Pres. Arthur Legallet, Vice-Pres. Leon Bocqueraz, Secretary
John Ginty. Asst. Secretary P. A. Bergerot, Attorney
-THE WASP-
23
stores and dryg 1- houses, etc., that expect to
draw trade from all sections. They will need the
m<>-t central and accessible location possible, and
that is on Market Street or verj close l" it — say a
few blocks. Such a location will give them also
some of the Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley trade
a- well as that of the \\ estern Addition and the
Mission. The great office buildings, the financial
houses, and insurance firms, will cluster down town.
The future theatrical center will however be up-
town and I should locate it at the junction of Ninth
and Market Streets as being the most central. It
can he reached by car lines from all points.
Our Commerce With the Orient
The liner "Korea" had a cargo valued at $4(W.-
250, of which $279,182 was for Japan and $93,7.52
for China. The total of course compares unfavor-
ably with totals when the Russo-Japanese war was
in full blast. But this should be expected. The
cargo was made up principally of Eastern products
and manufacturers such as machinery, cotton, do-
mestics, milk, ginsey and machinery. The Pacific
Coast had little to do with the cargo beyond the
handling at this end. There were a few odds and
ends in salmon and canned and dried fruit from this
State but not enough to make any fuss about. It
never has been very different. We indeed sent
a whole steamer load of flour by the tramp steamer
"Arabia" a few years ago. This was a respectable
cargo valued at $250,000 and over, but that was
our best. Oregon and Washington took the flour
trade away from us. They were helped by the
fact that our steamers never had space enough
tainty. One never could tell when he could get
to render the shipment of flour anything of a cer-
your flour off and the Chinese merchants never
knew when he was likely to receive it, so the trade
declined. We have a good many things to accom-
plish before we can enjoy that "vast trade with
the Orient" of which we hear so much talk and
see so few evidences. San Francisco has been
asleep as far as regards her commerce. The few
merchants who have tried to establish extensive
commercial relations with the foreign ports have
found that between various harbor dues, tireless
labor agitators, blackmailing politicians and other
enemies of the public good they could do better
with their money and energy in other enterprises.
It is time for our merchants and citizens generally
to wake up and make this the great seaport it
should be.
and a perfectly safe place in which to keep your
ioipcrtant papers or valuable personal property would
be o.ie cf our
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
They are absolutely fire-proof and burglar-proof.
Private rooms are provided for examination of
papers, etc. Rates very reasonable.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT
AND TRUST COMPANY
HOME OFFICE
CALIFORNIA and MONTGOMERY STS.
West End Branch, 1531 Devisadero
Mission Branch, 2572 Mission, near 22d
Up-Town Branch, 1740 Fillmore nr. Sutter
VALUABLES or all kinds
May be safely stored al
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
of (he
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Cor. Bush and Sansome Sts.
Safes to rent from $5 a year upwards
Careful service lo customers
Trunks $1 a month
Office Hours: 8 a, m. to 6 p. m.
The German Savings and Loan Society
526 CALIFORNIA ST., San Francisco
Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31, 1 906
$2,578,695,41
1,000,000.00
38,531,917.28
OFFICERS - President, F. Tillmann. Jr.; Firs! Vice-President. Daniel Meyer
Second Viee-President. Emil Rohte; Cashier, A. H. R. Schmidt; Assistant Cashier,
William Herrmann; Secretary, George Toumy; Assistant Secretary, A. H. Muller.
GoodfeUow & Eells, General Attorneys.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS -- F. Tillmann, Jr., Daniel Meyer. Emil Rohte, Ign.
Steinhart, I. N. Walter, N. Ohlandt. J. W. Van Bergen, E. T. Knise and W. S.
What the Savings Banks Show.
The report of the twelve San Francisco Saving's
Banks is most significant. For the first time in
years they show a falling off in the total of deposits
in the twelve. The shrinkage in resources is only a
little over two and a half millions, and in deposits over
three millions. A good many people have taken their
money out of the Savings Banks to rebuild their burned
homes. Some people have no doubt left the State.
The first thing in the morning, if you need a bracer, should be a lablespoonful of Abbott's
Bitters in an ounce of sherry or a glass of soda. Try it.
MEMBER STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE
MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO MINING EXCHANGE
J. C. WILSON
BROKER
STOCKS AND BONDS Kohl Bldg., 488 California St.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES San Francisco
Telephone Temporary 815
24
-THE WASP
I have several times in these columns given my
San Francisco readers the comforting assurance that
we never again will have the good old times in San
Francisco, when one could live for next to nothing.
Don't you remember when one could get enough
muttom chops for ten cents to feed a large family
and a fine fat and juicy porterhouse steak could be
annexed at any butcher stall for twenty-five cents.
For fifty cents one could lunch sumptuously in a
good restaurant and seventy-five cents guaranteed
one a dinner fit for an epicure. Alas, these are only
memories now and what is worse they will grow
more shadowy. Like New York and Chicago and
London and all the other large cities of the white
man the cost of living keeps on advancing steadily
and thus keeping pace with the higher and higher
rents.
Here are the late April quotations from the New
York market. They may console San Franciso
heads of families who groan over the prices now rul-
ing here :
Asparagus was from $1 to $1.25 a bunch in New
York and small bunches at that. Here the whole-
sale price was 12^ cents a pound for first quality.
Peas sold for 25 cents a quart in New York and
for one quarter of that price here. A cauliflower costs
75 cents in New York and new potatoes 25 cents
a quart. If a San Francisco housekeeper was
charged a quarter for a quart of potatoes she would
yell for the police. We are much better off here
yet than the New Yorkers notwithstanding the high
prices. Wages are higher in all lines than in New
York and the cost of food is much less. Rents seem
very high but our people have been accustomed to
low rents in the very heart of the City. Poor peo-
ple cannot afford to live in the heart of New York
except in such overcrowded tenements as have
never been seen in San Francisco.
The San Francisco public has been delighted to
learn that the Cliff House has changed hands.
Justice— Must I Wade Through It Again?— From N. Y. World
Mine host Wilkins, who personally is a most charm-
ing man, is anything but a delightful host, and has
never seemed to know where he was at, since he
took charge of the famous old resort. Instead of
being an excellent advertisement for San Francisco
it has been the reverse. Wise men refrained from
taking their visiting friends there lest the strangers
might carry away a too unfavorable impression of
San Francisco.
The Price of Lumber
Pine lumber lately' has been sold as low as as
$19.00 for San Francisco cargoes — a decline of six
dollars per M. feet. The cause of this is the failure
of the Hill roads to find cars to make the shipments
east. Redwood has not been affected.
INVESTOR
Enough to Make Him Wild
"How in the world did you get the public to be-
ii?' " asked the
lieve you had a genuine 'wild
museum manager. "[ billed a
but no
ild man,'
one would believe he was really wild."
"Oh, it was dead easy with my 'wild man,' "
chuckled the manager of the side-show. "I added
on the bills that he had 200 wives and no one could
doubt that he was wild."
Strenuous Hints
"You must pardon me for calling in my business
suit," said the young man. "I was detained down-
town and had no time to go home and dress."
"Oh, that's all right," rejoined the fair maid.
"When a man has a business suit on he usually
means business."
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Stock Exchange
Goldfield. Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET, STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as hei business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE. Ptes.
CAVIN McNAB. Any.
WM, CORBIN. Sec. and Gen. Mar.
OFFICES -
COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Rooms 7 to 1 1
Telephone Tmpy. 1415
W. C. RALSTON
Stock and Bond Broker
Member San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
Mining Stocks a Specially
Bedford McNeill
Western Union
Leibers
368 BUSH STREET
San Francisco
-THE WASP-
25
BY JOVE— SPRING.
Immortal critics of the seribes who sing,
Vouchsafe unto the editorial "we" —
Or "us" — to use a little ink on "Spring;"
For it is here : its signs of life we see.
Oh, Spring, (our poems always start with "Oh!")
Your colors fly on every hill and twig.
I in hatband, hosiery and vest they show;
The picnic maid benzines her last year's rig.
All special-trained and eke excursion-boated,
With golden peanut, popcorn white and red.
The Sunday-off man, flushed, beer-stained and bloated.
Returns at night with w 1-ticks on his head.
He it perfectly understood at the outset that the
dog is alive. It is needless to skim and stir the
reader's milk of human kindness into a wild whipped
cream of misgiving. The dog is alive. It might
have been otherwise. Flora might have made one
misstep and had her yelping soul hurled into — but
what's the use? the dog is alive. Flora is a Brooklyn
half-caste. St. Bernard and mastiff. She was owned
by Schultz and stolen by Schmidt. Now Schmidt
(soft tremulo on the violins, please) is a sausage
maker. The dog was missing for a week, at the
end of which time the searchers trudged with heart-
rending steps to the bologne foundry. Several
chapters might be meet and fit here. But, Kismet,
Kismet, the dog is alive.
We watch the jocund mix-up in the train,
The windows broken and the seats upset ;
The blithe coarse jest, to which the roughs are fain;
The low, sweet thud, as cheek by fist is met.
We note the scarlet runner 'neath the nose,
The purple shadow o'er the puffy eye.
Gladsome withal, we watch the fellows doze
Quite upside down, full weary by and by.
And at the ferrv, with their ears yet warm.
They to the Harbor Hospital repair.
Odors of lager and iodoform
Allure the nonchalant reporter there.
Heigho ! We drink your health, sensational Spring.
Here's looking at you, from our busy desk.
Poppies and picnics may you ever bring.
And Monday stories of a turn grotesque.
Mr. Arthur Brisbane, patentee and owner of the
brisbaneful editorial, urges the readers of the Hearst
papers to buy real estate. "Buy a lot to build on," he
writes. "Buy two or three more adjoining. Build
your own home. Hold on and gradually build two or
three other houses to rent."
It looks so easy, we hate to do it. Brissy is in such
a defenseless position, it is almost a shame to thwack
him. Let us withhold the obvious rebuke, and wonder
into the causes that led to his downfall. Did James
Gordon Bennett insinuate that not one of Hearst's
readers owns his own home ? Is this the only way
Brisbane can appeal to the landlord class — by making
one of his own? Perhaps the whole thing is a typo-
graphical error. He might have meant, "Buy a hall
to speak in. Buy two or three more adjoining. Build
your own Democratic Club. Hold on and gradually
build one or two other Democratic Clubs to rent."
When the Grand Duke Nicholas was returning
from Tsarkeo-Selo (Czar's Rest) and was within
thirteen miles of St. Petersburg, his train was
stopped by a fusillade of bullets. Melodrama on a
gigantic scale is still playing in Russian politics.
From a spectator's standpoint, we have become
weary of their bombs and bored with dynamite. A
little witty dialogue or sentimental reverie would
be gratifying.
Pepperish
"John." said Mrs. Stubb, as she glanced over the
Washington dispatches, "is Uncle Joe Cannon, the
speaker of the house?"
"Yes." replied Mr. Stubb, hurriedly swallowing
his coffee, "but I don't think he could be speaker of
this house?"
"Why not?"
"Because you wouldn't give him the chance."
And then John made a dash for the office without
even removing the egg from his mustache.
Jt Skin of Beauty is a Joy Forever.
Dr. T. Felix Gouraud's Oriental
Cream or Magical Beautifier
Purities as well as beautifies the skiu. No other cosmetic will do it.
Removes Tan, Pimples, Freckles, Moth
Patches, Rash and Skin Diseases, and
every blemish on beauty, and defies de-
tection. On its virtues it has stood the
test of 58 years; no other has, and is so
harmless we taste it to be sure it is prop-
erly made. Accept no counterfeit or simi-
lar name. Dr. L- A. Sayre said to a lady
of thehaut-ton (a patient) "As you ladies
will use them, I recommend 'Gouraud's
Cream' as the least harmful of all the
skin preparations." One bottle will last
six months using it every day. GOUR-
AUD'S POUDRE SUBTLE REMOVES
SUPERFLUOUS HAIR WITHOUT IN-
JURY TO THE SKIN.
FRED T. HOPKINS, Prop'r, 37 Great Jones street, N. Y.
For sale by all druggists and Fancv-goods Dealers throughout the United
States, Canadas and Europe. &Jff~ Beware of base imitations. $ 1,000
reward for arrest and proof of auy one selling the same.
Popular French Restaurant
Regular Dinner 75c Private Dining Rooms
Meals a la carte at any hour for Banquets, etc.
497 Golden Gate Ave.
Comer Polk Street
Phone Market 2315
26
-THE WASP
Of Social Interest
A wedding of great interest, both here and in
San Jose, took place on Tuesday evening, at the
residence of Judge and Mrs. S. F. Leib on the Ala-
meda, in San Jose, when their daughter Lida was
married to Charles Dorsey Armstrong, a business
man of Omaha, Nebraska. The Leib mansion, one
of the handsomest in the ' larden City, had several
hundred guests. The lare - rounds were ablaze with
'lights, and everything was ,..u an elaborate scale. Rev.
Lefevre of Los Angeles performed the ceremony. The
bridesmaids were Miss Hermita Moore, Miss Furst
Bowman, Miss Bessie Henry and Miss Hazel Park.
Mrs. William Hammond Wright, the bride's sister,
was the matron of honor ; Dr. Hardy of Nevada, best
man ; ushers, Messrs. Roy Earl, Frank Leib and
Charles Field. The cushion bearers were little Frank
Furst and Katharine Dunne ; the ribbon bearers,
Dorothy Dunne, Josephine Dunne, Elsie Furst, Helen
Pierce, Jerome Rucker and Jerome Bowden. Mr.
and Mrs. Armstrong will reside in Nebraska. Dr.
Hardy, who supported Mr. Armstrong on this occa-
sion, will soon lead to the altar Miss Sylvia Harris,
daughter of the late Dr. Harris, and sister of Mrs.
Benjamin G. Lathrop. Miss Daisy Polk, who went
to San Jose for the Armstrong-Leib wedding, re-
mained several days a guest at the Leib home. Mrs.
Selden S. Wright also attended. Mrs. Wright's son,
William Hammond Wright, professor of astronomy
at the Lick Observatory, married the second daughter
of Judge and Mrs. Leib.
( )wing to the continued illness of Mrs. Polhemus,
Sr., Mr. and Mrs. John Hart Polhemus, were
obliged to cut short their wedding tour. They
returned to the City on Sunday last, going to the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wilshire on
Buchanan Street, parents of the bride. Mr. and
Mrs. Polhemus have been disappointed in regard
to the summer home, which they expected to occupy
in San Anselmo. The owners of the cottage
changed their minds and suddenly concluded not
to rent the place, thus leaving this interesting couple
in the lurch. Subsequently a home was found in
Mill Valley, where they will pass a short season.
A large party composed of our most exclusive
Southern ladies left the City on Tuesday morning'
for Monterey, to attend the Convention of the
California Division o'f the Daughters of the Con-
federacy. The Convention called to elect new
officers, opened on Wednesday, Mrs. Stevens, wife
of Judge Stevens of Los Angeles, presiding. Among
those elected delegates to the Convention and at-
tending from this City were, Mrs. Seldon S. Wright,
Mrs. J. De Barth Sriorb, Mrs. Ynez Shorb White,
Mrs. W. D. Mansfield, Mrs. Randolph Miller, Mrs.
Jones. Mrs. W. B. Pritchard, Mrs. George Theobald,
accompanied by many ladies of the Chapter. Many
of these ladies stopped at the Hotel Del Monte. Mrs.
John P. Pryor of Pacific Grove, a prominent Con-
federate-daughter, entertained a large house party.
Picnics, luncheons, the seventeen mile drive, and a
glorious time was enjoyed by the visiting delega-
tion. Several of the ladies stopped in San Jose on
Tuesday to attend the Lieb-Armstrong wedding,
and left next morning for Monterey.
The college town has seldom witnessed a prettier
party than the one the Berkeley Bachelors gave on
Monday evening last. The hosts on this occasion
had the able assistance of the most prominent
ladies in Berkeley, including Airs. Benjamin Ide
Wheeler, Airs. O. P. Evans, Mrs. Clinton Day, Mrs.
R. Van Paterson, Mrs. John Galen Howard, Mrs.
Warren Gregory and many others. Dancing was
kept up until a late hour. Many buds from this
City, Oakland and all points around the bay being-
guests of these popular bachelors.
Mrs. Norman McLaren, assisted by Mrs. James
Otis, gave a. picnic last week to some fifty children,
taking them to Verba Buena Island. Mrs. McLaren
A SINGLE ORDER OF BOTTLES OF
HUNTER
WHISKEY
IF PLACED END TO END
WOULD REACH FROM
BALTIMORE
TO
CHICAGO
THIS GIVES SOME IDEA
OF THE MAGNITUDE
OF ITS POPULARITY
CHARLES M. REYNOLDS CO.
Agents for California and Nevada
912-914 Folsom St.. San Francisco. Cal.
i«tMi»««l{MM«IMl<Mi«fe<mWW&^
-THE WASP-
27
was the former attractive Miss Linie Ashe, sister of
k. Porter \-1k-. Her young daughter, who will in
a few years be a debutante, is said to inherit from
her mother's family that gift of quickness of
repartee for which the \slie family is noted,
especially Mrs. Sewell, who was Nellie Ashe.
* * *
Mis> Emily Marvin and Roy Somers were
quietly married on Tuesday evening last, at St.
Luke's Church, Rev. Edward Morgan officiating.
Owing in a recent death in the groom's family,
the guests at the reception were limited to a few
intimate friends. Miss Marion Marvin attended her
sister as maid of honor. Miss Floride Hunt.
Miss Ruth Casey, Miss Marie Brewer and Miss
Maud Payne were bridesmaids. Frank Somers, the
groom's brother, was best man. The ushers were
Charles Xorris. Edward Robinson of Los Angeles.
Harold Plummer and Carelton Curtis. After a
wedding tour, the bride and groom will reside in
this City.
* * *
Mrs. Douglas Sloane Watson and her children
will leave early in May for a stay at the Hotel
Potter, Santa I'arbara.
* • *
Mrs. Joseph Pelican Coryell, who so hospitably
entertained the Society of California Pioneers'
Auxiliary at her lovely country-place in Menlo Park.
is one of the beauties of her set. She at one time
cherished an ambition to become an actress but
that was long before she met Mr. Coryell and
became a convert to domestic life as opposed to a
career. She is devoted to her husband and chil-
dren, but manages to entertain a good deal. Mrs.
Coryell is the daughter of the late Dr. Isaac Jessup,
the pioneer dentist, and her mother was one of the
beautiful Wilburn sisters of Sacramento. Another
of the sisters, now a widow, married Mr. P.rown,
and her daughter Daisy is the wife of "Clem"
Horst. P>aron von Horst's brother.
Automobile News
Winthrop E. Scarritt, former president of the
American Automobile Association and a governor
of the A. C. A., declares that the condition of the
pavements in most American cities "is barbarious."
Mr. Scarritt traveled all over Europe last Summer
and he says that he had not discovered a city, town
or village with streets in such wretched condition
as are New York's. "If the city's reputation for
civilization rested on the condition of its streets.
New Yorkers would be classed with the Fiji Isl-
anders." What would he say about the San Fran-
cisco streets?
Recent purchases of Oldsmobiles from the Pioneer
Automobile Company are Messrs. H. F. Mordoff, J.
Ford, E. Fitzgerald and Witt. Ryfkogel. of San Fran-
cisco; E. P. Wood, of Tonopah, and R. A. Bekar, of
Yreka.
The new twenty steam horsepower White runabout
is a wonder. It is swift as the wind, .strong as a loco-
motive, and as easy to control as a gentle hors
a boon to the business world.
Wasp Illustrations this Week.
A dainty portrait study of Miss Cecil Cowles ; Mrs.
Marguerite Hanford, the well known society woman
now on a six months tour East and abroad: four
dashing views of the recent Polo Tournament and
Races at the Country Club, Coronado, with some of
our best known society men ahorseback; Mrs. Charles
E. Hughes, wife of New York's Governor; Miss May
Sutton at the net in an exciting moment ; The ( irace
Preeman String- Quartette: 1st violin. Miss Grace
Freeman: 2nd violin, Miss Miriam Hall; viola. Miss
Lillian Spink; cello. Miss Lucy Fuhrer. Their first
concert, to take place in San Rafael. Mav 11th. will be
a fashionable affair.
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOODES
Via Kelseyville P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cal.
H. C. RAAP, Manage.
Telephone Franklin 588
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 OTARRELL ST., San Francisco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea, Coffee. Wine or Beer. 1 1 a. m. to 2 p. m.
A LA CARTE at all hours.
Regular Dinner 50c
Special Sunday Dinner 75c
AL. CONEY
J. HUFF
Kadee Hammam Baths
TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Night
GEARY AND GOUGH STREETS
Strictly First Cla;
Phone West 3725
Telephone _
Established 1890
J. F. ROSSI
D°.mif.Sc,"d Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Depot of Italian-Swiss Colony Wines
Specialties: Belmont, Jesse Moore, A. P. Hotaling's O. P. S., Loveland Rye,
King Wm, Fourth Scotch, Glenrosa Scotch, Dew of the Grampians, A. V. H.
Gin, Buchu Gin, Cognac Brandy, Bisquit Dubouche Cognac, Femet Branca
Italian Vermuth, French Vermuth.
217-219 Washington St., Bet. Front and Davis
DIRECTORY
OF LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE
MISCELLANEOUS.
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE, 226 Oak St.,
S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
BOLTE & BRADEN, 105-107 Oak St., S. F. ;
Phone Market 2837.
COOPER ADV. AGENCY, F. J., West Mis-
sion and Brady Sts.
DAKE ADV. AGENCY, Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temp'y 1440.
FISHER, L. P. ADV. AGENCY, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Franklin S84.
JOHNSTON-DIENSTAG CO., 2170 Post St.,
S. F.
ANTIQUE DEALERS.
THE LOUIS XIV. Curios, Objects d'Art,
Miniatures, Paints, Porcelains, Jewels, etc.,
C. V. Miller, 1117 Post, near Van Ness.
ARCHITECTS.
REID BROS, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough St., S. F.
THOS. J. WELSH, JOHN W. CAREY, asso-
ciate architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
GUMP, S. & G„ 1645 California St., S. F.
SCHUSSLER BROS., 1218 Sutter St.
ATTORNEYS,
DORN, DORN & SAVAGE, 717 Van Ness
Ave.
DINKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W„ 1265 Ellis
St., S. F. Phone West 2355.
HEWLETT, BANCROFT AND BALLAN-
TINE, Monadnock Bldg. ; Phone Temp'y
972.
EDWARD B. YOUNG, 4th Floor, Union
Trust Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temp'y 833.
GOLDSTONE, LOUIS, 1012 Fillmore St.
Phone Park 864.
MAROIS, T. M., 1756 Fillmore St., S. E. cor.
Sutter. Phone West 1503.
KING, CHAS. TUPPER, 1126 Fillmore St.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
PIONEER AUTOMOBILE CO., 901 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F. ; and r2th and Oak Sts.,
Oakland.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO., Market
and Van Ness Ave., S. F.
AUTO LIVERY CO., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
BOYER MOTOR CAR CO., 408 Golden Gate
Ave. Phone, Franklin 655.
LEE CUYLER, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
MIDDLETON MOTOR CAR CO., 550 Gol-
den Gate Ave., S. F.
MOBILE CARRIAGE CO., Golden Gate
Ave. and' Gough Sts., S. F.
PACIFIC MOTOR CAR CO., 376 Golden
Gate Ave.
BANKS.
ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK, Ltd., cor.
Pine and Sansome Sts., S. F.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST CO., cor. California and Montgom-
ery Sts., S. F.
CENTRAL TRUST CO., 42 Montgomery St.,
S. F.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Bush and San-
some Sts., S. F.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK, 108 Sutter St.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, 526 California St., S. F.
HALSEY. N. W. & CO., 413 Montgomery
St., S. F.
HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, Jones and McAllister Sts., S. F.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO, 710 Market St., opp. 3d St..
S. F.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, N.W.
cor. California and Montgomery Sts., S. F.
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, 316 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
THE MARKET STREET BANK AND
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, Market and 7th
Sts., S. F.
UNION TRUST CO., 4 Montgomery St., S. F.
WELLS FARuO-NEVADA NATIONAL
BANK, Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
BREWERIES.
ALBION ALE AND PORTER BREWERY,
1007-9 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
S. F. BREWERIES, LTD., 240 2d St., S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
MONTAGUE, PHIL S., 339 Bush St., Stock
Exchange Bldg.
ROLLINS, E. H. & SONS, S04 Kohl Bldg. ;
Telephone Temp'y 163; S. F.
ZADIG & CO., 324 Bush St., S. F.
WILSON, J. C, 488 California St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION, Church and Market Sts.,
S. F.
CARDS, INVITATIONS, ETC.
WOOD, GEO. M. & CO., engravers, 1067
O'Farrell St., above Van Ness.
CARPET CLEANING.
SPAULDING, J. & CO., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave. ; Phone Park 591.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
HUB, THE, Chas. Keilus & Co., King Solo-
mon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore Sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
JOHNSON LOCKE MERCANTILE CO.,
213 Sansome St., S. F.
MALDONADO & CO., INC., 156 Hansford
Bldg., 268 Market St. Phone Temp'y 4261.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
FISHER CONSTRUCTION CO., 1414 Post
St., S. F.
TROUNSON, J., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176
Ash Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
NATHAN DOHRMAN CO., 1520-1550 Van
Ness Ave.
DENTISTS.
KNOX, DR. A. r., 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
TWIST, DR. J. F., 1476 Eddv, nr. Fillmore
St. Phone West 5304.
DESKS AND CHAIRS.
PHOENIX DESK & CHAIR CO., office fur-
niture, 153S Market St., west of Van Ness.
Phone Market 2393.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
CITY OF PARIS, Van Ness Ave. and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
WHITE HOUSE, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
St., S. F.
EXPRESS.
WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Ferry Bldg.,
and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
CRESCENT FEATHER CO., 19th and Harri-
son Sts., S. F.
FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE PHOTOS.
RUE, JAMES O., 1067 O'Farrell St. Phone
Franklin 2603.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
OMEY & GOETTING, Geary and Polk Sts.,
S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
CAREW & ENGLISH, 1618 Geary St., bet.j
Buchanan and Webster Sts., S. F. ; Phone
West 2604.
PORTER & WHITE, 1531 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
GAS STOVES,
S. F. GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Franklin and
Ellis Sts.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
BULLOCK & JONES COMPANY, 801 Van
Ness Ave., cor. Eddy St., S. F.
HANSEN & ELRICK, 1105-7 Fillmore St.,
nr. Golden Gate Ave. ; Phone West 5678.
GOLD AND SILVER PLATING.
BELLIS, JOHN O., Mfg, gold and silver-
smith, 1624 Galifornia St., nr. Van Ness.
Phone Franklin 2093.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
ILS, JOHN G. & CO., 827 Mission St., S. F.
MONTAGUE, W. W. & CO., Turk and Polk
Sts., S. I'.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
DAVIS, W. & SON, 2020 Howard St., bet.
16th and 17th, S. F.
LEIBOLD HARNESS AND CARRIAGE
CO., 1214 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
DILLON, TOM, Van Ness Ave. and McAllis-
ter St.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
KEELEY INSTITUTE, H. L. Batchelder,
Mgr. ; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
JEWELERS.
BALDWIN JuWELRY CO., 1521 Sutter St.,
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. F.
SHREVE & CO., cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Ness and Sacramento St., S. F.
SCHMIDT, R. H. & CO., 1049 Fillmore St.,
nr. McAllister St. Phone Park 1209.
LAUNDRIES.
LA GRANDE LAUNDRY, 234 12th St., S. F.
PALACE HOTEL LAUNDRY and KELLY
LAUNDRY CO., INC., 2343 Post St.
Phone West 5854.
LIFE INSURANCE.
HUNTINGDON, ARTHUR P., 925 Golden
Gate Ave. Phone Park 515.
LUMBER.
UNION LUMBER CO., office 909 Monad-
nock Bldg.
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
BEKINS' VAN AND STORAGE CO., 13th
and Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13
and 1016 Broadway, Oakland.
ST. FRA..CIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COMPANY, Office 1402 Eddy St.; Tel.
West 2680.
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
DEANE, JNO. J., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Sts. ; Phone West 7291.
WARE, JOHN H„ 307 Monadnock Bldg.,
Depositions carefully attended to. Phone
Temp'y 972.
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SOUTHWEST COR. CALIFORNIA AND FRONT STS.
= SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA =
APRIL TWENTY - NINTH. NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVEN
Comedian Boarder
The landlady was much disturbed when she lost
sonic of her boarders, including the star. But she
Found a ray of hope in the comedian boarder.
"I hope. Mr. Highball," she exclaimed at break-
fast, " that you will stick by me."
"Yes. madam," replied Mr. Highball, dramatic-
ally, "I will stick by you through thick and thin."
"Thick and thin?"
"Yes, thick coffee and thin soup."
Burning Pity
"What use did you make of my great effusion
entitled "The Cry of Battle?" asked the tall bard in
the editorial rooms. "I tell you, there was fire in
that poem."
"Indeed, there was," replied the busy editor, "and
so I just reversed it."
"Reversed it? In what way?"
"Why, now the poem is in the fire."
His Favorites
The fair tourist was keenly dissapointed. "I
tried to interest Senator Boodle in the mountain
passes," she said, bitterly, "but the senator wouldn't
even look up from his paper."
"Why didn't you mention railroad passes?
whispered the conductor,
ten feet.'
"He would have jumped
Impecunious Bards
"Do you know anything about the poetical fire?"
asked the interviewer.
"I must confess that I do not," sighed the garret
bard. Very few poets can afford a fire."
OIL COMPANIES.
STERLING OIL CO., 1491 Post St.. cor.
Octavia, S. F.
OPTICIANS.
MAYERLE. GEORGE, German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F. ; Phone West 3766.
SAN FRANCISCO OPTICAL COMPANY,
"Spences," 627 Van Ness Ave. ; "Branch,"
1613 Fillmore.
STANDARD OPTICAL CO., 808 Van. Ness
Ave., near Eddy St.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
KEEFE, J. H., 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F. ;
Tel. Franklin 2055.
TOZER, L. & SON CO., INC., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., near Fillmore.
PAINTS AND OILS.
BASSHUETER PAINT CO., 1532 Market
St.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
CAL. PHOTO ENG. CO.. 141-143 Valencia
St.
PHYSICIANS.
BOWIE. DR. HAMILTON C, formerly 293
Geary St., Paul Illdg.. now 14th and Church
Sts.
BRYANT, DR. EDGAR R., 1944 Fillmore
St., cor. Pine; Tel. West 5657.
D'EVELYN. DR. FREDERICK W., 2115
California St., S. F., and 2103 Clinton Ave..
Alameda.
THORNE, DR. W. S., 1434 Post St., S. F.
POTTS. DR. JOHN S., 1476 Eddy St. Phone
West 1073. Residence, Hotel Congress,
Ellis and Fillmore. Phone West 4224.
PIANOS— MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
BALDWIN, D. H. & CO.. 2512 Sacramento
St., and Van Ness at California.
REAL ESTATE.
HICKS ,\ MACK. Real Estate and In-
surance. 2091 Fillmore St. Phone West
7287.
RESTAURANTS.
MORAGHAN, M. B., OYSTER CO., 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
OLD POODLE DOG. 824 Eddy St., near
Van Ness Ave.
ST. GERMAIN RESTAURANT, 497 Golden
Gate Ave.; Phone Market 2315.
SWAIN'S RESTAURANT, nil Post St.,
S. F.
THOMPSON'S, formerly Oyster Loaf, 1727
O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALES.
HERRING-HALL MARVIN SAFE CO.,
office and salesrooms, Mission St., bet.
Seventh and Eighth Sts. ; Phone Market
1037.
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER & WILSON and SINGER SEW-
ING MACHINES, 1431 Bush St., cor.
Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; Phone Franklin
301; formerly 231 Sutter St.
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES, J. W.
Evans, Agent. 1658 O'Farrell St., nr. Fill-
more. Phone West 3601.
STORAGE.
BEKINS VAN & STORAGE CO., 13th and
Mission Sts., S. F. : Phone Market 13.
PIERCE RUDOLPH STORAGE CO., Eddy
and Fillmore Sts. ; Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
WALTERS & CO., formerly Shutts, Walters
& Co., 1608 Steiner St.. S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
BACIGALUPI, PETER, 1113-1115 Fillmore
St., S. F.
TAILORS.
LYONS, CHARLES, London Tailor, 1432
Fillmore St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; 958
» Broadway, Oakland.
McMAHON, KEYER AND STIEGELER
BROS., Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Farrell
and Fillmore.
REHNSTROM, C. H„ 2415 Fillmore St., for-
merly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
THOMS, F., 1209 Mission St., corner of
Eighth, S. F.
TRICYCLES.
EAMES TRICYCLE CO., Invalid Chairs,
1808 Market St., S. F.
WINES AND LIQUORS— WHOLESALE.
BALKE, ED. W., 1498 Eddy St., .cor. Fill-
more.
BUTLER, JOHN & SON, 2209 Steiner St.,
S. F.
REYNOLDS, CHAS. M. CO., 912 Folsom
St., S. F.
RUSCONI, FISHER & CO.. 649 Turk St.,
S. F.
SIEBE BROS. & PLAGEMAN. 419-42S
Larkin St.; Phone Franklin 349.
WENIGER, P. J. & CO., N. E. cor. Van
Ness Ave. and Ellis St.; Tel. Franklin 309.
309.
WICHMAN, LUTGEN & CO., Harrison and
Everett Sts., Alameda, Cal. ; Phone Ala-
meda 1179.
WINES AND LIQUORS-RETAIL
FERGUSON, T. M. CO., Market Street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow Whiskey.
FISCHER, E. R„ 1901 Mission St., cor. of
Fifteenth.
THE METROPOLE, John L. Herget and
Wm. H. Harrison, Props., N. W. cor. Sutter
and Steiner Sts.
TUXEDO, THE, Eddie Graney, Prop., S. W.
cor. Fillmore and O'Farrell Sts.
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
CO.. 2401 Fillmore.
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Amusements
"On "Change," a farce in three acts
newly adapted from the German of
Van Moser, played with such great
success by the Augustin Daly Com-
pany under the title of "The Big
Bonanza." will be produced at the
Colonial Theater on Monday evening.
May 6th. It is one of the funniest
farces dealing with the ups and downs
of the stock market that has ever
been staged. In fact, it was such a
clever farce, that Daly engaged an
all-star cast to play it, including John
Drew, Ada Rehan, James Lewis, Otis
Skinner. Isabel Irving, Joseph Hol-
land and Mrs. Gilbert.
As the mild Professor Senaca Pick-
ering Peck, the man who attempts to
"bull the market," Frank Bacon
should make his audience split its
sides with laughter. The character
is admirably suited to Bacon's pecul-
iarly dry humor and droll demeanor,
and the popular comedian will no
doubt score one of the greatest hits
of his career in the part. The "Bear"
of the stock exchange will be por-
trayed by that versatile character
actor, A. Burt Wesner. The full
strength of the company will be seen
in the cast, including Izetta Jewel,
Maud Odelle. Effie Bond, Jane Jeffery.
Orral Humphreys, Walker Graves,
Jr., and all of the other favorites.
Orral Humphreys, who has been on
a tour with the Creston Clarke Com-
pany, will rejoin the Colonial Stock
Monday and his return will be wel-
come news to his many admirers, as
his conscientious and able work at
this theater has won for him a warm
spot in the hearts of the patrons of
the new home of stock productions.
The elegantly staged and well-acted
drama, "La Belle Russe," is proving a
big drawing card this week. The
Belasco play will be presented for the
last time Sunday night, with Saturday
and Sunday matinees.
.* * *
"Robin Hood," as interpreted by
Manager Healy's all star cast at The
ICECREAM
^1536-8 Fillmore St:. S.F.
Novelty this week, is hardly a Bos-
tonian production, but even at that
it is pretty good to look at and to
listen to. While it lacks the atmos-
phere of the old Tivoli, even, it pos-
pesses redeeming features, not the
least of which is Miss Florence Sin-
nott, the exceedingly clever little girl
who plays the ingenue role as well
as she does soubrettes. Her Annabel
far exceeds that of Dora De Felipe,
and that is saying a good deal, for
while Miss De Felipe was homelier
than it was right for her to be. she
certainly could sing. For chic and
daintiness Miss Sinnott is a real reve-
lation, and she unconsciously glorifies
her role to a degree far in excess of
my expectations.
Mr. Healy sprang another surprise
on his auditors in the person of Oliver
Lenoir, who sings the role of Will
Scarlett, the armorer. Mr. Lenoir
has a wonderful voice, and his render-
ing of the famous "Armorer's Song"
is worth going miles to hear. This
young man, by the way, is, like the
famous MacDonald. a blacksmith by
trade, and discovered his talent for
music while in the railroad shops in
Sacramento. I prophesy big things in
' Mr. Lenoir's future careen
Teddy Webb was a better Sheriff
of Nottingham than I thought he
would be. He was hardly a Barna-
bee or even a Willard Simms, but he
got the humor out of the part which
is the main thing, and he dropped
some of his mannerisms which tend
to be somewhat boresome. Aida
Hemmi covered herself with glory by
her thorough rendering of the role
of Maid Marian. One thing I have
noticed about Miss Hemmi is that
no matter how full the house is, or
how empty, she gives the same fin-
ished performance at all times. She
is a hard and conscientious worker,
and she has the ability to back it up
with. Maud Beatty was an excellent
Alan-a-Dale. Her singing of "O
Promise Me" was the best thing in
the show, though J. Albert Waller-
stedt won much applause with his
"Brown October Ale." Carl Haydn
made an excellent Robin Hood. His
voice is growing stronger and its
purity which was somewhat impaired
by a slight throat affection during
the few weeks past has now regained
its tone and quality. George Kunkel
as Friar Tuck had an excellent
comedy part which he made the most
of as did Aimee Leicester as Dame
Durden.
• The "Robin Hood" music is melody
of which one never grows tired. It is
my favorite light opera, and I think
that most people will agree with me
in this. The piece is admirably
staged, with quite satisfactory atten-
tion to detail. It will be followed next
week by "The Serenade" or "Fan-
tana."
* * *
"The Admirable Crichton" is the
Alcazar offering and it is up to the
mark set by this competent company.
It is as well staged as it was in the
old days of O'Farrell Street, and Ber-
tram Lytell does fine work in the role
of Crichton. The other members are
all well cast and from present indica-
tions the piece should have a longer
run than the usual week.
* * *
A spectacular production always
seems to me to be an awful lot of
bother for a mighty little result. When
DR. H. J. STEWART
Organist of S;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Sherilh Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition.
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organisl and Director Trinity
Church Choir
Teacher of Voice, Piano and Organ
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phone
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues-
day and Friday.
MRS. OSCAR MANSFELDT
PIANIST
Tel. Well 314 1 80 1 Buchanan St.. Cor. Sillier
William Keith
Studio
After Dec. 1st 1717 California St.
SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE
Attorney -at- Law
1101 O'FARRELL ST.
Cor. Franklin San Francisco, Cal.
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Returning trains leave track after fifth and last races.
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PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary.
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a production such as "A Midsummer
Night's Dream" take- the boards, my
observation is apt to be tempered with
sympathy for the management ami
for the performers, Of course, the
question of whether ii is worth while
or not is purely the business of the
management, and might he regarded
in 1 lie cold-blooded light of "\\ ho
Cares," but nothing tike that is apt
1-. enter into the mind of the spec-
tator at the Van Ness Theater. Ad-
miration is the dominant note.
To say that the piece is completely
Staged is not enough. It is sumptu-
ously staged, and perfection is in
every detail from Miss Annie Russell
in her role of Puck:, down to the
smallest mechanical effect.
[n no other piece that I have seen
do 1 recall such harmony in every
particular. The company is well
trained; as a football player would
say, "their teamwork is good." It is
a big company at that, and it is gor-
geously costumed and surrounded
with a scenic setting that is a gem
of beauty. But Miss Annie Russell
herself makes the show the success
it undoubtedly is, and were it not
for her the rest of the piece would be
as empty as a blown egg shell. Tt
is not art on her part that makes her
triumph — at least I think it is not
art; it seems to me to be more a
triumph of personality. For if ever
a woman was endowed by Nature to
play the role of Puck it is Annie
Russell.
Miss Russell's personality fits the
part to a nicety. She has the voice,
and the sprightliness to carry her
roguery to every auditor and she cer-
tainly does it. In her the poetic con-
ception of the magic elf is fully real-
ized. In her Puck lives and moves
and has his being. The rest of the
principals are good, but nothing extra
John Bunny is good as Bottom, Lan-
sing Rowan makes a good Helena
and Catherine Proctor in the role
of Hermia does well. "Midsummer
Xight's Dream" is by far the best
show yet seen in this City since "Ben
Hur."
* * *
"Sporting Life" is a somewhat
strenuous drama. A capable stock
company has been engaged for a
four-weeks' season at the American
Theater to produce this and other
high class dramas.
THE FIRST NIGHTER.
COLONIAL THEATRE
McAllister near Market Phone Market 920
MARTIN F. KURTZIC, Pr«idenl and ManaBer
All Market Street Cars run direct to Theatre
Week Beginning Monday, May 6
The Hilarious Up-to-Date Farce
in Three Acts
u0n Change"
Frank Bacon as Professor Peck
"Buy Trunks! Trunks! Trunks!"
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Office and Res.: 2554 California St.
San Francisco
Hours — 1 to 3 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.
Sundays — By appointment
Phone West 390
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"perhaps you can step around and get S. S. "America Mam" (calls at Manila) . .
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for a mere song." S. S. "Nippon Mam" (calls at Manila) . . I
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SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of California, in and for the City and
County of San Francisco.
SIDNEY W. SCOTT, Plaintiff, vs. ISABELL
SCOTT, Defendant.
Action brought in the Superior Court of
the State of California in and for the City
and County of San Francisco, and the com-
plaint filed in the office of the County Clerk *
of said City and County.
The People of the State of California, send
greeting to ISABEL SCOTT, Defendant.
You are hereby required to appear in an
action brought against you by the above
named Plaintiff in the Superior Court of
the State of California, in and for the City
and County of San Francisco, and to answer
the Complaint filed therein within ten days
(exclusive of the day of service) after the ser-
vice on you of this Summons, if served within
this City, and County; or if served elsewhere
within thirty days.
The said action is brought to obtain a
judgment and decree of this Court dissolv-
ing the bonds of matrimony now existing
between Plaintiff and Defendant, on the
ground of Defendant's wilful desertion of the
Plaintiff; also for general relief, as will
more fully appear in the Complaint on file,
to which special reference is hereby made.
And you are hereby notified that, unless
you appear and answer as above required,
the said Plaintiff will take judgment for any
moneys or damages demanded in the Com-
plaint as arising upon contract, or will apply
to the Court for any other relief demanded
in the Complaint.
Given under my hand and the Seal of
the Superior Court of the State of California,
in and for the City and Countv of San Fran-
cisco, this 16th dav of March, A. D. 1907.
(SEAL) H.' I. MULCREVY, Clerk.
By L. J. WELCH, Deputy Clerk.
JOSEPH H. TAM, Attorney for Plaintiff,
San Francisco, Cal.
Action No. 7076.
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March 23. 1906
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Volume LVIl-.No. 19
SAN FRANCISCO. MAY II, 1907
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General Leonard Wood, in command of the mili-
tary forces in the Philippines, seems to be unduly
prone to have his dignity ruffled by the sassy
language of his understrappers. He has charged
a civil employe named F. S. Cairns with disrespect-
ful language. Some years back in Cuba the pre-
sumptous Cairns had trouble with the Medico-Gen-
eral and when the twain met again in the Philip-
pines the civil retainer was still most uncivil. So
General Woods has formally notified the higher
authorities at Washington of the crime, much as
he did when Captain L. M. Koehler of the Fourth
Cavalry was charged by him with disrespectful
language and court-martialed. A major-general
should be able to preserve his dignity without in-
voking the strong arm of the Federal power to
protect it from every underling who gets gay.
There appears to be an undercurrent of dissatis-
faction in military circles owing to the speed of
General Leonard Wood's rise. This fortunate
warrior was born in New Hampshire forty-seven
years ago, studied medicine at Harvard and became
an assistant-surgeon in the Army in 1886. In 1898
while still in the medical profession Dr. Wood re-
cruited the Rough Riders and three years later
became a Major-general in the United States Army.
This meteoric rise would impress even the con-
quering army of Napoleon, where every corporal
was supposed to carry the baton of a field-marshal
in his knapsack, figuratively speaking.
General Wood has now been selected to command
the Department of the East with headquarters at
Governor's Island, while General Arthur Mac-
Arthur, with his long military record, has been
consigned to the obscurity of Milwaukee, where
he will be neither in the public nor the military
eye very much henceforth.
MacArthur served in the Civil War and took part
in many important actions including Stone River,
Missouri Bridge, Perryville, and Atlanta. He was
promoted to a colonelty for gallantry and efficiency
in actual service and was appointed first lieutenant
in the regular army in 1866. He has since risen
without political favor to the position of lieutenant-
general.
Perhaps the powers-that-be have discovered in
General Wood genius military that wipes out all
rules of routine promotion and precedure. Caesar,
who proved to be one of the great soldiers in
history, never saw a pitched battle till he was forty,
and up to that age, like our famous fellow citizen,
Sam Shortridge, devoted most of his talents to
perfection in oratory. A doctor's training, like that
of Leonard Wood, would however be more in keep-
ing with a soldier's murderous trade than tickling
the e^rs of the multitude with fine rhetoric.
The labor unions will have the opportunity
to show just what they amount to, politically, next
year when the National vote is cast for a new President.
If Roosevelt be not the Republican nominee, some one
whom he favors will be the standard bearer. The Wasp
pointed out recently that in a National election the
labor union vote is not a formidable one for its total
strength is not over seven hundred thousand. The
farmers' vote alone is infinitely more important. In the
last Presidential election Roosevelt was quietly opposed
by organized labor in the large cities, yet his majority
was immense. Even in our local State election last year
Governor Gillett, though blacklisted by Gompers and
denounced by the labor leaders of San Francisco was
easily elected.
THE WASP
The European newspapers have not been sparing
in their criticism of American court procedure, as
shown in the Thaw trial. It appears most prepos-
terous to European lawyers, judges and journalists
that more than a week should be consumed in the
trial of any citizen for murder.
What will our European critics say of the Mover,
Haywood and Pettibone case, which has not yet
been commenced, though the defendants have been
in jail for a year, and are charged with a series of
the most desperate crimes. It is now given out
by the defendants' attorneys that the trial will last
at least three months. It should not last over two
weeks.
It took several years to send to the gallows
Soeder. the cold-blooded murderer who brought his
ignorant and confiding brother-in-law here from
Germany, insured his life and then took him out
and butchered him like a sheep on a lonely street
of San Francisco.
Many months ago San Francisco was horrified
by a series of daylight murders, the victims being
shopkeepers, who were struck clown in their own
stores, beaten to death and robbed. By a mere
accident, the desperate assassins were arrested, and for
several weeks were made the heroes of the hour. The
newspapers were full of their pictures, their doings
and their sayings and no doubt it will take as long
to get these malefactors to the scaffold as it did
to make Soeder pay the penalty of his most infa-
mous crime.
Our jails are crowded with red-handed assassins,
and when I say our jails, I mean all American
jails from New York to San Francisco. There is
no respect for the law and the most desperate and
dangerous criminals are brought tardily to the bar
of justice, only by the most strenuous efforts, and
not once in a dozen cases given the punishment
thev deserve.
In San Francisco now, is exhibited the unparall-
eled spectacle of a set of confessed boodlers sitting-
in the municipal legislature and making the laws
for the City they have robbed and disgraced. There
seems to be no way to remove these rascals or the
Mayor, who has been the head and front of the
criminality, and who is laden down with indict-
ments.
Not only can these malefactors be not removed
from office, but the courts of law are powerless to
bring them to trial, speedily, and thus in a measure
conciliate decent public opinion.
Months ago Ruef and Schmitz were indicted, and
yet at this writing the Superior Court has been
unable to obtain a jury to try either of them.
All this affords proof conclusive that the ma-
chinery of justice has broken down in the United
States, and our land has become a lawless one.
Every day it becomes worse and will continue
to do so unless we change our system of electing
judges.
That is the evil which underlies the lawlessness
of our nation, and saps the vitality of justice.
We make our judicial positions prizes for poli-
ticians, and insist that judges shall seek the favor
of corrupt machine politicians in order to obtain
their nominations. If they do not knuckle to the
bosses they cannot get on their party tickets, and
be elected.
The judges should all be appointed. They should
hold their positions for life, and be pensioned on
being retired. They should be liberally paid and
thus the courts would become respected and the
laws be enforced. All enemies of the public peace,
or welfare, would be punished speedily and our
nation instead of being pointed out as the most
lawless would become respected and admired as
one well governed and law abiding.
If we do not adopt some reform of that kind we
can rest assured that things will go from bad to
worse, and out of the strife of the classes and the
masses will grow civil war, more or less serious.
From that will spring a military despotism in the
iron grasp of which the republic may long remain.
It is very evident that when the civil authorities
cease to be respected, and the civil law no longer
operative, the control must pass into the military
branch of government. Already we see that ex-
emplified in San Francisco, where the law-abiding
citizens are more afraid of the police and their
elected municipal officials than the professional
criminals. Our merchants rest their ultimate hopes
on the military and in their secret hearts long to
see the uniformed sentries patroling the streets once
more.
That is a bad state of affairs. None could be
worse, for the interference of the military in the
police work of a commonwealth is always improper
and revolutionary. The duty of the soldiers is to
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No Branch Slores. No Agents.
Clothes are commodities and sold in open market. Anybody can
buy cloth but, it takes brains, you bet, to make "Classy Clothes" that
are so different. Such makes can be counted on the fingers of one hand
and then have some to spare.
No patent needed to make clothes but there's a heap of gray
matter required to build them "just so." We are in touch with
clothes makers that cater only to smart dressers. We use their
cleverproducrions. That's why there's no bargains here.
There's plenty "bargain stores" without us, Our destiny lies in
reputation.
KING SOLOMON'S HALL
Fillmore Street, near Sutter, San Francisco
-THE WASP-
fight a foreign foe and not support the weak arm
of the civic power. The civil authorities should
be amply able t" '1" that themselves, and unless cor-
rupt, inefficient or cowardly can always do so. In
San Francisco the civil authorities possess all
three characteristics; so we see a complete collapse
of law and order and no hope of permanent im-
provement while the incompetents remain in power.
Even after they shall have been removed by the
vote of the people other rascals may take their
places.
All this would be obviated if we had a set of
judges placed above the influences of professional
politicians. The law-breakers who come before
them for punishment would be sure to receive it
and the community would soon learn that dis-
obedience of the laws meant serious loss of money,
liberty or life.
P. II. McCarthy, he of the lurid imagination, has
not deceived many persons by his great kidnapping
yarn, and workingmen are not worrying whether or
not he is to be another Charlie Ross. Outside of
the liuilding Trades Council McCarthy has not a
particle of influence. In the Building Trades Coun-
cil, anything P. H. does is acclaimed. To men of
the Tveitmoe type. McCarthy is the wisest, most elo-
quent and most fearless of men. Recently when at
an Exclusion League meeting the Japanese contro-
versy was under discussion, McCarthy applied a
vile name to the President of the United States and
not one of his hearers had the decency to resent
the indignitv.
A hero of the fierce fighting of Tuesday after-
noon is P. H. McCarthy. President of the Building
Trades Council, the whilom victim of the terribly
"conspiracy" to kidnap and incarcerate him in a
lonelv house on the sand dunes fronting the ocean.
McCarthy is telling those who have time to listen
to him how he had a horse shot under him by the
"hired strike-breakers." The tale is partly true, that
is the faithful beast was shot and, technically, it
was "under" McCarthy at the time, but unfortu-
nately for the purposes of history the horse was
hitched at the sidewalk while McCarthy, far above
the raging battle, viewed the fight from a third-
story window. After the smoke had cleared away
the hero of a thousand jaw-fights descended cau-
tiously from his perch and though his noble charger
was all but inanimate sausage meat compelled the
wounded Bucephalus to haul him to his home.
It is interesting to note that McCarthy viewed the
battle from a high window. He was not down
on the street counselling the men to keep peace and
stop the destruction of property. Though he has
always maintained that he was for peace in the
labor world, his voice was not raised during the
whole of that battle. We should have expected to
hear of him sallying forth like a knight, bestride
the horse, stridently calling upon his fellow union-
ists to quit throwing bricks and stop the destruc-
tion of the railroad company's private property.
But no, away up above the thunder of the captains
and the shouting, peeking from behind the shutter
of a third-story window, far from the scent of pow-
der and out of range of the rattling bricks, stood
the heroic P. 11.. leaving his steed below to catch
the stray bullets.
But let no carping historian of transient or future
events rob McCarthy of the credit due him. It
has to be recorded that the room from which he
caught the whiff of battle is the headquarters of
the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League, that
noble, patriotic organization formed by McCarthy
and Tveitmoe which came near causing serious
trouble between this country and Japan. So Mc-
Carthy was in a suitable refuge; he went that far
in showing his interest in the cause of labor.
Santa Cruz is Booming
Santa Cruz is taking its proper place as one of
the great pleasure resorts of the Pacific Coast.
For years it lay dormant, doing nothing to attract
attention to its many advantages, but all its list-
lessness has gone. It is now a live bustling town
fully determined that the Pacific Coast shall know
all about its million-dollar Casino, its mammoth
bathing pavilion, tent city, amusement park, scenic
railway, floating palace, perfect restaurant and
hotel accommodations and all the other necessaries
and delights of a popular seaside resort. Fred W.
Swanton, the energetic and popular manager of
the Sea Beach Company, has dispatched a corps
of boomers to tour the State and illustrate by
lectures and magic lantern shows all the pleasures
that await visitors to Santa Cruz this year. On
the added improvements for 1907 over a million
dollars have already been spent. Such enterprise
must bring ample rewards. The great Casino is
in the closing stages of construction.
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The most surprising thing about the Yerkes-
Mizner divorce case is that it was not instituted
sooner. The first we heard in connection with the
marriage was that the widow of the traction mag-
nate refused to live with her new husband. It was
supposed then that the groom was dissatisfied with
his amount of traction on the assets of the concern.
The suddenness of their disagreement reminded one
of the burlesque wedding in "Wang," wherein that
ludicrous knave, ere the hands of the high-priest are
lowered from the blessing, turns to the bride gruffly
with, "Hand over the chest. Am I not your chest-
protector?"
Y\ ilson Mizner's post-ceremonial rejection was,
all in all, one of the oddest events within the mem-
ory of the recording angels. Mrs. Yerkes acted as
if she had not understood the purport of a marriage
ceremony and was dazed when Mizner sought to
live in the same house with her. Of course, there
is. from her point of view, some unromantic fact
in the case, there from the outset, of which the
long-suffering public has no view at all. That there
is a co-respondent in the proceedings, and that
Mrs. Mizner has had her defendant shadowed by
detectives ever since the marriage, is not enlighten-
ing. These matters are merely pretexts to obviate
the real objectionable feature. There is something
weirdly unprecedented in a bride calling in the aid
of a Detective Agency prior to the honeymoon, even
though she suspected her gallant of being an ad-
venturer.
"I despise the name of 'Mizner,' " she declares.
Still, when we come to compare them : Mizner —
Yerkes, there is a reasonable doubt as to which is
the more delectable. The tall defendant admits that
his wife will win the suit ; and he knows, O Sake,
he knows.
Just six of them — aggregating $250,000,000 worth
of widow, figured out on a hard cash basis. They
are Mrs. Hetty Green, Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs.
James Henry Smith, Mrs. Anne Weightman Wal-
ker, Mrs. Marshall Field, and Mrs. Marshall Field,
Jr. They constitute the most conspicuous and
wealthiest sextet in the country, though not uni-
formly as attractive as the Floradora six. In a
four-handed game, the Smith-Walker-Sage-Green
combination could perhaps of themselves make the
quarter of a billion jack pot, should they put up
their last pennies. Strictly, the flammiferous figure
of $65,000,000 is not yet creditable to Mrs. Smith,
as the title to most of "Silent" Smith's money is
claimed to blaze in the tiara of Lady Cooper. This
fortune, added to her present pile, would make the
English woman the highest female coin-stacker on
the circumforaneous globe. From another stand-
point, it would be a needless and second paying for
her prefixitive of "Lad}'," with American money.
That the purchasing of titles by American women
merits taxation was recently suggested by Paul
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MISS FRANCES STEWART
Morton, president of the Equitable Life Assurance
Company. To this there has been no wide-spread
dissent south of Market Street. Whatever the
feasibility of such a law, the deputies who should
have charge of the collection (and we presume it
would require several for the dignity of the office)
would not do a rushing business, but spend most
of their time eating peanuts or engaged in whatever
pastimes it is in the wild, free nature of deputies to
rotundifoliate. That's the word.
Lansing Rowan, with Annie Russell, is a Califor-
nia girl. She made her debut with the Frawleys
about the same time that Blanche Bates was trying
out as a leading woman with the same company.
Miss Rowan has a stunning figure and dresses well.
Annie Russell was Nat Goodwin's leading lady
for a time, about ten years ago. That was when
Nathaniel C. was playing in old comedies like "Lend
Me Five Shillings" and "David Garrick." .
Society dressed very simple for the dog show.
Three or four of the Joliffe sisters were there almost
every night and they wore tailor-mades as a rule.
Mrs. Frank Carolan was not in the showing this
year; generally she is a most enthusiastic exhibitor.
Boston terriers seem to be more popular than Amer-
ican foxhounds with the Society people. A season
ago every Burlingamite was mad over foxhounds.
A season or so prior to that the French bull was
the favorite. After Richard Harding Davis wrote
"The l!ar Sinister" there was quite, a boom in
French bulls.
* * *
Miss Mathilde Van Rensselaer, a New York
Society bud, who can boast more Dutch market
gardeners and grocers in her ancestry than all the
Astors since John Jacob, has become a real estate
broker. She has been given a position by an en-
terprising firm which thinks her acquaintance with
Society people will enable her to sell country homes
and rent city ones by the dozen. Several San
Francisco women have made quite a success in real
estate speculation.
All the golf players of the Pacific Coast will as-
semble at Hotel Del Monte for the week beginning
Saturday, May 11th. The specially drawing event
is the tournament of the Pacific Coast Golf Asso-
ciation, which will be held on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, May 17th, 18th and 19th. A crowd of peo-
ple are going down for preliminary plays. An in-
vitation has been extended to crack clubs of Vic-
toria, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland, as well as the
clubs in the Association at Los Angeles, San
Diego and San Francisco. The outlook is for the
biggest crowds of golf experts that have ever met
on these links. Incidentally, a number of art pat-
rons are planning to take advantage of this event
to go down and see the new exhibition of Cali-
fornia paintings, which opened a few weeks ago
in the Del Monte ball room. Critics say it is one
of the best exhibitions ever given on the coast.
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Mrs.Louis H. Long has created quite a stir down in
Santa Barbara, where she got up Oscar Wilde's play
"The Importance of Being Earnest," for the benefit of
the public library of that city. Mrs. Long herself
took one of the leading parts, the dowager Lady
Brackwell, and she is a brilliant success on the stage.
With her haughty British stare and her clever and
supercilious handling of a lorgnette she brought down
the house, which was filled with the elite of Californian
Society. I hear that Mrs. Long had a hard time get-
ting things in working order and she says that other
places are not possessed of the spirit of her own San
Francisco, which gives with both hands to charity.
During his stay at the Potter in Santa Barbara,
John Hooper gave a dinner at the Casa de Brabo ; those
for whom covers were laid were all San Franciscans,
staying at the hotel or keeping house in the city. Mr.
Hooper had engaged a box at the Potter Theatre for
the play given by Mrs. Long but as he was obliged
to return to the City on business of importance he
invited a party including the Davis' to occupy the box
and a merry group it was too.
Mrs. Gaston Ashe has been benefited financially by
the very rich Winter, as another fine crop is assured
to her this year on her ranch near Hollister. Those
California landowners make money in large bunches
when thej' get a few good seasons in succession and
the bankers who have had liens on the crops of the
Ashe ranch for years will get no interest next harvest.
Every dollar of incumbrance has been wiped out and
Mrs. Ashe is again in receipt of a splendid income, a
fact which will give her many friends in Society the
keenest pleasure. The extensive acres she owns in
San Benito County were left to her by her father, Mr.
Bolado. She has left Sausalito with her two young
sons and for the next six months will reside on her
ranch.
gamblers to claim blood relationship and win the
disputed shekels. Much mud was heaped up to be
flung upon the girl who had devoted years of her
life to the care of the unhappy and ill-fated heiress
and it was even intimated that she might have had a
hand in the tragic death of her ward. Some of the
mud stuck however, and the verdict was favorable
to her. The mother of Mis& Dolbeer also met an
untimely death. One day when the future heiress
was a baby her mother was found by her husband
weltering in her gore having shot herself in her own
home on Lombard Street. Neighbors rushed in when
the horrified husband raised an alarm but the woman
was past all aid. Ill health and the meloncholia pro-
duced thereby were believed to be the causes of the
suicide and inherited tendency had doubtless much to
do also with the tragic termination of Miss Dolbeer's
existence.
* * *
The Seventh Annual Convention of the California
Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
took many distinguished visitors to Hotel Del Monte.
Mrs. W. B. Pritchard, Honorary National President,
who is the daughter of General Albert Sidney Johns-
ton, was accompanied by Miss Elsie J. Pritchard. Mrs.
J. de Barth Shorb, President of the Albert Sidney
Johnston Chapter, Mrs. Inez Shorb White and Mrs.
W. M. S. Beede went down together. Other delegates
who stopped at Del Monte were Mrs. Alfred Hunter
Voorhies, National Vice-President, Mrs. W. D. Ride-
out, Mrs. Alexander R. Jones, Mrs. Randolph C.
Miller, Miss Kathryn Bacon, Miss M. H. Foulkes,
Mrs. Samuel McCartney. Mrs. E. B. Grace. Mrs.
Antoinette deC. Stearns, Mrs. Frank Kimmell, of the
Joseph Le Conte Chapter, Berkeley, Mrs. J. Charles
Harris, Miss Lydia Lee Dozier and Mrs. M. L. Morris,
of Oakland. Mrs. Albert M. Stephens, wife of Judge
Stephens of Los Angeles, was one of the first arrivals.
Mrs. Stephens is the President of the State Division.
The announcement that Mrs. Ida Moody, Mr. and
Mrs. Frederick Moody and Mrs. Ray Sherman have
decided to reside permanently in France has naturally
created the impression that the notoriety attendant on
the famous Dolbeer will case has led to their decision.
The Dolbeer case brought into the limelight a lot of
disagreeable biography and geneology which could
not have been very pleasing to a lady like Mrs. Moody
occupying a prominent place amongst the Colonial
Dames and in other branches of exclusive Society.
Mrs. Moody was left quite wealthy by her husband, a
well known capitalist who died some years ago. The
family lived in fine style on Lombard Street. Mrs.
Moody's sister was the late Mrs. Dolbeer, mother of
the ill-fated Miss Bertha Dolbeer. who was killed by
falling from the window of a New York hotel, at
which she was stopping with her companion. Miss
Etta Warren, to whom the rich girl willed all her
fortune. The will of course caused a bitter contest
and relatives who had never taken any interest in
Miss Dolbeer in her life became intensely centered on
the division of her money amongst them. Out of a
depth of Social obscurity which the lorgnettes of Nob
Hill had never penetrated arose saloon keepers and
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THE WASP
( Ither Los Angeles delegates at Del Monte were Mrs.
Mathew S. Robertson, President of the Los Angeles
Chapter, and from Redlands, Mrs. C. L. Gengsay and
Mrs, E. A, Stowe, of the General John II. Morgan
Chapter. Mr-.. J. T. Bell, ['resident of the General N.
Bedford Forest Chapter. <>f Visalia. was at Del Monte
during the Convention, so was Mrs. Seldon S. Wright.
President Emeritus, and Organizer of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy on the Pacific Coast,
and Mrs. George Theobald. They were the guests of
Mr-. J. P. Pryor. Mrs. Pryor. though now living in
Pacific Grove, was elected a delegate from the Albert
Sidney Johnson Chapter, of which she has long been
an important member. Mrs. Jackson Hatch, President-
elect of the State Division, and Mrs. W. B. Hill, both
of San Jose, were entertained during the Convention
by Mrs. George F. Bodfish at her home in the Grove.
In honor of the delegates, a reception was given in
the Del Monte ball room. Many army men attended
and brass buttons and gold lace added to the
brilliancy of the picture. The paintings in the new
gallery were greatly admired. This permanent ex-
hibition is a fine feature and attracts general atten-
tion.
* * *
Mrs. W. G. Stafford and Miss Marjorie Stafford,
wife and daughter of W. G. Stafford, the well known
I !i ihemian Clubman, will soon leave for a tour abroad.
Mrs. Stafford was Miss Cornelia Houseman, sister of
Mr. John I. Houseman, and relative of Warren and
the late Theodore Payne. Mrs. Stafford recently
recovered from the effects of a serious fall, which
occurred while stepping off a car in Berkeley. The
trip abroad is taken for the benefit of her health. Miss
Marion Froelich, the artist will accompany Mrs. Staf-
ford, and they will go direct to Paris. Mr. Stafford,
himself is an acknowledged connoisseur of paintings.
Miss Harriet Jolliffe's sudden departure has been
for the purpose of visiting her cousin Mrs. Robert
Cryan, whose husband recently died at Bray in the
South of Ireland. Mrs. Cryan was Miss Minnie
Mathews of Oakland, where she was married. She
went abroad several years ago, and has been away
ever since. Miss Frances Jolliffe will join her sister
in a few weeks.
A Wedding of interest which took place last week
was that of Miss I Florence C. Aiken and Dr. Beverly
S. Xourse. The bride is the daughter of the late
Mrs. Antoinette Aiken of Rancho la Jota, and sister of
Charles Sedgwick Aiken, the clever editor of the
Sunset Magazine. The wedding was quiet, only
relatives and a few intimate friends being present.
It was the culmination of a boy and girl friendship,
begun at the University of California, from which
. place the 'young couple graduated with honor. The
ceremonv was performed by Dr. Hemphill. The
quartet of pretty little maidens who attended the
bride were Miss Edith Bradbury, Miss Aimee Raisch,
. Miss Linda Bryan and Miss Leila Raisch. The
groom's best man was Dr. Joseph Fife. Dr. Nourse is
the son of George F. Nourse, well known in the literary
world. After a short wedding tour the couple will
reside in this city, where Dr. Xourse will practice.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter P. Pomeroy, who have been
residing in San Rafael since the calamity, will shortly
leave for a trip to the Grand Canyon, Col. Mr.
Pomeroy has but recently recovered from a serious
illness and this trip is for the benefit of his health.
Miss Christine Pomeroy will not accompany her
parents, but will be the guest of friends in town.
* * *
In a very interesting letter from a lad)- who has
travelled considerably abroad and is still a wanderer,
she tells of the different characteristics of the places
and people. Of Dresden she mentions especially
the close economv of the shopkeepers ; often when
delivering a bundle the messenger boy waits for the
wrapping paper and string to take back to the
store. She speaks also of the fruits and flowers
within easy grasp of passing school children, who
are so well trained they would never dream of
touching the same. There is perfect order and
discipline. Rules are rigid indeed. When selling a
bicycle the shopkeeper hands the purchaser a set of
rules, which informs him where and when he may
ride. Otherwise than in our City, life and limb are
not endangered by the small boy. It would not hurt
to have some of the Teutonic rules here, though a
full dose of them would cause a revolution.
In Berlin, if you happen to throw a piece of
paper out of the window, the eagle eye of
some policeman ever on the alert will immediately
detect it. Your front door bell will ring and forth-
with you may be marched to the police station. A
witty California girl wrote in answer to the letter of
her mother who feared her daughter would get lost
in some of the towns around Berlin, "Your anxiety
is needless, for my name, description and address is
upon every police book in Berlin."
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MRS. LAWRENCE SCOTT
Young Mr. Loring Pickering, who took his initial
dip into journalism this week when he entered as
a "cub" on the local staff of the Bulletin in order
to acquaint himself with the details of reporting
and editing "from the ground up," is the son of the
late Loring Pickering, editor and part proprietor of
the Call for many years. Mr. Pickering was in his
day, one of the best known journalists in California
and one of the most successful. The Call paid
handsomely under his management and has not
done so since John D. Spreckels bought it for
$375,000 after Mr. Pilckering's death.
The elder Pickering was a partner of the late
Geo. K. Fitch and they jointly owned the majority
interest in the Call and the Bulletin. Fitch ran the
Bulletin and made it splendid and powerful editor-
ially, but a poor newspaper. He despised the news
that gives a journal circulation. He also managed
the business end of the Bulletin badly and so the
paper was poor but eminently respectable. It
wielded an influence in the iverse ratio to its
circulation and official boodlers feared its denun-
ciation. If Mr. Fitch could have been kept out of
the business office and the news room and limited
to the editorial end of the Bulletin it would prob-
ably have been a great and paying newspaper as
well as an influential one. Mr. Fitch was a
thoroughly upright man who despised graft, ran a
scrupulously clean journal, but his views were too
narrow for a successful newspaper in a cosmo-
politan seaport like this.
Mr. Pickering had the opposite idea, from his
partner Fitch. He ran a first class newspaper for
those days, and kept strong editorial opinions out
of it. You could find all the news of the day in the
Call. Even to the surprise parties of the Minna
Street Milliners and the Sunday picnics of the
Hodcarriers' Protective Association. One looked in
vain however for decided "views" on the great
questions of the day. The Call made about $50,000
a year and the Bulletin ran behind. The financial
success of the Call was all the more remarkable as
a thrifty cashier and business manager robbed it
for years and had stolen nearly $100,000 before
they were detected by Ernest C. Stock, the veteran
journalist who is still on the staff of the Call.
After the death of Mr. Pickering the heirs of
Simonton the third and silent-partner in the Call
and Bulletin wanted a divisiqn of the estate and so
the newspaper properties were put up for sale. It
was thought that Editor Fitch would buy in the
Bulletin, but he balked when Mr. Crothers, the
brother-in-law of Mr. Pickering ran up the prices to
a little over $30,000 and took the valuable property.
At those ridiculous figures. It would have been
cheap at $100,000.
Mr. Crothers performed a double coup at this
auction for he not only got the Bulletin for a song,
but ran the price of the Call up to the respectable
price at which Mr. Spreckels purchased it. He thus
made money both ways for his sister, the widow of
Mr. Pickering.
Mr.. Pickering was regarded as a confirmed
bachelor, when he married and upset the plans and
prospects of blood relatives who had come to be
regarded as the heirs to his large estate. Young Mr.,
Pickering who will succeed to his well-known
father's estate is a student at Stanford University,
where he has been taking a course which will fit
him for a journalistic career. He is a bright young
man and seems to have inherited the qualities
which made his father successful. With the past
generation of reporters the firm of Pickering &
Fitch bore an excellent reputation. They were
respected as considerate and liberal employers, who
paid their men well and never discharged them
except for the most ample cause.
* * *
Miss Alice Herrin, daughter of the eminent law-
yer, is in the East with Mr. and Mrs. Grant Sel-
fridge.
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-THE WASP-
PhoioCoiihc MRS. S. FARNHAM
A diverting story is being told on a well known
couple residing in a fashionable suburb. This
gentleman and his charming wife pride themselves
as much on the possession of rare heirlooms as
their long pedigrees. Recently the lady resolved to
break up housekeeping and hie with her family to
her mountain home. After packing choice furniture
and rare Yertu, she found many things not worth
taking and sent for an auctioneer. On arriving he
gave her a surprising price, and was informed when
he could remove his purchase. Pride must have a
fall however. What was the lady's astonishment
when a few days later, as she was coming from an
exclusive bridge party she saw Orlando like, scraps
of literature hung upon every tree along the fashion-
able avenue where she resides. These prints that
were posted on every conspicuous spot were notices
to the effect that on such a day, at such a hour, an
auction would take place at the fashionable
residence of Mrs. and describing in detail
furniture, bric-a-brac, etc., of rare elegance, which
must be disposed of on account of her departure.
In the meantime the Auctioneer had brought
wagonloads of prehistoric and battered furniture in-
to the house in preparation for the sale. Every
body around the burg took advantage of the
opportunity to view the house so noted for its
alleged treasurers of art. The curious gathering
was like a smart tea with daintily dressed ladies
flitting to and from the house. But, Oh ! the disap-
pointment when the crowd gazed on all the moth
eaten and battered truck with which the thrifty
auctioneer had tilled the house. The feelings of the
fair owner of the place can also be imagined when
she heard the comments of the suburbanites on the
contents of her mansion. It will take an ocean of
pink tea to wash out the stain of that dreadful
auction. Her parting- comment to the auctioneer
was: "This may lie 'As You Like It.' but I like
it not."
* * *
Mrs. Christian Herter of Santa Barbara has as-
sumed the entire burden of the suit for $1500
brought against her by the men who put advertise-
ments on drop curtains and draw down a monthlv
revenue therefrom. Mrs. Herter was rash enough
to say that she would not trade with a merchant
who put an ad. on the little picture frames hung
by gold chains — all in paint, of course — on the
curtain, and then the men accused her of boycotting
them and the fun began. Mrs. Herter declares that
if she be defeated in California she shall not care
to live here and maybe the gallant gentlemen will
accuse her next of boycotting the Golden State.
She intends to carry the case to Washington if
she is worsted in this State so there are interesting
and strenuous times ahead.
* # *
Air. and Mrs. H. M. A. Miller left last week for
a toitr abroad; they will be gone six months. Mrs.
Miller was Miss Grace Jones, daughter of the late
M. P. Jones, a well known merchant. Mrs. M. P.
Jones will pass the Summer at the Hotel Rafael,
where Mr. and Mrs. Webster Tories will reside until
their new home in San Rafael is completed.
June, the popular month for brides, will see
several interesting weddings. On the 11th Miss
Louise Redington will become the bride of Dr.
Albion Hewlett. Miss Loraine De La Montanya
will marry Mr. Edward A. Davis and over in
Sausalito the wedding of Miss Mabel Watkins and
Captain Orrin Wolfe, LI. S. A., will take place.
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Divorce A La Mode
Mrs. Marie Honora de Gree,
Prominent matron in swell coterie,
Was gaily divorced, mid a bower of roses.
By the Hon. William Tecumsah Terhune,
On last Monday morning, the record discloses,
And she is now gone on her vinegarmoon.
But few invitations were out, as the dame
Had recently lost her pet dog; but she came
Brilliantly gowned; on the arm of her spouse;
Who gave her away to the glad co-respondent,
While the Court discumthumbicked the marital
vows,
From which for a year Tom de Gree was
abscondant.
The plaintiff's grass widows were Mesdames Bess
Bonner,
Jess Wright, with Tess Ryder grass widow-of-
honor.
The defendant was cheered by James Blunt, the
worst man ;
While the co-resp's. young sister, a dear little honey,
Was flower-girl. Forward she walked and began
To strew lilies and ferns when the judge granted
Alimony.
The party then turned, as the brass-band sonorous
Played up the old strains of the grand Anvil Chorus.
A charming repast then followed the sundering;
Brilliant the wit as the wine with each course,
Till all the swell guests were informally thundering:
Ne'er have we seen such a modish divorce.
* * *
The Duke of Manchester who passed through this
City recently with the body of "Silent" Smith, came
to San Francisco several years ago after he had
married the rich Miss Zimmerman of Cincinnati.
The Duchess is a great friend of Mrs. McCormick,
who was Miss Henry of Cincinnati and who married
that phenomenally clever and very popular rail-
road man "Glad-hand" McCormick. By the way
Professor Morse Stephens should make note of it
that Mr. McCormick was the real discoverer of
California. It was heard of only spasmodically,
beyond Ogden until "Mac" took charge of the
passenger service of the Southern Pacific after
coming here from Chicago.
"You are all asleep and blind in California," said
the alert tenderfoot. "This is the greatest country
on earth. Wake up and see what you've got and
tell people about it."
Then, "Mac" got out his posters and his advertis-
ing man and the great East rang with the fame of
the undiscovered West. One of the innovations was
the establishment of a colonist season and colonist
rates and the population of San Francisco jumped
up a hundred thousand or so — not all good game
however for some of the loyal constituents of P.
H. McCarthy and Mr. Cornelius blew in at the same
time attached to the break beams of the heavily
laden trains of colonists. But even 'orchard
produces rotten apples.
The railroad and -newspaper boys were in" the
habit of telling funny stories about McCormick and
the Duke of Manchester until the anecdotes grew
too chestnutty for ordinary consumption. The
legends dealt principally with the first meeting of
the hustling railroader and the scion of nobility.
"Gosh" gasped the high-salaried corporation
myrmidon as he surveyed the ducal tweeds and
straw hat. "Why he's just the same as any one."
This story, it may be added, is now out of print,
barring this edition of it.
Before the Duke's uncle Fernando Yznaga died
and left him a million or two his purse was all
holes. He was poor enough to have a keen realiza-
tion of the value of a dime. A reporter who was in
Cuba with him when he was correspondent for one
of the Hearst newspapers declares that the Duke
told him that he had to take home five cent stogies
as presents for his high-born relatives in England.
The ordinary ten cent cigar of commerce was much
too costly for his ducal exchequer.
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I ':i|i;i-in-la\v Zimmerman is a widower and it is
said that the fears of his remarrying caused his
relatives much concern but it is whispered that he
contents himself with worshipping the ankles of the
chorus and entangles himself with nothing so
serious or legitimate as matrimony.
* * *
Maj.T Jared Laurence Rathbone, who died last
week, was the only Consul-General we ever had in
Paris who entertained and was entertained like an
Ambassador, lie spent a good deal of his fortune
on the great of the world but he achieved a very
prominent social position. However he unfortu-
nately had very little on which to maintain it. He
was an exceedingly popular man and had many
friends amongst the newspapermen wdio would do
anything in their power to oblige him. More than
one Blingumite has had to thank the genial Major
for the gentle consideration with which the news-
papers treated him. in connection with some inci-
dent that offered a chance to do the opposite.
It has been said of Major Rathbone that he knew
intimately more people with private railroad cars
than any one in town. He was always with the
Crocker-, the Floods, the Hobarts, the Clarks and
in fact all the people who are least in the public
eye, yet most prominent on the roll of California's
"first families." Whenever Major Rathbone was
seen he was always the same courteous gentleman,
and the comment, if any, most likely to be passed
when his back was turned was that a man so
capable of gracing wealth should have millions to
spend.
Major Rathbone was a West Point graduate
and served as aide with Lieutenant-General Scho-
field from 1866 to 1878 when he resigned from the
Army. He was a relative of the General's first
wife, who was a Miss Bartlett, sister of the late
Colonel C. G. Bartlett, U. S. A., whose father was
one of the early-day professors at West Point.
Major Rathbone served as Consul-General at Paris,
and amongst his decorations was that of the Legion
of Honor conferred on him by the French Gov-
ernment. During the war with Spain he served as
special aide. He was a member of all the good
clubs of San Francisco and of the Union Club of
Xew York, in which city his family had been
socially very prominent.
Major Rathbone's wife, who survives him. has
been for years an invalid. She was one of the
handsome Atherton sisters, who belonged to a
noted family of this City. The Athertons are re-
lated to many prominent people here — the Selbys.
Eyres and Macondrays and others. Mrs. Percy
Selby. who died last year, was a sister of Mrs.
Rathbone. Mrs. Edward Eyre, another sister, was
Miss Florence Atherton. George Atherton, the
husband of Gertrude Atherton. the novelist, was
a brother. He has been dead many years. Faxton
Atherton. the father of Miss Olga Atherton. is the
only living brother.
Mrs. Perry Eyre, who was Miss Nina Macon-
drav. Mrs. Percy Moore, who was Miss Inez Mac-
ondray, and Atherton Macondray, are the children
of the late Mrs. Percy Selby. whose first husband
was Fred Macondray. Years after his death the
widow married young Percy Selby, who was many
years her junior. Mrs. Frank Johnson, who was
Miss Carmen Selby. is a daughter of that marriage.
Another member of this large family is Mrs. A. B.
Russell, who was Miss Muriel Atherton, daughter
of the late George Atherton and Mrs. Gertrude
Atherton, the novelist.
The interment of Major Rathbone took place in
the old Atherton graveyard at Menlo Park. The
funeral service was performed by Archbishop
Riordan. The pall-bearers were Admiral Kempff,
U. S. N.. Colonel Maus, U. S. A.. Captain W. B.
Collier, Henry T. Scott, Charles Page, Homer S.
King, Willis" Polk, Truxtun Beale, Dr. J. W.
Keeney, M. F. Michael, Joseph M. Qua}- and J.
Watkins.
At last accounts Miss Lizzie Bolton was in Menton.
France, so charmed with life there, that her return is
very indefinite. Miss Bolton is the sister of Robert
J. Bolton, who surprised his friends one day by marry-
ing that interesting little widow, Mrs. Mabel Jacobs.
Mr. Bolton had long been the despair of managing
mothers, and considered a confirmed bachelor.
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-THE WASP-
MISS MABEL GROS
It is many years since the First Baptist Church
has had such an able pastor as its present shep-
herd. Rev. George Burlingame, who was called to
the charge about a year ago. He came from Chi-
cago, which city had also given the church some
years ago the Rev. J. Q. A. Henry, whose evening
sermons preaching A. P. A. doctrines rather than
the Gospel pure and simple became so widely adver-
tised. Mr. Burlingame resembles Dr. Rader some-
what in feature and figure but his pulpit methods
are less sensational than those of the Congrega-
tionalist divine. The First Baptist is one of the
oldest in San Francisco. Its pioneer edifice in Wash-
ington Street, corner of Stockton, later converted
into a Chinese boarding house when the quarter
became the heart of Chinatown, was built mainly
by voluntarily contributions from the generous
gamblers who once formed a large part of our
City's population. Rev. O. C. Wheeler, the pioneer
pastor, was a great friend of the gambling element
here who recognized his straight and sterling qual-
ities of character. He was willing to see some good
in those without the pale and when he wanted any-
thing from the gamblers he had but to mention it
and it was his. After the church moved to Eddy
Street, above Jones, it had a number of pastors,
among them the Rev. William K. Kincaid, who
later on became a Congregationalist, and is now a
favorite preacher in Honolulu. The Eddy Street
edifice was twice destroyed by fire, having only
been rebuilt a few years when the second fire came
on April 19th. It is not to be rebuilt on the old lot.
There are some folks so honest and high-minded
they condemn hero-worship. What they would say
to dog-worship is hard to imagine without a little
blood-and-thunder and a chorus of heavy villains
gnashing their teeth. Father Bernard Vaughan,
who sometimes touches up the foibles of England,
recently gave the lap-doggers a twist of the ear.
Immediately there was a rustling of skirts, a creak-
ing of corset steel and a scratching of pearl-handled
pens. Aroused from a common impulse, reams
of superfine note paper in robin's-egg blue, orchid
yellow and Westminster gray went Vaughanwards.
The good man had made a mistake. He misunder-
stood the case. The following excerpts from letters
will show wherein he was ignorant :
"I once thought of becoming a Catholic, but after
hearing your abominable cruelty to dogs I shall
never join your church." "I do not know whether
or not you have a soul, but I know my dog has."
"You seem to think I shall be damned because I
love my faithful friend. Well, I should prefer to
be lost with him than saved without him." "My
dog is dearer to me than any one else on earth."
"You may say what you like, but my dog has more
logic than any man and more love than any woman
I ever met."
Verily, these dogs have bit their fair owners,
and the above is hydrophobia.
* * *
Mr. Julius Kruttschnitt, Jr., will soon arrive from
Yale, where he has been taking a special course
in mining engineering. Miss Pickering and Mr.
Kruttschnitt will be married in the Fall. The
groom-to-be has obtained a good position in one
of Mr. John Hays Hammond's mines. Mrs. Fred
Pickering and her two attractive daughters have
recently been visiting at Del Monte.
Let them know!
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
-THE WASP-
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Photo Bushndl GEORGE FRIEND
One of the popular members of the Ye Liberty Stock Company
Americans not infrequently find themselves in
trouble with Paris landlords. The following hims
which have appeared in the April Circle are per-
tinent to the matter :
"An apartment in Paris should be seen on a sunny
day before engaging, and it is not legally secured
until papers are signed. 'The lease is on a quar-
terly basis; payments are made in advance the 15th
of January, April, June, and October, and occu-
pancy given up to these dates. But when intend-
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months' notice before the first day of these months ;
failure to do this and neglect of the governmental
tribute of a stamped paper hold him to a further three
months' liability, as many a rueful American can
witness. To avoid this, it is merely needful to buv
a stamped sheet of paper, for eight cents, of the to-
bacconist, legal vendor of all stamps, write the notice
thereon, and give it to the landlord personally, or send
it to him by registered letter. .The concierge, although
he collects the rent and has full charge of the house, is
neither authorized to let the apartment nor to receive
notices. In the paper signed by tenant and landlord,
the former guarantees to return the apartment in
good condition, and if it is freshly papered, painted,
and waxed there will doubtless be something to pay
on leaving, but care and economy in nail-holes make
the damages slight."
Air. and Airs. Davis, their daughter Miss Anita,
and Miss Anna Bell of Georgia, will pass the
Summer at the attractive Davis home in Ross
Valley. Mrs. Davis was a Miss Boole. Mrs. J.
Dempster McKee is a sister. All are well known
residents of the Vallev.
The death of Laura De Force Gordon received
scant notice, considering the amount of newspaper
and court-room wit that was at one time her lot
t" bear. The first woman to practice law in this
State, she was the pioneer that worked through
mountains of criticism. She was amply fitted for
the task, however, lived up to the rugged sound of
her name, and likewise a pun of which it was sus-
ceptible. She was called "Laura Divorce Gordon"
at a time when an adventure in the divorce court
was viewed as a tawdrier proceeding than lenient
censors now hold it. Of late years she has been
little mentioned, and her friends think that her
only mistake was that of living a decade in ad-
vance of the times.
There are at present twenty-eight women attor-
neys admitted to practice in the United States Su-
preme Court. The first of the sex to apply was
told there was no authority for enrolling her. She
then had the authority manufactured with special
legislation, and the name of Belva Lockwood was
signed to the oath on March 3, 1879. The latest
daughter of the legal regiment is Miss Ida M.
Moyers, registering at Washington, D. C. She is
said to be one of the daintiest pettifoggers that
ever winked at a judge. Although a young woman,
she ,is already the senior member of a law firm
making a specialty of the Court of Claims.
STUDEBAKER
1907
CARS NOW ARRIVING
Studebaker Bros. Co. of California
405 Golden Gate Avenue
Oh- iter A. Weaver, Man tiger
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-THE WASP-
Mrs. Henry Clarence Breeden and her mother,
Mrs. Butler, will spend the Summer in Santa
Barbara. They had expected Mrs. E. Walton Hedges
and her children to join them, but as it was im-
possible for Dr. Hedges to come to California, Mrs.
Hedges left last week for her home in Plainfield,
N. J. A jolly supper was enjoyed at Mrs. Hedges'
attractive flat the evening before her departure for
the East, many having gathered to wish the
attractive matron bon voyage. It is possible Mrs.
Hedges will go abroad later in the Summer, if the
air of Plainfield prove irksome to one so popular and
endlessly feted.
The Gods of War and Money strode sadly away
from the scene as Major Francis P. Fremont was
found guilty on seven out of twelve specifications
of engaging too successfully in the victories of
peace. The Major had a dashing way of borrow-
ing money from banks on promise to reserve his
official pay for repayment. When the 'pay became
due, he found it impossible to make good, as there
were so many other and pleasanter ways of using
the same, and he had taken too many risks on it
anyway.
The sentence is not severe. He is to lose sixty
files in rank on the list of majors of infantry.
There are many borrowers who would accept
money on the same conditions. Major-General
Grant, in his report, comments on the sentence as
inadequate. He explains that Fremont's evasion
of the debts was to the scandal and disgrace of the
military service and in violation of the 61st Article
of War, and therefore conduct unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman. Such unbecomingness is
likely to be recognized by the world at large. Be-
yond that there is something high-sounding and
agreeable in knowing- distinctly that it is the 61st
Article of War that is being violated. Somehow,
it takes all the littleness and sting out of the tran-
saction. Hereafter, comrades, when your creditors
are too persistent, you may say, "Gentlemen. I
know I am at fault as appertaining to the 61st
Article of War, but I — say, can you let me have
another half until pay-day?"
Sixty files down the rank for you.
Dogs at present are very much the thing. The
time has passed when if you see a woman carrying
a dog you assume that she is an actress. It is
now the latest thing not only to appear with dogs
but to be photographed with them. All the New
York women go in for it. Mrs. Burke-Roche
Batonyi has been photographed with her dog, but
not as yet with her new husband. Mrs. Cook, the
mother of the beautiful Mrs. Sterling-Postley al-
ways carries her dog. Miss Maude Bourn, who has
a- gray walking suit and hat, has a dog about the
same shade. Miss Jennie Crocker is devoted to her
dogs and so is Miss Anita Harvey and Mrs. George
Cadwalacler, nee Wilson. The Jolliffe girls have
Cellarelte, side-board, sleeping ear or ocean steamer kit is incomplete without Abbott's
Bitters. AoVs zest and flavor, aids digestion.
several dogs and so has Miss "Sweety" Dean, their
pretty graceful chum.
Mrs. Fred McNear always has her hair in the
most beautiful Marcel waves and she has adopted
the new style of wearing curls all around the knot-
of hair. Mrs. McNear is one of the most popular
of the younger matrons, and whenever she appears
at a dance she is surrounded by a dozen young-
cavaliers. Where one sees a swarm of black coats
and white waistcoats one is certain to find Miss
McNear. She is more unconventional than her
sisters, Mrs. Gus Taylor and Mrs. Will Taylor,
although they all in a royal way do as they please
and make what they do the fashion.
* * *
I hear that Miss Suzanne Blanding, who went
abroad a year ago with Mrs. Moseley for the benefit
of her health, has not returned as well as was expected
and the protracted indisposition of this charming-
young girl is a matter of sincere regret to all. Mrs.
E. B. Coleman, the sister of Mr. Gordon Blanding, has
gone to New York to meet Miss Blanding and Mrs.
Moseley who arrived there recently. It is thought
that owing to the conditions existing here at present
is may be to the invalid's advantage to remain on the
Atlantic Coast during the Summer months.
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HIE WASP
15
Supervisor Coleman confesses i" accepting big
bribes, but he is not willing out of shame for his
misdeeds to deny himself social pleasure. At the
last dance of the Kntrc Nous Club, given with threat
eclat in the ball-room of the Fairmont, Coleman
was there big as life, gayest of the gay. 'This in-
teresting question presents itself: If Mr. Coleman
ami his boodling confrere-, served terms in the
penitentiary and came hack with enough of their
plunder to buy good clothes and live in ease, would
Society still rub elbows fraternally with them?
They seem to he perfectly assured that the public
takes the confession of their guilt just as easily
as they do themselves. All of which would indi-
cate that though disgraced in office they are never-
theless thoroughly representative officials.
* * *
It will he a fair exchange with the George A.
Martins, who have heen passing the Winter in San
Rafael. They will come to town, taking the home
of Mrs. Martin's mother, on Devisadero Street, for
the Summer, while Mrs. Hamilton and the Misses
Hamilton will take the Martin home in San Rafael,
and stay until late in the Fall. Miss Alexander
Hamilton is a beautiful girl who was prevented
from making her debut last Winter on account of
the death of her father.
* * *
Miss Maye Colburn gave a very enjoyable dinner
recently at her home in San Rafael, where she
entertained, among others. Dr. and Mrs. Howitt,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foster Dutton and Philip Pas-
chal. Mr. and Mrs. Dutton have decided to join
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Dutton and Miss Mollie
on their trip abroad. The party will leave for the
Orient on August 8th, and will spend the Winter
in Egypt.
* * *
The motherless baby of Mr. George Englehardt
was taken last week to his family at Victoria by
Mr. Charles Stewart. Mrs. Englehardt died recently
a few weeks after the death of her child. Mrs.
Englehardt was Miss Elizabeth Painter, the grand-
daughter of the late D. J. Staples, who was so well
known in the insurance world. Her sister, Phoebe
Painter, who married Dr. Gardner Perry Pond, also
died after the berth of her baby.
:J: * A
Henry Bothin has a mania for putting up buildings.
He has several country homes in Ross Valley, and
he is now erecting a splendid house in Riverside.
He has been one of the men the most active in the
rebuilding of San Francisco, and has already com-
pleted several buildings. Mrs. Bothin has not yet
gone over to her home in Ross but is still with her
father.
* * *
Mrs. W. P. Morgan recently arrived at the Hotel
Rafael, where she will pass the Summer. Mrs.
Morgan is an expert at bridge whist, and will give
as usual many bridge parties during the Summer.
Miss Ella Morgan will join her mother later. Mrs.
Morgan has been passing the Winter at the Palace.
I while Mrs. Norris Davis (Therese. Morgan) has
been occupying the Morgan home on Clay Street.
Mrs. Dennis O'Sullivan, who has heen visiting
her mother. Mrs. Curtis, and her sister. Mrs.
Thomas Magee, Sr., left last week for New York
on her journey to England. Upon arriving in
London she will join Mr. ( I'Sullivan. It is expected
that the}' will return here late in the Winter for
another visit. Mrs. O'Sullivan's hasty trip to Cali-
fornia was on account of the illness in her family
here.
* * *
As the post at the Presidio is unusually crowded.
Colonel and Mrs. Frank Cheatham. U. S. A., are
making their home with the parents of Mrs.
Cheatham. Mr. and Mrs. James Denman. Colonel
Cheatman has been detailed to do some Govern-
ment work in connection with Fort Mason.
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LOS ANGELES
16
-THE WASP
Phoio Bushnell ISABELLE FLETCHER
The handsome leading Lady of Ye Liberty Theater Oakland
One of San Francisco's mining men, now pros-
pecting in London gaieties, has a knack at palmis-
try. All he desires to know is the subject's leaning
toward gold in the ground ; but he tells them all
the rest — and only the rest. Before leaving here,
he occupied offices in the Crocker Building with
an Englishman. Forget the Englishman and re-
member that he has a sister-in-law. She resides
on the other side of the bay and, of course, is promi-
nent or we should not have heard of this.
One day, or if not on that day, on another, she
visited her brother-in-law, the Englishman whom
you were told to forget. She brought along one
whom to call a charming girl would be but half
describing her. The other half was merely a mat-
ter of years, overlapping the scope of the word
"girl." Still her temperament and vivacity and
readiness for romance were entirely girlish ; which
to this story is more relevant than her age ; and the
latter we hereby strike from the testimony.
Entering the door, the matron whispered to the
belle: "There is an eligible bachelor in here. He
reads palms." The word "eligible" impressed the
other so deeply that she misunderstood the rest
of the sentence. She had the reputation of being
a prize gusher ; but on this occasion hushed her
gush and in lieu thereof rushed her blush. ■ O slush !
And she (the fact of the matter is, she was scared")
became calm and skipless as a haystack. She was
in the presence of a man who looked as if he had
never been under the necessit}' of saying "sour
grapes." And "folly" might have been his synonym
for "life." Our heroine, who -at another time, might
have led him a rainbow chase, finally departed
gravely with her friend. In the hallway each
woman turned to the other for explanation. Said
the first to speak — the one on the right-hand side
going down the hall : "Your friend does not look
like a man whose steady employment is reading
psalms."
"Psalms!" squealed the other. "I said 'palms;'
I thought you would immediately offer him your
hand — to read."
Will Humphreys, the attorney and Olympic Club
athlete, called the bluff of a "bad man" recently in
a manner that won the sincerest admiration of a
large crowd of people chiefly of widely different
character from his own but with manhood enough
in them to admire pure grit. Humphreys had
gone into a popular cafe with several Olympic
Club friends, not because he wanted to go to that
particular place or felt at ease when he got there,
but simply to "stay with the crowd" for that once.
A lieutenant of police sitting at a table near Hum-
phreys and his friends made several insulting re-
marks about Olympic Club members. Finally Hum-
phreys, boiling with indignation, stood up and
said, "That is your opinion because you wanted
MISS IRENE SABIN
-THE WASP-
17
phreys'told his companions he had had enough of
the place and started for the door. The lieutenant
met him at the door with an apology for his con-
duct.
"You can't apologize to me," Humphreys said,
"unless you make your apology to all this crowd."
To the surprise of everyone the lieutenant made
the tirsl speech of his life, telling- the crowd he
had made a fool of himself and that he was sorrv
for it. Humphreys accepted the apology and de-
parted.
* * *
Jerry Landfield, it is said, is to come back to
California with his princess bride. Though in his
letters to his friends he never mentions any one
less than a prince or an arch duke, Jerry,
will come back to California to show his' old
friends what a sure-enough princess looks like,
but as he is no longer connected with the facultv
of the University of California, it is not known just
what may be done with him. However, the Uni-
versity of California might decide to establish a
chair on heraldry, and Jerry could fill that ad-
mirably.
MRS. WILLIAM SPROULE
t'i join the Olympic Club and were blackballed.
Now I want to tell you, I blackballed you and I
did it because you are a low thief. You blackmail
fallen women, that is the sort of man you are."
The lieutenant went white with anger and made
as if to draw his revolver, but thought better of it
and sank back into his chair. A policeman started
forward as if to attack Humphreys on behalf of his
superior but the clubman's friends stepped between
and told him to keep hands off. The gay crowd
that had suddenly held its breath .expecting blood-
shed went back to its drinking and its songs. Hum-
There never was a time in San Francisco when
drinking was so leniently regarded as it is now
by Society and women, but it must always be done
by a man rich enough to carry it off gracefully.
Many foolish women encourage men in drinking
to see how much he can hold — regarding it as a
joke. Men may stagger over dresses, fall asleep
at tables, be carried home maudlin from dances and
yet the young women consider it only a joke, but
it is always an eligible who does it. Men who
can marry are so scarce that they are allowed all
license and there is no one to say them nay.
ENTRE NOUS.
ON THE HILLSIDE LINKS AT DEL MONTE
All the Expert Golfers of the Coast will meet at Del Monte for the Annual Spring Tournan
May 17th, 18th and 19th. A week of Golf will precede the tournament.
..■It was very remarkable that Maj'or Schmitz knew
several months ago when he accepted Police Com-
missioner Cresswell's resignation that there was to
be a strike of the carmen in May. He so informed
Mr. Cr.esswell and gave it as his reason for reliev-
in,g,.that excellent citizen of his official responsibil-
ities. After reviewing the events that have led to
the strike, it is plain that the affair was a carefully
planned conspiracy to bring the United Railroads
and other employers to their knees and thus
strengthen the political power of the labor politic-
ians op. the eve of the approaching election.
If the police would keep their hands off, and give
rioters, lull swing it would be. impossible, of course,
to run the street .cars; and. thus the mob would be
given assurance that the City authorities are their
friends and should' be kept in power. While all
these political plots are being hatched out by agi-
tators legitimate business of all kinds suffer. The
merchants and employers of San Francisco are ex-
periencing in an aggreviated form the same kind of
troubles that injured our City thirty years ago when
Denis "Kearney and his truculent sand-lot mob cap-
tured, the municipal government and installed in
office as scurvy a gang of boodlers as ever dis-
graced a civilized community. Their motto was
that a man had to be ignorant to be honest.
The person .who could write his name was not
to be trusted. Denis himself could write and read,
but it-was urged in extenuation of his crime that
he was too young to protest when taken to the
heeled-school in old Ireland.
There should be no doubt to the placing of the
responsibility for the disgraceful state of affairs that
has existed in San Francisco during the turbulent
strike. The Mayor is primarily the guilty one. He
has the power to compel the police to clear the
streets; and prevent violence.
Nothing is easier to stop than rioting by an un-
organized mob. A small squad of cavalry will scat-
ter ten thousand ordinary rioters like chaff. The
sight of uniformed and disciplined men, with fire-
attais in their hands is too much for any mob.
Whenever a mob becomes unruly and continues
to riot the fault lies with the police. They are
either secretly or openly in league with the rioters,
and are ledj by cowardly officers. In the present
instance in San Francisco the police are under the
orders of officials who wish to see the strikers
become victorious, so of course the rioters have no
dread of the l'aw and are correspondingly obstrep-
erous.
f vou need a bracer in the niornins try a glass of soda and a tittle of Abbott's Bitters.
You'Ilbe surprised how it will brighten you up.
The great railroad strike at Sacramento, some
years ago, was a fine illustration of how a riotous
mob dissolves when handled by armed men, really
determined to suppress lawlessness. For days the
mob had treated the large force of militia with such
contempt that some of the rioters had actually
walked up to the troops and wrestled the rifles from
the men's hands. Of course the explanation of such
proceedings was that the militia sympathized with
the mob and the militia officers were either afraid
of the rioters or the troops — perhaps both.
At this stage there arrived upon the scene a small
company of regular troops, led by an experienced
officer. They advanced boldly on the railroad depot
from which the militia had not been able in sev-
eral days to dislodge the rioters. When the men
in blue reached the depot it was silent and de-
serted. The rioters had all legged it across lots
and over fences. They could not be seen for dust,
so rapid was their flight to get beyond reach of the
bayonets and bullets of the troops they knew would
use both on them without hesitation or compunc-
tion. Not a shot had been fired by those United
States regulars, and the nearest they ever got to
a rioter was three hundred yards.
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-THE WASP -
19
h seemj to be generally understood that if the
carmen had had a chance t<> express their senti-
ments without coercion we should have had no strike.
The majority of the men. and these the best and
nfost experienced, desired no strike, but Cornelius
and his associate politicians did. and so the proposal
to take a secret ballot was howled down by a belli-
gerent minority. You see the same kind of thing
frequently at political meetings, where a small band
of roughs takes possession of a ward meeting: and
completely silences the respectable citizens.
< if course it was the carmen's own concern
whether they struck or not. The subsequent pro-
ceedings however concern the whole nation, for
they involve the constitutional rights of all citi-
zens. Mr. Calhoun has just as much legal right
to till the strikers' places as they have to quit, and
any man who tries by violence to prevent him from
doing so and running- his cars on the public high-
way i-. making himself an outlaw, and should be
suppressed at once by the civic authorities. If they
aid or abet the outlawry they become criminals
themselves and it is the duty of the military arm
of the government to interfere. Any other course
would be anarchy. We have become so accus-
tomed however to anarchy in San Francisco that
our conception of such things as lawless strikes is
badly blurred.
The position of the striking carmen now is that
they are discharged employes with whom Mr. Cal-
houn has no contract, and whose services he does
not desire. They insist by violence and bloodshed
that he must employ them or shut up shop. How
long will this nation hold together if the American
people indorse that kind of principle? They most
assuredly will not uphold it.
HARVEY BROUGHAM
Oakland's Splendid New Hotel
The opening of the Key-Route Inn at the ter-
minus, junction of Twenty-second Street and
I '.roadway. Oakland, took on the character of an
important social event. Over forty tables were
reserved for prominent Society people from both
sides of the bay. The cuisine was found to be ad-
mirable, the service perfect and the music delight-
ful. Paul Steindorff, who is so popular with San
Francisco lovers of music, directed the orchestra
of twelve pieces and made the concert a gratifying
success. The Key-Route Inn is under the manage-
ment of H. S. Mullan, who acquired such an en-
viable reputation here while assistant manager of
the famous old Palace Hotel. He has taken a
splendid staff with him to his new place and it
will undoubtedly prosper. Those Oaklanders are
getting very enterprising and San Francisco will
have to keep going to make this the right side of
the bay.
The Right Man for the Place
Governor Gillett could make no mistake by ap-
pointing Senator Frank McGowan to the place left
vacant by the death of judge llosmer. Senator
McGowan deserves recognition from the Republi-
can party, of which he has been a loyal and promi-
nent member since he could vote. He has a clean
record as a public man, is able and honest and
would make a splendid judge, fearless capable and
upright. Xo better man could be chosen for the
position than this able lawyer and distinguished
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20
THE WASP
A Spring Carol
With many apologies to Charles Dickens
By X. RAY
Abraham Ruef awoke. It was the mystic hour of One
and the bright moonlight streamed through the window
where his guard sat looking out upon the water. It
illumined the room, lit up the laurel wreaths dancing in
mockery on the walls and clearly outlined the strange,
uncanny presence there beside him. That this presence
was supernatural, Ruef knew, for though the guard turned
his head and looked towards the bed, he did not see the
unwelcome guest, nor hear her solemn tones.
The figure was that of a woman, gay, alluring, an ex-
travagant harlequin withal, with free, bold glance, yet
something familiar, as his own lineaments seemed to shine
within her glittering -eyes. The glistening tinsel of her
gown was shot with silver, within her grasp she clutched
a tiny pick and shovel and on her breast glowed red a
wondrous "Phoenix rising from a Golden Gate. Crown-
ing her flo'wing locks she wore a white cap, bound with
blue, and on the* band the word, "Discovery."
She beckoned him to rise and come with her, and though
a cold fear chilled, him to the bone, the fascination of her
fearless glance impelled him to obey.
"Who are you, strange woman? And am I sane, or only
dreaming?"
"Nay, nay," she answered. "Not dreaming now. Rise
and walk with me, for I have much to show you. I am
the Ghost of San Francisco Past."
And at this confirmation of his dread, the Curly Boss
shook as with an ague, for now he recognized her features,
masked by the strangeness of attire, the city of his birth,
once known, never to be forgotten.
"And what have I to do with San Francisco Past?" he
questioned.
"Much more than with her Future, Abraham," spoke the
Spirit scornfully. "Come, for there is much to see." And
leaning o'er the bed, a glittering goddess, she touched him
gently on the heart, and he passed with her, out through the
desecrated white house of the Mayor, and down, down to the
wharves and ferries of the City.
It was twilight now; no glittering lights lit up the
town; the gas lamps flickered dully here and there; but
all along the wharves were lined with sheds, open and full
of men. Long tables piled with gold were there, and
motley crowds, and up and down the wharves straggled
the curious.
The men around the tables had hardy frames and greedy
eyes, and all intent upon the Goddess Chance that ruled
the night. And at sight of that vast treasure flung down
so carelessly, Ruef moved uearer and watched to see the
play and who would win the gold. A strapping miner
won. He raked the piles of gold with jovial laugh.
"Won tonight, boys, lost again tomorrow!" and down he
flung it all again upon the dice.
"What seek they here?" the Spirit whispered in his ear?
"Gold," he replied laconically, "gold."
"Always the same," she murmured mournfully, "but
look, what mark see you upon their faces, Abraham?"
"Energy, hardship, generosity?" He gazed and on the
faces, like her own, the same free, bold looks rested un-
afraid.
"Adventure," she sighed, "lawlessness, yes, but not dis-
honor!" and on his curly head she bent a bitter look.
They passed from here. The City had grown strangely
small, the sand-hills stretched out- waste on every side —
they traveled swift and long, sat down by millionaires at
festal boards, came down from Rincon Hill and visited
this phantom of the early days. And everywhere, on every
face, he marked the open hearts, the freedom and the
courage of the Pioneers.
Then the scene changed. It was broad sunlight novr.
Stern faces of 'men, resolute,' purposeful, passed him by.
No woman, nor yet a little child appeared upon the streets
— it was so strangely quiet. He saw a rude primitive
place built like a fort, and figures swung there ghastly.
The sturdy bands of men gazed at them with the same de-
termined glance.
The Spirit, hard and stern, now spoke. "Know you
the Vigilantes, Abraham?" she said, "and old Fort Gunny-
bags? And what hangs there for crows to fatten on?"
"Leaders of criminals," he said.
"And what was done to them?" she asked with searching
glance.
"Justice!" said little Abe, for once before he thought.
And so they passed, and sitting on a sovereign hill, they
watched the City grow, thew saw its pride and power in-
crease, its wealth and glory.
A strange elation filled the heart of Ruef. He marked
the change, the pomp and greatness of the Siren.
"This is the City of your birth ; look on her fair face
and rejoice, for she has nearly reached the summit of her
pride," said the Spirit sadly.
He looked. This was his City now, her heart and soul,
the thousands of networks of little veins through which
her life-blood coursed, he knew them all and they had
done him tribute. He forgot his freedom clipped, his
troubled mind. He tasted power once more. His little
stature swelled with pride, and he began to scheme and I
plan once more to flood his millions.
He turned upon the Spirit.
"This is my City, mine, bold Spirit. I am its Ruler. I
reign here Supreme! Look not at me with glance of
scorn."
"Abraham," said the Spirit, casting a fleeting glance
upon the scene before them, "this was thy Mistress. Fair
she lies there, millions of lovers had she, and yet did \
your bidding. Corruption cankers at her heart and she
will perish!"
Even as she spoke, throes of that mighty change of
shock and fire seized that glorious scene, her barren ruins
and endless desolation stared them in the face.
"There lies your Golden Mistress, Abraham," said the
Spirit, "broken to the dust. Faithful she has been to you 4
in her glory, let us see how you requite her in her misery."
And San Francisco Past, with countenance no longer
jaunty, left him with weary frame to sleep once more.
STAVE TWO.
He woke once more. Once more a Spirit stood beside
him, this time a woman fair as anjr man would care to
look upon — but o'er her face she wore a mourner's veil;
about her looks there was a tinge of shame, but on her
breast there faintly glowed a star of Hope, for this was
San Francisco Present.
So well he knew this woman, that at touch of her little
hand upon his heart he started back, almost afraid that
she might do him harm.
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And forth they went. She led him down, past squares
..i sleeping refugees, past homes dismantled, and a City
Straight to the City's heart and yet she spuke no
word. This Spirit had an air of mystery; Ik- knew not
did -he bode him good or ill, the free, hold looks were
hers no more,— s<> sadly chastened was her hearing.
They reached the City Hall, she pointed upward to the
Liberty still standing on it- ruined dome. Then his un-
willing hand within her cold one, she drew him on, up —
up the wrecks of stairs, at last into the ruined court-
room.
And then she spoke. "Where stand you now, Abra-
ham?" she cried. "Where are you now?"
"The llall of Justice," his dry lips replied.
And at his voice an echo rose from countless throngs,
i! there tier on tier, waiting for him so long. He
dared not look. The voices rose in volume till they
Seemed to shake the sky, as shook the soul of Ruef in
bortal fear.
"Abraham Ruef. Abraham Ruef, come into court!"
Again and yet again the ghostly voices sounded, then all
was still. He could not flee. The Spirit's hand seemed
stronger than an iron chain; it forced him on, on, to
where upon the bench sat. stern and cold, his Judge.
That dreadful figure, that he so often scoffed and spit
upon, all clothed in black, sat like his Doom, the Majesty
of Law It faced him now.
The Spirit motioned him into a seat, and as he crouched,
the cry broke out again, "Abraham Ruef, come into Court!
Abraham Ruef. come into Court!" What could avail him
now:- Not flight, not craft, not gold; he must be tried
before atribunal he could not buy.
The Spirit spoke. "Long have we stood your boasts of
power! Loner have we stood evasion of the Law! Long
have you craved to prove your Innocence, tonight you
shall be tried. See you that space upon the ruined wall,
that blank where shines a bright white light?" she asked.
He nodded.
"There shall the naked Truth be shown!" she cried.
"No voice shall speak against you; upon that screen the
whole weave of your life shall show, and you and all of
us shall see. If there be guilt, you cannot blind us more!"
He sank back in his seat. He looked not at his Judge,
not at that ghostly company. The screen, his whole life
hung upon that screen.
The white light moved. Scene after scene flashed by.
and they were all intent as he. His boyhood days flashed
by. his Berkeley days, his manhood days and now— he
could not cower down, he could not hide his face behind
his hands, he must look on.
He saw the fallen woman pander to build his fortune;
the millionaire dickered to buy his soul and others; he
saw his whip held tight on those he feared betrayal, he
saw his City bound by infamy, he saw his figures pass
across that screen, audacious, conscienceless, dishonest.
Not one degrading act nor thought was missed. There
on the white light of the screen he saw his naked soul
without disguise, and knew it for his own. The pictures
ceased He rose and stretched his arms to Heaven.
"No more, Almighty God!" he cried, "for I have sinned
enough!"
He" looked around upon that multitude. The souls that
he had bought and sold and tainted. And everywhere, on
every face, they bore his mark upon their brows, the dollar
sign — the sign of gold.
He grovelled at the Judge's feet. The figure rose and
spoke in hollow voice.
"Thief that thou'art, thy mark shines on thy forehead!
This be thy doom! Let every dollar that has bought a
soul, be brought and weigh him down.
The throng arose. The shower began. It rose upon his
feet, his knees, his chest.
"1 suffocate!" he cried, and woke once more.
STAVE THREE.
This time a Spirit glorious stood by his side, no longer
sad. And in her hand she bore the torch of Future San
Francisco. . .
Faith, Honor, Love beamed from her shining coun-
tenance.
"And have I no place there?" he sadly craved.
She shook her head. With pity soft she touched his
heart, they traveled long, and beauteous sights they saw,
hut none familiar.
"And where am I?" asked Ruef. lamenting.
She flew with him across the tide. They left the won-
drous scenes and happiness of Greater San Francisco.
They reached a square stone building, passed down nar-
row corridors and looked past iron gratings.
"Not here." he shivered. "They would set me free."
"Nay," said the Spirit, "hast thou still faith in Dis-
honor?"
A man looked out beyond the bars. His hair was white,
his eyes were dull, his spirit gone. His back was bent
with hard and constant toil. Ruef held the Spirit back.
"Mot me," he groaned, "not me!"
The Spirit led him on. Into a marble vault they passed
— a cold form lay upon the slab, a sheet was thrown across
the face. Not one. 'no mourner lingered there. They
reached its head. "I cannot lift the cloth," he said. So on
thev went.
They sought a little field near by. neglected, lonely,
lined with wooden marks.
A tangled mound, a dirty board across its head, no name
and who was lying here. Ruef gazed upon the board, he
read its purport. No. He sank back upon his knees.
"O, Spirit, save me this; what must I do to save my
soul?"
The Spirit murmured soft, "Repentance saved the thief
upon the Cross." And he awoke.
The guard stood over him, gazing at him with wonder-
ing face.
Ruef seized him, held him fast.
"Find Burns," he cried, "for I confess!"
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Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
Bank Clearings
| The clearings for April were amongst the largest
ill the history of the Clearing House, being almost
t$ro hundred millions of dollars— $198,035,735.38.
t.i account of the banks being closed from April
^ th to the 30th last year no comparison could be
made with April of last year. But the total for
last""S.pril is just about fifty millions in excess of
/fprif, 1905. The gain is greater than the total
average clearings of former years not so long ago
aid shows that a vast amount of trade is bound to
renter in this City even under the most disastrous
circumstances.
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The Condition of the Banks
jThe ■ examination of the Bank Commissioners
shows that on April 18th, the great anniversary,
condition of the State banks was a little worse off
thjan on December 31st last, the falling off in re-
sources was a little over $6,500,000 less than at the
elbse of last year. The Commercial Bank showed
a falling off of nearly four millions. The resources
of' both Commercial and Savings Bank were thus
hi round numbers $325,000,000 and adding that of
the National Banks over four hundred millions.
The total falling off since December 31st, including
the National Banks, was thus about $12,000,000
National and all. In the case of the Savings Banks
the_.fiau.se was withdrawal of deposits by people who
wanted the money to build — in that of the Com-
metcial Banks, both National and State, it was the
withdrawal of the money for the sake of the higher
interest obtainable in New York. That money how-
ever is coming back and will swell the resources
ofi our banks again, the falling off will soon be
made good and the resources will be greater than
ever. In New York now call money is down to
2 and 2J_ per cent. If loaned on realty it will bring
8 to 8J_ per cent, perhaps more.
What About Our Australian Trade?
Although this City would suffer a great loss
should the steam lines to the Orient be suddenly
shut off, still as far as actual business is concerned
the kiss 'to the City would not be great — it would
simply be a loss of prestige for the time being.
The trade in canned and dried fruits, salmon, etc.,
is , not large enough to seriously embarrass those
lines were it all lost. But it is entirely different
with the Australian trade. Here the steamers of
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the Oceanic line carried on an average .of $3,000,000
a year of which part was for the Hawaiian Islands.
But the Australian trade by this line averaged $2,-
400,000 a year. And unlike the shipments to the
Orient, most of the' Australian trade consisted of
articles grown or manufactured in California or
on the Pacific Coast. Australia is a great market
for our salmon, canned, fresh and dried fruit, vege-
tables, such as potatoes and onions, of which large
quantities are shipped in the season. Large quan-
tities of machinery have been shipped also, par-
ticularly of mining machinery. Wine, barley and
sometimes flour, all in small quantity, also find
their way to the Antipodes in this manner. One
steamer has been missed already. This however
is not the season for the shipment of fruits and
vegetables in quantity that will come later. There
are many tramp steamers around and no doubt
some of them will load up here in the Fall — the
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid up Capital aud Surplus, $620,000
Loans on Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D. Phelan, Pres.. John A. Hooper. V. Pres.. J. K. MorTatt, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Secy and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Asst. Cashier, A. E,
Curtis, 2d Asst. Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDF1ELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS A specialty
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in their
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange Bldg.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK
OF SAN FRANCISCO
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS,
PAID UP CAPITAL,
DEPOSITS JANUARY I. 1907
108-110 Sutter Street
$693,104.68
$600,000.00
$3,772,145.83
Charles Carpy, Pres. Arthur Legallet, Vice-Pres. Leon Bocqueraz, Secretary
John Ginty, Asst. Secretary P. A. Bemerot, Attorney
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active shipfJtJJg season. These however will not
make up for the loss of the regular lines of steamers.
Hawaiian Trade
The Sierra of the Oceanic line has been laid on
to Honolulu and took out on her ' last trip a big
Rpgo valued at $121,022 with S1822 for Samoa to
be transshipped on the steamers of the Vancouver
line. She will be able to get a monthly cargo.
The Hawaiian trade keeps on increasing. The
shipments for the month of April from this port
were valued at $890,195, a gain of over 40 per cent
when compared with April. 1906'. To May 1st ex-
Birts to the Hawaiian group were in round numbers
four million dollars, a gain of about IS per cent.
This trade consists of articles home grown, manu-
factured and imported of every description and is
the most profitable that San Francisco can look for.
The Record of a Week
The bank exchanges of the past week were over
forty— even millions, or about five million dollars
in excess of those of the week preceding. This
was on account of its being collection week. The
total during the past week does not seem to have
been affected bv strikers or aught else.
Our Banks
There is a congestion of applications for loans
to rebuild and the Savings Ranks have now under
consideration all that they can handle for some
time, but there is positively no foundation for the
statement that the banks as a whole or any indi-
idual bank has stopped making loans. The officers
f the Hibernia Bank say that they' are receiving
applications and making loans as usual and that
they have not stopped. They loaned over two
million dollars in April which beats the record.
The same is true of other banks. They however
recriminate in favor of those who are engaged in
rebuilding their homes and against those merely
wish to borrow on unimproved property for specu-
lation or other purposes. In other words the
hanks have become very conservative, and that is
proper at this time when ten times the amount of
money that is available is sought by borrowers.
It is now time for the monev sent East during
jthe flurry in Wall Street to be coming back and
Jrloubtless the next statements put out by the Com-
nercial Hanks will show a large increase over that
;xhibited by the last month, money being now easy
n New York.
The business done at the several Exchanges
luring the week has been light. This has been
especially the case on the Bond and Stock Exchange,
lere United R. R. 4s hold up pretty well consider-
ng the strike.
The developments in Florence are the principal
eatures of the mining situation. A twenty-seven
oot ledge has been uncovered that has yielded
n220,000'to the ton.
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Office Hours: 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
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526 CALIFORNIA ST., San Francisco
Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31, 1 906
$2,578,695,41
1,000,000.00
38,531,917.28
OFFICERS -President. F. Tillmann. Jr.; First Vice-President, Daniel Meyer
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Goodlellow & Eells, General Attorneys.
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The fact that the resources of the local Savings
banks have only fallen off about two and a half millions
and the deposits over three millions shows that the
banks are sounder than ever.
The loss might be even ten millions
instead of three, considering what we have passed
through and the miserable government which is re-
tarding our City. Bad government always hurts a
community. Australia is an example of that. Thous-
ands of Australians are flocking to America as the
socialistic agitators have changed the colonies from a
working man's paradise to a poverty stricken land,
where wages are low and employment scarce.
A Savings bank's liabilities are what it owes to its
depositors, so when these obligations decrease while
its resources increase it financially becomes stronger.
The local banks were always very conservative and
since the fire have been doubly so. After the disaster
all the timid depositors took their money out of the
Savings banks and some of them doubtless left the
State, but all told the twelve Savings banks show a
shrinkage of only about three millions, while the
assets of the banks are proportionately greater than
before. This is a very satisfactory showing and
clearly proves their unimpaired solidity.
The Central Trust Company
Under the management of President Leege, the
Central Trust Company has a promising future
before it. It will have a new branch at 3039 Six-
teenth Street. Here Mr. R. F. Crist, the well known
banker will be in charge as manager, while F.
Kronenberg Jr., will be cashier. The main office is
on the southeast corner of Montgomery and Sutter
Streets. Besides the branch at Sixteenth Street it
has another on Van Ness Avenue near Golden Gate.
It pays special attention to the wants of customers
in establishing branches for their accommodation.
The offices at Sixteenth Street are tastefully
arranged with handsome fixtures. There are burglar
proof safes and fire proof vaults so that safet}' and
protection from fire are thoroughlv assured.
INVESTOR
FOUNDED ON FACT
To pastors in touch
With themes pedagogical,
Ideas and such
As sociological,
Prithee, to your heart
Take this verse homiletic
Ere divinely you start
On your way sympathetic.
Since your theme predilects
Something more than humdrumming
On pulpit-worn texts,
And you have to go slumming.
Take care not to seem
Too intent, with arm braided
Round the waist of your theme
When the darned place is raided.
And eke, more than all,
In such work philanthropic,
Take care that the small,
Fairy hand of the topic
Toward your purse does not prowl
Or seek your gold ticker.
(Thy brethren might scowl,
And the cruel world snicker.) '
The longer mankind is without it, the more
frequent will be its attempts to find the only real
four-paneled door to Heaven, with a large majolica
knob and a neatly painted sign, "Enter without
Knocking." The "Gluggedy Glugs" of Indian-
apolis have something new as maybe ; but, sad to
say, nobody entirely understands it. And we note
with a three-cornered pang that many brethren and
sisters in dear Los Angeles and beloved Santa Rosa
are among the devotees. Sermons are babbled in
an oracular mess of syllables that seem nearer the
chaste prosody of Volapuk than the less refined
gutteral of the Igorrote. Occasionally some of the
phrases are repeated, a sign which gives promise to
a new language evolving from the chaos. "Gliggy
bulk" is already a by-word. If you ask what it
means, you are lost forever. You must understand
it. To use this language, no study is required.
The speaker has only to imagine he has just washed
his face and got soap in his eyes, and gibbers ahead,
along, anon, eftsoons.
But, hark, was there not one of those get-rich-
quick churches, operated by one Dowie, who had an i
extemporaneous flow of "Handoveruh me bluggy-
blug yur boodle andby quickidik aboutut."
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Slock Exchange
Goldfield, Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET, STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as welt as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE, Pres.
GAVIN McNAB. Atty.
WM. CORB1N, Sec. and Gen. Mgr.
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Telephone Tmpy. 1415
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Mining Stocks a Specially
Bedford McNeill
Western Union
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368 BUSH STREET
San Francisco
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Tuesday: Goodness such a dreadful thing as
happened an Oakland girl last week. Those Oakland
girls arc awfully forward. So Mrs. Gabbe says. The
girl wrote to a frisky young merchant who does
business in this City and resides in San Rafael. He
skates just too lovely for anything and all the girls
are dying to have him teach them. This Oakland girl
wrote to him to meet her at the rink in the afternoon
and marked the letter "Immediate and Important."
Well, what do you think? Oh gracious! The
merchant happened to be home when the letter reached
the office and his stenographer just put a special
delivery stamp on it and mailed it to San Rafael and
of course his wife got it and opened it. Oh heavens !
The queerest thing about the story is that the wife
didn't say a word about it to him. Mercy ! I'd be
afraid of a woman like that. She remailed the letter
to his office and wrote on the envelope "opened by
mistake, by your wife." Of course she knew that the
stenographer and all the clerks would read the note.
What a terrible revenge ! Then she sent a postal card
to the Oakland girls boarding house saying "The next
time you wish to make a date with my husband to
take you to the skating rink, please phone him or call
at his office and thus save me the trouble of redirecting
your epistles to his San Francisco address. I am too
busy with my Spring housecleaning to attend to such
matters."
Mrs. Gabbe, when talking to her about it, said she
supposed that the next thing would be a divorce.
Goodness ! That's the last thing the wife thinks about.
"I've caught him at several tricks of that kind"
said she and "I've just got him where I want him —
under my thumb. That's the way to have a man."
I couldn't do it. I'd scratch the villain's eyes out,
I think. But thank heavens I have no husband and
never will — at least I think that way.
I Wednesday: Such a surprise I got today when I
met Clara Mugsley on the Avenue. Goodness Me !
I thought she had just got out of a sick bed, she was
, that thin and miserable looking.
"I've been dieting to make myself thin, Miss
Twiggs," said she.
It seems that all the smart set are crazy just now
on becoming \yalking skeletons. The agonies some of
the fat women endure are heart rending. Ladies that
could polish oft* a three pound beefsteak and a quart
of fried onions for lunch, now nibble at a hard cracker
and wash it down with half a cup of weak tea. One
of the richest fat women in Society was seen the other
day in front of a bakery window gazing ravenously at
a dish of bilious looking doughnuts. She told Mrs.
Gayleigh that even the sight of a raw cabbage at
a vegetable dealers stand made her mouth water. Oh
gracious ! She has a hard time to keep from shop-
lifting when she gets within reach of the delicatessen
counter at her grocers. And she suffers all this agony
to be stylish. She's got off eight ounces already by
three weeks of starvation and Mrs. Gayleigh says that
something dreadful will happen if the woman reduces
any more. Dear me! Isn't it perfectly dreadful.
TABITHA TWIGGS.
Mr. Lawrence Harris, who left here recently, has
arrived in Pittsburg, where he is the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Greenfield. Mrs. Greenfield was Miss
Elsa Cook. It was during a charity affair here
several seasons ago in which Teddy Greenfield and
this charming girl took part, the Cupid clapped
them on the shoulder, with the result, a year after,
of a very happy marriage. Mr. Harris is the brother
of Mrs. Andrew Carrigan, formerly pretty Bessie
Harris of Oakland.
Mr. Knox Maddox gave one of his charming
dinners recently at the home of his mother on
Presidio Lleights to Mr. and. Mrs. Horace Pills-
burg and Miss Linda Cadwalader.
Mrs. Norwood gave a small but enjoyable in-
formal tea during the week at her beautiful home
on Green Street. Mr. Jerome Lincoln, Mrs. R.
N. Graves, Mrs. Breeze, Mrs. Cadwalader and
others were present.
Mr. and Airs. Samuel Boardman have taken a
house in Ross Valley for the Summer. Mr. Drown
and Miss Newell Drown, father and sister of Mrs.
Boardman, are at present traveling abroad, and will
be absent until late in the Winter.
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Of Social Interest
: A family party composed of Mr. and Mrs. S. W.
Holladay. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Holladay and their
children will leave shortly for the East and pass the
next' 'six months there.
One of the brides at Del Monte is Mrs. Roy Somers,
who was Miss Emily Marvin. Mr. and Mrs. L. V.
Hunt, of Oakland, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Holli-
day, are two other happy young couples at Del Monte.
Automobile parties who go to spend the week end
are now very numerous at Del Monte.
"It is whispered that a well known young lady will
announce her engagement upon her return from
abroad, to an equally well known clubman, both
prominent in the Burlingame set. This is an old love
affair of long standing. The pretty girl 'tis said,
JiafflSaJi last won the reluctant consent of her family.
At a most daintly appointed dinner last week Mrs.
Charles J. Stoval made Mr. Hutchinson and Mr.
Remington, of Philadelphia the guests of honor. These
gentlemen are millionaires who have been in Cali-
fornia on business and pleasure combined. Others at
the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Ellicott and Miss
Adele Martels.
A large party of Shriners went in tally-hos from
Del Monte the other day and enjoyed the splendid
Seventeen Mile Drive.
Miss Jennie Blair left the City recently en route to
Paris where she will join her mother. She expects to
return to California late in the Autumn. Miss Blair
had as traveling companions Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Oxnard, who will accompany her as far as New York.
Judge Lawlor, Mr. and Mrs. William T. Jeter and
Miss.Henny were amongst the recent week end visitors
at Del Monte.
An interesting wedding took place in Oakland on
Wednesday evening last, when Miss Ida Larkey, sister
o-FDr. Larkey, was married to Mr. John Jordan.
Mrs. Jerome Lincoln, with her son, Jerome, and
daughter, Miss Ethel, will soon leave for St. Plelena,
Adhere they will pass the Summer. The Lincoln
home on Harrison Street was one of the old land-
marks which the fire destroyed. Mrs. Lincoln
has been residing in Mrs. Jimmie Robinson's home
on Scott Street since the calamity.
Air. and Mrs. Charles S. Fee, Miss Marica G. Fee,
Miss Elizabeth Fee and D. Jerome Fee spent the week'
likI at'Del Monte.
Mrs. 'Charles Sedgwick Aiken, with her little
son. has been at Del Monte for the past month.
Mrs. Horace Blanchard Chase, who is staying at
Miramar where she has a cottage, acted as hostess
at a dinner before the play and later the guests were
with her in a box.
Mrs. Clinton B. Hale, Mrs. Harold Sidebotham and
Miss Ellen Chamberlain came to San Francisco this
week from Santa Barbara, for a stay of a month.
The women are all prominent in Society circles and
are missed in the channel city for even as short a
stay as that. The Hales are occupying Capt. Bull's
home on upper State Street, Santa Barbara, one of
the handsome places of the town.
The J. Parker Whitneys have arrived at Del Monte
for the Summer. It is their custom. Mr. Whitney
is an expert and tireless angler, and salmon fishing in
Monterey Bay is the greatest sport in the world.
Sylvia Harris and Dr. Samuel Hardy were quietly
married in Berkeley on Thursday May 9th, and left
immediately for their new home in Tonopah, Nev.
The bride is a well known lady physician, having
attained great prominence as an authority upon the
ear and throat. She had also been associated in the
Telegraph Hill Home Settlement Club with Miss Bettie
Ashe. Mrs. Hardy is the daughter of the late Dr.
Harris, formerly of Virginia City, Nevada, and sister
of Mrs. Benjamin G. Lathrop, whose magnificent
voice has often been heard in the cause of charity in
this City and New York. Mrs. Lathrop recently
returned from New York, where she has been study-
ing music, and has been advised to go upon a concert
tour with flattering offers.
Mrs. John Parrott will soon leave for Europe.
Later, Mr. Parrott and the children will join her;
they will all pass the Summer abroad. Miss Abby
Parrott, the eldest daughter, has been abroad some
time. Mrs. Parrott is the only daughter of the
late Joseph A. Donohoe and as Miss Minnie
Donohoe was a most charming and attractive girl..
Joseph Donohoe married Miss Christine Parrott.
The old Donohoe home on Rincon Hill, which fell I
victim to the flames, was one of the land-marks
of that part of the City.
Shipping
Family orders is our trade. If out of town
or going out for a limited time, let us pack
and ship by express or freight whatever you
require.
QUALITY SUPREME
EVERYTHING HERE
Depend on us making your outing a success.
SMITHS, CASH STORE, Inc.
14 to 24 Steuart St., S. F.
May catalogue ready.
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27
The new Reginald Apartments on Pacific Avenue,
fctween Wester and Fillniore Streets, now being
instructed by E. J. Vogel, the well-known archi-
tect, bids fair to l>c one of the handsomest and most
Kunplete family residences in the City. It will
Bnsist of five, six, seven, and twelve-mom apart-
ments with one <>r two tile baths in each. It is
understood that the owner. .Mr. Vogel, has sparerl
no expense in making- this .structure the most com-
plete and modern in all its essentials that has as
yet been erected. It is expected that the building
will be completed by September 1st. Mr. Vogel
is a Xew Yorker by birth and a San Franciscan by
choice, he having lived here and practised his pro-
fession for twelve years. He got his architectural
training with the leading firms of New York, and
prior to that studied designing in the art department
of C. & F. Vogel & Co.. the wholesale furniture
manufacturers of Xew York, in which firm his
father was interested. An architect could have no
etter preliminary training.
The breakfast given by the Sorosis Club at the
Hotel Fairmont to about one hundred twenty-five
members was the occasion for a number of interest-
ing toasts. Mrs. E. B. Young, the re-elected
president was the guest of honor.
Miss Grace Baldwin writes interesting letters of
tier travels abroad ; she is a clever girl, inheriting
I fine mind from her father, the late Lloyd Bald-
win, who was a well-known land lawyer. Mrs.
Baldwin was a Miss Wheaton, whose sister, Miss
'arrie Wheaton, married Mr. George Coring Cun-
lingham, a member of an early-day family here.
Miss Baldwin's marriage to Mr. Selfridge will oc-
ur shortly after her return to California, which
ivill be in a few months.
Automobile News
I Limousine cars finished in other than the con-
ditional somber colors are gaining popularity.
VIr. Thomas F. Daly, the millionaire mine owner
)f Denver, has a Winton limousine finished in a
>eautiful red, while Mr. E. B. Cadwell, screw manu-
facturer of Xew York and Detroit, will this week
"eceive delivery from the Winton factory of a
imousine which is sure to attract attention in its
jolden brown dress and gold leaf striping. Inside,
tfr. Cadwell's car has golden brown upholstery and
latural mahogany wood finish.
Mr. Harry Chickering's new Thomas limousine
irrived from the factory and was recently delivered
.0 him. It is Mr. Chickering's intention to leave for
\Tew York within a few weeks. He will have his
nachine shipped and tour through the East during
he Summer months.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Oddie, of Tonopah,
;pent some time in this City, touring around in a
Type "XIV" Winton, as guests of the Pioneer
Vitomobile Company.
There is a great demand at the present time for
"Runabouts." A new machine of this class is the
White which for fast long distance is hard to excel.
( >f 20-steam horse-power, ample water and gaso-
line facilities, 34 x 4 inch tires, and all the strength
and endurance of a touring car, it strongly recom-
mends itself to anyone called upon to do runabout
duty. If you are thinking of a runabout here is
the car for you with reserve power in plenty. In
fact it is a touring car chassis and runabout in one.
Mr. J. H. Durst shipped his model "A" ( Mdsmo-
bile to Tonopah. Nevada, where he will use it in
traveling to and from the different mining cam] is.
Mrs. W. F. Hunt, of San Jose, drove her model
"M" Winton touring car to this City, and will re-
main here for a couple of weeks, touring arpufid
the town and across the bav.
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodabons. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Ttburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOO'DES,
Via Kelseyville P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cal.
H, C. RAAP, Manager
Telephone Franklin 588
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 O'FARRELL ST., San Francisco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea. Coffee, Wine or Beer. I I a
A LA CARTE al all hours
Regular Dinner 50c
Special Sunday Dinner 75c
AL. CONEY J. HUFF
Kadee Hammam Baths
TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Night
GEARY AND COUGH STREETS
Smelly Firsl Class Phone Wesl 3725
Telephone_
Established 1890
r. rossi
DomiSic""1 Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Depot of Italian-Swiss Colony Wines
Specialties: Belmont, Jesse Moore, A. P. Hotalin8's O. P. S., Loveland Rye,
King Wm. Fourth Scotch, Glenrosa Scotch, Dew of the Grampians, A. V. H.
Gin, Buchu Gin, Cognac Brandy, Bisquit Dubouche Cognac, Fernet Branca
Italian Vermuth, French Vermuth.
217-219 Washington St., Bet. Front and Davis
DIRECTORY
OF LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE
MISCELLANEOUS.
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE, 226 Oak St.,
S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
BOLTE & BRADEN, 105-107 Oak St., S. F. ;
Phone Market 2837.
COOPER ADV. AGENCY, F. J., West Mis-
sion and Brady Sts.
DAKE ADV. AGENCY, Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temp'y 1440.
FISHER, L. P. ADV. AGENCY, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Franklin 5S4.
TOHNSTON-DIENSTAG CO., 2170 Post St.,
S. F.
ANTIQUE DEALERS.
THE LOUIS XIV. Curios, Objects d'Art',
Miniatures, Paints, Porcelains, Jewels, etc.,
C. V. Miller, 1117 Post, near Van Ness.
ARCHITECTS.
REID BROS, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough at.; S. F.
THOS. J. WELSH, JOHN W. CAREY, asso-
ciate architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
GUMP, S. & G., 1645 California St., S. F.
SCHUSSLER BROS., 1218 Sutter St.
ATTORNEYS,
DORN, DORN & SAVAGE, 717 Van Ness
Ave.
DINKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W., 1265 Ellis
St., S. F. Phone West 2355.
HEWLETT, BANCROFT AND BALLAN^
TINE, Monadnock Bldg. ; Phone Temp'y
972.
EDWARD B. YOUNG, 4th Floor, Union
Trust Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temp'y 833.
GOLDSTONE, LOUIS, 1012 Fillmore St.
Phone Park 864.
MAROIS, T. M., 1756 Fillmore St., S. E. cor.
Sutter. Phone West 1503.
KING, CHAS. TUPPER, 1126 Fillmore St.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
PIONEER AUTOMOBILE CO., 901 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F. ; and l2th and Oak Sts.,
Oakland.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO., Market
and Van Ness Ave., S. F.
AUTO LIVERY CO., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
BOYER MOTOR CAR CO., 408 Golden Gate
Ave. Phone, Franklin 655.
LEE CUYLER, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
MIDDLETON MOTOR CAR CO., 550 Gol-
den Gate Ave., S. F.
MOBILE CARRIAGE CO., Golden Gate
Ave. and Gough Sts., S. F.
PACIFIC MOTOR CAR CO., 376 Golden
Gate Ave.
BANKS.
ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK, Ltd., cor.
Pine and Sansome Sts., S. F.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST CO., cor. California and Montgom-
ery Sts., S. F.
CENTRAL TRUST CO., 42 Montgomery St.,
S. F.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Bush and San-
some Sts., S. F.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK, 108 Sutter St.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, 526 California St., S. F.
HALSEY, N. W. & CO., 413 Montgomery
St., S. F.
HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, Jones and McAllister Sts., S. F.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO, 710 Market St., opp. 3d St.,
S. F.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, N.W.
cor. California and Montgomery Sts., S. F.
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, 316 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
THE MARKET STREET BANK AND
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, Market and 7th
Sts., S. F.
UNION TRUST CO., 4 Montgomery St., S. F.
WELLS FARL.O-NEVADA NATIONAL
BANK, Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
BREWERIES.
ALBION ALE AND PORTER BREWERY,
1007-9 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
S. F. BREWERIES, LTD., 240 2d St., S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
MONTAGUE, PHIL S„ 339 Bush St., Stock
Exchange Bldg.
ROLLINS, E. H. & SONS, 804 Kohl Bldg. ;
Telephone Temp'y 163; S. F.
ZADIG & CO., 324 Bush St., S. F.
WILSON, J. C, 488 California St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION, Church and Market Sts.,
S. F.
CARDS, INVITATIONS, ETC.
WOOD, GEO. M. & CO., engravers, 1067
O'Farrell St., above Van Ness.
CARPET CLEANING.
SPAULDING, J. & CO., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave.; Phone Park 591.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
HUB, THE, Chas. Keilus & Co., King Solo-
mon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore Sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
JOHNSON LOCKE MERCANTILE CO.,
213 Sansome St., S. F.
MALDONADO & CO., INC., 156 Hansford
Bldg., 268 Market St. Phone Temp'y 4261.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
FISHER CONSTRUCTION CO., 1414 Post
St., S. F.
TROUNSON, T., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176
Ash Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
NATHAN DOHRMAN CO., 1520-1550 Van
Ness Ave.
DENTISTS.
KNOX, DR. A. J., 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
TWIST, DR. T. F., 1476 Eddy, nr. Fillmore
St. Phone West 5304.
DESKS AND CHAIRS.
PHOENIX DESK & CHAIR CO., office fur-
niture, 1538 Market St., west of Van Ness.
Phone Market 2393.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
CITY OF PARIS, Van Ness Ave. and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
WHITE HOUSE, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
St., S. F.
EXPRESS.
WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Ferry Bldg.,
and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
CRESCENT FEATHER CO., 19th and Harri-
son Sts., S. F.
FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE PHOTOS.
RUE. JAMES 0„ 1067 O'Farrell St. Phone
Franklin 2603.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
OMEY & GOETTING, Geary and Polk Sts.,
S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
CAREW & ENGLISH, 1618 Geary St., bet.
Buchanan and Webster Sts., S. F. ; Phone
West 2604.
PORTER & WHITE, 1531 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
GAS STOVES,
S. F. GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Franklin and
Ellis Sts.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
BULLOCK & JONES COMPANY, 801 Van i
Ness Ave., cor. Eddy St., S. F.
HANSEN & ELRICK, 1105-7 Fillmore St.,
nr. Golden Gate Ave. ; Phone West 5678.
GOLD AND SILVER PLATING.
B ELLIS, JOHN O., Mfg, gold and silver-
smith, 1624 California St., nr. Van Ness.
Phone Franklin 2093.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
ILS, JOHN G. & CO., 827 Mission St., S.' F.
MONTAGUE, W. W. & CO., Turk and Polk
Sts., S. F.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
DAVIS, W. & SON, 2020 Howard St., bet. I
16th and 17th, S. F.
LEIBOLD HARNESS AND CARRIAGE
CO., 1214 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
DILLON, TOM, Van Ness Ave. and McAllis-
ter St.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
KEELEY INSTITUTE, H. L. Batchelder,
Mgr. ; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
JEWELERS.
BALDWIN JEWELRY CO., 1521 Sutter St.,
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. F.
SHREVE & CO., cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Ness and Sacramento St., S. F.
SCHMIDT, R. H. & CO., 1049 Fillmore St.,
nr. McAllister St. Phone Park 1209.
LAUNDRIES.
LA GRANDE LAUNDRY, 234 12th St., S. F.
PALACE HOTEL LAUNDRY and KELLY
LAUNDRY CO., INC., 2343 Post St.
Phone West 5854.
LIFE INSURANCE.
HUNTINGDON, ARTHUR P., 925 Golden
Gate Ave. Phone Park 515.
LUMBER.
UNION LUMBER CO., office 909 Monad-
nock Bldg.
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
BEKINS' VAN AND STORAGE CO., 13th
and Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13
and 1016 Broadway, Oakland.
ST. FRA..CIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COMPANY, Office 1402 Eddy St.; Tel.
West 2680.
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
DEANE, JNO. J., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Sts.; Phone West 7291.
WARE, JOHN H„ 307 Monadnock Bldg.,
Depositions carefully attended to. Phone
Temp'y 972.
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29
The ingenuity of the Chinese in surmounting
difficulties is well illustrated by the following dia-
logue, which recently took place on the Imperial
( hi n esc Railway :
Traveler: I wish to ship these two dogs to
Peking. What is the rate "J
Railway Official: No got any rate for clog; one
dog all same one sheep ; one sheep all same two
pig; can book four pig.
"But one dog is only a puppy ; he ought to go
for half fare."
"Can do, all right." Then, turning to his clerk,
"Write three pig," he said.
The weather man climbed to the top of his ob-
servation tower and began to observe.
"We will probably have a long and severe fall,"
he said.
Just then he lost his balance and fell to the floor
twenty feet below.
"Thank g'oodness !" he exclaimed, as he proceeded
to pick himself up. "One of my predictions has
come out."
Marker — "Longreen is a far sighted chap, isn't
he?"
Parker — "That's what. Since I touched him for
$10 he can see me three blocks away."
The Chicago
Honore Jaxson
ci.ilist whom President Roosevelt rebuked.
"Why is it," queried the inquisitive person, "that
you have never married?"
"Because," explained the scanty-haired policemtn,
"I've never been able to find a woman who was
willing to give bonds to keep the peace."
OIL COMPANIES.
STERLING OIL CO., 1491 Post St., cor.
Octavia. S. F.
OPTICIANS.
MAYERLE, GEORGE, German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F. ; Phone West 3766.
SAN FRANCISCO OPTICAL COMPANY,
"Spences," 627 Van Ness Ave. ; "Branch,"
1613 Fillmore.
STANDARD OPTICAL CO., 808 Van Ness
Ave., near Eddy St.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
KEEFE, J. H., 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F. ;
Tel. Franklin 2055.
TOZER. L. & SON CO., INC., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., near Fillmore.
PAINTS AND OILS.
BASS-HUETER PAINT CO., 1532 Market
St.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
CAL. PHOTO ENG. CO., 141-143 Valencia
St.
PHYSICIANS.
BOWIE. DR. HAMILTON C, formerly 293
Geary St., Paul BUlg., now 14th and Church
Sts.
BRYANT, DR. EDGAR R., 1944 Fillmore
St., cor. Pine; Tel. West 5657.
D'EVELYN, DR. FREDERICK W., 2115
California St., S. F., and 2103 Clinton Ave.,
Alameda.
THORNE, DR. W. S., 1434 Post St., S. F.
POTTS, DR. JOHN S., 1476 Eddy St. Phone
West 1073. Residence, Hotel Congress,
Ellis and Fillmore. Phone West 4224.
PIANOS— MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
BALDWIN. D. H. & CO., 2512 Sacramento
St., and Van Ness at California.
REAL ESTATE.
HICKS & MACK. Real Estate and In-
surance, 2U91 Fillmore St. Phone West
72S7.
RESTAURANTS.
MORAGHAN, M. B., OYSTER CO., 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
OLD POODLE DOG, 824 Eddy St., near
Van Ness Ave.
ST. GERMAIN RESTAURANT, 497 Golden
Gate Ave.; Phone Market 2315.
SWAIN'S RESTAURANT, 1111 Post St.,
S. F.
THOMPSON'S, formerly Oyster Loaf, 1727
O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALES.
HERRING-HALL MARVIN SAFE CO.,
office and salesrooms, Mission St., bet.
Seventh and Eighth Sts. ; Phone Market
1037.
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER & WILSON and SINGER SEW-
ING MACHINES. 1431 Bush St., cor.
Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; Phone Franklin
301; formerly 231 Sutter St.
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES, J. W.
Evans, Agent, 1658 O'Farrell St., nr. Fill-
more. Phone West 3601.
STORAGE.
BEKINS VAN & STORAGE CO., 13th and
Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13.
PIERCE RUDOLPH STORAGE CO., Eddy
and Fillmore Sts.; Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
WALTERS & CO., formerly Shutts, Walters
& Co., 1608 Steiner St., S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
BACIGALUPI, PETER, 1113-1115 Fillmore
St., S. F.
TAILORS.
LYONS, CHARLES, London Tailor, 1432
■ Fillmore St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; 958
Broadway, Oakland.
McMAHON, KEYER AND STIEGELER
BROS., Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Farrell
and Fillmore.
REHNSTROM, C. H., 2415 Fillmore St., for-
merly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
THOMS, F., 1209 Mission St., corner of
Eighth, S. F.
TRICYCLES.
EAMES TRICYCLE CO., Invalid Chairs,
1808 Market St., S. F.
WINES AND LIQUORS— WHOLESALE.
BALKE, ED. W„ 1498 Eddy St., cor. Fill-
more.
BUTLER, JOHN & SON, 2209 Steiner St.,
S. F.
REYNOLDS, CHAS. M. CO., 912 Folsom
St., S. F.
RUSCONI, FISHER & CO., 649 Turk St.,
S. F.
SIEBE BROS. & PLAGEMAN. 419-42";
Larkin St.; Phone Franklin 349.
WENIGER, P. J. & CO., N. E. cor. Van
Ness Ave. and Ellis St. ; Tel. Franklin 309.
309.
WICHMAN, LUTGEN & CO., Harrison and
Everett Sts., Alameda, Cal. ; Phone Ala-
meda 1179.
WINES AND LIQUORS-RETAIL
FERGUSON, T. M. CO., Market Street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow Whiskey.
FISCHER, E. R., 1901 Mission St., cor. of
Fifteenth.
THE METROPOLE, John L. Herget and
Wm. H. Harrison, Props., N. W. cor. Sutter
and Steiner Sts.
TUXEDO, THE, Eddie Graney, Prop., S. W.
cor. Fillmore and O'Farrell Sts.
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
CO., 2401 Fillmore.
30
-THE WASP-
Amusements
The other evening I sought a per-
formance of "Anita, the Singing Girl,"
at the Central, in order to find if there
has "been any development in melo-
drama within the last few weeks. The
announcement that the play was a
New -Xork and Boston success, did
hot, for some reason, give me the
proper flush of enthusiasm. So I be-
took myself to some of the element-
ary aStls for working up to 50 cents
worth of applause. Bought a Popular
Song Sheet for 5 cents on the sidewalk ;
titriyxJTTiip my coat collar, and entered.
Sat down. Stuck my toes in the foot-
rests; purchased a cornucopia (cor-
rect pronunciation, cornycopie) and
waited for the advertisements to go
tip„ Only one lack of detail marred
the scheme thus far, and that was the
absence of a gallery. A melodrama
without a gallery is like the play of
Hamlet in San Francisco with Porter
Garnet left out. However, I sat well
in front and imagined the gallery
where it should have been.
Examination of the program failed
to ascertain the theme of the drama;
whether it would be knives or poison.
But as soon as the bald-headed man
beg^ivto-:tune the big buzz-buzz fiddle,
it was; "plain that the hero did not
forge the check. When Anita ap-
peared in the first act, villainy had
already opened up a gap in our fears.
There were four villains; which cer-
tainly was generous on the part of the
management. There was the vil-
Iainess and the white-vest villain and
the sombrero villain and the billyjack
villain. Anita was a street singer.
There was National banking blood in
her veins ; and, not only blood will
tell but money talks; and the synopsis
of scenery stated the last act to be at
The Phoenix Club on Ladies' Day.
The heroine could not be kept out of
the last act, and her status was evi-
dent. Supposedly she was an orphan;
but ten cents of the fifty-cent admis-
sion had not been used up before her
father was apparent. He was the
ICECREAM
-''1536-8 Fillmore St.. S.F.
hero, once the eligible John Baird, but
now, because he was honest and did
not forge the check, was become a
drunkard, living under the nom de
cognac of John Scott. This part was
impersonificated by Joseph O'Meara,
a hold-over from the Nance O'Neil
Company. O'Meara had a voice like
Marc Anthony speaking to the gladia-
tors about Marco Bozzaris.
* * *
The treatment accorded John Baird
by his enemies was a rank injustice.
Here we have a man named Malcolm
Danvers. Sixty years ago he forged
a check. Without any other than the
most selfish motives, he impugns the
dishonor thereof unto an innocent young
man. The victim of this Stygian
trick is grieved. Because, when — Now
look here; you wouldn't like it your-
self, when your own father, your own
fleshunblud, believed you guilty. For
my part, I do not believe the stage is
the proper place for the exposition of
such vice. It is not a play, therefore,
where you would wish to take your
sister. Indeed, nowadays, few men
take their sisters to the theatre, and
just on that account.
* * *
It is the earnest desire of those
whose interests are hostile to John
Baird, that news of his death be for-
warded to them. To this end they
offer a thousand dollars. The inky-
eyed villainess, who during most of the
play, strikes an attitude of 15 degrees
off the perpendicular, and 22x/i de-
grees when thwarted; the full-fed,
evening-dress, teeth-gnash villain; the
masquerade-costume, Spanish sub-vil-
lain, with chili con carne voice; and
the plugugly villain — all contrive to
get Baird into harm's way. But their
attempts end in fizzles. The most
active accomplice is Manuel Gomez.
And he is afflicted with falling sickness
from frequent applications of the
hero's fist, to the uproarious applause
and whistling of the second row, aisle
seat — myself.
Miss Juliet Chandler took the part
of Anita, or rather, both parts, for
she male-attires herself most of the
time.
* * *
In a scenic way, the third act, with
its reception in the Tremont mansion,
was not as gorgeous as possible. Two
sofa-pillows on an electro-plated set-
tee do not make a mansion. And the
Society women entertained by the
Tremonts looked as if they might
have been striking telephone girls.
No; on second thought, they were not
striking at all.
* * *
I should like to impart the ending
of this drama; but it would not be
fair to the company. Go and see the
play for yourself the next time it is
produced here.
THE FIRST NIGHTER.
A Phony Tennyson
Break, break, break,
My phone connections — see?
And I would that my tongue could
utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
O, well for the telephone girl
That she's only in reach of my
shout;
O, well for the manager, too,
That his lies cannot be found out.
And the damnable breaks go on.
To the ruin of business hopes;
But, O, for a chance to revenge my-
self
On the telephone central dopes!
Break, break, break.
And I rave most bootlesslee!
But the tender grace of a placid mind
Will never come back to me.
* * *
When He Is Noble
Little Willie — "Say, pa, what is one
of nature's noblemen?"
Pa — "A candidate for office just be-
fore election day, my son."
DR. H. J. STEWART
Organist of S;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Shcrith Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition.
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
Church Choir
Teacher of Voice, Piano and Organ
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phone
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 240! Channing Way. Tues-
day and Friday.
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* * *
I. o. u.
Downing — "What have you named
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Upson — "Ira Ormond Upson."
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* * *
Cause and Effect
Mrs. Biggs — "I don't see as much
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* * *
Conscientious
"Are you willing to swear that the
defendant was under the influence of
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swear. But I'm willing to bet you
$5 to a nickel that he was."
* * #
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Muggins — "I wonder why artists
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Buggins — "So the purchasers won't
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■s * *
Helped to Make Him Good
"During our courtship," said Mrs.
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friend.
"Yes," continued the fair widow.
"I did the cooking myself and he died
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* * *
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"There is a far-away look in your
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The jury awarded me $50,000 ali-
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* * #
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"Say, paw," said little Tommy Tod-
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wedding was a very quiet affair. What
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"It's one way of calling attention
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SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 16, 1907
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By AMERICUS
San Francisco has a very bad name in the East
at present. This City is regarded as a storm center
where the powers of evil are likely to break forth
in riot at any moment. For that reason outside
capital, we are told, is timid about coming here
for investment.
This estimate of us is incorrect. San Francisco
is less likely to be affected by dangerous riots than
any large city in America. Alarmists overlook the
fact that we have here one of the largest military
posts ; and it will become larger every year. The
gatling guns of the Presidio are within twenty
minutes distance of the center of San Francisco.
If we had no military at all the contiguous army
post would be ample guarantee that the lawless
mob could ever obtain control in San Francisco
and destroy property at will. In half an hour
after the alarm was given troops would be in
the streets of San Francisco, and any one who
has ever seen the clash of disciplined and well led
soldiers with a mere mob of rioters knows how
few bayonets or sabers are required for such work.
At present the position of San Francisco is
doubly secure against the possibility of mob rule,
for in addition to the Federal troops we have the
assurance of aid when needed from the State
militia.
Governor Gillett, who is imbued with the deter-
mination not to be a mere official jellyfish, but a
factor in our State government, has just been
elected and will hold office for four years. The
Governor says that law and order must be enforced
regardless of disputes between employers and their
striking employes. If the City authorities cannot
enforce the laws the State will intervene and if
necessary invoke the Federal aid. There will be
very little rioting I can assure you under a Gov-
ernor who makes such promises and keeps his word.
With a man like Mr. Gillett at the head of the
militia, and a man like General Funston or some
other capable and patriotic commander in charge
of this army post, San Francisco is as safe from
mob rule and unrestrained rioting and plunder as
the City of Washington. It is as safe as any great
city in the world — safer even than many European
cities.
The election of Governor Gillett last November
showed quite conclusively that the labor union vote
is not as strong as most people imagined, and be-
sides that cannot be handled at will by labor party
demagogues. Mr. Gillett was blacklisted by the
American Federation of Labor, and all the power
that organization could exert was expended to de-
feat him. Mr. Gillett had voted in Congress against
the infamous anti-injunction bill which Samuel
Gompers, the President of the American Federation
of Labor, insisted should be passed. The bill re-
strained courts of law from issuing injunctions
against rioting strikers, and virtually gave such
men license to do as they pleased. Gillett voted
against the outrageous measure and the American
Federation declared, officially, through Gompers,
that the California Congressman should be punished
for his intelligence, honesty and patriotism in de-
feating an infamous and un-American piece of class
legislation.
Congressman Littlefield of Maine was also
marked for the slaughter by Gompers and so was
Speaker Cannon, Congressman Longworth and
other Republican representatives who had helped
to kill the anti-injunction bill. The American Fed-
eration of Labor sent a corps of its best stump
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speakers into Maine to create feeling against Little-
field, and it looked as if the effort might prove
successful. There was trouble in the Republican
party in Maine, over some local question, and the
Democrats had hope of making considerable gains,
but, nevertheless. Littlefield was elected and
actually ran ahead of his ticket. So much for the
concentrated effort of the American Federation of
Labor in Maine.
Here iii San Francisco we had an example of the
inability of Mr. Gompers and his organization to
defeat Mr. Gillett. It was announced by P. H.
McCarthy, with a great flourish of trumpets, that
he had been delegated by Gompers to see to it
that Gillett's goose was properly cooked. All the
unions were notified to vote against Gillett, and for
weeks the local halls thundered with denunciation
of the Republican candidate who had dared to obey
his conscience and vote against Gompers' anti-in-
junction bill. Gillett was elected.
The Union Labor party has not as many votes
as its leaders claim, and besides that the members
do not all vote like mere puppets when they go
into the election booths. Many a good honest
union man resents the dictation of the office-seeking
demagogues who try to boss him and votes for
the candidates he thinks are the most deserving.
Gompers himself only claims a membership of
one million four hundred thousand for organized
labor in all America, of these fully fifty per cent
are aliens without votes. In the Sailors' Union,
one of the strong organizations of San Francisco,
only three per cent are voters. So Andrew Furuseth,
the head of the Union, testified before an official
investigating body. The Carpenters' Unions of
this City are full of Swedes, Canadians, Englishmen,
Germans and Australians. Other unions are domi-
nated by foreigners.
No union labor candidate in this City running
on his own ticket alone has received over twelve
thousand votes, and most of them have received
under eleven. It is rather a remarkable thing that
this small minority of eleven or twelve thousand
voters, representing a foreign and entirely un-
American spirit and dominated by the worst class
of naturalized citizens should capture the govern-
ment of San Francisco, inaugurate an era of official
graft and lawlessness and attempt to deprive all
people outside of their organization of every con-
stitutional right possessed by free American citi-
zens.
ness, promptness and courage have already done
much to lift San Francisco out of her unfortunate
predicament and convince the outside world that
her decent citizens have the strength and the deter-
mination to restore her to her proper place of honor
amongst the most progressive and prosperous of
American communities.
Every business man in San Francisco who has
Eastern connections is well aware that our unfor-
tunate City is getting an awful reputation by rea-
son of Schmitz and his grafters, and the constant
turmoil of the labor unions. This has the imme-
diate effect of shortening credits in the East and
preventing Eastern houses from sending out large
stocks of goods here. As we draw most of our
supplies from the East we must suffer seriously
unless we come to our senses speedily, and suppress
the public disturbers. The following letter from
Chester W. Weaver, the well-known and much-
respected manager of Studebaker & Co. in San
Francisco, is highly interesting. Hundreds of local
business men here have received letters from the
Eastern correspondents similar to that which Mr.
Weaver quotes :
The Wasp Publishing Company,
No. 141 Valencia Street, City.
Gentlemen : —
Today we received a letter from one of our East-
ern connections in regard to the cancellation of some
orders which we found it necessary to make on
account of the uncertain conditions in San Fran-
cisco. This cancellation of goods amounts to sev-
eral thousand dollars, the goods being ordered some
time ago in anticipation of a properous year in San
Francisco. I certainly believe that the people of
San Francisco are going to have horse sense enough
to do everything they can to prevent serious
troubles, yet the Company which I represent, be-
ing- financially interested in the welfare of the
City, feel as if they could not afford to take chances
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The citizens of San Francisco have good cause
to be thankful for having in office at this juncture
a Governor like Gillett, who seems full of the deter-
mination to enforce his lawful authority when
needed. An irresolute and stupid man, or a selfish
demagogue in Governor Gillett's place just now
might cause serious complications that would do
a great deal of lasting injury to California. The
Wasp said when Governor Gillett was nominated
that he was incomparably the best of the candi-
dates for the place and as usual The Wasp's pro-
phecy has been verified. Governor Gillett's fair-
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Few people realize the many, many details good clothes go
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and put a lot of stuck in here for the supply of
the City trade which might be left on our hands
indefinitely.
In reply ti> the cancellation this Eastern connec-
tion writes us as follows, after stating that they
will hold up the i inlcr :
"( >ne thing sure, you are more than having your
share of trouble in San Francisco. In a letter writ-
ten on May 3d you mentioned the probability of
a street-car strike, and this has developed into an
actual fact. The Chicane i papers this morning give
quite a long article on yesterday's trouble in San
Francisco, which includes the shouting of quite a
lot ol fellows.
"Quite likely you people who live in San Fran-
cisco realize what a terrible amount of damage your
City Government troubles ami your labor troubles
are doing San Francisco, but I cannot believe that
any of you there can appreciate fully the extent
of this damage. San Francisco is getting to be a
by-word in the mouth of nearly every man. It
stands for everything that is disagreeable and mean
and the average business man today would think
no more of investing monev in San Francisco than
he would of throwing it in the river.
"The earthquake and fire was bad enough, but
your local Government and labor troubles have
done the town more harm than the earthquake and
fire did. As stated above, I do not believe you
people who are there can realize the immense
amount of harm that has been wrought and is
being done every day to your City."
I give you the above extract feeling that possibly
it might give you a pretty definite idea as to how
one representative Eastern business man feels in
regard to conditions here in San Francisco. This
letter is written by a man whose business ability
and knowledge of general business conditions
throughout the United States are unquestioned, and
if he makes the statement that Eastern business
men feel as a rule in this way there is absolutely
no question in regard to it.
In another portion of this letter he makes further
reference to the fact that he believes that some
of the daily papers of San Francisco are as much
responsible for the labor trouble that we are hav-
ing at the present time as any other one cause.
Yours very truly,
CHESTER W. WEAVER.
The local merchants have it in their power to
reform the daily papers very quickly. All that is
necessary is to withdraw all the advertising from
sheets that give aid and comfort to public dis-
turbers and help to keep the City in ruinous tur-
moil. No newspaper can stand that kind of reproof
long. The trouble is, however, that many of our
local business men give most of their patronage to
the journals that are constantly injuring the City,
just as many business men voted for Schmitz, not
once but three times in succession.
Lack of public spirit, lack of cohesion, and lack
of courage, have been three serious faults of our
business men. The reverse is trucof Los Angeles
and that is why the Southern City grows steadily
and prosperous.
Have our merchants ever pondered over the fact
that if San Francisco had grown in the last twenty-
five years as fast as Los Angeles we would have
a population of over three millions.
How can we grow fast when the man who is
surest of a public hearing, and who has the most
to say in our government, is the public disturber
and demagogue or the anarchist who threatens as
did Furuseth a few years ago to "make the grass
grow in the streets of San Francisco." Mr. Furu-
seth is one of the public-spirited citizens whom
Schmitz has called into council to devise means
for improving the existing conditions in San Fran-
cisco. Another patriot of the council is 1'. H. Mc-
Carthy, who not long ago presided at a red-Hag
meeting which paraded the streets after adjourn-
ing and fought the police.
We must set up an entirely different standard
of public opinion in San Francisco before this will
become a lawabiding town and attract desirable
citizens in the numbers that should come here.
The latest and most improved tactics of the
striking carmen in San Francisco is to assault and
intimidate the passengers and not the non-union
motormen and conductors. This shows that law-
lessness like any other form of human activity is
progressive. It is a higher order of criminality
to slug and insult the whole public then a few hun-
dred car-hands. It looks very much as if the
United States is overdue on a military dictatorship.
Between the two evils of the rule of the mob or
that of the military the latter is preferable.
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When the Yerkes-Mizner divorce was entrusted
to a referee, the papers in the case were sealed
tighter than a bottle of microbe culture. It was
a wise precaution, for some deadly germ in the
documents had already afflicted with loss of mem-
ory the minds of all who handled them, so that
these victims could not tell where the papers were,
what the}' were, nor why, whence or whatsoever.
When the referee's report came before Justice
Dowling for signature, he intimated that the at-
torneys might depart into the ethereal azure and
float through cerulean distance until they bring
him the judgment roll in the every-day, regular
non-volatile way. Acting on this galvanized hint,
counsel withdrew the decree, and if they wish it
signed, will have to eliminate provision for sealing.
This was a star-spangled rebuke that should
have been administered to other litigants who have
demanded sub-rosa divorces. Public policy requires
that proceedings of Court be at all times open to
public scrutiny. Whatever may be the vested in-
terest of outsiders in Mrs. Mizner's blood-and-
thundering with her husband, her case admits of
no exception that a dignified Court should grant.
Whoever makes use of State institutions becomes
to such extent a public character, leaving behind a
record subject to any citizen's attention. Moreover,
neither ecclesiastical, civil, sentimental nor ethical
law looks upon the divorce-principle as anything
more than excusable. It is a mere makeshift of
human intermingling and fallibility. And for this
reason alone should be stripped of secrecy.
But the Goddess of Justice, dropping her band-
age, scanned this case through her lorgnettes and
was inclined to permit an exclusive function in
which Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner might unhusband her-
self. The banquet of statutary evidence was pri-
vate ; but the menu should be disclosed, if only
to warn others from partaking of the same objec-
tionable stuff.
The prospective divorce of the Talbot J. Tay-
lors has been like putting belladonna on the eyes
of Gotham gossips ; and big lustrous glances of
curiosity are being turned toward the daughter
of James R. Keene. It was a cold snap to the
old man when he heard of the difficulty ; for he
thought his son-in-law the Nick Carter of Wall
Street. One newspaper quotes him as saying, "I'd
have given my right hand to prevent this." And
in the next paragraph Taylor is mentioned as
Keene's right hand. So the force of the Veteran
manipulator is convincing.
Taylor's people are the real terrapin a la
Maryland. Keene discovered the young man in
Baltimore, put him right into the danger zone of
Wall Street, and the firm was at times where the
dollars flew thickest. Their heroic attack on the
Metropolitan Railroad four years ago ended in the
Police Court. Subsequently Taylor made an as-
signment because of the souzing he got in the
Southern Pacific pool. However, he is still a pet
in New York clubdom, enrolled in Democratic
Clubs, Automobile Clubs, Hunting Clubs, and
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others, just club clubs. Mrs. Jessica Taylor is the
sister of Foxhall Keene, more noted for his work
m the saddle than at the ticker.
The Taylors have four children, among which
James R. romps like the best of them. He is
anxious for them, too. But his daughter declares
she has enough evidence to withhold them from
the claims of the father. So the grand-dad may not
lose his playmates. Taylor has put up the shutters
of his stock and bond shop and will view develop-
ments from Europe. The case has not thus far
redounded to the fame of any chorus girl. Still,
there is no dearth of illustratable news in the mar-
ket at present.
The generation of San Francisco who knew "Jim"
Keene as one of the leading stock brokers of the
old Board on California Street has almost passed
away. Keene was one of the first of the San Fran-
cisco speculators to take flight to Wall Street when
the mining stock market here began to decline.
About the same time went that heavy capitalist,
D. O. Mills, who put his spare millions into New
York real estate. The sandlot disturbances were
largely the cause of the hegira, for the City had a
superabundance of labor agitators in those days as
it has again after thirty years. No doubt history
will repeat itself and in a few years the public dis-
turbers will, like the sandlot scallawags, be scat-
tered to the four corners of the earth, or drop down
to the level of ordinary political bummers, who will
attract no more attention in their daily perigrina-
tions than a stray dog.
* * *
Dr. Robert W. Smith, who was drowned recently
at Antioch, was one of the best quartet tenors we
had. He was well known all over the State, having
traveled with the Knickerbocker Quartet of which
he was a member, and appeared at nearly every
political meeting of consequence where singing was
a feature of the exercises. He used to be a member
of the vested choir at Grace Episcopal Church when
that organization was in its prime.
Harry Lehr has not made his triumphal tour of
Europe for nothing. He came back in a very audi-
ble English check suit of clothes and decorated
with a monocle. When asked to say something
prophetic on the glad doings at Newport this Sum-
mer, he is reported to have screwed his single pane
into his eye and drawled in the best British English,
"Excuse muh !"
* * 3=
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Dukes are spending their
honeymoon at Del Monte, as are Mr. and Mrs.
Alexis D. Ehrman, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Brannan
and Dr. and Mrs. B. C. Ledyard of San Jose. Dr.
and Mrs. L. H. Love, who came to Del Monte on
their wedding trip a month or so ago, and then
went south, have returned and will remain some
months.
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•THE WASP
Miss Cornelia Stratton, who was married last
Saturday to William S. Parker, at the residence of
her father on Harrison Street, Oakland, is the
brilliant and attractive daughter of Frederick Strat-
ton, Collector of the Port, by his first wife, who
was a Miss Lee, daughter of one of the oldest and
best known families in Oakland. Mrs. Stratton
died when her daughter was very young. Her
uncle was Dr. Lee, who went abroad as the attend-
ing physician of a well-known young man two
years ago, suffering with consumption, the patient
dying abroad. Dr. Lee returning with the body,
was stricken with appendicitis and died before
reaching New York. Mr. Stratton's second wife
was a Miss Gregory, a relation of the much re-
spected family of Rev. Dr. McClure of Oakland.
All are prominent in the social set across the bay.
* * *
Miss Lucy Maria Mighell and Mr. Thomas James
Churchill, will be married on June 1st at the resi-
dence of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. Israel Kas-
how, on California Street. The ceremony will be
witnessed by relatives and intimate friends only,
but a reception from 12 :30 until 3 :30 will imme-
diately follow, and to which several hundred guests
have been invited. Miss Mighell's mother was a
Miss Kashow, whose parents owned all of the island
now known as Belvedere, and were very wealthy.
Thomas Churchill belongs to a very prominent
Southern family. He has resided but a few years
in this City. He occupies a confidential position
in the Southern Pacific Railroad office.
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It was an amusing case of mistaken identity in
regard to Mrs. Ynez Shorb White, said to have
taken a ride on the cars last Sunday. A gentleman
rung her up on the phone to congratulate her, feel-
ing she of course was bearing her honors thick
upon her. The lady informed him that although
her sentiments were with the Calhoun side, she was
not on the cars on that memorable occasion. She
added, however, that nothing would give her
greater pleasure than to head a party of women and
ride all over town, if it would help to convince the
public that the women of San Francisco do not favor
the strikers' methods.
The uncivility of the union carmen to women
passengers proved to be a bad thing for them when
they went out on strike. Never was there a more
boorish lot of public servants. It was next to im-
possible to extract a civil answer from most of
them, and many of them were deliberately insolent
if not insulting to unescorted women, who ventured
to ask proper questions as to the location of streets
and the best way to transfer. Very often those
arrogant officials carried women beyond their des-
tination and instead of apologizing remarked with
a sneer, "Oh you'se can get off at the next corner
an' walk back. 'Twill do you good." It is a bad
thing to get the women's ill will, and the union
carmen certainly did their level best to earn it.
* * *
When one of the Societv women boarded the
first car down town the other day a rough-looking
bystander yelled : "Scab." The lady smiled and a
more gallant union man standing near by remarked,
"Not scab, say beauty-spot."
* * *
In London's Old Bailey recently stood up for
trial Alexandrine Foucault, a woman in whose lurid
eyes was all that is Frenchiest, flagrant, sensational.
Rueful refugee from the flames of an illicit love.
At seventeen years she had been a temptress ; at
eighteen, a wife ; in two years more an amorous-
eyed widow ; wedded for the second time, and then
divorced. Pleading marriage with one who had
been sweetheart to her a girl and later during two
wifehoods, she harried him from his home. Finally
rejected, she threw vitriol at the face she had kissed
and recreantly followed under various conditions
for nine years.
Andre Delombre was a boy when first he walked
hand in hand with her past the mansions of Paris.
Both were of good family ; he the son of a former
Cabinet Minister. Throughout her marriage she
kept up the youthful trysting. She looked upon the
boy as the King of Love, and on the husband as a
pretender. When free, and her flamboyant blood
made to join passion and home, the passion fled
to London. She followed. She found him amid
his books and diagrams, unkind, sedate, an agri-
cultural engineer.
At a restaurant the pair contested over the mem-
ories of romance ; she yearning toward the old
paradise ; he pointing to the Angel of the Flaming
Sword. Gloating beside the restless lover, she gave
him the word of love or death. She would not
move from his path. Toward him were her arms;
behind her, the tomb. Pie declined the issue.
Tragically she emptied the contents of a vial
into her coffee cup ; tauntingly offered it to him.
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He was silent. S1k- clutched the cup with both
hands; and glared into its guli of death as a beast
glowering over a precipice, lie arose in his place
and returned her nothing save despair. Desperate,
she held the cup of hopelessness aloft and flung
it- burning mixture at him.
An interval.
The unwritten law was conjured to save her from
the penalt) of unlicensed ardor. The victim of her
last act iii the outside world opposed her gruesomely,
sightless in one eye. Thus stigmatized, he was
further reviled by the law. His conduct was de-
nounced l>v the Judge as brutally heartless — heart-
less to tin- unman and also to the two husbands, he
had by hi- long protracted liaison with her dis-
honored, lie told the jury to consider well that
fact and they without a moment's hesitation gave
her freedom again ; and she went back to the world.
* * :}=
The opening of the art gallery, established by
Frank C. Havens and F. M. Smith in Piedmont was
an event of importance to artists and of interest
to admirers of good pictures. The collection con-
tains paintings by many famous artists, both of
this country and Europe. A temporary structure
has been erected in Piedmont Park, in which the
canvasses are hung, but it is the intention of Mr.
Havens to erect a permanent gallery. Many can-
vasses from other collections besides those of Mr.
Havens and Mr. Smith have been loaned, notably
by \V. G. Henshaw, Duncan McDuffie, and the
Home Club. Amongst the California artists well
represented are William Keith, R. D. Yelland, Lillie
V. O'Ryan, R. L. Partington, A. Joullin, and
Cadenasso. Xotable among the foreign works are
a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds and a landscape
bv Corot. The gallerv is open to the public every
day from nine until five, including Sundays. It
has already become quite a mecca for art lovers.
* * #
( (wing to the Mtmchausen-like powers of certain
local Society reporters who can twist the strands
of a simple fact into a rope of romance, Society is
in a fog of doubt as to the whereabouts of that
popular voting matron, Mrs. Malcolm Henry. One
day they had her packing her trunks for a voyage
to Manila and the next getting ready for a trip to
the Eastern States. The real fact is that the lady-
is residing with her parents at their California Street
home, and has not the slightest intention of going
either to the Orient or the Atlantic Coast. Her
mother, Mrs. Voorhies, will leave early in Septem-
ber to attend the annual convention of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, which will meet in
Norfolk. Ya. Mrs. Voorhies will also see the James-
town Exhibition. She will visit her daughter Lelia,
who married Captain Scott, U. S. A., and is residing
at Xew York. She will also visit her eldest daugh-
ter Marie, who married Captain Young, U. S. A.,
and is now living in Philadelphia.
* * *
Spain can always be depended upon to do some-
thing farcical, when it gets up enough energy to
do anything at all. Newspapers all over the world
have lately been vieing to print the most effective
innuendo concerning the necessity (and source of
knowledge) of numerous grandees signing the baby
prince's birth certificate.
That the brocaded Dons should admit of no
hearsay, and demand absolute inherent but outrage-
ous knowledge of the queen's mothering is as con-
temptible as it is vain. Blue blood, like most
things mundane, is ultramundanely unprovable.
Any attempt at certainty herein is a- lame course
between the sublime and the ridiculous, with the
off leg on the sublime side. That Victoria did not
offer a changeling is now admitted. But that the
infant prince has Bourbon blood, is — well, fine old
Bourbon is sometimes a matter of faith as well as
bottle.
Airs. Herbert E. Law automobiled down to Del
Monte to visit here parents, who have a cottage
in Pacific Grove for the Summer.
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-THE WASP
MRS. B. J. EDGER
Mrs. Thomas B. Eastland, whose health has not
been good since the birth of her baby, is now at
Del Monte with Mr. Eastland. Mrs. Eastland was
Miss Helen Wagner, a charming Society girl, and
sister of Mrs. J. J. Moore.
Miss Constance Maynard Dixon, whose engagement
to Charles W. Duncan was recently announced, is the
daughter of Mrs. Henry J. Dixon of Sausalito. The
date of the wedding has not yet been fixed. Miss
Dixon belongs to one of our oldest and most aristo-
cratic families, her people being related to the May-
nard family and prominent in the southern set. May-
nard Dixon, the artist, is a brother, and Mrs. Arthur
Chambers, of Sausalito, a sister. Their father was a
well known clergyman.
Now and then, with the news of King Edward's
doings and undoings in English drawing rooms,
dining rooms, and where not, comes the information
that Mrs. George Keppel is still amusing His Maj
with stories, jests, puns and little fol-do-rols of fun.
But no example of her wit comes with the tale. There
are few things so exasperating as to be told of the
existence of a joke when the same is not forthcoming.
The latest is that when that admirable climber, known
in Chicago as Potted Palm, but in the more refined
elswhere as Mrs. Potter Palmer, was finally balanced
on the top rung of the ladder, she fed the King and
a table of eighteen at $82 per. Of course, Mrs. George
Keppel sat beside the royal Edward and plied him
with smart stories. Curiosity becomes purgatorial as
we read that the King laughed heartily.
It being known that this potentate has lived and
listened to so much that he has become about two
hundred weight of tired feeling, what is it that can
make him laugh heartily ? The First Gentleman of
Europe might be entertainable with anecdotes of
Chesterfield, Spencer and Ibsen. Don't be cocksure.
Why is Mrs. Keppel always there anyway? We are
willing to have it that the stories are nothing but what
could harmlessly be related to a three-months-old
infant. But we should like to have a sample for
analysis.
* * *
It must have been a great shock to the parents
of some of our young Society buds when they read
in the various morning papers that their daugh-
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Fifty Years Ago
it was comparatively easy to establish a reputation
for a piano in this country. There were but a few
competitors, and the artistic requirements were not
so exacting.
To-day, with artistic requirements at the highest
tension, conditions have changed. Reputation and
renown can be gained only through true, even
exalted merit — artistic and industrial superiority.
Generations of progress intervene between the old
and the new. Pianos, built upon the plans of fifty
years ago, may be well-known; the glory of their
past may cast a subtle light into their present — still
the march of progress is passing beyond them. A
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best results.
The "Baldwin" Piano is a result of new ideas
and new methods — the best result of progress in
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-THE WASP-
One of the Delishlful Vi
ters had attended the dance at the Fairmont Hotel
of which Supervisor Coleman, one of the confessed
boodlers. was a guest. It was an eye-opener to
many of the estimable young men of the Entre
Nous when they started out for the first dance and
observed the boodling Supervisor on the floor, for
there were many there who recognized him and
some became hotly indignant that he should have
the effrontery to present himself at such a function.
It so happened that Francis J. Heney was dining
at the Fairmont the night of the dance and some
of those who objected to the presence of the
boodler in the ranks of good company were strongly
in favor of going to Heney and demanding that
Coleman be put out. Heney has the boodlers so
terrified and Coleman would probably have waited
for nothing if Heney had chosen to tell him to make
himself scarce; but it was finally determined to let
the matter drop and take precautions that neither
Coleman nor any of the rest of his gang should
creep in again. Nobody can blame the young
men and women of the club for objecting to the
presence of the boodler, whose real place is behind
the bars of San Ouentin.
* * *
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, who is now in England,
is talking of buying a house in some quiet English
CARNELIAN BAY
Characteristic of Lake Tahoe.
village like St. Albans. She is debating whether
such a house or a cosy London apartment will best
suit her needs. She has left Munich where she
spent some months working on a new manuscript.
Mrs. Atherton says she likes her own country but
finds she can work better abroad.
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-THE WASP-
A rector who lacketh rectitude, an orphan of
slim seventeen, and a gnashing of fashionable teeth
cometh lately in the news from Hempstead, Long
Island. The Rev. Jeremiah Knode Cooke is verily
come unto thirty-six years of mortality and hath
unto himself a wife who resideth even now in the
land of Hempstead. Floretta, of the family of
Whaley, beauteous to behold but not yet developed
in the full beauty of woman, was given in care
as a ward by her dying father to the pastor Cooke
that he might teach her and lead her in the ways
of good counsel. And she was at that time and
when he baptized her fifteen years of age.
And one August Belmont, senior warden of St.
George's Episcopal Church, a rich and powerful
Democratic lord, who dwelleth eastward in Man-
hattan but who journeyeth to Long Island in the
Summer, to enjoy the coolness thereof and the wise
precepts of the part}' leaders and the bright gar-
ments of the women, is now hot upon the shameful
trail of the eloping ones, and saith : "I will get that
man if it is the last thing I do." And he waxed
exceeding wroth.
And it is said that this Jeremiah was in receipt
of two thousand pieces of silver which he gat from
the Van Renssallaer-Kennedy wedding ; and much
other sums gat in the ways of exacting promises
from men and women to live and cherish each
other until death should them part.
And he gave not this money unto his wife, from
sums unto himself and took him to the damsel
Floretta, who was even up to that time one among
whom death had not him parted, but retained the
school maidens ; and the two did take unto the far-
away with speed, even lickettysplit did they go,
and whereunto no man knoweth.
Now is Jeremiah Knode Cooke deposed from the
priesthood ; but the virgins of Hempstead are weep-
ing for Floretta, wondering where she may be ; so
that they cannot study their studies.
Philo McGiffert, whom Richard Harding Davis
mentions in his "Real Soldiers of Fortune," and
who at the Naval Academy was a classmate of
Arthur H. Dutton, the newspaper man of this
City, was a strike-breaker at one time. He took
an engine out of the roundhouse at Pittsburg when
no one else dared to.
* * *
Mrs. Brooke Wright has been seriously ill at
the French Hospital, having undergone an operation
for the throat. Her many friends will be delighted
to learn that her condition has so much improved
that the surgeons say she is on the road to com-
plete recovery. Mrs. Wright was the attractive
Alma Beatty, only daughter of Chief Justice and
Mrs. Beatty, whoce marriage took place five years
ago. Mr. Wright is the youngest son of the late
Judge Shelden S. Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Wright
have two young sons.
* * *
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, Miss Jean Reid, Miss
Gladys Mills and Miss Beatrice Mills are to spend
the season in London. Many American girls will
spend the season in London, which practically
opened ten days ago, .with the return of King- Ed-
ward from his Continental trip. Miss Jean Reid
is to be presented at Court. Miss Reid's mother
is the only daughter of D. O. Mills, the banker.
Ogden Mills, the father of Miss Gladys and Miss
Beatrice Mills, the pretty twins who always create
a great furor in London, are Miss Reid's cousins.
* * *
Wade Hampton Foulkes, who was one of the
first passengers to board a street car in San Fran-
cisco during the strike, is well known in social
circles. His name Wade Hampton is significant
and his late father, Dr. John Franklin Foulkes,
came from North Carolina, where such a little thing
as a flying brick would cause no more terror than
the buzz of a mosquito. Dr. Foulkes was one of
the prominent physicians of Oakland and reared
a family there noted for their good looks. They
moved in the best Societv. Miss May Foulkes,
who is so well known and so much admired in
Society here, is a sister of Wade Hampton Foulkes.
Mrs. J. Mora Moss, wife of Dr. J. Mora Moss, is
another sister. These ladies are enthusiastic mem-
bers of the Albert Sidney Johnson Chapter, U. D. C.
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II
An interesting wedding winch t.«>k place in San
Rafael recently was that ■>! Miss Lulu Lownsberry
and Dr. B. C. Ledyard. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. William Rader of San Francisco.
Dr. and Mrs. Ledyard arc- spending their honey-
n ii a; Del Monte. They will reside in San Jose.
Dr. Ledyard belongs to the Corey family, one of
the oldest ami most respected families in San Jose,
and closely identified with its business and social
Interest since pioneer da} s.
* * *
All the- San Francisco people of the leisure classes
who can get their financial affairs in shape are flit-
ting t" Europe. The Walter Hobarts have gone
to augment the California colony in Paris. Mrs.
Hohart is the daughter of the late Captain Williams
■ ■I the I'. S. X., who for many years resided in
San Rafael.
* * *
The wedding day of Brother Charles J. Dick-
man "f Bohemia in general, and the Bohemian Club
in particular, has been set for the first week in
June. The bride-to-be is Miss Carlotta Upton. Mr.
Dickman will fill in the pauses of his honeymoon
at Monterey by repainting the picture which the
Bohemian Club purchased from him and which was
fortunately burned up in the great fire. When a
true artist has the monev in his pocket the burning
up hi> paintings by fire is a matter of indifference.
The burning up by the critics is a slightly more
serious affair.
* * *
Among Californians visiting in Washington
recently were Dr. and Mrs. Philip King Brown,
guests of Mrs. C. J. Hillyer, of that city. Mrs.
Brown was the Miss Nellie Hillyer. who was well
known in Washington Society, being often a guest
"i Airs. George Hearst. Mrs. Duprey. the first wife
of Eugene Duprey. is a sister of Mrs. Brown. Mrs.
0. D Baldwin. Jr., was Miss Duprey.
* * *
Mis> Kitty Nolan, whose death has occurred in
Paris, left San Francisco only a few months since.
Some twenty years ago Miss Nolan was one of the
handsomest women in America. She was a blonde
with a beautiful face and perfect form, and susceptible
mankind lost their heads over her. She had admirers
by the score, but the one who seemed to be regarded
with most favor was Judge Ward McAllister. When
Mr. ( 'avendish, the nephew of the Duke of Devonshire,
was out here some fifteen years ago he was said to have
become intensely devoted to Miss Nolan, but her en-
gagement to Judge McAllister prevented the marriage
which otherwise would have surely followed. This
was indeed a romantic complication, for Mr. Cavendish
was wealthy as well as nobly connected, and all that
Judge McAllister had was a profession without clients,
and family pedigree without coin. The poor Judge
has been a hopeless invalid for years and is now a
helpless one as well. Paralysis has had the unlucky
clubman in its deadly grasp for a long time, and he
has lost even the power of speech. He lost the power
of locomotion some time ago. In a private hospital
at San Rafael the once dapper clubman awaits the
end, which cannot be far off and which would be a
merciful delivery. Miss Nolan had for several years
been an invalid and her death from a stroke of apo-
plexy, though sudden, was not unexpected.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Whitney are at Del Monte.
visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. Parker Whitney, who are
now established there for the Summer, and have
had their automobile sent to them.
Henry j. Crocker, James H. Bishop and Edward
Bishop, in one machine, and L. C. Sheldon, L. A.
Steiger and J. M. McDonald, Jr., in another, mo-
tored to Del Monte and spent about a week there.
They had some good fishing at Rancho Del Monte
during their stay.
E. M. Hecht and G. H. Taubles went down in a
machine to Del Monte and remained longer than
the week they expected to spend there. Most peo-
ple do.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Murphy, H. R. Simp-
kins, William T. Coleman and Charles Freeborn
automobiled to Del Monte last week.
On the occasion of a dinner last Saturday even-
ing at the Fairmont grill, given b" Dr. and Mrs.
George H. Martin to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ford,
the famous gold service, which had never been
used, was brought forth. Mr. and Mrs. Ford for-
merly resided at the Palace Hotel.
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-THE WASP-
MRS. BUTTERS
In Alton, which is sometimes called the Schenec-
tady of Illinois, lives Mary Reasley. Sad to say, she
is neither an heiress nor a divorcee, nor even owns
a runabout. She is not, however, unworthy of men-
tion, as her idea of woman's prerogative, if properly
carried out and adapted to more prominent sur-
roundings, would prove a benefit to the sex.
Mary Reasley is the wife of a Constable. A Con-
stable is without doubt handy to have around the
house ; for should a wife commit any burglary,
battery, arson, or common misdemeanor, she need
not wait for an outsider to make the arrest, but
have the act performed by her own husband.
It so happened. Reasley, nothing loth, started
in to do his duty. There was a preliminary scuffle ;
but the man with the star had the best of it. Seized
his wife, and inside of ten minutes, worked her
through a drizzle of kitchen ornaments and house-
hold paraphernalia to the front door. Six blocks
to the Central Police Station. From one side of
the street to another, bruising the bark off trees
and paint from fences, the couple made the battle-
line several times the linear distance to their desti-
nation. The woman's battle cries and mercy howls
were enough for ten killed, twenty-seven wounded
and a hundred missing. When the couple arrived
at the station, she was a trifle decolette on one side
and had an all-over effect on her clothes as of
drawn work.
Appearing before the Chief of Police, she ad-
dressed him for five minutes at the rate of 375
words a minute, or in all about 1875 words, some
of which were excusably ungrammatical. John
Reasley, being only a Constable, was ignorant of
the exact legal term to describe his wife's offense.
She had broken a dish at home, and he had
threatened to arrest should she dare to break an-
other.
Smash ! And with malice aforethought, too.
Contrary to expectations, the culprit was dis-S
charged with the honors of war. The Chief then
turned to his man and stocked him up with maxims
for public and home use.
* * *
Society is not all bubbles and wedding cake.l
Figuratively it has, for its well-measured splendors,
corkers and bakers of its own. And they drudge
as effusively in creating these honors as do work-
men over their humbler products. The pleasure-
seekers have their paradise and their bottomless pit,
their philosophers, idealists, favor-merchants, rulers
and slaves.
One of the weariless assistants in San Francisco's
Smart Set is Mrs. Ynez Shorb White. Her post isj
that of an observatory in the social Greenwich,
where she notes to a degree, and fractionally, those
who lie east or west of the golden meridian. She
is more than an observor ; she is a toiler in amuse-
ment, a regent, a yeoman of the guards, a pastor
and an executioner, a dictator and a steward. She
is satrapess of the debutantes and empress of the
toast-masters — ubiquitous and omniscient. Whether
dispensing smiles in the ball room or handing' out
little shoes and stockings at a refugee camp, or
putting Society on skates, she is the same, suave,
modest, infallible.
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
-THE WASP-
13
MISS EUGENIE THAIS LAWTON
N'n doubt the remarkable woman's passing; away
was, as often occurs in such cases, a peaceful and
painless transition from sleep to unconsciousness
and eternal resl.
Mrs. Salisbury's lather was a partner of Chief
justice lieatty's father in the early-day law firm of
I '.catty & Robinson: Her mother was a Miss Crit-
tenden, sister of the late A. P. Crittenden, who was
the father of Mrs. Sydney Van Wyck, Sr., and Mrs.
Laura Sanchez of this City. Crittenden is a good
name in the South. The relatives of the Salisbury's
here are numerous and include many well-known
families of Southern descent. Those popular and
clever young matrons, Mrs. C. S. Aiken and Mrs.
George Beardesley, are neices of Mrs. Salisbury, be-
ing the daughters of one of her brothers who was
associated in the well-known law- firm of Jarboe
& Harrison, some twenty-five years ago.
The tragic death of Mrs. Salisbury's only son.
Sydney, a short time ago, was the second affliction
sustained by her family, and the passing away of
her husband, Mr. Monroe Salisbury, makes the third
death in a few years.
Dr. H. J. Stewart's new mass in D minor, ren-
dered under his direction at the dedication of St.
Dominic's Church, is said to be the best thing yet
written by this versatile composer. It is a real
contribution to sacred music and its repetition will
be looked forward to with eager anticipation by
music lovers in general. Dr. Stewart ranks high
as a composer, and if only proper encouragement
were given him to publish his works, such as this
new mass, his fame would become international.
There is something at once patrician and plebian
in her executive ability and self-imposed labors.
Trusted by the most exclusive hostesses, she is be-
loved by the most prying reporters. She is a despot,
but not a tyrant, and under her gentle prodding
even the white elephants of San Francisco's Big
Show have been restrained from many of the feats
that have made other Four Hundreds at times
ridiculous.
:;; # *
Death of Monroe Salisbury in New York, from
cancer, is another in a series of rapidly following
afflictions that have befallen the Salisbury family
since the death of Mrs. Salisbury two years ago.
A more remarkable woman than Mrs. Salisbury it
would be hard to find. Without wealth and by the
sheer force of character she dominated local Society
which adores only wealth and ordered its ranks as
a general might do with an obedient army. She
came of a very good Southern family and no doubt
inherited the traits that made her a leader.
In the closing years of her life her health had
failed and her death occurred while she was alone
in her apartments in the Palace Hotel, her daugh-
ters having gone out for a short time to attend to
some necessary shopping. To find her dead on their
return was a great shock to the young women,
who were devoted to her, for she' had exhibited
no symptoms of being so near to her dissolution.
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-THE WASP
The wedding of steel-magnate Corey and Mabel
(now Maybelle) Oilman, the actress, has done a
lot of good to the wife's kin, and given just as much
of sorrow to the infatuated capitalist's folks. Papa
Gihnan, who got too fresh about claiming May-
belle when the engagement was announced, is back
in San Francisco with his two other actress daugh-
ters, who traveled the northern circuit and raked
in the ducats in most gratifying style. It was a
great card to be billed as the sisters of the illus-
trous Mabel-Maybelle. Newspaper celebrity beats
mere talent a mile. The happy Gilman combination
was thinking seriously of Jieading for the electric
lights of Broadway, when Brother-in-law Corey
switched them off and sidetracked them here for
the present.
Papa doesn't say how much they are to get for
this interference in their plans, but it should be
worth a large block of preferred steel stock. If
the elder girl, without any previous tooting of trum-
pets captured a steel magnate like Corey, what
might not a couple of her buxome young relatives
accomplish in the matrimonial field, starting with
the prestige of Mabel-Maybelle's triumphs on the
stage and at the altar. A multi-millionaire might
be landed before the season was over.
Uncle John Corey of Pittsburg isn't as reticent
about the marriage as Papa Gilman. It was Uncle
Josh who gave Miss Gilman's husband his long
start towards affluence, for the old man is a bank
president and a coal king and several other kinds
of consolidated wealth. He thinks that Nephew
Ellis has "dragged the family name in the dirt by
divorcing the. mother of his children — the faded but
faithful wife of his youth — and marrying "that
painted favorite of the stage."
The paint-pot is always flung at the bride by
indignant relatives after some of the clan marries
into the theatrical profession. I do not know
whether it strengthens the case much for the prose-
cution, as actresses are not the only members of
their sex who use a rabbit's foot and a range pot
with effect. They should be given the credit too
of not trying to deceive the spectators as to the
quality of their complexions, for stage paint is as
obviously fraudulent as the poverty of a San Fran-
cisco refugee.
Uncle Corey's prediction that Nephew Ellis will
"rue the bargain," is very loose phraseology for
the steel magnate doesn't seem to have got any
bargain. He appears to have paid the tip top price
for the goods, and is still separating himself reck-
lessly from his good money. The sorrowful coal
king doesn't know whether he will live to see the
day that his nephew wishes he hadn't done it. Poor
old gentleman. He must expect to die very soon.
The Country Club at Santa Barbara was a bower of
roses when Mrs. Horace Blanchard Chase gave a
luncheon for Admiral and Mrs. Lyon, who are down at
Santa Barbara from Mare Island, and Captain and
Mrs. Gove. Captain Gove is in command of the
Nolhins will quicker revolutionize the system and put new life into it than Abbott's Bitters
At druggists and grocers.
Milwaukee, which lies off Santa Barbara, and Mrs.
Gove is at the Potter, where she is one of the prime
favorites. Mr. and Mrs. Chase are settled in a charm-
ing cottage at Miramar. Among the guests at the
luncheon were Admiral and Mrs. Bowman H. McCalla,
Captain and Mrs. Albert W. Bacon.
Everybody is laughing over the joke on Laurence
Redington, who appeared at a fancy dress party given
by Mrs. Harry Dater, Jr., for her husband, whose
birthday was on Monday. Mrs. Dater thought that it
would be very lovely for her better half to turn back-
ward in time's flight and consort with the playfellows
of youth. So when Mr. Dater entered the living-room
at the splendid Gillespie place, whose cousins the
Daters are, and turned to greet his friends, he gazed in
amazement, then, turning to his wife, whispered sotto
voce : "Is there anything the matter with me, it
seems to me that I have not been feeling up to the
mark lately?"
No wonder he asked that pertinent question, for on
every side were Topsies, Buster Browns, Little Boy
Blues, etc., and to return to Laurence Redington,
there he was as "Teddy the Wonder," marked down
for that night only to $4.98. Everyone wanted to buy
poor Laurence at that price, and he is one of the most
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-THE WASP
exclusive of the beaux. None of the belles was present,
and si i the young man escaped, but he is now at the
original figure. What is that? Why. that is what
the belles want to know, but only Laurence himself
Knows.
* * *
Officers of the navy and their wives were guests of
honor at the dance given by the sailors of the Mil-
waukee at the skating rink in Santa Barbara. The
Jackies had fairly outdone themselves in decorating
the great barnlike place. The woodwork was com-
pletely covered with buntings and flags of all nations
draped the walls. Leading the grand march at the
beginning of the evening were Captain and Mrs. Gove.
and following them were the officers and their wives
and Admiral and Mrs. Bowman H. McCalla, Captain
and Mrs. Albert VV. Bacon, General James Biddle, and
a notable company from the Potter. The officers were
in full dress uniform and the ladies in elaborate even-
ing dress, decollette, of course, and wearing their
handsomest jewels. The Jackies were simply too
proud to look to the right or left and they still strut
over the honor done them.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis T. Underhill are just returned
from their wedding tour through Europe. While
there they spent a month or two in Europe, taking
Other countries on the wing. It is pleasant to have
them back and Montecitans are extending a cordial
welcome. Mrs. Underhill was Miss Carmelita Dibblee
and her marriage came so fast on the heels of her en-
gagement and that so swiftly after she and Mr. Under-
hill were introduced that it sounded like a chapter
from one of Gertrude Atherton's novels.
* * *
Santa Barbara is glad enough that the Willis Davises
are going back there for the Summer. Miss Sydney
and Miss Ednah are great favorites and their suite
at the Potter is a favorite place for the young people
of the city as well as for those who are staying at the
big hotel.
* * *
Mrs. C. C. Felton is back in Montecito after a year
abroad, and everyone is glad enough to see her, for
she is one of the prime movers in the smart set's
doings. She was at Mrs. John E. Beale's dinner the
other evening, which was given for those other wan-
derers, Mr. and Mrs. Francis T. Underhill, and a
royal ovation she received, too. As for pretty Mrs.
Underhill, she is a perpetual delight to the eye, she is
so radiant and so wonderfully like a French fashion
plate in her splendid chiffons.
Some young bachelors from the Oakland side of
:he bay, who automobiled down for the week end
:o Del Monte, were Duncan McDuffie, Louis Titus
ind William Reinhardt of Berkeley, and Walter
Liemert and Edward Engs of Oakland. Other vis-
tors who went by automobile were Mr. and Mrs.
m G. Condon, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wright, Miss
Selen C. Wright, A. H. and W. E. Wright. Mr. and
VIrs. H. T. Lalley, Miss Marian Lalley, of San Fran-
cisco, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kirby of Oakland. Dr.
ind Mrs. John Snook automobiled from Berkeley,
ind Mr. and Mrs. John Brockway ' Metcalf and
George D. Metcalf also enjoyed a
the University town.
■ inn down from
Hi race G. Piatt was at Del Monte for the week
end. Other San Francisco visitors were Mrs. J. J.
Ilvland and her daughter, Mrs. S. Ran. Miss A.
Lewis and Miss 1'. Lewis, W. F. Chipman, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Newbauer,
E. J. Hanson. F. G. Fitzpatrick, William I. Conroy,
R. Maertins, A. Allen Otis 1'arkhirr. J. V. Albright
and A. C. Hartnack. Several hundred shriners ar-
rived in special trains, and many of them remained
to take the drives and see the sights of the Mon-
terey peninsula. They were delightfully impressed.
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-THE WASP-
Governor Gillett's Duty
The Law Under Which He has Power
to Invade San Francisco.
The law under which Governor Gillett has au-
thority to supersede the municipal authorities of
San Francisco and put the military in charge is
of interest to the public. The law is plain.
The Constitution of California declares that "the
Governor shall be commander in chief of the militia,
the army and navy of this State" ; and, "shall have
power to call forth the militia to execute the laws
of the State, to suppress insurrections and repel
invasions."
The question then arises what is insurrection.
That has been judicially decided many times.
That given by Judge Grosscup of Illinois, in his
charge to the Grand Jury during the strikes of 1894,
is perhaps the best. In charging the Grand Jury
Judge Grosscup said :
"An insurrection is a rising against civil or
political authority ; the open and active opposition
of a number of persons to the execution of law in
a city or state. To constitute an insurrection it is
not necessary that there should be bloodshed or
that the dimensions of the rising should be so por-
tentious as to insure probable success."
It is not necessary for the Governor to wait until
called upon by the municipal authorities to inter-
vene. The Constitution makes .him the sole judge
of the matter and if, in his judgment, an insurrec-
tion does exist his decision to that effect is final
and conclusive and cannot be inquired into or
thwarthed by any action on the part of either the
judicial or legislative departments of the State gov-
ernment or bv the municipal authorities.
The State government is a powerful arm when
directed by a determined Governor, but in Califor-
nia we have had so many invertebrates in the
Governor's chair that many people believe that
post confers no authority at all, except to sign ap-
propriations and appoint Harbor Commissioners to
San Francisco and g'uards to San Ouentin.
The Supreme Court of Idaho, in the matter of
the application for a writ of habeas corpus by one
Boyle, who had been taken into custody by the
troops after Governor Steunenberg of Idaho had
declared the county of Shoshone to be in a state
of insurrection, said :
"It would be an absurdity to say that the action
of the executive, under such circumstances, may be
negatived and set at naught by the judiciary, or that
the action of the executive may be interfered with
or impeded by the judiciary, and it is not the pro-
vince of the courts to hinder, delay or place ob-
structions in the path of duty prescribed by law
for the executive, but rather to render to him all
the aid and assistance in their power in his efforts
to bring about the consummation most devoutlv
prayed for by every good and law-abiding citizen
in the State."
The Court also said : "It is no argument to say
that the executive was not applied to by any county
officer of Shoshone County to proclaim said countv
to be in a state of insurrection, and that for this
reason the proclamation was without authority.
The recitals in the Governor's proclamation show
the existence of one of two conditions, viz : That
the county officers of said county, whose duty it was
to make said application, were either in league with
the insurrectionists, or else, through fear of the
latter, said officers refrained from doing their duty.
Under the circumstances it was the duty of the
executive to act without any application from any
county officer of Shoshone County. This conclu-
sion is based upon what we deem a correct con-
struction of the provisions of our constitution and
statutes in force."
In the conflict between the State of Colorado
and the Western Federation of Miners it was held
by the courts that the Governor was in duty bound
to call out the troops to suppress an insurrection
and was the sole authority to decide whether a
state of insurrection existed.
That was an inspiring- spectacle last week
when the noble Jeremiah Dinan, shouting and
brandishing his pistols, came precipitately upon
the late scene of battle. He sat his steed, like
Centaur despite the too evident fullness of his waist
measurement. One of the awe-stricken spectators
whispered that perhaps the Jerry's perfect balance
on his prancing steed was due to being ballasted
by the load of indictments in one pocket and boodle
in the other.
MISS AMY GUNN
Engraved by the California Photo Engraving Co.
HENRIETTA GROSMAN
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&ranlc Criticism of Current Stents
Ruef's confession of guilt was not unexpected,
altogether, as for weeks he had been weeping with
tearful relatives, and his courage oozed completely
as the final ordeal approached. In his day of tri-
umph he was as bold and rapacious as a hungry
wolf but when cornered he whined like a wretched
cur. His talk of confessing so as to become an
agent of reform and restore the honor of his name,
etc., is simply nauseating.
California should declare the date of Abe Ruef's
confession a legal holiday, to be celebrated for all
time by patriotic speeches and general rejoicing
for it marks the beginning of a new era of at least
ordinary decency in public life. It is to be hoped
that the concessions that have made the rascal
Ruef prefer to throw himself on the mercy of the
court do not include an immunity bath for the
more culpable scoundrel, Schmitz. It would be
a lasting disgrace to the community to condone
the' crimes of misgovernment, which have been so
flagrantly committed by this Mayor, thrice elected
to the head of our municipality and thrice sworn
to perform his duties honestly.
The political effect of Ruef's conviction will be
to sweep out of all the City offices those incom-
petent and corrupt tax-eaters to whom he has
sardonically referred as "union bums that would
eat the paint off a house." Anything they eat after
this year will be earned by the sweat of their brows
and honest hard labor from which they have been
so long and unfortunately separated.
We shall have a government of and by the
whole people and not of a class, looking for un-
lawful privileges and using their official power to
promote graft and protect lawlessness. This is
worth billions to our long-suffering City.
One of P. H. McCarthy's union carpenters, one who
had been employed on the Fairmont and who readily
followed McCarthy when that prosperous politician
called off his men because the Laws would not at first
take his side of a controversy, by which he made the
electricians pass under his yoke, was recognized among
the strikebreakers who fired from the Turk-street
power-house into the crowd storming at its gates.
McCarthy would have the public believe that his fol-
lowers are of the substantial citizen class, ready to
build schoolhouses for the City if need be and to buy
millions in bonds which his kind of agitators have made
a drug on the market. Such incidents as this show the
true character of part of his following. Among them
just now are a lot of "earthquake carpenters," men who
can saw a board and drive a nail and nothing else.
They must get the, wages as per schedule and so must
all the other "earthquake" craftsmen who are strength-
Wilii men of affairs, Abbott's Bitters are the great tonic and aid to digestion. They are
tnded by hading physicians. All druggists.
ening the power of such leaders as McCarthy and at
the same time making the cost of construction so ex-
orbitant that property-owners and contractors are
calling a halt and laying off hundreds of the earth-
quake craftsmen.
The Duke de Chaulnes, who came to America a
few months ago to seek in marriage the hand of
Theodora Shonts, daughter of the head of the Ih-
terborough, has sailed for his home, in France, with-
out a bride. It is said that Mrs. Shonts and her
daughter favored the duke's suit, but that Mr.
Shonts set his face sternly against having a French
nobleman as his son-in-law. He did not however
adopt the foolish tactics of setting the dogs on the
duke or even warning him to keep off the prem-
ises. He invited the noble suitor to his house and
kept him as a guest and the plan has evidently
worked like a charm. The duke has gone home
empty handed. Mr. Shonts is far too great a
diplomat to have been wasted in digging the
Panama Canal, or running a traction system. He
should be groomed for the office of Secretary of
State or President.
C. H. REHINSTROM
Tailor and Importer
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-THE WASP-
19
Herbert George, the President of the Citizen's
Alliance, publishes a weekly bulletin which is ex-
tensively circulated amongst the business houses
of San Francisco and the suburban towns. In the
issue of May 1st l.ieorgc refers as follows- to P. II
McCarthy's allegations that the Citizen's Alliance
was at the bottom of the alleged conspiracy to
gag and kidnap him :
"( lur members have read much of the claim made
b\ McCarthy in the daily papers to the effect that
thC office is backing some conspiracy to murder
him. It seems to me a waste of words to attempt
to deny such a silly story or sue him for publishing
the criminal libel. It is too much like wasting
ammunition hunting bedbugs with a cannon. We
stand for law and order first, last and all time,
and as our patrons know, our progress has been
made along the line of Court decisions and will
continue to be made along that line. We are not in
the strike-breaking business nor are we engaged in
'busting' unions. We are simply engaged in doing
away with the lawless features of unionism that
limit apprenticeships of American boys, restrict out-
put and quit jobs and deny others the privilege of
taking such jobs. I have reason to know that a
good share of the men who pretend to support Mc-
Carthy are friendly to members of this Association
and wish us success in our efforts to put unionism
back upon its feet as a responsible institution. I
consider it a safe bit of advice to offer when I say
that whatever you see in the San Francisco daily
papers concerning me is a lie. I am too busy to
spend my time replying to them and, besides, if I
took time to reply, I could not get my reply printed,
either as a matter of public interest or as a paid
advertisement, so there you are."
HARVEY BROUGHAM
Through Painted Panes
Louis Alexander Robertson comes nearest to being
the representative poet of San Francisco ; any short-
coming is on the part of San Francisco and not him.
\\ ith all that, accounting output, popularity and poeti-
cal powers, with his mellow, amorous, yet half-malefic
tones, he is at the head of his profession out here, and
on the cinder-path of Time will outstrip many Eastern-
ers who are more partisaned now. In his latest book,
"Through Painted Panes," (published by A. M. Rob-
ertson, S. F. I are. among some hitherto unpublished,
poems reprinted from volumes which the great fire
took from the market while they were having a steady
sale. The present volume contains about sixty-five
titles, including The Dead Calypso, The Maenad, Be-
yond the Requiems, The King is Dead, The Loom,
already well known. Robertson's tenor is voluptuous
love, beautv-longings and anguish, combined with an
intellect that surmounts the commonplace so high as
to leave no uncertainty about the crowd beneath.
"What kind of a man is he?'!
"Self made."
"And she?"
"Tailor made."
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have the praiseworthy desire to assist nature in the production of a beautiful
complexion. Dr. T. Felix Gouraud's Oriental Cream, or Magical
Beautifier, is gaining in favor with those who know its value, and how
with its aid the skin that is freckled, tanned, pimpled or moth-patched can
be made like a new born babe's. Having been declared by the Board of
Health to be free from injurious properties, and being recommended by
physicians, one need have no hesitation in giving it a trial, as it is on sale at
all Druggists and Fancy Goods stores.
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•THE WASP-
Baltimore's Resurrection
The Great Fire was a Blessing in Disguise
It will interest San Francisco people to learn from
a most competent authority what the effect of the
great fire of February 7, 1904, has been on Balti-
more. William E. Curtis, who is admitted to be
one of the best informed and most conservative
newspaper correspondents in America, visited Bal-
timore last month as representative of the Chicago
Record-Herald, with which he has been connected
for years. His account of the work accomplished
in Baltimore is highly instructive to our own
citizens.
The San Francisco fire made that of Baltimore
very small by comparison. The Baltimore fire
lasted only twenty-four hours and destroyed but
1526 buildings, covering an area of eighty-six
blocks. The insurance companies have paid $42,-
000,000 fully seventy-five per cent of which was
outside money — from Europe, New York, Boston,
Chicago and Philadelphia. By the way the Fire-
man's Fund Insurance Company of San Francisco,
which has done so well in our own calamity, was
one of the first to pay its Baltimore losses.
The burned district in Baltimore was largely cov-
ered with old, rickety buildings, too good to tear
down, but a disgrace to a great, rich city. Even
the owners are gl?.d now that they were swept away,
because they have learned that new buildings of
fireproof construction and modern conveniences
bring them much larger dividends than the old one?.
On the sites of the most disreputable, ramshackle
blocks of wood and brick has risen a group of
business houses of tasteful architecture and inde-
structible material. Many of the streets have been
widened and newly paved and the city authorities
are introducing modern improvements which have
long been needed and demanded by the people.
■Since the fire building permits have been granted
representing an expenditure of $56,086,531 — in 1904
they amounted to $16,889,196, in 1905 they repre-
sented $20,000,583. in 1906 they represented $19,-
196.652.
The tax assessors have added about $16,000,000
'to the assessments.
About 90 per cent of the burned district has
been rebuilt or partly completed.
Previous to the fire the building permits averaged
about $7,000,000 a year. For the year 1903- they
represented an expenditure of $7,642,307.
Before the fire Baltimore was a sewerless city.
It now has good sewers and improved docks thai
cost $12,000,000.
Mr. Curtis- states that everybody now regret-;
that Baltimore Street, the principal shopoing
thoroughfare, was not widened. As in San Fran-
cisco people with property interests opposed the
widening of narrow streets. The Baltimore Ameri-
can, a leading newspaper, and the Continental
National Bank stopped the widening of Baltimore
Street. How history does repeat itself in all parts
of the earth.
Baltimore was different from San Francisco in-
asmuch as it was blessed by having a wise, patriotic
and broad-minded Mayor, Mr. Timanus, who came
into office three months after the fire as successor
to Mayor Robert McLane, who committed suicide.
What a pity that Schmitz didn't take pattern by
him. Under Mayor Timanus there has been no
graft, so the rapid recovery of his city is not nearly
so surprising as the struggle of San Francisco to
regain her former position, despite the load of
official grafters and private gougers she carries.
The public improvements were conducted in
Baltimore by a commission appointed by the Mayor
and consisting of two Democrats and two Repub-
licans. At no time has any question of politics been
raised, we are assured by Mr. Curtis.
At no time since our big fire has anything but
questions of politics and graft been raised under
the benign influence of Schmitz and his labor party
politicians. Maryland, having such a public-spirited
administration, had no trouble in selling some
twenty million dollars' worth of bonds. San Fran-
cisco bonds are not in favor with capitalists, though
our City is without debt, but so crooked are its
officials that no one trusts them in anything.
The new building regulations in Baltimore limit
the height of fireproof buildings to 175 feet and
of non-fireproof buildings to eighty-five feet. Most
of the new buildings are only five and six stories
in height, and several of them, including nearly all
of the banks, are only one story high. The office
building of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the
tallest of the skyscrapers, is 200 feet high. That
company had sufficient influence to secure an ex-
emption from the regulations in this respect. The
next highest building belongs to the Baltimore
American, a handsome structure, seventy-seven feet
front, 127 feet deep and sixteen stories high, of
La Boheme
First Class Italian Restaurant
1558 BUSH ST-
Between Van Nets and Franklin
SPECIALTY: Italian and French Cuisine
FEUX P1ANTAN1DA. Manner
Formerly Proprietor of the ORIGINAL COPPA
Colonial Tub and Shower Baths
BatllS Ladies' Department, 6 to ! 2 a. m. week days
REGULAR PRICES
Now Open -1745 O'Farrell St., near Fillmore
AGUA CALIENTE SPRINGS
Send your family to the nearest Hot Sulphur Springs to San Francisco.
First-class accommodations. Special rates to families. No staging.
Four trains daily. Fare round trip $1.65. Tiburon ferry or Oakland;
two hours' ride. Address THEODOR RICHARDS, Agua Caliente,
Sonoma County, California.
-THE WASP-
21
Indiana limestone and cream-colored brick. It cost
$550,000 and stands on a site worth $250,000. This
newspaper also set the fine example of breaking
the rules because it had pull enough.
A million dollars have been appropriated for >
chain of parks to encircle Baltimore, $5,000,000 for
replacing cobblestone pavements with asphaltum
and $3,000,000 for the betterment of the school and
the fire department.
In fact. Baltimore is a new city in every way.
improved in appearance and public spirit and its
people. Mr. Curtis declares, now realize that the
great fire was a blessing in disguise.
So will the people of San Francisco, if Schmitz
can only be jailed speedily, and the right kind of
men placed in control of the city government.
If Schmitz and Ruef should still be outside the
penitentiary next November, the people of San
Francisco can transform the City government by
the agency of the ballot box.
Some Words About Critics
Quite some time ago a comment on the delerious
condition of dramatic interviewing in this city
would have already been opportune. Since then
this craze has had lucid intervals of mumbling dul-
ness, at the same time exhibiting marks of senile
decay. Subsequently the art fell into a Class XYZ
Gulf of Despair, whence issue the gutterals of
gnomes, quack reporters, hodcarriers of wit. With
its hodful of egotism the interview grubbles up a
scaffolding of poorly drawn portraits, and then falls
mirthless but smirking, self-astounded and self-
satisfied to its signature at the lower righthand
corner of the page.
Interviewing as a superfine art was brought to
this Coast by the "Examiner", and put into the care
of Ashton Stevens, who was told to go to the bat
like Alan Dale of the "Journal," and never mind the
rules. Stevens had a sense of humor that would
make a weeping willow point upwards, and a con-
science that never spoke until spoken to. The more
curves an actor had, the easier Stevens could make
a hit. He fouled some, but was forgiven for his
innocence. Like most of the superclever he was
eventually forced to go to a Spring-Summer-
Autumn-Winter resort and lose back some of the
time he had been making up in advance.
One of Stevens' traits was to rise to a height of
intellectual frivolity. His imitators frivoled well,
but intellected not so. And there was one discrep-
ancy: the levity of Stevens' wit was upheld by the
preponderance of his graver cogitations. He gave
mockery an air of rectitude. In its present form.
the interview contains about twenty-three atmos-
pheres of extravasated ha-ha and seven snorts from
the interior of a fan-tailed ignorance. A jumbled
figure, but suitable for the purpose.
Frivolity, triviality, nonsense, are amusing now
and then. But when Chronicle, Call and Examiner,
to say nothing of our friends beyond Goat Island,
have for years fluxed their Sunday issues with this
inexorable nihility, it moves one to the more pro-
found employment of counting flies. One of the
favorite tricks of the interviewer is to ply the
actress with many questions concerning herself, and
then publish the answers in one long rigmarole as
if she had given him her soul in a cataclysm of
vanity. If she is serious, he is flippant (in his story;
in her presence he does not flip for a cent). If she
is casual and friendly, he represents himself as a
timid, adoring pilgrim bewildered behind the scenes
of claptrap and disallusion. Whatever her mood,
he contrasts it with his whim, except (he is some-
times capable of an exception) when he feels called
upon to be generous, and lets the piston rod of his
praise keep working until he runs off the tr?.ck
of good taste.
This practice would disable a genius. Its effect
upon one who rides the slow freight of literary style
may not be as much. Ashton Stevens recently
returned to the Examiner for the second time
during his illness. His wit is still with him ; but any-
one who knew it years ago can see that it has gone
a journey. May it go still further.
F. THOMS, The AWNING MAN
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TELEPHONE MARKET 3014
Private Exchange Connecting all Departments
STRICTLY BUSINESS
Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
On Change
The merchants and ship-owners of this City now
meet on 'Change as of old and more or less busi-
ness is transacted thereon. Of course 'Change is
not so important an institution as it is in New
York and in the large commercial cities of Eng-
land, but the nature of these things is to grow
and we look for the future development of 'Change
as an important business institution of this City.
In the older cities every merchant feels that he has
neglected an important duty of the day if .he has
failed to put in an appearance by himself or by his
representative.
Matters are still quiet on the Bond and Stock
Exchange and the market for securities has on the
whole for the week been dull, fiat, stale and un-
profitable. Spring Valley Water keeps hovering
round $21. For Pacific Gas and Electric $80 was
asked. Associated Oil is held at $37 bid. Bank
of California is held at $350 bid. The market for
sugar stocks is not active and prices are weak at
$81.75 for Hawaiian, $10.62^ bid for Honokaa,
$35.50 for Onomea, $45 asked for Union, $15.50
bid for Hutchinson. As the sugar market is
steadily advancing there should be a spurt in these
securities ere long.
The bottom has not exactly dropped out of the
market, but its condition is next thing to that. A
little Mohawk has sold at $15, the first in a long
time. The leading Goldfield stocks do not fluctuate
much and have not really changed to speak of in
some time.
Notwithstanding' the poor lookout on 'Change
those who have been up to the mines are full of
faith in the future. Charley Miller, who used to
be the head of one of our great hardware houses,
says the mines have a grand future. It is simply
a question of cheap reduction of ores. At one time
and that not very far distant nothing under $100
per ton was thought of, but it is different now. The
cost of reduction will grow less day by day till
it is as cheap in the mines as anywhere else. He
says that up at the mines every one is busy and
that the recent inactivity has about passed away —
the country is full of prospectors and new finds
are being made every day, which anywhere else
would be thought of first importance, but which
in that wonderful country are hardlv noticed.
A Sovereign Remedy
Dr. Parker's Cough Cure, one dose will stop a cough,
never fails. Try it. Sold by all Druggists.
The Private Residence Disappearing
The tendency in all the large cities in America is
towards the crowding out of private residences and the
construction of apartment houses, flats and hotels. In
New York residences are disappearing so rapidly that
they will be soon banished entirely from Manhattan
Island.
John W. Gates, who has been living in the so-called
"royal suite" at the Waldorf-Astoria, has reserved for
himself a suite of rooms in the New Plaza Hotel, at
Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, which will cost
him $42,000 a year. The price of the suite in question
is not so hair-raising, however, when one takes into
consideration that, when the new hotel goes into com-
mission next fall, Mr. Gates will have an entire floor,
with the exception of six rooms. This gigantic suite
will give him the privilege of having a hallway all to
himself, as well as several parlors, reception rooms, and
the like.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid up Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans on Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D. Phelan, Pres,. John A. Hooper, V. Pres.. J. K. Moffatt, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Sec'y and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Asst. Cashier, A. E,
Curtis, 2d Asst. Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS A SPECIALTY
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in thei
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange BIdg
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK
OF SAN FRANCISCO
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS.
PAID UP CAPITAL.
DEPOSITS JANUARY I, 1907
108-110 Sutter Street
$693,104.68
$600,000.00
$3,772,145.83
Charles Carpy, Pres. Arthur Legallet, Vice-Pres. Leon Bocqueiaz, Secretary
John Ginty. Asst. Secretary P. A. Bergerot. Attorney
-THE WASP
23
Still another suite will be occupied by the George J.
Goulds; -^t ill another by John A. Drake. In fact, the
large number of suites to be occupied by people who
have hitherto had their own private residences in this
one new hotel alone serves to foreshadow what a tre-
mendous secession of families there will be in the near
future to hotels and apartment houses.
In fact, so general is the rush to the great human
bee hives that are springing up all over Manhattan
Island, and so widespread the desire to press a button
and have somebody else do the rest, that it looks as if
even the housekeeping apartment is doomed. The
future belongs to the hotel and to the apartment hotel,
which has a restaurant attached, and emulates in other
ways the regular hotel for transients and permanent:
The prices paid by such people and by Xew Yorkers
who live permanently in the great apartment houses
of the city arc positively staggering. Fifth Avenue, of
course, is the street on which the highest rentals are
charged. At the Holland House, for instance, there
are suites consisting of nothing more than two rooms —
a parlor and a bath — costing $15,000 a year. These,
of course, are corner suites, with a frontage on Fifth
Avenue. Fully thirty-five suites in this hotel are leased
by persons who are practically permanent guests.
No other city can show anything like such prices for
hotel accommodation, even London during the season,
when all hotel rates are raised from 30 to 50 per cent.
At the Waldorf-Astoria there are a number of per-
manent guests paying in the vicinity of $20,000 a year
for small suites.
At the St. Regis the management makes a point of
not leasing rooms or suites of rooms for long terms.
Guests may take a room or several by the day and pay
on that basis for months, extending or curtailing the
size of their suites at their pleasure.
The Adjutant-General's advice to the people of
San Francisco to evict the refugees from their
camps on public squares as soon as possible is
good. W'e are as the Adjutant-General says, creat-
ing a tribe of mendicants and professional paupers.
The refugee camps have been the rendezvous for
the criminal element and will remain so and should
be broken uo before long. Within the next few
months of Summer every desirable resident of San
Francisco will be able to find lodgings and to main-
tain a horde of loafers on public property after
that would be a crime aeainst the community. Rout
them out and make them go to work.
After the great fire in San Francisco we had
abundant proof of the power of a few soldiers to
ien force law and order when their officers are hon-
jest and capable. A mere handful of men patrolled
he City at night, and in several months there were
ot as many crimes of violence committed as oc-
[cur in one day under the benign rule of Jerry
inan's police. If it should be deemed necessary
jto again station soldiers in the streets of San Fran-
cisco we would see them restore complete tran-
quility to the town in a few days and be given
proof that fifty disciplined men-at-ar-ms can easily
disperse a mob of two thousand rioters.
Do you get up tired and feel tired all day? Try a tablespoonfu of Abbott's Bitters in
tweetened water before meals. At grocers and druggists.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT
AND TRUST COMPANY
Solicits Checking and Savings accounts, subject to
the following liberal rates of interest:
2 per cenl on Checking Accounts,
3 I -2 per cenl on Savings Accounts.
3.6 per cent on Term Deposits.
For greater convenience of depositors, we have
established branches in various parts of the city
as follows:
HOME OFFICE
CALIFORNIA and MONTGOMERY STS.
West End Branch, 1531 Devisadero
Mission Branch, 2572 Mission, near 22d
Up-Town Branch, 1740 Fillmore nr. Sutter
VALUABLES op all kinds
May be safely stored al
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Cor. Bush and Sansome Sts.
Safes lo rent from $5 a year upwards
Careful service to customers
Trunks $1 a month
Office Hours: 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The German Savings and Loan Society
526 CALIFORNIA ST., San Francisco
Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31, 1906
$2,578,695,41
1,000,000.00
38,531,917.28
OFFICERS - President, F. Tillmann. Jr.; First Vice-President. Daniel Meyer
Second Viee-President, Emil Rohle: Cashier. A. H. R. Schmidt; Assistant Cashier,
William Herrmann; Secretary, George Tourny; Assistant Secretary, A. H. Mullcr.
Goodfellow & Eells, General Attorneys.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS - F. Tillmann, Jr.. Daniel Meyer, Emil Rohte. Irm.
Sleinhart, I. N. Walter, N. Ohlandl, J. W. Van Bcrsen, E. T. Knlse and W. S.
Goodfellow.
MEMBER STOCK AND BOND EXCHANCE
MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO MINING EXCHANGE
J. C. WILSON
BROKER
STOCKS AND BONDS Kohl Bldg., 488 California St.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES San Francisco
Telephone Temporary 815
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-THE WASP-
The Strike in the Lumber Trade.
A successful strike in the lumber trade naturally
means under ordinary circumstances higher priced
lumber and an increased cost to property owners
and higher rent to tenants. All are therefore in-
terested in the outcome of the latest strike. The
firms affected in the first instance were the Vance
Redwood Lumber Company (in the logging camp),
the Chas. Nelson Co. and the Pacific Lumber Com-
pany. The Holmes-Eureka Company settled the
matter so that most of the mills were untouched
by the strike. But last week at a meeting of the
representatives of the mills voted unanimously in
lavor of the open shop. Should this lead to a gen-
eral strike it would not affect them much, as they
all have more or less logs on hand and stock in
this City, owing to the long wet Winter and the
present slackening in the demand. A couple of
months idleness would not affect them much. Some
of the companies, such as the Vance Redwood Lum-
ber Company and the Union Lumber Company,
have non-union crews in their mills and are exempt
from the constant threats of strikes that afflict their
competitors and make them so favorable just now to
the open-shop principle. In common with em-
ployers along all lines, thev have about made up
their minds to bring the matter to a final determi-
nation no matter what it costs. The history of all
such movements is that wherever the employers
have banded together to enforce the open shop and
remained firm for any length of time they have
won easily. The conditions are more unfavorable
to the labor unions now than in years, for money
tW^
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BEGINS
Foraker is the first man to step ouVof the woods into the open.
---From Si. Louis Republican
is getting very tight. The banks are granting very
few loans and hardly any at all for building. This
of course will practically stop building' in San Fran-
cisco, for not one building in twenty is erected with-
out assistance from a bank. Already the unusual
sign "no carpenters wanted" is displayed on many
half-finished buildings. That tells the tale. If the
labor unions are sensible they will be very slow
about striking this Summer or next Fall, for the
conditions are all against a raise of wages. On the
contrary, wages are likely to drop and that would
be unfortunate for high wages are a sure indication
of prosperity and everybody benefits thereby.
The money market, however, is undergoing one
of those periodical changes that occur as surely,
though not quite as regularly, as the flow and ebb
of the ocean tides. The ebb is on just now and
financiers are carefully figuring out how long it will
last. Meantime capital takes a tighter grasp on
its purse strings, and the opportunities for labor
are less. The competent employees will still find
work, but the proportion of incompetent people
thrown out of employment will increase. That is 1
the history of all such temporary suspensions of
industrial activity.
INVESTOR
She had called to consult a fashionable physician
who was famous for his way-up prices.
"Pardon me, doctor," she began, "but do you —
er — take anything off for cash?"
"Certainly madam," replied the M. D. "What
would you like taken off — a hand or a foot?"
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Slock Exchange
Goldheld, Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET. STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position lo loan money lo people who wish lo rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE. Pr«.
GAVIN McNAB. Atty.
WM. CORBIN, Sec. and Gen. Mgr.
OFFICES-- COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Rooms 7 to 11
Telephone Ttnpy. 141 S
W. C. RALSTON
Stock and Bond Broker
Member San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
Mining Stocks a Specially
Bedford McNeill
Western Union
Leibers
368 BUSH STREET
San Francisco
-THE WASP-
25
The Anarchists Parade
What a New York Priest Said About It
to His People.
public mind and so arc- the charges that the assas-
sin was inspired by newspaper utterances, that in-
flamed the passions of anarchists and encouraged
them to put their atrocious principles into practice.
Eastern newspapers of the better class are com-
menting approvingly on the denunciation by Rev.
Father Brann of St. Agnes' Catholic Church. New
York, of the Anarchists who recently paraded in
thousands in the metropolis carrying red flags,
shouting the "Marseillaise" and howling that
Mover. Haywood and J'ettibone must not be con-
victed. Father Brann witnessed that most extra-
ordinary and un-American scene and shrewdly
suspected that the demonstration was worked up.
and paid for, by rich and influential politicians and
demagogues, who for years have been setting class
against class in America. The clergyman next
day at mass gave his views to his congregation,
which is largely composed of working people who
belong to unions.
The priest is favorable to unions, but hostile to
the control of them by anarchists. Said Father
Brann :
"That procession was made up of men and wo-
men who profess no religion at all, but, on the
contrary, profess doctrines that would destroy our
country. In that procession there were flags that
proclaimed hostility to the rights of property and
to good order, and, consequently, hostility to our
national flag.
"The hired bands ignored our good old American
airs, like 'The Star Spangled Banner' and 'Hail,
Columbia,' and instead habitually played 'The Mar-
seillaise,' which is a national air of blood, rapine,
murder and violence.
"In the horde I saw last night there was no
conscience, nothing but hostility to our institutions
and to the Chief Executive of our republic.
"Most of this horde were foreigners who would
not be allowed at home to have any such demon-
strations as they were allowed here. If they had
attempted such a meeting in the countries from
wdiich they came the authorities would have inter-
fered and punished the leaders.
"That demonstration last night was in bad taste,
to say the least, and leads me to suspect that some
unprincipled politicians paid for the hall, the flags
and the bands from sinister motives. That horde
could hardly have paid the expenses of last night's
celebration.
"It is a shame for such leaders to use the vilest
and lowest men in the city for such an exhibition,
and thus to influence the passions of a mob so that
some one of them might assassinate our admirable
and honorable President as one of the same vile
horde murdered President McKinley."
It was not necessary for Father Brann to be
more specific and state the names of the unprin-
cipled politicians and agitators he alluded to.
Every newspaper reader in America can read be-
tween the lines and know whom the patriotic
clergyman referred to, for the memory of McKin-
lev's cowardly assassination is still fresh in the
Thorn well Mullally has fairly won his spurs since
the carmen's strike began. Cornelius has seen fit fre-
quently to refer to him in uncomplimentary terms as a
soft-headed if not soft-hearted carpet knight.
Mr. Mullaly showed what kind of stock he comes
from and what sort of stuff he is made of when he
rode out fearlessly into the thick of the fray around
the barricaded car-barns and keeps riding on cars that
were a mark for the bricks and bullets of rioters. Mr.
Cornelius was not quite as reckless in exposing his
precious person. Gentlemen of his kidney are gener-
ally found to be more valiant with their jaws than their
fists. When the battle rages if their legs do not stick
out from under some safe baggage wagon in the rear,
their coattails are likely to be pointed away from the
conflict and getting further off at every jump. Mr.
Mullally has won as many friends by his fearlessness
and manliness as Mr. Cornelius has lost by his shifty
and underhanded methods of unnecessarily causing a
strike. In other words, the town is with Mullaly and
all but a small and turbulent faction of it will be ready
to kick Cornelius over the county line within two
weeks from date hereof.
Jr Skin of Beauty Is a Joy Forever.
Dr. T. f elix Gouraud's Oriental
Cream or Magical Beautifier
Purifle9 as well as beautifies the skin. No other cosmetic will do it.
Removes Tan. Pimples, Freckles, Moth
Patches, Rash and Skin Diseases, and
every blemish on beauty, and defies de-
tection. On its virtues it has stood the
test of 58 years; no other has, and is so
harmless we taste it to be sure it is prop-
erly made. Accept no counterfeit or simi-
lar name. Dr. L. A. Sayre said to a lady
of the haut-ton (a patient) "As you ladies
will use them, I recommend 'Gouraud's
Cream* as the least harmful of all the
skin preparations. " One bottle will last
six months using it eyery day. GOUR-
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SUPERFLUOUS HAIR WITHOUT IN-
JURY TO THE SKIN.
FRED T. HOPKINS, Prop'r, 37 Great Jones street, N. Y.
For sale by all druggists and Fancv-goods Dealers throughout the United
States, Canadas and Europe. /S^" Beware of base imitations, f 1,000
reward for arrest and proof of auy one selling the same.
Popular French Restaurant
Regufar Dinner 75c
Meals a la carte at any hour
Private Dining Rooms
for Banquets, etc.
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497 Golden Gate
Corner Polk Street
Phone Market 2315
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Thursday : Dear me ! Such an unpleasant after-
noon as I had at Mrs. Mugsby's tea in honor of Miss
Youngbudd. She is to marry old Gotrox, who has
sons older than herself. Goodness me ! If I married
at all, it would be a man who was at least within
twenty-five years of my age.
Mrs. Gushwell, who is always reciting at teas and
making a general nuisance of herself, in my opinion,
had of course to speak a piece at Mrs. Mugsby's. Well,
what do you think? If she didn't select that poem
about the blase society girl who throws over a nice
young man and becomes engaged to a doddering old
billionaire. I think it's such a silly poem myself — but
I suppose there's a moral in it somewhere. It describes
the blase girl, telling her smart society friends of her
engagement, and just then her chilly fiance rides by
the house all huddled up in a corner of his carriage
and looking like sin. She pulls back the curtains and
exclaims, not "girls there is my future husband," but
"girls, see my fine horses."
Goodness ! I never felt more uncomfortable in my
life, for everybody was looking with eyes like saucers
at that ridiculous elocutionist. Yes, and of course
Ethyl Gayleigh began to giggle. That woman couldn't
be serious even in a dentist's chair. It was such a relief
when the agony ended. You could have heard a pin
drop.
"What's the matter?" asked the elocutionist of Ethyl
when she sat down all out of breath. "Dear me, I
thought I'd get lots of applause."
"We were all too enraptured," said that awful
woman. "I do hope you will recite the same piece for
them at the wedding breakfast. It would be lovely."
Friday : Oh goodness ! I won't stop blushing for
a year. I went up the avenue today to the White
House with some married women. Oh dear ! Such
creatures. How marriage does demoralize them.
Not one of them had sense or decency enough to
carry her purse in her hand and mercy ! What a
scene when they began to fish out their money.
Horrors! It was perfectly dreadful. They had
barely enough money between them to pay for
their purchases and they all had to go fishing for
their change. Heavens ! They hauled enough stuff
out of their hosiery to start a dry goods store, and
then they had to put it back again with their
purses. All this, mind you, in a fashionable store
and so full of people ! Oh goodness ! I haven't seen
anything so dreadful since I went to Santa Cruz
last Summer and sat on the beach while Mrs.
: Gayleigh and her friends went in bathing in their
new silk suits. I have made a solemn resolution
never again to go out in public with married women.
Its not safe for a single lady. I have to be very
careful of my reputation in a town like this.
TABITHA TWIGGS.
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opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
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Via Kelseyviile P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cal.
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Automobile News
1
The Pioneer Automobile Company has received a
ni'i-t eulogistic indorsement of the merits of the 1907
I homas Flyer from T. L. ( Iddie, 1). Mackenzie, A. I).
■ash, Key Pittman, J. W. Brock, Jr., Hugh Brown,
and John Salsberry, all oi Tonopah, Nev. They de-
clare that the machine has made a wonderful record
there. It is a great roadster and most endurable.
The distance of 105 miles, between Tonopah and
Ehyolite, was covered in three hours and forty minutes
by Key Pittman, of Tonopah, Nevada, in his 1907
Thomas "Flyer". It has been raining and the roads
were in bad condition, being very muddy. For two-
thirds of the entire distance the ruts impeded his
speed considerably.
Mr. D. Mackenzie, of Goldfield, Nevada, covered a
distance of 155 miles, between Goldfield, Nevada, and
Greenwater, California, in six hours and thirty min-
utes. This road has about twenty-five miles of shifting
sand, and the balance was similar to the road between
Tonopah and Rhyolite. While the Eastern people use
their autos for pleasure, the Tonopah buyers use them
for business and consider it economy to do so.
The initial meeting of the Fresno Automobile Asso-
ciation takes place today and tomorrow, Sunday. A
series of races is programmed, the most important be-
ing the Fresno sweepstakes for a purse of one thousand
dollars, with five hundred dollars added if the world's
record should be beaten. A good representation of
cars is expected and the fact that Barney Oldfield will
be one of the entries is expected to insure a large at-
tendance.
The White Steamer is a favorite with Uncle Sam.
In many matters he is considered easy-going, but when
it comes to buying automobiles Uncle Sam is evidently
"from Missouri." This was shown when the War
Department was considering the practicability of an
auto ambulance. Competitive tests led the army
officers to report in favor of the White. Then a
sample car was built and tested for three months.
This proved so satisfactory that the U. S. Government
decided to use these ambulance cars for the transporta-
tion of the sick and wounded. General Fred D. Grant
has expressed himself as being highly pleased with the
car assigned to him.
The manufacturers of the Royal Tourist Car have
built specially designed cars for the mining district of
Nevada. They seat four with full camping and pro-
specting outfit.
Colonel Torney, of the United States Army, has pur-
chased a 24 horse-power Franklin car.
"Ah ! pretty lady," said the fortune teller, "you
wish to be told about your future husband?"
"Not much." replied Mrs. Gailey ; "I've come to
learn where my present husband is when he's ab-
sent."
Shipping
Family orders is our trade. If out of town
or going out for a limited time, let us pack
and ship by express or freight whatever you
require.
QUALITY SUPREME
EVERYTHING HERE
Depend on us making your outing a success.
SMITHS, CASH STORE, Inc.
14 to 24 Steuart St., S. F.
May catalogue ready.
H. C. RAAP, Manage!
Telephone Franklin 588
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 O'FARRELL ST., San Francisco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea, Coffee, Wine or Beer. 1 I a. m. to 2 p. m.
A LA CARTE at all hours.
Regular Dinner 50c
Special Sunday Dinner 75c
AL. CONEY
J. HUFF
Kadee Hammam Baths
TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Night
GEARY AND GOUGH STREETS
Strictly First Class Phone West 3725
J
Telephone-
Established 1890
J. F. ROSSI
D0„™Lrtica"d Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Depot of Italian-Swiss Colony Wines
Specialties: Belmont, Jesse Moore, A. P. Hotaling's O. P. S.. Loveland Rye,
King Wm. Fourth Scotch, Glenrosa Scotch, Dew ot the Grampians, A. V. H.
Gin, Buchu Gin, Cognac Brandy, Bisquit Dubouche Cognac, Fernet Branca
Italian Vermuth, French Vermuth.
217-219 Washington St., Bet. Front and Davis
DIRECTORY
OF LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE
mi
MISCELLANEOUS.
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE, 226 Oak St.,
S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
BOLTE & BRADEN, 105-107 Oak St., S. F. ;
Phone Market 2837.
COOPER ADV. AGENCY, F. J., West Mis-
sion and Brady Sts.
DAKE ADV. AGENCY* Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temp'y 1440.
FISHER, L. P. ADV. AGENCY, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Franklin 584.
TOHNSTON-DIENSTAG CO., 2170 Post St.,
S. F.
ANTIQUE DEALERS.
THE LOUIS XIV. Curios, Objects d'Art,
Miniatures, Paints, Porcelains, Jewels, etc.,
C. V. Miller, 1117 Post, near Van Ness.
ARCHITECTS.
REID BROS, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough ot., S. F.
THOS. J. WELSH, JOHN W. CAREY, asso-
ciate architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
GUMP, S. & G., 1645 California St., S. F.
SCHUSSLER BROS., 1218 Sutter St.
ATTORNEYS,
DORN, DORN & SAVAGE, 717 Van Ness
Ave.
DINKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W., 1265 Ellis
St., S. F. Phone West 2355.
HEWLETT, BANCROFT AND BALLAN.
TINE, Monadnock Bldg. ; Phone Temp'y
972.
EDWARD B. YOUNG, 4th Floor, Union
Trust Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temp'y 833.
GOLDSTONE, LOUIS, 1012 Fillmore St.
Phone Park 864.
MAROIS, T. M., 1756 Fillmore St., S. E. cor.
Sutter. Phone West 1503.
KING, CHAS. TUPPER, 1126 Fillmore St.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
PIONEER AUTOMOBILE CO., 901 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F. ; and 12th and Oak Sts.,
Oakland.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO., Market
and Van Ness Ave., S. F.
AUTO LIVERY CO., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
BOYER MOTOR CAR CO., 408 Golden Gate
Ave. Phone, Franklin 655.
LEE CUYLER, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
MIDDLETON MOTOR CAR CO., 550 Gol-
den Gate Ave., S. F.
MOBILE CARRIAGE CO., Golden Gate
Ave. and Gough Sts., S. F.
PACIFIC MOTOR CAR CO., 376 Golden
Gate Ave.
BANKS.
ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK, Ltd., cor.
Pine and Sansome Sts., S. F.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST CO., cor. California and Montgom-
ery Sts., S. F.
CENTRAL TRUST CO., 42 Montgomery St.,
S. F.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Bush and San-
some Sts., S. F.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK, 108 Sutter St.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, 526 California St., S. F.
HALSEY, N. W. & CO., 413 Montgomery
St., S. F.
HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, Jones and McAllister Sts., S. F.
HUMBOLDT SAVINGS BANK, 646 Market
Street, opposite old Palace Hotel. Phone,
Temp'y 249.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO, 710 Market St., opp. 3d St.,
S. F.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, N.W.
cor. California and Montgomery Sts., S. F.
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, 316 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
THE MARKET STREET BANK AND
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, Market and 7th
Sts., S. F.
UNION TRUST CO., 4 Montgomery St., S. F.
WELLS FARL.O-NEVADA NATIONAL
BANK, Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
BREWERIES.
ALBION ALE AND PORTER BREWERY,
1007-9 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
S. F. BREWERIES, LTD., 240 2d St., S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
MONTAGUE, PHIL S., 339 Bush St., Stock
Exchange Bldg.
ROLLINS, E. H. & SONS, 804 Kohl Bldg. ;
Telephone Temp'y 163; S. F.
ZADIG & CO., 324 Bush St., S. F.
WILSON, J. C, 488 California St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION, Church and Market Sts.,
S. F.
CARDS, INVITATIONS, ETC.
WOOD, GEO. M. & CO., engravers, 1067
O'Farrell St., above Van Ness.
CARPET CLEANING.
SPAULDING, J. & CO., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave. ; Phone Park 591.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
HUB, THE, Chas. Keilus & Co., King Solo-
mon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore Sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
JOHNSON LOCKE MERCANTILE CO.,
213 Sansome St., S. F.
MALDONADO & CO., INC., 156 Hansford
Bldg., 268 Market St. Phone Temp'y 4261.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
FISHER CONSTRUCTION CO., 1414 Post
St., S. F.
TROUNSON, J., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176
Ash Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
NATHAN DOHRMAN CO., 1520-1550 Van
Ness Ave.
DENTISTS.
KNOX, DR. A. J., 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
TWIST, DR. J. F., 1476 Eddy, nr. Fillmore
St. Phone West 5304.
DESKS AND CHAIRS.
PHOENIX DESK & CHAIR CO., office fur-
niture, 1538 Market St., west of Van Ness.
Phone Market 2393.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
CITY OF PARIS, Van Ness Ave. and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
WHITE HOUSE, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
St., S. F.
EXPRESS.
WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Ferry Bldg.,
and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
CRESCENT FEATHER CO., 19th and Harri-
son Sts., S. F.
FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE PHOTOS.
RUE, JAMES O., 1067 O'Farrell St. Phone
Franklin 2603.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
OMEY & GOETTING, Geary and Polk Sts.,
S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
CAREW & ENGLISH, 1618 Geary St., bet.
Buchanan and Webster Sts.,
West 2604.
S. F. ; Phone
PORTER & WHITE, 1531 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
GAS STOVES,
S. F. GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Franklin and
Ellis Sts.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
BULLOCK & JONES COMPANY, 801 Van
Ness Ave., cor. Eddy St., S. F.
HANSEN & ELRICK, 110S-7 Fillmore St.,
nr. Golden Gate Ave. ; Phone West 5678.
GOLD AND SILVER PLATING.
BELLIS, JOHN O., Mfg, gold and silver-
smith, 1624 California St., nr. Van Ness.
Phone Franklin 2093.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
ILS, JOHN G. & CO., 827 Mission St., S. F.
MONTAGUE, W. W. & CO., Turk and Polk
Sts., S. F.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
DAVIS, W. & SON, 2020 Howard St., bet.
16th and 17th, S. F.
LEIBOLD HARNESS AND CARRIAGE
CO., 1214 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
DILLON, TOM, Van Ness Ave. and McAllis-
ter St.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
KEELEY INSTITUTE, H. L. Batchelder,
Mgr. ; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
JEWELERS.
BALDWIN JcWELRY CO., 1521 Sutter St.,
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. F.
SHREVE & CO., cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Ness and Sacramento St., S. F.
SCHMIDT, R. H. & CO., 1049 Fillmore St.,
nr. McAllister St. Phone Park 1209.
LAUNDRIES.
LA GRANDE LAUNDRY, 234 12th St., S. F.
PALACE HOTEL LAUNDRY and KELLY
LAUNDRY CO., INC., 2343 Post St.
Phone West 5854.
LIFE INSURANCE.
925 Golden
HUNTINGDON, ARTHUR P.
Gate Ave. Phone Park 515.
LUMBER.
UNION LUMBER CO., office 909 Monad-
nock Bldg.
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
BEKINS' VAN AND STORAGE CO., 13th
and Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13
and 1016 Broadway, Oakland.
ST. FRA..CIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COMPANY, Office 1402 Eddy St.; Tel.
West 2680.
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
DEANE, JNO._J., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Sts. ;
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22 High Grade Automobiles
Sold and Delivered Since
tbe Strike Was Declared.
We Can Deliver Immediately
Thomas Flyers (60 h. p.)
Winton, Model M
Winton, Type XIV
Several carloads of Oidsmobites and
Thomas Forties now due. Enter your
order for early delivery.
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901 GOLDEN GATE AVENUE
E. P. Brinegar, Mgr. Phone Park 591
WARE. JOHN H.. 307 Monadnock Bldg..
Depositions carefully attended to. Phone
Tempy 972.
OIL COMPANIES.
STERLING OIL CO.. 1491 Post St., cor.
Octavia. S. F.
OPTICIANS.
MAYERLE, GEORGE, German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F. ; Phone West 3766.
SAN FRANCISCO OPTICAL COMPANY,
"Spences," 627 Van Ness Ave. ; "Branch."
1613 Fillmore.
STANDARD OPTICAL CO., 808 Van Ness
Ave., near Eddy St.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
KEEFE, J. H., 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F. ;
j Tel. Franklin 2055.
ITOZER, L. & SON CO., INC., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St.. near Fillmore.
PAINTS AND OILS.
BASS-HUETER PAINT CO., 1532 Market
St.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
CAL. PHOTO ENG. CO., 141-143 Valencia
St.
PHYSICIANS.
BOWIE, DR. HAMILTON C, formerly 293
Geary St., Paul Bldg., now 14th and Church
Sts.
BRYANT, DR. EDGAR R., 1944 Fillmore
St., cor. Pine; Tel. West 5657.
D'EVELYN, DR. FREDERICK W., 2115
California St., S. F., and 2103 Clinton Ave.,
Alameda.
THORNE. DR. W. S., 1434 Post St., S. F.
POTTS, DR. JOHN S., 1476 Eddy St. Phone
West 1073. Residence, Hotel Congress,
Ellis and Fillmore. Phone West 4224.
PIANOS— MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
BALDWIN, D. H. & CO., 2512 Sacramento
St., and Van Ness at California.
REAL ESTATE.
HICKS & MACK. Real Estate and In-
surance, 2091 Fillmore St. Phone West
7287.
C. R. WILCOX & CO., Real Estate and In-
surance, 837 Golden Gate Avenue. Phone,
Fell 1558.
RESTAURANTS.
MORAGHAN, M. B., OYSTER CO., 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
OLD POODLE DOG, 824 Eddy St., near
Van Ness Ave.
ST. GERMAIN RESTAURANT, 497 Golden
Gate Ave. ; Phone Market 2315.
SWAIN'S RESTAURANT, 1111 Post St.,
S. F.
THOMPSON'S, formerly Oyster Loaf, 1727
O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALES.
HERRING-HALL MARVIN SAFE CO.,
office and salesrooms. Mission St., bet.
Seventh and Eighth Sts. ; Phone Market
1037.
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER & UILSON and SINGER SEW-
ING MACHINES, 1431 Bush St., cor.
Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; Phone Franklin
301; formerly 231 Sutter St.
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES, J. W.
Evans, Agent, 1658 O'Farrell St., nr. Fill-
more. Phone West 3601.
STORAGE.
1SEKINS VAN & STORAGE CO., 13th and
Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13.
PIERCE RUDOLPH STORAGE CO., Eddy
and Fillmore Sts. ; Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
WALTERS & CO., formerly Shutts, Walters
& Co., 1608 Steiner St., S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
BACIGALUPI, PETER, 1113-1115 Fillmore
St., S. F.
TAILORS.
LYONS, CHARLES. London Tailor, 1432
Fillmore St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; 958
Broadway, Oakland.
REHNSTROM, C. H., 2415 Fillmore St., for-
merly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
THOMS, F., 1209 Mission St., corner of
Eighth, S. F.
TRICYCLES.
EAMES TRICYCLE CO., Invalid Chairs,
1808 Market St., S. F.
WINES AND LIQUORS— WHOLESALE.
BALKE, ED. W., 1498 Eddy St., cor. Fill-
more.
BUTLER, JOHN & SON, 2209 Steiner St.,
S. F.
REYNOLDS, CHAS. M. CO., 912 Folsom
St., S. F.
RUSCONI, FISHER & CO.. 649 Turk St..
S. F.
SIEBE BROS. & PLAGEMAN. 419-42^
Larkin St. ; Phone Franklin 349.
WENIGER, P. J. & CO., N. E. cor. Van
Ness Ave. and Ellis St. ; Tel. Franklin 309.
309.
WICHMAN, LUTGEN & CO., Harrison and
Everett Sts., Alameda, Cal. ; Phone Ala-
meda 1179.
WINES AND LIQUORS— RETAIL.
FERGUSON, T. M. CO., Market Street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow Whiskey.
FISCHER, E. R., 1901 Mission St., cor. of
Fifteenth.
THE METROPOLE. John L. Herget and
Wm. H. Harrison, Props., N. W. cor. Sutter
and Steiner Sts.
TUXEDO, THE, Eddie Graney, Prop., S. W.
cor. Fillmore and O'Farrell Sts.
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
CO., 2401 Fillmore.
McMAHON, KEYER AND STIEGELER
BROS., Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Farrell
and Fillmore.
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Amusements
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Ruth White is supporting Oscar
Figman in the road tour of. "The Ten-
derfoot," and they made a great hit, I
am told, when they appeared in Port-
land recently. Ruth White is a San
Francisco girl, and was one of Marie
Withrow's vocal pupils. She got her
first chance on the stage in "Trilby"
when she sang the solos for the star,
off the stage. When the company re-
turned to New York Miss White was
engaged to go along and take the
role of one of the girls who appear in
the studio scene. I saw her in Chi-
cago with the original "Trilby" com-
pany. Later on she became prima
donna of one of the biggest comic
opera companies in the East, and was,
I believe, with the Castle Square
Company for a time. She is a very
handsome girl and charming in man-
ner.
* * *
A most bloodthirsty drama was be-
ing performed. The father of the
leading woman came as usual to the
stage door and asked the doorkeeper:
"Has my daughter gone yet?"
"No, she is still on the stage; she
will not die for some minutes."
"Will you be kind enough to tell
her as soon as she is dead that I am
waiting for her at the theater cafe?" —
II Motto per Ridere.
A Los Angeles correspondent writes
me that one of the prettiest girls of
that city recently made a successful
stage debut in "The Sporting
Duchess' ' at the Burbank Theatre.
She is only seventeen years old, and
A year ago she was almost entirely wiped out by
one of the greatest catastrophes of history, and just
as she was about to get on her feet again
Along comes a lot of corrupt politicians who
loot, plunder, and rob her of everything they could
lay their hands on, and just about as she began to re-
cover from that
not yet out in Society. The young ac-
tress is Miss Margo Duffet, daughter
of the assistant cashier of the Citizens'
National Bank of Los Angeles.
Though Miss Duffet was born in
Montana she regards herself as a
Californian, and is proud to have been
educated in the public schools, where
by the way, she was a star pupil.
This appearance in "The Sporting
Duchess' was not in reality the first
time Margo Duffet had tread the
hoards, for when she was nine years
old she took the part of the child in
the same play to oblige Mary Van
Buren and Tim Frawley, who were
presenting it at the same theatre.
She is of part French extraction,
which gives vivacity to her features
and chic to her acting.
# * *
Queer people are often very at-
tractive, like Gerard de Nervale, the.
mad French poet who was arrested
in the Palais Royal for leading a live
lobster around the galleries tied to a
blue ribbon. "Why should I not do
it?" he inquired, innocently. "Are not
lobsters charming creatures, who]
know the secrets of the deep?"
Shortly afterward Gerard's drenched
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Along come the Anti- Japanese race riots and a Along come the present labor riots. Talk
claBh with the federal authorities, and just as she is about bard luck I Frisco's misfortunes are certainly
about to recover from that agitation not coming singly.
As The Easterners See Us.— From Chicago Journal.
DR. H. J. STEWART
Organist of S;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Sherilh Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony ancU Composition.
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 lo 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Orjjanisl and Director Trinity
Church Choir
Teacher of Voice, Piano and Organ
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phone
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues-
day and Friday.
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Returning trains leave track after fifth and last races.
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body was found hanging to a lamp
post, cm a raw winters night, in Paris
He had knocked vainly at the door
of a penny night shelter. No one had
come to open. So he had opened an-
other and a bigger door for himself.
Vet this leader of lobsters was be-
loved, in his sane moments, by some
of the most remarkable men in the
literary world of Paris. Mis eccen-
tricities were pardoned for the sake
of his kind heart and dreaming, im-
aginative brain. After all, too, some
madness is romantic. Nervale, for in-
stance, was convinced that he was
descended from Nerva, the Roman
emperor, and he used to buy up all
the coins and other effigies of that
dead worthy obtainable in Paris, be-
cause, as he put it, "one does not like
to see the portrait of a relative being
sold in the shops." That was a quaint
fancy, and so was Gerard's idea that
a madman shut up with him was
frozen and had to be thawed by rub-
bing his nose against something, a
service he kindly undertook to per-
form until the other madman lost his
temper and struck him an unpleasant
blow in the eye.
* * *
The burglar's wife was on the wit-
ness stand and the prosecuting attor-
ney was conducting a vigorous cross-
examination.
"Madam, you are the wife of this
man?"
"Yes."
"You knew he was a burglar when
you married him?"
"Yes."
"How did you come to contract a
matrimonial alliance with such a
man?"
"Well," the witness said sarcastic-
ally, "I was getting old and had to
choose between a lawyer and a burg-
Mrs. Knicker — Was your last cook
unreasonable?
Mrs. Bocker — Yes, she wanted the
auto twice a week, which didn't give
time to have it repaired.
Natural Misunderstanding
Knicker — See about the boys who
ran off and lived in a cave?
Bocker— No. What flat did they
take?
* * *
The Actors' Fund Fair at the Metro-
politan Opera House, New York, was a
great success. There was nothing that
attracted so much attention at the open-
ing as Mark Twain. There was much
speculation as to how he would treat
William Keith
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1107 O'FARRELL STREET
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Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of
the Board of Directors, held on the 9th day of
May, 1907, an assessment (No. 8) of 10 (ten)
cents per share was levied upon the capital
stock of the corporation, payable immediately
in United States go)d coin, to the Secretary,
at the office of the j company, room 116, 339
Bush street, San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 12th day of June, 1907,
will be delinquent and advertised for sale at
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before, will be sold on MONDAY, the 1st day
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delinquent assessment, together with the cost
of advertising and expenses of sale.
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the incident of Mrs. Sydney Rosenfeld's
protest against his appearance in the
booth of the Century Theater Club be-
cause of his attacks on Christian
Science ; but in his opening speech he
turned away criticism so gracefully that
when a few minutes later he was es-
corted to the booth by Mr. Frohman
the best of feeling prevailed. Mrs.
Rosenfeld was conspicuously absent.
"No creeds are represented here," he
said ; "no politics, nothing but that mag-
nificent religion — charity."
There was a ripple of applause at this
tribute to Mrs. Edith Ellis Baker, the
chairman of the committee of the Cen-
tury Theater Club, which had extended
the invitation to Mr. Clemens.
"We are proposing to raise $200,000,"
he added, "and the sooner you get at it
the better. Charity reveals a multitude
of virtues, and it will be proved before
the fair is over. Now you people have
a chance to be benefactors of your bene-
factors— the stage folk who are always
so ready to give their services in any
worthy cause.
"Mr. Frohman has told you the pur-
poses of the fair. He told me he was
going to and that I needn't say anything
about that. I didn't believe him. I
thought he might have read it in a
newspaper, and I wouldn't trust either
of them except when they are moved by
charity."
Marc Klaw and A. L. Erlanger
bought the first two admission tickets,
for which they paid $750 apiece, and
after that there was a steady rush of
arrivals.
Greeted at the entrance by pretty
girls with programmes and smiles at
$1 apiece and in the lobby by the wit-
ticism of "barkers" for the Green-
room Club's side show and the vaude-
ville theater, forcing their way
through the crowd at Marshall P.
Wilders fishpond, and, finally, emerg-
ing in the Stratford Street, mere men
found themselves willing subjects for
the pleas of the young women, who
booked chances on everything from a
motor boat and a grand piano to a
package of cigarettes.
One didn't have to go to a race
track to play the ponies or take a
chance on a score of other attrac-
tions on the main floor and in the
booths of the grand tier.
Thousands of souvenirs of great ac-
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No cargo received on board on day of sailing.
Round- trip tickets at reduced rates.
For Freight and passage apply at office, 240 James Flood
Building. W. H. AVERY, Assistant General Manager.
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SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 25, 1907
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By AMERICUS
At this crisis in its affairs, San Francisco would
do well to take several leaves out of Baltimore's
large book of experience. As with our own City,
Baltimore was almost obliterated by a great fire.
The southern city was fortunate in having a patri-
otic Mayor, in whom the community had confidence,
whereas the union labor Mayor and his confreres
of San Francisco are the municipal disgraces and
moral cancers of the century. Since the dark ages
in Europe nothing more incompetent, depraved or
retrogressive has been exhibited in city government.
The Mayor of Baltimore, has evolved order out
of chaos, and hastened the restoration of his city
architecturally and commercially by adopting a sen-
sible plan of co-operation with the best citizens.
Sordid and petty politics were ignored and com-
missions of responsible men appointed to act in
co-operation with the Mayor. These commissions
are non-partisan and their work has proved so
beneficial that it is generally conceded in the finan-
cial world that Baltimore has improved its condi-
tion in every desirable way. Judicious control in
the widening of streets, the creation of a sewer
system, the issuance and sale of bonds, and all
other matters connected with the restoration of the
city's commercial status and financial solidity has
been exerted. There has not been a hint of par-
tisan politics. The best elements of the community
have worked together in complete harmony and
that is what should be done in San Francisco. In
no other way can we accomplish the rapid restora-
tion of law, order and decency in the City govern-
ment, that is necessary to the establishment of
business confidence and the full resumption of in-
dustrial and commercial activity.
The refusal of Mr. Rudolph Spreckels to co-oper-
ate with the committee of seven appointed from
the leading commercial bodies of San Francisco has
been criticised justly by Governor Gillett. There
seems to be no valid reason why such a body rep-
resenting the class of citizens that built up old San
Francisco could not co-operate most advantage-
ously in the restoration of law and order. That is
our immediate and pressing need, ri state of in-
surrection exists that would justify Governor Gil-
lett in throwing troops into San Francisco and tak-
ing the reins of government himself, but he hesitates
to wrest from our citizens the power they undoubt-
edly possess to control themselves by proper or-
ganization of the law-abiding people and the
commercial interests.
The appointment of the committee of seven
seemed to be the first step in the right direction.
The" could go on and attend to the totally neglected
business routine of the municipality, while Mr.
Spreckels and his most efficient and conscientious
staff hastened the prosecution and punishment of
the grafters. With the united forces of good gov-
ernment thus working toward a common end, the
City would be released from the grip of the union
labor bandits that have plundered and disgraced
it since Ruef organized them and Schmitz was
elected to supreme command.
Governor Gillett has been quoted as saying that
"if a banker like Mr. Spreckels will not act in har-
mony with the committee from the leading com-
mercial organizations of this City, then I can read-
ily account for the friction all down the line in this
City. There ought to be unity of action to get
this City out of its present plight, but evidently
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the leading business men of the town, for reasons
I certainly cannot understand, are not in a mood
to act in harmony."
Whether the Governor used such words or not
they cover the situation. There has been "friction
all down the line" in San, Francisco for years. The
spirit of co-operation and unity amongst the lead-
ing men who should be united for the best interests
of the public has been absent. In its place have
been the spirit of rancor and jealousy and to that
cause can be ascribed all the troubles save the
earthquake that have come upon us in late years.
The great fire was attributable to it. Had our
leading public men been united for common need
San -Francisco would not have been found totalb'
unprotected from such a catastrophe which had of-
ten been predicted. A prominent European engi-
neer, who visited this City soon after the fire,
remarked to me one day in discussing the confla-
gration : >
"It is the crime of the century that a city like
this with an abundant water supply on all sides
should have been left by any earthquake totally
defenseless against fire. What kind of a govern-
ment and what kind of citizens have you got that
take no precautions against such a catastrophe?"
We have the kind of government any city will
be cursed with when its leading men refuse to work
in conjunction for the common good. Eastern
newspapers have criticized us as a City without
leaders. The trouble is that we have nothing else.
Like a South American army we are all generals,
colonels and captains. No one wants to be a pri-
vate and take orders. Our best men have been like
little children refusing to play in the other boy's
yard unless they could boss the whole game. And
while the leading citizens of the classes that should
rule have been at sixes and sevens, the criminals
have organized and captured the City government.
The reins of power in this City have passed into
the hands of bandits, organized for blackmail and
outrage, like the marauders that followed the robber
barons of the fifteenth century.
Mr. Spreckels is today the virtual head of the
government of San Francisco for he controls the
prosecution of the official grafters. He holds their
written pledge to obey his instructions under pen-
alty of their going to State Prison, where they be-
long. Mr. Spreckels is therefore almost omnipotent
to evolve order from anarchy, if he will but co-
operate with the men who have the best interests
of this City at heart and whose achievements have
demonstrated their fitness to control its govern-
ment.
Who are these men? Need any one deliberate
as to' that, with the object lesson before us of a
community plunged in graft and lawlessness by
the control of the ignorant and criminal mob?
The men who built up San Francisco, and not
the men who would tear it down, are those that
Mr. Spreckels should at once enlist under his ban-
ner, and organize into an -effective force for regen-
eration and. reconstruction.
If Mr. Spreckels does not desire to lead this body
of reputable citizens himself, the duty can be easily
delegated. He will search a long time, however,
before he shall find a better man than Judge Slack,
who spoke for the Committee of Seven, whom
Mr. Spreckels rejected on suspicion of being the
unconscious tools of Wm. F. Herrin and Patrick
Calhoun. With a full knowledge of Judge Slack's
career as a public man for thirty years, I would
pledge my life, that no man can make him a tool,
consciously or unconsciously, to perform an un-
patriotic or disgraceful task.
As for Mr. Herrin and Mr. Calhoun, they cut no
figure in the question of enforcing the law and
order and restoring business confidences and com-
mercial and industrial activity. The Grand Jury
can be trusted to pass properly on any accusations
against the gentlemen mentioned, but unless Mr.
Spreckels unite with the best element of the com-
munity, at once, this City will drag along in dis-
astrous turmoil until Schmitz shall have been
clothed in the convict suit he has so richly earned.
There should be no dickering whatever with the
labor element. The decent working people have
no voice in the control of what is known as organ-
ized labor. The acknowledged heads of that asso-
ciation are the scoundrels who are now awaiting
trial for felonies committed in office, or cowering
under the uplifted last of justice and dreading
that they shall be the next to feel it. We have
had a most convincing demonstration that union
labor in San Francisco has been organized chiefly
for official blackmail and plunder and the transfer
of the reins of authority to the scum of the City.
Why then should Mr. Spreckels, at this juncture,
when he has : earned the hearty approbation of all
patriotic Americans, hesitate to call to his aid the
thousands of reputable citizens of the best class,
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that stand ready to strengthen his hands and lift
our City out of the Slough of Despond?
It is Sincerely to la- hoped that before the next
issue of The Wasp the commercial organizations of
San Francisco, uniting with the Bar Association,
and other combinations of the reputable classes,
will have formulated a plan to select a representa-
tive committee to advise with Mr. Spreckels and
give San Francisco an effective government of law
and order.
Some newspapers that secretly desire to see the
union labor clement continue in control of San
Francisco are fond of referring approvingly to the
"conservative labor leaders" who have been smeared
by the mud, that has stuck so plentifully to their
brethren of the Schmitz Administration. The most
eminent conservatives, according to Mr. Edward
Livernash, who is certainly a splendid judge of
conservatism, are the noble Mickey Casey, and the
high-minded Andrew Furuseth. With a modesty
which entitles him to a Carnegie medal Mr.
Livernash does not include himself in the galaxy
of the safe and sane moderates.
Conservative Mr. Casey is the shadow of that
model of Christian meekness, and brotherly love,
the Reverend Peter C. Vorke. Mr. Casey was the
forefront of the riotous teamsters' strike, wherein
were practised such conservative tactics as breaking
the limbs and heads of non-union men, and occa-
sionally killing them to discourage the notion that
the Constitution of the l'nited States has either
force or effect anywhere.
Brother Michael has had his whack at the City
Hall trough, and though shouldered away, for a
brief space by the hogs of superior voracity, he has
since managed, by the grace of Schmitz, to get
enough pickings to keep him from honest work.
Mr. Furuseth has demonstrated his conservatism
by keeping the water front of San Francisco in
a ferment of ruinous labor agitation for twenty
years. He is still out of breath from his efforts
to encourage the Sailors' Union in the recent strike
to tie up the shipping business of this port and
stop the delivery of lumber to a stricken city, with
its population camping amidst the ashes of its
burned homes. That is Furuseth.
It was this imported partriot who boasted some
years ago that if his Sailors' Union did not have
its way the grass would be made to grow in the
streets of San Francisco, and perhaps it is a matter
of sincere regret to him that whenever he walks
up ATarket Street he does not leave the print of
his brogans in a waving field of alfalfa.
A few years ago Mr. Furuseth testified before an
official board of inquiry that the Sailors' Union,
which has done so much to make the shipping
business in this port impossible, contains but three
per cent of citizens and even these are of the
naturalized variety.
Being a consistent performer in that organization
known as "Advanced Socialists," most of whom
prefer the red flag to Old Glory, Mr. Furuseth has
not accepted office from Schmitz, or shared in
the plunder. This certainly entitles him to unique
distinction in a city where the war of the labor
leaders on capital has only been exceeded in fierce-
ness by their fatricidal struggle to grab the offices
from one another.
The Examiner makes little of the discovery of a
deadly bomb on one of the boycotted cars of the
L'nited Railroads. Our highly unesteemed contem-
porary is disposed to believe that the placing of
the infernal machine, which was capable of blowing
the car to pieces and killing everybody on it, was
a harmless bit of pleasantry indulged in by some
practical joker. The streets appear to be full of
light-hearted, innocent humorists ever since the car-
men struck.
They leap upon the cars and soak
The motorman until the bloke
Beholds a bunch of northern stars :
ft is to laugh — for that's their joke.
If any leave the Union yoke.
Him they yank forth and fondly choke.
To show their union brotherhood
And help their cause; it is their joke.
"Get down, you scab," they hoarsely croak
When women ride. They tear her cloak
And spit on her to get a laugh,
And help their cause ; it is a joke.
When of the car-borne bomb they spoke,
They thought a laugh it should evoke.
By chance a score were saved from death.
Delaying victory — a joke !
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Genlhe Photo MRS. FRANK CAROLAN
Gay old James B. Stetson has whipsawed Car-
negie's fame to a whisper, and jousted Rockefeller's
to a wheezy sob. Carnegie plunged on libraries ;
Rockefeller splurged on all-round education. But
Stetson, by the transplendent gods, is emptying his
teeming moneybags on punkin pie. Net the com-
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golden-hued, wabbling punkin pie. Charity begins
at Van Ness Avenue and Clay Street in this case;
and there the President of the California Street
Railroad began his punkin pie reform for the initial
benefit of his wife. But the ungrateful woman was
a recalcitrant beginner. Had she desired, she could
have had this monumental New England dish three
times a day. Had she been amiable to his life-
work, she could have been surrounded, pampered,
made pre-eminent with punkin pie beyond the
dreams of avarice. Instead of that, she sacrificed
her opportunities and is now suing for divorce.
Seven years ago, the marriage of James B. Stetson
and the widow of John S. Doe was considered one
of Cupid's masterstrokes. The groom was seventy ;
the bride fifty. And the Love God had to feather
his dart with a strip of phoenix's wing to do the
business. The lady's first husband was encom-
passed with wealth, but afflicted with multiplex
parsimony. In her second spousing she was there-
fore eager for luxuries. Just because the wife of
a millionaire, she desired salad for dinner. Even
dared to ask for soup ; both of which concoctions
the good Stetson had specific reasons to withhold
from his bounty. Supplied with all the salmon she
could possibly eat, she had the temerity to demand
striped bass. Besides that, she endeavored to man-
age the household, forgetting that a man who can
run a railroad and a hardware store knows more
about kitchen finesse than is within the talents of
one who is lost to the advantages of punkin pie.
After relinquishing these honors, Mrs. Stetson
for years paid her own board ; and then brought
matters to a climax by serving some of her ultraistic
guests with the prohibited salad and soup. Had she
been patient and deserving, she might have been al-
lowed oxtail soup on her birthday. Now, it is out
of the question. At any rate, Vive le punkin pie
philanthropist.
* * *
Mr. Stetson is not as well known in San Francisco
today as he was twenty years ago, for it is a peculiarity
of our growing young City that the new generation
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gets all about the previous one. In the generation
San Franciscans that is passing, and has all but
sed, J. B. Stetson was so important that his name
ibed up periodically as a suitable man for Mayor on
Republican ticket. The newspaper reporters, when
Idispatched to interview the leading men of the town
pn great questions of public policy, made a bee-line for
\j. B. Stetson's office. He sat in the Board of Super-
visors in the era when that body was respectable
enough to have staid financiers like E. B. Pond and
flapper men of fashion and social exclusiveness like
|J. Henley Smith accept seats. Mr. Stetson had all the
earmarks of a hustling business man in those days.
[He looked like the eager and tireless money chasers
that run over you if you stand still a moment in bust-
ling New York or Chicago. He was always in a hurry
and knew just where he was going and what he was
to gain by getting there in time. So he waxed rich if
not happy, his family became of the social elect, his
tiame shone in gilt letters on the sign of Holbrook,
Merrill & Stetson, the great hardware firm, and his
mansion helped to make the budding gentility of Van
Ness Avenue an acknowledged fact.
In the earlier stages of his successful career, Mr.
Stetson ran a modest tinware establishment on Front
Street, south of California Street. After retiring from
the firm of Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson he became
president of the ferry and railroad company controlling
jthe traffic between San Francisco, Sausalito and San
Rafael. His management of this did' not popularize
either the road or himself, but he lost no money on it
nevertheless, and sold out to good advantage. His
marriage to the. rich widow Doe was regarded as a
brilliant financial stroke, if nothing else. The bride-
groom was seventy and the bride fifty. The wedding-
was doubly remarkable, inasmuch as the lady's first
husband was also much older than her, and usually a
widow with such an experience prefers the ardor of
youth to the calm discretion of old age. The gossips
>aid that perhaps she sought a business manager rather
than a lover and it appears that financial matters cut
quite a figure in driving the pair into the divorce
court. Mrs. Stetson has stated as one of her grounds
of complaint that her husband made her pay for the
wedding breakfast. That was certainly taking a good
deal of the romance out of it, especially if money was
a prior consideration with her to amatory sentiment.
People often become mentally confused over such mat-
ters and jumble up poetry with dollars and cents. Abe
Ruef. for instance, may have been thinking harder of
his lawyer's fees than the tears of his relatives when
he drenched the courtroom the other day with his own
lachrymose overflow.
* * *
The gossips say that the real and underlying cause
of Mrs. Stetson's dissatisfaction was the neglect of
her husband to place her on the same social plane as
his two daughters, Mrs. Robert Oxnard and Mrs.
Chauncey Winslow. As Mrs. Doe, the widow of the
millionaire lumberman, she was merely rich. Society
with the large S knew her not officially. Either of
Mr. Stetson's daughters could pronounce the magic
"sesame" and cause all the doors of Pacific Heights to
fly open to their step-mother, but evidently they took
no trouble to accomplish the feat. On the contrary, it
would appear that the step-mother suspected that they
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drove a few tenpermy nails in the doors that were most
eagerly watched. Mr. Stetson sided with his daugh-
ters, a course which aged fathers who marry a second
time generally adopt for their own discomfort. That
the preference of her husband for his relatives was the
unpardonable crime in Mrs. Stetson's eyes there can
be no doubt. The embargo placed by her millionaire
husband on soup and salad on the same bill of fare
was a mere bagatelle compared with this family griev-
ance.
Mr. Stetson has had four children. Mrs. Robert
Oxnafd was formerly Mrs. Ricardo Pinto, the wife of
a good-looking and sportive Spanish gentleman who
took a short cut to fortune and a long jump to Mexico.
Mrs.'Chauncey Winslow has also been divorced. Mr.
Winslow betook himself to Portland, Oregon, not long
ago and is established in business there.- He was di-
vorced from Sophie Eyre, the actress, before he mar-
ried Miss Stetson. Mr. Stetson's oldest son, Albert,
who was a very popular young man, shot himself one
night in the apartments of the late Fred Webster after
he had escorted home from the theatre a certain young
lady who had a key to the rooms. It was a tragic and
much deplored affair, for the young man had many
friends. Mr. Webster was out of town at the time.
The second son of Mr. Stetson is expected to marry
a belle of the fashionable world very soon. He is also
very popular and is welcomed into the best Society.
The recent arrival of a distinguished army officer
who went East shortly afterward to join his wife
brings to mind a story which went the rounds be-
fore this couple left San Francisco, where they had
been stationed some years ago. The story concerns
a very exclusive whist club in which this armycap-
tain and his attractive spouse were members. Both
were wonderful card-players. It was decided to re-
serve all funds collected until the last card party
of the season, when it was to be decided by vote
whether the club should have a dinner and theater
party, followed by supper, down town; or, meet
at some one home and distribute handsome prizes.
Incidentally it may be stated that the munificent
sum on which all this was to be done was a few
cents over fourteen dollars. There were about
twenty-five members in the club. The vote resulted
in favor of a final game at some member's' home
and the distribution of the prizes and the domicile
of the gallant-captain was selected. The final game
was a hotly contested one, the Captain taking the
first prize for the men and his wife the first prize
for the ladies.
"What are the prizes?
ones.
asked the disappointed
"This brass lamp," said the Captainess, pointing
to a small one which had been shedding its light
all the evening on the guests without their sus-
pecting that it was one of the resplendent prizes
to be bought out of the princely reserve fund. The
other prize for the highest lady proved to be the
plates on which was served up the sumptuous repast
of thin slices of bread and butter with a lonely look-
ing piece of lettuce that smelled suspiciously of
the extract of cottonseed. The beverage for this
festive occasion was lemonade of the church fair
variety, which grew more sour under the looks of
the losing members of the club.
The guests did not dally long over the banquet.
As they donned their wraps and overcoats one
young lady remarked quite innocently to the host:
"How fortunate you are, Captain, in not having
to carry that lamp home and run the risk of spoil-
ing your pretty uniform."
The Captain tried to throw a different light on
the subject, so to speak, but the farewells wef
quite frosty and all the way home the disappointed
whist-players vented their spleen on their host and
hostess. Fourteen dollars squandered in prizes and
none won except by the man and wife who had pur-
chased them ! It was enough to disrupt the moss
exclusive and enthusiastic whist club that ever
mixed card-playing and scandal in its discussions.
"I'm almost sure I saw those plates months ago
when she gave her tea," said one lady spitefully.
"The Captain must be a trance medium to know
that he was going to win the lamp," said another
disgruntled loser.
When the next evening arrived, for the entertain-
ment of the club- at the Captain's house the other
members sent their "regrets" in a body.
"Owing: to a previous engagement," etc., etc.,
they were prevented from attending, and it gave
the female members much joy to' know that thl;
Captain and his spouse were considerably put ouj|
thereby, as they had laid themselves out for thl
occasion and invited several special guests.
The history of the Civil War would be tame read-
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Patrick Calhoun lias some relatives amongst the old
Southern set in this City. He himself is of the real
old Southern stock that helped to make history, for the
famous John C, the greatest of Calhouns, was his
grandfather. His mother was a Miss Duff Green,
sister of Mrs. Lafayette Maynard. Mr. Duff Green
of this City, who died many years ago, belonged to
this family. Mrs. Carrie Xoble and Miss Florine
Green of this City, are relatives of Mr. Calhoun. Mr.
Patrick Calhoun was born in Georgia. Mrs. Calhoun,
hi-- wife, was a Miss Williams, whose father, Mr. Wil-
liams, was a banker of Georgia. The family moved to
Charleston, S. C, where the magnificent family home
is situated. Mrs. Calhoun's brother, Mr. Williams, is
also a banker and very wealthy. He resides in Charles-
ton. Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun have eight children. The
eldest daughter, who is about eighteen years of age,
made her debut not long ago in the old mansion of
the Calhouns in Charleston. She was seen a good
deal in San Francisco Society last year, though not
yet formally introduced. Mrs. Calhoun spends most
of her time in the East. She travels in sumptuous
style and entertains extensively. Mrs. Voorhies of
this ( itv is a very intimate friend of the Calhoun
family. Except in localities where more deference is
paid to demagogues and anarchists than to decent
persons of good family, the Calhouns are admired and
respected as splendid people.
* * *
The golf competition n>r the Del Monte Cup
for Men was won by M. A. McLaughlin, who beat
Lindsay Scrutton of the San Francisco Golf and
Country Club in the final round over thirty-six holes.
The Del Monte Cup is a beautiful trophy in the
form of a two-handled cup with maple leaf orna-
mentation. The runner-up trophy which was won
by Mr. Scrutton is a fine silver champagne goblet.
The Seventh Annual Competition for the Men's
Amateur Championship of the Pacific Coast Golf
Association was won by that reliable player. Charles
E. Maud, of the San Francisco Golf and Country
Club, who defeated Thomas P. Mum ford of the
Pasadena Country Club in the final round. Mr.
Maud will receive the gold medal and Thomas P.
Mumford the silver medal of the Association. Lind-
sav Scrutton and Dr. C. H. Walter -of the Linda
Vista Club of San Jose will get bronze medals.
Dr. Walter also captured a silver medal for the
best score in the qualifying round, in which he
covered the 18 holes in 80 strokes. Mr. Maud has
now won the Amateur Championship twice, he
having captured it in 1903, when the contest took
place on the Presidio Links, which were then occu-
pied by the San Francisco Golf Club.
News has reached me of the death in Honolulu
on the twelfth of May of Judge George Gear, for-
merly of this City but for a long time past one
'61 the Hawaiian Islands' leading legal lights. Judge
Gear was in this City associated with his father in
the law firm of Gear & Gear, a firm that first came
into prominence as counsel for the London Savages
in the suit for the Blythe millions, which were
finally awarded to Florence Blythe, now Mrs. Moore
.of. Oakland. Since the younger Gear went to the
Islands he has been the intimate friend and legal
advisor of the Princes David and Cupid, and ac-
companied them on trips to this country in the role
of mentor. Judge Gear was married when a mere
boy to Miss Gertrude Larzelere, the beautiful sis-
ter of Leigh and Will Larzelere and Mrs. Marvin
( urtis, but the marriage proved unhappy and was
dissolved in the courts. A few years ago Judge
Gear married again.
Preparations are already under way for the Bo-
hemian Club's midsummer high jinks, and the com-
mittee having the program in charge promise
something better even than in former years. Joe
Redding has promised to be present, and Ignatz
Steinhart is expected to be here from New York.
* * #
Mrs. William Leach of Oakland gave an elaborate
at home recently, when she announced the engage-
ment of Miss Alice Vane and Harry William Leach.
The reception was in honor of Miss Vane, the bride-
to-be, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
F. Vane. The date of the marriage has not been set.
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MRS. RUDOLPH SPRECKELS
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs is of the
coterie of Californian writers, though most literary-
statisticians forget that fact when noting the great
things done by California's brainy ones. Mrs. Riggs
has just brought forth another best-selling juvenile,
"New Chronicles of Rebecca." One of her friends
tells me that the author gave a Chautauqua read-
ing not long since after which an old man, collar-
less and with every evidence of being a backwoods
farmer, came up to speak to her. His remarks
come under the head of "things we wish we had
expressed differently." "I come forty miles to hear
ye read. I ain't a readin' man at all. Fact is, I
can't read anything that is, what ye call reel good
or 'mounts to much. I'm what ye'd call an ignor-
ant man, fur yore books is about the only books
I kin read." But Mrs. Riggs' sense of humor appre-
ciated the left-handed compliment.
* * *
The trouble between Greer Harrison and the
Olympic Club, I believe, arose from a dispute over
the depth of the cellar. When Schmitz decided to
limit the height of buildings Greer Harrison, not
to be impeded by the Mayor, resolved to construct
a building partly underground. The directors ob-
jected and Mr. Harrison was very indignant, for
he has done a great deal for the Olympic Club. In
fact it is not asserting too much to say that he has
made it a club. It was always on the ragged edge
of poverty, like most athletic clubs, before he be-
came president and devoted so much of his time
to its upbuilding. Not a man in a thousand
would make such a sacrifice as Greer Harrison has
made for the Olympic. He withdrew once before
and very soon his loss involved the club in serious
complications. His permanent withdrawal at this
time would be a heavy blow to the organization. I
think that there is not another man on earth who
has as many qualities as Greer Harrison essential
to the success of a club like the Olympic, for in
the fame of an old and clever man of affairs he
has the enthusiasm and heart of a boy.
There are plenty of juvenile old men but most of
them appear to be in a second childhood prolonged
from their first.
* * *
The friends of Mrs. Jack Parrott, who is in the
East, are hoping that she will recover her health
on her trip abroad. She is traveling with Dr. Mac-
monagle, for Mrs. Parrott has faith in him and
no one else. Not long ago she had some teeth
drawn, and three physicians including Dr. Macmon-
agle were in attendance so that the shock might
not be too great for her. Mrs. Parrott's nerves
are in such a shattered condition that the least dis-
turbance causes insomnia. Of the three Parrott
girls Miss Abby is the one who cares most for
Society. She is in Europe with her cousins, the
Dicks. She is rather a leader among the girls. Miss
Emily is the head of the house in her mother's
absence, for all the Parrott girls have been brought
up to be excellent housekeepers, and to run their
home is something like managing a hotel, so many
are the servants. One is always behind each chair
in the dining room. Miss Barbara Parrott, the
youngest of the three girls in Society, is considered
the brightest and most original member of the
family. All are intensely religious. John Parrott,
Jr., who has gone into the banking business has
inherited his father's love and talent for music and
is a thorough musician, as are all the members of
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rated author's "seven years' voyage" which will
doubtless be considerably abbreviated. It costs
good money to go sailing around even in The
Snark fo, seven years, and where is Jack going
to get it? Can his publishers stand seven years
of the awful rot he grinds out and even if they could
what about the public stomach?
Twenty-seven days from port —
With a ho, heave ho, skidooloo —
Comes The Snarklet with a snort
Into guileless Honolulu.
Twenty-seven thousand tons
Burden (mostly egotism).
All hands sick but at their guns,
Ho-heave-hoed with Socialism.
Jack is glum because the strike
Came while he was on the billows,
And he lost the chance to hike
Up and down our peccadilloes.
We have no one who so gladly
Would have screamed his contribution
To the riots, shouting madly,
"T'ell with your old Constitution."
While we're trying hard to figure
Terms with leaders demagogic,
We are glad no red-flag jigger
Hurls us dynamite for logic.
In his ketch-rigged yawl (or is it
Rig-yawled ketch or keel-hauled rig?)
Jack will many nations visit
And make little places big.
But the biggest thing he'll do
'Neath his flag of crimson cotton,
Is the howl, when coming through
He will find his name forgotten.
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MISS MARION MILLS
The board of managers, of which Mrs. M. H. de
Young was chairman, announces that the financial
returns from the promenade charity concert at the
Fairmont Hotel was as follows : Tickets sold out-
side. $6206; tickets for automobile, $4931.25; ad-
vertising and donations, $8117.50; receipts on even-
ing of the entertainment, including tickets at the
door and punch, $1611.05. Total receipts, $20,865.80.
Expenses to date, printing and catering, $2180.15.
Cash on hand to date, $18,685.65.
* * *
Recently a bank clerk who had been in the employ
of a San Francisco institution fifty years was retired
as gently as possible by the directors. He went home
very much crestfallen, and greeted his wife with,
"There, I just knew that job wouldn't be permanent.
They've let me out."
* * *
Jack London's little vessel, The Snark, has
reached Honolulu, with all on board safe if not
sound. This is the first stage of the much over-
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Society was determined to put Maybelle Gilman's
tenderest feelings to the mortar and pestle before de-
cocting her into Mrs. Wiliam E. Corey. The poor over-
dressed nymph was mixed, with new bitterness, scarce
had she digested the wedding breakfast. The Rev.
John Lewis Clark, who conventionalized the union,
suddenly turned his fee into conscience money and
sent it back to Corey.
After doing so, the divine unraveled himself into
a long, highly-colored yarn of contrition, exclaiming
that he had hodgepodged his exalted office, buffooned
the Church, mugwumped his ideals of the marriage
relation and taken the highfaluting lid off things in
general. Further, he was filled with a slow-revolving,
kaleidoscopic regret for the same and begged pardon
of his church and denomination for having "unwit-
tingly" united the two pommery sectarians in marriage.
This was almost enough to make the bride fear the
wedding ceremony was reserved and wonder whether
the next defensive proceeding should be an injunction,
habeas corpus, alibi or an appeal. But even against
this divine arraignment, the marriage, for all prac-
tical purposes, goes. Returning the love-cherish-
and-obey fee does not constitute a divorce. If it did
there would be no widespread danger of that sort of
spontaneous marital combustion anyway.
The sensational point here is the action of the
pastor in rejecting the tip, which was said to be $500.
The Church never was squeamish about tainted money,
as it possesses the spiritual machinery for removing
the taint. The old robber barons built abbeys and
bought masses with the proceeds of a thrilling day-
light raid or a quiet assassination at dusk. The monks
always took their premium, regarding it sometimes
as a fine if not a fee. The Rev. Clark, while remitting
Corey's fine and remanding him to matrimony for
life, intimates that even this sentence should be com-
muted. We hope their married life will be smooth.
It should be if Maybelle's personality enters much into
it.
* * #
Porter Garnett, once one of the caryatides of art
in San Francisco, will become a June groom. In
Santa Rosa, California's daintiest village, he has
already procured the license to wed the young and
beautiful Edna Foote in the "what is so rare"
month. Bride, month and the Santa Roseate en-
vironment are a combination of charms the like of
which many wished to see Garnett enjoy ere this,
for he was very popular, wise and eligible many
years ago. In anteseismic days he was one of the
editors of the Argonaut, and now is in the scathing-
rebuke department of the Pacific Monthly, a maga-
zine on the northern boundary of Oregon or there-
abouts. Miss Foote is the daughter of C. H. Foote,
of Kellog, Sonoma County. She is graceful, dark-
haired and picturesque.
* 3s *
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cornwall are occupying the
home of Mr. Cornwall's mother, during her absence
abroad. She is at present in Paris, and will tour
Europe before her return.
Professor and Mrs. John Galen Howard of Berke-
ley gave an enjoyable and brilliant costume party
at their home last week. The house was elabor-
ately decorated with flags and Japanese lamps hung
from the musician's loft to the drawing room. Mrs.
Howard greeted her guests as a Russian peasant.
Prof. Howard was Marc Anthony, Miss Sprague
Cleopatra. President Benjamin I. Wheeler looked
imposing in a Chinese mandarin's costume and Mrs.
Wheeler was in violet and white brocade as Marie
Antoinette.
Lieutenant Edwin C. Long, Artillery Corps, is an-
nounced as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Funs-
ton and as inspector of small arms practice of the de-
partment. He and his wife will be welcomed back to
San Francisco by a large circle of friends. Mrs. Long
was Miss Georgie Shepard. She is the daughter of
A. D. Shepard, the well-known manager of the Pacific
Improvement Club. Mrs. Long left here about a year
ago, immediately after her marriage. As a girl Miss
Shepard lived for years in Sausalito, where her father
owns a handsome home. Her mother died some years
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The latest news from Miss Anita Harvey is to
he effect that she will soon start for home, and
:arly in June her marriage i<> Oscar Cooper will
akc place. It is also said that Mr. Rice will return
.) thi> City and be the best man. This will be
tleasant news, as Mr. Rice is considered quite a
atch in the matrimonial field. I believe it was
ntendeil by Miss Harvey to name June the 12th
or her wedding day. but as it would conflict with
no ..ilier weddings her friends also desire to at-
end. she changed the date. It is said her sister
■vill positively announce her own engagement at
he wedding. It has long been an open secret
iffiong her intimate friends that the engagement
•xists.
* * *
Miss May Morton and Mr. frank Rinse}' will
>e married on Wednesday evening. June 5th, in
Jakland. Miss Isabel Schuphan recently gave an
■laR.rate luncheon in honor of the bride-elect, be-
ng assisted by Mrs. Benjamin Smith and Mrs.
K>rge Steele Mackie.
* * *
Another wedding of interest to take place early
n June in Oakland is that of Miss Olive Bruning
ind Walter Corder, it will be a quiet affair. The
miple will reside in Oakland.
* * *
President and Mrs. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, ac-
:ompanied by Master Wheeler, left last week for
:he Fast. Mrs. Wheeler will visit her old home at
Providence, R. I. President Wheeler will address
nany of the leading Eastern educational institu-
ions.
* # #
On June 12lh, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Miss
Louise Reddington and Dr. Albion Walter Hewlett
ivill be married at Trinity Church. Miss Marian
Huntington will be maid of honor and Miss Edith
Berry and Miss Florence Gibbons will be brides-
naids. Eugene Hewlett will be the best man.
* * *
Wednesday, June 12th, is the. day chosen by Miss
Frances Coon for her wedding to Oliver Kehrlein
jat Menlo Park. Mrs. Marshall Wotkyns, who was
attractive Alma Redding, will be the matron of
jhonor. The bridesmaids will be Miss Jane Dudley,
|a half sister of the bride, Miss Dorothea Coon, Miss
Roma Paxton, Miss Natale Blauvelt, Miss Amy
Kassett and Miss Edith Metcalf.
* * *
June seems to be the most popular month this
year for weddings. On June 11th Miss Mabel
Watkins will be married to Captain Orrin R. Wolfe,
U. S. A., at Christ's Church. Sausalito. At this time
of the year, when flowers bloom and Summer
breezes blow, the pretty little suburb of Sausalito
is at its best. The wedding will be followed by a
reception at Cliff Haven, the residence of the bride's
parents. Mrs. Frank Finlev, one of Sausalito's most
beautiful matrons, will be the bride's only attendant.
The best man and ushers will be selected from the
brother officers of the groom. Miss .Watkins is an
only child.
Mrs. L. L. Baker, has rented the Horace Pills-
bury home on Broadway and Laguna. This will
be pleasant news to the many friends of Miss Helen
Uaker, for the Bakers are generous entertainers.
Their new residence is very commodious and can
accommodate many guests.
* * *
A wedding of interest on both sides of the bay
todk place when Miss Adeline Frisby became the
bride of William Geisendorfer, manager of the
Truckee Lumber Company at Cantara. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Mr. Hughes of
Trinity Episcopal Church at the home of the bride's
mother in this City. The bride was given into the
groom's keeping by her 1 rother, L. J. Frisbee, and
Mr. Geisendorfer, brother of the groom, was best
man. Miss Florence Conn, a cousin of the bride,
was bridesmaid. Mr. and Mrs. Geisendorfer will
make their future home at Cantara.
* * *
Misses Mazie and Angela Coyle will give a large
tea today, Saturday, at their home on Jackson
Street. It will be in honor of the two coming June
brides. Miss Lydia Mae Sadler will be married
on June 19th to Lewis Risdon Meade, as also Miss
Lucy Maria Mighell, and Mr. Thomas James
Churchill, whose wedding will take place June 1st.
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-THE WASP
FRANCES SLOSSON
A Great Favorite with the Play Going Public.
Mrs. George Henry Perry, who is giving a lunch-
eon at the Piedmont club-house this week, is one
of the most enthusiastic club-women in Alameda.
At one time she belonged to no less than seven-
teen until ill-health made her resign from a few
of them. She has lately been instrumental in form-
ing a new club, the Players' which discusses modern
plays at its meetings, plays like "The Joy of Liv-
ing" and "Hedda Gabler." Mrs. Perry is one of
the Dray sisters of Sacramento, one of whom is
now Mrs. James Warrack and another Mrs. Culver
of New York. The youngest sister, Miss Alice
Dray, is quite prominent in Society here. The
sisters are all very clever and musical, particularly
Mrs. Perry and Mrs. Culver, who are "star" pupils
of Hugo Mansfeldt.
^ * *
An Eastern publisher is bringing out a second
edition of Ina D. Coolbrith's "Songs from the
Golden State," illustrated with a portrait of the
author and engravings from Keith's paintings.
Would not this be a good time for those ardent
friends of Mrs. Coolbrith, who are always making
newspaper-published plans for her well-being, to
come forward and express their appreciation? As
the fire cleaned out all the book-stores and almost
all the private and public libraries, a big edition
of Miss Coolbrith's book should find a ready market
here if protestations count for anything. No writer
deserves better of the California public than this
gifted woman.
* * *
Governor James Budd, who has gone to Europe to
remain all summer, shipped ahead of him a large
touring car capable of carrying seven or eight passen-
gers. Budd is very fond of mechanics, and takes care
of his own automobile and drives it himself. He took
no driver or mechanic with him. His fad is automo-
biling. John D. Spreckels has the same fad and both
men are devoted to the same kind of automobile, the
White steamer. Mr. Spreckels, although he has
mechanics, allows no one to touch his car but himself,
and he and Mr. Budd are never so happy as when they
have aprons on and are working in their garages with
oil can and monkey wrench. Claus Spreckels, Jr., the
younger son of John D. Spreckels, has his father's
talent for mechanics and likes to work in the garage
also. He is a splendid driver.
There is a dickens of a time in Santa Barbara be-
tween the assistant district attorney, W. C. Day, and
Mrs. Jennie G. Nichols, superintendent of the Chil-
dren's Rescue Work in California. It seems that a
month ago Mrs. Nichols went to the Channel City and
asked the bankers and other citizens to give of their
shekels for the support of her mission, which is to take
babies from the dear only knows where and place
them with "lovely families." She has not given any
account of what the "lovely families" think of the
high-handed proceeding. When last in Santa Bar-
bara it seems that Mrs. Nichols and the babies from
any old place ran against a snag in the shape of the
Let them know!
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
-THE WASP-
FRANKLYN UNDERWOOD
Who Won Laurels as Leading Man of Ye Liberty Theatre.
newly organized Promotion Committee, which con-
sists of the first citizens and which, by the way, takes
itself as seriously as does any and every other body in
that superlative town. As soon as she heard of the
Promotion Committee, Mrs. Nichols was delighted.
"It will promote me — and the babies," said she, and
she lost no time in asking for such good offices. That
the committee is a coldly commercial affair is evident,
for as soon as the lady — and the babies — sought its
help it sat up and demanded credentials. What do
ycu think of that? Credentials, from a woman with
babies from any place to put in "Lovely families."
Very properly she dug out instead of going into her
financial condition. But that did not satisfy the com-
mittee and William C. Day, the handsome young as-
sistant district attorney, declares that if Mrs. Nichols
returned she would have to tell where the funds that
the public bestowed, went to or he would bring suit
for obtaining money under false pretences.
Hardly had the newspapers voiced the rash young
man's statement than presto! Mrs. Nichols appeared
on the scene and looked sad and weepy and wailed
that she had been misrepresented. She did not bring
suit. She said, still more sadly: "What is the use?
The right will prevail !"
And that rude assistant district attorney was not
moved one bit, he simply held to his position and re-
iterated his assertion, "The lady will have to show me."
He did not say he was from Missouri! for he is a very
fastidious gentleman. But the two factions are at it
tooth and nail, and Mrs. Nichols will nut tell where
she placed the babies. She says principle keeps her
dumb on that score and the Promotion Committee
takes the stand that the public that gave — No, it gave
the money — has a right to know.
• • •
The Prince Bishop of the Catholic Church, who has
been here but is now in the southern part of the State,
awed every one nearly into a grease spot. The knees
of his hostesses and their guests began knocking to-
gether at the sight of so distinguished a prelate, and no
one knew what to say or do. One of his hostesses
thought of ambrosia as food with a little nectar to
drink. The much perplexed lady ransacked her wine
cellar for the choicest beverages and finally found
some fine Madeira nearly a hundred years old. She
also placed on the table champagne and the best red
wine. She watched the Prince Bishop anxiously for
the words of praise that must fall from his lips, but he
touched not the costly Madeira nor the champagne,
nor even the red wine. Could it be that a prince and a
bishop was a teetotaler ? No ! nothing so horrible as
that. The royal monk was not an exponent of the
ultra-puritanical. At last he raised a thirst, but the
astonished hostess could hardly believe her ears when
the tonsured uncle of a king turned to her and asked,
"Might I have a little beer?"
The incident recalls one of the scenes in Disraeli's
novel where a parvenu, trying to climb into Society at
last enjoys the felicity of getting a duke to dine with
him. In honor of the great occasion the climber pre-
pares a banquet fit for the gods. To the dismay of the
host the guest of honor allows dish after dish to pass
untouched, and at last he turns to the flunkey at his
back and asks for "a little cold meat."
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-THE WASP
Mrs. E. B. Cadwalader and Miss Linda, who have
been visiting George Cadwalader and his bride at their
flat on Devisadero street, were given a farewell din-
ner previous to their departure, on Thursday, for the
East. After visiting General and Mrs. Greely in Chi-
cago, Mrs. Cadwalader will visit her son in Iowa.
Then Miss Linda will go to the country home of the
Bourke Cockrans on Long Island. Miss Ide, Mrs.
Cockran's sister, will form one of this party, and late
in the season they will go to Washington with Mr. and
Mrs. Cockran. Mrs. Cockran has just returned to
her home in the East from Paris, where she has bought
some beautiful costumes. Mr. and Mrs. Cadwalader
will be gone until late in the Winter.
* * *
After a prolonged stay abroad Mrs. Phebe Hearst
has announced her intention of returning to Cali-
fornia and making her home here as before. This
will be glad tidings to the army of grafters that
are always studying how to tap this benevolent
lady's purse.
* * #
Among San Franciscans who have spent the
Winter abroad and will be gone indefinately are
Mrs. E. B. Clement and Miss Mattie Livermore.
After enjoying opera in Dresden they went to
Finland on a visit to Mrs. Clement's neice, Mrs.
Ekblom, who will be remembered as Miss Nona
Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Will-
iams. It was while Mrs. Williams and family
were traveling abroad that this attractive girl met
Mr. Ekblom, a prosperous man in Finland. They
were married in New York.
* * *
Mrs. Williams and Miss Queen Anne are at pres-
ent in the East. One son is attending Columbia
College and will soon graduate. Mrs. E. B. Clement
and Mr. Williams are brother and sister, Mrs.
Thomas C. Van Ness is also a sister. Apropos of
Mrs. Williams' trip abroad ; the family lived for
years at St. Helena. Mr. Williams had met with
reverses and had gone to Central America. Mrs.
Williams one day invested in a lottery ticket which
brought her the snug sum of fifteen thousand dol-
lars. She immediately gathered her family together
and left for Dresden, where she spent some years
in educating her family, and only a couple of years
ago returned to New York. Mrs. Harry Chambers,
the brilliant "Kate Carew" on a New York paper,
is the eldest daughter, formerly Mrs. Mary David-
son. There is one unmarried daughter, Miss Queen
Anne, a very intimate friend of Miss Elsie Tallant.
Mrs. Tallant and Mrs. Williams, with their sons
and daughters, are now enjoying the sights of New
York. Mrs. Tallant and Miss Elsie expect to leave
soon for a tour of Europe, and will not return to
California for some time.
Mrs. Romualdo Pacheco has been spending some
time with her daughter, Mrs. William S. Tevis, in
Bakersfield.
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* # *
Mr. and Mrs. Jules Brett left the Hotel Rafael
last week, where they have been passing the Win-
ter,! and have gone to Mexico, expecting to be gone
about a year.
* * , * ■
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Irwin and family, who
have arrived at Honolulu will spend part of their
time at the Irwin plantation, and part at Waikiki
beach. Miss Margaret Hyde-Smith is the guest
of Miss Irwin.
* * *
Under the patronage of Mr. White, the American
Ambassador at Paris, a benefit auction sale of the wqrks
of American artists was held recently' at the Elysee
Palace Hotel, in Paris, under the auspices of the
local American Art Association. The attendance
included both American residents and visitors de-
siring to show their practical interest in the work
of their compatriots studying art in France. Nearly
200 numbers were on the catalogue, but 100 only
were sold. They included paintings, drawings, and
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THE WASP
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etchings. The total amount realized was 12,000
francs ($2,400). The highest prices were 800 francs
($160) for H. S. Hubbell's "At the Window," and
1,000 francs iS.'UO) for Alexander Harrison's
"Moonlight."
* * *
Max Mamlock, one of the noble band of Super-
visorial grafters that confessed to Mr. Heney, lias
been sued for breach of promise, damages $10,000.
That is just about the size of the sack Max has left.
The lady. Miss Annie Smith, lias sized ii up beauti-
fully. She declares he promised to lead her to the
altar, but they got Inst mi the way and he led her
astray. It would be rough on Max if he got socked
for heavy damages, and after all was prosecuted by
Heney and sent to San Quentin, where he and all
his tribe belong.
Mamlock was one of the first of the grafters to
betray evidence of sudden wealth. He was an
electric worker when elected Supervisor, and per-
haps had $75 above all his just debts and liabilities
including his current month's board-bill. In six
months he bought four expensive automobiles, a
fact which was duly noted in The Wasp at the time,
much to the grafter's annoyance.
* * *
The Apotheosis of Abe Ruef
Hallelujah ! Fetch a harp.
Hallelujah ! Key it sharp.
To the saintly he's kin.
Hallelujah! A grafter come snow-white from sin.
Oh, why do you doubt
He has quit his old crew?
Oh, why don't you shout
^'hen there's shouting to do.
Abe Ruef's got salvation.
He weeps like tarnation.
He now is a saint.
His garments all white with immunity paint.
Why should he have braved
•The sixty indictments?
LSy squealing he saved
Himself sixty excitements.
Hallelujah ! He's shriven.
Hallelujah! And given
The boodle all back (?)
Not yet, but soon, all the swag in one sack —
He'll give it away
To the good and the poor.
No more the loot may
His rapacity lure.
Hallelujah ! O youths
Of the land, take these truths ;
When your pal is a Mayrir,
Don't let him get gay before you get gayer.
His dignity makes him
More slow to confessing;
So you ups and shakes him,
.And gets the big blessing.
Miss Gertrude Boyle, the gifted sculptress has
married a Japanese lecturer, Mr. 'Kanno, at Seat-
tle, and her friends are much relieved, as it was
feared some time ago, while in this City, that she
would clo something really desperate and wed the
assistant editor of the News Letter.
*
Now that the Walter Deans have come back front
New York with their beautiful daughter. Miss
Helen Dean, it is said that her embryotic Eastern
engagement is declared off, and the prophets are
predicting that she will probably accept one of her
many eligible admirers, prominent amongst whom
are B n W d, H 1 B r and A. McB .
Mr. W d has been devoting himself to one of
the pretty girls who went to Europe recently, but
it is suspected that he would be quite willing to
take up his first love, as his prominent family and
that of the lovely heiress are very friendly.
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-THE WASP
MRS. OSCAR LUNING
The labor disturbances have made the sale of
pictures in San Francisco scarce during the past
few weeks, and most of the artists, have packed their
sketching tools and flitted away to the mountains
and valleys to forget all about the strife of labor
land capital and lay up sketches for Fall and Win-
ter work. Keith is preparing for a two-months'
sketching tour. This eminent painter is again in
excellent health and seems to have entirely for-
gotten the irreparable loss of all his studies and
paintings in the great fire. Financially the loss was
:very large, but that is the least consideration with
this veteran artist, for he is possessed of a large
fortune. He has been buying gilt-edge bonds lately,
!as a good many of such desirable securities have
been thrown on the market by people who were
compelled to get ready money. When the market
reacts again Keith will have made more money
than his brush could bring him, though that medium
has been anything but a poor money getter for him.
The San Francisco bankers and their wives made
a big hit at Santa Barbara last week, when they
were in attendance at the California Bankers' Con-
vention. The people of the Channel City know how
to entertain and they did their utmost for the
guests. The strangers had the time of their lives
and so did their hosts, and the Potter looked superb.
A barbecue at the Hope ranch ended most pleas-
antly the three days' business and pleasure jaunt
of the financiers. While the guests at the barbe-
cue filled the tables an old Spanish senor in hisf
national costume played a mandolin and two others,
also in costume, picked guitars. A bevy of little
senoritas sang and danced and altogether the barbe-
cue was out of the common.
Miss Alice Butler of San Francisco is the house
guest of Mrs. Alfred Edwards of Santa Barbara,
and Miss Margaret Lacy has been Mrs. Edwards'
guest for several weeks. Mr. and Airs. Louis Long
gave a dinner dance for Miss Lacy, and all the
young members of the smart set were present to do
honor to the northern belle. Miss Butler is in
mourning and is not going out so that there is noth-*
ing being done for her in a big Society way.
Mrs. Henry Howard, who has come to San Fran-
cisco to join her husband, was one of the most
popular young matrons of the exclusive set at Santa
Barbara, and as Miss Elaine Goodridge was a great
belle. Her marriage a year ago was one of the
leading affairs of last season. She is very bright
and vivacious, a petite brunette.
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The fact that J. A. Emery of the Citizens' Indus-
trial Association of America is here studying the
unique condition of affairs, has thrown P. H. Mc-
Carthy into fresh spasms. The newspapers that
are playing to the strikers and secretly wishing that
the reign of lawlessness may last are also worry-
ing over Emery. He was once connected with the
Citizens' Alliance here, but was engaged for the
wider field covered by the Citizens' Industrial Asso-
ciation, which has headquarters in New York. An
officer of such an organization has about the same
effect on McCarthy and his newspaper confederates
that a policeman has on a professional burglar. It
fills him with mingled alarm and rage.
In former days when the late Loring Pickering
edited it, and the late George K. Fitch of the Bulle-
tin was a part owner, the Call offered a bold front
to the labor unions. The Call was run as an open-
shop for many years. That is all changed now.
The ^will of the unions is supreme in the Call
office, for the new managers have set out to capti-
vate organized labor just at the time when its
leaders have given it the most beautiful black eye
it ever had. Even the understrappers of the Call
voice its pro-union policy, for divers and sundry of
the employes have received the following warning
not to stretch their tired legs in a boycotted street
car while the strike is on.
San Francisco Call
John D. Spreckels, Proprietor.
Chas. W. Hornick, General Manager.
San Francisco,. May 15, 1905.
To Employes of
Circulation Department,
We demand of you not to ride on street cars run
by strike-breakers as the policy of our paper is to
favor organized labor. Any person doing contrary
to these orders will be immediately discharged.
Yours very truly,
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL.
(Signed) Bob Muschoid,
City Circulator.
This ukase has caused some kicking amongst the
underlings doomed to foot it over the cobbles, or
be jolted in union wagons at ten cents per torture,
but we see no reason for complaint.- They are really
treated in a very broad-minded and kind spirit, as
their liberty is not circumscribed in other directions.
It is still open to them to eat non-union pie, masti-
cate unfair doughnuts and even smoke scab cigars.
Great is the magnanimity, deep the patriotism and
far seeing the wisdom' of John D. Spreckels and his
Call. They ought to change the name of the in-
fluential sheet to "The Daily Boycott." That would
certainly make it pay.
At least one man in San Francisco felt no sickly
sentimental sympathy for Abe Ruef when that once
arrogant boss began to confess his crimes. R. A.
Crothers, publisher of the Bulletin, has personal rea-
sons for remembering the crimes and smiling at Ruef's
present agony. The Bulletin began its attack on the
graft administration five years ago. It kept hammer-
ing away and Schmitz and Ruef answered by the bit-
terest sort of villification. Ruef hired a hall on several
occasions and delivered addresses, for men only, in
which he applied vile epithets to Crothers and Fremont
Older, the editor of the Bulletin. Then one evening
Crothers was attacked by thugs near his office and
nearly killed. He believes Ruef hired those thugs.
He carries a scaron his temple from that beating. The
day the Bulletin published the story of Ruef's confes-
sion, Crothers said: "Ah, he is not hiring thugs today.
I feel that this scar is avenged. Ruef carries a scar
now that hurts worse than this."
Ruef's penitence at the tinie of his first public con-
fession, when he pleaded guilty in Judge Dunne's
courtroom, lacked the right ring. In an old-fashioned
revival the convert at least made a good beginning.
He might slip back into the ways of the ungodly after
a week or two, but when he stood up in meeting under
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the eyes of the exhorter and told how he had been
fcved and his sins washed away, he never minimized
Br denied his sins. He refrained from declaring that
he never drank intoxicating liquor when everyoni
knew he was a drunkard. Abe Kuef stood up in court
with streaming eyes and lied. He claimed he never
departed from the path of rectitude until the present
Kpervisors were elected. As a matter of fact, though
Es -raft was bigger from that time on, his crimes of
graft began as soon as Schmitz was fairly settled in the
Payor's chair in the first term. Ruef is repentant now
KCause it was confession or the rest of his life in
prison. I le couldn't escape.
When Schmitz carefully counted the $50,000 of
I'uited Railroads blackmail handed him by Ruef, to
see that the wily boss was not "holding out" on him,
he started the trouble that separated the two arch
grafter- when danger threatened. Ruef was angered
at this evidence of distrust. He was uniting with
Schmitz in the commission of a crime, but was hurt
that Schmitz should suspect him of anything dishon-
orable. Verily, when rogues fall out, honest men get
their dues.
Of all the graft administration, no member cuts
a more sorry figure than Jerry Dinan, Chief of
Police. .Apart from a certain low cunning as a
tracker of criminals he has no ability nor force
of character. He enforces the laws or lets them
be violated just as he gets the word from his
masters. His mind is so clumsy a tool that when
he feels it necessary to explain he bungles the
job so badly that the listener feels more pity for
him than anger at his subservience to corruption.
When Captain Mooney gave out the graft schedule
under which the policemen of San Francisco are
getting rich, Dinan said to a reporter :
"Your paper's got that schedule all wrong. It
ain't that way at all."
"Well, Jerry, the reporter said, "give me the
correct one. We'll print it just as you say it is."
"Ah." said the nimble-witted Jerrv, "there ain't
no schedule."
Mayor Mott of Oakland is becoming somewhat
of a humorist, as he revealed the other day to a
committee of pugilistic promoters who called upon
him with arguments to convince him that the lid
in Oakland should be lifted to permit the revival
of the sporting game. Mott did not take very
kindly to their arguments and failed to enthuse as
one after another of the pugs waxed eloquent upon
the advantages that would follow letting down the
bars to the plug-uglies and fighters. Seated at his
desk, he turned the leaves of a book idly while
the flow of oratory proceeded and gave listless at-
tention to the arguments. Finally, one of the dele-
gation gave what he considered the clinching
argument by referring to Squires, the Australian
pugilist, as one who would be more than pleased
to fight in Oakland. "He's the greatest ever,"
said the speaker. "Why, say, he's a wonder. He's
as quick as lightning, see, why he could get out of
the way of a bullet." Turning the leaves of his
I »>ok without looking up, Mayor Alott said: "What
a pity."
The fighters at this stage deemed further argu-
ment useless and withdrew without a word.
Ask Uncle Sam, at next election
What sort of emblem he will wear.
And he will answer. "On reflection,
I think I'll have a Teddy Rear."
'JUST A SHADE ON OTHERS'
Weinhard
The Peer
of Bottle Beer
CALIFORNIA BOTTLING CO.
SOLE BOTTLERS
1255 HARRISON STREET
PHONE MARKET 977
Weinhard is the Delicious Beer served at Cafe Francisco, The
Louvre, Tail's and many other Cafes
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Macaroni, Vermicelli, Spaghetti
L. R. RODESTA, Manufacturer 512 Washington Strs.,
Wedding Cakes and Fancy Ices
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-THE WASP-
When you see fifty thousand people a day trudg-
ing to and from their work or bumping over rough
roads in springless carts, you get a good idea of
how timid an animal is the average man or woman.
Here people are terrorized by a mere handful of
striking carmen and their sympathisers. While
there may be thousands of men and women who
wish to see the strikers win their fight, not one in
a hundred of them would go to the extremity of
slugging people for riding on the cars. That per-
formance is in the hands of a few hundred extrem-
ists. So we see daily the impressive spectacle of
a City of some four hundred thousand people, sub-
jected to great physical discomfort, great loss of
business arid great injury to its reputation by a few
hundred roughs, who under a proper form of gov-
ernment would be jailed speedily, or clubbed into
a pacific mood. One of these fine days we shall
see the American people enforcing the law and
order vigorously and all of us can go about our
business in comfort and make an honest living with-
out being badgered, brow-beaten and hurt in re-
spect and purse by a handful of privileged revolu-
tionists and anarchists.
That double-dyed old Jezabel, the Empress Dow-
ager of China, is said to be reversing the wheels
of progress again. The best-informed travelers,
charge to that old woman's account all the blood-
shed and horrors of the Boxer uprising. By the
imperial edict Yuan Shih-Kai, the most progressive
public man in China, has been remove:' from the
Ministry of Communication, and his pi .ce filled
by Tsen Chun-Suan, the most retrogressive of Chi-
nese statesmen. The deposed official had created in
his province of Chi-li a powerful military force
of seven divisions and is called the modern Li
Hung Chang. His ascendency was regarded with
great favor by foreigners. The reverse is the case
with his successor.
The New York Sun, editorially, devoted one line
to the late Dennis Kearney, and used but five words
of the seven that could have gone into that space.
The editorial in full is an follows: "DENNIS
KEARNEY was a Type."
One of the most effective ways of irritating a
man or his adherents is to classifly him ; and there
are few more sardonic metaphors than the word
"type." It suggests that similar men can be pro-
duced as rapidly as Nature can keep the machinery
agoing. There were some San Franciscans who
considered Kearney a typographical error. He had
an eye for a queue, and the Chinese worshipped
him — for a devil. Citizens, who had the finest plate-
glass windows, especially feared this Type and his
minions who threatened to leave on mansion floors
a few proof-marks in the form of cobblestones care-
lessly jotted through the said window panes. Now-
adays there are men, the Supervisors for instance,
Who are not only types but a linotype, a figure of
eiven less individuality.
At this time, we have more cordial memories than
dondemnalion for Dennis Kearney, blending the
violence of his methods with the turmoil of his
epoch ; believing he was a part of our development.
He was perhaps as necessary to the growth of the
Commonwealth as the murder of James King of
William and the swift retribution which was
wrought by the Vigilance Committee.
HARVEY BROUGHAM
Compact
Eve — "Belle going to be married and live in a
flat? Why, I don't see how she will have room."
Edna — "Oh, yes, she is going to accept such a
narrow-minded chap."
Where They Differ
Little Willie — "Say pa, what's the difference be-
tween a tenement house and an apartment house?"
Pa — "They rent rooms in a tenement house, my
son, but in an apartment house they lease apart-
ments."
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-THE WASP -
21
Monday: Goodness me ! How topsy turvy some
voting women in their manners are nowadays. They
go into the giggles over something that would
have caused sadness when I first wore long skirts.
This afternoon I invited Clara Mugsby to tea.
How giddy that girl is ! She laughed bubbles into
three cups of tea, telling me about the young man
who is paying attention to one of her friends. The
poor fellow is somewhat eccentric and careless in
his attire; also, by the way, fond of his Army
Circle descent. He attended a fashionable, harum
scarum wedding not long ago and participated in
a rice shower. A week after he pranced into the
parlor of a couple of sisters who had been guests
with him and there was still so much rice in his hair
that it fell all over the carpet. "Wouldn't that make
you gurgle?" asked Clara. It wouldn't. Not me.
It makes me curdle.
Wednesday : Who would expect to see scandal wound
about the deeds of so respectable a creature as the
cat? Today I dined with Gwendolynne, on Broad-
way. She says that many evenings her stone steps
are ascended by a beautiful woman in fluffy white,
who steals cautiously around to the side entrance.
Being accosted on one occasion, the stranger ex-
plained she was looking for her cat, a fine languor-
ous, pedigreed animal. She feared her pet would
mate with one of the hoodlum cats that climb even
over the most aristocratic back fences. Gwendo-
lynne replied: "Yes; there are around here many
cats for whose family ties I cannot vouch. A mes-
salliance with any of these proletarian felines might
bring shame on your high-toned ones." As we were
sitting there, alongcomes the fair cat fancier ac-
companied by a sporty-looking and unconventional
man in his shirt sleeves.
"There they are to nab the Angora from low com-
panions. Certainly there would be danger of a catas-
trophe in this block," declared Gwendolynne. "I
wonder at it that my lady is not as prudish about
her own associates as she is of her cat's." There !
I am almost ashamed to write it, in the presence
of my own virtuous, home-loving tabbies.
Thursday: Dear me! My head aches so after
attending the musicale at the Asylum for the Poor
but Respectable Indigents. I have always admired
charity as a most reliable sort of amusement; but
even that is beginning to take on modern improve-
ments. One of the star performers at the musicale
was a young matron, who likes to do Frenchy
stunts. Many of the audience were in their seven-
ties and eighties. Poor palsied souls. The best
the}' had to show for themselves were gap-toothed
gums, wrinkles and failing memories. A party of
friends went with the singer. I fully expected to
hear the woman sing "Auld Lang Syne" and Roll-
ing on to Jordan." My blushing stars ! She gave
them "Dingle Dongle Dell" and French high-kick-
ing songs. One of them went : "Do not let your
wifie know that I keek off zu chapeau, wiz my
little toe, just so." The saucy old crones and
codgers leered and winked agedly but wickedly at
one another. I'm sure if everybody felt as I did
they must have been thrilled too deeply for polite
expression. But she gaily pronounced herself
satisfied with having made quinzy, asthma and
lumbago giddy for a little while; and promised to
do it again. Giving French to the poor! Well, I
never! I always said that married women have
no true conception of the proprieties. A woman
parts with all her finer feelings when she puts the
golden pledge of bondage on her finger. Thank
heavens I never did.
TABITHA TWIGGS.
F. THOMS, The AWNING MAN
Canvas Work. Repairing. Canopies and Floor Covers To Rent.
TENTS, HAMMOCKS AND COVERS
1209 MISSION ST. Tel. Market 2194
Original Coppa
Formerly at
622 Montgomery
IN BUSINESS AGAIN AT
423 PINE ST., Bet. Kearny and Montgomery
Special Dishes Every Day
Private Rooms for Families Up-Stairs
Service Unsurpassed
JOE COPPA. Propricto
Phone Temp. 623
STRICTLY BUSINESS
Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
The Banks
The commercial banks are calling in loans and
restricting the making of new ones so that money
still continues tight. The strike and labor troubles
generally do not help to improve matters in this
direction. The tightness of the market is however
not confined to San Francisco. Money is tight here
partly on account of the big demand for rehabilita-
tion, partly from the tightness of the money mar-
kets of the world generally. London feels the
strain, so does Paris, so does Berlin and though last,
not least, New York City. It is easing up a bit there
and this has given rise to an easier feeling in all
the other money centers likewise. New loans are
generally speaking not considered with favor and
hard to place.
The Wheat Market
The advance in wheat continues. In the Chicago
market the dollar limit has been passed and now
$1.03 per bushel is the figure. This means $1.71 2-3
per cental. Here the highest at this writing is
$1.62 ^ and $1.50 as about the average. Flour has
of course advanced too and we may look for a
smaller sized loaf. Wheat farmers will make money
this year and so will speculators, as there is likely
to be a- heavy demand and a decreased supply.
Wheat speculation brings to mind the fate of
Friedlander, Dresbach, Montpellier and other cele-
brated speculators, not forgetting the Bank of
Nevada people of the former administration, who
lost millions in the California Street pit. The
Eppingers too cut a large swath once, and others
also who went over the precipice.
Big Importations
San Francisco has had a year of large importa-
tions thus far. For the month of April the total
has been $6,229,058 — the largest yet this year and
nearly double that for April, 1905. The total for
the first four months of the year was $20,269,560
against $15,395,052 for the same time in 1906. The
aiticle of largest importation was coffee valued at
over $2,600,000. The imports from Europe which
included almost a million dollars' worth from Great
Britain was made up principally of cement and
other building material. Cement imports for the
past year have been very heavy — over a million
and a quarter barrels. The imports from Japan
were valued at $1,626,447, principally in goods in-
tended for the Eastern States. These figures of
importations do not include articles from the Ha-
waiian Islands. Hawaiian sugar which formerly
used to be credited to our import values added very
lare'ely to their value.
The United Railroads of San Francisco is a sub-
sidiary branch of the United Railways Investment
Company, which has larger interests in Pittsburg than
here. This company has been earning large dividends
in Pittsburg and is in a position to stand the financial
strain in San Francisco better than the strikers who
are trying by lawless revolutionary methods to injure
its business.
Although the United Railroads of San Francisco
had to face an expenditure of $4,294,271 during the
period between March 1, 1906, and March 1, 1907, on
account of the earthquake and the strike of last year,
the money had already been raised by a previous issue
of bonds at the low rate of 5 per cent interest. The
floating debt of the investment company is now less
than $100,000, according to the annual statement. The
debt will be met by the issue of new stock.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid np Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans on Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D. Phelan, Pres.. John A. Hooper, V. Pres., J. K. MofTatl, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Secy and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Assl. Cashier, A. E.
Curds, 2d Asst. Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS a specialty
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in their
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange Bldg.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK
OF SAN FRANCISCO
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS,
PAID UP CAPITAL.
DEPOSITS JANUARY I. 1907
108-110 Sutter Street
$693,104.68
$600,000.00
$3,772,145.83
Charles Carpy, Pres. Arthur Legallet, Vice-Pres. Leon Bocqueraz, Secretary
John Ginty, Assl. Secretary P. A. Bergerot, Attorney
-THE WASP-
23
The gross receipts of the company's Pittsburg lines
in l'HJ6 reached the enormous total of $17,829,816, or
alii nit S5i l.(HM) a ,|av. In l"iti, its Mirplus was $_'/>75.-
259. The proportion of this am. unit applicable to the
dividends of the investment, or holding company, was
SI, ''44,829.
Instead of disturbing the surplus from the Pittsburg
lines, however, the investment company deemed it pru-
dent tn retain the money until some time in the future,
when the security market would enable the San Fran-
cisco company to market its new stock issue. The
eiii. riiK in- earning power of the investment company.
independent of the earnings of the San Francisco lines,
is apparent. Even if the San Francisco lines paid
nothing more than operating expenses and the ex-
penses for improvement, the earnings derived from
the Pittsburg lines would maintain the dividend of 5
per cent on the preferred stock of the holding com-
pany and more than 7 per cent dividend on the com-
mon stock.
Instead of the San Francisco lines being a dead
weight for the Pittsburg lines to carry by reason of
the fire and the strikes, they earned nearly as much in
1906 as in former years. In 1906 the gross receipts
of the San Francisco lines reached the enormous total
of $5,955,826, or more than $16,000 a day. In 1905
they were $7,066,892 — a decrease on account of the
earthquake and strike of only $1,111,106 for the year.
The annual statement of the holding or investment
company says :
"Had the respective surpluses of the two subsidiary
companies been declared as dividends, instead of being
used for betterments of the San Francisco lines, the
investment company would have shown an earning
power during the year of $2,821,975, which would have
been equivalent to a 5 per cent dividend on the pre-
ferred stock and 7.53 per cent on the common stock."
This explains why the common stock was held at a
higher price before the fire than the preferred. It was
the anticipation of a higher rate of dividend. The
common stock sold as high as 98 and the preferred
at 92.
Taking those figures as a basis it is easy to see that
after Mr. Calhoun knocks out the strikers, as he cer-
tainly will, and gets full control of his business in
San Francisco, the United Railroads will become a
magnificent property. It will have an economical and
rapid electric system and not be dictated to in the
management of its business by pestiferous demagogues.
It should become one of the greatest dividend earners
in America. „„„
INVESTOR
Peace at Last in Sight
All the strikes that were to tie up the town are
miserable failures and the town keeps on doing
business. The carmen are beaten to a standstill,
the telephone operators have gone back to work,
the iron workers' strike is hopeless, the sympathetic
strikes have not been called, for the good reason
that the employers were resolved to fight them to a
finish. We begin to see a period of rest at last
for the long suffering town.
The first iMna in the mornins. if yon need a bracer, should bo a tablespoonful ol AbboU.
Bilters in an ounce of sherry or a glass of soda. I ry It.
The Saving Habit
is the most worthy of cultivation. It's an
excellent plan to open Savings Accounts for
the children, and encourage them to save.
We welcome all forms of accounts, large or
small, and pay liberal interest.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT
AND TRUST COMPANY
HOME OFFICE
CALIFORNIA and MONTGOMERY STS.
West End Branch, 1531 Devisadero
Mission Branch, 2572 Mission, near 22d
Up-Town Branch, 1 740 Fillmore nr. Sutter
VALUABLES or all kinds
May be safely stored at
SAEE DEPOSIT VAULTS
of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Cor. Bush and Sansome Sts.
Safes to rent from $5 a year upwards
Careful service to customers
Trunks $1 a month
Office Hours: 8 a. m, to 6 p. m.
The German Savings and Loan Society
526 CALIFORNIA ST., San Francisco
Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31, 1906
$2,578,695,41
1,000,000.00
38,531.917.28
OFFICERS - President, F. Tillmann. Jr.; First Vice-President, Daniel Meyer
Second Vice-President, Emil Rohte; Cashier, A. H. R. Schmidt; Assistant Cashier,
William Herrmann; Secretary, George Toumy; Assistant Secretary, A. H. Muller.
Goodfellow & Eells, General Attorneys.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS - F. Tillmann, Jr.. Daniel Meyer, Emil Rohte, Ifm.
Sleinhart. 1. N. Waller, N. Ohlandl, J. W. Van Berjen, E. T. Kruse and W. S.
Goodfellow.
MEMBER STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE
MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO MINING EXCHANGE
J. C. WILSON
BROKER
STOCKS AND BONDS
INVESTMENT SECURITIES
Telephone Temporary 815
Kohl Bldg., 488 California St.
Francisco
24
-THE WASP
Weakness of Our Navy
Some interesting facts about the weakness of
our navy in the Pacific have been published
in The Navy, a service journal of good stand-
ing. According to this authority large battleships
cannot be sent to this Coast, as we have to depend
for docking facilities upon the harbors of Hong-
kong and the Japanese Empire. Foreign docks
might serve in time of peace, but dependence on
them ought to be considered a humiliating neces-
sity to a nation of our pretentions. Our largest
drydock at Bremerton on Puget Sound can receive
a ship of no larger size than 14,000. The Connecti-
cut is 16,000, the new battleships are all monsters.
On neither side of the Pacific, in the Philippines
or on the American coast, could one of our great
battleships be docked, while in the Philippines we
lack the plant to repair them. As The Navy says,
"War cannot be maintained on this basis." That
journal estimates that "it would take at least five
years, with abundant appropriations and rapid work,
to make conditions much better."
Commenting on this state of affairs the New York
Sun says :
"Is it not a just conclusion, then, that while our
sea power in the Atlantic is superior to any armada
that a European nation, except England, could
send to our shores, we do not possess a navy in
the modern sense in the Pacific Ocean? It was an
American Admiral fond of punning who said not
long ago, when asked what would be done with the
battleships Oregon and Wisconsin, now being re-
paired at Mare Island, and with the battleship
Nebraska, now building on this coast, 'that they
would be brought 'round the Horn to meet the
Atlantic fleet, for if they remained on the Pacific
Coast they might become meat for Japan.' "
//v JSP
Mildred — "Why don't you marry Air. Brown?
Didn't he have the sand to propose?"
Elvira — "Oh, yes ; he had the sand to propose,
but he did not have sufficient rocks to marry on."
ADJOINING THE NEW
BOULEVARD
Only $1500
One-Third Cash Balance on Easy Terms
We have just subdivided the block fronting on
Twelfth Avenue from Point Lobos Avenue to
Clement Street. These elegant lots are all graded
and sewered, with gas and electric light and water
services, and are all ready for building. The prices
are below any similar lots in the city. Maps and
particulars at our office.
DAVIDSON & LEIGH
1465 Market Street, Opp. Van Ness Ave.
Phone Market 582
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Slock Exchange
Goldheld, Tonopah. Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET, STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE, Pres.
CAV1N McNAB. Any.
WM. CORBIN. Sec. and Cen Mgr.
OFFICES -COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Will He Catch It.— Ftom Milwaukee Sentinel.
Rooms 7 to 1 1
Telephone Tmpy. 1415
W. C. RALSTON
Stock and Bond Broker
Member San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
Mining Stocki a Specialty
Bedford McNeill
Western Union
Leibers
368 BUSH STREET
San Francisco
-THE WASP-
25
ANOTHER TERRIBLE QUAKE IN
FRISKY FRISCO.
-From Chicago Tribune.
26
-THE WASP-
Ruef's filtered and strawberry-flavored confession
was not needed to prove that the Bottle Washer
and Bakery Wagon Party's attempt to govern the
municipality has resulted in a diabolical mess.
Viewed in conjunction with the carmen's strike, it
restores to natural color the gray-haired precept
about learning to obey before trying to command.
On the night of Schmitz's second election, a band
of victorious musicians staggered to the several
newspaper offices, lambasting Chopin's Funeral
March from the drums to the cornets. Chopin was
not a union composer ; yet, a card could be issued
to him next morning. The defeated editors took
it that the music was in the nature of a serenade
or charivari. Prophetically the Union Labor Party
was playing its -own dirge. While buttering its
own bread it gave San Francisco oleomargarine,
and figured out continual success on that basis.
It was a party of spite, not principle, conceived by
its promoters at a hazard, and supported by out-
siders in a spirit of fun. The only excuse for the
latter is that they thought the joke harmless. But
we have paid for our fiddler.
Animadverting to Ruef — no other political
whipper-in ever offered as many inelegant, subtypi-
cal peers of the coin of the realm as he named from
the Strikers' Party. Chris Buckley gave merit a
representation on his ticket. Some of his nominees
were such head-liners in the community that he did
not presume social equality with them. He was
not disgruntled at having three or four philan-
thropists on the Board of Supervisors, if only to
attend to the dignified matters of which the Solid
Nine were ignorant. And even the nine acknowl-
edged certain duties to public progress. But these
eighteen loot-lusting, spoil-spattered City Step-
fathers never had the good taste to make a bluff
at doing a patriotic act.
San Francisco should feel fortunate in the midst
of this Union-made spectacle. It makes the lesson
so much more objective and picturesque, more
poignant to good sense. A city's wealth consists
mainly of a certain municipal intellect. Ours has
had an advance that should be considered an intel-
lectual triumph, not a subject for pity. There will
be here a community interest existing as a kind
of political telepathy among sincere citizens, and
which will be inevitable in its work of civic virtue.
More than any other City, San Francisco will have
a consolidation of purposeful votes, unlessened by
scatterings that take place in ordinary times. We
will be the richer and stronger for having thwarthed
the villains in the Drama of the Commonwealth.
Every election, in every city, is more productive
of tawdry sky-rockets than fulfilled ideas. But it
is now pardonable to say that when San Francisco
next burns red fire, it will mean danger to grafters
for some time to come.
a Republican President next year is as certain as
anything can possibly be. The Democracy is dis-
organized and has no dominant candidate and no
issue on which to go before the people.
There is a movement in the East to bring Gov-
ernor Hughes of New York into the field as a can-
didate for the Presidency. Governor Hughes would
be a strong man, for all classes of Republicans
would vote for him and he would certainly be
elected. For that matter, however, the election of
Dennis Kearney, the former Sandlot agitator and
latter-da)' broker, who died the other day, was one of
the characters in Mrs. Fremont Older's first book,
"The Prince or the Socialist." Mrs. Keraney, know-
ing that her husband's political career had inspired the
creation of one of the characters in the story, insisted
on considering the tale a biography of her husband.
She thought because in the story the character whom
Dennis represented was called upon to make love to a
woman, that in the sandlot days he had really done so.
Although no longer a young woman Mrs. Kearney
grew jealous of the heroine of the book, and her
jealousy grew every day until in Kearney's presence
she took the book and tore it into bits, saying, "You
did go courting other women, did you?"
Shipping
Family orders is our trade. If out of town
or going out for a limited time, let us pack
and ship by express or freight whatever you
require.
QUALITY SUPREME
EVERYTHING HERE
Depend on us making your outing a success.
SMITHS, CASH STORE, Inc.
14 to 24 Steuart St., S. F.
May catalogue ready.
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOODES
Via Kelseyville P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cal.
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1
Automobile News
1
The White steamers are multiplying rapidly on
our thoroughfares and highroads. And it is said
that along some of the cross-country heavy going,
there are distances where few besides the owner
of a White will venture. Steep grades, bad roads —
the White eats 'cm alive. It is now in its seventh
year and a perfect piece of mechanism ; noiseless,
free from vibration and with all degrees of speed
up to the maximum. The White manufacturers
claim that within the last four years there has been
sold twice as many Whites as any other large tour-
ing car. In the remoter ways of the country and
in foreign lands, the steaming White is doing pio-
neer work in daring hitherto autoless roads, and
in some of these parts no other make of car is
known.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Larsen, and Mr. and Mrs.
E. Steffens, have just returned to this City after a
three weeks' tour in Southern California. The trip
was made in Air. Larsen's new 1907 Thomas
"Flyer." Mr. Larsen states that the coast road
is in first-class condition, with the one exception
of a patch of sand about 1500 feet in length near
the Santa Maria River, and advises all who wish
to make the trip to Los Angeles by automobile
to go at this time, as the roads are free from dust
and the touring is ideal.
Air. E. P. Brinegar, of the Pioneer Automobile
Company, has received word from Mr. E. R.
Thomas that the Company in the East has just
turned out the celebrated 70 horse-power Thomas
"Flyer" racing runabout. Mr. Thomas states that
the car has done 73 miles an hour and will make a
sensation all over the country.
With this pleasant weather, the automobile will
be whizzing to all parts of the State. Last Sunday,
Mr. W. F. Hunt, of San Jose, made a run to San
Juan. "This is my first run of the season with
my new Model "M" Winton," says Mr. Hunt, "and
I had a most pleasant outing. An interesting fea-
ture of my trip was the fact that I did not have
a particle of the usual trouble credited to automo-
bile drivers, and was obliged to crank my engine
but once."
You don't hear of any one giving a Model "A"
Oldsmobile to his mother-in-law, so they must be
good.
When Mrs. Leslie Carter has gone we shall never
see her again. She left us before and never came
back. When next she returns she will be still fatter
and somebody else.
Critics have long agreed that the most conspicu-
ous thing about Mrs. Carter's acting is her hair.
The hue of this las called by the angels on high—
and the red-haired angels, too) is coquelicot. Mrs.
Carter on the stage i> mainly coquelicot and deco-
lette. and the difference between herself of a few
years ago and of today. On a future occasion some-
body will be billed here by that same name, but,
when seen, be found coquelicottcr and decoletter.
She seldom is in repose for more than a moment,
now. This is to defeat the eye and make it im-
possible to take an accurate account of her waist
measurement. In a short time, increasing weight
will impede such hummingbirdness of motion, dis-
pel the illusion and cause her admirers the greater
astonishment. As far as Du Barry is concerned,
we never knew what a well-meaning, cussless, wine-
less, take-back-your-gold kind of a woman she was
until we saw her with coquelicot hair.
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Fell 1558.
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more. Phone West 3601.
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St., S. F.
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S. F.
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meda 1179.
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and Steiner Sts.
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cor. Fillmore and O'Farrell Sts.
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GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
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I
Amusements
i
Henrietta Crosman — one "s", please
— stumbled upon success when she
least expected it. She was always an
excellent actress, but opportunity of
distinction never happened her way.
Other actresses with one-quarter of
her gifts became stars while she was
still playing in companies sent on the
road, or in the "provinces" as New
York calls everything outside of
Broadway. I remember when Hen-
rietta Crosman last appeared here, in
a rattling farce comedy headed by
Charles Dickson. It was at the Bald-
win, and was I believe the last play
staged at that theatre before it burned
down. It was a long time after that
appearance that I next heard of Miss
Crosman. She had at last "arrived"
on Broadway, her hit being made in
"Mistress Nell," one of the many
"Nell Gwynne" dramas, in which com- .
edy she appeared for an interminable
period, until David Belasco arranged
a new triumph for her in "Sweet
Kitty Bellairs," his dramatization of
the Castles' novel. Now Miss Cros-
man is one of the big stars of the
American stage, that one hit in "Nell
Gwynne" having given her the chance
she had been waiting for so many
years.
Edith Mason and her husband, Tom
Persse, are now with the Idora Park
Company. The}' will be recalled here as
principals in the Southwell Comic
Opera Company which had a long
season at the Grand Opera House a
few years back. Miss Mason is known
as Lillian Russell's double, and in-
deed resembles airy fairy Lillian suf-
ficiently to be her twin sister. Persse
used to be a great favorite in Canada
before he came over the line. He is
a Canadian.
* * *
Miss Marion Froelich, who has just
started East and will go to Europe a
little later, is one of the best artists
we have here. She first made a finan-
cial hit with her charming ballet girls
and had so many orders for them that
she used jokingly to say she would
have to hire some assistance to help
her turn them out on time. She ac- ;
tually became so weary of painting
ballet girls in fluffy skirts that she de-
cided she would never paint another
one, and turned her brush to other
work. She has done some excellent
things in landscape of late. Miss
Froelich is a very popular woman in
Society, as she is quick at repartee
and a wonderful amateur actress. One
time at a house-party at "Dick" Ho-
taling's an impromptu fancy dress
ball was agreed upon by the host and
MR HENRY PECK (BEHIND THE PAPEH1— "OHO< TH1E IS OOOD-TURN ABOUT (3 fAIR PLAT!
-00! YSS. MARIA— UW—1 irE a N NO— ER— THAT IS
HE LAUGHS BEST WHO LAUGHS LAST.
&T - AND
ICECREAM
1536-8 Fillmore St., S.F.
DR. H. J. STEWART
Orgamsl of S;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Sherith Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, K
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
Church Choir
Teacher of Voice, Piano and Orgai;
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phon>
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues
day and Friday.
MRS. OSCAR MANSFELDT
PIANIST
Tel. West 314 1801 Buchanan Si., Cor. Sull.
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RACING
New California Jockey Club
Oakland Race
Track
SIX OR MORE RACES EACH WEEK DAY
Rain ot Shine
Racer commence at 1:40 p. m. sharp.
For ipecial trains Mopping at the track take S. P. Ferry,
foot of Market street: leave at 1 2:00. thereafter every twenty
minutes until 1:40 p. m. No Smoking in last two cars,
which are reserved for ladies and their escorts.
Returning trains leave track after fifth and last races.
THOMAS H. WILLIAMS. President.
PERCY W. TREAT. Secretary.
The best YEAST for all
Kinds of Baking
FRESH DAILY AT YOUR GROCER
Thompson's Formerly
Oyster Loaf, op7n.
1727 O'Farrell St., near Fillmore
K\\ night service Popular Prices
' The only first-class up-to-date and modern
Hammam Baths, built especially for
the purpose, in the city.
: Oriental Turkish Baths j
Corner Eddy and Larkln Sts.
Cold water plunge.
Room including Bath, Si. oo.
Phone Franklin 053
W. J. BLUMBERG & BRO.. Props.
DATRICK & CO.
Rubber Stamps
Stencils, Box Brands
543 Pine Street
San Francisco
guests and a rule was that the cos-
tumes must be fashioned of articles
and garments to he found in the
house. Miss ■Froelich improvised a
startlingly successful classic costume
"in 11I" a pair of curtains and was
judged the winmr of the prize for the
most originally gowned of the ladies.
* * *
A Miser's Eccentricities
T. P. O'Connor, the editor of a
noted London weekly, gives some in-
teresting facts ahout John Camden
Xcild, whose magnificent bequest to
Queen Victoria supplied the funds out
of which the Prince Consort built the
present Balmoral Castle, deserves a
place among the great misers and was
as remarkable a man as any of them.
Me was educated at Eton and Trinity
College, Cambridge, and was a barris-
ter at Lincoln's Inn. At the age of
34 his father's death placed him in
possession of a fortune of £250,000,
and from that moment he became a
confirmed miser.
Neild lived at Chelsea in a big
house so meanly furnished that it did
not even boast of a bed. Two old
women, who did his stoves, and a
black cat were his sole companions.
When he visited his large estates in
the Midlands, which he did frequently,
he generally walked, unless he could
get a lift for nothing, and he was not
even above taking a gratuitous seat
on a dung cart. Sometimes he was
compelled by the weather to take a
seat on the stage coach. And there
he would sit outside, shivering and
dripping — for he never wore a great-
coat— an object of commiseration to
his fellow passengers.
* * *
By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them
"Who lives in that splendid mansion
with the broad drives leading up to it?"
"That's the home of Dubbkins. He
has an income of sixty thousand dollars
a year from a farce comedy that he
wrote in two weeks."
"Great ! By the way, who was that
seedy-looking fellow who called you
aside a minute ago?"
"That was Prof. Holtsworth. He
wanted to borrow a quarter. Poor
devil ! You must remember him. He
is the man whose great poetic drama
was so highly praised by the critics
a year or two ago."
* * *
The Parson — I'm surprised to see you
coming out of a public house again,
Jones.
Jones — Oh, sir, we must come out
sometimes.
William Keith
Studio
After Dec. 1st 1717 California St.
SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE
Attorney-at-Law
1107 OTARRELL STREET
Cor. Franklin San Francisco, Cal.
DR. WM. D. CLARK
Office and Res.: 2554 California St.
San Francisco
Hours — 1 to 3 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.
Sundays — By appointment
Phone West 390
Contracts made with Hotels and Restaurants
Special Attention given to Family Trade
Established 1876
THOMAS MORTON & SON
Importer of and (~*C\ A I
Dealers in V^V-frtL.
N. W. Cor. Eddy and Hyde, San Francisco
Phone Franklin 397
Wichman, Lutgen & Co.
Formerly of
29-31 Battery Street, S. F.
Cor. Everett and Harrison Avenue
ALAMEDA, CAL.
Phone Alameda I I 79
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ASH'SHBITIERg
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SAVAGE GOLD AND SILVER MINING
COMPANY.— Location of principal place of
business, San Francisco, California. Location
of works, Virginia City, Storey County,
Nevada.
Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of
the Board of Directors, held on the 9th day of
May, 1907, an assessment (No. 8) of 10 (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 116, 339
Bush street, San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 12th day of June, 1907,
will be delinquent and advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment is made
before, will be sold on MONDAY, the 1st day
of July, 1907, at 1 o'clock p. m., to pay the
delinquent assessment, together with the cost
of advertising and expenses of sale.
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Mere Opinion
A man with a future and a woman
with a past can generally be sure that
they are being talked about.
Man learns to talk. Woman talks by
instinct.
To a man wealth means power ; to a
woman the joy of being envied.
If it were considered fitting that
wives should be older than their hus-
bands marriage would become obsolete.
Vvords never fail a smooth hypocrite.
A funny story gets more applause
than sensible talk.
There's always room for a few more —
at the bottom.
It's a woman's plain duty to be as
handsome as she can.
Jonah was the first man on record to
get inside information.
Popularity is an article that isn't dis-
played on bargain counters.
It's up to a married man to be a
husband — not merely an ex-bachelor.
It takes a fool to fool himself into
the belief that he isn't foolish.
A girl would almost rather have a
beau than eat chocolate creams.
The best way to have a good opinion
of people is by not getting to know
them well.
Optimism is hoping you are going to
get out of debt in spite of having half
a dozen children.
The reason a woman insists on a
servant having a letter of reference is
because she knows it isn't true.
A woman always believes she would
have a better figure if she hadn't studied
so hard when she went to school.
A Great Cartoonist
There is a certain great cartoonist
who is an ardent advocate of spelling
reform because he is so poor a speller
himself. His editors watch with the
greatest care the inscriptions he puts
on his work and correct misspelled
words almost every day. A short time
ago the cartoonist was working on a
picture that had to do with the In-
ternational Peace Congress. He
looked up from his board and said to
his neighbor: ''How do you spell An-
gelo?" "A-n-g-e-1-o," spelled the
other. "How are you going to use
it?" "Oh," the cartoonist replied, "I
am making a cartoon about this An-
gelo-American alliance."
Lesson in Physiognomy
It is all right to rave over Grecian
noses in poetry, but the nose we admire
in everyday life is the nose that is kept
out of other people's business.
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KAISHA
(Oriental Steamship Co.)
Have Opened Their Permanent Offices at
Room 240 James Flood Building
San Francisco
S. S. "Nippon Maru" (calls at Manila) . . .
Friday, May 31, 1907
S. S. "Hongkong Maru" [
Friday, June 28, 1907
S. S. "America Maru" (calls at Manila) . .
Thursday, July 18, 1907 '
Steamers will leave wharf, comer First and Brannan Sts.,
1 P. M., for Yokohama and Hongkong, calling at Hono-
lulu, Kobe, (Hiogo). Nagasaki and Shanghai, and con-
necting at Hongkong with steamers for Manila, India, etc,
No cargo received on board on day of sailing.
Round- trip tickets at reduced rates.
For Freight and passage apply at office, 240 James Flood
Building. W. H. AVERY, Assistant General Manager.
Peter Bacigalupi & Son
Headquarters for Talking
Machines, Records
and Supplies
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Albion Ale or Porter
Is a Great Flesh Builder, Tonic and Pleasant
Drink. Pure Extract of Malt and Hops.
BURNELL & CO.
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Dr. WONG HIM
1268 O'Farrell St.
Permanently Located
HERD DOCTOR
Father and Mother
Write Letter In-
dorsing: Treatment.
SAN FRANCISCO
March 23. 1906
To Whom it may
»a Concern: Our three-
s' year- old daughter,
having been ill for
some time and being
treated by the most prominent physicians,
gradually became worse, and was finally
given up by them. We were then recom-
mended to Dr. Wong Him. We started
with bis treatment and within two months
time our daughter was cured.
Respectfully,
MR. AND MRS. H. C. L1EB,
2757 Harrison St., San Francisco
Volume LVII-No. 22
SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE I 1907
Price 10 cents
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By AMERICUS
The trial of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone at
Boise City for the murder of Governor Steunen-
berg is likely to deal the death blow to the labor
trust of the United States. The trust has espoused
the cause of the accused murderers and declared
that they shall not be convicted. For two years
it has assessed all the labor unions in America
to pay for the prisoners' support and their legal
defense. This has been done in the face of the
well-known fact that the evidence in the hands of
the Idaho State prosecutors is so strong that it
seems impossible that the defendants can escape
the gallows.
Not only is the State in possession of the full
confession of Harry Orchard, but it has a mass of
corroborative proofs in the form of telegrams, let-
ters and cipher codes used by the defendants in
putting their murderous plots into execution.
For ten years the Western Federation of Miners,
officered by Moyer, Flaywood and Pettibone, ter-
rorized the States of Colorado arid Idaho. The
crimes committed by this organization, earned for
it the sobriquet of the "Federation of Murderers,"
and the title appears all too mild, when one reads
the confession of Harrv Orchard, the chief
assassin.
Orchard's sole occupation for years was to strike
terror to the community by deeds of violence
against the property or -persons of persons who at-
tempted to check the lawlessness of the Federation.
Mines were blown up. and non-union miners sub-
jected to barbarious outrages. All .this Orchard
has told in detail ; and if the State can corroborate
his testimony, the civilized world will be astounded
and shocked by the disclosures.
America will have received .another blow in the
estimation of the outsid-e world as, being a lawless
land, where great crimes by criminals with powerful
political influence can scarcely be punished.
In one of his murderous exploits, as an "agent of
the Western Federation of Miners, Orchard blew
up a railroad platform crowded with non-union
miners. Twenty-one were killed or maimed for life
and many others suffered -serious injuries. The
arch-murderer had laid his plans with the skill of
a past-master in the art of assassination. Under
the platform he had. placed sufficient dynamite for
his purpose and arranged to explode it from a safe
distance by a long, hidden wire. The crafty as-
sassin had prepared to prove an alibi, should he
be suspected of the terrible crime. Two days be-
fore the murder he ostentatiously left town with
some friends, who were going into the next county
by wagon, and who had no suspicion of his purpose.
When the party camped in the afternoon, some ten
miles away, Orchard pretended to remember that
he had left his pistol at home. He went back on
horseback for it, after telling his friends he would
overtake them. The crafty scoundrel timed his
movements so well that he was in hiding, and had
hold of the wire that exploded the dynamite under
the railroad platform just as the evening whistle at
the adjacent mine blew, and the crowd of non-
union miners trooped down to the station to catch
a coming train and return to their homes.
Instead of feeling some compunction for so ter-
rible a crime, Orchard is said to have expressed
regrets that he pulled the wire. a few seconds too
soon. Had he waited a little longer he would have
killed and wounded twice as many victims.
-THE WASP
It was crimes of that character that led to the
uprising of the decent people of Idaho and Colo-
rado against the Western Federation of Miners,
and the declaration of martial law by Governor
Steunenberg. The soldier with his rifle and bay-
onet soon makes an end of agitators, who rely upon
terrorism to work their will on a community. The
soldiers rounded up the terrorists, and then was
instituted that historic prison known as the "Bull
Pen." Barbarous criminality ceased at once, just
as thievery and violence disappeared in San Fran-
cisco when the soldiers supplanted the wretched
municipal administration, just after the earthquake
and fire. By the suspension of the reign of terror
the influence of Moyer and his associates was de-
stroyed, and their organization fell away. The
terrorists were either escorted over the State line
or fled, and Idaho enjoyed industrial peace and se-
curity for the first time in a decade.
Because of the part he took in the restoration of
constitutional law and order Governor Steunenberg
was assassinated in a most cowardly manner.
The sympathizers of Moyer and Haywood would
have us believe that the awful crimes to which
Harry Orchard confesses were committed by him
in the interest of the mine-owners, and for the pur-
pose of discrediting the miners' union and its
officials. This is on a par with the declarations of
labor leaders in San Francisco who openly profess
to discountenance violence against non-union car-
men and passengers who ride on the boycotted cars
and secretly encourage and aid the lawlessness and
brutality. That such claims should for a moment
be considered by the press, or that any newspaper
should refer to them except in derision, shows how
disingenuous is the discussion of all matters that
reflect and expose the true inwardness of the labor
trust. The average daily newspaper editor ap-
proaches the subject with as much awe and appre-
hension as the ancient Hebrews did the holy of
holies in their venerated temple.
Orchard occupies toward the murder trials in
Boise City, about the same position as Abe Ruef
does toward the graft cases in San Francisco. He
is the arch villain who holds the key to the situ-
ation.
This man Orchard is a peculiar character, and
while his crimes have been most inhuman, he him-
self is intelligent and possessed of an underlying
streak of religious superstitution. He is the type
of man who three hundred years ago would think
no more of burning some poor woman, accused of
witchcraft, than he would of singeing a dead
chicken. Loyalty to the Union, was Orchard's
creed and when Moyer, his president, a man of
superior mentality, or greater force of character,
bade him go forth and kill he went as obediently
and unquestioningly as a soldier would accept his
orders to do sentry duty.
When Orchard was caught in the toils after the
murder of Governor Steunenberg he fell under a
new influence — that of the experienced detective
McParland.
The letter worked on the murderer's superstitious
streak to such effect that Orchard confessed every
crime he had committed up to the killing of Gov-
ernor Steunenberg who was blown to pieces at his
own door by a bomb. According to Orchard's con-
fession Moyer had urged him incessantly to this
crime as a master-stroke' ' to terrorize the com-
munity.
In a few weeks the people of this nation will;
have the terrible story in full and can judge for
themselves whether Moyer, Haywood and Petti-
bone are worthy of the admiration and support of
any American organization that desires to be re-
garded as patriotic and law abiding.
Governor Gillett has been busily engaged dur-
ing the past week in that occupation popularly
known as "passing the buck." Every day the news-
papers have published some statement such as here
follows, and which has been clipped from the Ex-
aminer :
Gillett Will Remain Till Strike Settled
By Governor Gillett
I think I have said all I possibly can on the ex-
treme need of the business interests of San Fran-
cisco doing something quickly to assure the outside
world that they have the local situation well in
hand and are united in their determination to main-
tain the City's credit in every respect. One thing,
however, may be dealt upon. The great interior of
California is being injuriously affected in a financial
way by the local confusion. I know the interior is
loyal to San Francisco metropolis and is nonplussed
that the City it has always looked up to is losing
valuable time in not straightening out its difficulties
for its own good and that of the rest of the State.
So the loyal feeling of the interior should not
be trifled with.
In response to many urgent appeals from the in-
terior I can only reply that I have done all I can
in the matter when I say to the merchants and
bankers and intelligent labor leaders of San Fran-
cisco :
"For the business and credit interests of your City
stop factional strife and agree upon a reasonable
plan of action that will appeal to the reason of the
outside world. You have got to come to it some
day, and the sooner the better."
These fulminations are always followed by the
threat that the Governor will stay here all Summer
if necessary till the strike is settled and order re-
stored.
I am sorrv to say that Governor Gillett has not
realized the public hopes that were raised by his
first emphatic threat to bring troops into San Fran-
cisco unless the peace was at once preserved. The
Governor is a lawyer and knows very well that
it is his duty and not that of the business men, or
any other private citizen of San Francisco to see
that every person in this Citv is protected in his
constitutional rights. Anarchy exists here at pres-
ent and so does insurrection. The lawless element,
headed by a small faction of the striking carmen,
-THE WASP-
- in revolt against law and order and an indicted
nd incompetent Chief of Police cannot restrain
licin if he wished, for an indicted and corrupt
lyor and a partisan Board of Police Commis-
iqners composed of labor politicians are desirous
hat the outlaws should triumph.
The indicted Hoard of Supervisors, consisting of
lot of self-confessed felons, have ceased to exer
ise all their proper official functions and move only
3 directed by the big stick wielded by Rudolph
•preckels and the District Attorney. This is
narchy and revolution and San Francisco is with-
>ut a government
Why does not Governor (iilletl step in with the
lowerful machinery of State government at his con-
rol and become master of the situation and re-
djust it, as is his duty?
Does he wish to have it understood that he merely
3 a figurehead, or a shadow, as have been several
f his unworthy predecessors, who in their eager-
Sjs to dp small politics lost sight of the large public
ntcrcsts and finally fell in the ditch with all the
ther tin worthies?
povernor Gillett, with all due respect to him,
alks what is commonly known as "guff" when he
leclares that the "business interests of San Fran-
isco" can restore normal conditions here. The
irain of an oyster would reject such tommyrot.
Who is to confer authority on private citizens of
jan Francisco to kick Chief Dinan out of office, if
he streets are not made at once safe for every man,
voman and child who wishes to ride on the boy-
otted street cars?
The crooked Mayor, who is shaking in his boots
it the bar of justice, will certainly not co-operate
vith honest citizens, for his last hope is pinned on
he outlaws who have plunged the town into tur-
noil.
Rudolph Spreckels has already repulsed a first-
dass committee of private citizens, and called them
lames and they have disbanded hurriedly.
Mr. James N. Gillett, Governor of California, is
die man to lift this City at once out of anarchy and
.'stablish order for he has the power and what
I more it is his duty to become an active agent
or the complete restoration of law and order and
not stand by a passive spectator, contenting him-
elf with meaningless admonitions to people who
have no shadow of official and legal authority to
?rasp the reins of government.
His advice to the citizens of San Francisco is like
that of a person, in a boat looking at a man drown-
ing in a strong current, and calmly advising him
to improvise a life-preserver out of his suspenders
and trousers so as to keep his head above water.
Why not reach out and lift the drowning man into
the boat and not waste so much valuable time in
idle words?
It is to be hoped that the Governor will pass the
buck no more, but get in and do his duty and not
split hairs as to that duty, when the metropolis of
|California is without a government owing to most
extraordinary events.
The Bulletin's extra giving the news of the in-
dictment of Calhoun. Mullally, Ford ami Abbott
was on the streets in record-breaking time after the
Grand lury had returned these indictments. But
among the big type were some surprising blanks.
There were some clean holes not accountable for by
reference to freak ideas of make-up, and some
blurred sentences not due to bad press-work. The
story repeated impressively the list from. Calhoun
down, ending "Abe Ruef and ". Now whose
name had been there? That was the question every
reader asked curiously, and some thousand grafters
who are under suspicion blanched when they saw
those ominous blanks. Where was the name of some
man whom Fremont Older expected to be indicted
but was not. Some of the ingenious ones experi-
mented the next day when the additional list of
indictments was returned, but they could not de-
termine the fact, for "Tohn Martin," "Frank G.
Drum," "G. H. Umbsen," or "Chas. E. Green" will
fit into those blanks equally well.
An Admirable Magazine
The June "Sunset lives up to the record of this-
perfectly Californian magazine for up-to-dateness,
genuine local interest and patriotism. "The Spread
of San Francisco" is a realistic article by Rufus
Steele. It is accompanied by twenty-eight half-
tone photographs, many of them full page and done
in the "Sunset's " artistic stvle of presswork. Robert
T. Burdette contributes an interesting story, "The
Sending of a Telegram. The growing and attrac-
tive town of Santa Cruz comes in for seven pages,
well illustrated ; while a number of local poets are
represented in verse of Western atmosphere. The
editor, Charles Sedgwick Aiken has succeeded in
putting forth a number that is especially note-
worthy in the beginning of this, the second year of
new San Francisco. It is an issue that will inspire
confidence in the City at a time when civic enthus-
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Jl Weekly Summary of Social Activities and Complications
Winter, and about half an hour before his guests
arrived his cook "flew the coop," so to speak. The
host was in a frenzy. He telephoned everywhere
for a kitchen deity, but neither in the shape of
Swede, Irish, Jap or Dutch could the sudden want
be supplied in time. Meantime behold the guests;
taking off their wraps and coats and sniffing for
savory gusts from the kitchen which showed that
the company had brought their appetites along with
them. Mr. Reid rose to the occasion with Napol-
eonic decision. He exposed to his guests the awful
secret of his deserted kitchen. There was the range
glowing like a blacksmith's forge, and the larder
was fairly bursting with the best the markets af-
forded ; but the presiding genius of the kitchen was
missing. The Society women laughed at their host's
predicament. They all had had their own little
affairs with princesses of the culinary department. I
They donned aprons, seized kettles and pans and
never was there served a jollier or more thoroughly
enjoyed dinner. In fact the flight of the cook was
voted to have been the best thing that could have
happened.
The divorced wife of the capitalist, Peter Finns
gan, Mrs. Boyeson, as she wishes to be called, is
the housekeeper at the Fairmont, but she was en- i
gaged as more than a housekeeper. She was em- i
plo3fed to create a social life at the Fairmont this
Winter. She is still a very beautiful woman, and
is a counterpart of Lillian Russell ten or fifteen i
years ago. One really loses track of Old Father
Time's record when he talks about the airy fairy
Lillian's glorious past.
MRS. RUTH E. BAIRD
The modern young college maiden is not an
ethereal being living in a world of romance, but a
practical young person. One of the girls' sorority
houses in Berkeley lost its cook the day a big ban-
quet of farewell was to be given to the members
of Class 1907. It did not bother the girls a bit,
however. They simply rolled their sleeves up to
their elbows, put on the daintiest aprons, and pre-
pared the sumptuous feast themselves so that no
one of their guests realized amateur cooks had sup-
plied the fare. Whether the qualms of indigestion
seized the guests later on and still rack them his-
tory sayeth not. • Let us hope for the best.
Society women know much more about cooking
than in those hazy times which are referred to as
"the good old days." James Reid, the well-known
architect, was to give a rather elaborate dinner last
Fairmont Hotel
Mason at California and Sacramento Sts.
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-THE WASP-
MRS. FRED McNEAR
My Sausalito correspondent writes me that So-
ciety in that picturesque burg is all astir over the
coming military wedding in which Captain Wolfe
will be the bridegroom and the popular and fasci-
nating Miss Mabel Watkins the bride. Mrs. Rob-
bins gave a luncheon for Miss Watkins, the other
guests being Mrs. Cantwell, Mrs. Battams, Miss
Cutter, Mrs. I!. Connev, Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. Starr
Keeler, Mrs. Horn, Miss E. Miller, Miss E. Williar,
Mrs. C. J. Foster, Mrs. Findlay.
Showers of all kinds have been falling- for the
benefit and pleasure of Miss Watkins. A linen
shower fell at Mrs. 1!. Bonney's, where about
twenty fashionable ladies assembled and em-
broidered W's all day on hemstitched napkins, etc.
A sachet shower occurred at the hospitable home
i if AIr>. Frank Findlay, who is to be the matron
of honor. The invited guests brought the sachet
powder and the hostess furnished the satin for the
bags. There was a busy day I can assure you.
Mrs. Starr Keeler gave a picnic for both the bride
and groom. Sausalito is not going to be outdone
by another section in the matter of doing proper
honor to its favorite daughters who. are about to
change their names.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. George Martin will pass the Sum-
mer in town with Mrs. Martin's parents, the
Hamiltons, and await the arrival of the stork. They
are soon to build a handsome home in San Rafael
near the new residence of their great friends, Mr.
and Mrs. James Follis.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. H. de Young and their charm-
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do a good deal of shopping in Paris and London
this Summer. Society will be agog with curiosity
to see the dresses that the ladies will bring back
with them for the Winter gaities.
Although it would be a severe tax on the imagin-
ation to picture Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish or any other
Xew York social leader entertaining a party of
friends in Central Park or any of the city's breath-
ing spots where the lungs of the mere populace ex-
pand, a foreign paper says that on every Sunday
Mrs. Mackay receives her friends in a secluded
corner of the Latin Quarter's most famous park
in Paris. The refreshments at these entertainments
are supplied by passing venders, such as old women
who sell tempting raisin cake and other like
dainties. The paper adds to this account, which
whether or not authentic is pleasant to believe, that
these novel little affairs have been most successful
and are a great relief after more formal fashion-
able entertainments. The public takes these park
receptions as a matter of course in Paris, it appears,
and there is no gaping throng or camera fiend to
mar them.
In Old Madrid
The lights are aglow in the city tonight
And the place is throbbing with joy —
Alfonso kicks wild at the cat in delight,
And yells: "O, caramba! A boy!"
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The Fall of Troy
Ye gods of Greece, ambrosial, heaven-born
And illegitimate, this verse adorn ;
With great sufficient fury fit for fame,
Inspire my theme and consecrate the same.
I sing of thunder-mouthed E. P. E. Troy,
The Grand High Sourball of the Iroquois,
(Club Democratic — souls with wisdom blest,
Amalgamated Soreheads of the West.)
Hail, Troy, the wildest Trojan of them all.
But unlike Ilium, never known to fall.
He weighed full hundred pounds avoirdupois —
One hundred, thirty-three and one-third troy.
Opposed to this fear-striking son of Jove,
Strike-breaking Pat Calhoun in anger strove.
Heroes that seldom quailed stood round the two,
Yet at the threatening conflict half withdrew :
Men who retreat were never known to choose ;
Nor danger, deal nor offer to refuse.
Squint-eyed before Titanic Patrick's frown,
Troy made a ragtime bluff to call him down.
Nor paused his lathery tongue,but sought the breach,
Imputing falsehood to the other's speech.
Then fierce Calhoun was forward seen to rush
And slam his hand upon the Trojan's mush.
Loud laughed the gods, non-partisanly, and
Rejoiced to see the Crab of Frisco canned.
Republicans had mocked his. clawing spite,
And Democrats denied him for his bite.
And all who'd ever heard him, said with jeers,
"That's just what we've been waiting for, for years."
Smitten thus, Troy, now filled with war's alarms.
Replied by folding prudently his arms.
"A hoodlum here?" he cried; "that vents his ire
Upon a gentleman who calls him liar !"
Sore vexed he was at this display of dander, —
Thinking no gentleman resents a slander.
Then Boxton counseled, "Gently, friends, I pray.
Let not your ardor on your passions play."
But Troy unto the dashing doctor spoke :
"You shield him, for you've boodled with the bloke."
Ten thousand furies ! Boxton gat him up.
Calling him "cur" who was too old for "pup ;"
Dashed o'er to Troy and shouted without stint
Things that in dashes only come to print.
But friends that gladly would have action seen,
Did sacrifice the sport, and step between.
Now Troy, though with screech-oratory apt.
Never was famous till he had been slapped.
His best approach to Capital took place
With Capital's hand set hard upon his face.
We've heard there is but one regret for it :
That Troy will always brag of being hit.
■ A pretty country wedding which took place in
Alameda was that of Miss Beatrice Snow and
Rev. Earl Hamilton McCollister which was cele-
brated at high noon at Christ Church, Alameda.
The ceremony \.as performed by Right Rev.
William Ford Nichols, Bishop of California. Rev.
F. V. Bugbee, assisting. The wedding breakfast
was given at the home of Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Keyes,
1725 San Jose Avenue. The young couple left for
a short wedding tour in California after which they
start for the East and Europe. Miss Snow is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Snow of Los
Angeles. The bride is a graduate of the University
of California as is also the groom. Upon the return
of the couple from their European tour they will
locate in Berkeley or San Mateo.
* # *
Emily Rosenstirn Joseph and her husband are in
Germany where they have gone to live indefinitely.
Mrs. Joseph intends to take up literature while her
husband will devote himself to art. Miss Rosen-
stirn, as her friends call her in spite of her marriage
is considered bv them the most brilliant being that
ever existed in San Francisco. They have been
somewhat chagrined that she has never allowed the
public to realize how profound as well as scentillat-
ing she is, by publishing' what she has written, or
by writing more. Her husband and she collabor-
ated on a play together, but it was never produced.
A wedding of great interest to California occurred
recently in .New York, when Miss Mary Clark
Williams, daughter of the late Capt. George N.
Williams, U. S. A., was married to Mr. Stanton
Davis Kirkham, a grandson of General R. W. Kirk-
ham, who once was Quarter Master General of the
Department of the Pacific. The ceremony took
place at the residence of the bride's brother, Mr.
Clark Williams. Rev. Louis T. Reed of Brooklyn
officiating. Miss Williams' grandfather was Gov-
ernor of New York in 1854. Mr. Ralph K. Stafford of
Springfield, Mass., was his cousin's best man. Many
prominent people were present. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk-
ham went to the Adirondacks on a wedding tour,
where they intend to pass the next six months. The
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lather and mother of the groom were very well
known on this Coast in early days. His father, Major
Murry Davis of the 8th Cavalry, U. S. A., married
t he eldest daughter of Gen. R. \Y. Kirkham (after
whom Kirkham Street, Oakland was named). The
mother and father died when Stanton Davis was
extremely young, so General Kirkham, the grand-
father reared him and he legally took the name of
Kirkham when he grew to manhood.
Stanton Davis, Kirkman as he is known,
boasts illustrious ancestry. The famous Maria
Cooper of revolutionary fame who was given away
at her marriage by the Marquis of Lafayette, act-
ing for George Washington, was a relative of his
mother. Gen. Kirkham graduated at West Point
with a famous class which cut quite a figure in
military history. He entered the city of Mexico with
Scott, and built Fort Tejon, Cal., in 1854. The Kirk-
ham home in Oakland which stands today is very
old and was considered a wonder in interior wood-
work, it was brought by sailing vessel around Cape
Horn.
Stanton Davis Kirkham, the bridegroom has
published several books that have attracted atten-
tion. "Where Dwells the Soul Serene" was one of
his earlier productions. His last volume of Essays
entitled "The Ministry of Beauty", has just been
brought out by Paul Elder. Mr. Kirkham W.
Wright is a relative and Mrs. Kate Kirkham
Wheeler, wife of Dr. Wheeler of Oakland is an
aunt of the author, being a sister of his late mother.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. H. Dutton of San Francisco, Mrs.
Macfarlane of Honolulu, Mrs. Wakefield Baker and
Miss Baker of San Francisco reached Del Monte on
Friday, the 24th, after a pleasant trip by motor-car
from San Francisco.
* * •
Another jolly automobile party was made up of
Miss Sara Drum, who was accompanied by Mrs.
H. Goodwin and M. S. Latham, James H. Follis,
Mrs. Follis and Latham McMullen, the party occu-
pving two cars.
* * *
On Saturday, the 25th, E. W. Hopkins of Menlo
Park, accompanied by Mrs. J. B. Crockett, M. S.
Wilson and Mrs. M. S. Wilson, came down by
automobile for a week-end visit to Del Monte.
* * *
Another week-end automobile party at Del Monte
was made up of F. E. Brigham, Mrs. Brigham, Miss
Brigham, Miss Gladys Brigham and Master F. O.
Brigham of Los Gatos, H. B. Rector and E. C.
Johnson of San Francisco, who made the trip in a
White steamer.
* * *
Roy J. Young, E. E. Nichols, H. Haynes, William
Hackley and H. C. Hackley of Berkeley were mem-
bers of a stag party that ran down by automobile
to Del Monte last week.
* * #
Miss Warren, formerly the companion and now
the heiress of Miss Bertha Dolbeer, was at Del
Monte last week, accompanied by W. W. Carson.
T. B. Eastland and Mrs. Eastland.
Mrs. J. II. Durst of this City, one of the most
prominent among lady motorists, drove her Type
"XIV" Winton Touring Car to her hop ranch at
Wheatland <>n Sunday last.
*" * *
An engagement of interest to all her friends in
Berkeley is that recently anounced of Miss Bessie
Thompson and Lieut. Clarence S. Ridley of the
engineer corps of the U. S. N. Miss lliompson
is well known in University circles. Her brother
Herbert is a member of the Delta Upsilon frater-
nity. Lieut. Ridley is at present in Cuba, but will
return to California in June, when the wedding
will take place. Lieut. Ridley will be stationed in
Washington.
A recently announced engagement is that of Celia
A. Breitstein and Wm. H. Byington.
The wedding of Miss Mabel Games and Edwin
J. Keyes will take place on June 11th. Mr. Keyes
is a member of the law firm of Waite, Keyes &
Martin. The ceremony will be performed by Rev.
S. D. Hutsinpiller of the Trinity Methodist Episco-
pal Church. Both the bride and groom are
graduates of the University of California.
The wedding of Porter Garnett and Miss Edna
Foote will take place today Saturdav, at the home
of the bride near Calistoga.
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Miss Bed?. Sperry and Mr. Charles Bodwell will
be married at the residence of the bride's; mother
Mrs. Austin Sperry on Pacific Avenue, on Monday,
June 17th. The ceremony will be performed by Rev.
Mr. Stone of Berkeley. Only intimate friends wjll
be present at the ceremony. Miss Beda Sperry is'; a
cousin of Mrs. W. H. Crocker. Her .father, the lat,e
Austin, Sperry, was a brother of the. late Willafd
jSperry, father of Mrs. Crocker. Mrs. Austin Sperry
was a Miss Simpson of Stockton, me/mber of a well
known family. The Simpson Lumber Company of
Stockton and San Francisco, is one of the1 important
firms of this State. Dr. Mary Sperry is a sister of
Miss Beda Sperry and Horace Sperry is a brother.
* * * ■
! The Skating craze is not to die a natural death
during the Summer months though Mrs. White's
fashionable club has taken a recess, most of the
members having vanished from town .as becomes
.^people in the swim. Their swimming "is done in
'Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, San Diego or some
country brook — any old place but in Sail Francisco
during May, June and July. Mrs. White has an
imitator in the person of Mrs. Metcalf who has
obtained the hall at Summer rates and is to give
skating parties to a club of sixty stay-at-homes at
.cut rate prices.
Mrs. Metcalf was a member of Mrs. White's club
and took a few lessons last Spring. The terrible
microbe at once burrowed under her bonnet and
now she is an enthusiastic promoter of the gliding
art. Nobody is immune from its fascinations.
Mrs. Metcalf is a daughter of Mrs. Caves, who
some .years ago kept a select boarding house on
Leavenworth Street, near Sutter. Mrs. Metcalf
married Mr. George North, one of the boarders and
was left a widow with two sons. A few years ago
she. married Captain Metcalf, a popular business
man wellf known in shipping, insurance and com-
mercial .circles.
* * *
An aged gentleman, who had the same great-
grandfather as had William Jennings Bryan, has
just disported himself in a helter-skelter wedding
that took in four states between Yellow Springs.
Ohio, : and Clayton, Missouri. It also traversed
many moods of the young bride, from extemporane-
ous' giggles to sudden wonder. John Bryan is a
millionaire, a farmer, a poet. and an eccentric, and
only the bride, Miss Fredericka Murphy, knows what
else besides. Of course, a millionaire poet is such a
ireak of civilization that anything must be expected,
•and forgiven, of him. Miss Murphy is 20 years of
.age. Bryan is 60, the. inventive age, and he set out
to show, something new in marriage ceremonies.
His first act was to consult, a law library. He de-
sired to know what state provided most sensibly
.for the property rights of husband and wife. Thither
he would lead Fredericka, drink to her health under
the balmiest laws of the country, and take her
back, legally transmuted, to Yellow Springs. That
this trip was as effectless as a jaunt on the merry-
go round, nobody told him. How be it, the proper
state proved to be Missouri, and right glad Bryan
was.
By the time he arrived at Clayton his enthusiasm
trespassed on the whole wedding dramatis personae.
He wanted to. be groom, best man, usher, giver of
the bride, and Justice of the Peace. .He came near
being everybody except the bride. . Not thinking
much of these stand-up weddings, he toted two
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chairs out of the Court House to the lawn, for him-
self ami bride. A crowd began to sidle about, and
Miss Murphy demurred against a free-for-all affair.
So the party broke ranks and mobilized to the
Recorder's Office. Here Bryan took the fat part of
the acting again. He fcsked the young woman if
she loved him. That was easy. The next question
was, "Will you love me always?" She giggled.
Dear little giggle-goggles gurgled up from the girl's
heart. "This is no laughing matter," declared
Bryan. "I know; but it is all such a novel way
of proceeding; isn't it?" she asked. Things were
beginning to look bad for arbitration when Justice
Werremeyer butted in and asked the millionaire
cabbage-poet if he wished the girl for his wife, all
joking aside. "I came here from Ohio for that
purpose," replied the aged groom. To show his
sincerity he recited four quatrains of his own com-?
position. Justice Werremeyer, who is a poet him-J
self, now "became excited, inspired, and putting urt
his judicial hands, shouted, "In the grand old name
of the state of Missouri, I pronounce you man and
wife."
Mrs. Emily Murphy, the bride's mother, looked
as if the market in patience was closing weak.
* * *
' .Mrs. Charles J. Foster, who has recently been
very ill at her home, The Hacienda. Ross Valley,
has not decided where to spend the Summer. Her
family is desirous that she should go abroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schmieden and family will
spend the Summer at Lake Tahoe, where they have
a beautiful home.
* * *
Rear Admiral Willard Herbert Brownson. who
will take charge of the Bureau of Navigation at
Washington this month has a son who edits a
newspaper at Oxnard in this State. His two daugh-
ters reside at Washington. Admiral Brownson has
a remarkable record and is considered so nearly per-
fect as a naval officer that he resembles that famous
man in opera bouffe who really wished he "could
make a mistake, if only for variety's sake." The
Admiral has been in all kinds of tight places and
never stubbed his toe. His admirers, who are legion,
say that he can be relied upon to do the proper
thing under any circumstances — in a battle or
hurricane, at a banquet or a ball. At an early age
he avoided the traps set by Cupid for so many
gallant accomplished young tars and married a very
rich girl, so now in the full Autumn of his life he
finds himself fully prepared for a hard Winter and a
late Spring.
He has seen all kinds of services afloat and ashore.
When a midshipman on the Pacific station in 1868
with Captain Lowe he was sent with a boat's erew
to seize a piratical schooner, which had been cruis-
ing near Mazatlan and committing all kinds of out-
rages. The wily pirates knowing that the U. S.
jackies were after them, hid their small craft in a
cluster of tropical lagoons. The Vigilant Brownson
nosed them out however and was soon clambering
with his jackies up the side of the pirate. As they
did so a sharp fusilade from the tops of convenient
trees and brush greeted them, killing one midship-
man and wounding several sailors. Brownson took
in the situation at a glance and saw that it would be
suicide to fight the ambushed pirates. He ordered
his men to go below decks to avoid the bullets and
then started several fires in the hold of the schooner.
Soon she was belching forth flames and smoke
enough to cover his retreat and he got away with
his dead and wounded. The pirates could not get
away at all. They were marooned in their ambush
and the revengeful natives on whom they had been
preying went out at their leisure and killed them all.
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Gladys Unger, whom the newspapers have been
referring to as having had a successful play pro-
duced in London by Arthur Bouchier, is the daugh-
ter of Frank Unger, so prominent once in San
Francisco Society. Miss Unger was born here, but
her parents were divorced many years ago and she
has grown up in the East and Europe. She has
been living in London in the fine house where the
late magnate, Yerkes, installed her. Electric
broughans and jewels galore have been hers — all
furnished by the susceptible multi-millionaire,
whose equally susceptible widow married Wilson
Mizner before the nails of Yerkes' coffin were rusty.
Miss LTnger was original enough to go into mourn-
ing for her rich friend and she naively ex-
plained for the benefit of Mother Grundy that Mr.
Yerkes would have shown the good taste of marry-
ing her had he not unfortunately been cumbered
by. a wife.
Arthur Bouchier, who has produced Miss Unger's
play, is the London actor-manager, who put on the
two playlets by tow-headed little Hubey Davis, the
English insurance "Clark," who used to eke out his
stipend in San Francisco by trying to write dram-
atic criticisms for the newspapers. The general im-
pression amongst local scribblers after Hubey
scored with his play, was that almost any office boy
had a good chance to become a noted dramatist in
London. Very much seems to depend on the man-
ager that puts on the play.
* * *
Lincoln Steffens has scored a "beat" on the
Eastern magazine writers who have been swarming
in San Francisco trying to get labor news. The
others were here for weeks, thought things had
quieted down, and then they went back East, but
Steffens stayed on. He realizedthattheclimaxhadn't
arrived yet, and he doesn't mind staying a year
on a story. So he was in the court-room when
Ruef confessed, and his father, a banker from Sac-
ramento, was with him. He was much impressed
by Abe's crocodile flow and will no doubt tell in
elaborate magazine style all about the splashing of
the tears and the sniffling of such weather-beaten
old reporters as Ned Hamilton. Steffins is now one
of the owners of the American magazine which he
and Ida Tarbell, and Ray Stannard Baker left Mc-
Clure's to found. I hear that none of them are
getting fabulously rich by the venture.
* * *
It mystifies me how a chap like Ned Hamilton,
who has about a hundred years' newspaper expe-
rience back of him and is besides a very clever
fellow and an admirable writer could be impressed
by Ruef's crocodile tears like a little maiden at
her first funeral. Ned Hamilton knows Ruef for
twenty years and in all that time the tricky grafter
has been the. close intimate of crooked politicians
who would steal the coppers from the eyes of a
dead man. If Abe got his liberty and his political
pull back tomorrow he might be a more cautious
grafter, but at heart he would be as big a rascal .as
ever. Can the leopard change his spots? Or to
quote a less reversed proverb. What is bred in the
bone can't be got out of the flesh. Or in the words
of the ever reverend William, You can't make a
silk purse out of a sow's ear.
* # *
Lonergan is one of the most unique of the bood-
ling Supervisors. He sold out to both of the tele-
phone companies and he declares that his conscience
so hurt him that he had to give back one of the
bribes — minus $500. That he kept because he had
expended it on his ginmill. He felt perfectly vir-
tuous after this partial restitution and now voices
the loftiest contempt for the wickedness of Abe
Ruef, that boodling rascal who has given nothing
but promises that he will prove a truthful informer.
"I always knew that fellow had a yellow streak
in him, says the virtuous and contrite Lonergan.
Even among boodling informers — -doubly con-
temptible scoundrels who first violate their oaths of
office and then turn traitors to their fellow thieves,
distinctions are made and social lines drawn'.
* * *
"What kind of a waist is that Mabel is wearing?"
"Peek-a-boo, of course. A blind man could see
through that."
The latest engagement in Navy circles is that of
Miss Louise Menefee of Mare Island, daughter of
Mrs. D. P. Menefee, to Lieut. Martin K. Metcalf, U.
S. N., nephew of Secretary Of the Navy, Victor Ii.
Metcalf. Miss Menefee graduated last week with
honors from the University of California. Mr.
Victor Metcalf, a cousin, graduated two years ago at
Annapolis ; his engagement was announced a few
months ago to Miss Butters, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Butters of Piedmont before they left for a tour
abroad.
* * *
The wedding of Miss Lucy Mighell and Thomas
J. Churchill will take place today, Saturday at high
noon at the residence of the bride's grandmother,
Mrs. Israel Kashow on California Street
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A Washington correspondent informs me that
Mi>^ Marguerite Le Breton is quite popular in
society at the capital Miss Le Breton who resides
at Washington with her clever mother is the
daughter of Albert I. Le Breton of this city. The
marriage of Mr. Le Breton to Miss Nopie McDougal
daughter of Admiral McDougal, (J. S. X.. in the
early eighties was a great social event of the day.
It took place at the Admiral's residence in South
Park, which was then the fashionable part of San
Francisco. The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Father Buchard, S. I. The guests included only
intimate friends, among whom were the Count and
Vicountess de Touqucvillc, ex-tiov. Rodman I 'rice
of New Jersey, Supreme Judge and Mrs. McKiristry,
fudge and Mrs. W. M. Stewart, Capt. Johnson, LT.
S. X.. Dr. Woods, Dr. John M. Browne, U. S. X„
Mr. and Mrs. Stanwood, Commander and Mrs.
Phelps, U. S. X., Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hooker, Miss
Fall, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, Judge and Mrs. Wright,
Mr. Le Roy, Dr. Shorb, Mr. Eugene Dewey, Mr. and
Mrs. Reis. Mr. and Mrs. Colgate Raker, Mr. C. Reis,
Mr. F. Reis and Mr. W. P. Willard.
1 low few of these names do we hear of today in
San Francisco Society, ft is characteristic of this
new City that each generation forgets almost com-
pletely the names and histories of its immediate
predecessor. The McKinstry's are still known in
Society and so are the Wrights, the Shorbs and
some of the Reises. Most of the others have been
almost forgotten. Eugene Dewey was one of the
best known and most popular clubmen, stockbrokers
and bon vivants in San Francisco. Handsome Dick
Hooker and his dashing wife who was Miss Bessie
Stewart were prominent figures at all the receptions
of the day. Dr. Shorb was the best known physician
in San Francisco. Death has long since claimed this
talented man as well as several of the other promin-
ent guests that attended the wedding of the young
capitalist and popular Admiral's daughter.
The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Le Breton
is now an ensign in the LTnited States Navy and
distinguished himself as the star of his class at
Annapolis. His sister, Miss Le Breton, while in San
Francisco some two years ago, created a decided
sensation by her brilliant wit and remarkable
beauty inherited from her mother. When she left
for the East, a well known lawyer followed her
there, it was said the young lady had consented
to become his wife. Mrs. and Miss Le Breton have
been residing permanently in the East wdiile Mr. Le •
lireton now remains loyal to his home town of San
Francisco.
One evening recently Mr. Le Breton contributed
largely to the entertainment of the Camera Club, by
reciting "Thanatopsis" with lantern illustrations.
The pictures he had taken while living in Washing-
ton, D. C. He also delivered a witty and most
interesting address, which was much' appreciated
by the large audience.
* * *
It would seem that St. Helena bids fair to be-
come as exclusive and as fashionable this year as
it was in days gone by, when White Sulphur
Springs was the Mecca of the ton. Among the well
known people who thus far have taken cottages
and will pass the Summer there, arc Mrs. R. X.
Graves, Mrs. Lawrence Pool, Mrs. Benton and son,
Mrs. Norwood and Miss Evelyn Norwood, Mrs.
Jerome Lincoln and Miss Ethel Lincoln reside in a
beautiful home. This place fell to the lot of Miss
Ethel when her aunt died.
If Mrs. Russell Wilson can rent or sell her beauti-
ful home on California Street, Miss Emily and her-
self will fold their tents and leave for a long tour
abroad. Mrs. S. E. Dutton, sister of Mrs. Russell
Wilson, who has been visiting at the Wilson home
on California Street will leave this week with her
daughter Mrs. Leland and take up their permanent
residence in Washington D. C.
* * *
The Josselvn family will also start for home early
in August. This will be pleasant news to their
many friends, as also to the well known Burlingame
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Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Postley will soon come
back from Europe, where they have been for nearly
two years. They have a lovely baby to which Mrs.
Postley is very devoted. She is an extremely hand-
some woman although her style of beauty is greatly
changed since she went away. She has been much
admired in Paris and on the Riviera where she and
her husband have passed most of their time. The
young Postleys had a bad shock this Winter for
they thought Mrs. Postley, Senior, was going to die.
She is somewhat better now. She is a comparatively
young woman, but not in the best of health. She
is the owner of the Postley fortune, and when she
does die the young Postleys will inherit a million
or so. Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Postley's mother decided
not to marry and her romantic engagement is off.
# * *
When May Irwin was 26 years old and for two
years had been a mother, there was born a little
eight-pounder whom she married last Sunday. It
took him 28 years to become old enough for May,
who incidentally became 54 herself. As Mrs. Kurt
Eisfelt she will have for husband her manager for
the last two seasons. The gentleman — who may
be more than his name would indicate — can hardly
have much vanity. From managing to. husbanding
a professional woman is a double back-somersault
to a rear seat in oblivion. Out of such seclusion,
divorce itself has failed to revivify many a man
from the numbing effects of a famous wife. As soon
as he marries a woman in "Who's Who," he is
hardly given credit for knowing what's what, and
nobody seems to care whether he does or not. When
introduced by the lady as her husband, he is
frowned upon as an intruding nonentity. She does
not even use his name except on the hotel registers;
and when interviewed by the press, makes him the
subject of some supercilious good humor.
May Irwin has a son two years older than his
brand-new-step-father. Not only that, but she is
the author of a Cook Book, used for years by every
property man who has had to furnish a play-acting
repast. So what chance has Mr. Kurt Eisfelt for
individual supremacy.
There are few matters that will give a great and
good man appendicitis of the virtue as quickly as
an attempt to go some on the divorce question.
Marriage itself was brought about by a serpent,
a somewhat genial and optimistic reptile, account
says. On the other hand, kindly appearing men
will froth at the lips describing the goggle-eyed,
bristling, hell-breathing, fifty-fanged amphidian of
divorce. There have been proud and mellow-voiced
pulpiters who, instead of asking a legal separation,
have been content to run away with a sixteen-year-
old girl. But that has nothing to do with Judge
Zell Roe, of Des Moines, who is exacting promises
from bridal couples that neither will bring suit
against the other except for statutory grounds. It
would seem that the good old "until death shall ye
part" is almost as strong, if taken seriously. But
perhaps the sensational is more binding than the
serious. All the judge's clientele thus far have an-
swered the impertinent question with an affirmative
promise. No one as yet has informed him that he
might find Satan's first and third Wednesdays very
interesting.
Let them know!
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
THE WASP-
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The firsl Mn. Pedar Sather Bruguicre
I As far as the law is concerned, marriage is a
egal form, and those who seek the aid of the Code
•ather than the blessing of the Church should be
Drotected from a quaint, queer and quizzical jurist
it a time when peace with the world prevents the
■etaliation a married man would ordinarily take to
>uch intervention. The judge must have ruminated
mi this question simultaneously with chewing a
lark-brown brand of tobacco. He promises, on
livorce, to return the marriage fee, one half to each
oarty. This idea is a Moonlight Sonata on the
:ymbals, and for advertising purposes better than
:or the gentle art of preventing divorce. One man
las already entrusted His Honor with $100 as a
guarantee that he will not ask for divorce on any
grounds ; the money to be reclaimed in ten years,
f the marriage is still in force ; otherwise to go to
:harity.
Ah, money refunded if marriage is a failure !
Think of the situation. At the most ceremonial
ioint in a man's life, to allow another to question
limself and his bride as to what statutory grounds
pach may give the other.
* * *
Comrades, how would you like to marry a
vidow who wears her first husband's false teeth. A
dainty bit of horror! Unnecessary though. And
William Hinkel's aversion to Mrs. August Kramer's
use of her husband's surviving teeth . is merely
neurotic, superstitious and fantastic; all of which
qualities are outlandish <>r behind the times. When
he puts his affianced lips against her love murmurs,
it is a morbid mood that repels the proximity of
the gnashers belonging to the untoothed old man
lying out under the sod of Janesville, Wisconsin.
If. as Mrs. Hinkel, she should (as women are said
sometimes to do) happen to evince a pretty little
turn of temper and accidentally show her teeth,
the victim would behold the deceased husband
snarling at him through his wife's anger. Xo won-
der he insists upon the remodeling of the lady's
mouth ornaments. Mrs. Kramer says, "Teeth are
teeth. How do you know where anything comes
from ?"
False ones, she owns up to. Two years ago, her
helpmate dying with a plate containing a number
of finely enameled and gold teeth, just what she
needed, and being averse to wastefulness, she
brought the plate to a dentist to be remade for her
own mouth. Hinkel is sentimental and does not
know but what there is some psychologic polygamy
in the circumstance. But she smiles and says it
is nervousness and that he will get over it.
* * *
What a fortunate thing that Mrs. Crellin (Ca-
mille D' Arville) possesses such a voice. She will
return to California from the East, where she has
been singing in opera, having had a brilliant sea-
son. As Mr. Crellin lost heavily during the
calamity, her voice has proved a gold mine in an
emergency.
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-THE WASP
Mrs. Eleanor Martin will pass most of the Sum-
mer in Burlingame, as the guest of her son and her
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Martin, who
are now settled in their new home there.
* i * *
Mrs. Breezei will visit her daughter Mrs. Benson,
wife of Major Benson, U. S. A., as St. Helena this
Summer. Miss Louise Breeze is still ill enough to
cause her family much anxiety and has not yet left
the Adler Sanitarium, where she has been for some
weeks.
* * *
Mrs. Wm. Mayo Newhall and family sail for
home on August 3rd. Miss Margaret, Miss Marion
and Miss Elizabeth will add greatly to the gaities
of Burlingame. I hear these charming young
ladies have supplied themselves with most exquisite
Parisian frocks. The two younger girls will make
their debut this Winter.
* * *
An attractive home on Broadway will soon be
closed when that charming young widow, Mrs.
Philip Langsdale and her sister, Miss Helen Sidney
Smith will leave for an enjoyable trip to the
Yosemite. Miss Bertha Sidney Smith, who has
been visiting in the East will join her sisters in the
valley. These charming ladies are the daughters of
the late well known Attorney Sidney Smith. The
home of the Sidnev Smiths in San Rafael, which
stands just outside the gates of Hotel Rafael is one
of the most beautiful and artistic in that exclusive
burg. It has been rented for some time.
* ■': *
Anna Strunskv Walling and her Socialistic
millionaire husband are in Italy while slowly
making a tour of that country where the red flag
has a good man)' adherents. Before she married
Walling, rumor had it that Miss Strunskv might
wed Jack London, but she was not so foredoomed.
They say that Mr. and Mrs. Walling have astonished
New York by their frenzied demonstrations of love.
Laura and Petrarch, Dante and Beatrice, Abelard
and Heloise were lobsters in the art of effusive love
as compared with 'these two peripatetic socialists.
Their red flag confreres pay court to them at each
European hotbed of anarchy they visit. They are
moving slowly on Russia, but their conquest of
that field may be like Napolean's capture of Moscow.
Climate of the feeble Czar's realm is very unhealthy
for apostles of advanced thought who make no
secret of their hostility to establish authority.
It is a curious fact that Mr. Walling's best man
is the grandson of Karl Marx, the father of modern
socialism. Walling's own grandfather was William
English of Indianapolis, whose fortune was amassed
by such doubtful business methods that he suc-
ceeded in damning the Democratic party with
which he had become identified. It looks like
poetic justice that the grandson of this old money
grabber should be advocating a doctrine designed to
For busy men and women Abbott's Bitters. A delightful tonic and invigorator, a health
giver and a health preserver. All druggists.
exterminate all such individuals. It would be a
great boom to Socialism if Mr. Walling should give
away all of the lucre he has inherited from his
money-grabbing ancestors. So far, however, he has
shown no disposition to separate himself from the
root of all evil.
Miss Josephine Benham of Oregon, whose engage-
ment was recently announced to Ralph Pruett of
Oakland, will be married in June, at the home of
the bride. The couple will reside in Oakland.
Mrs. Samuel T. Barnhard gave a tea at her home
in Oakland during the week and announced the
engagement of her niece Miss Lillian Warrington
to Grover C. Elain, son of Thomas Elain of San
Francisco. No date has as yet been set for the
wedding.
An interesting Berkeley event was the marriage
of Miss' Emma Bingham and Frank W. Harnden,
the ceremony took place at the residence of the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. Bingham on Moss
Avenue. Rev. Dr. E. E. Baker officiating. Upon
the return from a wedding tour the couple will re-
side with the bride's parents.
Mrs. E. Bramen Harris has sent out cards an-
nouncing the marriage of her daughter Sylvia
Fowler to Dr. Samuel Percy Hardy, which took
place on Saturday the 11th of May.
* * *
The Cosmos Club is receiving congratulations 6n
its innovation in the matter of dinner cards. The
ordinary bill-of-fare, which is thrust under one's •
.nose, has only a gastronomical interest. You look
at it in a lackadaisical way to see what dishes you
will order and throw it aside till appetite again
whets vour interest in such literature. Not so the
Cosmos dinner cards, which serve several purposes i
besides showing the chef skill. Several members
have dislocated their jaws laughing at them and
thereby stimulated business for the doctors, which
is a good thing in the dull spell. The decreased
attendance at local vaudeville shows has been at-
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THE WASP-
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tributed entirely to the car-strike, but the Cosmos
< lull's bills-of-fare have, m> doubt, helped to reduce
the audience. When a clubman finds a whole vaude-
ville performance on his menu, why should he leave
hi- comfortable club t" -it in some draughty barn
and listen to cheap comedians swapping chestnuts.
The innovation in the Cosmos Club, I understand,
was brought about in a thoroughly business-like
way b) raising the price of meals ami with the
increased funds at command obtaining the services
of a gifted Japanese to furnish the bill-of-fare. That
this accomplished Oriental craftsman threw his
whole soul into the work is shown by the following
photographic reproduction of one of his gems of
typography.
■Q
Dinner
MONDAY MAY20 , Igoy
Cavsar on Toatt
SOUP
VermiceLLi
RELISHES
Radishes
Queen
Olives
Pickles
Chow
Chow
FISH
Cop Fish Shrimps Souce
Potatoes Boi ed
ENTREES
Vol au Vent of Sweetbread
ROAST
Spring Lumd Mint sAnce
VEGETABLES
Potatoes Gr au pEAs
Boiled Rice
Sweet Corn in Cream
SALAD
Lcttuse
DESSEPT
Apple Pie
Assorted Cuke*
Brie. Cantembert, Edam and Roquefort Cherse
Nuts. Emits, ffaisins
Slack Coffee
Wednesday evening, June .jth, is set as the date
of Miss Mabel Poett's wedding to Carl Francis Ed-
\ irds at Santa Barbara, and it does seem too bad
that the groom's mother should have skipped to
Europe just a fortnight before the ceremony. She
has recently returned from San Francisco, where
she visited her relatives, the . Carolans, of Bur-
lingame.
* * *
.Mrs. A. 11. Pays'on, accompanied by R. M. King-
man, motored down from San Mateo to Del Monte
during last week. George \\. Hooke and Mrs.
Hooke. Miss M. A. Williams of Berkeley, Miss
Mabel F. Gordon and Miss Carrie I. Gordon made
up a motor-car party which made the trip from San
Francisco to Del Monte last week.
* * *
Mrs. Bowman H. McCalla prefers to have her
teas, etc., in the open at Santa Barbara, and it is
not to be wondered at for there is such a beautiful
outlook from every point, with the channel showing
in the distance and the hills stretching beyond the
canyon that divides the estate. It was on the bluff
of the canyon that Mrs. McCalla spread her tea
tables last week when she gave a tea for Mrs. A. M.
Lyman of Buffalo, New York, who is spending the
Winter in California, and who has been visiting
Mrs. Edward R. Spaulding. The Spauldings are
wealth}' Buffalo people, too, who spend eight
months in Santa Barbara and go to the East late
in the Fall, returning shortly after the holidays. The
Lymans are at the head of the drug business in
Buffalo and have a chain of large stores there. They
are also as wealthy as Midas.
Mrs. Helmboldt of Columbus, Ohio, who has been
sojourning at Santa Barbara, left for the East with
her two pretty children, and gave a farewell tea
at the Potter. She had asked every woman — and
all the smart set was invited — to take a postal card
with her address on the other side and to each of
the women she gave a postal card that was a marvel,
showing the graceful hostess in the act of drinking
a toast.
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16
-THE WASP
KEITH WAKEMAN
Another romantic marriage in the Senator Clark
family. This' time William Andrews Clark, Jr., got
a flying start ahead of the gossips and, driving
tantivy through the streets of Butte, Montana, beat
the news to the Clark mansion. "Been married for
half an hour. Gee whiz!" The bearded ex-Senator
strode out of the room, mad as Polyphemus, and
did not calm down to the blessing point for several
hours. Then he said, perhaps it was for the best,
after all.
The bride is Mrs. Alice Genevieve McManus
Medin, aged 23, and proud of it. Last November
she was divorced from Medin bv the same judge who
recovenanted her to young Clark. Medin had di-
vorced his own wife to engage in a second-story
elopement with Alice McManus, who was then a
hello girl and had one of the most captivating voices
on the Butte, wires. He proved to be a back num-
ber, though, for he imagined home life to be the
real thing. Mrs. Medin was too much of a 1907
model to endure this ; so Medin passed her over to
Society, where she swished and skidded quite some,
ending up with the dashing marriage to Clark after
a four days' acquaintance. Judge Donlan was hear-
ing a jury case. A messenger rushed into the court-
room and drove off with the Court to the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. Carnocan, where the couple waited
with a fee that would have made His Honor whistle
cook-adoodle-doo if he had not been such a digni-
fied cuss. Anyway, when he returned to the Court
house in something of the grandiose condition of
our own Hebbard. he explained that he had been
attending a lunacy commission ; while the clerk,
who had accompanied him as a witness, declared
they had taken the will of a very sick man. Then
both judge and clerk looked around for ice-water.
Young Clark's first marriage, to Miss Mabel
Foster, was almost as sudden. She gave her life
to bring into the world the "Million Dollar Baby,"
Senator Clark having offered such reward for a first
grandson.
A fool and his money covered a multitude of sins
at the Actors' Fair in New York. The way the
beribboned footpads wielded their slungshot smiles
was enough to make the victims give up all their
cash, hand over the stemwinder and throw in the
old homestead for good measure.
Mrs. Hamilton Fish, who had charge of a flower
booth, succeeded in looking hospitable and inac-
cessible at the same time. Mrs. George Gould,
once an actress at Daly's, and now waging guerilla
warfare around the Four Hundred, contributed a
doll dressed after herself in a Shakespearean role.
Mrs. Howard Gould, formerly Catherine Clemmons,
moved slowly to obviate colliding with her de-
fendant husband, who forfeited an inheritance of
$5,000,000 to marry her. She is not even as Gouldy
as the rest of the Goulds, but seemed to take some
pleasure in her rather assertive beauty. She gave
a picture-hattish nod to Buffalo Bill, who has a
suit against her for money spent on her education
while she traveled with his show. A pretty girl
asked Buffalo Bill to write his name a few times in
her note-book. He thought she wanted to sell his
autograph for charity, and smilingly accommodated
with a whole page full. She then explained each
signature to be a chaunce for a grand piano at 50
cents per chaunce. Mark Twain, in his lingerie
clothes and Angora hair, made love to Ethel Barry-
more for the price of admission. Ethel, they say,
is never out of pose. President Frohman declares
the daughter of Drews and Barrymores was born
in the spotlight. But that's a sad example of
thoughtlessness and hyperbolic wit. Frohman hit
it sqalid in certain quarters by barring "notorious
"In the Orchard at Howard Springs.'
-THE WASP-
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Genlhe Phol
MISS GERTRUDE MILLS
show girls" from the exhibits, and will have to
dodge their haughty star-es for some time to come.
He did not wish to give the booths a Tenderloin
effect in the way of costumes. And Mrs. Albert
M. Palmer furthered the idea by drawing the dead
line of dccolette higher than even some of the
choicest thought necessary — higher in fact than
grand opera decorum. But then the closeness of
the crowd warranted a special standard for the
occasion.
Pongee is very popular this Summer for street
dresses, and very many women have costumes of
it. .Mrs. I;red McNear is wearing a very smart
pongee suit with a three-quarter length coat, as is
Mrs. Herbert Moffitt. Mrs. Rudolph Spreckels, who
looks younger and handsonier every year, has a
lovely new pongee suit. .Mrs. J. J. ^foore has an-
other. Mrs. Henry Scott is wearing some mosl
effective linen suits with long coats.
The Morgan Hills are very prominent in Wash-
ington Society, and their names often appear in
the report of the social doings at the capital. Mrs.
Hill was the beautiful Diana Murphy of San Jose,
[laughter of Daniel Murphy, one of the great
Murphy clan of which the celebrated Barney Mur-
phy is a member. Miss Diana Murphy was regarded
as a great catch and had suitors galore, Morgan
llill being amongst the number. The father of the
heiress did not look with entire favor on Mr. Hill's
suit, which of course was a card in his favor. It
generally is.
Mrs. Griffith with her mother and sister Mrs.
and Miss Coppie have left Ross Valley for a visit
of several weeks at Mira Mar, Santa Barbara.
Will Irwin is no longer the editor of McClure's
magazine but has gone back to newspaper work and
story writing. He and Wallace Irwin have both
been successful in New York. Will thinks he can
make more money by building up a name for him-
self as a writer. Editing a New York magazine
is not the fattest job on earth.
ENTRE NOUS.
Belle Oudry Pholo
MISS VIVA NICHOLSON
-THE WASP'
Wasp Illustrations This Week
Mrs Pedar Sather Brugiere, was formerly Miss
Madeline McKissick, daughter of the late Judge
L. D. and Mrs. McKissick. This picture was taken
a few weeks after her marriage to the young and
ardent Bruguiere from whom she was divorced a
few years ago. He has since been divorced from a
second wife, and subsequently married a third, a
Miss King, related to W. S. Townsend, celebrated
for his candy and confections.
Miss Viva Nicholson, is a well-known Society
belle of Oakland's smart set.
Probably no one is better known in social circles
here and especially in the exclusive Southern set,
than Mrs. A. H. Voorhies, wife of the well-known
occulist, Dr. A. H. Voorhies, and mother of that
large and interesting family of young matrons, Mrs.
Young, Mrs. Malcolm Henry, Mrs. Thomas Porter
Bishop and Mrs. Guy Scott. There is an only son,
Grantland Voorhies, who has recently entered the
real estate business, with success.
Mrs. J. Wilson Shiels is the wife of that popular
physician and Bohemian Club man, Dr. J. Wilson
Shiels. Both the doctor and his wife are noted
for their clever entertainments, Mrs. Shiels being
an amateur actress of note, having appeared many
times for charity's cause with marked success.
Miss Ruth Sadler of Alameda, will be one
of the bridesmaids at the forthcoming wedding of
her sister, Miss Lydia Mae Sadler, to Louis Risdon
Meade, taking place on June 18th at Christ Church,
Alameda. It will be a large affair.
Mrs. Ruth E. Baird was Miss Ruth Jackson be-
fore her marriage to the erratic young capitalist,
Miles Baird, from whom she was divorced a
couple of years ago.
Miss Gertrude Mills is one of the pretty, blonde
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. B. Mills. Mr.
Mills is of Gage & Mills, the well-known lumber
firm. Miss Mills is a favorite with her friends, and
has a strong and pleasing personality.
Mrs. Fred McNear is an attractive little matron
of the Burlingame set; was formerly Miss Georgie
Hopkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hop-
kins, and sister of Mrs. Gus and Mrs. Will Taylor,
all prominent in the San Mateo set.
Miss Keith Wakeman of Oakland is an actress
of note, who at one time was said to be engaged to
the late Dr. E. H. Woolsey. The genial doctor had
a keen eye for female beauty.
The members of the Builders' Exchange have
wrestled most unsuccessfully with the present labor
problem m San Francisco. They will continue to
do so until they come to the decision, that there
can never be industrial peace or prosperity under
the closed shop arrangement. The open shop will
settle the labor troubles, for the open shop will
reduce the question to one of supply and demand
J t labor is scarce and much needed, wages will soar
It labor is abundant and notin demand, employers
will not be forced to pay wages that mean loss to
*mhA?L'ZZ£V& Lllkd™ABS:'S ^ "* « *]>* °> *«» - -A "ore ,«*
them. The moment you commence to subvert the
true laws of trade or finance that instant you sow
the seeds of trouble. The closed shop is retrogres-
sive, oppressive, and unlawful, and can only cause
the establishment of an injurious labor trust. We
have that trust with us and it will remain until the
employers of the United States demand and obtain
the open shop.
Dr. H. J. Stewart announces an invitation concert
by his pupils, at the Knights of Columbus Hall, Pine
Street, on Monday afternoon, June 3d. A very in-
teresting program of vocal and instrumental music
has been prepared, and amongst those who will take
part may be mentioned Miss Leola Stone, Miss
Helen Wilson, Miss Viola Van Orden, Mrs. Carolyn
Crew Rasor, Mrs. A. J. Harrington, Mrs. Josephine
Aylwin, Mrs. Z. R. Jenkins, Miss Lenor Burke,
Miss Corinne Goldsmith and Miss Louise Smith.
The Song of the Emergency Driver
Hi, there ! Chuck up yer fare !
Twenty-five cents to don't-know-where.
Mebbe it's Fillmore; mebbe still more
East or West, and Divil a care.
Take along lunch ; me nag I'll punch
As soon as I get a dark blue hunch
The load to start ; then ye'll depart
To Richmond or Asbury all in a bunch.
Now we go. What, pard? No;
This Russian-leather nag ain't slow.
When she's fit. Today we've hit
'Bout forty miles o' Frisco. Whoa !
Off again ! Now and then
These thank-ye-marms ain't what they've been.
Joggle and pull, me wagon's full.
Jump if ye bump too high to stay in.
Rattle yer bones over the stones ;
No one cares for yer moans an' groans.
Whoop her up, sure ! And bounce, for you're
A strike sympathizer Cornelius owns.
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Iii the great zeal of the graft prosecution to bring
to justice the big bribe-givers, sight has been lost of
the hundreds of petl\ grafters who have made the
Schmitz administration infamous. They are not
even frightened, for they see what game is being
-talked and they go on boldly grafting here and
grafting there, or at least enjoying brazenly the
spoils of former graft. They remain in the com-
munity, a danger to future civic welfare. They are
the men who will control in various assembly
district politics. They will spring up as strident-
voiced labor leaders, as eloquent as was the Honor-
able Mike Coffey. If they can rally the unions to
their aid and bring under their spell the gamblers
and various saloon and tenderloin interests they
are likely to succeed and if they do they will not
be deterred from levying tribute on any one who
wants to spend money here to build up an enterprise.
This is the grave danger that stands in the way
of rapid rehabilitation for San Francisco. Eastern
investors will see only that we have fallen upon the
bribe-giver and smote him hip and thigh. Thev will
realize that the bribe-takers are still with us, as
greedy as ever. They know that Gallagher, Coffey,
Davis, Mamlock and all that delectable bunch still
poison the air of San Francisco by their presence,
and that other hackmen, carpenters, cement-
workers, union musicians and shyster lawyers as
greedy as they were, . hold the offices, ready to
blackmail and then jump into the immunity bath.
The indictment of many of the leading citizens
of San Francisco for bribery will have been rather
dearly bought if the political bandits that have
held the City in their grasp for years are all to be
allowed to escape imprisonment. I do not think
that the public will be well satisfied with such an
arrangement and the net result of the great effort
to punish the grafters of San Francisco may be
that nobody will go to jail. If the prosecution
make a bargain with the infamous scoundrel Ruef
to let him go free for turning informer, it will
sacrifice the respect and confidence of the law-
abiding citizens of San Francisco. The job made
declaration that the bribe-givers are worse than the
bribe-takers does not impress any man who knows
how machine politics are worked in American cities
and how political thieves band together to capture
public office, and blackmail everybody. To depict
the hardened and veteran criminal Ruef and his
greedy confederates as guiltless innocents who were
lured from the path of rectitude by wily and sordid
millionaires is too much for the strong stomach of
an ostrich. It is nauseating bosh fit only for the
columns of a San Francisco sensationaj newspaper.
If anybody goes to jail Ruef should head the pro-
cession, with Schmitz and his other tools close at
his heels.
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•THE WASP
The Wasp was the first newspaper in San Fran-
cisco to point out what would happen if our citi-
zens were insane enough to elect Schmitz, and
thereby turn over to the modern sandlotters the
government of San Francisco.
All that we predicted nearly seven years ago has
occured ; but happily the end is in sight. Ruef is
a jailed convict, waiting to add to his infamy by
posing as a public prosecutor of the man with whom
he plotted and contrived blackmail and public
plunder ; Schmitz is where he should be, wriggling
at the bar of justice, forsaken by his crooked friends,
hated by the outlaws who elected him and despised
by all men.
It did not need the degredation of Schmitz to
prove that the game he has played is a losing one.
History is full of instances of selfish and lawless
men who have tried to organize the criminal ele-
ment into a great political machine that should
keep them in power to fatten on the honest people
of their communities. Every man who has. followed
that course has paid the penalty. Many have died
on the gallows or the scaffold ; many have passed
from power and luxury to the gloom of prisons and
all have died forlorn, disgraced, abandoned and
despised.
Honesty is the best policy for a public man. If
he be not honest at least let him pretend to the
possession of some virtues. Let him, not like
Schmitz and his slimy associates, flaunt their in-
famy brazenly in the face of public opinion and
proclaim that they are without sense of honor,
shame, or conscience:
There never was a so-called labor leader who so
thoroughly alienated all classes of followers as
Schmitz. Elected by and pledged to protect the
labor unions in any quarrel and under a solemn
promise to keep policemen off the cars in the event
of a strike, he now occupies the unique position
of being solely responsible for the strike and its
failure as well. He it was who gave the orders
to Chief of Police Dinan to use clubs on the heads
of the strikers engaged in rioting. Where in the
world is there another labor leader in such a bad
hole as that? It was through Schmitz, and in his
interest that the carmen were induced to give up
the positions that paid them better than any similar
positions in the United States, and go on strike at
a time when conditions were such as to make vic-
tory for them an utter impossibility. Schmitz was
stupid and depraved enough to believe that he could
bring on a big strike, plunge the City into indus-
trial strife and cause untold loss of revenue to the
merchants, and then step in as he did before and
stop the conflict. Thus by posing as the hero of
the hour he might rehabilitate himself in the good
graces of the people who have cast him out as an
offensive briber and betrayer of the public inter-
ests. But Schmitz, like all criminals, is short
sighted. He never calculated on the turn affairs
could take.
Not only did he fail to bring the fighting forces
to peace, but he was forced to commit the heinous
offense of giving orders to the police to stop rioting
in the streets of San Francisco. Without riots and
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lawlessness no street car strike can be made effec-
tive. The position of Schmitz is therefore unique,
for he is denounced and damned by all classes
including the unions. Friendless and hated by
all whom his incompetency and dishonesty have
involved in trouble he goes to trial for felony and
in all likelihood will wear a convict suit before
Christmas.
HARVEY BROUGHAM.
Royal Nicknames
There is scarcely a member of the British royal
family who has not got at least one nickname, while
some have answered to many. It is said that even
King Edward himself is often referred to by the nick-
name of "Edrex," very obviously derived from the
familiar "Edward: Rex." As a boy and young man,
however, his majesty was always called by the pet
name of "Bertie," and for a long time prior to his suc-
cession to the throne he was generally called "The
Guv'nor" by the princes and princesses, and it is hardly
likely that he raised any objection, inasmuch as he
himself has liberally bestowed nicknames upon his
most intimate friends.
Probably the German Emperor possesses more nick-
names than any other living monarch, though he may
not be aware of the fact ; indeed, his various feats and
accomplishments suggest so many new nicknames that
it would be difficult to keep count of them. "Gondola
Willie," "Ajax," "Frederick the Greatest" and "The
Captain" are a few of the nicknames most frequently
applied to him.
The Czar is still referred to as "Nicky," the name
given him when he was quite a boy. The late King of
Denmark was commonly called "The Father," just as
King Francis Joseph is known as "Father Francis,"
and King Leopold of Belgium has for many years
suffered patiently under the unflattering designation
of "The King with a Nose."
"The Little Signor" as a nickname is made to fit the
King of Italy, whose father, the late king, was referred
to as "Don Moustachio," on account of his immense
mustache, a notable feature of his father, and one
which the present king has inherited to some extent.
At one time in his frolicsome boyhood the Prince of
Wales was known to the royal family and his fellow
(midshipmen as "Sprats," and at a later period he had
Kite nickname of "The Pickle" forced upon him. For a
|)rief period after his return from his long tour round
(the colonies, however, he was often referred to as "The
Alarm," in consequence of his famous "Wake-up, Eng-
land!" speech delivered at the Guildhall, which re-
[ninds one that the German emperor was given the
tame nickname at a time when he made a practice of
testing the readiness of garrisons to fall to arms by
paying surprise visits.
f "Her Royal Shyness" is the nickname which the
Queen of Norway, who is even yet better known as
Princess Charles of Denmark, bestowed upon her sis-
ter the Duchess of Fife on account of her very retir-
ng disposition. The Queen of Norway herself was
dways known to her relatives and most intimate
friends as "I [arry." Almost up to the time of her mar-
riage Princess Henry of Battenberg was called "Baby"
within the royal family circle. "Pussette" was Queen
Victoria's nickname for the late Empress Frederick,
and "Affie" for the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg. and
during the latter part of his long life the late Duke of
Cambridge was familiarly referred to as "George
Ranger." a nickname suggested by his office of ranger
of Richmond Park.
One of the strangest nicknames possessed by the
king's intimate friends is that of the Marquess de
Soveral, who, for some reason no one seems able to
explain, is known as "Blue Monkey." Very appro-
priate is the name of "Pocket Adonis." which, it
is said, the king himself bestowed on Lord Buchan.
It was the king, too, who nicknamed Lord Ribblesdale
"The Ancestor," because of the old-fashioned style of
dress his lordship favors.
The Marquess of Londonderry is almost invariably
referred to in the briefest of fashions as "C," though
that is hardly any briefer than "O," by which society
knows Lord Ormonde is meant ; and the present Mar-
quess of Salisbury was known as "Cranberry" while he
was Lord Cranborne.
Mrs. Enpeck — "I'm afraid my daughter is not as
happy since her marriage as she might be."
Mrs. Neighbors — "Has she insinuated as much?"
Mrs. Enpeck — "Oh, no ; but I have seen her hus-
band on the street every day for a week, and he
walks along as independent as ever. He doesn't
look a bit subdued."
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Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
A banker of this City has remarked to me, "The
whole country never was as prosperous before as
it is today. The crops are large and the people fully
employed and yet money is tight and especially in
this State and in this City. There is no good cause
for this."
The banker is mistaken. There is a good cause
for it. Lack of confidence. That is the foundation
of financial credit and without plenty of credit busi-
ness must shrink, no matter how good the crops.
The public enemies in San Francisco — the grafters,
the labor agitators, the outlaws that stone cars and
insult women shake confidence. So do all the
gougers that raise prices of supplies and wages
every fifteen minutes till no one knows where he
stands. All this must be changed and confidence
restored.
We in San Francisco are also feeling the depres-
sion that caused panic in New York two months ago.
It always comes to us later. In New York liqui-
dation has taken place and it is going on here now.
It is the turn of the tide that has been so long ex-
pected.
It cannot last long under present conditions, for
the country generally is prosperous and gold has
been coming back to the United States this year in
unprecedented volume. The imports of gold in the
last ten months were over a hundred and ten millions
and the exports only twenty-three millions, leaving
the largest gain ever recorded in that time.
The prices of stocks have all been dropping.
Labor is now proportionately higher than securities
and there will be some stagnation till that too finds
its true value, for after all the law of supply and
demand, regulates those things. When employers
can use labor to advantage by selling its products
at a profit they will employ it. If labor becomes
too dear and a profit cannot be made out of it em-
ployers will not use it. In that respect labor is
like anv commodity and subject to the laws of trade
just as much as wheat or iron or wool, etc. Com-
binations may temporarily and artificially raise or
lower the price of labor, but it will find its true value
at last as surely as water will seek its true level.
Let no man deceive himself on that point.
Just now in San Francisco we are in the transition
stage and the price of labor is adjusting itself. The
strikes show that.
As soon as the price of labor is fixed at its true
value in San Francisco building will go on again
rapidly. The prices for materials are adjusting
themselves. I heard this week of the offer of a
cargo of pine at $16 per thousand. That looks like
readjustment.
Nobody should lose confidence in San Francisco,
or the nation at large. The prospects are as good
as ever. The present flurry is only temporary and
no man should sacrifice his real estate or good
stocks or bonds unless forced to do so. The man
who does so will surely regret it a few months
hence, wdien things are all running smoothlv again.
The Hamburs--American Steamship Line, com-
pleted its sixtieth year of existence this week, and
very remarkable indeed has been its growth. Im-
provements beyond the conception of any person
have been wrought in the past sixty years in ocean
transportation. The great ocean liner of today
is a floating hotel, as luxurious and complete in
everv detail as anv first class hotel. In sixty years
the Hamburg-American Line has grown irom a
modest little enterprise of three clipper ships to one I
of the largest mercantile fleets in the world— 371 I
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OF SAN FRANCISCO
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Interest Paid on all Deposits
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PAID UP CAPITAL, $600,000.00
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i ners with a total tonnage of ' '57,(X)0 tons. Its
fla,* is known in every >r;i and the chief ports of
everj continent,
The company's steamers ply regularly on fifty-
seven different services, which practically reach
every port of the world. But it is not merely in
point of size where the Hamburg-American line
lias kept ahead of all competitors, hut practically
every innovation in Atlantic travel during the last
decades has been introduced by this company.
The latest features in this respect are the marine
wonders, "Amerika" and "Kaiserin Auguste Vic-
toria," of 25.000 tons each, where palm gardens,
passenger elevators, gymnasiums, the famous Ritz-
Carlton restaurants a la carte, childrens' playrooms,
daily newspapers, etc., were added to the comfort
of Atlantic travelers.
In l'tti the company's steamers made 1256 round
trips, or on an average, eight ocean liners were
dispatched each day of the year. A total of 5,750,-
000 tons of merchandise and 432,000 passengers
were carried on the various services during 1906.
The Hamburg-American line's employes number
19,000, of which 12,000 are actually employed on the
steamers, while the balance of 7000 make up the
clerical force, agents, dockmen, etc.
INVESTOR.
Gillett's Ride
L'p from his bed at break of day,
Bringing to strikers fresh dismay,
Jim Gillett of Attache Town,
Astride his bull, rode hotlv down.
To Frisco cantered, and shouted, "The strike,
If fraught with violence, I'll put on the hike.
Cobble-stone throwers I'll bring to taw
In twenty-four hours of martial law."
"Hurrah for the Governor f'rang through the town
. "He sees the conditions and does 'em up brown.
At last we possess, we are glad to declare,
No goop in the gubernatorial chair.
Wide flew the bricks and smash went panes;
Round and about a few blood-stains.
While Governor Jim to his job was on,
And spurred the flanks of his bull and con.
Battered and soiled the cars came through,
While Jim diminished in the view.
With every riot and affray
Jim galloped further on his way.
Hurrah for rider and bull so bold!
Hurrah for the way he knocked us cold,
With his upright, downright, martial words,
That flew like sabres and went like birds.
Hurrah for Gillett and his safety blade
Which he drew while here for a while he delayed.
Where is Governor Tim today?
"Sacramento," is all we can say.
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A Chance for Abe
Having confessed and somewhat counteracted the
slump in his fame, Abe Ruef should now complete the
uplift by unballasting himself of some of the boodle;
then his popularity would surely go ballooning. He
has about three million dollars worth of property now ;
enough for a noteworthy penance. His first seemly
bestowing could be $500,000 to the anti-corruption
fund, which he made necessary. In a Court of Honor
(with which we presume Ruef now has cordial affilia-
tions) he would owe his captors their expenses of
pursuit, as he made his fortune by criminally evading
them for the past five years. Next, he might give
$50,000 to Schmitz's family for having alienated the
former bandmaster from his honorable and dangerless
environment of fortissimo and pizzicati. For Schmitz
is still innocent in the eyes of the law, and in such
presumption, and taking into consideration his expen- •
ditures of the past year, must be very poooooooor.
Then, $10,000 to Elisor Biggy for the nervous strain
incident to his extraordinary duties. 30 cents each
to Henry Ach and Sam Shortridge, remuneration for
the shock of suddenly being hurled from publicity into
darkness through their client's unnecesary (from a
legal standpoint) confession. $10,000 for a library
where young men could read the unhappy endings of
grafters and the great prowess of Bill Burns, the
Lightning Detective, or the Ten-fingered Terror of
the Extorters. The bulk of Ruef's funds could be
distributed among such miscellaneous charities as
would have no finicky objection to the donor. Any
unaccepted sums should go to incubator babies, fal-
len pugilists, reformed poets and the widows and
orphans of newsboys. Then, oh then, and not till
then, will Ruef's reformation be a real sky-sparkling,
starry cascade and a gollvsosher.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Watson of San Francisco have
been at Witter Springs Hotel for a day or so. Mr.
Watson is in charge of the Touring Committee of
the Automobile Club of California and is making
a report on the roads and grades of Lake County,
relative to the contemplated runs of the Season.
The opening of the new road to Witter Springs
was welcomed by a great many motorists who have
planned their Summer tours in Lake County. This
road takes away all the much dreaded grades be-
tween Ukiah and Lakeport and saves ten miles.
Running through the prettiest stretch of country in
the county, it gives a great variation of scenery.
Recent San Francisco arrivals at Witter Springs
Hotel are : Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Watson, Miss
Anderson, Mrs. Shirley. A. Church, C. S. Miles, S.
S. Havermale and wife, Mrs. Underhill, Mrs. Phil B.
Bekhart, A. J. Parr, D. Murphy, G. Caldwell, T.
Daley, J. S. O'Conner, R. S. Brown, Louis Fried-
lander, Monte C. Fish, Louis C. Samuels, G. H.
Wilson, F. L. Tuttle, F. S. Dick, E. J. Wilkinson.
A French doctor recently rid himself in an equally
ingenious manner of a patient who sought to impose
on his good nature. He was accosted one afternoon
on a crowded boulevard by a lady notorious for
this practice. She at once began to tell of her
afflictions, making particular complaint of pain in
her hypergastric region. To which the doctor gravely
replied : "My dear madam, I must examine you. Be
good enough to take off your things!"
"Hist!" muttered the villain.
And the gallery, prompt to respond, hissed un-
mercifully.
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Member of S. F. Stock Exchange
Goldfield. Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET. STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish lo rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
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San Francisco
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.\liinda\ : Goodness me! Such a time as I' had
riding on a Market Street car with Mrs. Gayleigh.
I told her those strikers would be sure to bother
us, but she only laughed.
"Tabby," said she, "I never saw a man that could
scare me," and you know I've had some experience
with them.
Indeed she's had. Her next husband will be the
fourth, and the other three are all alive.
Well, just as I feared. A rough-looking- man with
a ribbon on his breast rode up on a bicycle, and
jawed us through the window.
"Don't pay any attention to the creature," said
Mrs. Gayleigh in a loud tone. "It must have es-
'caped from the monkey ciage at the Chutes."
Then the man shouted louder and threatened to
Ho terrible things.
"Better save your strength," said Edyth, "you'll
need it soon for cleaning bricks at $1.50 a day."
My! but the man was angry. He rode away-
howling at me, because I said nothing I suppose.
"I know you, Mrs. Gilhooly," he roared. "Don't
[you forget that I'll have your husband fined $50
at the next meeting of the plasterers' union for you
riiling on those scab cars."
( )h, Heavens •! I thought I'd die. 'Twas bad
enough to be mistaken for any kind of a married
woman, but to be called Mrs. Gilhooly, the plas-
terer's wife ! Goodness ! What are we coming to.
Tuesday : How hateful some women are ! Mrs.
Sourley said a dreadful thing today to Clara
Rtigsby at the Ethical Effort Club's tea. Clara
(has been putting on all kinds of airs since her
cousin got indicted with all the millionaires for
bribing Abe.Ruef and the Supervisors. This week
another of her distant relatives had twenty-seven in-
dictments returned against him and it has fairly
turned the girl's head. She says that to be indicted
by the Grand Jury establishes one's social status
in San Francisco, and after this she will visit, no-
body outside of Burlingame or Ross Valley, and
positively will accept no invitation to tea except
•on Presidio Heights.
She was carrying on at a great rate when Mrs.
Sourley cut her short.
"Who do you think you are. anyhow, Clara
Mugsby?" she asked.
"If you moved in exclusive Society you wouldn't
need to ask?" said Clara with a tOSS of her head.
Mrs. Sourley gave one oi thpse little hard laughs
-•he always indulges in when she's going to say
-c imething real mean.
"Von needn't put Oh any airs with me. Clara
Mugsby," said she, "I knew you when you were a
dirty-faced little brat and lived round the corner in
a Hat up an alley."
Oh, mercy! What will Clara do when that gets
around aniong.st her. -Hiir.lingamu~aml Ros.S— Valley
friends. Her indicted relatives will have to cut
jberj-dcad or l«se ca^te. A-ren't women merciless
'toward one another.
V TABITHA TWTi;i;,S
' ' ' ' 1 ' ' ' '. '' ' I
To use the words of a capable critic :
"It— is— not-- -n-eeessa-ry— to— go 4e— JuWaasr-er td
Munich or Rome to master either technique or gain,
artistic vision. The 'innocence of the eye' may be
best maintained 'by seeing things and seeing nature
face to face, not through the eyes nor by the
methods of teachers and academic institutions"
"I fear," said the poet, "that I am writing over
the heads of the people." .
"Can't see any help for you old man," replied the
critic. "You'll never be able to have your desk in
anything but an attic."
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Automobile News
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hills ami the roughest roads with ease and the ac-
Jjmplishment of all speeds without any gear shift-
itiij commends tltis car to its users. It is the ideal
ar For a woman to handle; no cranking' and simple
throttle control making its operation a delight.
Encouraged by the glowing reports of the trip
o the Yosemite Valley, made by Mr. Frank H.
lohnson in his oO horse-power Thomas "Flyer," .Mr.
[ohn Craig, the well-known automobile enthusiast
f Woodland, i-- organizing a party to make a trip
I" some three weeks' touring throughout the State.
.hieli will include a trip into the Valley. Mr. and
Urs. Craig will use their Model "M" W'inton, Mr.
ind Mrs. Robert Gibson will use their Model "C"
<\ inton and, in fact, it will be exclusively a W'inton
>arty, and there will be some five or six machines.
Messrs. J. Hoyt Toller,. \Y. McMillan, A. Peralta
ml J. Peralta have just returned from a week's
rip to Blue Lakes, Lake County, going via Pieta,
i Mr. Toller's Model "A" Oldsmobile. They report
he roads in good condition, with the exception of
ight miles between Cloverdale and Pieta. The
oads in the immediate vicinity of Blue Lake are
n excellent condition.
Recent sales made by the Pioneer Automobile
gmpany are as follows: Thomas cars to A. F.
Dickinson, San Francisco; C. E. Arendt, Pleasan-
m : Guido & Ray, San Francisco; Johnson & Low-
ey, San Francisco.' Wintons to John Craig, Wood-
bind ; I'. E. Bunster, San Jose. Oldsmobiles to Geo.
'. Volkmann, San Francisco; Geo. W. Tibbetts,
olusa.
The question most often asked of an automobile
wner is "How much does it cost you to run your
utomobile?" The average answer tejls of expenses
or shop work where the car has been sent for re-
iairs quite frequently. This has caused to be cir-
ulated broadcast that the automobile of the pres-
nt day'is an expensive mode of conveyance. After
iiuch investigation it has been found that the main
ault with the automobile is that it has no brains,
n other words it will not take care of itself. That
3 what is expected of it by most owners. A report
ecently received by the Boyer Motor Car Com-
>any conclusively proves this fact. Ex-Supervisor
Villiam N. McCarthy, one time commodore of the
>an Francisco Yacht Club, but who has now taken
d sailing on land, has described interestingly how
he Franklin touring car he purchased on the first
f last December is performing. The officers of
the company had not heard from Mr. McCarthy
-nice the time he took the car away:
"The car." said he. "is all right. I have found
that all the stories about the automobile being ex-
pensive to keep in my case is a falseh 1. Since
1 have had the car 1 have only had to buy some
leather tor the breaks. I have found that I pay a
little more for lubrication oil than others that own
Franklins, but oil is cheaper than new parts. About
once a week I have the car taken apart and thor-
oughly cleaned with the result that I always get
there ami come back. I can see no need for a new
car for years to come from the way the car looks
at the present time.
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOODES
Via Kelseyville P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cal.
Witter Medical Springs
Lake County
Witter Springs Hotel was built and
and equipped to please the really
critical. Cuisine and service un-
excelled. Table loaded with all the
delicacies of the season, supplied from our 1400 acre ranch. See
Sunrise Peak, Clear Lake, Blue Lakes, Horseshoe Bend and numerous
other places of interest. Most magnificient variation of scenery in the
world. Tennis, fishing, good saddle horses, bowling and other amuse-
ments. Automobile headquarters for Lake Co: Under the management
of Albert J. Arroll, formerly of the New Willard, Washington and the
Seelbach, Louisville. Rates $14.00 per week upward. Call or write
for booklet and general information. Main office, 647 Nan Ness Ave.
Witter Water Cures Stomach Trouble
AGUA CALIENTE SPRINGS
Send your family to the nearest Hot Sulphur Springs to San Francisco.
First-class accommodations. Special rates to families. No staging.
Four trains daily. Fare round trip $1.65. Tiburon ferry or Oakland;
two hours' ride. Address THEODOR RICHARDS, Agua Caliente,
Sonoma County, California.
Howard Springs
County, Cal.
Lake
Season 1907 opens May 1st.
The waters of Howard Springs will
cure any case of Stomach, Liver and
*^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^™^^^^^^^^^^^ Kidney Trouble. Recommended
by any physician who has ever visited the place in the past 20 years. Every outdoor
sport, 42 Mineral Springs, Hot Sulphur and Iron Plunge Bath, Magnesia and Borax
Tub Baths. Address all communications to J. W. LAYMANCE, Proprietor Howard
Springs, Lake County, Cal., or 905 Broadway. Oakland, Cal.
DIRECTORY
OF LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE
MISCELLANEOUS.
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE, 226 Oak St.,
S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
BOLTE & BRADEN, 105-107 Oak St., S. F. ;
Phone Market 2837.
COOPER ADV. AGENCY, F. J., West Mis-
sion and Brady Sts.
DAKE ADV. AGENCY, Midway BIdg., 779
Market St. Phone Temp'y 1440.
FISHER, L. P. ADV. AGENCY, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Franklin S84.
JOHNSTON-DIENSTAG CO., 2170 Post St.,
S. F. .
ANTIQUE DEALERS.
THE LOUIS XIV. Curios, Objects d'Art,
Miniatures, Paints, Porcelains, Jewels, etc.,
C. V. Miller, 1117 Post, near Van Ness.
ARCHITECTS.
REID BROS, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough ot., S. F.
THOS. J. WELSH, JOHN W. CAREY, asso-
ciate architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
GUMP, S. & G., 1645 California St., S. F.
SCHUSSLER BROS.. 1218 Sutter St.
ATTORNEYS,
DORN, DORN & SAVAGE, 717 Van Ness
Ave.
D1NKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W., 1265 Ellis
St., S. F. Phone West 2355.
HEWLETT, BANCROFT AND BALLAN-
TINE, Monadnock Bldg. ; Phone Temp'y
972.
EDWARD B. YOUNG, 4th Floor, Union
Trust Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temp'y 833.
GOLDSTONE, LOUIS, 1012 Fillmore St.
Phone Park 864.
MAROIS, T. M., 1756 Fillmore St., S. E. cor.
Sutter. Phone West 1503.
KING, CHAS. TUPPER, 1126 Fillmore St.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
PIONEER AUTOMOBILE CO., 901 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F. ; and i2th and Oak Sts.,
Oakland.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO., Market
and Van Ness Ave., S. F.
AUTO LIVERY CO., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
BOYER MOTOR CAR CO., 408 Golden Gate
Ave. Phone, Franklin 655.
LEE CUYLER, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
MIDDLETON MOTOR CAR CO., 550 Gol-
den Gate Ave., S. F.
MOBILE CARRIAGE CO., Golden Gate
Ave. and Gough Sts., S. F.
PACIFIC MOTOR CAR CO., 376 Golden
Gate Ave.
BANKS.
ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK, Ltd., cor.
Pine and Sansome Sts., S. F.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST CO., cor. California and Montgom-
ery Sts., S. F.
CENTRAL TRUST CO., 42 Montgomery St.,
S. F.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Bush and San-
some Sts., S. F.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK, 108 Sutter St.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, 526 California St., S. F.
HALSEY, N. W. & CO., 413 Montgomery
St., S. F.
HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, Jones and McAllister Sts., S. F.
HUMBOLDT SAVINGS .BANK, 646 Market
Street, opposite old Palace Hotel. Phone,
Temp'y 249.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO, 710 Market St., opp. 3d St.,
S. F.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, N.W.
cor. California and Montgomery Sts., S. F.
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, 316 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
THE MARKET STREET BANK AND
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, Market and 7th
Sts., S. F.
UNION TRUST CO., 4 Montgomery St.. S. F.
WELLS FAR(jO-NEVADA NATIONAL
BANK, Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
BREWERIES.
ALBION ALE AND PORTER BREWERY,
1007-9 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
S. F. BREWERIES, LTD., 240 2d St., S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
MONTAGUE, PHIL S., 339 Bush St., Stock
Exchange Bldg. *
ROLLINS, E. H. & SONS, 804 Kohl Bldg.;
Telephone Temp'y 163; S.' F.
ZADIG & CO., 324 Bush St., S. F.
WILSON, J. C, 488 California St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN"
ASSOCIATION, Church and Market Sts.,
S. *'.
CARDS, INVITATIONS, ETC.
WOOD, GEO. M. & CO., engravers, 1067
O'Farrell St., above Van Ness.
CARPET CLEANING.
SPAULDING, J. & CO., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave.; Phone Park 591.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
HUB, THE, Chas. Keilus & Co., King Solo-
' mon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore Sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
JOHNSON LOCKE MERCANTILE CO.,
213 Sansome St., S. F.
MALDONADO & CO., INC., 156 Hansford
Bldg., 268 Market St. Phone Temp'y 4261.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
FISHER CONSTRUCTION CO., 1414 Post
St., S. F.
TROUNSON, J., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176
Ash Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
NATHAN DOHRMAN CO., 1520-155,0 Van
Ness Ave.
DENTISTS.
KNOX, DR. A. L, 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg]
TWIST, DR. J. F., 1476 Eddy, nr. Fillmore
St. Phone West 5304.
DESKS AND CHAIRS.
PHOENIX DESK & CHAIR CO., office fur-
niture, 153S Market St., west of Van Ness.
Phone Market 2393.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
CITY OF PARIS, Van Ness Ave. and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
WHITE HOUSE, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
St., S. F.
EXPRESS.
WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Ferry Bldg.,
and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
CRESCENT FEATHER CO., 19th and Harri-
son Sts., S. F.
FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE PHOTOS.
RUE, JAMES O., 1067 O'Farrell St. Phone
Franklin 2603.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
OMEY & GOETTING, Geary and Polk Sts.,
S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
CAREW & ENGLISH, 1618 Geary St., bet.
Buchanan and Webster Sts., S. F. ; Phone
West 2604.
PORTER & WHITE, 1531 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
GAS STOVES,
S. F. GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Franklin and
Ellis Sts.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
BULLOCK & JONES COMPANY, 801 Van
Ness Ave., cor. Eddy St., S. F.
HANSEN & ELRICK, 1105-7 Fillmore St.,
nr. Golden Gate Ave.; Phone West 5678.
GOLD AND SILVER PLATING.
BELLIS, JOHN O., Mfg. gold and silver-
smith, 1624 California St., nr. Van Ness.
Phone Franklin 2093.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
ILS, JOHN G. & CO., 827 Mission St., S. F.
MONTAGUE, W. W. & CO., Turk and Polk I
Sts., S. J*.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
DAVIS. W. & SON, 2020 Howard St., bet.
16th and 17th, S. F.
LEIBOLD HARNESS AND CARRIAGE
CO., 1214 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
DILLON, TOM, Van Ness Ave. and McAllis-
ter St.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
KEELEY INSTITUTE, H. L. Batchelder,
Mgr. ; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
JEWELERS.
BALDWIN JcWELRY CO., 1521 Sutter St.,
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. F.
SHREVE & CO., cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Ness and Sacramento St., S. F.
SCHMIDT, R. H. & CO., 1049 Fillmore St.,
nr. McAllister St. Phone Park 1209.
LAUNDRIES.
LA GRANDE LAUNDRY, 234 12th St., S. F.
PALACE HOTEL LAUNDRY and KELLY
LAUNDRY CO., INC., 2343 Post St.
Phone West 5854.
LIFE INSURANCE.
HUNTINGDON, ARTHUR P., 925 Golden
Gate Ave. Phone Park 515.
LUMBER.
UNION LUMBER CO., office 909 Monad-
nock Bldg.
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
BEKINS' VAN AND STORAGE CO., 13th
and Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13
and 1016 Broadway, Oakland.
ST. FRA..CIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COMPANY, Office 1402 Eddy St.; Tel.
West 2680.
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
DEANE, JNO. J., N. W. cor. Sutter and]
Steiner Sts.; Phone West 7291.
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fllUUIIMMMIMMMWMMM^^ MMIIilllHHIIIMmMMMHMMiMiMmMMi^^
The Spread of San Francisco in the
JUNE SUNSET
How the new city under the impetus of the rapid rebuilding,
is moving south, filling the entire peninsula, being helped tremen-
dously in surburban expansion by the Bay Shore Railway Cut-off.
A GREAT ISSUE
Eclipses the April, "One Year After" Number
Send it to your eastern friends. On sale May 25th.
WARE. JOHN H., 307 Monadnoclt Bldg.,
Depositions carefully attended to. Phone
Temp'y 972.
OIL COMPANIES.
STERLING OIL CO., 1491 Post St.. cor.
Octavia, S. F.
OPTICIANS.
MAYERLE. GEORGE, German expert. 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F. ; Phone West 3766.
SAN FRANCISCO OPTICAL COMPANY.
"Spenccs," 527 Van Ness Ave.; "Branch,"
1613 Fillmore.
STANDARD OPTICAL CO., 808 Van Ness
Ave., near Eddy St.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
KEEFE. J. H., 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F. ;
Tel. Franklin 2055.
TOZER, L. & SON CO., INC., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., near Fillmore.
PAINTS AND OILS.
BASS-HUETER PAINT CO., 1532 Market
St.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
CAL. PHOTO ENG. CO., 141-143 Valencia
St.
PHYSICIANS.
BOWIE, DR. HAMILTON C, formerly 293
Geary St., Paul 'Bldg., now 14th and Church
Sts.
BRYANT, DR. EDGAR R., 1944 Fillmore
St., cor. Pine; Tel. West 5657.
D'EVELYN, DR. FREDERICK W„ 2115
California St., S. F., and 2103 Clinton Ave.,
Alameda.
THORNE, DR. W. S., 1434 Post St., S. F.
POTTS, DR. JOHN S„ 1476 Eddy St. Phone
West 1073. Residence, Hotel Congress,
Ellis and Fillmore. Phone West 4224.
PIANOS— MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
BALDWIN, D. H. & CO., 2512 Sacramento
St., and Van Ness at California.
REAL ESTATE.
HICKS & MACK. Real Estate and In-
surance, 2091 Fillmore St. Phone West
7287.
C. R. WILCOX & CO., Real Estate and In-
surance, 837 Golden Gate Avenue. Phone,
Fell 1558.
RESTAURANTS.
MORAGHAN, M. B„ OYSTER CO., 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
OLD POODLE DOG, 824 Eddy St., near
Van Ness Ave.
ST. GERMAIN RESTAURANT. 497 Golden
Gate Ave.; Phone Market 2315.
SWAIN'S RESTAURANT, 1111 Post St.,
S. F.
THOMPSON'S, formerly Oyster Loaf, 1727
O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALES.
HERRING-HALL MARVIN SAFE CO.,
office and salesrooms, Mission St., bet.
Seventh and Eighth Sts.; Phone Market
1037.
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER & WILSON and SINGER SEW-
ING MACHINES. 1431 Bush St., cor.
Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; Phone Franklin
301; formerly 231 Sutter St.
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES, J. W.
Evans, Agent, 1658 O'Farrell St., nr. Fill-
more. Phone West 3601.
STORAGE.
BEKINS VAN & STORAGE CO., 13th and
Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13.
PIERCE RUDOLPH STORAGE CO., Eddy
and Fillmore Sts.; Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
WALTERS & CO., formerly Shutts, Walters
& Co., 1608 Steiner St., S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
BACIGALUPI, PETER, 1113-1115 Fillmore
St., S. F.
TAILORS.
LYONS, CHARLES, London Tailor, 1432
Fillmore St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; 958
Broadway, Oakland.
Invalid Chairs,
REHNSTROM, C. H., 2415 Fillmore St., for-
merly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
THOMS, F., 1209 Mission St., corner of
Eighth, S. F.
TRICYCLES.
EAMES TRICYCLE CO.,
1808 Market St., S. F.
WINES AND LIQUORS— WHOLESALE.
BALKE, ED. W., 1498 Eddy St., cor. Fill-
more.
BUTLER, JOHN & SON, 2209 Steiner St.,
S. F.
REYNOLDS, CHAS. M. CO., 912 Folsom
St., S. F.
RUSCONI, FISHER & CO.. 649 Turk St.,
S. F.
SIEBE BROS. & i'LAGEMAN, 419-421
Larkin. St. ; Phone Franklin 349.
WENIGER, P. T. & CO., N. E. cor. Van
Ness Ave. and Ellis St. ; Tel. Franklin 309.
309.
WICHMAN, LUTGEN & CO.
Everett Sts., Alameda, Cal.
meda 1179.
WINES AND LIQUORS— RETAIL.
FERGUSON, T. M. CO., Market Street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow Whiskey.
FISCHER, E. R., 1901 Mission St., cor. of
Fifteenth.
THE METROPOLE, John L. Herget and
Win, H. Harrison, Props., N. W. cor. Sutter
and Steiner Sts.
TUXEDO, THE, Eddie Graney, Prop., S. W.
cor. Fillmore and O'Farrell Sts.
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
CO.. 2401 Fillmore.
McMAHON, KEYER AND STIEGELER
BROS., Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Farrell
and Fillmore.
Harrison and
Phone Ala-
30
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Amusements
l
Critic Crawford of the Call thinks
it funny that Dick Jose should sing
at a ten-cent theater in Oakland
when he might be traveling the
Orpheum circuit. But Jose would
rather sing in Oakland than go
traveling for he has traveled so much
that it tires him to think of it. He
has been over the Orpheum circuit
more than twice, and has appeared
solo and with support. He made
"Sally in Our Alley," Frank Coffin's
old favorite, and "Believe Me if All
These Endearing Young Charms"
popular on the circuit, and just now
he is singing that old, old song "Sil-
ver Threads Among the Gold" to
Oakland audiences.
* * +
Mr. Carl Hayden, who has been
engaged by Calve for her forthcom-
ing tour of the world, has many
warm friends in this City, and is
highly esteemed not only as a most
delightful gentleman but an artist of
rare ability. He demonstrated his
powers thoroughly as' tenor of the
American Opera Company, which has
just concluded an engagement at the
Novelty Theater. He has a magnifi
cent voice which he uses to the best
possible advantage. I believe that
Calves attention was directed to Mr.
Hayden by her great friend Miss
Louise Veillier of this ^ity, who is
well known in journalistic circles as
a very clever writer. Knowing that
Calve was looking for a first-class
tenor Miss Veillier wrote to her of
Hayden's success with the American
Opera Company and she promptly
engaged him. Mr, Hayden will re-
main with his present company four
months and then go to Paris to join .
the great French songstress. She
will be in San' Francisco in Septem
ber on her way to the Orient. No
doubt she will be well received.
When Colonel George Washington
first met Martha Custis she was a
dashing widow, yet in her twenties,
beautiful, charming, and wealthy. The
Father of His Country promptly fell
in love with the lady, and as promptly
laid siege to her heart. His wooing
was speedy. A chance meeting at the
STREET SCENE IN SAN FRANCISCO— THE PASSING POLICEMAN.
[Blick Btnr» Indlcato Promlufnl Macsiln.1
house of Major Chamberlayne, an
afternoon and an evening with the
belle of Virginia, and he was almost
an accepted suitor. But the gallant
colonel was not exactly an amateur
in the art of love-making. He at least
had the experience of great mistakes
to profit by. For history records the
fact that there were four ladies who
declined the golden opportunity to
share the heart and home and the
glory of the afterward greatest Ameri-
can gentleman.
Why? Only the sphinx that could
answer the immortal riddle of man-
kind might tell. Handsome, well-
dressed, skilled in the elegant ac-
complishments of the day, and above
all a soldier, apparently Colonel
George Washington ought to have
been a lover for whose only right any
woman would have fluttered to his
arms. But they didn't. The ladies
who thus failed of the lustrous niche
in history that they might have had
were, in turn, a miss of two years,
whom her suitor of soulful seventeen
indited as the "Loveland Beauty," a
Miss Fontleroy,, a Miss Cary, and a
l ,quettish Miss Mary Philipse, whose
ancestral manor-house at Yonkers,
N. Y., is to this day reckoned as a
sort of romantic shrine.
DR. H. J. STEWART
Organist of S;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Sherith Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition.
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
Church Choir
of Voice, Piano and Organ
1678 Broadway, Phone
San Francisco Stud:
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues
day and Friday.
MRS. OSCAR MANSFELDT
PIANIST
Tel. West 314 1801 Buchanan St., Cor. Sillier
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RACING
New California Jockey Club
Oakland Race
Track
SIX OR MORE RACES EACH WEEK DAY
Run or Shine
Races commence at 1 :40 p. m. sharp.
For special traim Hopping at the track talce S. P. Ferry,
fool of Market meet: leave at 12:00, thereafter every twenty
minutes until 1:40 p. m. No Smoking in last two can,
which are reserved for ladies and their escorts.
Reluming trains leave track after Bfih and last races.
THOMAS H. WILLIAMS. President.
PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary.
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5H DAILY AT YOUR GROCER
Thompson^ Formerly
ter Loaf,
Oystc
Now
Open.
1727 O'Farrell St.
All night service
near Fillmore
Popular Prices
The only first-class up-to-date and modern
Hammam Baths, builtespecially for
the purpose, in the city.
Oriental Turkish Baths
Corner Eddy and Larkln Sts.
Cold water plunge.
Room including Bath, $1.00.
Phone Franklin 653
W. J. BLUMBERG & BRO.. Props.
PATRICK & CO.
Rubber Stamps
Stencils. Box Brands
1543 Pine Street
San Francisco
Just before 1 left on this trip," said
the returned traveler, "your uncle. Peter
Roxley, was quiti seriously ill. I hope-
it turned <uii all ri^ht."
"Sure it did," replied the nephew.
"Where did you suppose I got the price
of this swell black suit ?"
» * *
An indignant British parent has dis-
covered that the law does not give
him absolute freedom in the choice of
a name for his own child.
A father who went to the Regis-
trar's office recently to register a baby
girl told the Registrar that the name
was Coralie. He was astonished
when the Registrar refused to enter
it on the ground that there was no
such name as Coralie. The father
was reluctantly compelled to choose
another name.
This act of the Registrar was the
result of ignorance, and can be
remedied by the payment of a small
fee, but the incident has elicited the
fact that Registrars have legally cer-
tain discretionary powers which are
far-reaching.
These powers were conferred on
them by statute at the beginning of
the eighteenth century to restrain
Quaker parents from calling their
children such names as Scattergood,
Patience, Prudence, etc.
It still happens occasionally that a
freak parent wants a name suggestive
of blasphemy, and this the Registrar
is empowered to refuse. He may also
exercise his discretion in the interest
of a child when it is threatened with
being saddled with a ridiculous ap-
pellative.
For instance, a dissatisfied father
lately wanted a child named "One
Too Many." The Registrar refused,
as a matter of justice to the infant.
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Groucher — I don't suppose the old
neighborhood has improved any since
I left.
Kandor — O! yes, it has, greatly.
Groucher — Why, I met Dudley the
other day and he told me it hadn't at
all.
Kandor — Well, I suppose he was
too polite to tell you to your face.
* * *
"Say, paw," queried little Tommy
Toddles, "what is meant by carrying
concealed weapons ?"
"It applies to women who have oc-
' casion to keep their tongues between
their teeth, my boy," replied Toddles.
Sr.
William Keith
Studic
After Dec. lit 1717 California St.
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Attorney-at-Law
1107 O'FARRELL STREET
Cor. Franklin
San Francisco, Cal.
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Special Attention given to Family Trade
Established 1876
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Formerly of
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Phone Alameda 1 1 79
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ASSESSMENT NOTICE.
SAVAGE GOLD AND SILVER MINING
COMPANY. — Location of principal place of
business, San Francisco, California. Location
of works, Virginia City, Storey County,
Nevada.
Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of
the Board of Directors, held on the 9th day of
May, 1907, an assessment (No. 8) of 10 (ten)
cents per ( share was levied; upon the capital
stock of the: corporation, payable immediately
in United States gold coin, to fhe Secretary,
at the office of the company, room 116, 339
Bush street, San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 12th day of June, 1907,
will be delinquent and advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment is made
before, will be sold on MONDAY, the 1st day
of July, 1907, at 1 o'clock p. m., to pay the
delinquent assessment, together with the cost
of advertising and expenses of sale.
By order of the Board of Directors.
JOHN \V. TWIGGS, Secretary.
(Office— Room No. 116, 339 Bush Street, San
Francisco, California.
A Strange Tongue
Philologers and others are respect-
fully invited to consider certain speci-
mens of language contained in a Chi-
cago dispatch to the Cleveland
Leader. No foreigners need apply:
"He had the Indian sign on the
Cubs.
"Brown went into the mess with
little more than his glove -and a stock
of Terre Haute sangfroid.
"The giant rescuer cleaned up the
round.
"They combed Brown and his lega-
tee fourteen times for long and short
ones.
"Four of the five swats were
scratches.
"To Dr. White is due a royal dia-
dem of currycombs to top off the
horse blankets.
"Dan O'Leary said izzy would go
off his bean.
"His slender hurling stem had been
twisted.
"The shadowgraph pitching by
White was too mystic.
"Following the swipe that started
the merry-go-round.
"To the victors belong the horse
blankets. Also about $1400 each in
real money, which will eke out quite
a bit on the doughnut circuit.
"Another pug oozed into the por-
tals."
Is this Basque? Is it Goose Island
Greek? Is it plain Chicagoese? If it
is merely a floating local dialect, we
appeal to the Hon. Bath House John,
author of "Dear Midnight of Love''
arid other immortal masterpieces, to
fix it and make it classical. Mean-
while, a dictionary of it should be
compiled.- — New York Sun.
* * *
Only Doing His Duty
O'Hagan — Oi have found the man
that hit me wid a brick as Oi was
,passin' the alley, Mr.. Murphy.
Mr. Murphy — And what did you do
with him?
O'Hagan — Npthin'. "Twas, all a
mistake — the man 'was only doin' his
duty. He .thought Oi was a p'liceman
in plain clothes.
* . .,= * . *
Not Fatal, but Serious
Thingumbob — See here! I saw
Henpeck in the street today.
Mcjigger— Well?
Thingumbob — Well, you told me
yesterday that he was a victim of a
mortal combat.
Mcjigger — Not at all. I said "mari-
tal combat."
ti
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(Oriental Steamship Co.)
Have Opened Their Permanent Offices at
Room 240 James Flood Building
San Francisco
S. S. "Nippon Maru" (calls at Manila) . , ..
Friday, May 31, 1907
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Friday, June 28, 1907
S. S. "America Maru" (calls at Manila) . .
Thursday, July 18, 1907
Steamers will leave wharf, comer First and Brannan Sts.,
I P. M., for Yokohama and Hongkong, calling at Hono-
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necting at Hongkong with steamers for Manila, India, etc.
No cargo received on board on day of sailing.
Round- trip tickets at reduced rates.
For Freight and passage apply at office, 240 James Flood
Building. W. H. AVERY. Assistant General Manager.
I ' I
Peter Bacigalupi & Son
Headquarters for Talking
Machines, Records
and Supplies
1 1 13-1 1 15 Fillmore St., San Francisco
Albion Ale or Porter
Is a Great Flesh Builder, Tonic and Pleasant
Drink. Pure Extract of Malt and Hops.
BURNELL & CO.
1007.1009 Golden Gate Ave., Near Laguna
Dr. Wong Him
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Permanently" 'Located
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SAN FRANCISCO. JUNE 8 1907
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By AMERICUS
The publication of the testimony on which the
Grand Jury indicted several prominent citizens hav-
ing been published by the newspapers it is easier
than ever to see that Ruef organized the present
municipal administration for the purposes of black-
mail and plunder. Corporations and individuals
with large interests at stake were given the alter-
native of paying for immunity or having their
property confiscated.
The fact stands out prominently that hard-headed
financiers have given Mr. Ruef prodigious "fees,"
wholly out of proportion to his ability as a lawyer.
He himself declares that he divided those fees, more
Or less evenly, with the crooked Union Labor
politicians in the Board of Supervisors and the
incompetent and dishonest Union Labor Mayor.
We can easily arrive at a correct conclusion as
to whether Mr. Ruef and his rascally confreres
were merely accepting bribes, or levying blackmail.
They have been depicted in somewhat vivid colors,
as the victims of shrewd and unscrupulous finan-
ciers who lured them from the path of rectitude by
the glitter of corporation gold.
What kind of favors were the corporation man-
agers seeking when the_\' paid -Mr. Ruef the im-
mense lees, that he so generously divided with the
Supervisors and Mayor Schmitz? Were they illegal
and highly improper privileges that were calcu-
lated to do injury to the public?
In the Parkside matter some capitalists wished
to obtain a franchise for a street railway which
would open up a new and desirable section of the
suburbs where cheap homes could be built by
working people — the class of all others the L'nion
Labor administration should wish to help.
The Board of Supervisors promptly administered
a sleeping potion to the application. That is the
usual procedure with legislative blackmailers. It
serves notice on the applicants to "get busy." The
wheels of legislation must be oiled before they can
revolve in the way desired.
In due time Air. Ruef appears upon the scene
with his oil can in one hand and the other out-
stretched for the "fee." His attitude is as elo-
quent of his intentions as if he said in so many
words to the franchise seekers, "Come up at once
with the mazuma or your application will be unani-
mously rejected. The official blackmailers whom I
nominated, elected and control are hungry for
plunder and must be fed. The last thing they think
about is the merit of your scheme. Boodle in large
handfuls is all they worry about."
Now let us be fair in this matter. Suppose, kind-
reader, that you were a shrewd, successful business
man, having a million dollars or so at stake, were
asked by Mr. Ruef for a fee of $20,000 or $30,000
to get you the franchise — would you think twice
about giving him a check instead of ringing up
the police at once, and handing over the blackmail-
ing scoundrel to justice.
To expose and prosecute the villain would be
your duty as seen from the high moral standpoint
of an idealist. From the point of view of a shrewd
practical business man, however, you would be all
kinds of a fool to treat the blackmailer as he de-
served. First of all he would call you a liar and
scoundrel, and the police he controlled would prob-
ably arrest you instead of him. Should they by
some mischance take him in custody some tool of
his acting as Police Judge would liberate him and
apologize for the indignity to which he had been
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subjected. At the next, meeting of the Board of
Supervisors your application for a franchise would
be rejected,, and as long as the blackmailing politi-
cal boss retained his power you would probably
have cause to regret it. The Board of Health would
worry you about the plumbing of your old houses,
the Board of Works would make it warm for you
if you undertook to build a new one, and every
understrapper in the municipal service would go
out of his way to do you an injury and make the
City too hot to hold you.
'What wonder, therefore, that shrewd business
men, who know the power of a blackmailing boss,
prefer to pay the tribute demanded than to engage
in a costly battle in which the chances of success
are all against them.
In the Gas Company's case, Ruef was "feed" ;o
stop the passage of a 75-cent gas rate, which meant
a loss of half a million dollars to the men control-
ling the corporation. Here we have an example of
the dishonesty of politics, both outside or inside
of the Board of Supervisors. The Union Labor
party had promised voters that it would enforce a
75-cent gas rate. This is a favorite trick with
political blackmailers, for it tickles the public fancy
and gives the boodlers a bludgeon to bring the
corporations to time.
A bandit like Ruef is doubly bold, when as
spokesman for his associate thieves in the Board
of Supervisors, he can point to the "Party platform"
and say "we have pledged ourselves to , enforce
such and such a rate."
To violate his sacred promise to the public is so
terrible a thing that the tender conscience of the
boss has to be salved by an extra wad of green-
backs.
It seems to be unquestioned that the San Fran-
cisco Gas and Eletric Company could not have
profitably manufactured gas at 75 cents, so in
attempting to have the 85-cent rate adopted
the directors were endeavoring to obtain a
reasonable concession. Would those men have
paid Mr. Ruef a fee of $1000 a month as
attorney unless forced to do so. Who ever heard
of their giving away good money needlessly to get
their legal rights? Who ever heard of any cor-
poration directors loosening up as they did with
Ruef and his Union Labor politicians unless the
screws were applied to them most vigorously.
Any other conclusion than that Ruef and his
Union Labor Supervisors and Mayor were organ-
ized bandits, who held up all schemes good and
bad alike until blackmail was paid is utterly pre-
posterous. To shift any of the odium from these
scoundrels and place the onus entirely upon the
people who were stood-up and robbed is a proceed-
ing which no fair-minded and intelligent citizen
will indorse.
The recent shooting down of an American citizen
on the public streets because he exercised his constitu-
tional right to take work as a carman, was worthy of
Russia in the Dark Ages. A howling mob chased the
man, firing at him as he fled, and he was finally shot
down like a mad dog by a special policeman who should
be hanged if the man dies. When the American people
can stand that kind of thing they need not be surprised
if Japan considers us as easy a mark as Russia or
China, the huge but feeble exponents of lawlessness
and barbarity.
Another week has gone by and Governor Gillett
is still engaged in the unprofitable task of advising
the business men of San Francisco to extricate
themselves from the difficulties in which they have
been plunged by the corruption and incapacity of
the Schmitz government. Governor Gillette has
been a sore disappointment. Two weeks ago he
loomed so large on the horizon, as he came up from
the South with the avowed determination to en-
force law and order that observant politicians, im-
pressed by the correctness and vigor of his attitude
in a great crisis, declared that he might yet become
a senatorial or a vice-presidential possibility. If the
Governor continue to recede in public esteem for
the next year as he has during the last two weeks
it would not be safe to nominate him for pound
master.
The Wasp lost no time in pointing out to the
business men of San Francisco that our dis-
tinguished Governor is the only man who has it ini
his power to set the wheels of lawful government!
running smoothly at once in San Francisco. No^
body knows this better than Governor Gillett him-i
self. He is a lawyer and has been in public life for
some years, and if he had any doubts as to his
duties and his authority, they should have been;
removed before this by the admonitions of the in-i
terior press. Several influential newspapers have,
quoted for Governor Gillett the laws with which:
he himself is familiar, and which justify his interfer-
ence in the affairs of San Francisco under existing
conditions.
It is not necessary for the Governor of a State
to refrain from exercising his authority until the
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Highest priced clothes sold in this country are handled in this shop.
This is not an idle brag, but a certified fact. We have the best clothes,
Ask any smart dresser about our clothes or prices.
It's rarely that a shop advertises in an open-face manner like
this. They either lack the nerve or, don't have our quality of
clothes. _ The ordinary methods used by continuous "price-
howlers" are to overestimate and underprice. We've never
used such tactics. Yet, we do a flourishing trade.
KING SOLOMON'S HALL
Fillmore Street, near Sutter, San Francisco
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streets arc full of armed rioters or the gutters are
running with blood. Any disorder caused by the
uprising of lawless people who cannot be held in
check by the local authorities, is from the judicial
point of view an insurrection ; and it is not alone the
privilege but the duty of the Governor of a State
to interfere when the local authorities are unable
to suppress insurrectionists. For a whole month
the business of San Francisco has been paralyzed by
a set of outlaws, who prevent people from exercis-
ing their constitutional rights. The indicted mayor
of this City, who is on trial for felony, is secretly in
league with these criminals. The Chief of Police,
also indicted and conspicuously incompetent and un-
fit for his office, is neither feared by the criminal
element nor respected by the decent people. It is
impossible that law and order should prevail under
such an official. The Hoard of Supervisors is com-
posed of self confessed felons who make no move
except by direction of the prosecuting attorney's
office.
A state of anarchy exists such as never before
occurred in any large citv in this country.
It is simply scandalous that the Governor of the
State should at such a juncture hesitate for one
moment to exert to the fullest the power with which
he is invested and transform the lawless City into a
well ordered community, where every man, woman
and child could walk with safety through the
streets at any hour of the day or night.
For some reason however which can only be
guessed at Governor Gillett's patriotic determina-
tion to assert his authority began to evaporate the
moment he crossed the Ferry. That he has fallen
under the influence of politicians who advise him
to his undoing is generally suspected.
Since the above was written Governor Gillett has
asked Mayor Schmitz "diplomatically," we are told, to
displace the Police Commissioners and dismiss Chief
Dinan. This is no time for diplomacy but action. The
Governor should not be asking favors, but issuing com-
mands for it is up to him now to see that this City is
properly governed. He can rest assured that if vio-
lence be continued and a serious riot occur, he will be
held responsible to public opinion all over the country.
The street car strike, which paralyzes trade and in-
dustry, has demonstrated that Calhoun can operate his
cars, and the public will ride if law andorder be main-
tained. The Mayor and Chief of Police cannot enforce
law and order, and things may drag along as at pres-
ent till the election in November.
For such a misfortune the Governor of the State,
who has the means and the authority to suppress law-
lessness at once, should be held responsible and most
assuredly will be.
It is not too late yet for our "diplomatic" Governor
to redeem his reputation, but unless he show more
decision of character promptly, he will, become classi-
fied with the long list of notable invertebrates who suc-
ceeded in making the office of Governor of California
a fit prize for obscure mediocrity. .
The Chronicle has directed attention to the fact
that Cornelius of the Carmen's Union is enjoying
an income of $465 a month. The Wasp fully two
years ago did the same thing. This paper then
figured out that Cornelius was drawing fully as
much as the Chronicle declares he pulls down every
month. We also showed how several other agitators
were in receipt of incomes between three hundred
and four hundred dollars a month. One of the
thrifty gentlemen we mentioned in our list was
Alexander Dijeau, who was earning money as
walking delegate for a union, clerk in the City Hall,
agent of a private corporation, member of the union
brass band and doorkeeper for the fight trust.
Nearly everyone of the labor union presidents, who
like Cornelius have been quartered upon the un-
fortunate taxpayers by Mayor Schmitz, are living
on the fat of the land. Drawing from two to five
salaries apiece they can afford to ride in automobiles
while their foolish dupes hoof it over the rough
highways because the boycott prevents them from
using the street cars.
In estimating the sources of income possessed by
Cornelius, the Chronicle did not mention how this
thrifty gentleman some time ago started a com-
mercial corporation, in which members of the Car-
men's Union were privileged to buy stock. After a
good deal of the stock had been disposed of. the cor-
poration burst up, but there is no record that the
holders got their money back. One of Cornelius'
relatives runs a store near the car barn on Mission
Street and before the strike all members of the
Union in good standing were expected to buy their
cigars there. Whether there was any rake off on
this for the president is not known, but if he over-
looked such an opportunity his thriftiness must have
slipped a cog. While Cornelius is pulling down
$465 a month his poor dupes are getting five dollars
a week for doing picket duty and running the risk
of having their skulls cracked by policemen's clubs
or being jailed for felony.
Dr. and Mrs. Wheeler and family will leave the
City in a couple of weeks and will spend the Sum-
mer at their country home, Dutch Flat.
F. THOMS, The AWNING MAN
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MISS LORRAINE DE LA MONTANYA
Is marriage a razzle dazzle? Is the conjugal re-
lation a sort of black art? Does wedded bliss give
a woman the jimjams and cause her to see things?
Now and then some fellow-citizen to whom we have
pointed our long beautiful forefinger with pride, is
found to be horribly "it" in the alimony game. On
reading the divorce complaint, we find he has been
acting like a rajpoot bandit; and the wonder of it
is how he escaped the police of seven counties.
Oft it seems that either the wife has taken an
overdose of such stuff as dreams are made of or
else the husband eats moribund mince pie every
night and forgets to wake up between nightmares.
So it appears from a few things that Mrs. Edith
M. Dunphy charges against James C. Dunphy :
Struck her in the face and swore at her ; threw
dishes at her, and would not pick them up again;
cut her hand with a razor and would not kiss it to
make it well again ; threatened to blow her head
off within ten days, and did not do it ; knocked her
down in the Hotel Garland, and struck her in the
Savoy ; broke in the door on the Dunphy Ranch,
where she was staying, and compelled her to flee
as a bird ; fired off a gun into the walls of a house
where she was, and would not say he did not know
it was loaded ; dragged her out of bed at 4 in the
morning and let her shiver in scanty attire ; in Car-
lin. Nevada, publicly declared he had made a mis-
take in marrying her ; and at the Hotel Baltimore,
this City, threatened to kick her, to rectify said
mistake.
The couple were married on January 2, 1903. A
month afterward, the plot was already thrilling,
brimful of realism, quite dangerous to the actors.
It certainly was far, far from "lived happy ever
afterwards." If made up into a story, it never would
be accepted by a magazine, on account of the un-
happy ending. Picture the following : Scene on
Dunphy's Ranch ; Mrs. Dunphy's ten-year-old son
by a former marriage is clinging to her skirts. Me
child. It is bitter cold, or awful hot, or something
like that. Snow is falling, metaphorically speak-
ing. Dunphy glared at the hapless woman. Rais-
ing his right arm to the horizontal, "go," he
thundered, and, to the foreman, "put her off the
ranch." Now, shouldn't he discover he had made
a grisly blunder. By all the gallery gods, he
should, and, finding her nearby, carry her back to
the house, she having fallen from exhaustion or
from an automobile. That would be a dandy end-
ing. But the finale desired by Mrs. Dunphy is
$600 a month, alimony, and $500, counsel fees.
Since the days of Zeuxis, few people have died
laughing. It is a ridiculous way of entering the
Gate of Terrors, though Poe declared it delightful.
But he did not try it himself. To go into eternity
with a grin on the gob requires a presence of mind
not possessed by many. Zeuxis, the painter, lived
about 400 B. C. He never succeeded in popularizing
the method.
Fairmont Hotel
Mason at California and Sacramento Sts.
SAN FRANCISCO
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF
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AT DEL MONTE
Mr. McLaimhlin. Golf Champion. Mrs. Maud, and Colonel Maus
It is a far laugh from Zeuxis to Miss Agnes
Szalaehic, of Passaic, X. J. The other day she was
telling a story, anil laughed so blatantly at her own
E>ke that the angels grabbed her. The point was
so droll that St. Peter roared as he let her in, and
several undesirable citizens squeezed into Xew
Jerusalem while he wasn't looking.
( Hit here in Frisco, not even our most ejaculatory
ji kers ever kick the bucket in their extreme efforts
to win applause. The Bohemian Club never limited
the story-teller's caprice for fear of shortening its
membership roll on the spot. But perhaps their
humor is not of the heavenly sort. Uncle George
Bromley, one of their wittiest, must be well in the
nineties, though he was already ailing in his eighties ;
and Bohemian Club jests seem to have prolonged
his life. It may be that he passed the crisis of all
fthe Bohemian Club stories in his younger days,
when more stalwart and able to stand the strain.
Longevity in jokes has been widely noted. A long-
lived, respectable joke wouldn't cause death. An
old, feeble joke, with one leg in the grave, a joke
that had done roadwork with Father Time, cannot
bob up suddenly enough to surprise one into a
cachinatory demise. Then there's that other laugh-
exploiter, Charles K. Field. Judging from his work
as "Childe Harold" in the Examiner, he is growing
younger every day. If wit and humor ever kill
him, the diagnosis will be infantile decay.
Xo ; the guffaw death is not prevalent out here.
Abe Ruef made repeated attempts at escape by
assault to kill Elisor Biggy with a poke of fun.
But the whole prosecution seems to lack sense of
humor. However, if any one is at all fearful of
laughing himself to Jordan, let him become a real
estate agent and join the Bohemian Club.
* * «
■ A San Francisco woman, well-known in local
Society, and at present residing in an apartment
in Xew York, writes of a rather amusing meeting
of two of Dr. Pedar Bruguiere's ex-wives at her
lodgings.. Mrs. Madeline McKissick Bruguiere, the
doctor's first wife, had called and the women were
discussing with animation the expectations of Mrs.
Bruguiere Xo. 3, near whose domicile the stork
had been observed describing circles in the air.
"I wonder how Mrs. Bruguiere No. 2 likes the
idea of her only son being displaced, " remarked wife
No. 1. and ;is she spoke there came a knock at
the door.
"( oiik- in," ^-aid the lady of the apartment, and
in walked Mrs. Bruguiere Xo. 2 with her prettv
little boy.
Here was a tableau for a dramatist.
I heard that the two ex-wiwes bore themselves
with more dignity and composure than the flustered
owner of the apartment, whose nerves got such a
wrench that she did not recover fully for an hour
after they had gone. Wife Xo. 1 has been on the
stage and showed herself an actress of no mean
ability in her self-control as she said her adieu and
bowed herself out. In the hall she remarked
woman-like :
"What a pity the doctor could not witness this
stunt and photograph it. he is so keen for dramatic
scenes and impressions."
* * *
"After all," said Alec. Smart, "the old saying:
'There's always room at the top' doesn't mean any-
thing."
"Unless," replied the traveling man, "it means
that the lower berths in a sleeper are usually taken
before you get there."
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The fad of giving teas and receptions at cafes
is growing in this City. Mrs. Charles Stewart and
Miss Gertrude Mills gave a reception recently in
honor of Miss Mae Sadler at a well-known cafe.
About forty guests attended. One of the daily
newspapers stated erroneously that the affair was
given to two hundred guests at her own home by
Mrs. Stewart. Needless to say there were a hun-
dred and sixty angry women who hadn't attended
the affair. Nothing rankles deeper in the female
heart than the thought of being cut out at a great
big social affair to which "everybody" had been in-
vited.
* * *
Miss Lorraine de la Montanya was much relieved
by receiving a dispatch from her dear friend Miss
Hazel Farmer that the latter had arrived in New
York and would reach San Francisco in time to
attend as bridesmaid at Miss de la Montanya's
wedding. Miss Farmer is the daughter of a Sonoma
banker who died some time ago. The young lady
has been abroad and it was feared could not return
in time for her friend's wedding.
* * *
One of the prettiest affairs of the week at Santa
Barbara was the wedding of Miss Edith Poett and
Carl Edwards, which took place at Trinity Epis-
copal Church, Wednesday evening, June 5th, in the
presence of all the smart set. Miss Poett made
a lovely bride, as every one had expected. Miss
Ellen Chamberlain and Miss Bertha Rice led the
train of bridesmaids, and they made a fair picture
as they billowed up to the altar where the Rev.
Benjamin J. Davis, rector of Trinity, awaited them.
Reginald Martin certainly made a hit with the
music, for he has the most perfect technique for
so young a man, that I have ever known. The
bride was in white chiffon satin, the gown almost
completely veiled with rare lace and over her tulle
veil, appeared particularly light and dainty. Mrs.
Howard of San Mateo, Miss Poett's sister, went
down to Santa Barbara two weeks ago and settled
herself in a beautiful cottage in East Pedregosa
Street, and will spend the Summer there. As soon
as she arrived the bride took her frills and furbe-
lows over there and established herself. Mr. and
Mrs. Edwards are to make their home in Los An-
geles. That will be pleasant for them and will give
Mr. Edwards an opportunity to exercise his talents,
which he would never get in Santa Barbara.
Everyone that is anyone was out at the big re-
ception given Monday evening by Mrs. Herminia
Lee, Mrs. Franchesci De la Guerra Dibblee and
Miss Delfina De la Guerra, the three sisters who
live in the famous and historic De la Guerra man-
sion in Santa Barbara. There was a rumor that
the at home was to be for the bride, Mrs. Francis
T. Underhill, but it was really for no one in particu-
lar. Mrs. Underhill went against the wishes of
her relatives in marrying a Protestant, and one who
has a wife — even though divorced — still on this
mundane sphere. The De la Guerra family has al-
ways been faithful to the Roman Catholic Church
and such an act by one of the members was deeply
felt. Not that it affects Mr. and Mrs. Underhill,
who are as happy as birds and dash in and out
of town as blithely as you please. Love laughs at
clerical dogmas.
All the best people were at the reception and a
bevy of exceedingly pretty young girls assisted,
among them being Miss Delfina Dibblee, Mrs. Un-
derbill's sister, who is a beauty, of the purest
Spanish type. Mrs. Taylor poured tea and Miss
Josepa De la Guerra served ices, while Mrs. Dibblee
was at the coffee urn.
* * *
The Willis Davises have taken a house in Santa
Barbara and will leave 'the Potter early in June and
go to housekeeping on their own hook. There seems
to be cause for the assertion that they have finally
taken up their residence in Santa Barbara, and
will dispose of their San Francisco property. Mr.
Davis, his daughter, Miss Edna, and his son, Willis,
came within an ace of being killed in the Southern
Pacific wreck a week ago.
* * *
The Livermores are building in Santa Barbara.
They are remodeling a cottage on Garden Street,
which will be extremely picturesque, all shingled,
and with wide porches and many windows. It will
be occupied by Mrs. Livermore's mother, Mrs.
Eels, and Mr. and Mrs. Livermore and Miss Eliza-
beth, will have their house on Sola Street, the back
coming up to the back of Mrs. Eels' cottage. The
property is a splendid one and takes the form of
an L.
* * *
Mr. and Airs. Erskine Richardson of San Fran-
cisco, are to spend July with Mrs. Richardson's
mother, Mrs. H. M. A. Postley, in Santa Barbara.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Fairbanks, of Montecito,
gave a charming dinner-dance at the Country Club
last Tuesday. It was not for anyone in particular.
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Whenever I hear anyone say that, I think of the
fashionable woman in New V.irk who was giving
a masquerade ball. When two women entered the
butler asked what characters shall 1 announce?
"Oh, no particular characters." said one of the
blue-blooded dames. Shortly after to her intense
surprise, the person in plush announced calmly but
loudly: "Two ladies of no particular character."
* * *
Miss Harriett Stone of Oakland made a big hit
at Santa Barbara as the burgomaster, in Robert
Browning's staged poem, "The Pied Piper of
Hamelin." The play was presented last Saturday
afternoon in Mrs. William H. Eddy's grounds, the
pupils of the Blanchard Gamble School taking part.
The setting was splendidly appropriate, the pictur-
esque line of mountains and the trees in the fore-
ground. There was a large attendance of fash-
ionable people present.
* * *
Charles F. Hanlon, the well-known attorney, has
fallen a complete victim to the motoritis. This is
most remarkable, for Charles loved a fast horse as
much as a susceptible youth of twenty does the
flutter of a coryphee's short skirt. Every Saturday
afternoon the horse-loving attorney could be seen
glued to a spidery buggy and going through
Golden Gate Park from ten to fifteen miles above
the legal limit. Hawk-eyed policemen got busy
with the mosquitoes, or lighted their_ cigars when
Charles flashed by astern of his racing roadster,
for he used to be a politician in his salad days, and
guardians of the peace never forget the political
pull. Now Mr. Hanlon is seen rarely or ever in
a speeding buggy, but the motor microbe has stuck
its fangs deep in his brain. He has become a tire-
less motorist and it is not a two-to-one bet when
you see a cloud of dust whirling along the road
from San Francisco to Del Monte that Attorney
Hanlon and his auto are not the center of it. He
varied the run last week by motoring from Los
Angeles to Del Monte.
* * *
Mrs. Linda H. Bryan, the "Society editor" of the
Examiner, was one of a large party that visited
Del Monte for the week-end. The party in-
cluded Miss Linda Bryan, Hamilton V. Bryan, Miss
May Reis and Miss Ness Reis of San Francisco,
Mrs. John T. Porter, Mrs. S. P. Pfingst and Edward
Pfingst of Pajaro.
* * *
Perry Eyre, Mrs. Perry Eyre, E. J. Pringle and
I Mrs. Pringle motored down from Fair Oaks to
Del Monte on May 29th, lunching on the road near
Sargent. Perry Eyre and E. J. Pringle took turns
in operating the Stevens-Duryea car. Their party
was joined on Saturday, June 1, by George Aimer
Newhall and Mrs. Newhall of Burlingame, who
motored up from Paso Robles to Del Monte in a
Packard Touring car. The Eyres and Pringles
started on the return trip from Del Monte after
luncheon on Sunday. While at Del Monte, Perry
Eyre, who is an enthusiastic golfer and one of the
strongest players at Burlingame and Fair Oaks,
made a round of the Del Monte links with Charles
E. Maud, who recently won the men's amateur
championship of the Pacific toast Golf Association
for 1907.
. The first competition of the ladies' continuous
handicap golf tournament to be played during June,
July and Augusl on the Del Monte links took place
on Saturday, the 1st instant, the winner being Miss
E. A. \Y. Morgan, whose name will be the first
inscribed upon the handsome silver pitcher pre-,
sented by the Pacific Improvement Company. This
pitcher will become the permanent possession of
the lady who wins the greatest number of victories
in the series. Miss Ella Morgan took up golf
some years ago and was one of the good players
of the San Francisco Golf Club, when that club
had the Presidio links, but she has scarcely played
at all for a long time. During the Summer she
will be domiciled with Mrs. Low and Miss Flora
Low at Del Monte and will take part in all the
ladies' golf competitions.
* * *
That well-known Bohemian Club man, Thomas
Barbour, is at present in Paris, where he has been
visiting Joseph D. Redding and Raphael Weill.
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MRS. W. K. VANDERBILT JR. AT TEN YEARS
Cornelius' Soliloquy
To flunk or not to flunk ; that is a sticker.
Whether 'tis Schmitzier in the mind to pull
The strings and red tape of the striking carmen
Or to take legs before the coming trouble.
And, by resigning, chuck it. To flunk ; to reign
No more ; and by such flunk to say we end
The walking and the thousand natural riots
That strikes are heir to. 'Tis a consumption
Devoutly to be wished ; — nit ! Yes — how — what !
Do I forget the words. To quit. To work ;
Perchance at cleaning bricks. Ay, there's the rub.
For in that cleaning bricks, what schemes may go
When we are shuffling off the mortar — toil
Might soil our paws. There's the respect
That makes calamity throughout the strike.
For who would bear be idle all the time,
Be quoted wrong, talking continually.
Break Jerry Dinan's heart, and count the stones
That patient carmen at the unworthy throw,
When he himself might a good living make
Ringing up nickels. Who'd starvation bear,
Or grunt and sweat with eating pork and beans,
But that the dread of something after beans —
That undiscovered walkout from whose barn
No platform man returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather eat the food we've had
Than that containing flies we know not of.
Cornelius thus makes cowards of them all.
Ding-ding! get bus}', is a resolution
Thus brick-laid over with a cussed thought.
The enterprising strikers at this moment
The unfair trollev currents turn awry.
And I'm dragged in the game. Great sticks and
brickbats !
Here's Porter Ashe to soak a felony
Into my busy day. I didn't know
That crime is felony.
That some of our charming young girls can
give and enjoy a theater and supper party without
the company of the sterner sex was in evidence
recently at a well-known theater, when Miss Evelyn
Norwood was the hostess on this occasion. Her
guests, were among others, Mrs. Benson, the inter-
esting wife of Major Benson, U. S. A., formerly
Miss Mary Breeze* Miss Ethel Lincoln and Mrs.
Norwood.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Connor have recently
returned from their honeymoon trip. Mrs. O'Con-
nor was Miss Rita Finnigan.
Mrs. Noble Eaton, who chaperoned a jolly party
of sixteen which spent a few days at Bohemian
Grove, is the wife of Noble Eaton, the nephew of
Fred Eaton, the well-known business man. who
served on the Board of Supervisors and is now
prominent in the Pacific States Telephone Com-
pany.
fc * *
Dr. Arnold Genthe. has been giving some delight-
ful little teas at his attractive studio on Clay Street.
The one given by this popular artist last Wednes-
day was especially pleasant. The flow:ers and
decorations were violets and violet hues. The cos-
tumes of the ladies were so stunning as to justify
the remarks of an appreciative artist that they
looked like "Oueens."
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MRS. HERMANN OELRICHS AT EIGHTEEN
Miss Ethel Nason, until recently, was one of the
most distinguished among the brush and pallette
coterie of Boston. Did not paint; was painted.
With considerable natural grace, she was also a
poser. Standing around and looking pretty was
her bread and butter. In fact, this artist's model
posed so well that a Seattle millionaire, W. V.
Hawkins, induced her to pose in a this-is-so-sudden
position while he painted a paradisial scene of mar-
ried life, backgrounded with a field of purple
amaranths, and a bit of Seattle architecture and a
garage on the left. Hawkins knew beauty when he
saw it. He had not gone to Harvard for naught.
In fact, Miss Nason said it was love at first sight.
Who wouldn't? Love at first sight is one of the
few ancient glories that have survived modern im-
provements and the impediment of present-day
unclassic attire. The faddishly gowned girl has
little chance to inspire it ; she looks so artificial and
unromantic, and Cupid's arrows often hit a button
or a chatelaine watch and glance off. That is where
the artist's model has the advantage.
* a. *
Late letters received from Mrs. Lloyd Baldwin
and Miss Grace, report them enjoying life abroad.
Upon the return of the Baldwins in the near future
the wedding of Miss Grace and Mr. Russel Sel-
fridge will be celebrated. Miss Baldwin is the
daughter of the late well-known land-lawyer, Lloyd
Baldwin. Mr. Selfridge is a son -of Mr. and Mrs.
E. A. Selfridge and brother of Lieut. Thomas Sel-
fridge, U. S. A. His sister, the popular Society girl.
Miss Katherine Selfridge, married Captain Kellond,
U. S. A., and went to the Philippines l" live.
* * *
The marriage of Miss Lillian Moffatt, daughter
,.f Mrs. I.. VV. Moffatt, and Frederick Ward Hunt
was celebrated on last Saturday evening at the resi-
dence of tile bride's mother on I'ine Street. Miss
May Moffatt was maid of honor. Miss Roberta
Deal. Miss Elizabeth Morris, M iss Gertrude Tay-
lor and Miss Elsie Benedict were the bridesmaids.
Mr. Hunt is the only son of Judge and Mrs. John
Hunt. After a wedding lour of several weeks the
bride and groom will reside in litis City.
* • #
Miss Elizabeth Foote, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur de Wint Foote I Mary I lallock Foote, the
author) and Rodman Swift of Xew Bedford. Mass.,
were quietly married last Saturday morning at the
residence of the bride's parents in Grass Valley.
Rev. Carelton Hitchcock of Emanuel Church offi-
ciating. The only guests outside of relatives were
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bourne and Miss Maude
Bourne of this City. The couple left for Bear Val-
ley on a wedding trip. They will occupy a cottage
in Grass Valley upon their return, the home being
a wedding gift from the bride's father, who is a
mining engineer of (irass Valley.
* * *
Avlett R. Cotton. Jr., the former Stanford foot-
ball star, arrived last week from the Philippines,
where he has been for the past six years. Mr.
Cotton was Prosecuting Attorney for the City of
Manila. He recently resigned, and will engage in
law practice with his father in this City. His wed-
ding to one of the charming daughters of Mr. A.
Borel, the banker, it is said, will be celebrated in
the near future.
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-THE WASP *
Rhyme of the Week
Taft is still swelling with honors and suavity ;
Standard Oil shrinking with maximum fines ;
Panama rated a sink of depravity,
Mustang, the lily of gold-bearing mines.
The municipal railroad bothers Rud. Spreckels ;
Dinan is trailing the talesmen for Schmitz ;
New York discovers a new cure for freckles ;
Jack London's uncle gets cold feet and quits.
German professors at Berkeley are furious ;
Catherine Clemmons would no more be Gould;
Haywood insists he did nothing injurious;
Wolf and Dog Writers by Teddy are schooled.
Real estate, strikes and indictments are booming;
Big temblor this week, but no damage — hurrah!
With such trifles as these our time we're con-
suming.
E pluribus unum and Erin go bragh !
A. D. Shepard, general manager of the Pacific
Improvement Company, reached Del Monte on
Friday, May 31st, and made a stay of two or three
days. Just now Mr. Shepard is being besieged by
automobile agents, who want the company to part
with its 150 or more horses and buy motor-cars
in their place. The Hotel Del Monte, during busy
times, often have to provide vehicles for 100 or
150 members of an excursion party, who want to
take the famous Seventeen-Mile Drive, see the San
Carlos and Carmel Mission Churches, the light-
house, the Presidio, the statue of Father Junipero
Serra and other interesting things in a very limited
time. The automobiles to do the company's work
must be good hill-climbers, as the Carmel Hill is
one of the roughest in the State.
* * *
Colonel George Stone, accompanied by his
daughters, Miss Leona M. Stone and Miss Louise
G. Stone, with a chauffeur, toured recently from
San Francisco to Del Monte in a 30-horse-power
White Steamer, 1907 Model. Miss Louise and Miss
Leona, who are enthusiastic horsewomen, enjoyed
a pleasant ride along the Salinas road.
* * *
The opening of the art establishment of Volz &
Freese, on Monday last, at 947-949 Van Ness
Avenue, took on the semblance of a Society func-
tion, so many were the prominent people seen in the
crowd of shoppers. Mrs. Helen Freese made hosts
of friends during the years she was connected with
the art firm of S. & G. Gump, on Geary Street.
Her courteous and charming manners made a most
favorable impression on all the customers, and
no doubt will now prove of great financial benefit
to the firm in which she is a partner.
* * *
This new firm of Volz and Freese are direct im-
porters of original oil paintings, water colors, old
prints, marble and bronze statuary, objects of art,
odd, quaint and beautiful things not usually to be
found in any other establishment. They have ex-
tended a cordial invitation to the public to call.
A feature of their business will be the taking of
import orders for any work of art, rugs, furniture,
draperies or appointments, as they have resident
representatives in New York, London, Paris, Vi-
enna, Berlin, Florence, Naples, and Constantinople.
Their buyer sails for Europe early in July and will
execute any special commissions in the foreign
markets giving such orders his prompt and careful
attention for holiday delivery. The new firm ap-
pears to me imbued with a healthy spirit of pro-
gressiveness that augurs well for its success.
The Peter Martins are staying in London with
the Duchess of Marlborough as they stayed with
the Duke and Duchess at Blenheim. Mrs. Peter
feels that she deserves some of the sweets of life
after nearly two years in San Francisco, for I
hear she says to her friends on the other side, that
there was really no one for her to know here and
she had a dismal time while sojourning in sight
of the Golden Gate.
Miss Lottie Upton and Charles- J. Dickman, were
quietly married at the residence of the bride's
mother in Santa Clara on Wednesday, June 5th.
Only relatives and intimate friends witnessed the
ceremony. The bride is said to rank high as a
pianist, as also a linguist. Probably no man here
is better known in Bohemian circles than Mr.
Dickman. For years he has been a leading spirit
in the Bohemian Club's jinks performances. His
wedding gift from the Bohemian Club was the
complimentary but not over-substantial one of a
life membership. Mr. and Mrs. Dickman will spend
the honeymoon at Monterey.
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\rtluir Crane is not only a poet but an editor;
A dual personally almost beyond Pierian dreams.
He wields the blue pencil over Palo Alto's "Daily
Citizen", and edits the world's morals. When lie
objects l" modern ethics, or even one single ethic.
he jabs down his correction, and it goes. If it does
not go, his philosophy acts as a good shock-ab-
sorber. In sooth, he is such a cloud-skipping phil-
osopher that it busts the odometer of imagination
to follow him.
Crane recently promulgated the gelatinous theory
of free love, tar-aml-feathered the Platonic idea and
hvperfossilized the Committee on Student Affairs.
Unlike other teachers of free love, Crane had a
wife. Instead of taking the principle as a mere
cult, a vehicle for vehement vaporings, to call
attention to her husband's book, she took the creed
to her heart, and. with it, the lone disciple. Brother
Ahedile. who was dwelling with the couple. With
the sage himself, amour ad lib. might have been
only a soulful pose; with the lady the pose was
realistic and on the level. One morning, about 4
o'clock, she awakened Crane by returning to the
connubial couch. Whence contest thou? he queried.
From Brother Abedile, she vouchsafed. Crane put
on his seven-league boots and hied him to the
guest room, where the disciple was giving a poor
imitation of the sleep of the just, as that term is
ordinarily understood. Then the philosopher undid
himself of several Babylonian kicks, which con-
veyed Brother to the highway, whither his clothes
were hurled after him. The old homestead now
contains no disciple, no wife; just one philosopher
and a divorce suit.
* * *
It appears, after all, that the sensational article
in the Examiner about the female high kickers of
the Lantern Club of Sausalito was a mere gratuit-
ous libel on a chaste community and on immaculate
social organization. Most prosaic are the dry
details when the lantern of truth is turned on
them by this family journal. The great earthquake
last year, gave the clubhouse an awful shaking
which not only cracked the plaster but took all
the enterprise out of the landlord. He refused to
repair the damaged edifice and to stimulate him to
the required pitch eight lively young men of the
Hill tribe went up and held rough-house in the
club. The detonation of corks and the reverbera-
tions of rollicking college songs brought down the
rest of the plaster in such a shower that the roy-
Sterers had to retreat to the outside where they
continued their concert and the liquid artillery
practice. Their antics were seen on the sky-line
by many of the deeply shocked residents of the
Hill, but not even with the most powerful field-
glass could the observers detect the flutter of silken
skirts and the flash of peek-a-boo hosiery which the
lascivious writer in the Examiner evolved from the
recesses of his bawdy imagination.
The Lantern Club really succumbed to innocuous
desuetude and an empty treasury and not to noxious
scandal. There is talk, I hear, of the club's amal-
gamation with the San Francisco Yacht Club, if
that now saintly organization of tarry bank clerks
and brine-stained brokers condescends to accept
its credentials. Anyhow the landlord of the late,
if not lamented Lantern Club, has a job of plaster-
ing, on his own hands, that will keep him busy
through the Summer holidays.
» * *
The arrival of the stork with a little son for the
Spencer Eddy's in Paris was an event of interest to
San Francisco, where the baby's grandparents Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Spreckles are so prominent.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. William Greer Harrison, with Miss
Ethel Harrison will pass the Summer at Carmel,
where Mr. Harrison has recently built a pretty
bungalow.
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Among the Wasp's illustrations this week are one
of Mrs. VVm. K. Vanderbilt and one of Mrs. Her-
mann Oelrichs.when these two noted Society women
were girls in San Francisco. That was more than
a few years ago. They lived then in the old Fair
mansion on Pine Street near Jones, where Miss
Tessie was married to Hermann Oelrichs.
No one thought when those pictures were taken
that both the Fair girls would become prominent
figures in Gotham Society ; that one of the girls
would change her rather undistinguished patronymic
for that of Vanderbilt, that the Fair will case would
become one of the celebrated lawsuits of the genera-
tion and that many other remarkable and un-
pleasant things would be crowded into the lives of
the two young daughters of Senator Fair.
The old Senator then lived with his family and
had not become involved in the little affair with a
Washington beauty which caused the separation
from the wife of his less prosperous days. Young
Jim Fair was a rollicking man-abont-town and
young Charlie was a school boy. Little did either
think that death would cut them off in their prime,
Jim in a Montgomery Street lodging house during
one of his sprees and Charlie in that ill-fated auto-
mobile ride in France, which sent him and his wife
with a crash into eternity. How little we can pene-
trate the veil of futurity and discern the dramas that
are unfolding beyond and in which we may be
distined to play sensational roles. And well it is
that the veil is impenetrable.
The published picture of Miss Birdie Fair was
taken when she was in her tenth year and her
fond and most kind-hearted mother gave a masque-
rade in her honor. Tessie Fair was then about eigh-
teen and it was thought would marry one of the
young men who were received hospitably at the Fair
Mansion and prominent amongst whom was Mr.
Jack Featherstone, one of the best known and most
popular young men in local Society: Mr. Joseph
Irwin so well known as the city editor of the
Examiner in the days when it was edited by the
Hon. Phil Roche and George Penn Johnson, a
Southerner, who had dropped his name on the field
of honor, was a constant visitor at the Fair home
in the days when it rang with mirth and blazed
with the lights of hospitality. Rumor had it that
the expected divorce of Senator Fair and his wife
would be followed by her marriage to the hand-
some journalist. The estimable lady was however
a very devout Roman Catholic and she never sought
the divorce court.
All this is the ancient Social history of a genera-
tion that has ceased to dance and sing and make
love. What is left of it goes staidly about the pro-
saic routine of life giving no indications that it
was once as gay and thoughtless as those that went
before it and those that will follow.
Miss Foot and Porter Garnett were quietly mar-1
ried last Saturday at the residence of the bride's
parents near Calistoga. The couple came im-
mediately to this City, where Mr. Garnett had pro-
cured an attractive apartment for his bride. Mrs.
Garnett is said to be very petite and exceedingly
interesting.
Let them know!
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
THE WASP
VINCENT WHITNEY AT DEL MONTE
Every little while some new story floating over
in .in ( lakland indicates that there is not as much
blood-curdling slowness as there used to be over
there. The up-to-dateness and general blue blazes
of a town depends largely on the personal tenour
of its landladies. It was the public-spirited
dowagers of the furnished room that in early days
of. New York wrested from Philadelphia the su-
premacy of the eastern coast, and made the flats off
Hell Gate the most fascinating district in the world.
In (lakland, many more Mrs. E. Martins would
make the town's police news so fecund that the
world would become goggle-eyed with the wonder
of it. Mrs, Martin rented a room to one Garrison,
a demonstrator of spices, and a second, separate,
distinct and other room to Miss Ora Williams, his
coadjutant in the spice exhibit. During the night,
a herd of copper-toed fleas, indigenous to this clime,
and especially to the Astor House, where the scene
is laid, attacked Garrison en masse and made him
grovel. Within a few minutes he was pretty well
polka-dotted in pink and began to get yippy. After
.essaying all sorts of foolish maneuvers that availed
nothing against the superior intellect and general-
ship of the attacking party, he gave a howl, accom-
panied by a boomerangular twist, scooted and
landed in the landlady's headquarters. Mrs. Mar-
tin had a scheme that was sure to work, because il
had never been tried before on these particular flea^
and they would not be suspicious. The idea was
to set a bowl of water on the floor near the bed ;
'into this the fleas would jump to destruction, like
INapoleon's army in the sunken road. Garrison did
as he was told ; then sought the pillow, over which
the fleas were now going like an electric fountain.
Just at this moment, Miss Williams heard, or
thought she heard, somebody or something enter-
ing or trying to enter her door, or what in her
terror seemed to be the place where the door was
when she saw ii last. Thoroughly non-plussed,
she jumped to cover ami yelled to Garrison, who
by this time was almost taken, after a bloody battle.
But, hearing the screams for help, he leapt from
bed right into the trap lie had sCt for the enemy,
ami knocked the water broadcast but saved Miss
Williams from the intruder, who immediately be-
came one of the missing.
This would have been all right, had not the car-
pet, which must have been of some expensive,
delicate, water-colored design, became addled in
the spilled fluid and looked quite arrah-go-on in
some places. Identifying the spice people as jointly-
interested in the disaster, the landlady sought re-
prisal on Miss Williams' gold watch, and held it
until the police came. It is night life that makes
a town, and the landladies have that under control.
At a local function recently an artless climber
was putting on the airs of a duchess to the amuse-
ment of not a few of the guests. The conversation
having turned on the car strike the ambitious and
bejeweled lady remarked, "And sure if the car strike
lasts much longer the millionaires will be busted.
They will for certain, the whole caboodle of 'em."
# * *
A very bright San Francisco girl, writing from
Florence, Italy, where she is now the guest of a
well-known baroness, states that poor barons and
other decayed gentlemen are so plentiful, that the
place reminds her of a San Francisco insurance
office — nothing but titles and family pride on all
sides.
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-THE WASP^
The Pioneer Cafe, which has catered to the bon
ton. of Devisadero Street, has closed its doors; both
doors; on one of which was "Ladies," on the other,
"Gents." Both words now have, as far as the
"Pioneer" is concerned, innocuosus desuetudinorum
in the worst form. Against, the window pane is a
cardboard sign with the following explanation :
"Closed on account of Pat Calhoun and W. H.
Roden, the Landlord."
Here is work for the Grand Jury. sure. When
next that body meets we expect thirteen indict-
ments respectively against Calhoun and Roden. Of
Roden 's ogerlike conduct we know little or nothing.
But, that his name is coupled with Pat Calhoun is
enough. Perhaps they jointly bribed the cook to
give them a franchise and right of way over a beef-
steak which the proprietor had intended to dedicate
to San Francisco for a landmark. We have sam-
pled pioneer beefsteaks here and there, and we
defiantly assert that they should be kept free from
corruption. Of course, in this case, we allege no
deep scrutiny into the facts. Our contention is
based on hypothesis and conjecture only. But, in
the troubled condition of our City, it is pardonable,
nay, justifiable to be more than wary, and we do
not like to see the United Railways interfere with
the hitherto chaste politics and briskets of Devisa-
dero Street. What investigation will show we re-
frain from guessing. We have patience. There is
something dark and blood}' somewhere. Let the
steaks be kept free from such guilty operations.
* :': *
The Francis Burton Harrisons are circling around
Europe before returning to America after their
startling marriage. Mrs. Harrison has her son with
her and Mr. Harrison has his two little girls, Bar-
bara and Virginia.
I hear that he is as devoted to his wife's son
as to his own. His marriage to Mrs. Cox did not
surprise his friends, for it is said that he was
engaged to his present wife before either he or she
married, but their passion was one tempered bv
calm forethought, and when he had an opportunity
to marry the rich Miss Crocker his fiancee most
considerately released him. When death came to
the Harrison household, and the bereaved widower
had a few millions he felt that at last he was
wealthy enough to indulge in the luxury of a
grand passion and the rest was easy. His former
fiancee although a wife, now that he had his money,
loved him more than ever. The story is told, per-
haps, as merely illustrative of the cynical New
York spirit toward matrimony that she said to
her husband :
"I have a chance to marrv a millionaire." and
her husband replied :
"You're in luck — I congratulate you."
It was within a few months after that tender
episode that she married Burton Harrison, to the
great disgust of all the Crockers.
* * *
The lady with the squamoid reputation, and who
lolls in luxury with a daring, Circean loll, may have
bad luck with Mrs. Grundy in proportion to her
good luck with millionaires. She may get in hot
water, but it is usually perfumed ; she may be sub-
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in a little lovey-doveying and a big check for post-
nuptial pin money. In the center of her golden
miasma, Maybell Gilman-Corey owns a chateau
where, when spur-galled with notoriety, she canj
relax her pampered pout amid art and historical
surroundings. It is within fifty miles of Paris and
many times further than that from the yellow-
journal peril. It is just the restful spot for a paint-
weary woman who disadorned herself to adorn the
stage, and is now content with privacy and a Steel
Trust President. Kicking into the calcium while
clad in a doll's costume is not what it is cracked up
to be. There are few occupations more open to
admiration and yet require more painstaking zeal I
than skipping before an audience where all the
feminine brows darken with a scowl and all the
men show the white of their eyes. The Chateau
Villegenisse is a sumptuous environment in which to
become blue-blooded. Its settings are more delight-
ful than any third act of Zaza, Camille or Sappho
for a Summer idyll. A Jane Shore or a Pompadour
would not have despised it as a sanctuary of sensu-
ous repose. Prince Jerome Bonaparte once owned J
it. Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie visited it
in imperial days. It is one of the most magnificent
places outlying Paris. A park, perennial shrubbery,
fish-ponds, hot houses, Grecian statues and wide
avenues conform in spacious beauty. In fact, it is
a marvelous nook in which to forget the world after .
the storm caused by forgetting some of its ethics.
* * *
Mrs. Frank Willis and her son, Gloucester Willis,
leave early in August for a tour abroad. They ex- .
pect to be gone six months or so.
THE WASP
15
Mr>. J. 1 1. Wood, one of the brightest i if Alameda
Bounty club women and who was recently elected
president of the Twentieth Century Club, told a
ttory at the recent annual breakfast of the Etude
Club that aptly illustrates •.nine of the supposed
foibles of club women. The story was -ewhed
with hearty laughter by the Etude members, pos-
sibly because the Etude hobby, music, is supposed
not to lie so fatal to interest in home affairs as
some other hobbies that clubs have. Here is the
story: A prominent man visited a popular club
at a forenoon session at which sixty women were
prt~ent. lie explained that he had something im-
portant to say to them and was duly introduced
by madam president.
"Ladies," lie said. "I am prepared to write you
a check for a large sum, for the promotion of your
favorite charity."
The women received the announcement with
tumultuous applause. He was known as a generous
man and the check would be for a large amount.
"But I must attach a condition," continued the
visitor. "Sixty women are here. I will write the
check if twenty of you can say that you washed
the children s faces and combed their hair, washed
tile dishes and made the beds before you came to
this important morning session. Will those who
can say so please come forward?"
Several members arose with confident smiles and
started forward but the number was so inadequate
that they beat a hasty retreat to their seats in dis-
may.
"My offer still holds good," said the man with
the check, "if ten ladies can come forward and say
that their husbands are wearing socks without holes
in the toes or heels."
A bride arose with a pretty blush and hurried
forward and turned a brighter crimson when she
found herself all alone.
"My offer still stands," said the visitor, "if five
of you can say that you yourselves are wearing
stockings without holes in them."
There was a moment's painful silence and then
madam president saved the day by informing the
visitor that the club had decided to accept gifts
from none but club members.
* * *
Society is looking for the announcement of a di-
vorce in the family of a prominent capitalist who
has a home in Ross Villey, where his wife has been
residing while he remains on this side of the bay.
The gossips are busy with the subject.
Local Bohemia was not at all taken off its feet
by the news from New York that Amadee Jouillin
had married Mrs. Lucille Wilcox Mersfelder the
divorced wife of Louis Mersfelder, another artist.
The wedding ceremony was performed by a New
York Judge, which was rather an unromantic
entrance for a couple of artists into the rose laden
fields of matrimony in the lovely month of June.
Besides being a great painter Mr. Jouillin has a
sure footing on the ladder of fame as the smallest
eater and the greatest glutton for work, in America.
The wedding of Miss Lillian Moffatt and Fred
Ward Hunt took place on June 8th at the residence
of the bride's mother on Pine St. Mr. Hunt is the
only son of Judge and Mrs. John Hunt of this City,
nephew of Mrs. Adam Grant and cousin of Joseph
D. Grant. After a wedding tour of the South, the
couple will reside in this City.
* * *
'Walter Hobart is playing polo in France where
polo is "le sport" of the Faubourg St. Germain. In
fact polo is one of the most reliable sesames to
the fashionable set in Paris, and so Mr. and Mrs.
I lobart on the strength of Walter's string of bang-
tail ponies go everywhere in Gay Paree that princes
and counts assemble. I hear that Mrs. Hobart
is much admired. Miss Mary Eyre, who is with
her, is an intimate friend but not a relative. She
is a very sweet girl, but not possessed of the
pulchritude of Mrs. Hobart.
* * *
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-THE WASP
MISS MABEL W ATKINS WHO IS TO BECOME
THE BRIDE OF CAPTAIN WOLFE
A recently announced engagement is that of Miss
Louisette D. Curtis to William C. Murdock Jr.
Miss Curtis is the daughter of Mrs. Walter H. Lin-
forth, wife of the well known attorney. She is the
grand daughter of Henry Payot. Mr. Murdock is
the only son of Mr. William C. Murdock and is in.
the banking business here. The marriage will be a
large affair and will take place early in September at
Menlo Park and will be an out of door wedding.
Sherrill Schell, who Madame Bavarde tells us is
making a literary success in the East, was one of
the beaux of the Gaiety Club set when he lived
here. He is a handsome youth with engaging
manners. He lived with his mother in one of the
Cadenasso flats on Russian Hill and was not burned
out, but as he said, a few weeks after the fire, "We
can't walk a mile every time we want a loaf of
bread' or a quart of milk," so the Schells gave up
their flat. Mrs. Schell went to Kansas City to
visit her married daughter and her son went abroad
with his chum, Ed Montgomery. After a season
in Paris he returned to this country but never pro-
gressed farther westward than New York. Young
Schell is a fine musician and has some literary and
artistic gifts. He is a great friend of Miss Grace
Llewellyn Jones, and popular in the ultra-Bohemian
set. It was whispered here before he went abroad
that the daughter of a noted multi-millionaire was
considerably interested in him, but thus far the
expected announcement of an engagement has not
materialized. Mr. Schell's musical ability is con-
siderably in excess of his literary talent. He is too
pleasant mannered and level-headed a chap to be
. a star writer. Famous knights of the quill are not
usually noted as Chesterfields or Bayards. They
are most frequently characterized by an inflation
of the upper story and an arrogant assumption of
infallible superior^, that is only equaled in the
theatrical profession.
The Snarl on the Snark
Jack London, snarker of the "Snark,"
Snooped o'er the western brine —
An Anarchist from high-brow mark
Down to the water-line.
And as he snaffled through the seas,
He snocked Columbia's star-stripe flag
To hoist upon a seven-year breeze
The Dynamiters' bleeding rag.
To snatch from slobby snobby laws
The eaters of the cocoanut.
The snarksome crew had set their 'jaws
And studied snip-snap phrases. But —
When half seas over, Bertie Stolz,
The Stanford Stoic of the crew,
Got mixed in Anarchistic, shoals,
And circumnavigobbed a few.
Then London snorted through the Snark:
The only Anarchist Boss, he,
To be Sea- wolf aboard the bark,
And sneered like snicker-snockeree.
Absurdedly thus, Stolz walked the plank
And left the snaggy, snuffling seas
To the indomitable crank
Who'd lured him from a life of ease.
His place a stronger comrade takes:
Gene Fenelon a tar would be :
Once pug, then prentice priest, now makes
His way from Carmel-by-the-Sea'.
'Tis sad to think how he and Jack
Will play the free-all-comers game.
For Jack put Bertie out of whack :
But Fenelon is not the same.
This Gene can foist a snaggy fist
And send a snorter to denote
He won't be kicked into the mist
To advertise Jack London's boat.
"Well," said the proprietor. "I seeyou have at
last sold that ugly hat we expected to have on our
hands."
"Yes," replied the saleslady, "I got a middle-
aged woman to try it on yesterday and then told
her that it would not, of course, do for her because
it was intended for a very young woman."
-THE WASP
17
CARL HAYDEN. CALVE'S NEW TENOR
'Tis sad that the Fairmont Hotel was not -more
susceptible to the literary and artistic charms of
the Sequoia Club. The Sequoians offered them-
selves as one of the City's places of interest, to
which even Society would reverently come and gaze
at. They moved to the Xob Hill hostelry just so
as not to be thought stingy with their intellectual
wealth, but place it where all might be advantaged.
Instead of freely accepting the Club as a classic
embellishment to the Grecian architecture, to say
naught of offering a bonus, the Fairmont in its
wild western way demanded rent: $200 a month.
This was too high, even unto a Society for the
Preservation of Egotism. Genius is not supposed
to be greased with gold. Manuscript fiends and can-
vas-carriers never boast of wealth for fear of losing
caste in Bohemia. So how could the Sequoia
Gigantia of western rhymes and vermilions con-
tribute the lurid lucre of mediocrity and still claim
to be ravioli-fed Bohemians? To live like genius
beneath Phoebus' gaudy beams and pay $200 a
month on the sly was too much even for a long-
haired sense of humor. And when the bowl was
passed, every member had an abnegations habit of
precipitating a thirteen-starred nickle that plunked
into the funds with a wild, discombobulated jingle
echoing from Parnassus to Piedmont and thence
ringing weirdly clown to the Stygian profounds of
Baker's Beach.
At the Del Monte Art Gallery there has been
generous welcome for any local impressionists who
came along With a little tree, a little fence and a
little road with mauve indescribabilities in the 18
x 24 distance. Ii has been whispered in the studios
that some of the artists ha\ e been grubstaked there
to the extent of one roast and two entrees with all
the black coffee they could put down. Some enemj
attempted to scandalize Bohemia by starting the sin-
ister rumor that Charles Dickman flatly rejected
such generosity and insisted on paying his way like
a prosperous shopkeeper but the libel was short
lived and died the ignominious death it deserved.
How different at the Fairmont! And now the
Sequoia Club lias trundled sadly downhill and west-
ward to the Woman's Exchange Building, and will
have to Hash up $100 a month. The Woman's
Exchange used to have some mickle fine fancj w ork
in its windows. No doubt the Sequoia school of
color will soon have an "influence" on layer cake
art.
ENTRE N( )L'S.
Mrs. Howard Gould wants $4,000,000 in the way
of alimony. People who drop out of the Gould
Family seem to have an idea that they ought to get
big prices for so doing.
"So Smithers is going abroad?"
"Yes."
"On the advice of his doctor?"
"No. I lis lawyer.'.'
' * * *
Old Gotrox — But if my daughter marries you
will she have all the comforts to which she has
been accustomed.
Young de Broque — Well, it will be your fault if
she hasn't.
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&rhnk, Criticism cf Current Stents
The late W. H. Mills was a man of wonderful
memory. All the books of the Southern Pacific
were burned ill the fire, and so all the railroad peo-
ple had to rely on was Mr. Mills' memory and it
was very fortunate for the railroad that he was
spared a year, for he in that time was able to
straighten out the affairs of the land office to a
great extent. Mr. Mills was the son of a Methodist
clergyman, and was one of the best talkers in town.
He left a fortune of good size to his widow and
daughters, Ardella and Bessie Mills, and much of
it was invested in real estate.
Mr. Mills never lost his love for journalism and
had the notion that when he retired from the
railroad service he would run a weekly newspaper
of independent character. Like nearly every man
who leads a bustling life, he died in harness. That
notion so dear to all very busy men, that some day
in the distant future they will drop the carking
cares of money-making and spend their declining
days under the peaceful shade of their vines and
fig trees, is one of 'the last illusions of life.
Nature seems to give it to people to buoy them
up when all the other illusions have gone and a
man feels like the boy who has been to the circus.
He has seen it all. The rule of life with business
men is that they work to the last week. Some fine
day they get a pain and go to bed and a few days
after the "city reads a glowing account of their
talents and good deeds and a brief notice that the
distinguished dead will be interred next day.
Please omit flowers. Such is one very common
phase of life in America and many sane men are
coming to the conclusion that it can be improved
by a less strenuous chase of the almighty dollar.
Mr. Mills was. a man of great natural talent and
was highly regarded by Collis P. Huntington.
When that eminent railroad magnate died, and the
Harriman interests became paramount Mr. Mills
lost much of his influence and importance in the
great railroad corporations with which he had been
so long associated.
During the reign of Senator Stanford it was part
of the policy of the Central and Southern Pacific
to maintain a great political bureau. It retained
eminent lawyers all over the State and every editor
who was not unfriendly to the corporations got
an annual pass; and more or less railroad adver-
tising. All this cost money but it made Stanford
so omnipotent that in the very year when the anti-
railroad forces had organized to their full strength to
crush him he went to Sacramento and had himself
elected United States Senator. The anti-railroad
forces scattered like chaff before a gale.
When Huntington came into supreme command
he issued the proclamation that his corporations
should be run as business enterprises and not
political machines. Times had changed and the
necessity for such political activity had passed and
so all the retained lawyers of eminence and a host
of other persons of alleged influence in moulding
public opinion, or manipulating the political ma-
chinery, were dropped from the railroad payrolls.
It made a very respectable saving in the annual
expense account, but it did not put the railroad out
of politics. In fact a railroad can never get out
of politics under our system of government. To
do so would be to invite all the blackmailing poli-
ticians in the land to fasten their fangs in it.
W. H. Mills handled one end of the political
bureau of the railroad in its closing days. When
the labors of that concern grew small he was de-
tailed to give his talents to the land department,
but that branch of the corporation is also of less
importance than it was formerly. Most of the
land has been sold. So in his last years of service
Mr. Mills found his duties by no means arduous.
He made many warm friends by whom his death
was regretted most sincerely.
Before The Wasp appears next week again the read-
ing public of America will have learned that all this
journal has said about the Moyer and Haywood com-
bination of murderers was true. It was almost as un-
American and lawless a gang as that which is now
trying to dynamite street cars, kill strike breakers and
intimidate women in the streets of San. Francisco. The
assessment levied on organized labor to keep Moyer
and Haywood from the gallows was not as large per
capita as that which the local unions are now paying
to keep Cornelius and his gang in power so that they
may continue to hold fat offices in the City Hall. I
learn that some of the local unions have assessed their
members ten per cent of their weekly wages for the
benefit of Cornelius' carmen. It would be interesting
to know who handles that large fund and keeps ac-
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THE WASP ^
19
The fellows who broke into Supervisor Pat Mc-
Gushin's saloon and walked off with the contents
of the cash-drawer, leaving a note that they were
tax-payers and had taken only their share of what
Mc( iushin had grafted, had at least the saving grace
of humor. No one can feel much respect for the
rights of property of men who acquire their wealth
as the Supervisors confessed they got theirs. I'll
admit that when 1 see Boxton sailing by in his
automobile, or Gallagher dashing on in his, or
some Others of them standing fat and contented in
front of their ginmills I can realize why so many
respectable citizens feel like joining a mob to tar
and feather the rascals.
Since the Supervisors confessed that they are
felons we hear less of them as popular labor leaders.
Supervisor Mike Coffey, for instance, who boodled
about $14,500 that we know of and heaven knows
how many nickels we haven't heard of, was the
high rockroller of that hackman's union which
-•topped a funeral, by order of the Honorable Mick,
because the "organization" had a row with the
undertaker. Every decent newspaper in Christen-
dom denounced the infamous proceeding as the
acme of barbarity. Yet Mickey has lawful right
to the title of "Honorable." He not only disgraces
the municipal legislature of San Francisco, but dis-
graced the Legislature of the State of California.
And yet though we elect such thinly veneered bar-
barians and undisguised ignoramuses as our law-
makers we call ourselves a highly civilized and in-
telligent nation.
Admirers of Edgar Allen Poe, who perspired
fearfully lest his name be unveiled in New York's
Hall of Fame, might have retained the dreadful
drops to sweat them in another cause. There is no
danger that ignorance will have its rhomboid brow
reshaped for some time to come. Until such
hypothetical change, Poe's fame will not bear the
O. K. of Chancellor McCracken. He will not be
represented among Helen Gould's Collection of
Doorplates from the sands of Time, alongside the
names of Mary Willard, Emma Lyon and Mary
Mitchell, three of the latest "Great Americans." We
were taking the rest cure at the time these ladies
did the equestrian somersault through the blazing
hoops of greatness, and did not get the full particu-
lars of their achievement. Of Poe's full particulars,
most of us are familiar, through his libelers. That
Poe was too frequently full of them is ascribed
as the cause of his nontableture before the eyes
of the second-class tourists who go to New York
City to say Gosh ! — and bridal couples who do not
like to stay in the hotel all day. The blue-nosed
teetotalers who vote on Great Americans have
gotten into their highmuckamuck-raking brains that
it is "good" Americans who should be given the
show ; so along with Mesdames Willard, Lyon and
Mitchell, they elected Alexander Hamilton, the
four-percenters saint, who came within a slice of
putting a crown on Uncle Sam ; John Paul Jones,
whom we have forgiven because he was a hero,
though the Law of Nations now calls him a pirate;
Louis Agassiz, who made Nature famous; James
Madison and John Quincy Adams, who loom up
more prominently in the more exclusive Hall of
Fame, Our Presidents; William T. Sherman, who
pillaged a land occupied by women and children,
and was sincere enough to admit it was "Hell";
John Greenleaf Whittier and James Russell Lowell,
who entered American Literary History when there
was room to spare, and are there yet because they
work in well with Grammar School curriculums.
and have been there so long that no one has the
heart to put them out.
It seems, however, that the Hall of Fame was
erected at the instigation of a number of prominent
families to boost their own kin, and who juggled
in a number of big names to play the thing up.
a hackneyed advertising dodge.
"The Vagabond," that globe-trotting magazine
with its present number issued in this City, greets
San Francisco with a loud-laughed editorial against
the Native Son. The writer says he once thought
that Californians assisted at the accouchments of
day and night out here, and that the N. S. G. W.,
on country road and city thoroughfare, were by
some-handed sign distinguishable from the rest of
mankind. But now he furthers the statement that
the life of the Native Son, "from the obstetrical
moment," is one of piffle.
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-THE WASP-
The wind has been taken completely out of the
Democratic sails by Roosevelt's war on the trusts
of capital. Now he seems to be getting ready to
lead the attack on the In.bor trust and that will
strengthen the Republican side still more, for the
nation is heartily sick of the lawlessness and ar-
rogance of the unions and eager to see them re-
strained by the strong arm of lawful authority.
Taft is the man of all others to perform that task,
for he has not the slightest fear of the organized
labor vote. He has demonstrated that in several
ways. Last year he went into Maine and opposed
and aided to defeat the American Federation of
Labor which was doing all in its power to prevent
Congressman Littlefield from, being elected because
he voted against the infamous anti-injunction •bill.
That contest proved most conclusively to Secretary
Taft, if he did not know it already, that the vote of
the American Federation in national politics is any-
thing but an important factor. All told, the organiza-
tion has not over six hundred thousand voters in the
United States, and even those cannot be controlled by
the leaders. When Roosevelt ran the last time he was
secretly opposed by the labor leaders, because he
refused to recognize the unions in government
work and to ostracize non-union men. Despite this
fact he got immense majorities in all the strong
union towns including this City where labor leaders
had been using the vilest language about him and
hundreds of thousands of circulars had been issued
advising workingmen to vote against him.
The labor trust will of course assume that the
Cartwright law does not apply to it, but if it does
not then the law is merely class legislation and
unconstitutional. It cannot punish capitalists who
combine to limit output and raise prices, and be
inoperative against labor trusts that prevent ap-
prentices from learning trades and thus artificially,
and to the public injury, create a scarcity of labor
for their own benefit.
The fact that labor unions are not incorporated
will not avail them. Capitalists, who form trusts
to raise prices, or strangle free competition rarely
if ever incorporate, but it has been demonstrated,
clearly, that they are not thereby exempt from pun-
ishment.
I understand that there is a strong American
movement on foot to test the power of the labor
unions to limit apprenticeship, as they now do. A
campaign against them on that ground is being
planned, and it is thought that the Cartwright law
will make the movement successful.
There is no difference of opinion amongst
patriotic citizens, on the subject of excluding Ameri-
can boys from the trades. It is a crime against
the rising generation which the American people
will not tolerate. Thousands of American boys,
against whom the doors of the shops and factories
are shut,- drift into idle and criminal ways every
year, or are forced to take up the lowest manual
occupations. In the burned district in San Fran-
cisco today you will find the Americans cleaning
bricks or packing lumber for $2.2> a day and less,
while thousands of foreign mechanics are doing
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-THE WASP-
21
the skilled work and drawing the higher wages
These Foreign artisans can come here, and do comi
li tin- thousand, and get union cards and go t"
work, but the thousands of American boys that
are growing to manhood cannot freely enter the
trades. Most of the unions make the limit on ap-
prentices one to every four journeymen. In some
of the building trade- in San Francisco an appren-
tice has to be the son of a member of the union;
otherwise lie is barred from learning those highl)
paid occupations and driven into the overcrowded
field of unskilled labor, or the equally overcrowded
occupation of clerk.
This exclusion of American boys from the trades
has been going on for ten years and we see the
effects on all sides. The supply of skilled labor
ha- not increased in proportion to the expansion
of the industries and of business in general. The
development of the nation's resources is thus re-
tarded, and the labor trust, which has been created,
is not content with merely regulating wages and the
hours of work, but has reached out to control the
reins of public government in San Francisco and
has succeeded fully anil the effects have been most
undesirable. Lawlessness has reached the maxi-
mum and honesty in official life the mini-
mum. This is what might have been expected, for
all trusts are lawless in their operations and based
on false and injurious principles. When they seize
the reins of government they of course become more
lawless and tyrannical than ever.
Porter Garnett, purple-robed at Fame's Corin-
thian-fronted threshold, has lately been sipping
some of the onion soups of literature and inditing
a series of criticisms upon a few former friends.
This classician, whose ipse-dixitisms were some-
what curtailed on the Argonaut and San Francisco
Mint, is now writing for that organ of snow,
scenery and salmon, the Pacific Monthly. He has
been taking on a deal of much-needed amusement,
and is doubtless being paid for it besides. He rap-
iered the popular Jimmy Hopper, and skewered
Jack London, so joyously that one can see the black
—From the N. Y. World
type smile from margin to margin. After citing a
passage from London, he savs it bears the same
relation to literature as a shriek does to singing.
Garnett's critical insight is somewhat on the road
to Mandalay ; yet he has the brains to differentiate
between a red flag and a literary style.
' HARVEY BROUGHAM.
The Plaint of a Roman Matron
Caesar had come home late from the Lupercal,
after thrice refusing a kingly crown.
"If that isn't just like you !" exclaimed Calphurnia,
bursting into tears. "Think of nobody but yourself
— and the only bonnet I've got not fit to be seen in,
and you know it."
Whereat Caesar was so cut up that he went out
and divided Gaul, into three parts, just to get even.
For Better or Worse
A lady who had a perfect treasure
of a cook was horrified recently when
Maggie came to her saying:
"Please, mum, I'm givin' ye a
wake's notice."
"Why. Maggie!" exclaimed the lady
of the house, "this is a surprise!
Aren't you satisfied here? Do you
hope to hetter yourself?"
"Well, no mum," responded Maggie.
" Tis not exactly that. The fact is,
mum, I'm goin' to get married."
A SNAPSHOT AT WITTER SPRINCS
c of the many pretty [raps, whose owners are at the popular resort
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He (after a quarrel) — I was a fool
when I married you.
She — Yes, but I thought you would
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STRICTLY BUSINESS
Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
The business men of San Francisco and taxpayers
generally, cannot protest too vigorously against the
appropriation of seven hundred and twenty thous-
and dollars for the construction of a municipal
electric railroad on Geary Street. It is a vicious move
however viewed. There are many other things, of
far more importance, to be attended to at this time,
and it is an outrage to saddle the taxpayers of this
city with unnecessary expenses. With a municipal
railroad in existence, we shall be confronted con-
tinually with the problem whether it shall be
operated by any one but union carmen, and the
existence of the '--road will serve to protract the
already long drawn out conflict that has existed for
years between labor and capital.
The last thing that San Francisco is in a position
to do is to experiment in municipal ownership and
provide a new avenue for grafting politicians to
.vi-.-t1-...--'*.- treasurv.
As the presenc ^Ja of se]f confessed felons who
make laws for the city - - -^umed to do nothing
except with the sanction of the wr;ct Attornev's
office it is to be inferred that the pros*. lOTS Q£ t'ne
grafting officials and alleged bribers ha\ C,dorsed
the Geary Street folly. This, is doubly regu.,^,^
if true, for the District Attorney's office has . ^
can attend to in pressing the graft cases to a prop
conclusion.
It has already been announced too, as an excuse
for Mr. Spreckles' refusal to cooperate with the
committee of seven, that he could not extend his
influence beyond the prosecution of the graft cases.
It cannot fail to be said that if the prosecution has
time to dabble in municipal ownership experiments
it certainly should find time to join with a com-
mittee of reputable citizens in the all important
matter of reestablishing law and order, and thereby
restoring normal business conditions in San Fran-
cisco.
The tremendous effort put forth to indict Mr.
Calhoun and other officials of the United Railroads
at the moment when they were engaged in a
desperate battle with the lawless element of San
Francisco for the establishment of constitutional
rights, caused many fairminded people to ask
whether the graft prosecution was altogether im-
pelled bv conscientious considerations of the public
good. Indeed it was openly charged in some
countrv newspapers and other journals outside of
San Francisco that there were selfish and sinister
motives behind the supreme effort to indict Calhoun
and his fellow officials. Those charges are sure to
be reiterated and acquire force if it can be shown
that the influence of the District Attorney's office
is most improperly used to create a municipal line,
apparently for no other purpose than to prove that
the United Railroads could have built a conduit
system instead of a trolley line. There can be no
more reasonable explanation of this indefensible
scheme to extract $750,000 from the public treasury
and put it into a railroad for which there is no
urgent need.
A Business Man's Views
Mr. E. D. Dake, president of the Dake Adver-
tising Agency, Inc., with offices in Chicago, 111..
Goldfield. Xev., Los Angeles and San Francisco,
Cal., accompanied by his wife, is visiting San
Francisco after a year's absence and will remain in
this City until the first part of July, when he will
visit his office at Los Angeles for an extended
visit. He "will then return to Chicago and conduct
the Eastern end of the agency from that city.
He has noted the many improvements in San
Francisco and thinks this will yet be one of the
greatest cities in the world. The number of build-
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-THE WASP-
23
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the confidence of its people and that they are de-
termined to keep the City in the front ranks as
the gateway of the Pacific and the Orient.
Mr. Dake stopped over at Goldfield, and report-.
that camp in a flourishing condition. It has doubled
its population in a year. Mr. Dake thinks the
world will be astonished in a short time at what
Goldfield will accomplish with its mines, as they
have barely scratched the surface.
The I lake Advertising Agency will have offices
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OF SOCIAL INTEREST
As the time for Miss Mabel Watkins' wedding
day draws near, June 11th, all her friends are rush-
ing entertainments for this popular girl. Mrs.
Starr Keeler's picnic recently was a brilliant suc-
cess. Mrs. Hickman of Sausalito gave a large and
elaborate dinner this week. Mrs. Beatty gave a
stocking shower. Mrs. E. Miller a tea on Thurs-
dav. at which all Sausalito's smart set and many
from Ross Valley and San Rafael were guests.
Tonight the subscription dinner takes place in
Sausalito, given by sixteen maids and young mat-
rons, and a jolly time is expected. Miss Watkins
will make a stunning bride, and with Capt. Wolff's
Bother officers attending, brass buttons will plat-
an important part in this wedding, within the hand-
some home of the bride.
Miss Ethel Melone has returned to her country
home in Napa, after a brief visit to friends in this
city.
Among the many prominent people leaving for
Blythedale early in July are Mr. and Mrs. William
Sherwood, who will pass the entire Summer there.
Miss Tay has returned to San Francisco after an
enjoyable visit to her sister Mrs. Peter Fletcher of
New York.
Mrs. Silas Palmer will spend the Summer in the
East, visiting all the prominent watering places
along the Atlantic Coast; thus another pretty Menlo
Park residence will be closed. Mrs. Palmer was
attractive Olive Holbrook previous to her marriage.
The marriage of Miss Hallie Kemble, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Kemble of Berkeley
and Lieut. John Kelso, U. S. A., will take place in
Portland early in June. Miss Kemble left for the
North early in the week, accompanied by her sister
Miss Margaret Kemble and Miss Alice Eccles of
Oakland. Lieut Kelso belongs to a well known
Southern family and is a favorite in social circles
h.re.
Winsome little Miss Lucy Mighell became the
bride of Thomas J. Churchill on Saturday last at
the residence of her grand mother Mrs. Kashow on
California Street. Kashow's Island near Tiburon is
called after the bride's grandfather.
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-THE WASP-
An Idealist's Memorial Day
I'd like to place some roses
Above the buried noses
Where Boodle lies and Graft can't rise
And Bribery reposes.
And fire off minute guns,
And spout a few bad puns.
Above the Lid where Crime is hid
And every passer shuns.
Wreaths I would gladly glean.
And hurl them o'er the scene.
While sing quartets, to Crooked Sets.
"The Silent Tents of Green."
And let the brass band play
Hilariously gay
Above the portion where extortion
Lies underneath the hay.
The troops and badged committees
Should march with ragtime ditties,
While cobble-throwers tend the blowers
In Satan's Seven Cities.
O what joy I'd avouch
Above the grave of Grouch,
And hear the throngs of Civic Wrongs
Turn over and say "Ouch !"
Could such be? Who can say? —
That grand Memorial Day.
When Right and Might, o'er Bloated' Blight,
Their mockine tributes lav.
Reminded Her
"This is certainly grand," said the very young
man at the foot ball game.
"Yes, perfectly splendid," rejoined his fair com-
panion. "It reminds me of the rush at a bargain
counter."
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New Brunswick Fire Insurance Company
United States Casualty Company
C. J. STOVEL, Manager
REMOVED TO THE NEW
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Member of S. F. Stock Exchange
Goldfield, Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
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339 BUSH STREET, STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE. Pres.
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San Francisco
-THE WASP-
25
Wednesday: < >li dear me! Such ridiculous
things as some women do. Mrs. Gabbe was telling
me today about Miss Peachem's foot. She is very
proud of her feet and is always meeting with
accidents that compel her to exhibit her bare
trilbys to her friends. The other day she was get-
ting off a Sutter Street car in a hurry for fear some
Union Striker might shout at her and she hurt her
instep. < If course site must have young Doctor
Pilbox in to attend her. Oh My! Such doings as
Mrs. Gayley would say. She steamed her injured
foot half a dozen times, and massaged it with cold
cream and had it all powdered most beautifully and
li ii >king like a piece of alabaster on a lovely satin
cushion when the doctor called.
"Isn't it most dreadfully swollen, Doctor?" said
the patient in her most gurgley gurgle tones.
"I can't tell unless f compare it with the other
foot, please take off your other stocking" said the
Doctor.
"Oh goodness! She hadn't changed her hosiery in
I don't know how long, for she's the most untidy
thing you ever saw.
Serves her right. I detest those terribly affected
girls that are always posing for the male sex. Its
that kind of thing that makes the brutes so con-
ceited. They think every woman is crazy about
them.
Oh Gracious ! Such a fright as I got on the
Sausalito boat. My new glasses make me very
near-sighted and, I bowed to a man I thought was
Deacon Goodkind. Mercy! It wasn't him at all.
The man came right over and sat down beside me
and commenced to talk as if he'd known me for
years. I was just frightened to death. I don't
know what I'd have done if Mrs. Gayley hadn't
come along at the moment and spoken to him.
"My," said she, "what a heart-smasher you are.
You can't let even Miss Twiggs escape. Wait till
1 1 see your wife and tell her about this."
After the man sneaked off Mrs. Gayley told me
that he is noted on the Sausalito boats for his ad-
miration of the fair sex. Nothing with a petticoat
and hat on it escapes his eye. He is as vigilant as
a hungry seagull I. "'king for ii- breakfast, and if
an\ woman looks at him he talks to her if he gets
half a chance.
Mrs. Gayley says that one of the mosl sedate
and conventional matrons in San Rafael nodded to
him one day in mistake, for she too is very near-
sighted. What do you think? The man had the
audacity to ask her to go to lunch with him. Oh
my! When he found out who she was and that
her husband knew him well he took a riving trip
to the springs for two weeks. And to think that
this reprobate is married! My! Wasn't I lucky
that I never accepted any of the hundreds of offers
of marriage I've had. Xo man is to be trusted.
TABITHA TWIGGS.
"Mos
lake."
"She'
"Yes,
a very
invited
refused
tongue
On the
again s
him."
t diplomatic girl I ever saw, that Miss F.ast-
s engaged to young Horrocks, isn't she?"
and do you know how she caught him ? He's
frugal sort of chap, you know. Well, he
her out to dinner one evening, and she
to let him order anything more than a
sandwich and a glass of ice water for her.
spur of the moment he asked her to go
ome time, and before he knew it she had
Exception
Myer — "Did you ever happen to know a woman
that was good at figures?"
Gyer — "Only one."
Myer — "And who was she?"
Gyer — "A dressmaker."
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Automobile News
The fastest schedule of any touring contest ever
held in this country obtained in the Harrisburg
Endurance \<un. on May 6th and 7th. Every adjust-
ment or replacement was a loss of credit, judges
occupying places on every car. Besides this, there
were penalties for being late at controls. In the
second day of the run, weather conditions and
bad roads were such that less than one-half of
the thirty-one contestants finished before the con-
trols closed. The Model G. 30-horse-power White
Steamer went through the run without the slightest
sign of distress, making a perfect run. The work
of Walter C. White, who drove the car, was espe-
cially noted as being within both the letter and
spirit of the rules.
The Winton factory, at Cleveland, is nearing
completion a line of coupes designed especially for
physicians. The body is modeled after the coupe
that Mr. Winton had made for his private use and
has been driving for more than a year. The fullest
protection from the weather is assured, as the
body encloses steering-wheel, the dash and its
equipments and the seats.
The following telegram has just been received
from the Olds Motor Works. Lansing, Michigan,
dated June 3, 1907, by the Pioneer Automobile
Company of this City :
"Oldsmobile wins more records in one day than
any car on record. Touring cars broke world's
record hundred miles. Model H won fifty-mile
race Readville, Mass. Perfect score three days'
reliability run at Xewark. Second and third places
Washington hundred-mile race. Best time Kansas
City hill climb. Winners at Bridgeport and
Wilkesbarre. Largest reunion of automobiles ever
held in New York. Two hundred Oldsmobiles, all
makes, in line. President Roosevelt rides in Olds-
mobile at Lansing, Friday."
A congenial party composed of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert L. Coleman and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Tubbs
are touring through Southern California in an auto.
One of the most interesting trips that has been
made this season was taken by Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Finletter, B. Latham and L. E. Thompson. The
party came up from Los Angeles in a Thomas
Flyer by easy stages. They halted at the prominent
points all the way up the coast roads and went
home in the same manner. The trip consumed
about a month. The car is the one that holds the
world's record for 25 miles made on May 12th. on
the Agricultural Park track, Los Angeles, with four
passengers aboard. Time 30 1-5 minutes. The car
also captured the mile record for stock cars fully .
equipped and carrying four passengers. The rec-
ord was made on the same track on May 5th. Mr.
Latham drove the car in both of the races. '
TAHOE TAVERN
MRS. ALICE RICHARDSON. Man.jer
TAHOE, CAL.
Just the place for a few days rest and recreation
WEATHER DELIGHTFUL
FISHING EXCELLENT
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acorn modations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Ttburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOODES
Via Kelseyvillc P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cat.
Witter Medical Springs
Lake County
Witter Springs Hotel was built and
and equipped to please the really
critical. Cuisine and service un-
excelled. Table loaded with all the
delicacies of the season, supplied from our 1400 acre ranch. See
Sunrise Peak, Clear Lake, Blue Lakes, Horseshoe Bend and numerous
other places of interest. Most magnificient variation of scenery in the
world. Tennis, fishing, good saddle horses, bowling and other amuse-
ments. Automobile headquarters for Lake Co: Under the management
of Albert J. A-rroll, formerly of the New Willard, Washington and the
Seelbach, Louisville. Rates $14.00 per week upward. Call or write
for booklet and general information. Main office, 647 Nan Ness Ave.
Witter Water Cures Stomach Trouble
AGUA CALIENTE SPRINGS
Send your family to the nearest Hot Sulphur Springs to San Francisco.
First-class accommodations. Special rates to families. No staging.
Four trains daily. Fare round trip $1.65. Tiburon ferry or Oakland;
two hours' ride. Address THEODOR RICHARDS, Agua Caliente,
Sonoma County, California.
Howard Springs
Lake County, Cal.
by any physician who has ever visited the place
sport, 42 Mineral Springs, Hot Sulphur and Ire
Tub Baths. Address all communications to J. W. LAYMANCE, Proprietor Howard
Springs, Lake County, Cal., or 905 Broadway, Oakland, Cal.
Season 1907 opens May 1st.
The waters of Howard Springs will
cure any case of Stomach, Liver and
■ Kidney Trouble. Recommended
the past 20 years. Every outdoor
Plunge Bath, Magnesia and Borax
DIRECTORY
OF LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE
MISCELLANEOUS.
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE, 226 Oak St.,
S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
BOLTE & BRADEN, 105-107 Oak St., S. F. ;
Phone Market 2837.
COOPER ADV. AGENCY, F. J., West Mis-
sion and Brady Sts.
DAKE ADV. AGENCY, Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temp'y 1440.
FISHER, L. P. ADV. AGENCY, 836 North
Point ST., S. F. ; Phone Franklin 584.
JOHNSTON-DIENSTAG CO., 2170 Post St.,
S. F.
ANTIQUE DEALERS.
THE LOUIS XIV. Curios, Objects d'Art,
Miniatures, Paints, Porcelains, Jewels, etc.,
C. V. Miller, 1117 Post, near Van Ness.
ARCHITECTS.
REID BROS, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough ot., S. F.
THOS. J. WELSH, JOHN W. CAREY, asso-
ciate architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
GUMP, S. & G., 1645 California St., S. F.
SCHUSSLER BROS., 1218 Sutter St.
ATTORNEYS,
DORN, DORN & SAVAGE, 717 Van Ness
Ave.
DINKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W„ 1265 Ellis
St., S. F. Phone West 2355.
HEWLETT, BANCROFT AND BALLAN-
TINE, Monadnock Bldg.; Phone Temp'y
972.
EDWARD B. YOUNG, 4th Floor, Union
Trust Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temp'y 833.
GOLDSTONE, LOUIS, 1012 Fillmore St.
Phone Park 864.
MAROIS, T. M„ 1756 Fillmore St., S. E. cor.
Sutter. Phone West 1503.
KING, CHAS. TUPPER, 1126 Fillmore St.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
PIONEER AUTOMOBILE CO., 901 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F. ; and I2th and Oak Sts.,
Oakland.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO., Market
and Van Ness Ave., S. F.
AUTO LIVERY CO., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
BOYER MOTOR CAR CO., 408 Golden Gate
Ave. Phone, Franklin 655.
LEE CUYLER, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
MIDDLETON MOTOR CAR CO., 550 Gol-
den Gate Ave., S. F.
MOBILE CARRIAGE CO., Golden Gate
Ave. and Gough Sts., S. F.
PACIFIC MOTOR CAR CO., 376 Golden
Gate Ave.
BANKS.
ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK, Ltd., cor.
Pine and Sansome Sts., S. F.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST CO., cor. California and Montgom-
ery Sts., S. F.
CENTRAL TRUST CO., 42 Montgomery St.,
S. F.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Bush and San-
some Sts., S. F.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK, 108 Sutter St.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, 526 California St., S. F.
HALSEY, N. W. & CO., 413 Montgomery
St., S. F.
HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, Jones and McAllister Sts., S. F.
HUMBOLDT SAVINGS BANK, 646 Market
Street, opposite old Palace Hotel. Phone,
Temp'y 249.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO, 710 Market St., opp. 3d St.,
S. F.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, N.W.
cor. California and Montgomery Sts., S. F.
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, 316 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
THE MARKET STREET BANK AND
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, Market and 7th
Sts., S. F.
UNION TRUST CO., 4 Montgomery St., S. F.
WELLS FARuO-NEVADA NATIONAL
BANK, Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
BREWERIES.
ALBION ALE AND PORTER BREWERY,
1007-9 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
S. F. BREWERIES, LTD., 240 2d St., S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
MONTAGUE, PHIL S., 339 Bush St., Stock
Exchange Bldg.
ROLLINS, E. H. & SONS, 804 Kohl Bldg.;
Telephone Temp'y 163; S. F.
ZADIG & CO., 324 Bush St., S. F.
WILSON, J. C, 488 California St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION, Church and Market Sts.,
S. tf.
CARDS, INVITATIONS, ETC.
WOOD, GEO. M. & CO., engravers, 1067
O'Farrell St., above Van Ness.
CARPET CLEANING.
SPAULDING, J. & CO., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave.; Phone Park 591.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
HUB, THE, Chas. Keilus & Co., King Solo-
mon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore Sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
JOHNSON LOCKE MERCANTILE CO.,
213 Sansome St., S. F.
MALDONADO & CO., INC., 156 Hansford
Bldg., 268 Market St. Phone Temp'y 4261.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
FISHER CONSTRUCTION CO., 1414 Post
St., S. F.
TROUNSON, J., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176
Ash Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
NATHAN DOHRMAN CO., 1520-1550 Van
Ness Ave.
DENTISTS.
KNOX, DR. A. J., 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
TWIST, DR. J. F„ 1476 Eddy, nr. Fillmore
St. Phone West 5304.
DESKS AND CHAIRS.
PHOENIX DESK & CHAIR CO., office fur-
niture, 1538 Market St., west of Van Ness.
Phone Market 2393.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
CITY OF PARIS, Van Ness Ave. and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
WHITE HOUSE, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
St., S. F.
EXPRESS.
WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Ferry Bldg.,
and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
CRESCENT FEATHER CO., 19th and Harri-
son Sts., S. F.
FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE PHOTOS.
RUE, JAMES O., 1067 O'Farrell St. Phone
Franklin 2603.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
OMEY & GOETTING, Geary and Polk Sts.,
S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
CAREW & ENGLISH, 1618 Geary St., bet.
Buchanan and Webster Sts., S. F. ; Phone
West 2604.
PORTER & WHITE, 1531 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
GAS STOVES,
S. F. GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Franklin and
Ellis Sts.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
BULLOCK & JONES COMPANY, 801 Van
Ness Ave., cor. Eddy St., S. F.
HANSEN & ELRICK, 1105-7 Fillmore St.,
nr. Golden Gate Ave. ; Phone West 5678.
GOLD AND SILVER PLATING.
BELLIS, JOHN O., Mfg, gold and silver,
smith, 1624 California St., nr. Van Ness.
Phone Franklin 2093.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
ILS, JOHN G. & CO., 827 Mission St., S. F.
MONTAGUE, W. W. & CO., Turk and Polk
Sts., S. e.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
DAVIS, W. & SON, 2020 Howard St., bet.
16th and 17th, S. F.
LEIBOLD HARNESS AND CARRIAGE
CO., 1214 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
DILLON, TOM, Van Ness Ave. and McAllis-
ter St.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
KEELEY INSTITUTE, H. L. Batchelder,
Mgr. ; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
JEWELERS.
BALDWIN JcWELRY CO., 1521 Sutter St.,
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. F.
SHREVE & CO., cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Ness and Sacramento St., S. F.
SCHMIDT, R. H. & CO., 1049 Fillmore St.,
nr. McAllister St. Phone Park 1209.
LAUNDRIES.
LA GRANDE LAUNDRY, 234 12th St., S. F.
PALACE HOTEL LAUNDRY and KELLY
LAUNDRY CO., INC., 2343 Post St.
Phone West 5854.
LIFE INSURANCE.
HUNTINGDON, ARTHUR P., 925 Golden
Gate Ave. Phone Park 515.
LUMBER.
UNION LUMBER CO., office 909 Monad-
nock Bldg.
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
BEKINS' VAN AND STORAGE CO., 13th
and Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13
and 1015 Broadway, Oakland.
ST. FRANCIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COMPANY, Office 1402 Eddy St.; Tel.
West 2680.
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
DEANE, JNO. J., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Sts.; Phone West 7291.
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141-143 Valencia
WARE, JOHN' H.. 307 Monadnock Bldg..
Depositions carefully attended to. Phone
Temp'y 972.
OIL COMPANIES.
STERLING OIL CO., 1491 Post St., cor.
Octavia, S. F.
OPTICIANS.
MAYERLE, GEORGE, German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F. ; Phone West 3766.
SAN FRANCISCO OPTICAL COMPANY.
"Spences," ^27 Van Ness Ave.; "Branch,"
1613 Fillmore.
STANDARD OTTICAL CO., 808 Van Ness
Ave., near Eddy St.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
KEEFE. J. H., 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F. ;
Tel. Franklin 2055.
TOZF-R. L. & SON CO., INC., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., ne3r Fillmore.
PAINTS AND OILS.
BASS-HUETER PAINT CO., 1532 Market
St.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
CAL. PHOTO ENG. CO.
St.
PHYSICIANS.
BOWIE. DR. HAMILTON C. formerly 293
Geary St., Paul Bldg., now 14th and Church
Sts.
BRYANT, DR. EDGAR R., 1944 Fillmore
St., cor. Pine; Tel. West 5657.
D'EVELYN, DR. FREDERICK W., 2115
California St., S. F., and 2103 Clinton Ave.,
Alameda.
THORNE, DR. W. S., 1434 Post St., S. F.
POTTS, DR. JOHN S., 1476 Eddy St. Phone
West 1073. Residence, Hotel Congress,
Ellis and Fillmore. Phone West 4224.
PIANOS— MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
BALDWIN, D. H. & CO., 2512 Sacramento
St., and Van Ness at California.
REAL ESTATE.
HICKS & MACK. Real Estate and In-
surance, 2091 Fillmore St. Phone West
7287.
C. R. WILCOX & CO.. Real Estate and In-
surance. 837 Golden Gate Avenue. Phone,
Fell 1558.
RESTAURANTS.
MORAGHAN, M. B., OYSTER CO., 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
OLD POODLE DOG, 824 Eddy St., near
Van Ness Ave.
ST. GERMAIN RESTAURANT, 497 Golden
Gate Ave.; Phone Market 2315.
SWAIN'S RESTAURANT, 1111 Post St.,
S. F.
THOMPSON'S, formerly Oyster Loaf, 1727
O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALES.
HERRING-HALL MARVIN SAFE
office and salesrooms, Mission St.,
Seventh and Eighth Sts.
1037.
CO.,
bet.
Phone Market
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER & WILSON and SINGER SEW-
ING MACHINES, 1431 Bush St., cor.
Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; Phone Franklin
301 ; formerly 231 Sutter St.
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES, J. W.
Evans, Agent. 1658 O'Farrell St., nr. Fill-
more. Phone West 3601.
STORAGE.
BEKINS VAN & STORAGE CO., 13th and
Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13.
PIERCE RUDOLPH STORAGE CO., Eddy
and Fillmore Sts.; Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
WALTERS & CO., formerly Shutts, Walters
St Co., 1608 Steiner St., S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
BACIGALUPI, PETER, 1113-1115 Fillmore
St., S. F.
MRS. FISKE. IN THE NEW YORK IDEA, AT THE COLONIAL
TAILORS.
LYONS, CHARLES, London Tailor, 1432
Fillmore St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; 958
Broadway, Oakland.
REHNSTROM, C. H., 2415 'Fillmore St., for-
merly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
THOMS, F., 1209 Mission St., corner of
Eighth, S. F.
TRICYCLES.
EAMES TRICYCLE CO., Invalid Chairs.
1808 Market St., S. F.
WINES AND LIQUORS— WHOLESALE.
BALKE, ED. W., 1498 Eddy St., cor. Fill-
more.
BUTLER, JOHN & SON, 2209 Steiner St.,
S. F.
REYNOLDS, CHAS. M. CO., 912 Folsom
. St., S. F.
RUSCONI, FISHER & CO.. 649 Turk St.,
S. F.
SIEBE BROS. & PLAGEMAN, 419-42*
Larkin St. ; Phone Franklin 349.
WENIGER, P. J. & CO., N. E. cor. Van
Ness Ave. and Ellis St. ; Tel. Franklin 309.
309.
WICHMAN, LUTGEN & CO., Harrison and
Everett Sts., Alameda, Cal. ; Phone Ala-
meda 1179.
WINES AND LIQUORS— RETAIL.
FERGUSON, T. M. CO., Market Street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow Whiskey.
FISCHER, E. R., 1901 Mission St., cor. of
Fifteenth.
THE METROPOLE, John L. Herget and
Wm. H. Harrison, Props., N. W. cor. Sutter
and Steiner Sts.
TUXEDO, THE, Eddie Graney, Prop., S. W.
cor. Fillmore and O'Farrell Sts.
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
CO., 2401 Fillmore.
McMAHON, KEYER AND STIEGELER
BROS., Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Farrell
and Fillmore.
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Amusements
I
Mrs. Fiske will bring the Manhat-
tan Company and her new play, "The
New York Ideal," to the Colonial for
a week beginning next Monday. This
satire on Gotham's fashionable set
and its divorce propensities has placed
its author, Langdon Mitchell, in the
front rank of American dramatists,
and added new laurels to the many
Mrs. Fiske has won. "The New York
Idea" deals with the manners and
customs of social New York, at the
present time. Its Tour, acts all occur
in the metropolis and its characters
are representative of New York's ex-
clusive circles. While primarily of an
amusing nature, tl\e play has for
foundation a serious thought and pur-
pose. The heroine, Cynthia Karslake,
played by Mrs. Fiske, is the young
and charming wife of an energetic,
big-hearted lawyer., whose racing
stable divides attention with his prac-
tice. Both move in .a set that gives
chief thought to the frivolities of life,
and Cynthia shares her husband's en-
thusiasm for sport. For a trivial
cause he secures, as she supposes, a
divorce, her action being inspired in a
moment of pique. To her a divorce
seems a natural enough proceeding,
as she has the light appreciation of
marriage as a permanent institution
inspired by our chaotic divorce laws.
The sincere love that Cynthia and
her husband have for each other can
not be stifled, however, and the de-
velopments of the comedy bring it
to the surface. Constant meetings in
the small circle of Society are un-
avoidable and help in the happy re-
sult. Cynthia's own nature prevents
her at the last moment from contract-
ing a second marriage with a middle-
aged and prosy judge, and a
surprising discovery, which instances
the divorce law muddle, reunites the
two leading characters.
In the supporting cast will be John
Mason, George Arliss, Charles Har-
bury, Robert V. Ferguson, Dudley
Clinton, Frederick Kercy, Dudley
Digges, Charles Terry, James Mor-
ley, Marrion Lea, Ida Vernon,
Blanche Weaver, Emily Stevens and
Belle Bolin.
Word comes to me from Portland
that in that virtuous metropolis "Mrs.
Warren's Profession" made a greater
financial hit than did Henrietta Cros-
man in her delightful "All of a Sudden
Peggy " Rose Coghlan is the star of
the Shaw play. •
# * *
Marion Lea, with Mrs. Fiske this
season, paid her first visit to San
Francisco many years ago, appearing
at the Baldwin Theater with the Ken-
dais in "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray",
"A Scrap of Paper" and other plays.
I remember what a charming impres-
sion she made as the innocent young
daughter of Tanqueray in that once
so much discussed drama.
* * *
Viola Allen has all sorts of mem-
ories of San Francisco. She was here
when a little girl, and a good many
years later appeared in "The Rivals"
with Joe Jefferson at the Baldwin.
She was a mere girl then and her
Lydia Languish did not show any of
the extraordinary ability that was
afterward displayed in her work.
When Henry Miller headed a strong
stock company that played for three
weeks at the Baldwin some ten years
ago, Viola Allen was leading lady,
ICE CREAM
— ^536-8 Fillmore ST..S.F.
DR. H. J. STEWART
Organist of 5;. Dominic's Church and
the Temple Sherith Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition.
New Studio: 2517 California Street. Hours, 10
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturdays.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
Church Choir
Teacher of Voice, Piano and Organ
San Francisco Studio; 1678 Broadway, Phone
Franklin 2244.
Berkeley Studio; 2401 Channing Way, Tues-
day and Friday.
"IS DOCTOR BLUFF IN?"
Truthful James; I THINK NOT. I seen him ten minutes ago, in the
CONSTJL.TIN' ROOM WITH SOME OTHER DOCS. AND HE WU2 SEVENTY-FIVE dol-
LURZ OUT.
From the N. Y. Life,
To Cure all Skin Diseases,
use
DR. T. FELIX GOURAUD'S
Oriental Cream or Magic
Beauttfier
It Purines and Beautifies the
Skin
For Sale by Druggists
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RACING
New California Jockey Club
Oakland Race
Track
SIX OR MORE RACES EACH WEEK DAY
Rain or Shine
Races commence at 1:40 p. m. sharp.
For special trains stopping at the track lake S. P. Feny.
foot of Market street: leave at 12:00, thereafter every twenty
minutes until 1:40 p. m. No Smoking in last two cars,
which are reserved for ladies and their escorts.
Reluming trains leave track after fifth and last races.
THOMAS H. WILLIAMS. President.
PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary.
The best YEAST for all
Kinds of Baking
FRESH DAILY AT YOUR GROCER
Thompson's Formerly
Oyster Loaf,
Now
Open.
1727 O'Farrell St., near Fillmore
All night service Popular Prices
The only first-class up-to-date and modern
Hammam Baths, built especially for
the purpose, in the city.
Oriental Turkish Baths
Corner Eddy and Lerkln Sts.
Cold water plunge.
Room including Bath, $1.00.
Phone Franklin 653
W. J. BLUMBERG & BRO., Props.
PATRICK & CO.
Rubber Stamps
Stencils, Box Brands
playing in "The Councillor's Wife",
"Sowing the Wind" and another New
York success then new to us. Miss
Allen was then headed to starship.
Her last appearance here was in "The
Palace of the King", which was not a
very strong dramatic vehicle. "Twelfth
Night" used to be Marie Wainwright's
gavorite play, and Marie Wainwright
was the most charming Viola that
ever let melancholy prey upon her
damask cheek. Barton Hill, veteran
of the old California Theater stock
company, was the Malovlio in the
Wainwright production of "Twelfth
Night", and I have heard that he is
the best exponent of the role on two
continents.
In Spite of Himself
One of the justices of the Supreme
Court tells of a young lawyer in the
West who was trying his first case
before Justice Harlan.
The youthful attorney had evidently
conned his argument till he knew it
by heart. Before he proceeded ten
minutes with his oratorical effort, the
Justice had decided the case in his
favor and had told him so. Despite
this, the young lawyer would not
cease. It seemed that he had attained
such a momentum that he could not
stop.
Finally Justice Harlan leaned for-
ward, and in the politest of tones
said, "Mr. Blank, notwithstanding
your argument, the Court has con-
cluded to decide this case in your
favor."
He Wanted Proof Positive
A Scotchman went to London for
a holiday. Walking along one of
the streets he noticed a bald-headed
chemist standing at his shop door,
and inquired if he had any hair re-
storer.
"Yes, sir," said the chemist, "step
inside, please. There's an article I
can highly recommend. Testimonials
from great men who have used it.
It makes the hair grow in twenty-four
hours."
"Aweel," said the Scot, "ye can
gie the top o' your heid a bit rub
wi't, and I'll look back the morn
and see if ye're tellin' the truth."
1543 Pine Street
San Francisco
Exception
Mrs. Knicker — Has she clothes for
all climates?
Mrs. Bocker — Yes, except the one
her husband mentions when he gets
the bill.
William Keith
Studio
After Dec. l»t 1717 California St.
SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE
Attorney -at-Law
1107 O'FARRELL STREET
Cor. Franklin San Francisco, Cal.
DR. WM. D. CLARK
Office and Res.: 2554 California St.
San Francisco
Hours — 1 to 3 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.
Sundays — By appointment
Phone West 390
Contracts made with Hotels and Restaurants
Special Attention given to Family Trade
Established 1876
THOMAS MORTON & SON
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Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of
the Board of Directors, held on the 9th day of
May, 1907, an assessment (No. 8) of 10 (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 116, 339
Bush street, San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 12th day of June, 1907,
will be delinquent and advertised for sale at
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before, will be sold on MONDAY, the 1st day
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Mark Twain and Sir Henry
Mark Twain was telling stories,
strangely enough, and some young
gentleman — Perkins, let us call him —
after the manner of the very young,
was trying to cap them, but he always
began with that mock-modest pre-
face: "You must have heard this be-
fore, Mr. Clemens,'' repeating the
phrase at intervals through his so-
called story. Finally Mark is said
to have said this:
"Perkins, that's no way to tell a
story. One night I was at supper
with Henry Ifvin', "and he had the
same old trick that you have, Per-
kins— 'You must have heard this be-
fore'— or, 'You certainly have heard
this.' He began "a story this way, and
I said, politely, 'No, Irvin', I. haven't,
though I didn't know, of course, what
his story was about. After he had
used this miserable phrase three
times, I said to him, 'Irvin', I was
born and raised in Missouri, where
truth is at a discount and courtesy
is above par. When a friend begins
a story as you do with 'You must
have heard this story,' courtesy pre-
vails, and we say no, no matter what
the truth may be; and a second time
we say no; but when it comes, like
now, to the third time, then truth
asserts herself. Yes, Irvin', I've heard
your old chestnut many, many times;
I invented it.' "
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Friday, June 28, 1907
S. S. "America Maru" (calls at Manila) . .
Thursday, July 18, 1907
S. S. "Nippon Maru" (calls at Manila) . . .
Thursday, August 15, 1907
After Taking
Magistrate — What! Do you mean
to say your husband struck you, and
he that physical wreck?
Mrs. Maloney — Yes, yer Honor;
but he's only been a physical wreck
since he struck me.
Why He Got Degrees
Woodrow Wilson, president of
Princeton, was deploring the promis-
cuous giving of honorary degrees.
"Our universities have learned of
late," he said, "to distribute honorary
degrees judiciously. But in the past
He smiled.
"Well, in the past, I met an uncouth
person at a dinner, and, being told
by an acquaintance that he had three
degrees, I asked why it was.
" 'Well; said my friend, 'the third
was given him because he had had
two, the second because he had one,
and the first because he had none.' "
Steamers will leave wharf, corner First and Bran nan Sts.,
1 P. M., for Yokohama and Hongkong, calling at Hono-
lulu, Kobe, (Hiogo), Nagasaki and Shanghai, and con-
necting at Hongkong with steamers for Manila, India, etc.
No cargo received on board on day of sailing.
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By AMERICUS
The astounding confession of Harry Orchard has
convinced the American public that the Western
Federation of Miners was appropriately nicknamed
when dubbed the "Western Federation of Mur-
derers." Barbarous terrorism was the stock in
trade of the Federation, which was conducted on
lines somewhat similar to those that made the Molly
McGuires so infamous and sent their ringleaders to
the scaffold and the penitentiary.
Like the Molly McGuires
The leaders of the Molly McGuires made use
of desperate criminals to do their bloody work, just
as Mover and Haywood retained Harry Orchard
as the regular salaried assassin of the Western
Federation of Miners. Membership in the Molly
McGuires was limited to members of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, and the professed object of
the secret Society was to advance the interests of
the parent organization. In reality the professions
of religion were only a cloak to conceal the bloody
purposes of a murderous crew, which desired to
control the labor situation in the Pennsylvania coal
fields for their own advantage. Most of the ring-
leaders were keepers of low saloons and coal min-
ers' hotels, and their influence in the secret society
of assassins helped them financially, though in the
end it ruined or hanged all who had not been killed
off by their own whisky.
The Power of Outlaws
The Western Federation of Miners might orig-
inally have been formed as a mere labor union, but
its control passed into the hands of outlaws, who
by terrorizing the community, exerted a powerful
influence on politics, and collected large sums of
money for which they were not compelled to ac-
count. Amongst the eminent lawyers they were
able to retain to defend their staff of dynamiters
and cutthroats was United States Senator Patter-
son of Colorado, who is said to have had a retainer
of $10,000 a year. They were powerful enough to
control the leading newspapers of Colorado and
Idaho and even when arrested after the murder of
Governor Steunenberg, the press remained muzzled.
Muzzling of the Press
Orchard confessed nearly two years ago. He
gave all the details of the story he has just repeated
in the court at Boise City, but not over six news-
papers in America dared to publish it. This was
certainly a remarkable tribute to the power of or-
ganized labor to throttle the newspapers, for a story
so sensationally inhuman in its cold recital of
atrocities must have made the fingers of manv a
yellow editor tingle to set his printers at work
upon it in the largest type in the office. When
these purveyors of sensationalism thought of the
thousands of readers that would devour the printed
story of Orchard's confession, they also remembered
that the American Federation of Labor had drawn
the circle of its influence around the band of as-
sassins.
Halos on Murderers' Heads
As soon as Mover, Haywood and Pettibone were
arrested the American Federation of Labor canon-
THE WASP
ized them. They became "our martyred brothers,"
on whom the lawless and inhuman capitalists had
put up a job to railroad them to the gallows.
Organized labor throughout America was as-
sessed to support the "martyrs" and their families,
and provide the largest defense fund ever raised
in this country to thwart the hangman. The halos
placed by Gompers and his confreres of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor over the red-handed em-
ployers of Harry Orchard made the yellow editors
dumb.
The Imperious Kaiser Outdone
If Gompers & Co. gave Moyer, Havwood and
Pettibone certificates of character as pure patriots
and high-minded philanthropists it would not do
to tear away the masks and show that the prisoners
were a set of worthless scoundrels whose trade was
graft and murder. Some readers with strong
union predelictions might get angry and stop their
subscriptions. The Brotherhood of Bottlewashers
or the Mortar-Mixers Protective Association might
boycott "the newspapers that printed Harry Or-
cl-ard's awful narrative, and half a dozen advertise-
ments of shopkeepers that carry only the union
label on their goods might be lost.
So for nearly two long years the most sensational
and appalling story of barbarous crimes that ever
amazed the American public remained unprinted, save
in about six newspapers of which The Wasp was one.
Over twenty months ago this journal gave its readers
all the details of Orchard's confession.
The German Emperor could not have as effectually
stifled a sensational piece of news famous as is the
autocratic ruler for his talent in silencing newspapers
by the good old feudal methods of suspending
the offending journals and chucking the contumac-
ious editors into jail.
Influence of a Lawless Minority
It is not an encouraging sign of the times when the
American press can be thus muzzled by a mere class
organization representing only a very small fraction
of the population numerically, and an infinitesimal
minority in point of intelligence, education and patriot-
ism.
Gompers himself lays claim but to a membership of
one million four hundred thousand, in the American
Federation of Labor and of these a large proportion
are aliens as all foreign mechanics coming to the
United States can get union cards, whereas American
boys are largly excluded from the trades. By reason
of this limitation of apprentices the American Federa-
tion of Labor has in effect become an alien body ani-
mated by alien views and endeavoring to engraft on
our American Government principles destructive to
our Republic.
Matter for Good Americans to Consider
It is a good thing that at last the American public
has been given through the Moyer and Haywood
murder case an insight to the character of the men in
control of the American Federation and the principles
governing that strictly class and un-American or-
ganization.
For two years the Federation has endeavored to
glorify Moyer and Haywood as persecuted patriots,
when it was well known that more unprincipled
villains never existed. Organized labor has been laid
under tribute to support and protect the ruthless
murderers. In effect every union man who has been
forced to contribute to the support and defense of
those unspeakable criminals has been placed in the
same moral category with them. The world has been
called upon to take notice that the strongest sympathies
of the "Organized labor" in America have been evoked
in behalf of barbarity and crime.
Tendencies are Lawless
It is in the order of things that as present con-
ducted miners' unions, carmen's unions, and organ-
ized labor generally should pass into the control
of lawless men. Labor organizations and espe-
cially those of unskilled workers, cannot be kept
up to an effective membership unless by unlawful
coercion in many ways. Apprenticeship is limited,
non-unionists are intimidated, boycotts and violent
reprisals are resorted to. All this is unconstitu-
tional, but the more lawless the government of
organizations like the teamsters, miners, carmen,
laborers, etc., the stronger they become. At last the
control passes into the hands of a dictatorial execu-
tive committee, or "inner circle," of thoroughly
lawless men, who exercise power in a most tyran-
nical manner. The conservative members then
cease to have any voice in the affairs of the organi-
zation, just as the more conservative carmen were
brushed aside and silenced by the violent element
in the present strike.
This tendency of unrestricted power to become
tyrannical is true of all organizations, whether of
the working classes or the upper classes.
Mankind has struggled against it for ages, and
it is totally abhorrent to our present theory and
system of government. The organized oppression
of the labor and capitalistic trusts, under which
we have suffered so much during the last decade,
is a revival in another form of tyrannv. Such as
was exercised by the feudal barons, whose good,
old rule and simple plan was that
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-THE WASP*
"He can keep who Iki-n the power
"And he may take who can."
America is not likely to turn back the wheels of
progress to that social condition. We are much
more likely to enforce the magnificent principle
laid down by the founders of our Republic, that all
men are born free and equal, and being such no
one posing as a labor autocrat, or capitalistic mag-
nate shall terrorize, or rob with impunity the hum-
blest citizen in our great land.
Governor Gillett's Antics
Another week has gone by and Governor Gillett
has done nothing but indulge in useless talks with
business men, and profitless conferences with Mayor
Schmitz. The Governor certainly knows better
than to expect that the indicted' Mayor, who sees
the gates of the State prison yawning for him, will
dismiss the incompetent Chief of Police and the
partisan Board of Police Commissioners who are the
only props on which he can rely. The dismissal
of Dinan would place that individual in the same
category as Poheim and Reagan, and perhaps con-
vert him into a useful witness for the prosecution,
after Francis J. Heney had soused him thoroughly
in his immunity bath-tub.
Although Schmitz has permitted the police to
club the striking carmen, and intimidate the pickets,
he has, nevertheless, kept union labor presidents
on the Board of Police Commissioners. If he ousted
those politicians and put in their places men who
would be satisfactory to Governor Gillett and the
business community, he would sever the last link
that binds him to the Union Labor party and be-
come politically friendless in his hour of extremity.
Although in a dire predicament, Schmitz still en-
tertains hopes of wriggling out of the grasp of
justice, and rallying the Union Labor forces around
him to once more contest at the polls for the
Mayoralty, which he has so thoroughly disgraced.
This, of course, is but a dream; yet to a man in
the position in which Schmitz finds himself, even
dreams can afford some ray of consolation.
It is not very likely then that Mayor Schmitz will
commit hari-kari by firing Dinan and his Union
Labor Commissioners merely to please Mr. Frank
J. Symmes of the Merchants' Association, and 'to
enhance the reputation of Governor Gillett, the va-
cillating Executive of the great State of California.
Governor Gillett is an old and thoroughly expe-
rienced politician, and nobody knows better that the
time has been wasted in seeking such conferences
with Mayor Schmitz. There is a much simpler way
for the Governor to give the business community
of San Francisco the relief which it so earnestly
desires, but that will impose upon the Governor
himself the necessity of going to the front and tak-
ing all the responsibility of doing his duty. He
prefers to shirk his duty and to shift the responsi-
bility, and has already succeeded in making himself,
in the estimation of the people of this State, a
worthy successor to Governor Pardee, who retired
from office with the disesteem of all political
parties.
Collier's Weekly of Xew York calls attention to
what it regards as an oversight in the matter of not
"rendering unto Caesar" the things that are due
him. Collier's believes that Mr. Win. R. Hearst
is not given full credit for the flock of troubles
that have come to roost in San Francisco. This
is how one observant and usually well-informed
Xew York contemporary sizes up the situation.
"San Francisco sowed the wind, and the fates
helped her to reap the whirlwind. That adminis-
tration which Hearst and Ruef put on her shoulders
in her careless years has become an Old Man of
the Sea in this time of toil. No one who knows
her politics doubts that the present s.eries of strikes
is due to Ruef, Schmitz, and their associates.
Cornered and desperate, they are trying to black-
mail justice by tying up the City's industries one
after another. Never was industrial hardship so
difficult for a city, but she prepared her own trouble.
In 1901 she permitted one Pierce, labor agitator,
and one Hearst, editor, to stir up such a row be-
tween the capitalist and the laborer as few Amer-
ican communities ever saw. Ruef, the man of the
hour, discovered how to turn all this to his own
advantage, and the City was harpy-ridden when
Heaven sent her great calamity."
A Citizens Alliance Bulletin
The Citizens' Alliance has not allowed the car
strike to pass without comment. Herbert George,
who sends an official "bulletin" in the form of a
circular letter every month to the business com-
munity has the following to say about the relative
merits of Union Carmen and their "scab" successors.
If you will get on the street cars today and study
the faces of the "scabs" who are running them, you
will discover that in the large majority of cases,
they are the faces of intelligent men and, if you
will go a little further in your investigations, you
will find many of them are young American boys
who have been denied the privilege of learning the
trade of their fathers through the limitation of
apprenticeship rules that obtain in all unions en-
gaged in limiting the supply of skilled labor in
America. These young fellows are polite. They
help women with their babies to get on and off the
car. They are not coarse, vulgar nor insolent like
F. THOMS, The AWNING MAN
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the men Cornelius owns. These boys wear a little
American flag on the lapel of their coats instead of
a tax receipt pinned on their hat as the teamsters
are forced to do when they wear a monthly button
furnished them by their union on the payment of
their taxes to Mr. Casey or Mr. Cornelius. Suppose
business men were forced to go about the city with
their tax receipts upon their hats. How long would
they stand for it?
"Contemplate the depth of the indignity that an
American is forced to endure when he is compelled
to wear a button on his hat proclaiming to the public
that he has paid taxes to his union for the current
month. Compare the attitude of these American
boys, classed as strike-breakers, who wear the Stars
and Stripes and stare death in the face every time
they go out with a car alone and unattended. Com-
pare the courage of these boys' who go alone with
the mob courage of the Cornelius crowd who collect
on street corners and beat up one man who refuses
to wear the union button tax receipt upon his hat.
Compare the courage of these boys who try to pro-
tect your wives, daughters and sweethearts from
foul-mouthed epithets hurled at them by hoodlums
of Cornelius' union. Make these comparisons and
you can only arrive at the conclusion that the term
'scab' will come to be an honored title that free
born American citizens, exercising their right as
sv.ch, will be proud to wear."
Insolence to Women
George is correct as to the superiority of the
"scab carmen," both in appearance and manners.
A more ruffianly lot of scoundrels than Cornelius
is gathering in his union were never seen
outside the walls of a jail. Their dominant char-
acteristic was insolence, and they prefered to use
it on the weak. They insulted respectable women
on every trip. A civil answer was as unlikely to
be extracted from them as a horseshoe from an egg.
A Combination of Low Foreigners
I happened to pass the headquarters of the strik-
ing carmen the day they received their first allow-
ance and were congregated on the sidewalk. I was
impressed by the fact that Cornelius and his co-
agitators had largely recruited the Union from the
very lowest and most ignorant of the foreign ele-
ment. The Irishmen were of that small and rapidly
diminishing class of illiterates that come to Amer-
ica to work on the railroads and the streets and
who follow with implicit obedience the lead of
agitators like Mickey Casey and the Rev. Peter C.
Yorke. They no more resemble the better class of
educated Irish, who are found arrayed for law and
order, and prominent in the professions, than a
rotten potato does a plate of ice-cream.
The Swedes and other Europeans' of Cornelius'
loyal legion of pickets were unmistakably the scum
of their nationalities. So, too, the Americans. It
had plainly been the purpose of Cornelius to con-
centrate in the Carmen's Union the most undesir-
able element in the City, so that the gang of roughs
and illiterates might become his obedient, tools to
perpetuate his own political power and that of his
confederates.
Suppression of the Decent
Good, decent men of course there were in the
Carmen's Union, foreigners who have in them the
making of first-class citizens, and Americans of the
honest, laboring class. These were the men who
tried to avert a strike and were overawed and
silenced by the disreputable turbulent and ignorant
element, on whom Cornelius relied.
Besmirched by Schmitz & Co.
The same tactics pursued in the Carmen's Union
by the low politicians, who captured and controlled
it, were identical with the policy of the Schmitz
administration all through — put only the most un-
worthy on guard.
For the decent, intelligent, law-abiding working-
man, who loved his home and his family and de-
tested the turbulence of ceaseless strikes and politi-
cal ferment, Schmitz and all his henchmen, from
Gallagher to Cornelius, have had no use. Their
pets have been the roughs and criminals of the
community, and the rougher and more lawless the
surer and quicker the promotion of the favorite un-
worthies.
By such a course the Schmitz administration has
brought discredit on the entire body of union work-
ingmen, and the innocent as well as the guilty now
suffer in public esteem.
The Opportunity for Redress
The thousands of decent workingmen who have
been misrepresented and misused too long by the
low politicians that have obtained control of or-
ganized labor should take advantage of the first
opportunity to repudiate such leadership. In a few
months we shall have another election in San Fran-
cisco, and the honest workingmen should then bury
Schmitz and all his crew, including Cornelius, under
an avalanche of ballots, from which they can never
emerge. Labor unionism may then become in San
Francisco something more than organization to pro-
mote graft, and give the criminal element control
of the government.
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THE LATE MRS. GEORGE CROCKER
Talcen when she was a noted belle in Sacramento
An attractive and popular matron, like Mrs. E.
Walton Hedges, is always an object of interest to
Society. It did not seem possible that Mrs. Hedges
would tear herself away from San Francisco to
bury herself in the humdrum life of Plainfield, New
Jersey, where her husband, Dr. Hedges, is the lead-
ing physician. The lady has performed that feat,
however, for letters have been received from her
by her San Francisco friends during the past week.
It is needless to say that Mrs. Hedges has at once
taken as prominent a place in the social community
in the East, where she now resides, as she held so
easily and with such grace in San Francisco.
Mrs. Hedges informs her friends here that the
weather in the East has been execrable since her ar-
rival, and if she had any cause to regret her departure
From San Francisco, and the glorious climate of
California, the miserable, cold and rainy spell which
phe has experienced in Plainfield would have made
her doubly dissatisfied. She has taken a cottage
|it Point Breeze Camp at Wolfboro, New Hamp-
shire, where she will remain during July, August,
and September with her children, after she has at-
tended the Medical Convention at Atlantic City, in
which Dr. Hedges will take a prominent part. Mrs.
Hedges will serve on the reception committee, and
will, no doubt, as usual, preside with the dignity
for which she was noted here.
* * *
The gossips have indulged in much speculation
as to the possibility, of the wedding of Miss Anita
Harvey being postponed indefinitely, as the young
lady has been seriously ill in New York. It was
thought that her indisposition might have had the
effect of breaking her engagement to Mr. Oscar
Cooper, son of the newly elected judge of the Appel-
late Court. It seems, however, that all rumors to
the effect that the engagement would be broken,
have been without foundation, as news was received
in San Francisco this week that Miss Harvey may
be able to return to this City in ten days, and the
wedding will take place during the Summer. Miss
Harvey will be accompanied from the East by Miss
Walker, whose mother was the daughter of the late
Edwin Markham by his first wife, and to whom
Mrs. Eleanor Martin is greatly devoted. Local So-
ciety will, no doubt, give many entertainments in
honor of this young ladv.
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-THE WASP
Bohemia is now saying that it expected Amadee
Joullin to marry instead of Mrs. Mersfelder, the
prett)r brunette ex-model who went to New York
and turned magazine writer. Amadee was regarded
by all Bohemians as epris with the lady but you
never can just tell. He painted many portraits of
her and Cadenesso depicted her too when he was
not busy planting some of Wm. Keith's oaks on the
edge of a water hole in the foreground of his can-
vasses. The girl naturally became satiated with
paint and art atmosphere and sought refuge in
literature. There is a limit to human endurance.
Amadee's first wife, whom he married in Paris,
and by whom he .had two sons died years ago. The
boys live with his parents. Mrs. Mersfelder whom
he has just married was a Chicago society girl and
has some talent as an artist. She created a sort of
sensation in the local Bohemia when she came here
with her artist husband for she was the beauty of
their set and much admired. Joullin has the true
artist's eye for beauty and is most susceptible to it
when it is moulded in the female form divine. The
wonder would have been if he hadn't fallen in love
with her.
Joullin's greatest artistic success has been in the
painting of Zuni Indians. He has exhibited in the
Paris Salon and received a decoration from the
French Governor. I believe it was John Stanton
who said that some newspaper ought to get up a
guessing contest to see what the decoration was for.
* * *
Miss Edith McCabe recently announced her en-
gagement to Ernest McCormick. Miss McCabe
has just returned from Europe. Mr. McCormick
is the brother of Mrs. Frank Mathien, who as Miss
Lizzie McCormick was well known in that set of
young girls which included Helen Landers, now
Mrs. Fred Tallant, and Mrs. Daniel Perkins, the
former pretty Miss Giffin. No date has been set
for the wedding.
* * *
Though G. F. Chapman is no more his name still
lives on the transfers the United Railways issue to pas-
sengers. The transfers are printed in the East, long
ahead of the time they are to be used, so the name
of the late vice-president and general manager has not
yet been altered to that of his successor.
* * *
Miss Edouarda Howard only added another chapter
to her vivacious life story by her secret marriage with
an actor years older than herself and a divorced man,
at that. "Teddy" Howard, daughter of the university
professor, was always doing things to shock the prudes
when she was a co-ed at the Berkeley college. At the
frat. dances she always wore her gowns cut more
decollete than did the other girls, and she always had
more admirers than any of her friends. She was
popular with boys and girls alike, and there wasn't
an envious word said when "Teddy" made good on the
stage.
.f * :':
Society was given a surprise by the recently an-
nounced engagement of Miss Elizabeth Sheehan
and Bernardo Shorb. Miss Sheehan, who is called
"Bets}'-" by her intimate friends, is the daughter
of Mr. John Sheehan, formerly of New York, but
now a resident of this City. Mr. Sheehan and his
brother are associated here in business in a con-
struction company, which has contracts for erecting
a number of large buildings. Mr. Sheehan is a
widower. The family consists of two daughters and
a son. Another son, who was in the LTnited States
Navy, died years ago. Bernardo Shorb is the son
of Mrs. J. de Barth Shorb. Mrs. Ynez Shorb White
is his sister. The prospective groom is the young-
est of eleven children, and will be an extremely
youthful benedict. Miss Ethel Shorb, another of
his sisters, is one of the most attractive young
girls in the smart set. Mrs. Murtagh, wife of Dr.
Murtagh, U. S. A., and Mrs. James Steele of Sac-
ramento are also sisters of the young man. He
has recently been taken into partnership with Mr.
Sheehan. His bride-elect is said to be very wealthy
in her own right. The wedding will take place
on the second of July. A large reception will
follow at the Fairmont Hotel. At present the
details as to bridesmaids and best man have not
been decided upon.
* * *
Since the above was written all details of the
wedding have been arranged. About 1000 invita-
tions will be issued for the church ceremony at St.
Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Riordan will officiate.
Miss Eileen Sheehan will be maid of honor. Miss
Margaret A. Sheehan and Miss Ethel Shorb will
attend as bride's maids. Mrs. Ynez Shorb White's
two little daughters and Mrs. John Murtagh's little
girl will act as flower girls. To the reception which
will follow at the Fairmont, only intimate friends
will be asked.
* * *
Miss Gertrude Allen and Charles Tripler Hutchin-
son will be married on Wednesday, June 26th, at the
residence of the brides parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Ray Allen in Oakland. The Aliens are at present
occupying the spacious Folger residence. Many
guests have been invited to the ceremony.
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-THE WASP
That was an odd reply of W. B. Sink to the ac-
ition that lie is running a noisy and disorderly
house in Fruitvale. He averred that there is not
a bedroom in the place and never will be. It is
unnecessary to go into the picturesque course of
ming that preceded Mr. Sink's words; but
occasion demands refutation against the implied
slander upon so long-standing and respectable an
object as the bed. The bed is not a noisy or dis-
orderly piece of furniture. It does not make a tenth
part of the disturbance of. say, the cuckoo clock,
which i~ itself considered a worthy household ad-
junct. There is nothing skittish or disorderly about
a bed. It is usually in its place. It is not even as
unsteady as a rocking-chair.
The establishment in question is called The Cri-
terion. And the staunch burghers of Fruitvale say
it is the criterion of His Infernal Majesty, Prince
of the Red Light District. They even fear, if the
Criterion is allowed to retain its license that the
very name of the town will fall into doubt and mis-
interpretation. These same upholders of undazzled
virtue have already unveiled three somewhat mock-
heroic petitions for the squelching of said Criterion,
and have invited the Alameda County Board of
Supervisors to gaze thereon and be shocked. But
thus far the tides of laughter still ebb and flow with
the transpiring of day and night, and ragtime still
resounds from the $20,000 Criterion. The neighbors
say they have never heard such a raggy time be-
fore: that is, in Fruitvale. But Mr. Sink refuses
to be in hot water. He asserts that the place is
not noisy or disorderly, for he has double glass
windows to deaden the sound, and there being noth-
ing in the place that makes a noise like a bedroom,
what ho ! A non-combatant in the dispute may
venture to say that when the hitherto nocturnal
calm is shot with auto headlights, and the road is
honking with auto horns from distance to distance,
and auto ladies engage in a hair-pulling duet on
the porch, and the coon shouters disappear behind
their uproarious mouths, a double-glass window is
not the only shield that respectability might de-
mand. There is no objection to the double-glass
windows ; it is the necessity for them that makes
the price of real estate go down.
* * *
That celebrated organization of intellectual
women known as The Spinners has developed a
real author in the person of Miss Sara Dean, the
founder of the society. She has written an earth-
quake novel, as have a great many other California
writers, but Miss Dean's work has the distinction
of having been accepted by a publisher and put in
print by Frederick Stokes of New York. No doubt
The Spinners will celebrate in proper fashion, the
formal appearance of Miss Dean amongst the galaxy
of modern professional novelists.
* * *
Mrs. Ed. Pond whose husband, the son of ex-
Mayor Pond, is in financial difficulty, is one of the
best dressed women in San Francisco. Prior to her
marriage to the young commission merchant, Mrs.
Pond was Miss Isabel Grant, and was an immensely
popular societ}' girl. On the death of her father
~nmc years ago, Miss Grant inherited a modest
fi irtune. She bears such a strong resemblance to
Airs. Win. H. Crocker, the wife of the well known
banker, that she is being constantly mistaken for
that distinguished lady.
* * *
Mrs. Aileen Ivers Robinson, the half sister of Mrs.
W. G. Irwin, who is making such a success in
European society is much admired wherever she
goes. She has a splendid social position in Phil-
adelphia, Newport and Paris and she is always
dressed in the most exquisite taste. There are but
three colors that she wears, grey, white and laven-
der. No other hues suit her golden hair. An amus-
ing characteristic of Mrs. Robinson is that she is
always lauding the simple life and the delights of
love in a cottage with a few trailing vines over the
front of it.
# # *
Did not Marie Antoinette and her splendid Court
ladies masquerade as dairymaids at Versailles. The
simple life has always been an aspiration of the
world of fashion for, being the furthest thing attain-
able, it has the enchantment of distance. Mrs.
Robinson and Mrs. Gus Spreckels are great friends.
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■THE WASP-
THE MOTHER OF MISS GLADYS UNCER
Recent letters from Honolulu announce the en-
gagement of Miss Eva Heuston and Frederick W.
Grimwood. Miss Heuston is very well known here.
Her father, the late General John Heuston, belonged
to the old set of the Bohemian Club. Mr. Grim-
wood's mother is the eldest daughter of the late
Supreme .fudge J. B. Crockett. Mrs. Laurence
Irving Scott (Caro Crockett) is a cousin. The
Crockett family is one of our oldest and most
prominent socially. Miss Grimwood, the sister of
the prospective bridegroom, is a member of the
ultra exclusive set.
Supreme Judge Crockett lived for years in a fine
home in Fruitvale and was very proud of his mag-
nificent garden. After the death of the Judge and
his estimable wife Miss Emma Crockett and Mrs.
Kate Ritter, her sister, lived in the old home and
continued to dispense the hospitality for which it
was famous. The property has since passed into
other hands, as the Crockett family has in recent
vears met with serious financial reverses.
The late Joseph Crockett, when at the head of
the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company, in-
curred the displeasure of Claus Spreckels, because
the smoke from the chimney of one of the Com-
pany's electric plants defaced the clean gray stone
of the new Call building. The old sugar king
spoke to Crockett about it one day at the Pacific
Union Club, where the president of the Gas Com-
pany was enjoying himself with some acquaintances.
"Oh, don't talk business to me in the Club,"
replied Crockett.
Spreckels retorted in the shape of a competing
gas company, which undertook by the investment
of several millions of dollars to put the old concern
out of business. The earnestness with which the
indignant sugar king went at the work of laying
pipes in the streets and preparing to install a plant,
had the effect of scaring Crockett's company into
a compromise. Incidentally Crockett himself lost
his position, went down the hill financially and los-.-.
ing his health into the bargain, died within a few!
years. The old sugar king made a tidy sum byl
the coup, which was by no means the first of the!
kind he had planned and made highly profitable.
It has been a disputed question whether the brusque
reply of Joe Crockett in the Pacific Union Club
was the incentive or the pretext for the attack on
the San Francisco Gas Company, which took sev-
eral millions out of its coffers.
The dailies record the glorious time a certain
prominent young lady is having East, where
theater and supper parties are alleged to be show-
ered upon the fair Californian. Another San Fran-
cisco lady, who is in the East, writes a dear friend
here that the recipient of so much newspaper celeb-
rity has been paying for all the theater tickets, etc.,
herself, and the great East, socially considered, has
paid about as much attention to her as the ocean
does to a drop of rain that falls into it. The East
is a very big and a very bustling place, and one
has to be a large toad in the social puddle to make
his or her croak audible above the rush and roaS
of the multitude.
* * *
Maynaul Dixon is making money. The Southern
Pacific has engaged him to paint four large can-*
vases representing desert and Indian scenes and
thev are to decorate the Station at Tucson.
O Joy
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Said Mabelle to William : "And I, dear,
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MISS HELEN BANCROFT
The boycott feature of the strike reminds me of
fhe old A. P. A. agitation. I knew one laboring
man of that period who was rampantly Protestant
and patriotic. Mis wife, so it happened, brought
all her supplies from Catholic tradesmen. Some
one asked Iter how she reconciled her practice with
her husband's principles, and she said he didn't
earn enough to indulge in principles. "Until he
does," she added, "he'll eat Italian Catholic potatoes
ami German Catholic steak cooked over an Irish
Catholic fire. I can do better trading with them
than with his A. P. A. people and it's I, not he, who
has tn stretch the income over a month."
"Any woman who rides in the cars ought to be
killed," hissed, melodramatically, a very well-dressed
v. mng woman on YVednesdav morning, as a stout
"matron encumbered with parcels boarded a car at
Fillmore and O'Farrell Streets. "She may be right,"
observed the stout matron as she deposited herself
and her bundles, with a sigh of relief, in a corner
seat. "I suppose they'll be boycotting me next. But
when it comes to that we'll see which talks loud-
est— my cash or Mr. Cornelius. And I'd just like
to see him walk home after he'd been on his feet
all the morning from six o'clock, getting breakfast,
washing dishes, making beds and sweeping and
dusting before going down to do the marketing.
Time's" an object to me, too, else I might patronize
Jone of their busses."
* * *
Society would really have been disappointed had
not that prominent and much admired matron Mrs.
Kate Voorhies Henry appeared at last in Court to
ask for a divorce from her blue-bloo'ded husband J.
Malcolm Henry — descendant of the illustrious Patrick
Df revolutionary fame. Mr. Malcolm Henry holds a
clerical position in Washington and is reputed to
3e as short on cash as long on pedigree and as
Virgil says in his artless way "Hence these tears."
The children, a beautiful boy and girl are here with
their mother who was welcomed back to the family
home lung ago by her popular mother, Mrs. Alfred
Hunter Voorhie's after the marriage to ancestry
was found to be a dismal failure. It transpired on
the abbreviated trial of the case in Judge Mogan's
illustrious court that Mr. Henry has "a fiery
temper" which is also an heirloom. A fiery temper
i- one of the few tilings that thrive amazingly on a
small income and an infelicitous marriage.
It is perhaps superfluous to add that the gossips
did not wait until the divorce, to pick out a suitable
match for this highly attractive matron. They have
rigged up, a romance about a popular and talented
doctor in the United States Navy who is pining
away for her in the distant Philippines.
* * *
The Key Route Inn was the scene of a notable
anti-nuptial dinner this week. It was given in honor
of Senator Lukens of Alameda, who left the next
day for Washington where he will be united in
marriage with Miss Emma V. Mullin of that city.
The banquet was given by the Elks and the
Senator's friends on both sides of the bay. Covers
were laid for seventy-five. Gov. Gillett was un-
expectedly called to Sacramento at the last minute,
so was unavoidably absent. Judge Harry Melvin
of course acted as toastmaster.
* * *
Dick — "Miss Tabasco was speaking about the
way you tooted the coach horn in the tallyho party.
She complimented you highly."
Clarence (delighted) — "How grand of her!"
Dick — "Yes, she said if you ever had to go to
work you could easily get a job as scissor grinder."
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-THE WASP-
It is not surprising that Joaquin Miller was tempted
to place his arms around the whiskered neck of Mayor
Schmitz and hug that much indicted politician when
he saw him sitting under the sword of Justice in
Judge Dunne's courtroom. The wonderful thing is
that the impulsive poet did not actually embrace
Abe Ruef's partner, and weep salty tears on the
Mayor's immaculate shirt-front. Joaquin is every
inch a poet, and as sensitive to impulses as an aspen
leaf to the slightest summer breeze. The old Bard
of the Sierras also likes to have the center of the
stage with the spotlight turned on him to its full
strength. It is not an unusual thing with him when
he goes to the theater to rise deliberately in his seat,
for the mere purpose of putting on his spectacles,
and deliberately surveying the house. Those who
know the distinguished poet are duly impressed, and
those who do not, wonder from what part of the
alfalfa regions the hoosier-like stranger blew in. The
late John Bonner the well known editorial writer
of the Chronicle, was one day walking with Joaquin
in the northern end of the town, when they saw
some ladies winding thick wire around trees in the
garden, for the purpose of keeping them straight.
The poet burst into tears at the sight.
"For God's sake, man, what is the matter with
you?" asked Bonner, of the sorrow-stricken poet.
It was some moments before the impulsive bard
could suppress his emotion. When he finally found
his voice he said,
"O Bonner, only think how that wire is hurting
those poor trees."
The bars that are tightening around Schmitz
must be a good deal more painful to his feelings
than those wires that gave the poet of the Sierras
so much sentimental perturbation.
* * *
Rhyme of the Week
The market in strikes is depressed, so to speak ;
Boodling is somewhat inactive just now;
Confessions closed firm, with conviction still weak;
A full crop of wrinkles on Schmitz's broad brow.
Many say Tedd)' will run all the same :
Three points decline in the prices of Taft.
Orchard, who cornered the homicide game,
Shows how 'tis vain to mix murder with graft.
Joaquin, the Bard of his own Blooming Heights,
Is bidding for Oregon's chair in the Senate.
Heney, our Champion Cicero, bites
A chunk off the ear of his foemen each minute.
Nat Goodwin goes on a gold-mining spree.
Kuroki hears tell of the Jap-Yankee war :
"War?" does he echo, and "War? Now let's see;
Where have I heard that word mentioned before?"
Schmitz jury fattens on St. Francis fare;
Teddy says Harriman now is immune ;
Frisco is given a Nature-fake scare :
A rain-storm almost in the middle of June.
The day after, you need Abbott's Bitters. Braces the nerves; sus-
tains you throughout the day, and makes you feel bright and cheerful.
At druggists.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Somers, Emily Marvin, have
returned from their wedding tour, and taken apart-
ments at the Fairmont Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickman and Mr. and Mrs.
Porter Garnett selected Bohemian Grove as the
place in which to spend their honeymoon.
* # *
A good many people here will be deeply inter-
ested to learn that Mrs. Hearst is going to spend
some time in California again, after her long
European visit. She will divide her time this Sum-
mer between the hacienda at Pleasanton and her
castle on the McCloud.
* * *
Although Mrs. Eleanor Martin expects to spend
a great deal of time at Burlingame with her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Martin,
she will keep her town house open throughout the
season.
* * *
The picture of the mother of Gladys Unger in
this week's Wasp, is calculated to stimulate the
memories of any old San Franciscans who see it.
The picture was taken thirty years ago when Unger
was one of the most popular young clubmen in
town. Mrs. Unger was Miss Minnie Buchanan of
Marysville. After her divorce from Unger she
married a Mr. Goodwin, an Eastern literary man.
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-THE WASP
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The two Catholic priests who were mistaken for
anti-Calhouners thought them>elves near the jingl-
ing of St. Peter's keys when a nervous strike-breaker
pointed his revolver at them from the ramparts of
a Dcvisadero Street ear. Then they heard a remark
that was less characteristie of the Upper House
than the environs of the Fiery Lake, and they real-
ized that they were still in San Francisco. The
pronouncement of the platform man was one of
those choice bits of belles lettres that find favor with
Union men and scabs alike. The only stern op-
ponents of such clever catch phrases are the lino-
type performers, who insist on indicating them with
dashes, asterisks, exclamation points and such vain
phenomena of typography. But let that pass.
The Rev. Father Driscoll and Rev. Father
O'Connor, assistant pastor and pryor of St.
Dominic's Church, were in company of Bond and
Warrant Clerk G. M. Kelly, on a merely social basis
presumably. It was night, and the trio, standing
near the tracks, in some way gave the motorman a
non-union notion that they desired to board the
car. When they did not do so, an idea struck the
conductor that he might be in danger of being
struck with something else. With that he drew
the navy revolver with which he had been wont to
hunt blue monkeys on the banks of the Gulf Stream.
The Bond and Warrant waited to see if he should
be required in a professional capacity anent an
assault to kill the priests, and they tarried to give
him the last spiritual consolation. Noticing this
tidy display of heroism, and observing nothing else,
the conductor drew in his gun and shouted re-
assuringly to his comrade : "I guess these
are all right. Go ahead!"
The Bond and Warrant Clerk was so sore over this
offhand classification that he hunted up a Bulletin
reporter and had it all put into print, including the
" ". It is evidentally not a safe thing
even for men of God to stand on a street corner with
any end of the Schmitz administration. People are
so outspoken these days about the gang and their
intimate friends too.
• * # * ■
Strange indeed are the vagaries of Fate.
Amongst the forthcoming events of great social
importance will be the wedding of a well-seasoned
widower of much financial soliditv and a lovely
bud well on the sunny side of thirty. One of the
ushers who will figure at the wedding was a pall-
bearer eighteen months ago, when the disconsolate
widower followed the remains of his wife to the
tomb. The famous lines of Pope, "From grave
to gay," must have been inspired by some expe-
rience similar to that of the usher.
An engagement announced in San Rafael lately
is that of Horatio B. Muzzy to Miss Elizabeth
Dufficy, youngest daughter of Judge and Mrs. M. C.
Dufficy. The bride elect who has lived in San
Rafael since her childhood, was .educated at the
Convent there, and is a great favorite. The wedding
will take place early in September. Mr. Muzzy is
engaged in the lumber business and has large
interests in Solano County.
I). M. Delmas has been resting at Del Monte after
his arduous efforts to keep the delectable Harry
Thaw from the electrocution chair. Mrs. Delmas
accompanies the famous advocate. The couple were
SO much pleased with the beauty and restfulness of
Del Monte that Mrs. Delmas will return at the end
of June and make it her home throughout the
Summer. Her brilliant husband will come down
as often as circumstances permit, to get a little
well-earned relaxation from the acrimonious war-
fare of the graft cases.
O'Brien and Robert MacCoullough Nichols, of
Boston, Mass., has just been announced. Miss
O'Brien is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. O'Brien
and is quite prominent in local musical circles. Mr.
Nichols has just returned to this coast from
Cavite naval station, where he has been engaged in
Naval construction work. The wedding will take
place the latter part of this month.
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-THE WASP-
Gemhe Photo MISS ELIZABETH M. DUFFICY
There has been no widespread remark on the
first American saint-elect. His formal canonization
by Pope Pius IX is to follow a series of bold day-
light miracles that have taken place at the tomb
of Archbishop John Nepomucene Neumann. Phila-
delphia, the mocked, the behindhand, the city of
adagio repute, thus is the first spot in America
to yield up genuine miracles and regularly licensed
saint. Two of the miraculous exhibitions were the
curing of a blind girl and a deaf woman. No cos-
mical disturbance was noticed at these events; th^
miracles passed off quietly with all the intangibility
of a Christian Science cure. On this account there
is likely to arise some competition between Mrs.
Eddy and the Pope. The Vatican does not permit
its adherent to perform wonders until after he is
dead ; and even then there is a long religious cere
mony that precedes the sanctification. Mrs. Eddy,
on the other hand, issues miracle-licenses on the
payment of a not exorbitant fee and subscription
to her Christian Science journal. The Scientist
may then start out on his own hook, and he hooks
'em in pretty fast when they run well.
It is hard to say whether competition is the life
of miracles. A Labor Union of Christian Science
wonder-workers might go on a strike, declare St.
John Nepomucene an unfair saint, boycott anybody
found cured at his tomb, and put the miracle busi-
ness in America on the bad. This, too, at a time
when it is an infant industry.
Out West we have produced no saints ; as our
good men are all still alive, and sanctification comes
after death. Until such demise we shall not be sure
of the case. Perhaps when the Rev. Peter C. Yorke
will have been for some years plucking shamrocks
on the field of Heaven, the evidenciary miracles
will begin to pop about his grave, and the tomb of
St. Peter Cantankerus of Oakland will become one
of the shining landmarks of the Far Western land-
scape. Union Labor leaders will perhaps repair
thither to chip a piece from the sacred stone, which
will give them, power to ride home in a scab car
without rising to smash the windows. In times of
stress Michael Casey could lure strike-breakers by
the truckful to the tomb, where they would re-
ceive an irresistible desire to sprint to the eastward
and dash their brains out against the Rocky Moun-
tains. Edward J. Livernash may go there and dis-
cover that the concatenated use of such words as
"shameless, leprous, and maggotty," is not all there
is to a literary style.
Part of the procedure of canonization is the ap-
pointment of two bishops to counteract, if the in-
terests of truth so require, the evidence of the pro-
ponents. These two counteractors are called the
"Devil's Advocates." It is not necessary to com-
bat the petition with infernal ingenuity if the
affirmative have a bona fide case. The Mephisto-
phelian oglings of Sam Shortridge and the fire and
brimstone of Heney would be uncalled for, even if
they were bishops. It is almost a requisite for the
occurrence of the miracles that the deceased have
lived a life of poverty, at least of charity- without
parsimony. When one considers that side of the
case, it looks as if, after all, out here we must be
content with our sunshine, fruits and flowers, and
use the miracle of the foreigner.
Let them know!
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when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
-THE WASP
13
thought the price a bit high, and replied,
the scandal; let joy be unconfined."
'On with
MRS. CHARLES STEWART
Miss Nina Blow, who is frequently referred to
by the Society reporters in their narration of social
events, is a very pretty and interesting girl. She is
the daughter of Mr. A. W. Blow, the well-known
stockbroker, and niece of Mrs. Ray, the wife of Cap-
tain Ray, I'. S. X., who has lately been assigned to
the Mare Island station. Mrs. Ray was the popu-
lar Miss Sadie Richards, daughter of the late Mr.
Richards of Richards & Harrison, the pioneer firm of
importers which was afterward merged into the firwi
of Sherwood & Sherwood. Mrs. Ray was married
when a mere girl to her former school mate,
young Joseph Moulton, brother of Mrs. Alexander
Warner and Mrs. Charles Abbott. The youthful
bridegroom died within two months and after some
years the young and pretty widow married Captain
Ray, who is a very popular officer. Mrs. Ray's
sister, Miss Georgie Richards, married Mr. Blow,
the stock and bond broker. The Blows are related
to the Glasscock family, who have since pioneer
days been very prominent in Oakland Society.
Everything connected with the name of Yerkes is
wrapped in seven layers of icy gloom and illumi-
nated with the dim blue light of mystery. There is
also an element of doubt and many unanswered
questions that lie round like a lot of chickens born
during Cleveland's administration, slain before the
Great Temblor and waiting in cold storage for a
change in the price of tamales. The Yerkeses
never answer questions, and no one ever guesses
the answers. Like unto a local coffee firm, the
motto of the House of Yerkes is "Why?" It stands
for the family history and honor.
When Charles T. Yerkes was still alive, yet al-
most not, Emily Grigsby came to his bedside. He
had eagerly sent for her. On the other side of the
bed sat Mrs. Yerkes. Nobody had sent for her ; she
came out of mere formality for the impressive function
of death. Thus the two women who had shared the
traction magnate's bounty, met, and the wife haughtily
flashed her wedding ring in Emily Grigsby 's face, so to
speak. Those were the days when the newspapers
so solicitously mentioned the yellowness about
Mrs. Yerkes' gills. At any rate, the dying mil-
lionaire wishes to leave a larger portion of his
wealth to the young woman for whom the wedding
bells had not rung out, but who respected him just
as much as if he had wrung them out of the heart
of his lawful wife. There is some little sentiment
about those things anyway. When the revised will
was ready. Dr. Loomis butted in with a sort of
vice-versa motion that is said to be characteristic
of his more notable acts, and declared that the
patient should not be worried with the matter.
Miss Grigsby, thus defrauded out of the ill-gotten
gains, afterwards so far forgot the' injury, or for-
got herself, that she was named in the divorce suit
brought by Mrs. Loomis against the doctor. Mrs.
Loomis would have stayed the suit and obviated
a scandal for the sum of $400,000. But the doctor
Recent dispatches announce the arrival of Miss
Jennie Blair in Paris, before leaving New York
she was the guest of Mrs. Herman Oelrichs. Miss
Blair will spend some time in Paris before going to
Germany and will not return to California for many
months. In early days Miss Blair was an intimate
friend of Mrs. Oelrichs, when she was still Miss
Tessie Fair. In fact Blairs helped to give the Fairs
social entre in San Francisco.
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The shallow part of London has recently been
stirred to its depths over Lord and Lady Bagot.
This couple is undergoing an operation for the re-
moval of its martial woes, and the public, because
it has not been taken into the peer's confidence, is
occupying its mind with the innocent but fantastic
pastime of guessing. Notoriety is an exact science.
Most of its students are unsatisfied with the re-
search in this case, and will not cease their efforts
until the final atom of the fashionable disagreement
has been brought to the baleful light of scandal.
Those who are unacquainted with the standing of
the parties will be pleased to learn that the New
York "World" grew egotistic over a victory of
modern journalism in having been first to spread
news of the estrangement. It was almost worth an
extra edition.
Lady Bagot is our own. She was Miss Lillian
May, and the real frosting on the cake down in
Baltimore. The wedding, at Brompton Oratory,
July 25, 1903, was a feature of the season's write-
up. King Edward attended by proxy. Lord Bagot,
of Rugeley, is a member of the oldest family in
Staffordshire. He has been a Lord in Waiting to
Queen Alexandra (which does not entail, as might
erroneously be supposed, the brushing of her hair)
and Aide de Campe to the Marquis of Lome when
the latter was Governor-General of Canada. Lord
and Lady lived happy for a time and fought over
nothing more serious than the docking of a horse's
tail or a footman's wages. In the Spring of 1904,
Lady Bagot made a four months' visit to some
friends in Paris. In the meantime the Lord Bagot
became ill, and subsequently remained so. Then he
gathered a lot of gloom about himself and told his
wife to stay on the outside. In an antenuptial
agreement he permitted his future children to be
baptised in the Catholic faith. This he lived up to,
although the highest English Court has declared
such religious arrangements void. The baptism of
his infant daughter in the early part of 1905 was
taken as refutation of the rumor that the Bagot
family had demanded the child be brought up as a
Protestant. All the satisfaction that Lady Bagot
has received in the matter is a settlement of $4-000
a year. Her present suit is for a restoration of con-
jugal rights. The peer is now secluded in his
Blithefield estates and does not wish to conjug a
little bit. The Mays of Baltimore have prominent
relatives in San Francisco.
* * *
Fashionable folks from San Francisco and even
wise ones from the Far East look to Hotel Rafael
as a most delightful hostelry in the balmiest part of
California. It not only wins the admiration of
permanent guests, but is just the place for those
who desire a few suburban daj's where all sorts of
comfort are readily at hand without necessitating
the time to study the situation. Arrangements are
so perfect that from the moment of arrival to the
time for grasping the dress-suit case and depart-
ing the guest enjoys an uninterrupted period of
satisfaction. Table, accommodations, grounds and
amusements are now replete with the gaiety of the
smart set.
Mrs. G. Alexander Wright and the Misses Wright
of Palo Alto have issued invitations for a "Lavender
Tea" at the Fairmont Hotel on Wednesday, June
19th. Covers will be laid for about thirty guests.
* * *
Mrs. Charles Stewart, whose picture appears in
this week's Wasp, was Miss Queen Montgomery
previous to her marriage. She belongs to one of
the most talented families here.
Dr. Bucknall, whose death, following an opera-
tion, was announced this week, was one of the
prominent pioneer physicians who have nearly all
passed away. He came here in 1856, and was 71
years old. Mrs. Bucknall was Miss Davis, daughter
of Juan C. Davis, a prominent pioneer, after whose
death Mrs. Davis married Eugene L. Sullivan, Col-
lector of the Port. One of Dr. Bucknall's two sur-
viving daughters is Mrs. Fred Marriott, wife of the
well-known newspaper publisher.
* * *
It is expected that at the golf handicap today at
Del Monte Miss A. E. W. Morgan, Miss Cornelia
Armsby, Miss Cotter and Mrs. Williamson will take
part, as well as Mrs. Warner and Mrs. Loeser,
previous prize winners.
* * *
Mrs. Kate Voorhies Henry has gone with a large
party for an extended visit to the Thomas H.
Williams' ranch on the McCloud River. Some of
the guests went in a private car, while others left
in autos. A glorious time is anticipated.
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The marriage of Miss Julia Parsons of Mare
Island, and Assistant Naval ( onstructor Sydney M.
Henry, LT. S. X.. will be celebrated this Fall. The
bride-to-be and groom-elect were guests of honor
recently at a dinner given at Mare Island by Naval
Constructor and Mrs. Holden A. Evans. Orange
blossoms were effectively used lor table decora-
tions.
The couple left for Yellowstone
have their home in this City.
Park. They will
Miss Ida May Henley and Theodore James
Wilder were married on June 5th at the residence
of the bride's parents in Berkeley. Rev. W. R.
Hodgkins of the Episcopal Church officiated.
The wedding of Miss Lorraine de la Montanya
and Mr. Edward Davis, took place on Tuesday
evening at 9 o'clock, June 11th, at the residence of
the bride's mother, Mrs. George Terbush on Frank-
lin .Street. The bride's maids were Miss Hazel
Farmer and Miss Roma Paxton. Mr. Philip Paschal
was best man. Amongst the forty people invited were
Mrs. Eleanor Martin. Mrs. f. de Earth Shorb, Mrs.
Ynez Shorb White. Mrs. R. D. Fry, Mrs. J. L.
M artel, Miss Adel Martel, Misses Grace and
l-'rances Thompson, all friends of the groom. As
Mr. Davis is erecting several buildings, he will not
take the contemplated European bridal tour at pres-
ent, but it is likely that he and his bride will go
abroad within the next six months.
* * *
The marriage of Miss Catherine Keenan, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Keenan, and James B. Keith,
an official of the Illinois Central Railroad, took place
on June 5th at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Fell
and Fillmore Streets. Archbishop Riordan officiat-
ing. A reception was held at the residence of the
bride's parents Page and Webster Streets, to which
several hundred guests were present. Mr. and Mrs.
Keith will make their home in this City.
V * *
At Carson, Nevada, Mrs. Helen Bierce Ballard,
daughter of Ambrose Bierce, received a decree of
divorce at 2 :30 P. M. and at 4 P. M. was married to
Harry Davenport Cowden, a mining operator of
that State. Judge Lanagan granted the decree and
performed the ceremony. No doubt Sam Davis
and the other journalistic sages of Nevada will
point to these expeditious proceedings as proof of
the up-to date methods of the Sagebrush State, but
the underpinning is knocked out of that argument
by the fact that Miss Bierce was a product of the
glorious climate of California.
Amongst the many recent marriages was that of
Miss Sylvia Martinoni and Albert R. Hammond at
the residence of the bride's mother Mrs. Lucia
Martinoni, Union Street , Alameda.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Burnham have issued cards
for the marriage of their daughter Miss Mertie Ver-
nell and William Blewett. which will take place on
June 19th in Oakland. The bride is a daughter of
Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal George Burnham.
Miss Nellie Sullivan and Harry A. Byrnes have
been married. The bride is the eldest daughter of
the late District Attornev J. D. Sullivan who was
once a partner of Colonel Herbert Chovnski. Mr.
Byrnes is traffic manager for a large oil company.
All is in readiness for the forthcoming wedding of
Miss Beda Sperry and Augustus Bodwell, which
will be quietly celebrated at the home of the bride's
mother, Mrs. Austin Sperry. on Pacific Avenue.
June 17th. Rev. Bradford Leavitt officiating.
Only members of the Sperry family, which has a
very large connection will be present. Mr. Bodwell
owns a valuable ranch in Sonoma Valley, where
he and his bride will spend the summer.
Miss Ethel Shorb has postponed her visit to Los
Angeles until after the wedding of her young
brother, Bernardo, and Miss Elizabeth Sheehan in
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-THE WASP
THE BEAUTIFUL MRS. MALCOLM HENRY
The Rev. May S. Pepper is not as well-known in
San Francisco as in Brooklyn. Even in the City
of Churches she is not as popular as she is in the
City of the Dead, otherwise known as Eternity, or
the Spirit Land. For some years she has acted as
a go-between from the invisible to the visible. The
invisible consisted of such impalpable things as re-
turned to this world in order to examine some latch-
key, watch-charm, lead pencil or the like, which
Brooklyners placed on the Rev. Mav's pulpit; the
visible, any of said Brooklyners who paid 25 cents
admission. Special donations caused corresponding-
activity in the spectral denizens of infinite space.
Announcement of her marriage to Edward Van-
derbilt, who stands in some circumambient relation
to the widespread New York- family, caused no
surprise among the visible or invisible of the First
Spiritualistic Church, as May was always fond of
running her short pink fingers through the long
green. Edward Vanderbilt, as his name implies, is
a millionaire. He will take his bride on a visit
to the Czar of all the Russians, excepting Gorky.
Immediately after her marriage, Mrs. Vanderbilt
took a hundred-yard dash into the Ethereal Beyond,
where she was entrusted with a few words for the
bomb-pestered Nicholas. This message she will
deliver in person. There may be a medium of ex-
change to be handled by none but the Emperor and
herself. En route she will be the guest of Lady
Tankerville, now in London, and thereafter sojourn
in Paris, a place perhaps not remarkably fit for in-
nocent young brides. But Mrs. Pepper-Vanderbilt,
who is built somewhat on the broad, flowing lines
of Secretary of War Taft, is too practical to let
any material influences corrupt the imperial mes-
sage. This communication is evidently from the
harp-twanging Romanoffs, and is rumored to be
"Down with the Douma." If that is true, the
douma is doomed; for Airs. Pepper never makes a
mistake when she meets a man with a mind like
the Daddy of the Nihilists.
* * *
Ralph E. Parr, the ex-secretary of the Burlingame
Club, who has been charged with forgery, belongs
to a well-known family of Alameda. His sister,
Mrs. Roger Chickering, who was Miss Theo Parr,
is a member of Oakland and Alameda's exclusive
set. Her marriage last year was a Society event.
It is to be hoped, for the sake of the family, the
newspaper reports of the young man's lapses from
honesty will not be fully verified, for they make
him out a pretty tough case for a stripling of. 21.
* * *
The devotees of bridge whist have been consid-
erably interested in the published news that a cer-
tain well-known and popular young matron had sold
her home in the Western Addition and moved into
a new home. The whist players are wondering if
the lady's present domicile will become as noted
for exciting games of whist and high stakes as was
her former residence. It is no uncommon thing for
the gamesters to compete for such prizes as twenty-
five-dollar hats, and the young hostess, who has a
marvelous talent for the fashionable game, won a
stock of millinery that would have sufficed to start
a shop on Van Ness Avenue.
* * *
When Orrin Peck, the painter, was out here, he
complained of the lack of art atmosphere in San
Francisco, and, in fact, in America, generally speak-
ing-. Y\ 'hat Orrin lost in art atmosphere he more
than made up in the cameraderie of the Bohemian
Club. Since Mr. Peck went to Europe, he has been
getting art atmosphere in large gulps. He rented
a house in Old Chelsea, where Whistler lived, and
when he finds the air becoming too rarified there,
he flits across the English Channel, and runs down
to Paris for a few weeks in the Latin Quarter. I
read a good deal about his movements in that
direction, but less about the number of pictures
he is producing. Mr. Peck is a very capable artist.
-THE WASP-
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but, like others of that ilk, his productiveness is in
the inverse ratio to his genius.
Marjorie Bowen, whose prodigious novels have
made two of the year's big hits, is a Miss Gabrielle
Yere Campbell, a descendant of course of the Clan
Campbell. She was educated in London and Paris,
and had no idea that the ancient rancor still sur-
vived until it was given to her as an excuse not to
introduce a certain gentleman — "But, you know, he
is a Macdonald."
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Garret W. McEnerney will spend
the Summer in San Rafael, where they have leased
a handsome residence. Their town house on Wash-
ington Street has been closed.
* * *
Dr. and Mrs. Harry Alderson who was the attrac-
tive Cordelia Bishop of Oakland before her mar-
riage, will soon return to this coast from the East.
where Dr. Alderson has been taking a course at
Hopkins University of Virginia. He graduated with
high honors. They will reside in this citv. Mrs.
Alderson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgai
Bishop, well known and prominent in Oakland's
exclusive set.
* * *
Viola Allen says that there are two careers she
would prefer to acting, authorship or trained nurs-
ing. She says the greatest drawback to enjoyment
of life to an actress is "Monotony, the deadly routine
engendered by the long run." No doubt Maude
Adams would agree with her.
Miss Daisy Polk, who has been living in Berkeley
since the recent death of her father and mother, will
leave about June 15th on a visit to Mrs. George
H. Hellmanu, at her mountain home, ten miles
above Healdsburg. Miss Polk is the only sister
of Willis Polk, the talented architect, and is as
clever in music as her brother is in architecture.
She is a wonderful violinist.
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"This," said the stage manager, "is the setting
for the balcony scene in 'Romeo and Juliet'."
"But I seem to miss something," said the critic.
"Where is the ladder?"
"Ladder? The modern Romeo doesn't climb a
ladder; he comes in an airship."
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Our Venetian Government
The protests of the business community against
the municipal railroad on Geary Street have been
treated with the utmost contempt, and the vicious
legislation, by the Board of Supervisors, necessary
to the creation of the public evil, has been accom-
plished. Here we have a. fine example of the vic-
iousness of government when it takes any other
form then the constitutional one. San Francisco
is now governed by the "big stick," wielded by
the citizens who guarantee a hundred thousand
dollars for the prosecution of the grafters. The
public does not know who all these men are.
Rudolph Spreckels is one of them, but the names
of the others are in doubt. The citizens of San
Francisco are therefore governed by a secret
tribunal in the manner in which ancient Venice was
ruled by rival factions. When a citizen of Venice
was indicted, imprisoned or sentenced to death, he
knew not by whose authority the punishment was
instigated or inflicted. Being ignorant of that fact,
it was, of course, impossible for him to appeal
effectually, for the secret tribunal superseded the
courts of law.
However upright and patriotic may be the people
constituting the secret tribunal that now rules San
Francisco, their procedure is improper and entirely
to be condemned when they deviate one inch from
the business of prosecuting the grafters.
Even that is irregular and dangerous. It is a
work undertaken and conducted by a newspaper
and a banker, who has guaranteed one hundred
thousand dollars for the payment of special prose-
cutors and detectives. In other words, it is needed
someone possessed of one hundred thousand dol-
lars to start the machinery of justice. Any humble
citizen, or a thousand humble citizens, not able
to contribute a hundred thousand dollars could not
have done the work. The fact is therefore estab-
lished that all the poor but honest citizens of our
community are powerless to redress their wrongs,
but a hundred thousand dollars can take possession
of the District Attorney's office, indict the grafters
and a dozen or so of the leading capitalists and
make the Superior Judges jump around in lively
fashion.
Is this a highly desirable precedent. By no
means. It is revolution. The machinery of justice
should be moved in the constitutional fashion by
the elected officers of the law and none others.
If a banker with one hundred thousand dollars
can take possession of the District Attorney's office
and the Grand Jury, and use the big stick on the
Board of Supervisors, other combinations represent-
ing one hundred thousand dollars may do the same,
for very evil purposes or totally unlike the
prosecution of grafting officials.
In a government like ours the gates should never
be left ajar for rascals to enter. When we adopted
our new Charter we were told that the great respon-
sibility thrown on the Mayor would surely cause
the voters to elect none but the most honorable
of citizens to the chair of the Chief Magistrate.
Then Ruef, seeing the gates thrown open to
political bandits, nominated Schmitz and established
his government of highbinders.
Eternal vigilance and inflexible opposition to all
tampering with the constitutional safeguards are
the price of good government.
The Coming War with Japan
It will not be the fault of the editors and agita-
tors in Tokio and San Francisco if the United States
and Japan be not embroiled in war within three
years — five at the farthest. War with Japan would
be a most unprofitable enterprise, from the Ameri-
can standpoint. We would have nothing to gain
and a great deal to lose, and in the present condi-
tion of our army and navy, we would not be very
likely to make a brilliant start.
Our navy in the Pacific is wholly inadequate for
the work that would be cut out for it, and there
is no immediate possibility of bringing it up to the
proper strength. It will take ten years at least be-
fore the Panama Canal shall have been completed,
and in the meantime, the fleet in the Pacific can
only be strengthened for an emergency by bringing
ships around Cape Horn, a slow and dangerous
process at any time, and doubly so when war is
raging.
Our naval inefficiency in the Pacific is fully shown
by the fact that we do not possess a single dock
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capable of holding a first-class battleship, and a
navy without adequate docking facilities would be
a lame duck.
It is conceded by all American military experts
that at the present time Japan could take the Philip-
pines any moment it saw fit to do so. Those insular
possessions of ours lie almost at Japan's door, so
that with our present insufficient forces we hold
the islands by the tacit consent of Japan. In the
event of a war, in the near future, with the Mikado's
Empire, the Philippines would be wrested from us,
and the Japanese navy would make a dash for the
Hawaiian Islands, which, if seized, might afford
them a base in the North Pacific, and further the
ambition of Japan to become the mistress of that
ocean. It would be a very unpleasant thing for
the United States to have a formidable and hostile
military nation, with a fortified base as close to
our western shore as Honolulu.
The Profit of War
From any point of view a war with Japan would
not fail to be a serious misfortune to the United
States. ( in the other hand, war has so far proved
highly profitable to Japan. It is true that it has
plunged her in debt, but it is also true that it has
enlarged her commercial scope, her sphere of in-
fluence, and enormously enhanced her power to
borrow money from the great civilized nations. The
successful wars which Japan has waged with larger
powers and her manifest capacity for self-govern-
ment have given her such prestige that she has
been able to float great loans without difficulty. If
she should engage in a struggle with the United
States, and succeed in taking from us the Philip-
pines, and holding the Hawaiian Islands, until we
mustered strength enough to drive her out, she
would be better off, financially, than ever before.
Such a display of strength in the Pacific would, for
the time being, make her a leader amongst the
world powers. She could float loans of any mag-
nitude, and it is not at all unlikely that European
and Western capital, would of itself, seek invest-
ment in Japanese industries and commerce, if the
Empire offered opportunities to foreigners to en-
gage in business. Labor is cheap there and the
money-making opportunities would be immense.
The Japanese people are fully alive to the fact
that war has not for them the terrors it has for
nations which are purely commercial and industrial,
and which have to rely upon volunteers for their
army and navy in time of war. The cost of war
to Japan is a trifle compared with what it would
be to us.
Japan's War Record
In eight years Japan has fought successfully two
nations which were regarded as amongst the most
powerful in the world. She disposed of China with
the utmost ease, and she vanquished Russia with-
out any great difficulty. Ours being an unmilitary
nation, and a republic without a large standing
army and only a moderate navy, we appear to the
Japanese an even less dangerous antagonist than
Russia, and there is not the slightest doubt that the
general belief exists in the Mikado's Empire, that
in the event of a war, we would be beaten very
handily. It is equally certain that the Japanese
are confident that if they could wallop the United
States it would not only redound to their military
glory, but make them the most prosperous nation
in Asia. This being the case, it is not surprising
to find the agitators and newspapers in Tokio in-
dustriously working up the ill-will between Japan
and America, which later on, may serve as an ex-
cuse for a declaration of hostilities.
The American District Telegraph Company is
helping along the good work of prolonging the car
strike. It informs its patrons that its messengers
must not ride on the cars and accordingly soaks
said patrons for "omnibus fares", in addition to
regular charges. Comment is unnecessary.
Supervisor Tveitmoe the appointee and apologist
of Mayor Schmitz wants to finance the car strike,
so that there will be a fund of $15,000 a week to
handle. "Whew ! Fifteen thousand a week and no
bonds or books. All the Supervisors will resign
and try to handle that large piece of pie.
Why not subscribe for The Wasp and have it
mailed to your address every week?
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-THE WASP-
Sketched from Life
Every day in San Francisco a lone old woman,
gray-haired and feeble, limps along the streets from
her squalid home to the houses of the people for
whom she does washing.
She may not ride on the cars for the labor
unions have boycotted them and her son-in-law
has been called out on strike. Even if she had
permission from the omnipotent heads of the labor
trust to ride she could not do so, as five cents is
a small fortune to her.
When the strike occured her daughter had just
been confined, and between the doctor's bill and
the other expenses consequent to such an event,
the family had been plunged deeply in debt. Liv-
ing from hand to mouth as they were, the loss of
even one day's work was serious for the young
father. A strike of indefinite duration was a
tragedy, for which the exception of the lame and
feeble old laundress he was the only bread-winner.
He had a brother-in-law, a sturdy young plumber,
but instead of being a help he was an additional
load, another mouth to feed. The young man had
learned his trade only to find that the union would
not give him a card and let him go to work.
The walking delegate had figured up that there
were as many plumbers at work, already, as could
keep the wages up to $7 a day. They were trying
to raise them to $8 a clay, but this could not be
done as long as there were enough plumbers to
supply the demand.
An artificial scarcity of plumbers had to be
created in order to raise the scale another dollar
a day.
If the membership of the union was increased to
over 800 wages might actually drop to $6 a day,
which would be a terrible calamity for the 800
journeymen doomed to give their services for such
a pittance.
So the young plumber could not get a journey-
man's card. The membership roll was closed and
no one could tell when it might be reopened. Per-
haps when the plumbers had raised their wages to
$8 a day and there were still more buildings to be
plumbed than there were plumbers to attend to
them. In any event the organization had to be
maintained. If it were broken down many calam-
ities might ensue. The walking delegate might
have to go to work and some members of the union
that held City Hall jobs might be driven to equally
desperate straits to make a living. Such public
calamities should be prevented at all hazards.
What mattered it then that a young apprentice
should be deprived of a journeyman's card and
forced to stay at home while his lame and feeble
old mother was compelled to go out and earn her
daily crust, laboriously, by washing clothes. Who
cared if she fell down in the streets and died of
exhaustion or even starvation.
This is no fancy sketch. The figures are drawn
from life and the feeble old washerwoman and her
distressed family are unfortunately but a few of the
thousands of humble and defenseless people on
whom undeserved privileges and suffering have
been brought by the selfish and lawless tactics of
the labor trust.
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Formerly at
622 Montgomery
IN BUSINESS AGAIN AT
423 PINE ST., Bet. Kearny and Montgomery
Special Dishes Every Day
Private Rooms for Families Up-Slairs
Service Unsurpassed
JOE COPPA, Proprietor
Phone Temp. 623
H. C. RAAP. Manager
Telephone Franklin 588
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 O'FARRELL ST., San Francisco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea, Coffee, Wine or Beer. I I a. m. to 2 p. m.
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Regular Dinner 50c Special Sunday Dinner 75c
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TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
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La Boheme
First Class Italian Restaurant
1558 BUSH ST.
Between Van Neu and Franklin
SPECIALTY: Italian and French Cuisine
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Formerly Proprietor of the ORIGINAL COPPA
Popular French Restaurant
Regular Dinner 75c
Meals a la carte at any hour
Private Dining Rooms
for Banquets, etc.
497 Golden Gate Ave.
Comer Polk Street
Phone Market 2315
-THE WASP-
21
iht N. Y. World.
I'nion labor, with all its violence likes and dis-
likes, feels no hatred for Schmitz, Rnef and the
Supervisors who betrayed it and the city. Rather
they hate the men who have laid bare this shame-
ful story of corruption. Xo amount of denial will
change the stubborn fact that union labor had a
fair, unhampered chance at municipal governing.
Every man from top to bottom wore the union
labor label. There wasn't a "scab" anywhere in the
whole shooting match, and it turns out there was
scarcely an honest man in the lot. Not half the
thieves have been named yet nor are they likely
to be. There is graft in the school department.
There was notorious graft in the Health office and
the Board of Public Works just after the fire, and
in the police department the whole city knows of
tie scandalous conditions. So Union labor is re-
sponsible for municipal government scandals that
are a shame to every honest man in San Francisco.
Industrially, union labor is responsible for strikes
and exhorbitant wage demands that are driving
capital away and putting a stop to rebuilding. The
Crocker estate has just decided to postpone in-
definitely the construction of six big buildings and
unless conditions are improved here speedily the
Crocker millions will be invested elsewhere. Twenty
thousand union workingmen of San Francisco are
already idle from foolish strikes' and unless sober
sense shall begin soon to get the upper hand in
their labor organizations, the soup kitchen will be
as prominent a feature of the Fall and Winter as
was the bread line immediatelv after the' fire. The
workingmen have been making all the money that
has been made since the fire and in their arrogance
they are at the point of killing the goose whose
golden eggs have stuffed their pockets.
HARVEY BROUGHAM.
The proprietor of a large business house bought
a number of signs reading, "Do It Now," and had
them hung around the office, hoping to inspire his
people with promptness and energy in their work.
In his private office one day soon afterward a friend
asked him how the scheme affected the staff. "Well,
not just the way I thought it would," answered
the proprietor. "The cashier skipped with $30,000,
the head bookkeeper eloped with the private secre-
tary, three clerks asked for an increase of salary,
and the office boy lit out to become a highwayman."
Barker — What kind of seas are beyond matri-
monial seas?
Harker — Why, divorcees.
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THE
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OF
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for centuries distilled by the Carthusian Monks (Peres Char-
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known throughout the world as Chartreuse. The above cut
represents the bottle and label employed in the putting up of the
article since the Monks' expulsion from France, and it is now
known as Liqueur Peres Chartreux (the Monks, however
still retain the right to use the old bottle and label as well),
distilled by the same order of Monks, who have securely
guarded the secret of its manufacture for hundreds of years, and
who alone possess a knowledge of the elements of this delicious
nectar.
At first-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafes.
Batjer & Co., 45 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
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Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
Bamboozled Business Men
The Committee of Ten, after wasting several
weeks in trying by Governor Gillett's bad advice
to get Schmitz to do something toward the enforce-
ment of law and order, have given it up as a bad
job. These worth)' citizens would have saved their
time and tempers by reading The Wasp and taking
the advice we gave them at the outset. We knew
that no good could be done by asking Schmitz
to relieve the situation.
That crook was too busy figuring on keeping
out of jail, and had no time to bother with the
condition of the City he has plunged into distress
by his six years of dishonest mis-government.
The Committee of Ten should have turned their
batteries on Gillett at once and made that nimble
politician toe the mark, and do his sworn duty. He
hasn't done it and every editor in California knows
•it ; and he can rest assured that he will hear a good
deal on the subject that will interest him for the
next few years till his successor is chosen.
The Building Problem
It surprises me that a clear-headed man like Cap-
tain J. D. McGilvray of the Builders' Exchange
should not take sides firmly with those builders who
demand the open shop. There is no other solution
of the labor problem than the open shop, and the
sooner practical men like Captain McGilvray come
to that conclusion the better for everybody, the
workingmen themselves, included.
The Remedy
The closed shop can have no other effect than to
cause ceaseless turmoil, intensify the war of labor
and capital, bring about financial depression, reduce
the supply of skilled labor, lower the standard of
skill and finally ruin the nation if persisted in. Of
course it will not be persisted in, for the constant
strikes, and endless other troubles occasioned by
labor agitators must bring about a spell of hard
times, and that will burst the unions higher than
a kite. The good, old, inflexible law of supply and
demand will make hash of them. Let nobody have
any doubts on that score.
An Undeniable Right
The justice of Captain McGilvray 's assertion that
the men have as much right to organize as the
employers is self-evident. They have not the right
though to insist that every workman shall be de-
nied the right to seek employment except members
of their organization. Captain McGilvray's Scot-
tish ancestors shed their blood freely in combating
that principle when applied to religion centuries
ago.
Hitting the Nail on the Head
In the discussion in the Building Exchange Mr.
Postlethwaite hit the nail on the head squarely
when he said that it needed 90,000 mechanics to
restore San Francisco and the unions can only
supply 35,000. That explains the whole trouble.
For twenty years the unions have been limiting
membership by preventing American boys from
learning trades, and now we are feeling the effects
of this manufactured scarcity of skilled labor. It
exists in all lines, and unless relieved by the open
shop will prove ruinous to the industries of the
nation. In the Eastern States the employers have
already organized to enforce the open shop and
free competition in labor is meeting with great
success.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid up Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans ok Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D. Phelan, Pre*,. John A. Hooper, V. Pres., J. K. Moffatt, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Sec'y and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Asst. Cashier, A. E.
Curtis, 2d Asst. Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS a specialty
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in their
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange Bldg.
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OF SAN FRANCISCO 1 08-1 10 Sutter Street
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS.
PAID UP CAPITAL,
DEPOSITS JANUARY I. 1907
$693,104.68
$600,000.00
$3,772,145.83
Chi
Carpy, Pres. Arthur Legallet, Vice-Pres. Leon Bocqueraz, Secretary
John Ginty. Asst. Secretary P. A. Bergerot, Attorney
INSTALLING MODERN SAPE DEPOSIT VAULTS
-THE WASP
23
Fair Play Demanded
Tirey L. Fonl's published statement with regard
to the motion to set aside the indictment of the
I'nited Railroads officials has been read with much
interest by the intelligent public. It is a very fair
statement. The point of the motion to set aside
the indictment is that in the testimony taken before
the Grand Jury, the prosecution has thus far pro-
duced no evidence sufficient to justify an indict-
ment.
Mr. Henev has only given the indicted officials
a portion of the testimony taken before the Grand
Jury. That portion, the railroad lawyers contend,
docs not justify an indictment. All defendants have
a right to know upon what grounds they are
charged with crime and brought before the Superior
Court.
It would be a very dangerous state of affairs if
any set of men constituted as a Grand Jury could
hold secret sessions, and put upon any citizen,
whom they desire to select as a victim, the brand
of felony.
While the public is fully appreciative of the splen-
did work done by the prosecution in breaking up
the reign of grafters in this City, it nevertheless
desires to see equal justice done, and will not in-
dorse anything like sharp practice, which savors
of personal animositv, or a desire to prosecute
people for ulterior motives.
The general public is not by any means convinced,
as the prosecution lawyers and some of the news-
papers appear to be, that Patrick Calhoun is a great
public enemy, and the new trolley system in San
Francisco, a public calamity. We should like to
see a vote taken upon that matter. It might open
the eyes of some of the gentlemen who are loudest
in their denunciations. At least nine-tenths of the
taxpayers of San Francisco, believe that the rapidly
constructed trolley system has been a great boom
to this stricken City. They also believe that no
matter how beneficial the system might have been,
the Board of grafting Supervisors and the corrupt
Mayor would not have permitted its use unless
Ruef had advocated the measure. If the United
Railroads officials or any other prominent citizens
have been guilty of criminal bribery, and have con-
ducted themselves as public enemies, by all means
let them be prosecuted to the full extent of the
law, but let it be done according to fair American
methods, and not in accordance with the principles
of the Middle Ages, when man's life and liberty
depended upon the deliberations of star chamber
councils.
I hear that many jolly home parties are being
formed by the owners of fine country homes on the
McCloud river. The Charles S. Wheelers, Mrs.
Hearst, the Bishops, and Thomas H. Williams all
live very near each other on the banks of the
magnificent northern stream which is formed by the
melting snows of Shasta. It is an ideal place of
retreat during the summer months. Mr. Wheeler's
residence at Horseshoe Bend is unexcelled as a
country residence site by any place in the world.
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too large for us to handle satisfactorily.
Our patrons, regardless of the amount of
business done, receive uniform courtesy
and attention in all matters intrusted to us.
Interest paid on checking and saving deposits.
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Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31, 1 906
$2,578,695,41
1,000,000.00
38,531,917.28
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Second Viee-PresidenI, Emil Rohte; Cashier, A. H. R. Schmidt; Assistant Cashier.
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-THE WASP-
Manufacturers Aroused
The National Association of Manufacturers which
is an influential body has appointed a committee on
ways and means to raise a fund of $500,000 a year
for three years to wage a National campaign against
the labor unions. The Association held its annual
session recently at New York and decided that as
Samuel Gompers has a fund of a million dollars to
mould public opinion and shape legislation favor-
able to his unions, it would not be excessive for the
employers to spend half a million a year to neu-
tralize his efforts to make the labor trust omni-
potent.
The National Association of Manufacturers has
for years been antagonistic to the unions but this
is the first time that a project for raising a fund to
fight them has been taken up by the body. One of
the trustees explained the purpose of the move :
"The money will not be used in any wrong way,
you may be sure. Any hint that a penny of the
fund will be devoted to corruption of any kind can
be discounted. The fact is that the manufacturers
feel that the public wins many a fight for union
labor which union labor never deserved to win,
solely through the force of public opinion aroused
by sympathy with the so-called downtrodden. If
the public had known the real facts of the case, if it
were introduced to a knowledge of what the boycott,
the blacklist, the entertainment committee and the
other methods of some labor unions really are
public opinion would be on our side instead of on
theirs, and strikes, lockouts and other troubles
created by labor union agitators would more often
be settled in favor of the manufacturers, at least
when they are right.
"The money will be devoted to a campaign of
education solely. We think that we will be able to
open a good many people's eyes to what the many
unions really mean. It is time that there was some
federated action on the part of employers. We mean
to lead off in such action and in the right way."
The Association has declared for the strict regula-
tion and safeguarding of child labor under proper
sanitary and other conditions. The open shop, no
boycott, no limitation in the number of apprentices,
no limitation in the output, no dictation by the labor
unions as to the manner in which employers shall
manage their business.
Looking for Free Advice
Every doctor has had unpleasant experiences of
the economical minded person who takes advantage
of a casual meeting at the dinner table or elswhere
to importune him for counsel as to his ailments. It
it not always easy to g-et rid of these pests.
Abernethy was, as we knew, equal to the occasion
when a wealthy alderman whom he met at a friend's
house recited his catalogue of woes, ending up with
the question: "What should I take?" The reply
was: "Take advice."
\ CHAIN OP EVIUtNCE
Told of a Lord
—From N. Y. Life
An amusing story was told of Lord Snook, whose
beautiful residence overlooks the Killarney lakes.
His Lordship's regiment was ordered to India, but
before he left he gave a local contractor orders to
build a wall around a certain ruined castle on his
estate which was being picked to pieces by ex-
cursionists.
Many years after he returned with the feeling that
whatever had happened his ruin would at least be
safe. He was shocked to find the wall enclosing a
vacant space where the castle, the idol of his eye,
had reposed when he last visited the spot.
"Where is the castle?" he demanded of the man
intrusted with the contract.
"What," replied that worthy, "do ye mane that
tumbledown shanty? Sure, I pulled it down and
built the wall wid the stones."
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Stock Exchange
Goldfield. Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET, STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODCE. Pies.
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-THE WASP
25
JERRY THE CHIEF
The distinguished incapable at the head of the police
Taft's Chances
The Washington politicians believe that Secre-
tary Taft's chances of being the Republican nomi-
nee for President to succeed Mr. Roosevelt are
growing stronger. The tremendous political
strength of President Roosevelt appears to be as
great in Ohio as everywhere else and it will be ex-
erted to the fullest to have Taft nominated. Sen-
ator Foraker is very influential in his own State
of Ohio, but his fellow-Republicans there are in-
clined to give their adherence to Taft. The reason
for this is that they believe if Ohio supports Taft
he can become the next President, and no matter
what Foraker may do he cannot be nominated for
the Presidency, and probably would not be elected
even if placed at the head of the Republican ticket.
There is a disposition to insist, however, that
Secretary Taft's wisest course in the Ohio contest
is to refuse to permit his candidacy to be an issue
and make his campaign on the contention that Sen-
ator Foraker is really fighting against the policies
of President Roosevelt. The Secretary will decline
to let himself appear to be a seeker after the Re-
publican Presidential nomination. That has always
been his attitude — that he would not be an out and
out candidate. There is a strong belief in Wash-
- ington that Mr. Taft will refuse to stump Ohio
on the issue of his own candidacy against that
of Senator Foraker. What he is more likely to do,
is to insist that the policies of President Roose-
velt comprise the real issue and that Mr. Taft's
own personality is not involved.
In spite of the knowledge that the President
wants to have Mr. Taft succeed him, intimations
have been given in a quarter close to the Presi-
dent that Mr. Roosevelt is not in favor of any
particular candidate. All he wants, is to see the
Republican parly nominate for President some
strong Republican who can be depended on to carry
out the policies which Mr. Roosevelt initiated, and
which undeniably have won the approval of the
great masses of the American people. With Roose-
velt's popularity at such a high pitch it seems cer-
tain that he will have an extraordinary influence on
the selection of his successor, both in the nominating
convention and at the polls.
The Retort Discourteous
A Southern Pacific official perpetrated this witticism,
more pat perhaps than it is pretty. He was on a car
going toward the ferry from the Flood building. A
rough-looking man pursued the car for some distance,
and as his eye alighted upon the Southern Pacific
official he sneered "Scab." He sneered in louder tones
as the car moved more swiftly and he had to run faster
to keep up. "Well," observed the railroad man, "I
think I'd rather be a scab than a running sore."
His Scheme Failed
"I wonder why it is," remarked one of the two
men who had just lunched, turning to speak to
the other, "that they always have pretty cashiers
at these restaurants."
But the pretty cashier, though she blushed and
smiled, did not fail to detect the Canadian quarter
he threw down in payment of his check.
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OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND
SO Minutes from San Francisco
The only first-class hotel in the vicinity of
the city. American and European plan.
F. N. ORPIN, Leane* and Manager
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Automobile News
Dr. VV. \. Harvey of this City, who in company
with lii^ wife and three children left on the 4th
instant for a trip t>> the Ybsemite Valley in his
Model "A" Oldsmobile, arrived at Sequoia on the
evening of the 5th.
One hour and fifteen minutes is the somewhat
modest time that Mr. \Y. F. 'White claims for his
Model "M" Winton on a recent run to San Jose.
On Saturday last, the Pioneer Automobile Com-
pany si >lil 70-horse-power Thomas Runabouts to
Messrs. Fernando Nelson, K. J. Freeman and W. A.
Speck.
The 20-horse-power White Runabout is a service-
able machine in these days of uncertain car sys-
tems. It is a car that stands one in good stead
at a moment's notice. It is easy to manage, swift
as the swiftest, while its strength makes it just the
tiling for climbing San Francisco hills. On the
road it has all the speed and endurance of a touring
car. The fact that this runabout has a touring-car
chassis is a material consideration when it comes
to figuring the comparative Heedlessness of repairs.
Now Dodges Like a Hare
Readers of The Wasp will remember distinctly
that we advised the business men of San Francisco
not to be buncoed by the fair words of Governor
Gillett. Flaving watched the antics of shifty little
politicians for many years, we felt sure that under
the lion's skin, in which the Governor made his
entry to San Francisco, and his first roar, there
was nothing lionine but the voice. If he wanted
to accomplish anything effective there were no
strings on him, and all he had to do was get in
and accomplish it himself. As The Wasp has
pointed out clearly, he has the legal authority, and
the powerful machinery of the State Government
is under his control. Attending banquets with his
gallant staff, and dispersing jobs to wharfingers
and State prison guards appear, however, to be
about the full limit of Governor Gillett's usefulness.
Another idol shattered, and very ordinary clay in-
deed.
In Wednesday morning's Chronicle I notice that
our gubernatorial nonentity has completely dropped
the lionine pose and begun to dodge like a nimble
hare. He sneaked into town "just to attend the
banquet at the Fairmont tendered me by my staff,"
he said.
When reminded that it had been strongly inti-
mated that if Mayor Schmitz did not take steps
to remove Chief Dinan, and the Police Commission
he would take drastic measures, the alleged Gov-
ernor replied :
"Yes, that was intimated in the papers, but not
by- my authority. I have no intention of taking
any steps at present, and do not expect to meet
any one in connection with police matters or any
other phase of the local situation during this visit."
Get back to Eureka, or Sacramento, or Petaluma,
Governor. San Francisco is just a bit too big for
you.
TAHOE TAVERN
MRS. ALICE RICHARDSON. M»n»ecr
TAHOE, CAL.
Just the place for a few days rest and recreation
WEATHER DEUCHTFUL
FISHING EXCELLENT
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acorn modations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOODES
Via Kelseyville P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cal,
Witter Medical Springs
Lake County
Witter Springs Hotel was built and
and equipped to please the really
critical. Cuisine and service un-
excelled. Table loaded with all the
delicacies of the season, supplied from our 1400 acre ranch. See
Sunrise Peak, Clear Lake, Blue Lakes, Horseshoe Bend and numerous
other places of interest. Most magnificient variation of scenery in the
world. Tennis, fishing, good saddle horses, bowling and other amuse-
ments. Automobile headquarters for Lake Co: Under the management
of Albert J. Arroll, formerly of the New Wiliard, Washington and the
Seelbach, Louisville. Rates $14.00 per week upward. Call or write
for booklet and general information. Main office, 647 Nan Ness Ave.
Witter Water Cures Stomach Trouble
AGUA CALIENTE SPRINGS
Send your family to the nearest Hot Sulphur Springs to San Francisco.
First-class accommodations. Special rates to families. No staging.
Four trains daily. Fare round trip $1.65. Tiburon ferry or Oakland;
two hours' ride. Address THEODOR RICHARDS, Agua Caliente,
Sonoma County, California.
Howard
Lake County, Cal.
Spri
t-» fTC Season 1907 opens M
11&° ThewalersofH
.ay 1 5t.
ird Springs will
case of Slomach, Liver and
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^™ Kidney Trouble. Recommended
ever visiled the place in the past 20 years. Every outdoor
Plunge Bath, Magnesia and Borax
by any physician who ha:
sporl, 42 Mineral Springs, Hoi Sulphur and Ire
Tub Baths. Address all communications to J. W. LAYMANCE, Proprietor Howard
Springs, Lake County, Cal., or 905 Broadway, Oakland, Cal.
DIRECTORY
OF LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE
MISCELLANEOUS.
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE, 226 Oak St.,
S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
BOLTE & BRADEN, 105-107 Oak St., S. F. ;
Phone Market 2S37.
COOPER ADV. AGENCY, F. J., West Mis-
sion and Brady Sts.
DAKE ADV. AGENCY, Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temp'y 1440.
FISHER, L. P. ADV. AGENCY, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Franklin 584.
JOHNSTON-DIENSTAG CO., 2170 Post St.,
S. F.
ANTIQUE DEALERS.
THE LOUIS XIV. Curios, Objects d'Art,
Miniatures, Paints, Porcelains, Jewels, etc.,
C. V. Miller, 1117 Post, near Van Ness.
ARCHITECTS.
REID BROS, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough St., S. F.
THOS. J. WELSH, JOHN W. CAREY, asso-
ciate architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
GUMP, S. & G., 1645 California St., S. F.
SCHUSSLER BROS., 1218 Sutter St.
ATTORNEYS,
DORN, DORN & SAVAGE, 717 Van Ness
Ave.
DINKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W., 1265 Ellis
St., S. F. Phone West 2355.
HEWLETT, BANCROFT AND BALLAN-
TINE, Monadnock Bldg.; Phone Temp'y
972.
EDWARD B. YOUNG, 4th Floor, Union
Trust Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temp'y 833.
GOLDSTONE, LOUIS, 1012 Fillmore St.
Phone Park 864.
MAROIS, T. M., 1756 Fillmore St., S. E. cor.
Sutter. Phone West 1503.
KING, CHAS. TUPPER, 1126 Fillmore St.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
PIONEER AUTOMOBILE CO., 901 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F. ; and I2th and Oak Sts.,
Oakland.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO., Market
and Van Ness Ave., S. F.
AUTO LIVERY CO., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
BOYER MOTOR CAR CO., 408 Golden Gate
Ave. Phone, Franklin 655.
LEE CUYLER, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
MIDDLETON MOTOR CAR CO., 550 Gol-
den Gate Ave.. S. F.
MOBILE CARRIAGE CO., Golden Gate
Ave. and Gough Sts., S. F.
PACIFIC MOTOR CAR CO., 376 Golden
Gate Ave.
BANKS.
ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK, Ltd., cor.
Pine and Sansome Sts., S. F.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST CO., cor. California and Montgom-
ery Sts., S. F.
CENTRAL TRUST CO., 42 Montgomery St.,
S. F.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Bush and San-
some Sts., S. F.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK, 108 Sutter St.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, 526 California St., S. F.
HALSEY, N. W. & CO., 413 Montgomery
St., S. F.
HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, Jones and McAllister Sts., S. F.
HUMBQuDT SAVINGS BANK, 646 Market
Street, opposite old Palace Hotel. Phone,
Temp'y 249.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO, 710 Market St., opp. 3d St.,
S. F.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, N.W.
cor. California and Montgomery Sts., S. F,
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, 316 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
THE MARKET STREET BANK AND
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, Market and 7th
Sts., S. F.
UNION TRUST CO., 4 Montgomery St., S. F.
WELLS FARL.O-NEVADA NATIONAL
BANK, Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
BREWERIES.
ALBION ALE AND PORTER BREWERY,
1007-9 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
S. F. BREWERIES, LTD., 240 2d St., S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
MONTAGUE, PHIL S., 339 Bush St., Stock
Exchange Bldg.
ROLLINS, E. H. & SONS, 804 Kohl Bldg.;
Telephone Temp'y 163 ; S. F.
ZADIG & CO., 324 Bush St., S. F.
WILSON, J. C, 488 California St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION, Church and Market Sts.,
S. F.
CARDS, INVITATIONS, ETC.
WOOD, GEO. M. & CO., engravers, 1067
O'Farrell St., above Van Ness.
CARPET CLEANING.
SPAULDING, J. & CO., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave. ; Phone Park 591,
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
HUB, THE, Chas. Keilus & Co., King Solo-
mon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore Sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
JOHNSON LOCKE MERCANTILE CO.,
213 Sansome St., S. F.
MALDONADO & CO., INC., 156 Hansford
Bldg., 268 Market St. Phone Temp'y 426.1.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
FISHER CONSTRUCTION CO., 1414 Post
St., S. F.
TROUNSON, J„ 1751 Lyon St.; also 176
Ash Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
NATHAN DOHRMAN CO., 1520-1550 Van
Ness Ave.
DENTISTS.
KNOX, DR. A. J., 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
TWIST, DR. J. F.. 1476 Eddy, nr. Fillmore
St. Phone West 5304.
DESKS AND CHAIRS.
PHOENIX DESK & CHAIR CO., offios fur-
niture, 1538 Market St., west of Van Ness.
Phone Market 2393.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
CITY OF PARIS, Van Ness Ave. and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
WHITE HOUSE, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
St., S. F.
EXPRESS.
WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Ferry Bldg.,
and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
CRESCENT FEATHER CO., 19th and Harri-
son Sts., S. F.
FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE PHOTOS.
RUE, JAMES O., 1067 O'Farrell St. Phone
Franklin 2603.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
OMEY & GOETTING, Geary and Polk Sts.,
S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
CAREW & ENGLISH, 1618 Geary St., bet.
Buchanan and Webster Sts., S. F. ; Phone
West 2604.
PORTER & WHITE, 1531 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
GAS STOVES,
S. F. GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Franklin and
Ellis Sts.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
BULLOCK & JONES COMPANY, 801 Van
Ness Ave., cor. Eddy St., S. F.
HANSEN & ELRICK, 1105-7 Fillmore St.,
nr. Golden Gate Ave. ; Phone West 5678.
GOLD AND SILVER PLATING.
BELLIS, JOHN O., Mfg, gold and silver.
smith, 1624 California St., nr. Van Ness.
Phone Franklin 2093.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
ILS, JOHN G. & CO., 827 Mission St., S. F.
MONTAGUE, W. W. & CO., Turk and Polk
Sts., S. F.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
DAVIS, W. & SON, 2020 Howard St., bet.
16th and 17th, S. F.
LEIBOLD HARNESS AND CARRIAGE
CO., 1214 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
DILLON, TOM, Van Ness Ave. and McAllis-
ter St.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
KEELEY INSTITUTE, H. L. Batchelder,
Mgr. ; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
JEWELERS.
BALDWIN JcWELRY CO., 1521 Sutter St.,
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. F.
SHREVE & CO., cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Ness and Sacramento St., S. F.
SCHMIDT, R. H. & CO., 1049 Fillmore St.,
nr. McAllister St. Phone Park 1209.
LAUNDRIES.
LA GRANDE LAUNDRY, 234 12th St., S. F.
PALACE HOTEL LAUNDRY and KELLY
LAUNDRY CO., INC., 2343 Post St.
Phone West 5854.
LIFE INSURANCE.
HUNTINGDON, ARTHUR P., 925 Golden
Gate Ave. Phone Park 515.
LUMBER.
UNION LUMBER CO., office 909 Monad-
nock Bldg.
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
BEKINS' VAN AND STORAGE CO., 13th
and Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13
and 1015 Broadway, Oakland.
ST. FRA..CIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COMPANY, Office 1402 Eddy St.; Tel.
West 2680.
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
DEANE, JNO. J., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Sts.; Phone West 7291.
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WARE. JOHN H.. 307 Monadnock Bldg..
Depositions carefully attended to. Phone
Temp'y 972.
OIL COMPANIES.
1491 Post St.. cor.
STERLING OIL CO.,
Octavia. S. F.
OPTICIANS.
MAYERLE, GEORGE, German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F. ; Phone West 3766.
SAN FRANCISCO OPTICAL COMPANY,
"Spences," 527 Van Ness Ave.; "Branch,"
1613 Fillmore.
STANDARD OPTICAL CO., 808 Van Ness
Ave., near Eddy St.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
KEEFE. J. H„ 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F. ;
Tel. Franklin 2055.
TOZER. L. & SON CO., INC.. 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., near Fillmore.
PAINTS AND OILS.
BASS-HUETER PAINT CO., 1532 Market
St
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
CAL. PHOTO ENG. CO., 141-143 Valencia
St.
PHYSICIANS.
BOWIE, DR. HAMILTON C, formerly 293
Geary St., Paul Bldg., now 14th and Church
Sts.
BRYANT, DR. EDGAR R., 1944 Fillmore
St., cor. Pine; Tel. West 5657.
D'EVELYN, DR. FREDERICK W., 2115
California St., S. F., and 2103 Clinton Ave.,
Alameda.
THORNE, DR. W. S., H34 Post St., S. F.
POTTS, DR. JOHN S., 1476 Eddy St. Phone
West 1073. Residence, Hotel Congress,
Ellis and Fillmore. Phone West 4224.
PIANOS— MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
BALDWIN, D. H. & CO., 2512 Sacramento
St., and Van Ness at California.
REAL ESTATE.
HICKS & MACK. Real Estate and In-
surance, 2091 Fillmore St. Phone West
7287.
C. R. WILCOX & CO.. Real Estate and In-
surance, 837 Golden Gate Avenue, Phone,
Fell 1558.
RESTAURANTS.
MORAGHAN, M. B„ OYSTER CO., 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
OLD POODLE DOG, 824 Eddy St., near
Van Ness Ave.
ST. GERMAIN RESTAURANT. 497 Golden
Gate Ave.; Phone Market 2315.
SWAIN'S RESTAURANT, 1111 Post St.,
S. F.
THOMPSON'S, formerly Oyster Loaf, 1727
O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALES.
HERRING-HALL MARVIN SAFE CO.,
office and salesrooms, Mission St., bet.
Seventh and Eighth Sts. ; Phone Market
1037:
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER & WILSON and SINGER SEW-
ING MACHINES, 1431 Bush St., cor.
Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; Phone Franklin
301; formerly 231 Sutter St.
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES, J. W.
Evans, Agent, 1658 O'Farrell St., nr. Fill-
more. Phone West 3601.
STORAGE.
BEKINS VAN & STORAGE CO., 13th and
Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13.
PIERCE RUDOLPH STORAGE CO., Eddy
and Fillmore Sts.; Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
WALTERS & CO., formerly Shutts, Walters
& Co., 1608 Steiner St., S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
BACIGALUPI, PETER, 1113-1115 Fillmore
St., S. F.
TAILORS.
LYONS, CHARLES. London Tailor. 1432
Fillmore St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; 958
Broadway, Oakland.
REHNSTROM, C. H.. 2415 Fillmore St., for-
merly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
THOMS, F., 1209 Mission St., corner of
Eighth, S. F.
TRICYCLES.
EAMES TRICYCLE CO., Invalid Chairs.
1808 Market St., S. F.
WINES AND LIQUORS— WHOLESALE.
BALKE, ED. W., 1498 Eddy St., cor. Fill-
more.
BUTLER, JOHN & SON, 2209 Steiner St.,
S. F.
REYNOLDS, CHAS. M. CO., 912 Folsom
St., S. F.
RUSCONI, FISHER & CO.. 649 Turk St.,
S. F.
SIEBE BROS. & PLAGEMAN, 419-42*
Larkin St.; Phone Franklin 349.
WENIGER, P. J. & CO.. N. E. cor. Van
Ness Ave. and Ellis St.; Tel. Franklin 309.
309.
WICHMAN. LUTGEN & CO., Harrison and
Everett Sts., Alameda, Cal. ; Phone Ala-
meda 1179.
WINES AND LIQUORS— RETAIL.
FERGUSON, T. M. CO., Market Street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow Whiskey.
FISCHER, E. R„ 1901 Mission St., cor. of
Fifteenth.
THE METROPOLE, John L. Herget and
Wm. H. Harrison, Props., N. W. cor. Sutter
and Steiner Sts.
TUXEDO, THE, Eddie Graney, Prop., S. W.
cor. Fillmore and O'Farrell Sts.
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
CO.. 2401 Fillmore.
McMAHON, KEYER AND STIEGELER
BROS.. Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Farrell
and Fillmore.
MISS IRENE BANGS OF OAKLAND
That's Never Level
Lovett — It is said, you know, that
"love levels all things."
Batcheller — Yes, it may level all
things except the lover's head.
Progress
Stella — Don't they put on style?
Bella — Yes; it is only a generation
from elbow grease to elbow sleeves.
The cross-examination ended there.
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Of Social Interest
Owing to the recent death of the groom's uncle
the reception after the wedding of Miss Louise
Redington and Walter Hewlett last Wednesday at
the Scott Street residence of the bride was confined
to relatives. Miss Marion Huntington, Miss Flor-
ence Gibbon and Miss Edith Berry were the bride's
attendants.
Mrs. Frank Findley made a stunning matron of
honor at the pretty wedding of Miss Mabel Wat-
kins and Captain Orrin Wolfe on Tuesday at the
Episcopal Church, Sausalito. Captain Davidson
was best man and Lieutenants Garber, Halford,
Tomlinson. and Bull ushers. The reception at
Cliff Haven, the home of the bride's parents, was
a large and most enjoyable affair. The happy
couple have gone on a month's tour of the State
and will reside at Fort McDowell after their re-
turn. The bride is the handsome daughter of Mr.
A. A. Watkins, who is so prominent and high!)'
esteemed in San Francisco's commercial circles.
At the residence of the bride s grandparents in
Menlo Park on Wednesday, June 12th, Miss Frances
Coon became the bride of Oliver Kehrlein of this
City. Miss Coon is the daughter of Mrs. A. Palmer
Dudley. The bridesmaids were Miss Edith Met-
calf. Miss Roma Paxton, Miss Natalie Blauvelt,
Miss Amy Bassett, Miss Jane Dudley and Miss
Dorothea Coon. Emil Kehrlein, brother of the
groom, was best man. The ushers were Dr. Ray-
mond Sullivan of New York, George de Long',
Charles Norris, Alfred Swinnerton, Oliver Lansing
and Percy Pike. Following a late Eastern style
for midsummer, country weddings the gentlemen
all appeared in white serge suits.
A recently announced engagement is that of Miss
Harvey Anthony and Spencer Bishop. Miss An-
thony's mother was a Miss Nougues, sister of the
attorney, Joseph M. Nougues, and the late Mrs.
Robert Bruce. Mr. Bishop is a son of the late
F.A. Bishop, who was connected with the law
department of the Southern Pacific years ago.
Miss Ray Wilber and Dewey Harold Miller were
married on June 4th at the residence of the bride's
parents in this Citv. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are
passing their honeymoon at Del Monte.
Dr. and Mrs. A. O. Lindstrom, at an informal din-
ner given at their home, 1515 Scott Street, on
Tuesday/ evening, announced the engagement of
their daughter, "Corrine Marion, to Charles Witzel?
Baker, Jr., son of the millionaire mining man. Mr.
Baker is a well-known commission merchant. Miss
Lindstrom has just returned from a tour of Europe.
Leland W. Dake and wife have left the City for
Alaska. Mr. Dake is Vice-President and Secretary
of the Dake Advertising Agency. He will be away
several weeks.
One of the most attractive women now at Del
Monte is Mrs. Williamson of New York, who is
staying at the famous hotel with her sister, Miss
Cotter. Both are taking up golf vigorously and are
receiving lessons in the arts of driving, approaching
and putting from Jim Melville, the professional in-
structor. Though a true Scot, Jim has a way with
the ladies that would make you think he had taken
oscillatory exercise on the Blarney stone in his
school days. He is a. past master in the art of
keeping his pupils in good humor and of encourag-
ing them to preserve in the labor necessary to
acquire skill in the Scotch game. Mrs. Williamson
and Miss Cotter have a married sister who lives at
Aguas Calientes, Mexico, on a large hacienda pro-
vided with a golf course and other attractions.
Miss Blanche Partington, formerly musical and
dramatic critic of the San Francisco Call, with hei
mother, Mrs. J. H. E. Partington was at Del Monte
for a few days last week. She spent much oi her
time in the Art gallery, the walls of which are
adorned by a collection of paintings and nhoto-
graphs, the work of California artists. Doubtless
her impressions of the pictures will appear ere long
in some San Francisco publication and be read with
interest as the exhibition is an admirable one and
attracts much favorable attention.
Among the recent arrivals at Tahoe Tavern, Lake
Tahoe are A. Whittell, W. R. Wood, C. L. Clark,
D. Ghirardelli and Mrs. Ghirardelli, Miss D. Kaplan,
E. S. Kierder and C. F. and Mrs. Kohl of San Fran-
cisco, Mrs. F. D. Madison and son of San Rafael.
Stanley Richardson of Berkeley, David Center and
Mrs. Center and F. H. Kelsey and Mrs. Kelsey of
Alameda, L. L. Pierce and Mrs. Pierce, J. F.
Nelson and J. R. Moffitt of Oakland. The Lake
Tahoe region is looking beautiful just now.
Tabitha Twiggs 111
Having been compelled to sit up half the night
with her favorite tabby, which ran out in the rain
and caught cold, Miss Twiggs has been prostrated
by a nervous attack and prevented from continuing
her diary this week. She will be herself again by
next week, unless her cherished feline companion
should most unhappily suffer a collapse.
Why not subscribe for The Wasp and have it
mailed to your address every week?
Colonial! Tub and Shower Baths
Baths Ladies' Department, 8 to 12 a. m. week days
REGULAR PRICES
Now Open 174s O'Farrell St.. near Fillmore
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RACING
New California Jockey Club
Oakland Race
Track
SIX OR MORE RACES EACH WEEK! DAY
Rain or Shine
Races commence al 1 :40 p. m. sharp.
For special (rains slopping at the track take S. P. Ferry,
foot of Market street: leave at 1 2:00, thereafter every twenty
minutes until 1 :40 p. m. No Smoking in last two cars,
which are reserved for ladies and their escorts.
Reluming trains leave track after fifth and last races.
THOMAS H. WILLIAMS. President.
PERCY \V. TREAT. Secretary.
The best YEAST for all
Kinds of Baking
FRESH DAILY AT YOUR GROCER
Thompson's Formerly
, t r Now
ter Loai, open.
Oyste
1727 O'Farrell St., near Fillmore
All night service Popular Prices
Wichman, Lutgen & Co.
Formerly of
29-31 Battery Street. S. F.
Cor. Everett and Harrison Avenue
ALAMEDA, CAL.
Phone Alameda 1179
GILT EDGE WHISKEY
PATRICK & CO.
Rubber Stamps
Stencils, Box Brands
Their Idea of It
.Mr. iYdagog — Obsequies arc — well,
now, if I should meet with a fatal
li i idenl w hat would we have?
The Class (joyfully) — A holiday.
A Gentleman Defined
A new definition of a gentleman was
given in an English court lately. The
Registrar asked : "What is the defend-
ant?"
"He's a gentleman," replied the plain-
tiff.
"How do you define a gentleman," the
Registrar asked.
Well, he came here and took a big
house, and went away without paying
his creditors."
Guilty of Something
Sergt. Day was as regimental as a
buttonstick. "Shun!" be cried to his
squad. "Quick march! Left wheel!
Halt! Take Murphy's name for talk-
ing in the ranks."
"But he wasn't talking," protested
a corporal who was standing near. i
"Wasn't he?" roared Sergt. Day.
"Don't matter, then. Cross it out,
and put him in the guard room for
deceiving me!" — London Mirror.
A Gleam of Hope
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Heney Making History
Mr. Francis J. Heney and the citizens associated
with him in the prosecution of Ruef and Schmitz,
have been making American history which will not
be forgotten by this generation, and may have a
most powerful influence on the government of suc-
cessive ones.
All praise, therefore, to the prosecution which has
done San Francisco the greatest service it ever
needed in the darkest hour of the many trials
through which it has gone. As yet we can hardly
realize the immensity of the task Mr. Heney and his
associates have accomplished, or appreciate fully the
boon which the conviction of Schmitz and Ruef has
been to our unfortunate City, prostrate beneath the
misrule of the most disreputable set of grafting
scoundrels that ever disgraced a political party.
Prosecution of the Held-Ups
It is to be hoped that Mr. Heney and his asso-
ciates will not at this stage of their triumphs in the
cause of good government, and when they have
earned the plaudits of all decent citizens, allow their
zeal for reform to lead them from the straight and
narrow path of duty. The Wasp has not hesitated
from the outset to repudiate the doctrine that the
people who gave Ruef money for his influence are
more culpable than the grafting officials who as-
sisted him in his schemes of blackmail and shared
the plunder. The alleged bribers have been called
the "Higher-Ups," but the "Held-Ups" would be a
far more suitable appellation.
The Whole Community Blackmailed
It is not alone the citizens connected with large
corporations that have been forced to contribute to
Ruef's bank account and make him a multi-million-
aire in a few years. Every one who has had dealings
with the Schmitz administration has been black-
mailed.
Even the little property owner who desired a per-
mit to complete the plumbing of his humble dwelling
has been bled. Unless he greased the itching palms
of the City Hall boodlers no permit was granted,
and the work on his cottage came to a stop with re-
sults most disastrous to his pocket.
No One Was Exempt
Everything and everybody were laid under tribute
— the contractors, saloon-keepers, gamblers, 'and
brothels. All was grist that came to the grafters'
mill, and no money was too badly tainted for eager
acceptance by the robber band. Never in the odious
history of municipal corruption, reeking with pu-
trescent rascality has such a bold and rapacious com-
bination of blackmailers carried on its operations in
defiance of public opinion and the law.
Wolves in Lambs' Clothing
How utterly absurd it is, and how prejudicial to
the graft prosecution it must be, to depict those
municioal thieves and blackmailers as a set of in-
jured innocents whose virtue had been melted and
turned to dross by the glitter of corporation gold.
Why those vultures, as devoid of heart as con-
science, have no more conception of virtue or regard
-THE WASP
for common decency than a dead mule. The hungry-
hog that noses frantically at the trough, thinking but
of shouldering away its fellows and gorging the en-
tire mess is a model of brotherly love, disinterested
unselfishness and patriotic devotion compared with
the rapacious thieves of the Schmitz administration.
Beware of the Politicians
The Wasp has no time nor desire to defend the
rich corporations. We are losing no sleep on their
account. Let them look out for themselves. What
we object to and shall continue to protest against,
is the conversion of the graft-prosecution into any
kind of a political movement, which may have the
disastrous effect of fastening another undesirable ad-
ministration on our City.
Attacks on the rich are always very popular in a
democracy. Hearst has built up his scurrilous news-
papers by continual defamation of the rich men of
America, nine-tenths of whom have worked their
way up from the ranks of the common toilers and
the lowest round of the ladder.
Too Much Ferocity
The fierce concentration of hostility on the "Held-
Ups" in San Francisco is so suggestive of personal
malice, or ulterior political purpose that already the
prosecution has lost the moral support of the busi-
ness community before the alleged bribers have been
placed on trial. How different is the sentiment
amongst the intelligent and conservative classes as
compared with the feeling when the sword of Justice
was leveled at Ruef and Schmitz. The decent peo-
ple of America were a unit in commending the most
extreme measures to convict those exponents of
scientific rascality and unloose their grip upon the
public treasury. And the public was right, as it gen-
erally is. It recognized the true culprits, the un-
mitigated scoundrels who were most responsible for
the calamities of misgovernment that have befallen us
in six long and weary years. With the downfall of
those agents of misfortune the crisis in our civic affairs
has passed and an era of better things and loftier public
spirit is entered upon. To introduce at this stage a
new phase of public disturbance and prolong the un-
rest of industrial conditions and the discouragement
of capital by the prosecution of prominent citizens
who have been held up and blackmailed by the muni-
cipal grafters is injudicious and undesirable. It
would scarcely be too much to say that it is almost
criminal.
A Few Pertinent Queries
Why should the effort be made so determinedly
to shift to the shoulders of the "Held-Ups" the
odium of the crimes committed by the Union Labor
grafters, unless it be desired to placate the same
class of voters who constitutionally detest the rich,
and all others above them in social station or intel-
lectual attainments?
Do the facts of the so-called bribery cases justify
the fierce tirade against the "Held-Ups"? What
have those men done?
Palpable Blackmail
In the Parkside case a railroad franchise was
sought for the purpose of opening up a new resi-
dence district where cheap lots could be bought on
easy terms and thousands of working people's homes
established. This was no sinister scheme, but on
the contrary, most laudable.
The Parkside people did not desire to operate a
railroad. They cared not by whom the road was
built. Without a railroad, however, the suburban
district could not be made accessible and the town
extended in that direction. After repeated efforts to
obtain the franchise in the formal manner, the Park-
side people became, convinced that it could only be
had by the assistance of Ruef. Many other people
seeking municipal permission for legitimate projects
had made the similar discovery that only by the
potent advocacy of the Mayor's political creator
could they obtain their honest requests. So the
Parkside people retained Ruef as their attorney and
thus became enrolled in the large army of Held-Ups,
and in the fullness of time indicted as Higher-Ups
that had polluted the sacred fountain of municipal
honesty with their tainted gold.
The graft prosecutors will have a strenuous time
convincing the intelligent and unprejudiced portion
of the public that the Parkside "Held-Ups" are a
more reprehensible set of rascals than the organized
band of municipal thieves that blackmailed them.
For blackmail it was beyond peradventure.
Another Case of Stand and Deliver
The hold-up of the Gas Company was equally raw.
In this case Ruef and his associate thieves, dropping
their black mask and posing as faithful friends of the
dear people, could not see their constituents
charged more than 75 cents per thousand for gas.
The argument of the company that the rate meant
serious financial loss to them fell on deaf ears until
Mr. Ruef was taken on the pay-roll as attorney,
whereupon the cheerful rascals forgot their alleged
pledges and voted for 85 cent gas.
For protecting their property from ruin, as nine
hundred and ninety-nine men in a thousand would
have done, Mr. Spreckels not excepted perhaps, the
gas officials are held up to execration as soulless
miscreants, sunk in the fathomless depths of selfish
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greed and steeped in treason to the suffering public.
"Their blood be upon their heads." shriek the exe-
cutioneers. "They are a thousand times worse than
the pirates who rubbed them"; and on this lucid plea
the victims of municipal corruption are to be placed
on trial for their reputations and their liberty; and
their fate hangs on the word of the chief blackmailer,
a convicted felon, over whose bald head hangs a
sword of Damocles in the shape of a sentence pur-
posely deferred to regulate the force and effect of
his testimony.
If this be American Justice of the latest and most
approved brand then all that is needed is a "Bloody"
Jeffreys to make effective the machinery of the law
and properly grease the toboggan between the Su-
perior Court in San Francisco and the solitary cells
in San Ouentin.
The Crucifixion of Calhoun
Although the people of America have regarded the
conviction of Ruef and Schmitz as the great desider-
atum in the graft prosecution, the powers behind
Mr. Heney and certain newspapers in closest touch,
have treated that achievement as merely incidental
to the branding of Patrick Calhoun as a felon. If
the president of the United Railroads could be dec-
orated with a striped suit, then, indeed, could Jus-
tice smile with complete satisfaction as she pulled
the bandage off her other eye and sheathed her rusty
snickersnee.
Why this magnification of Calhoun's perfidy
above all the other "Held-Ups," asks the average
citizen, who doesn't bend the pregnant hinges of
his neck to the Hon. P. H. McCarthy on one side
and Herbert George on the other, the Rev. Peter C.
Vorke in the middle and Edward J. Livernash, An-
drew Furuseth, Mickey Case}', Cornelius and Secre-
tary Bowling behind a pile of dynamite in the dim
distance.
Calhoun's Real Crime
Calhoun retained Ruef, but so did all the other
"Held-Ups." The replacement of the moss-grown
cable cars by the rapid trolley is hardly a public
crime, for .every taxpayer and merchant in San
Francisco, with perhaps twelve exceptions, is de-
lighted with the new system, which works well in
that much more progressive and better governed
city of Los Angeles.
The more closely the matter is looked into the
stronger becomes the suspicion that Mr. Calhoun's
transcendant infamy consists in demonstrating to
the people of San Francisco that labor union
tyranny can be abated just as easily as any other
intolerable nuisance when correctly treated. That
Mr. Calhoun has rendered to this afflicted City the
greatest service it has received is beyond question.
He has broken up the combine of lawless agitators
whose focus of activity and chief reliance was the
Carmen's Union. He has done more than any other
employer in American to establish the fact that
slavery of any kind is offensive to our American
principles, and the people who advocate it are noth-
ing more than common outlaws.
For this he deserves crucifixion, and it would not
be hard to find a jury of worthy citizens who would
render a verdict against him on the first ballot. For
the foreman of the jury I should pick Supervisor
Tveitmoe and the other eleven patriotic citizens could
be selected from the Carmen's pickets who have
been oftenest clubbed by the police and had their
pockets emptied of dynamite cartridges.
Light on a Dark Subject
The car strike has shed a flood of light on that
dark subject — the real numerical strength of the
labor unions.
Mr. P. H. McCarthy and other satellites of the
Schmitz administration, whose utterances were
given much room in the newspapers before the ad-
vent of the Heney Grand Jury, assured us that there
are 90,000 labor union men in San Francisco. Mr.
Cornelius decreed that these 90,000 and their fam-
ilies should not ride on the street cars, but hoof it
over the cobbles or be jolted in springless wagons.
The public then looked to see Patrick Calhoun's cars
run empty, and the United Railroads brought
quickly to its knees, if indeed a railroad could per-
form such an anatomical feat.
Well, the cars ran full just as soon as the public
thought the ruffians that inaugurated the strike with
violence were somewhat cowed. Every day since
then the cars have been more crowded.
So remarkable did this appear to the unions them-
selves that pickets were detailed from various labor
organizations to watch the cars on Saturday after-
noon and keep the union backsliders from riding.
It was inconceivable that the cars could be so well
patronized if the 90,000 union workeis and their
families observed the boycott. The net result of
this surveillance was that the union men were found
to be violating the mandates of their leaders to make
fools of themselves by patronizing the bumping
carts at ten cents a head instead of the comfortable
street cars at five.
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Cause for Murder
What a brave man that was who suggested at the
recent meeting of the carmen that the strike should
be declared off, as it was hopeless. This, too, with
Supervisor Tvietmoe on the platform and Cornelius
and Bowling in the hall. Perhaps the man had not
read the newspapers that Tvietmoe and Cornelius had
figured out that the strike could be "financed" by as-
sessing the other unions so that there would be a
strike fund of $15,000 a week to handle, and no bonds
to be given by the handlers, or books kept either. It is
a wonder that the advocate of peace wasn't brained
with a chair. Cornelius and Tvietmoe, notwithstand-
ing their hysterical utterances, must be men who have
a wonderful command over themselves.
Undesirable Citizens
This man Andrew Furuseth, who at a recent meet-
ing of the striking carmen urged the pickets to law-
lessness, is one of the worst enemies San Francisco
has had. As head of the Sailors' Union, Furuseth
has done incalculable injury to the commerce of this
port. A few years ago he threatened that if a strike
did not end in a victory for the men they would
"make the grass grow in the streets of San Francisco."
For twenty years Furuseth has kept the water
front in a state of injurious agitation, with his union
of which he himself admitted on the witness stand
only three per cent are American citizens. The rest
are a mixture of raw Swedes, Russians, Germans and
other nationalities-
At one period this Sailors' Union had the audacity
to arm itself, and many times marched several hun-
dred strong through the streets of San Francisco, like
a body of naval bluejackets ready for action. This
was of course a threat to make the people of our
City realize, that if those three-per-cent naturalized
citizens and ninety-seven-per-cent of undesirable
foreigners were not allowed to do as they pleased we
might feel the sharp edge of their cutlasses or the
points of their bayonets.
The State of California, represented in legislative
session, finally mustered up enough courage to sup-
press such outrageous demonstrations, and the armed
bands of three-per-centers disappeared from the
streets.
They are still organized for trouble, and in the re-
cent strike carried things with a high hand, in a man-
ner most disgraceful to the Federal authorities who
should have promptly repressed such pirates. They
boarded ships and took men away, and even com-
mitted murder. One of the outlaws was killed while
attacking a vessel. Instead of presenting a gold
medal to the man who shot the pirate, he was arrested
and tried for murder.
Tar and Feathers in the Distance
When Messrs. Furuseth and Tveitmoe talk about
violent measures to win the car strike and wading
through rivers of blood they should remember that
outrages invariably lead to counter demonstrations
of force. This was shown when the Molly McGuires
took to shooting people in the Pennsylvania coal
regions for the purpose of terrorizing the commun-
ity, and, controlling it both in an industrial and a
political way. After a while the opponents of the
Molly McGuires resorted to violence themselves and
shot several of the hardened terrorists. In fact it
became the fashion to pot the Mollies whenever and
wherever the opportunity occurred, and they who
had been so ready with their pistols and knives
made a great outcry when given a liberal dose of
their own medicine.
What would become of Andrew Furuseth and
Supervisor Tveitmoe and their little handful of an-
archists, if the huge majority which they attempt to
coerce and injure should apply similar methods to
them. It would not require a great stretch of im-
agination to conceive the existence of such a state of
affairs that Messrs. Furuseth and Tveitmoe would
exchange their ordinary attire for a coat of tar and
feathers.
The Only Remedy
It is not likely that there will ever be any differ-
ence of opinion amongst honest citizens that the
speedy conviction of Mayor Schmitz was a triumph
of decency in the struggle for good government ; and
what a struggle it has been.
How hopeless it seemed at the outset that Justice
would drag from their apparently impregnable for-
tress of graft the two infamous scoundrels who were
ruining our City and would fling them convicted, de-
graded and dismayed amongst the common male-
factors in the County Jail.
A Gigantic Bluff
Schmitz was never elected by Union Labor votes
alone, and in the last election the business men
whom he has done so much to ruin by his corrupt
misgovernment were his principal supporters.
The union labor strength in America, both nu-
merically and politically, is vastly exaggerated by
those in its ranks and the outside public. It is a
gigantic bluff, but it shows what power a small body
of men can wield when closely organized.
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tion can fall down the stairs with a bottle in one hand,
a terrapin sante in the other, ana land on the feet
without blemish. Now, at that time James B. Stetson
was pretty much of a Shogun in San Francisco, and
whenever he opened his mouth, it was "space" for the
lucky reporter who happened to be there. In early
dr.ys he kept a hardware shop. But everybody did
anything then. After tin-canning his way to a for-
tune and railway presidency, he was regarded as one
of the political spirits of the day. As a possibility
for Mayor, he was so choice that he was almost
chosen. Mrs. Stetson figured on playing with Society
through her newly-acquired step-daughters, Mrs.
Robert Oxnard and Mrs. Chauncey Winslow. But
they were disobedient dollies and would not so much
as say mamma when she pulled the strings. She was
not even allowed in her husband's set. The situation
was novel, to say the least; but she had not even
the privilege of saying half of that. When a woman
has no pull even with her own household, there is
nothing left but an advance on the merits. And the
merits of shop-keepers she did not care to use. It
was an incongruous case. The lady was actually in
Society, from a physical standpoint, when at her
own table. But Society could not see it. She was
Photo Gemhe MISS L. CURTIS
Whose engagement is announced
While the Stetson decree of divorce does not award
soup, salad and punkin pie an impregnable position
in California law, a certain legal status was given
these viands as far as lay in the power of the Superior
Court. A millionaire, says the Court, must furnish
soups and salads to his wife, and not overload her
tummy with punkin pie. Of course, there always was
an unwritten law on the latter subject, known as
Dementia Punkiana- It confers on a woman the un-
deniable right to hurl a bottle of hair restorative at
the pie-face, simultaneously laying shrill imprecations
on the victim's head and rubbing them in. A jury
would acquit them all dav long on that score.
There is another side of the case ; the inside. And,
without casting any slur upon the piece of edible
bric-a-brac that made little Johnny yell for the doc-
tor, it cannot be said to bear upon the true inwardness
of this case. The casus belli was a social, not a dis-
gestive anguish. When the widow of the demi-mil-
lionaire, John S. Doe, was espoused to James B.
Stetson, she was taking a post-graduate course of
middle age. She had wealth, but not the immaculate
sort that buys the things you read about adjectived
as "prominent," "swell," "exclusive," in the places
where every woman is "attractive," "charming," "well-
known," — those divine environments where reputa-
THE WASP
invisible and made no reflection in the mirrors of
her own millionairedom. In this she was the con-
verse of her former husband's celebrated namesake,
John Doe, the defendant in myriad litigations.
Though summons and complaint are continually is-
sued to him, he is as elusive as she was eager ; im-
palpable as she was impossible. Perhaps, though,
now that James B. Stetson is become a paler star in
the West, his interlocutory wife will be seen ascendant
in the opposite sky. Time -is notoriously unsatisfied
with his own work and oft finishes the picture in
purples where he began in gray.
There was an old magnate named Stetson, —
A man we used to place bets on.
But he gave not a whoop
For salad or soup,
And so his wife gave him the jetson.
For retaining her wifely affection
He had one supreme predilection,
And would always rely
On one sort of pie —
A punkin of sallow complexion.
He made his first money in tinware;
But now you can see that he's been where
The men wear Tuxedos,
While maids, wifes and widows
No clothing a foot from the chin wear.
* * *
Captain and Mrs. F. L. Perry, who are now sta-
tioned at Fort Totten, New York, are receiving con-
gratulations consequent upon the successful exam-
ination of their son, William Hooper Jouett, who
has entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.
Mrs. W. B. Hooper, widow of the late Major
Hooper, has recently rented her beautiful home on
Vallejo Street for five years. She will leave early
in September on a visit to her daughter, Mrs.
Perry, and it is not unlikely will extend her visit
to one abroad. Mrs. Rosa Hooper Plotner has
taken a cottage at Burlingame for three months
in hopes the air will prove beneficial to her little
boy, who has been quite ill. Many of Mrs. Plotner's
friends are urging her to join her mother in her
contemplated travels, feeling that an entire change
of climate will benefit the child.
* * *
The marriage of Miss Beda Sperry and Charles
Augustus Bodwell was quietly celebrated on Mon-
day last at the residence of the bride's mother on
Pacific Avenue, Rev. Dr. Stone of Berkeley offi-
ciating. Mr. and Mrs. Bodwell will spend their
honeymoon at Mr. Bodwell's country place in So-
noma County. Her father, the late Austin Sperry,
was a brother of the late Willard Sperry of Stock-
ton, father of Mrs. William Crocker. Mrs. Austin
Sperry was a Miss Simpson of Stockton, her father
being a member of the Simpson Lumber Company.
Dr. Mary Sperry is a sister of the bride and Horace
Srerrv is a brother.
The enjoyment that some wealthy folk pretend to
take in being mistaken for servants lies in a sense
of humor something lower than exhibited in a Calico
Ball with a menu on butcher's paper. It is a nega-
tive expression of vanity, the merriment consisting
in being unable to discern the direction of the joke.
There has been declared a deal of fun in the follow-
ing anecdote ; although a committee of seven, with
a strong-minded chairman and acting under Cush-
ing's Manual, would probably decree it void of any-
thing save valuable space where a self-respecting
shadow might lie at ease.
It is said, so they say, they who tell the tale (a
plagiarized phrase, by the way) that a well-known
San Francisco Society dame was tarrying in a haber-
dashery to be measured for a shirt-waist. She de-
sired it cut in the most approved haberdashed fash-
ion. In the interests of exact measurement, she re-
moved her coat; and, for some reason unknown to
the writer, laid aside her hat. A tape measure lying
near she snatched up, and attempted to measure her
impatience by coiling the tape around her nervous
fingers. In walked a man, on the alert for the latest
in shirts or anything else. Of course he gazed upon
the stylish incognita now in the meshes of thirty-
•six inches of tape, and he yearned to wear damask
for which he had been surveyed by her lithe fingers.
He asked her if she would fit him. She was about
to make some paradoxical reply when some friends
entered and spoiled the scene. But the denouement
did not come then. Fate reserved a swell dinner
party on Presidio Heights for the staggering Act
III, and now the gallant dallier at the haberdashery
knows that when he invited the Lady of the Tape
Measure to take his masculine inches, he was in the
presence of that vast, lugubrious and discouraging
thing commonly known as The Impossible.
* * *
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst arrived in the City last
week, and will spend a few weeks at her home in
Pleasanton before starting for her attractive quar-
ters on the McCloud.
Hand Wrought Jewelry
May Mott-Smith Cunningham, exhibitor of the Paris
Salon 1 906, has at her Studio-Shop 1 622 Pine St.,
many ornaments of individual and original design.
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In prospect of the solemnity of his citation before
the liar Association, Judge Hebbard turned out
a book of poetry entitled "The Flippant Age." It
must be said that this age verily is decidedly flip-
pant : especially in this City. In fact, here there
has been more rlipflop than the flippant. These con-
ditions moved the judge gently to tintinnabulate
the bell of admonition. He could not be severe.
Judge Hebbard's temperament is as mellow and
soothing as a high-priced cigar. He even eliminated
from his volume poems he thought might cause a
pang to some soul in distress. He has an Old
Pleasant Smile demeanor beneath the judicial frown
and could not find it in himself to retaliate in any-
thing other than a kindly manner to his most in-
flated critics. Our quick-tongued, triple-motion,
big-spectacled friend, Mr. Heney, is not in sym-
pathy with Judge Hebbard's muse, particularly
when it inspires him on the bench. It was in the
Ruef case that His Honor, handing Heney a lemon-
hued decision, incurred the snappy prosecutor's
anger. The nectar of the muses in this instance
was said to have been bottled in bond. The decision
was rendered with hilarious wave of the hand that
San Francisco brooked ill at a time when grafto-
phobia was at the height of its fury. The charge
now being investigated by the Bar Association is
"intemperance." But now, the intemperate appe-
tite of the prosecution has begun to cause revulsion
even among those who were gluttons for indict-
ment, and they will be inclined to demand mercy
for Hebbard, if only from a standpoint of being
sick of slaughter. It is likely that he granted Ruef's
petition because he hardly has it in his big, buoyant,
brotherly heart to refuse anybody anything; likely
also that he never delivers a decree in any case
without a dithyrambic, flippant, heartfelt or Old
Scotch tear for the loser. The Superior Court,
though somewhat irksome, is not an unpleasant
place where to while away a few hours a day. Few
judges willingly resign the bench. Hebbard evi-
dently finds it a cozy spot. Yet it is in him, if
ousted from the job, to find jovial relaxation in the
pages of "The Flippant Age."
The poem, "Recompense," printed below, came
to the Wasp as an autograph copy, signed simply
"J. C. B. Hebbard," and seems to exhibit the bard in
a mature and Thanatopsical state of mind. A cur-
sory glance will convince the most skeptical that
there is no flippancy here. All is calm, and mostly
dead. There being fourteen lines to the compo-
sition, the idea of a sonnet cannot fail to suggest
itself, but the elaborate rhyming system of the
sonnet form is lacking. The poet has taken to
himself the simplest of line endings, making one
rhyme do for them all. Nor is he hampered in his
search for variety, for the word "dead" is found five
times to the good. The prevailing metre is iambics.
The first four lines are two feet each ; thence to
the southeast corner, quadrameters, saving the
twelfth line, which is a pentameter and the thir-
teenth line, which is prose. There is no striving
for sesquipedalian effect, riiost of the words be-
ing one syllable. It must also be said that the
thought is more depressed than elevated, and the
style well suited to the thought. All in all, and
especially, in these trying times, it is sad, very sad.
Recompense
A man lay dead,
And then they said,
As he lay dead,
Upon the bed,
And scattered flowers around his head —
"He was a good man, and he fed
The poor and hungry," but instead
Of doing so while life he led,
They waited till the man was dead ;
And in the papers then 'twas read,
"He was a good man, but he's dead,"
And then they scattered flowers around his head.
While alive he .scattered bread —
Now he has flowers, when he's dead.
J. C. B. HEBBARD.
* * *
At her beautiful home, Roselawn, Mrs. Charles
Butters recently gave a luncheon at which were
present, among others, Mrs. Alfred Hunter Voor-
hies, Mrs. William Henshaw, Mrs. Wickham
Havens, Mrs. Edson Adams, Mrs. Nichols, Mrs.
Cavode, Mrs. W. B. Rising, Mrs. Fred Fenwick,
Mrs. Frank Stringham, Mrs. F. A. Rickard, Mrs.
Edward Walsh, Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Martinez.
* * *
Miss Bessie Ames, who has been visiting in Balti-
more for the past year, will spend the coming Sum-
mer with her sisters, Mrs. Robbins and Mrs. Wood,
on Long Island, where they have taken a cottage.
Mr. and Mrs. Pelham Ames will also join their
daughters in the East and pass the Summer there.
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MRS. LEWIS RISDON MEADE
Whose wedding this week was a society event
One of the most delightful sensations of modern
ethics and culture is to receive a shock. And it is
pleasant to know that the finer, subtler and more
exquisite civilization becomes, the more artistic may
be the shock and the thrillinger its thrills. Here in
America we are still too dull and prudish to
appreciate the marvels of Maud Gwendolen Allen
in the full. So she says. Even in Paris she dances
in but partial nudity. Her art is at its crisis in the
dance of Salome. Without tights she comes on the
stage, and is the most Salomesque creature that
has ever enacted the undulations that were the un-
doing of Herod. Her body is veiled with an
Oriental garment, of which a fretwork of gems is
the heaviest part. While the shimmering perform-
ance, in its progress, becomes truer and truer to life
with every new movement, it supposedly does not
transgress the antics of sheer beauty. Every detail
of her body works for individual effect. Her mouth
opens as if to speak and her every other charm con-
veys a language that is not for the ears. Her eyes
glow with the color of her excitement. Her legs
are bare below the knees, and the mother-of-pearl
toenails glister in the stage lights.
It is paramountly Parisian. Over there they have
the heated and perfumed atmosphere of Art that
surrounds the act with no incongruity and makes
it look not bold. It is not bold ; oh dear no, it is
beautiful. On Broadway or Van Ness Avenue it
might be audacious, even ugly and the clergy would
throw handsprings in discussing it. Yet Gwendolen
studied the same from Grecian vases, Egyptian
hieroglyphics, Assyrian tablets and ancient books.
The dance, thus interpreted, does not offend in
Paris, for it is "Art". Art is a veil itself ; though not
a very thick veil. It isn't quite as opaque as a brick
wall.
* * *
At the luncheon to Mrs. Patrick Calhoun and Miss
Calhoun, given at the Fairmont by Mrs. Eleanor
Martin, the other guests were Mrs. Walter Martin,
Baroness Von Schroeder, Mrs. Robert Oxnard, Mrs.
Wm. Tevis, Mrs. Richard Sprague, and Mrs. Hinck-
ley Taylor.
* * *
Mrs. Selby Hanna has returned from an enjoyable
visit in Santa Barbara. She will make short trips
to the various summer resorts throughout the Sum-
mer.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Churchill have returned
from their wedding tour, and are located at the
residence of the groom's parents an Post Street,
where they will be at home to their friends after the
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EDNA MAY
Whose marriage has just been announced
Edna May, the actress, has secured a divorce from
her art and married Oscar Lewissohn. She states
she would not act again if he would let her and that
he would not let her if she wished to. So it is now
hers to grow old and happy. She has begun already,
and is, in her own vernacular, "so happy." In the
two-paged lexicon of woman there is no word nearly
as expressive as "so," though Shakespeare con-
sidered it merely so-so. And while yet she is so
happy, the soft-eyed Edna aspires to become do-
mestic and be a cook. She wishes to make "pies
and those things." The pies and those things of
a soubretter are juicier than those of the ordinary
Mrs. Newlywed. There is no way of getting around
that now. For it is a fad with actresses to boast
being good cooks, while their modern lay-sister?
do scorn the idea. Edna May has already had some
experience thereat, and says, "I am going to learn
a lot more about it, for I think it a fine thing to
know."
As a reward for the firt pie and other concoctions,
she has received from her young millionaire hus-
band a strand of pearls. There is no ornament so
becoming to a cook as these long pearl de luxe neck-
laces that shimmer their tints on her dull white
bosom as she playfully cooks the goose of a mil-
lionaire.
* * *
"I must get you another chair for the kitchen.
Katie ; I see you have only one."
"Sure, you needn't mind, ma'am. I have none
but gintlemen callers!"
There was a disappointment at the Coon-Kehrlein
wedding, as the expected engagement announce-
ment was not made. The young lady in the case
will soon leave for Seattle, I hear. The prospective
bridegroom occupies a prominent position in the
Tamalpais Railroad Company.
S. P. Hamilton of the San Francisco Gas & Elec-
tric Company, has gone East for a well-earned vaca-
tion, as he has been in harness continually during
the past three years. He intends to visit his rela-
tives at Colorado Springs, and thence will proceed
to New York, and return in the Fall. After a short
visit to his people, Mr. Hamilton will proceed to
study the methods and business system of gas
companies in the large cities of the East. He has
been very successful in his managerial department
here, and will no doube return with many new ideas
that will make him still more useful to his company.
The two Bridge Whist Clubs in San Rafael help to
keep that cheerful town in spirits in season and out.
The most prominent of the clubs meets every sec-
ond Wednesday. The other meets every second Fri-
day. Mrs. Hoffman, Mrs. Frank Zook, and Mrs.
L. L. Baker are amongst the best players of all the
ladies of San Rafael and Ross Valley.
Mr. and Mrs. George Finchley Terbush have sent
out cards announcing the marriage of their daughter,
Lorraine Spencer de la Montanya, to Mr. Edward
Albert Davis. At home after the first of August, at
the residence of the bride's mother on Franklin
Street.
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A Japanese Jingle
Mutsuhito, Jingo of Japan,
Fierce Mikado of the black and tan,
Feeling just a little fee-faw-fum,
Sadly picked a pale chrysanthemum ;
And his marble-brown Mongolian eye
Slid askance, half slumbery and half sly.
In his fine phantasmagorial brain,
Hatred had he for the safe and sane.
China downed was ; Russia put to bed ;
Banzai ! Madame Butterfly was dead.
All the world had heard his powder-mills ;
Why not louder, giving all the chills?
Oriental, almond-eyed, morose,
Sacred, black-mustached and bellicose,
Mutsuhito, with his telegraph,
Threatened England's comic-opera laugh;
Also made a noise like Hully Gee
When a hash-house here went fricassee.
Every anti-Japanese occasion
Was made innuendo for invasion.
Till it semed the world by sea and land
Would be ignominiously japanned.
Dreamy, poppy-born diplomacy,
Jiu jitsu, hari-kari, wheel
What a new narcotic renaissance
When kimonos were exchanged for pants !
Yeddo gazed around the blooming earth,
Causing terror where should have been mirth.
And Police Court News roused State regret where
Gilbert-Sullivan could have done better.
Latest of the Sake Sage's fits :
Emperor William and our Mayor Schmitz,
In intrigue, Teutonic, tenebrific,
Plan to sweep the Japs from the Pacific.
Who can cope with such cerulean logic
That with Schmitz and William gets hodge-podgic?
Rather wait till Michael Casey sails
For a hobnob with the Prince of Wales,
Or McCarthy's nerve and nonchalance
Mixes with the President of France.
Maybe Casey not all English is
And McCarthy has small French in his,
Causing not the Sun-prince to determine
Such jobs natural as Eugene's was German.
But within his pagan ignorance,
There's one case to tax his crafty glance ;
And in this he'll ever hold aloof:
Wondering what king will conspire with Ruef.
* * *
Mrs. Thomas B. Bishop and her son, Frank,
Bishop, will soon return to San Francisco from a
six months' tour abroad, and spend the greater
portion of the Summer at their attractive place on
the McCloud.
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Baggett and their
daughter, Mrs. Nell Rose Baggett, have taken a
cottage at Palo Alto for the Summer, where Miss
Baggett has arranged to entertain extensively.
Miss Sara Dean, whose "earthquake" novel will
be one of the Summer book announcements in the
catalogue of Frederick Stokes, was a schoolmate
of many who are now the bulwark of our local
elite. George Lent (who was called "Sollie" then,
for he was named after lawyer Solomon Heyden-
feldt, his father's friend, but changed the first name
by act of court) was one of them and the Kittles,
Nick and Johnnie, were others ; also John Blanchard,
who married Miss "Bee" Hooper of St. Helena.
Mrs. Sam Shortridge (Laura Gashwiler) her sister
Lottie, and half-brother, Jared Irwin, also attended,
with their cousins, the Verdenal girls, the school where
Miss Dean learned her a, b, c's. The Deans, bv
the way, used to own a beautiful country place in
San Leandro, where Sara took her first lessons in
the art of driving. She is one of the best whips
among the local literati.
In a visit to Gump s the other dav it was found
that they have added a beautiful Oriental Depart-
ment to their art establishment. We noted an ele-
gant display of bronzes, brasses, embroideries, fur-
niture and old Chinese porcelains. One of the most
interesting features is the Japanese room, which is
accurate in every detail and might be a useful sug-
gestion to those who are planning a tea room in
connection with a countrv home.
* ;■: *
Mr. Edward M. Green way, who has been enjoying
an Eastern trip, will soon start for home.
* * *
Mrs. Walter Dean, Sr., who has recently been
very ill, is improving in the balmy air of San Rafael,
where the Deans are comfortably settled, at the
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Some of the Eastern editorial writers arc work-
ing themselves into a lather because the American
Girl i thai being whom to criticise is worse than
mocking the angels) stole the buttons of the Duke
of Abruzzi. Not knowing the Duke personally and
having read of him only as an incarnate desire to
reach the coldest spot on earth, I cannot see why
he deserves to possess any buttons, and why he
could not reach the North Pole in safety pins.
It is difficult to determine just when to impute
specific fault unto the American Girl as an insti-
tution. Good-looking females, born in the United
States, frequently get into the Police Court on
various charges. Some of them are known to have
been vagged. But in such cases, criticism never
holds aloof out of mere patriotism. The question
is, Can the Gibson Girl, the Christy Girl, the Hutt
( rirl, the Boileau Girl, be guilty of a common mis-
demeanor? I, for one, triumphantly, though
anonymously, assert that she cannot. The greatest
wrong she ever commits is to marry a foreign
count; which she does so picturesquely, and di-
vorces him in such high style, that there is nothing
to do but admire. Married life with a peer is one
of her mere passing fancies and part of her educa-
cation. Therefore, taking a Duke's buttons is less
of a pecadillo than taking the whole Duke.
Everybody is fond of souvenirs. As we go through
life, we pick up a pebble from such and such place,
a lock of hair here and there, postage stamps from
various countries, books, autographs, photographs,
antique weapons, and so forth. Why not the but-
tons of the Duke of Abruzzi? No doubt they were
ornamental buttons and might have been enameled
with the ducal or royal coat of arms, making them
all the more valuable as keepsakes. As an article
of attire they would be a fantastic vanity of which
an ice-pack explorer should not be guilty. . Is it
kleptomania to snip them from their threads? No.
It is only human nature. The prevalence of the
custom proves this. It is said that Washington
social life, with its legation entertainments, naval
receptions, and the like, is frequently embittered
next morning by the discovery that much of the
entertaining silverware, right up to the entertain-
er's hair brush is missing. Experience shows this
to be but a small part of the well-known and generic
ill-nature of the morning after. Ambassadors, in
reporting to their country, have been so ignoble as
to embody these occurrences in their cipher, thus
endangering, it is said, the world's peace, and inter-
jecting so-called kleptomania into world politics.
But the American Girl, a voluptuous, witty, beau-
teous, fascinating, angelic, Grecian-nosed klepto-
maniac? Far be from such. To the low with the
buttons of the Duke of Abruzzi. Let us have peace.
True. But first, last and at all times the American
Girl intact, free from fear and free from reproach.
Have we not seen her pictured with a bunch of
American beautv roses and looking thrice beautiful
and thrice rosier. And to allow this lovely picture
to be charged with petty larceny. Do not let us
hear of it again. We have a counter-claim readv.
Airs. Carrie Green Noble arrived in town this
week from Los Gatos, and is the guest of her
cousins, Air. and Mrs. Patrick Calhoun on Webster
Street. Her sister, Miss Florine Green, left recently
for the Yoscmite with Miss Calhoun and five of the
Calhoun children, where she will pass several weeks.
The two fine Sevres vases and pedestals in the ex-
quisite collection of Volz & Freeze, on Van Ness
Avenue, have caused considerable discussion as to
the subjects which they illustrate. Some wild
guesses have been made. One millionaire said that
the pictures represented the landing of the Pilgrims
at Plymouth Rock and the conquest of Mexico. He
was a little wide of the mark, as one vase illustrates
the landing of William the Conqueror on English
soil in 1027, and the other the departure of Richard
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Photo Clinedinst M'LLE DES PORTES DE LA FOSSE
Daughter of the Councillor of the French Embassy at Washington
Oscar Lovell Triggs, the University of Chicago
professor who won a barrel of fame by declaring
John D. Rockefeller a greater man than Shake-
speare, has been sued for divorce. Or course, any
man has the right to rate the author of Standard
Oil above the author of Macbeth. Shakespeare is
dead, and Rockefeller is rich. The only question is,
to what circumsizzling degree Triggs would carry
out similar ideas in his married life. It seems from
Mrs. Triggs' complaint he has been in the habit of
manifesting similar doctrines in his lov.es and affec-
tions, with topsy turvy and centrifugal force, as on
a certain date with a woman whose identity is un-
known ; on a certain other date, ditto, ditto ; and in
certain subsequent months, numerous times with
strange women, all set forth therein with apt legal
language, viewing them all up as above Mrs. Triggs,
his lawful but now alimonious wife. It is to be
hoped that she will collect from him all colors of
alimony, counsel fees, triple damages, taxation with-
out representation, expost facto laws, marque and
reprisal, etc., etc., etc., until Triggs will not know a
pipe-line from an interrogation point.
The indignant plaintiff is now in Paris, resting
from the toils of matrimony, while the non-union
husband is wanderlusting in California, searching
for local color in one place or another. He is a
writing man and formerly editor of the To Morrow
Magazine, also member of Shakespeare, Walt Whit-
man and Educational Clubs. Of his wife's charges
he demands proofs. If that is all he desires, he
should be accommodated with neatness and de-
spatch.
# # *
It is a very dangerous thing for a clergyman to
relax the vigor of conduct which our much esteemed
Puritan ancestors who never blessed their wives on
Sunday declared to be the correct caper, so to
speak. A gloomy air and an aversion to things sporty
are as essential to a correct clerical career as a black
coat and a small salary. The Rev. W. E. Story, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Sacramento, is an
example.
Rev. Story played handball in the Sacramento
Y. M. C. A. gymnasium with Irva Blake and was so
favorably impressed by the deportment in the ball
alley, that he placed the boy on the footing of a wel-
come guest at the rectory of which Miss Ethel, the
seventeen-year-old school girl, was the sunshine-
Of course any one could guess the rest of the story,
even if the newspapers had not published the full de-
tails. Irva and Ethel, after the runaway marriage cere-
mony at Davisville on Friday last, spent a few of their
remaining dimes in telegraphing home to Sacramento
for forgiveness. Whether their principal regret was
for having selected such a day for their fateful deed,
deponent sayeth not.
Papa Story on receiving the telegram forgot all
about the amenities of the handball alleys, as well as
the soothing admonitions contained in many parts
of the Bible, and more particularly those set forth
with great circumstantiality in the Book of Job. He
rushed to the railroad depot and when he found he
could not catch a train to intercept the elopers he
raved like a Battery-Street drummer who arrives
Let them know!
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
-THE WASP
13
Rfcoio Geolhc MISS ROMA PAXTON
breathless at the station only to see the train pulling
out and his hated business rival grinning at him from
the rear platform.
If there be any moral in the romantic story, it is
that the apparently innocent handball may lead to
complications that would be worthy of the powers to
make trouble, that lurk in the seductive highball.
« * *
Joaquin Miller does not believe that the first step
towards obtaining a public office is declining it. He
desires to be Senator from Oregon, and he an-
nounces his candidacy with the same calm with
which another man would ask for a glass of whiskey,
or Joaquin himself would request five. Perhaps he
used both sorts of calm at the one time, the am-
bitious and the bibulous each lending dignity and
charm to the other. There always was a rich, mel-
low flavor of Joaquin's political expressions which
made them more fit for Sunday supplements than
statutes. In his ideas of government he is teeto-
taler ; teetotally dead set against anything prac-
tical. He shuns practicability as a monster that has
despoiled countless homes. Some of his greatest
admirers declare, with much enthusiasm, that the
shaggy poet can always be relied upon in civil affairs
to vent an opinion as near to absolute error as it is
possible for finite mind to reach. Had it not been
for this, he would have been as inconspicuous a
bardlet as Lowell Otus Reese and less than half as
popular. Whenever questioned, he knew his views
were asked in curiosity and not for public use.
Therefore, there was no danger in. exhibiting him-
self to the utmost. It was a matter of imagination,
not utility.
The question is, would he expatiate the same senti-
ments in the Senate. One poet in the Upper House
would not be amiss, numerically. But, numerically
speaking, Miller is more than one poet. He is about
a hundred, all of the same school ; and all would rise
at once demanding poetic license and exemption
from Rules of Order. Yet he would be of some use
relatively. Opponents of any measure could rely on
Joaquin's vote. Yea, his record iti the Supreme
Legislative body would be an unbroken line of Noes,
coming oft from unexpected parts of the house, as
the spirit moved him on the floor or caused him to
lie there. Naturally he would bring with him an
atmosphere of the West ; which would be delectable,
yet might cause a mistaken idea as to the quality
and quantity of it produced here and our compliance
with the excise laws.
& dfi Of
State Senator Russ Lukens, who has married Miss
Mullan, was once the butt of a bon mot. that set the
Senate roaring with laughter and broke up a pretty
flight of oratory, landing it in as inglorious a heap
as the finish of one of old Professor Langley's flying-
machines. Lukens is blessed with a big nose as well
as a big fortune. He was talking to the Senate and
was enjoying it as usual. Whether the Senate was,
is not related. He said impressively, "as has been
well said by the Senator under my nose — " Now
Senator Ed. Taylor, in the seat in front of him was
the man who was being quoted, but Senator Louis
Oneal of San Jose bobbed up with, "Mr. President,
I rise to a question of information. Which Sen-
ator?"
* * *
Miss Roma Paxton, whose portrait appears in this
issue, was bridesmaid at two weddings this week,
the Coon-Kehrlein and the Montanya-Davis wed-
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Rhyme of the Week
The moon o'er the Wabash is radiant nightly ;
The grasshopper chews cut plug in the clover.
Cornelius yet holds to his transfers, and brightly
Tells how to win when a strike has blown over.
Schmitz is tucked safely away in a cell ;
Happy Jack Chretien is given a pardon.
The Douma dissolves with a half-smothered yell.
Soft go the mining stocks; share-holders harden.
Hot weatlier comes for a day and a quarter :
Meat quickly gets old, while Patti stays young.
The Hague is preparing to give War a snorter.
'Tis on foot to preserve the Sandwich Isles' tongue.
A "Silent" Smith heir comes will-smashing — Cert!
The Rubes Union waxes in warm Tennessee.
Doc Orlow gets out of the "Crafts" with his shirt;
Which the same will soon happen to other than he.
Mrs. Pot. Palmer will not wed the Earl.
The Jap scowls behind his Japanese fan :
Such horrors as these before us unfurl ;
But what do we care? — We have seen Peter Pan.
Five competitors took part in the third weekly
handicap of the Ladies' Continuous Golf Tourna-
ment at Del Monte last Saturday — Mrs. Loeser,
Miss Morgan, Miss Cornelia Armsby, Mrs. Warner
and Mrs. Author Lord of New York. Miss Morgan
and Mrs. Lord received handicaps, the rest playing
from scratch. Miss Armsby played the strongest
g'ame and proved the winner with a gross and net
score of 117. Miss Armsby's name will be added
to those of Miss E. A. W. Morgan and Mrs. H. R.
Warner on the handsome silver pitcher to be pre-
sented by the Pacific Improvement Company to
the lady who scores most victories during the
three months that the tournament lasts.
* * *
Mrs. Kempff, wife of Rear-Admiral Kempff, U.
S. N., is at Del Monte, accompanied by C. P. Weeks
and Mrs. Weeks of Burlingame.
Miss Miriam Edwards gave a pleasant little
luncheon at her Santa Barbara home Friday after-
noon for Miss Ruth Green, of Berkeley, Mrs. How-
ard Huntington's sister, who is a house guest of
Miss Edwards; Miss Elston of Berkeley, who is a
house guest of Miss Pearl Chase, shared the honors
with Miss Green. Covers were laid for eight of
the exclusive buds.
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The only original Vienna Model Bakery and Cafe
has moved from Geary Street and Grant Avenue to its
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Avenue and Stockton Street. Breakfast, lunch and
dinner is served a la carte, and there is a regular din-
ner between S and 8 o'clock at $1.00:
This select and well-known restaurant was estab-
lished in 1876. No branch stores.
Mr. Adolph Spreckels and a party of seven spem
the week end at Witter Springs Hotel. Senator and
Mrs. Belshaw, of Antioch, were guests during the
week. Mr. Sidney Woodruff, of the Union League
Club, was there last Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Gavin
McNab and others of a party that came in five motor
cars. Rev. J. Melvin, of Oakland, arrived Tuesday,
to stay for a month. Mark Lewis, the well-known
clubman, will remain for two months. Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. Mason and Mrs. Dr. Simpson, of Berkeley, have
returned to their homes. Arrangements for the golf
and tennis tournaments at Witter will be completed by
July 1st.
■* * i-
There is a large crowd of people from around
the bay down in Santa Barbara just now. Mr. and
Mrs. Josiah Dutton are at the Potter. They are
with the party that motored up from Los Angeles
and that will go on north in a week. Among the
members are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foster Dutton,
and Mrs. Dutton's sister, Mrs. MacFarlane of
Honolulu. While they were in Santa Barbara, Mrs.
Clarence Breeden and her mother, Mrs. Butler,
gave a bridge party for the group from the Bay
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One oi San Francisco's most respected matrons,
whose hair is blanched with years, appeared at one
of the fashionable weddings of last week with a
black eye. The darkened orb had a jaunty, rakish
effect that in a younger unman would have seemed
a striking illustration of barbaric times. There is
scarcely anything that will so test feminine aplomb
as the charm with which she u-ears a lop-sided
eclipse of that light that lies in woman's eyes. The
gracious grandmother was the motif of considerable
jesting, which she had tried to escape by remaining
away from the wedding; but b.eing and old friend of
the bride, no refusal was accepted.
The discoloration was caused by the impact of
the eve and an ordinary house door in the dark.
Unsuspicious of disaster, she approached the scene,
and suddenly felt a jar that was a slightly different
answer to the old When is a door not a door. In
honor of the matrimonial event, her manicure en-
deavored to paint out much of the answer ; but there
remained enough on which to hang a tale.
* * *
They think down in Santa Barbara that they
cannot turn around in an educational way without
Professor Henry Morse Stephens at their heels.
To be sure the clever educator has a way of telling
them that they are intellectually "it," but I have
heard other cities boast that "Prof. Stephens said
that this is the most remarkable city, so far as cul-
ture goes, that he has ever come across." I think
the learned man is to be excused and sympathized
with, and I believe in my heart that he finds many
of them more than "remarkable." This last trip
was to Santa Barbara for the purpose of delivering
the commencement address before the High School,
and he talked on old education and new, with of
course a leaning toward the modern. Professor
Stephens was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Howard during his stay from Friday morning until
Saturday night.
Miss Florence Lundborg, the talented artist, will be
the guest of Mrs. George Roe, in Ross Valley, for the
next two months. Dr. Sumner to whom this attractive
girl is engaged to be married, is at present studying
in the hospitals abroad. The wedding will not occur
until late in the Fall.
* * *
Miss May Ayers, who is coming home to spend
the Summer with her people here, had her first
trip to Europe when she was a little grammar
school girl. The Examiner offered a prize of a
European trip to the pupil who stood highest in
the public schools, first (now called the eighth)
grade, and Miss Ayers gained the prize. Her
mother, Mrs. Grosvenor Ayers, accompanied her
on the trip, and May wrote letters from the dif-
ferent points visited abroad. She was always an
extremely bright girl. A few years ago she dis-
covered that she had a fine singing voice which she
proceeded to have cultivated by the Baroness von
Meyerinck. After giving a song recital here — a
most delightful program with songs all about
roses — she went to Munich to get the benefit of
the old world atmosphere.
Mrs. Mountford S. Wilson is staying at the
Potter, and Mr. Wilson hopes to take a holiday and
run down l<> join her.
* * *
Miss Hodge of the Blanchard Gamble School
chaperoned a party of girls to the north, where they
will join their parents and spend the vacation, re-
turning later with the teacher to school. Those
in the group were Miss Harriet Stone of Oakland,
Miss .Muriel Burnham, Miss Ruth 1\\"ard, Miss
Isabel Chase, Miss Dorothy Chapman, Miss Dor-
othy Berry, Miss Henrietta Blanding and Miss
Alexander. They are a stunning lot of buds and
I predict a social triumph for them within the next
five or six years.
* * *
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Photo Genthe
MRS. OLIVER KEHRLEIN NEE COON
Truth may be stranger than fiction ; both are dull
supernumeraries when compared to a rich, calcium-
lit misunderstanding; especially the sort that leads
to proverbs about pure minds quoted by those who
did not laugh to those who did. A San Francisco
woman, who inhabits with daily familiarity what to
others are but castles in the air, was recently dis-
cussing with some of her feminine admirers the
scarcely exciting subject of southern exposures, bay
views, window outlooks and so forth. The topic
itself was one of flattery to the lady in question, who
takes a well-known pride in the eminence of her
own home. And good care was taken to remember
it. Toeing the scratch of this compliment, she re-
marked, "Yes ; indeed. And by the way, Raphael
Weill told me not long ago that he never enjoyed
anything as much as he does my bedroom."
Tableau ! The soul of every woman present be-
came a dark green interrogation mark. Were the
gods making this conventional woman mad in order
to destroy her? When the scene fell and broke of
its own weight, discovery was made that the Bohe-
mian Club is occupying the lady's home, a room of
which moved the genial member to express his
purely Arcadian sentiments.
It is a fact that the box list of the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden, for the, 1907 season shows
an unusual number of American boxholders, or o.r
boxholders with American connections. The On-
looker, publishes a plan on which twenty-seven
names of this catalogue appear and announces that
the list is not complete, as other American sub-
scribers are to be added. The list up to the date
of the Onlooker's publication is as follows :
A — Lily, Duchess of Marlborough, Monday, Wed-
nesday, and Friday.
A von Andre, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
3 — Mrs. John W. Mackay, Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday.
Mrs. Newhouse, Tuesday.
A — Mrs. Potter Palmer, Tuesday and Friday.
5 — Lady Paget, Monday, Thursday, and Saturday.
12 — Mrs. Adair, Tuesday and Thursday.
14 — Mrs. H. V. Higgins, Monday, Wednesday, and
Thursday.
20 — Mrs. Ronalds, Wednesday and Friday.
Mrs. Ogilvie Haig, Wednesday.
22— W. S. M. Burns, every night.
25 — Mrs. C. Henry, Tuesday.
26 — Cora, Countess of Strafford, Friday.
30 — Mrs. Bradley Martin, every night.
33 — Mrs. Parkinson Sharp, Monday and Thursday.
35 — Lady Leigh, Monday and Thursday.
Mrs. A. Glasgow, Monday.
37 — Lady Arthur Paget, Tuesday and Saturday.
43 — Mrs. W. M. Singer, Tuesday and Friday.
45 — Mrs. George Cooper, Monday and Friday.
49 — Mrs. David Beatty, Wednesday.
52 — Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, every night.
55 — Lady Speyer, Wednesday.
57 — J. Pierpont Morgan, every night.
59 — Mrs. Almeric Paget, Wednesday.
60 — Jefferson Levy, Friday.
62 — Countess of Yarmouth, Monday and Thursday.
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LATEST PICTURE OF ETHEL BARRYMORE
-THE WASP
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Weddings
Tune 9th. Miss Elsa Schoenfeldt, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Schoenfeldt, and Samuel R. Leon.
Tune 10th. Mrs. Susie Evelyn Hill and Judge
Henry Clay Barrow, both of Los Angeles, at resi-
dence of bride's sister, Los Angeles.
Tune 11th. Miss Helene Burrell and Mr. Robert
Forgie, at Trinity Episcopal church, Oakland.
Tune 11th. Miss Grace Holbrook Taclues °f
Berkeley and Mr. Earl Snyder of Los Angeles, at
bride's home.
Tune 11th. Miss Katherine Nunan and Thomas J.
Harrington, at St. Mary's Cathedral.
Tune 12th. Miss Alena A. Kronquist and Mr.
Axel A. Newman, both of Berkeley ; at bride's home.
Tune 12th. Miss Lelia E. Gates, daughter of G. M.
Gates, Southern California, and Leonard R. Smith,
son of W. H. Smith of Tracey, Cal.
Tune 12th. Miss Marguerite Fleming and E. J.
Lenihan, at St. Francis de Sales Church, Oakland.
Tune 12th. Miss Alice E. Kempland, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Kempland of this City, and Tames
Wynkoop, at St. Stephen's Church.
Tune 13th. Mrs. Eleanor C. Humphreys of Marys-
ville and Fred P. Stone of San Francisco, at Hotel
Robins.
Tune 14th. Miss Tuliet A. Hayman and Martin S.
Meyer, both of this City.
Tune 16th. Miss Edna Marie Johnson and Otto
Frederick Marx, at St. John's Lutheran Church, San
Francisco.
June 17th. Miss Beda Sperry, daughter of Mrs.
Austin Sperry of this City, to Charles Augustus Bod-
well of Sonoma County.
June 19th. Miss Cecelia L. Moore and Arthur R.
Haskins of this City.
June 19th. Miss Mabel Phillips, daughter of Mrs.
S. M. Phillips, Berkeley, to Monroe D. Green.
June 19th. Miss Helen Edwards of Berkeley and
Mr. Harry Julius Kaufman, at St. Mark's church,
Berkeley.
Miss Ruth Pearl Upham, daughter of Mrs. Wil-
liam Van Vactor of Ross Valley and Mr. A. W.
Scott, Jr., at Ashland, Oregon.
Engagements
Miss Elma Pruett of Berkeley to Mr. Thomas
Giffen.
Miss Bertha Wolff of San Rafael and B. Morgan of
this City.
Miss Amelia Brazill of Oakland to Dr. Foshay of
Oakland.
Miss Dolly Triest of Oakland and Mark Daniels,
Oakland.
Miss Florence Kahn of Oakland and Paul B. Man-
heim, Oakland.
Miss Marie Hurlburt of Portland, Oregon, and Leon
Kuttner of Fresno.
Mrs. Carmelita Long of this City, and Lieut. Thomas
West Hammond, U. S. A.
Miss Harriett Estelle Stetes to Mr. Herman Hill,
both of Santa Rosa.
Miss Louisette D. Curtis, daughter of Mrs. W. Lin-
forth, to William C. Murdock, Tr.
Miss Cecelia Jacobs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B.
Jacobs, and Leland S. Myers.
Miss Adele Samson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
David Samson, and Tules T- Kulhnann.
Miss Rose F. Cuneo, daughter of Mrs. Mary Cuneo
of San Mateo, and Tohn L. Debenedetti.
Miss Ruth Katherine Davis, daughter of Mrs.
Katherine Kinkead Davis, and Dr. Clarence Quinan.
# * *
That stunning blonde, Miss Madeline Bohrman,
has just returned from a long tour abroad, and
with her sister and brother, William Bohrman, the
well-known Societv man, has taken a cottage at
Alta Mira Villa, Sausalito. Miss Bohrman was ac-
companied on her return to California by a young
brother, whom she has placed at Hitchcock's Mili-
tary Academy, San Rafael. Miss Bohrman is a
niece of Mrs. Willis Davis, and cousin of Edna and
Sidney Davis. This brilliant and accomplished
young lady will soon open a studio of languages
and music, assisted, by her equally accomplished
sister, who is a musician of higher order. Miss
Bohrman is an intimate friend of Miss Alice Hoff-
mann. The cottage in Sausalito already is the center
of attraction in that little burg.
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Rufus Jennings and his California Promotion
Committee are paid to boom California. Just now
his methods virtually are the most effective knock-
ing possible, in his zeal to hold on to fat jobs.
Just now they are daffy over telegraphing East each
day California temperatures, the total building per-
mits, and observations about conditions in general.
Every day also they furnish duplicates of the
telegram to the San Francisco papers, with the ex-
planation that it is furnished to Eastern news
bureaus and by them sent all over the country and
is put on the Wall Street ticker, being served to
some 500 tirms.
Now if Jennings would stop with the thermom-
eter records he wouldn't do any harm, but by this
and by that what good does he do when he
paralyzes Xew York with the information that per-
mits were granted for 28 new buildings, total cost
$5000; 1 alteration, $40? Or when he flabbergasts
old Manhattan with the information hot off the
griddle that the Humboldt Savings Bank Building
will be equipped with the most modern style of
elevator? Or when he knocks the wind out of the
Morgans and Harrimans and Ryans, who can't get
loose from that ticker, with the hot-liner, straight
from the bat, that $2,000,000 in real money is to
be spent in buildings in a single block? Perhaps
the dispatches see their only publicity in the San
Francisco papers that publish them to escape his
tiresome importuning, but in any case it is a wicked
waste of money on telegraph tolls, and if any one
in the East does see them, the smiles at our expense
would make us swearing mad.
Rufus also keeps the newspaper offices flooded
with glowing accounts of what the Promotion Com-
mittee's Eastern Bureau is doing. Now the Eastern
bureau is in charge of Calvin B. Brown, a good
fellow who writes good jokes down in his note-
book and springs them opportunely. He keeps
open a California headquarters in New York and
principally attends luncheons where former Cali-
fornians, mostly alleged Bohemians, give them-
selves Dutch treats, or where some New York news-
paper men foregather. All of which is lots of fun
for Brown and good opportunity to spring his note-
book stories and to garner new ones. But not even
the fortnightly assurances of Rufus Jennings will
convince us that the rathskeller style of campaign-
ing is doing much to increase our population and
wealth and happiness.
"What's Brown taking for his cold?"
"Whisky."
"Does it seem to do him any good?"
"It does while he's taking it." '
Hughes for President
By his veto of the two-cent-railroad-fare bill in
Xew York, Governor Hughes has made himself a
stronger Presidential possibility. There has been no
question as to the ability of Governor Hughes. He
is known to be an able man, and he has shown him-
self to be both courageous and fair. He is' not afraid
of the corporations and neither does he pander to
the prejudices of the populace like a Bryan or a
Hearst. The money powers therefore regard Gov-
ernor Hughes as a safe and desirable candidate for
President, and the Republican party generally is be-
ginning to think that we have had enough of radical-
ism for the present and might prosper by a spell of
more conservative statesmanship. This feeling may
help to make Governor Hughes a prominent candi-
date before the Republican nominating convention
next year.
In any event there will be no lack of strong Repub-
lican candidates, and if tne convention cannot pick
from the half dozen favorite sons that have been most
honored, there is President Roosevelt himself to fall
back on. Failure to agree on Taft, Foraker, Cannon,
Fairbanks, Knox or Hughes, should be justification
for ignoring the third-term objection.
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Harriman's Answer
This highly pertinent question was put, recently,
to E. H. Harriman by one of the leading daily news-
paper writers in America, to wit, William E. Curtis,
the distinguished special correspondent of the Chi-
cago-Record-Herald.
"Mr. Harriman, what have you done with the pro-
ceeds of the two hundred and fifty million dollars
in bonds and stocks you have floated since you ob-
tained control of the Union Pacific and Southern
Pacific Railway systems?"
That was certainly to the point. Equally so was
the off-hand answer of Harriman who evidently does
not wish to have it thought that he and other high
financiers just salted down the money in large
chunks.
"I have reorganized, rebuilt and re-equipped two
of the biggest railroads in the world — altogether about
15,000 miles of track," said the high financier. Then
he got down to facts and figures and calling in some
of his hired men that had the statistics at their
fingers' ends, showed in detail just what he has ac-
complished.
"When I commenced to reorganize the Union
Pacific in 1898," said he, "the road was practically a
wreck. There was no reason why any one of a
dozen men should not have done it, but nobody else
seemed to have the nerve. I have since made a new
road of it, and to promote economy and convenience
of management and to benefit the stockholders and
the public, I placed it in close traffic relations with
the Southern Pacific and other transportation lines.
I have practically rebuilt the Southern Pacific, the
Oregon Short Line and the O., R. & N. Co. and the
Pacific Mail.
"I have opened up a vast area of valuable con-
tributing territory by building nearly 2000 miles of
new road, and have 2260 miles additional under con-
struction or projected. I have shortened distances,
have reduced grades, cut out curves, relaid the
tracks with heavy steel rails, have replaced the
wooden bridges with steel and masonry, have
double-tracked a considerable distance where the
traffic is the heaviest, have provided additional ter-
minals and facilities for handling freight, have built
eight of the finest steamships on the ocean, have
obtained the finest fleet of any nation on the Pacific,
have bought or built 1418 locomotives, 1050 passen-
ger cars and 42,500 freight cars.
"In these improvements," continued Mr. Harri-
man, "I have spent $257,760,709 to promote the ma-
terial development of the states and communities
traversed by the transportation lines mentioned.
They serve the people living between the Missis-
sippi River and the Gulf and the Pacific Ocean and
a part of Mexico. The water lines furnish transpor-
tation between New York, New Orleans, Havana
and Galveston, between San Francisco and the west
coast of Mexico, Central and South America, and
between San Francisco and Japan, China and the
Philippines.
"In these improvements," he said, "there were ex-
pended from 1898 to the close of the year 1906, for
changes in lines, reductions of grade, improvements
in alignment and in other betterments and additions
to the roadway and terminal facilities $40,984,214;
for locomotives, cars and steamships $39,577,129,
and for the construction of new lines and purchases
of terminal property $30,616,314; a total expendi-
ture of $111,157,657. One hundred and forty-four
miles of second track and 660 miles of sidings were
built and 631 locomotives, 230 passenger and 16,464
freight cars were purchased.
"There were built or acquired during this period
460 miles of new lines in Louisiana and Texas, 765
miles in California, Oregon and Nevada, which in-
cludes that remarkable piece of work across the
Great Salt Lake known as the Ogden-Lucin cut-off,
and 170 miles in Mexico, making an aggregate of
1395 miles, and construction is progressing on about
1760 miles of projected lines. There were also added
56 miles of second track and 720 miles of sidings,
and there were purchased 787 locomotives, 820 pas-
senger cars, 26,036 freight cars and 8 ocean steam-
ships.
"These additions enabled the company to secure
its full share of the increased business of the country
and to assist material!}' in the development of the
country traversed by its lines. With an increase of
442 miles, or a fraction over 5 per cent over the mile-
age operated in the year 1901, there were carried
1,397,411,783 passengers one mile in 1906, against
935,143,326 in 1901, and 6,236,597,303 tons of rev-
enue freight one mile in 1906, against 4,873,257,728
in 1901.
"Nearly one-half of the company's mileage con-
sists of branch lines, on which the development of
traffic is much slower than on the main line, and a
considerable part of the main line runs through a
still sparsely settled country. The increased traffic
is, therefore, concentrated on probably something
La Boheme
First Class Italian Restaurant
1558 BUSH ST.
Between Vac Neu and Franklin
SPECIALTY: Italian and French Cuisine
FEUX P1AMTAN1DA. Manaser
Formerly Proprietor of the ORIGINAL COPPA
Popular
French
Restaurant
Regular Dinner 75c Private Dining Rooms
Meals a la carte at any hour (or Banquets, etc.
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over 40 per cent of the total mileage of the system,
which is ','216 miles.
"The physical improvements referred to include
the reduction of grades on about 681 miles of road,
the ballasting of about 3785 miles of track, the re-
newal in steel or masonry of about 124,073 lineal
feet of bridges, the relaying of about 5832 miles of
track with heavier rails, and the installation of auto-
matic signals for the safer movements of trains on
about 3237 miles of railway. That is what I did
with the money," said Mr. Harriman.
How to Secure Good Government
Ex-Mayor Phelan has been quoted as saying that
for ten years we shall have good government in
San Francisco, owing to the prosecution of the
grafters. Why not have good government continu-
ally?
It is not a difficult matter to bring it about and
many times and oft has The Wasp pointed out how
easily it can be accomplished.
Appoint the judges of the law courts.
That is the way to secure good government and
that is the only way. Readers of The Wasp will re-
member that we have said this hundreds of times.
We intend to keep harping on the subject. It is
positively the most important one in all the prob-
lems of government that perplex the American people.
I believe that the prosecution of the San Francisco
grafters will help immensely to bring about the ap-
pointment of all judges of the law courts. It has
been shown by the desperate struggle to release
the City from the grip of Ruef and Schmitz that the
final and only hope of the decent citizens was in the
Superior Court. If the judges had weakened Ruef
would have become stronger and more dangerous
than ever. The arch-grafter knew well the ad-
vantage of controlling the District Attorney's office
and the courts. He tried to place his creatures on
the bench and to seize the attorney's office himself.
Had he succeeded San Francisco would have cause
to rue it for many a day.
Ruef's Attempt at Despotism
Possessor of the District Attorney's office, the
Superior Court and the police, the corrupt boss
would exercise the power of an oriental despot. He
could plunder with impunity, lev)' blackmail at will
and commit murder if so inclined. There is a rumor
in political circles that Ruef contemplated the pun-
ishment of his enemies as soon as he could seize the
courts. Whether he would actually instruct his
hirelings to perpetrate murder we cannot say, but
His excesses would not stop short of this crime.
The possibility that any political bandit could
thus make himself the master of a great American
city and defy prosecution should be prevented by
taking the judges of the law courts out of politics.
By such a change the political boss as we novv know
him to our sorrow in America would soon become
extinct.
How Corrupt Bosses Become Powerful
It is by tampering with the courts and protecting
criminals that the American political boss becomes
so powerful in municipal anil state politics. He
controls the nominating conventions and thus holds
a club over the judges. If they disobey his wishes
and send his criminal followers to jail, or fail to ren-
der crooked decisions for him in civil cases, he ex-
ert-, all his power to prevent their renomination. If
not renominated how can they be reelected? Not
once in a thousand times could a judge who failed
to get on his party ticket be reelected.
Unfair to Judges
It is a calamity for the average judge who had
been on the bench for six or twelve years to be sud-
denly thrown out of office and compelled to begin
practice of the law again without clients or influ-
ence.
With judges holding their positions as long as
thev filled them acceptably, and getting a pension
on retirement, the bench would become exalted and
powerful. Its influences would be towards good
government. The grafting politician who came be-
fore the courts would go to jail and all malefactors
would soon learn that trial and conviction meant
more than a temporary inconvenience in attending
court and preparing an appeal to some higher tri-
bunal.
Unless we change our judicial system and appoint
judges things will go from bad to worse in muni-
cipal and state government. Occasionally we shall
see an uprising against grafters, as in San Francisco
at present, but in a few years the crooked and ever
active politicians will again have the mastery.
Original Coppa
Formerly at
622 Montgomery
IN BUSINESS AGAIN AT
423 PINE ST., Bet. Kearny and Montgomery
Special Dishes Every Day
Private Rooms for Families Up-Stairs
Service Unsurpassed
JOE COPPA, Proprietor
Phone Temp. 623
H. C. RAAP. Manager Telephone Franklin 588
National Cafe and Grill
918-920 O'FARRELL ST., San Francisco
SPECIAL MERCHANTS HOT LUNCH 25c
Including Tea, Coffee, Wine or Beer. II a. m. to 2 p. m.
A LA CARTE at all hours.
Regular Dinner 50c
Special Sunday Dinner 75c
AL. CONEY
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TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Night
GEARY AND GOUGH STREETS
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Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
Here's a Union Labor incident that occurred in
this City, but which might have occured anywhere
and been just as funny. The man is a paperhanger
and house decorator. He had a shop before the fire
but is himself a practical workman. He owns some
property which he was putting into shape, and
hiring a painter for indoor work. He intended to
hang his own paper. Taking up a putty-knife he
proceeded to repair some cracks when his hired
man said :
"You can't do that."
The owner of the house fancied his ability was
in question and went on demonstrating his capacity,
but he was speedily set right :
"Do you belong to our union?" asked the hired
man. "Show me your card."
The house-owner was dumbfounded, but I pre-
sume was able to cope with the emergency.
This story reminds me of one I read some time
ago in a magazine of a man who wanted to build
himself a Summer-house, and had to join about ten
unions before he could drive a nail. Pity that some
of the unions themselves cannot see the humorous
side to certain of their claims.
Interest in Nevada mining properties still continues.
The Excelsior Mountain Copper Company's proper-
ties, 16 miles south of Hawthorne, and about 50 miles
East of Bodie, is now the talk of the surrounding
camps. The Brock Syndicate, owners and builders, of
the Tonopah Railroad, have purchased the Bodie &
Mono Lumber Railroad and have a large force at
present grading past the property of this Copper Com-
pany. This puts the mine in touch with smelters all
over the Coast.
Santa Cruz took on a scene of splendor last Sat-
urday night with the opening of its new Casino
and Natatorium. The occasion was one of festal
activities from the band-playing at noon to the last
strains of the dancing at night. The lower floor
of the Casino has been adapted to the requirements
of various concessionaries, and is spacious enough
to accommodate any kind of a Summer crowd.
Above is the oval theater, ball-room and dining-
room, private rooms and two open-air galleries.
The Patatorium contains the largest Summer re-
sort tank in the world, 'holding 500,000 gallons of
water. These structures together with 300 cottages
and all the concessions on the beach are owned
by the Santa Cruz Beach Company, composed of
the best know^i men down there and in San Fran-
cisco.
For over a month, the City of San Francisco has
been terrorized by a few hundred outlaws so that
business has been paralyzed, financial credit de-
stroyed, and the reputation of the community injured
greatly. A mere handful of ignorant Swedes and
Irish, allied with a sprinkling of American roughs,
has thus overawed the community so that thousands
of people have been intimidated daily from riding
on the street cars, and have thus suffered hardships
and financial loss. What a commentary on "free
government of and by the people." If Americans
tolerate that kind of thing the protests of a semi-
barbarous nation like Japan will soon become open
insults. And what reply can we make when
charged with inability to protect foreigners within
our gates who have come here under solemn
treaty. Will it be a complete answer to say that
the Japs needn't kick, as we cannot protect our
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706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,800,000
Interest Paid on all Deposits
Paid up Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans oa Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D. Phelan, Pres„ John A. Hooper, V. Pre*.. J. K. Moffatt, 2d
V. Pres., George A. Story, Sec'y and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Asst. Cashier, A. E.
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CAPITAL AND SURPLUS.
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$600,000.00
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own citizens and taxpayers from being insulted,
beaten and robbed. Alread) one airy Japanese
statesman lias declared that "it is a disgrace to a
civilized nation.'' This gentleman of Tokio was
characteristically polite inasmuch as he refrained
from saying "most damnably disgraceful."
Santa Barbara people of the smart set were
greatly disappointed in that Mrs. James II. Hull.
Miss Marger) Bull and Wilfred Bull were unable
to stay more than a day at that pleasant nook by
the sea: hut the fact is that they lingered so long-
in the Ojai they were eager to get back to the train-
ing station, where something is always going on.
I hear that the Bulls are to open their handsome
home on upper State Street for the Summer, and
if they do there will be gay times for the fash-
ionables.
Mrs. Edwin H. Sawyer, of Montecito, gave a
bridge party last Tuesday at the Country Club for
Mrs. W. R. Sherwood of San Francisco. Of course
the club was in gala garb, for that is the way
they' do down there when any private person en-
tertains. There was a big party present and the
women were in diaphonous gowns, for it was a
delightful day. Refreshments were served after
the cards and there was quite a gathering of men
at that ceremony, for I notice that whenever there
is a good brew of tea the stern sex does not disdain
it bv anv manner of means.
Mrs. A. M. Burns of San Francisco has arrived
in Santa Barbara for the Summer and will be domi-
ciled with her daughter, Mrs. Louis H. Long. The
Longs are very well known and very popular down
in the Channel City, but they have great sighs
for the dear delights of San Francisco.
Mrs. Arthur Lord of New York, accompanied by
her son Andre, arrived at Del Monte last week. She
is a friend of Mrs. Henry Schmieden and intends
to make an extended stay at the beautiful resort.
Mrs. Lord plays golf and went round the links on
Saturday in company of Miss Miss E. A. \Y.
Morgan. Mrs. Lord is a tall woman of striking
appearance and dresses handsomely.
William Letts Oliver, accompanied by Mrs.
II Oliver, Miss Oliver, Harold and Leslie Oliver,
I toured to Del Monte last week in a 30-horse-power
V White Steamer.
The ladies' putting contest on the "clock green"
I near the club-house at Del Monte last week,
I brought out five competitors — Mrs. H. R. Warner,
I Mrs. Loeser, Miss E. A. W. Morgan, Miss Cornelia
H Armsby and Mrs. Clinton E. Worden. Mrs. Warner
l and Miss Morgan tied with scores of 52 for two
I rounds of the clock, and, on playing off the tie.
I Miss Morgan won. The prize was an approaching
I mashie.
Mrs. T. Parker Whitney is spending the Summer
at Del Monte. She is an enthusiastic golfer and,
though she does not take part in the competitions,
makes a round of the links almost every day.
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Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31, 1906
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San Francisco's Vitality
The wonderful thing about San Francisco busi-
ness is that, notwithstanding all the complication
that should ruin it, the volume keeps increasing.
The bank clearings for last week were many
millions more than in 1905, which was a year of
great prosperity. The bank clearings of San Fran-
cisco every week are greater than those of all the
other cities on the Pacific Coast combined. The
week before last San Francisco's record was nearly
forty million dollars, and that of Los Angeles not
quite thirteen million, although Los Angeles is bet-
ter by a million dollars than in the corresponding
week of 1906.
Mr. Jas. D. Phelan stated the case correctly the
other day in New York, when he said that the
earthquake and fire had not impaired San Fran-
cisco's business and resources. The only difference
between now and 1905 and 1906 is that we are doing
business under greater difficulties, inasmuch as the
mercantile community is scattered and business,
generally speaking, is not properly housed.
Our beautiful mail service continues to delight the
business community of San Francisco and enhance
the reputation of Postmaster Fisk for executive
ability of a lofty order. On Monday a package of
Wasps was mailed to a well-known Society woman,
daughter of an eminent jurist, who is an invalid in a
centrally located sanitarium. In answer to several
telephonic inquiries from the subscriber all we could
answer was that the elaborate machinery of the
Postoffice had been set in motion to deliver the pack-
age of papers, and as the sanitarium was not more
than two miles away, the package would doubtless
reach its destination some time during the week. A
few days ago an acquaintance of mine got a postal
card which took five days to come from the Sentinel
Hotel in the Yosemite Valley to the center of San
Francisco. The person who sent the card made the
trip in one day and beat the mailed missive home by
four days. It mght be a good plan to address local
mail by way of New York or Yokohama so as to
expedite its delivery.
Won Out
It was the third regular meeting of the Ananias
Club. The leather medal, to be given to the best
liar, was still in the glass case. The president
rapped for order.
"Fellow liars," he began, "we will now have the
pleasure of listening to Mr. Josiah Tompkins,
alderman from the unteenth ward."
Mr. Tompkins arose and took a swallow of water.
"Gentlemen," he said, "once upon a time there
was an alderman who had made a vast fortune
through bribery. He lived to a ripe old age, and
none suspected the source of his great wealth. One
day his conscience began to trouble him, so much
so in fact that he refunded ever}- bribe he had
accepted and — "
"Gentlemen." yelled the president, in the midst
of great commotion, "one word. The committee
will kindly present Mr. Tompkins with the leather
medal."
Paris awakened cne morning not long ago and
found itself "natte" crazy. The mania came in a
night. The "natte" is a braid, full and fussy and
thick. When it is bought at the hairdresser's it
is only one, but when it grows on your head it
has to be two. Never was a style known to take
so rapidly. It is a good guess that it is a sort of
consolation coiffure for those who refuse to wear
the Marcel and the little puffs on top. Ethel
Barrymore showed us the "natte" when she pushed
her front hair away from her pretty forehead and
wrapped two braids about her head in a hirsute
circle. It leaves the top portion of the head un-
adorned and empty looking, but if you have a
well-shaped head you will be glad of it.
In the French capital you hear only talk about
the "natte." The "natte" won't get much of a hold
in this country. Many women think it ugly. It
looks like a coiffure for going to bed at night. But
they don't care in Paris. To be stylish — ah ! there
you have it ! To be beautiful — that, too, is very
well ; but be foolish and be stylish first.
According to a French physician, hands soiled
by oil and grease when tinkering with motor cars
are really not dirty, scientifically speaking, of
course. The Parisian has used his microscope and
examined some of the black grease, declaring it
harbors no evil germs. Upon this finding he de-
clares the soiled hands to be "hygienically clean."
This will doubtless prove a great consolation to
the great numbers of motorists who have "appar-
ently" ruined clothes while doing their own re-
pairing.
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Stock Exchange
Goldfield, Tonopah, Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET. STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. San Francisco
must reslore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE. Pr«.
GAVIN McNAB. Atty.
WM. CORBIN, Sec. and Gen. Mgr.
OFFICES -COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Rooms 7 to 1 1
Telephone Tmpy. 1415
W. C. RALSTON
Stock and Bond Broker
Member San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
Mining Stocks a Specially
Bedford McNeill
Codes Western Union
Leibers
368 BUSH STREE1
San Francisco
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People in England have been puzzling themselves
over the question, "What is a flirt?" A London
newspaper started the discussion and even offered
prizes for the best replies. Thousands of answers
were received. < M" course, says the Chicago Record-
Herald, men won the prizes — men, presumably,
win i have fallen victims to some jilt.
The best answer was said to be the following:
"A misguided individual who wants all love's
n.ses without any thorns, and usually ends with
nothing to show but scratches.''
The second prize man tendered this reply:
"( Ine who leads you to love's paradise and then
rudely slams the gates in your face."
And the man who received the third prize an-
swered in this wise :
"A sampler of Cupid's wares who can't make up
her mind, and through her indecision is often left
behind."
A woman received a consolation prize for this
reply :
"One who, possessing charm, uses it; discover-
ing power, abuses it : securing love, refuses it ;
plucks fairest fruit — and bruises it."
A prize of the same character went to a man for
this effusion :
"A flirt is the wasp of Society, rifling all the
flowers of friendship, but producing no honey."
Other noteworthy answers were :
"A flirt is the destroyer of youthful belief in the
goodness of human nature."
"A queer fish, having the voracity of a shark,
arms of an octopus and backbone of a jellyfish."
"One whose heart is so susceptible and soft that
Cupid's arrows pass completely through it with-
out sticking."
"The moral earthquake that destroys our fair
city of belief in both man and woman kind."
"A flirt is a fraudulent person who by numerous
devices tries to obtain love under false pretenses."
"A poacher with alluring snares on Cupid's es-
tate."
"One who sees how near a lighted match can
be placed to an unkindled fire without setting it
aglow."
"One who plays with Cupid, but wears a suit of
armor."
"The girl who plays with all the boys and treats
them all as penny toys."
"A maiden effusive, attractive, elusive, of high
hopes conducive, yet never conclusive."
"The average flirt is like the cheap boots — poor
sole, plenty of tongue, elegant appearance, but weak
in the uppers."
"One whose high opinion of her own attractions
is only exceeded by her utter disregard of the feel-
ings of others."
"One born with an immense capacity for love,
a lamentable lack of control and a goodly touch
of vanity."
"One who loves to lure victims to the Heights
of Happiness — and throw them oyer."
"One who desires flattery and admiration from
the opposite sex, and to gain that end ignores con-
ventionalities and sincerity."
"The offspring of a vanity which makes women
ridiculous and men contemptible in the eyes of all
rational people."
"A thief who, to gratify vanity, robs sentiment
of its feeling, friendship of its sincerity and love
of its beauty."
"One who jangles life's sweetest melody and
makes it out of tunc'
"Girl who gets about and makes the boys all
love her; when she's had her fling, makes a model
mother."
"A creature without mind enough to reflect,
heart enough to be constant, love enough to be
true."
"One whose gratification is another's mortifica-
tion."
"One who desires to please, craves universal ad-
miration, experiments in love and helps to educate
men to marry other women."
Two Reasons Why
"Well, Professor, how are you getting along with
your aerial machine?"
"It is not a complete success." I have two things
to accomplish before I can say that it is.'
"What are they?"
"I must discover how to get my machine in the
air and then how to keep it there."
JULY SUNSET
THE MAKING OF LOS ANGELES
Photographs of the rise and growth of Cali-
fornia's Southern City.
THE TEACHERS' PILGRIMAGE
The story of the convention of the National
Educational Association to be held in Los
Angeles during July.
THE SPREAD OF SAN FRANCISCO
Manufactories along the Bay Shore.
WHERE MAMMOTHS ROVED
Recent discoveries of footprints in the Carson,
Nevada, Stone Quarries.
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Beautifully Furnished
Cafe a la Carte at Moderate Prices
N. S. MULLAN, Manager
Formerly Assistant Manager
Palace Hotel, S. F.
fsASl DEL MONTE
A Week of Sports at the Famous Resort.
Gymkhana Races, Tennis, Bowling, Swimming.
Automobile Run July 3rd and 4th.
GOLD TOURNAMENT, July 2nd to 7th
Handsome Silver Trophies.
A SPECIAL ROUND TRIP RATE OF $4.00
July 3rd and 4th, good to return July 8th.
C. W. KELLEY, City Representative
Telephone Temporary 2751 789 MARKET STREET
SANTA CRUZ
The Atlantic City
of the Pacific
World's
Most
Beautiful
Playground
Summer Season
Opened May 1st
Never a Dull
Moment
Grand Openiog of the Casino and
Bathing Pavilion announced later
Pacific Grove Hotel
Formerly Hotel El Carmelo, Pacific Grove
under the same ownership as the Hotel Del
Monte. A quiet resort, with every comfort
at most reasonable rates. In close touch
with San Francisco, San Jose and Santa
Cruz. Through chair car and parlor car
service to and from Los Angeles and San
Francisco daily.
HOTEL RAFAEL
San Rafael, CaL
OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND
SO Minutes from San Francisco
The only first-class hotel in the vicinity of
the city, American and European plan.
F. N. ORPIN, Lessee and Manager
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THE NEW ROUTE TO
Yosemite Valley
Only 9 hours from San Francisco ; reached by ihe Southern
Pacfic or Santa Fe, via Merced, over the newly constructed
YOSEMITE VALLEY RAILROAD
80 MILES — STEEL TRACK
Four hours in a luxurious observation car through the finest
panoramic scenery in the United States. You leave San Francisco
after breakfast and take dinner in the Valley.
Fare $18.50 from Merced into the
Yosemite and return
0. W. LEHMER, Traffic Mgr., Merced, Cal.
Suburban
Deliveries
Campers
Contemplating a trip of any kind to the
interior should know that they can ob-
tain all the staple essentials at one place,
shipping points, quick delivery, finest goods, lowest
courteous salesmen and competent packers. Let
us figure with you and supply you. Freight prepaid. All
orders free.
near a;
prices,
SMITH'S CASH STORE
UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS
14 to 24 Steuart Street
San Francisco, Cal.
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES- BELL RHOODES
Via KekeyvilJe P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co.. Cal.
TAHOE TAVERN
MRS. ALICE RICHARDSON. Manager
TAHOE, CAL.
Just the place (or a few days rest and recreation
WEATHER DELIGHTFUL
FISHING EXCELLENT
Witter Medical Springs
Lake County
Witter Springs Hotel was built and
and equipped to please the really
critical. Cuisine and service un-
excelled. Table loaded with all the
delicacies of the season, supplied from our 1400 acre ranch. See
Sunrise Peak, Clear Lake, Blue Lakes, Horseshoe Bend and numerous
other places of interest. Most magnificient variation of scenery in the
world. Tennis, fishing, good saddle horses, bowling and other amuse-
ments. Automobile headquarters for Lake Co: Under the management
of Albert J. Arroll, formerly of the New Willard, Washington and the
Seelbach, Louisville. Rates $14.00 per week upward. Call or write
for booklet and general information. Main office, 647 Nan Ness Ave.
Witter Water Cures Stomach Trouble
AGUA CALIENTE SPRINGS
Send your family to the nearest Hot Sulphur Springs to San Francisco.
First-class accommodations. Special rates to families. No staging.
Four trains daily. Fare round trip $1.65. Tiburon ferry or Oakland;
two hours' ride. Address THEODOR RICHARDS, Agua Caliente,
Sonoma County, California.
Howard Springs
Lake County, Cal.
Season 1907 opens May 1st.
The waters of Howard Springs will
cure any case of Stomach, Liver and
Kidney Trouble. Recommended.
by any physician who has ever visited the place in the past 20 years. Every outdoor
sport, 42 Mineral Springs, Hot Sulphur and Iron Plunge Bath, Magnesia and Borax
Tub Baths. Address all communications to J. W. LAYMANCE, Proprietor Howard
Springs, Lake County, Cal., or 905 Broadway, Oakland, Cal.
TRUNKS VALISES BAGS
Victor's TRUNK Store
CHEAPEST IN TOWN
OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL EICHT P. M.
ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO
626 Golden Gate Avenue, near Van Ness
SAN FRANCISCO
DIRECTORY
OF LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE
MISCELLANEOUS.
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE, 226 Oak St.,
S. F.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
BOLTE & BRADEN, 105-107 Oak St., S. F.;
Phone Market 2837.
COOPER ADV. AGENCY, F. J., West Mis-
sion and Brady Sts.
DAKE ADV. AGENCY, Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temp'y 1440.
FISHER, L. P. ADV. AGENCY, 836 North
Point St., S. F. ; Phone Franklin 584.
JOHNSTON-DIENSTAG CO., 2170 Post St.,
S. F.
ANTIQUE DEALERS.
THE LOUIS XIV. Curios, Objects d'Art,
Miniatures, Paints, Porcelains, Jewels, etc.,
C. V. Miller, 1117 Post, near Van Ness.
ARCHITECTS.
REID BROS, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough at., S. F.
THOS. J. WELSH, JOHN W. CAREY, asso-
ciate architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
GUMP, S. & G„ 1645 California St., S. F.
SCHUSSLER BROS., 1218 Sutter St.
ATTORNEYS,
DORN, DORN & SAVAGE, 717 Van Ness
Ave.
DINKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W., 1265 Ellis
St., S. F. Phone West 2355.
HEWLETT, BANCROFT AND BALLAN-
TINE, Monadnock Bldg. ; Phone Temp'y
972.
EDWARD B. YOUNG, 4th Floor, Union
Trust Bldg., S. F. Telephone, Temp'y 833.
GOLDSTONE, LOUIS, 1012 Fillmore St.
Phone Park 864.
MAROIS, T. M., 1756 Fillmore St., S. E. cor.
Sutter. Phone West 1503.
KING, CHAS. TUPPER, 1126 Fillmore St.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
PIONEER AUTOMOBILE CO., 901 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F. ; and l2th and Oak Sts.,
Oakland.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO., Market
and Van Ness Ave., S. F.
AUTO LIVERY CO., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
BOYER MOTOR CAR CO., 408 Golden Gate
Ave. Phone, Franklin 655.
LEE CUYLER, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
MIDDLETON MOTOR CAR CO., 550 Gol-
den Gate Ave., S. F.
MOBILE CARRIAGE CO., Golden Gate
Ave. and Gough Sts., S. F.
PACIFIC MOTOR CAR CO., 376 Golden
Gate Ave.
BANKS.
ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK, Ltd., cor.
Pine and Sansome Sts., S. F.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST CO., cor. California and Montgom-
ery Sts., S. F.
CENTRAL TRUST CO., 42 Montgomery St.,
S. F.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Bush and San-
some Sts., S. F.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK, 108 Sutter St.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, 526 California St., S. F.
HALSEY, N. W. & CO., 413 Montgomery
St., S. F.
HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, Jones and McAllister Sts., S. F.
HUMBOLDT SAVINGS BANK, 646 Market
Street, opposite old Palace Hotel. Phone,
Temp'y 249.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO, 710 Market St., opp. 3d St.,
S. F.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, N.W.
cor. California and Montgomery Sts., S. F.
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, 316 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
THE MARKET STREET BANK AND
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, Market and 7th
Sts., S. F.
UNION TRUST CO., 4 Montgomery St., S. F.'
WELLS FARL.O-NEVADA NATIONAL
BANK, Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
BREWERIES.
ALBION ALE AND PORTER BREWERY,
1007-9 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
S. F. BREWERIES, LTD., 240 2d St., S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
MONTAGUE, PHIL S., 339 Bush St., Stock
Exchange Bldg.
ROLLINS, E. H. & SONS, 804 Kohl Bldg.;
Telephone Temp'y 163; S. F.
ZADIG & CO., 324 Bush St., S. F.
WILSON, J. C, 488 California St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION, Church and Market Sts.,
S. e.
CARDS, INVITATIONS, ETC.
WOOD, GEO. M. & CO., engravers, 1067
O'Farrell St., above Van Ness.
CARPET CLEANING.
SPAULDING, J. & CO., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave.; Phone Park 591.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
HUB. THE, Chas. Kcilus & Co., King Solo-
mon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore Sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
JOHNSON LOCKE MERCANTILE CO.,
213 Sansome St., S. F.
MALDONADO & CO., INC., 156 Hansford
Bldg., 268 Market St. Phone Temp'y 4261.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
FISHER CONSTRUCTION CO., 1414 Post
St., S. F.
TROUNSON, T., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176
Ash Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
NATHAN DOHRMAN CO., 1520-1550 Van
Ness Ave.
DENTISTS.
KNOX, DR. A. J., 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
TWIST, DR. J. F., 1476 Eddy, nr. Fillmore
St. Phone West 5304.
DESKS AND CHAIRS.
PHOENIX DESK & CHAIR CO., office fur-
niture, 1538 Market St., west of Van Ness.
Phone Market 2393.
DRY GOODS— RETAIL.
CITY OF PARIS, Van Ness Ave. and Wash-
ington St., S. F.
WHITE HOUSE, Van Ness Ave. and Pine
St., S. F.
EXPRESS.
WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Ferry Bldg.,
and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FEATHERS— UPHOLSTERY.
CRESCENT FEATHER CO., 19th and Harri-
son Sts., S. F.
FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE PHOTOS.
RUE, JAMES O., 1067 O'Farrell St. Phone
Franklin 2603.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
OMEY & GOETTING, Geary and Polk Sts..
S. F.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
CAREW & ENGLISH, 1618 Geary St., bet.
Buchanan and Webster Sts., S. F. ; Phone
West 2604.
PORTER & WHITE, 1531 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
GAS STOVES,
S. F. GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Franklin and
Ellis Sts.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
BULLOCK & JONES COMPANY, 801 Van
Ness Ave., cor. Eddy St., S. F.
HANSEN & ELRICK, 1105-7 Fillmore St..
nr. Golden Gate Ave. ; Phone West 5678.
GOLD AND SILVER PLATING.
BELLIS, JOHN O., Mfg, gold and silver,
smith, 1624 California St., nr. Van Ness.
Phone Franklin 2093.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
ILS, JOHN G. & CO., 827 Mission St., S. F. I
MONTAGUE. W. W. & CO., Turk and Polk
Sts., S. F.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
DAVIS, W. & SON, 2020 Howard St., bet.
16th and 17th, S. F.
LEIBOLD HARNESS AND CARRIAGE
CO., 1214 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
DILLON, TOM, Van Ness Ave. and McAllis-
ter St.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
KEELEY INSTITUTE, H. L. Batchelder,
Mgr. ; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
JEWELERS.
BALDWIN JtWELRY CO., 1521 Sutter St.,
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. F.
SHREVE & CO., cor. Post and Grant Ave.,
and Van Ness and Sacramento St., S. F.
SCHMIDT, R. H. & CO., 1049 Fillmore St.,
nr. McAllister St. Phone Park 1209.
LAUNDRIES.
LA GRANDE LAUNDRY, 234 12th St., S. F.
PALACE HOTEL LAUNDRY and KELLY
LAUNDRY CO., INC., 2343 Post St.
Phone West 5854.
LIFE INSURANCE.
HUNTINGDON, ARTHUR P., 925 Golden
Gate Ave. Phone Park 515.
LUMBER.
UNION LUMBER CO.. office 909 Monad-
nock Bldg.
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
BEKINS' VAN AND STORAGE CO., 13th
and Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13
and 1015 Broadway, Oakland.
ST. FRANCIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COMPANY, Office 1402 Eddy St.; Tel.
West 2680.
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
DEANE, JNO. J., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Sts.; Phone West 7291.
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WARE. JOHN H.. 307 Monadnoclc Bldg..
Depositions carefully attended to. Phone
Tempy 972.
OIL COMPANIES.
STERLING OIL CO.. 1491 Post St.. cor.
Octavia, S. F.
OPTICIANS.
MAYERLE. GEORGE. German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave.. S. F. ; Phone West 3766.
SAN FRANCISCO OPTICAL COMPANY,
"Spences," 527 Van Ness Ave.; "Branch,"
1613 Fillmore.
STANDARD OPTICAL CO., 808 Van Ness
Ave., near Eddy St.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
KEEFE. J. H„ 820-822 OFarrell St., S. F. ;
Tel. Franklin 20S5.
TOZER, L. & SON CO., INC., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., near Fillmore.
PAINTS AND OILS.
BASS-HUETER PAINT CO., 1532 Market
St.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
CAL. PHOTO ENG. CO., 141-143 Valencia
St.
PHYSICIANS.
BOWIE, DR. HAMILTON C, formerly 293
Geary St., Paul Bldg., now 14th and Church
Sts.
BRYANT, DR. EDGAR R-, 1944 Fillmore
St., cor. Pine; Tel. West 5657.
D'EVELYN, DR. FREDERICK W„ 2115
California St., S. F., and 2103 Clinton Ave.,
Alameda.
THORNE. DR. W. S., 1434 Post St., S. F.
POTTS, DR. JOHN S., 1476 Eddy St. Phone
West 1073. Residence, Hotel Congress,
Ellis and Fillmore. Phone West 4224.
PIANOS— MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
BALDWIN, D. H. & CO., 2512 Sacramento
St., and Van Ness at California.
REAL ESTATE.
HICKS 4: MACK. Real Estate and In-
surance, 2091 Fillmore St. Phone West
7287.
C. R. WILCOX & CO.. Real Estate and In-
surance. 837 Golden Gate Avenue. Phone,
Fell 1558.
RESTAURANTS.
MORAGHAN, M. B., OYSTER CO., 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
OLD POODLE DOG, 824 Eddy St., near
Van Ness Ave.
ST. GLRMAIN RESTAURANT, 497 Golden
Gate Ave.; Phone Market 2315.
SWAIN'S RESTAURANT, 1111 Post St.,
S. F.
THOMPSON'S, formerly Oyster Loaf, 1727
O'Farrell St.
SAFES AND SCALES.
HERRING-HALL MARVIN SAFE CO.,
office and salesrooms. Mission St., bet.
Seventh and Eighth Sts. ; Phone Market
1037.
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER & WILSON and SINGER SEW-
ING MACHINES, 1431 Bush St., cor.
Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; Phone Franklin
301 ; formerly 231 Sutter St.
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES, J. W.
Evans, Agent, 1658 O'Farrell St., nr. Fill-
more. Phone West 3601.
STORAGE.
BEKINS VAN & STORAGE CO., 13th and
Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13.
PIERCE RUDOLPH STORAGE CO., Eddy
and Fillmore Sts.; Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
WALTERS & CO., formerly Shutts, Walters
& Co., 1608 Steiner St., S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
BACIGALUPI, PETER, 1113-1115 Fillmore
St., S. F.
TAILORS.
LYONS, CHARLES, London Tailor, 1432
Fillmore St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; 958
Broadway, Oakland.
REHNSTROM, C. H., 2415 Fillmore St., for- '
merly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
THOMS. F„ 1209 Mission St., corner of
Eighth, S. F.
Electric Sad-irons
SPECIAL PRICE-Complete
$4.50
Attach to your fixture any size---3-5-6 pounds
"AT YOUR SERVICE"
THE GAS & ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO.
1131 POLK STREET, Near Sutter
Phone FRANKLIN 140
TRICYCLES.
EAMES TRICYCLE CO., Invalid Chairs,
1808 Market St., S. F.
WINES AND LIQUORS— WHOLESALE.
BALKE, ED. W., 1498 Eddy St., cor. Fill-
more.
BUTLER, JOHN & SON, 2209 Steiner St.,
S. F.
REYNOLDS, CHAS. M. CO., 912 Folsom
St., S. F.
RUSCONI, FISHER & CO.. 649 Turk St.,
S. F.
SIEBE BROS. & PLAGEMAN, 419-425
Larkin St. ; Phone Franklin 349.
WENIGER, P. J. & CO., N. E. cor. Van
Ness Ave. and Ellis St. ; Tel. Franklin 309.
309.
WICHMAN, LUTGEN & CO., Harrison and
Everett Sts., Alameda, Cal.; Phone Ala-
meda 1179.
WINES AND LIQUORS — RETAIL.
FERGUSON, T. M. CO., Market Street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow Whiskey.
FISCHER, E. R., 1901 Mission St., cor. of
Fifteenth.
THE METROPOLE, John L. Herget and
Wm. H. Harrison, Props., N. W. cor. Sutter
and Steiner Sts.
TUXEDO, THE, Eddie Graney, Prop., S. W.
cor. Fillmore and O'Farrell Sts.
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
CO.. 2401 Fillmore.
McMAHON, KEYER AND STIEGELER
BROS.. Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Farrell
and Fillmore.
JOHN J. DEANE & CO.
NOTARY PUBLIC
Real Estate and Insurance
N. W. Cor. Sutter and Steiner Sts.
Phone West 7291
SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of California, in and for the City and
County of San Francisco.
SIDNEY W. SCOTT, Plaintiff, vs. ISABELL
SCOTT, Defendant.
Action brought in the Superior Court of
the State of California in and for the City
and County of San Francisco, and the com-
plaint hied in the office of the County Clerk
of said City and County.
The People of the State of California, send
greeting to ISABEL SCOTT, Defendant.
You are hereby required to appear in an
action brought against you by the above
named Plaintiff in the Superior Court of
the State of California, in and for the City
and County of San Francisco, and to answer
.he Complaint filed therein within ten days
(exclusive of the day of service) after the ser-
vice on you of this Summons, if served within
this City and County ; or if served elsewhere
within thirty days.
The said action is brought to obtain a
judgment and decree of this Court dissolv-
ing the bonds of matrimony now existing
between Plaintiff and Defendant, on the
ground of Defendant's wilful desertion of the
Plaintiff ; also for general relief, as will
more fully appear in the Complaint on file,
to which special reference is hereby made.
And you are hereby notified that, unless
you appear and answer as above required,
the said Plaintiff will take judgment for any
moneys or damages demanded in the Com-
plaint as arising upon contract, or will apply
to the Court for any other relief demanded
in the Complaint.
Given under my hand and the Seal of
the Superior Court of the State of California,
in and for the City and County of San Fran-
cisco, this 16th day of March, A. D. 1907.
(SEAL) H. I. MULCREVY, Clerk.
By L. J. WELCH, Deputy Clerk.
JOSEPH H. TAM, Attorney for Plaintiff,
San Francisco, Cal.
Action No. 7076.
The first publication of this summons was
made in The Wasp newspaper on the 20lh
day of April, A. D. 1907.
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Of Social Interest
1
Amongst the Californians who have taken a
prominent place in the Society of Washington are
the Morgan-Hills, who are very well known here.
Mrs. Hill was the rich and handsome heiress, Miss
Diana Murphy of San Jose, whose father was one
of the large and influential family of Murphys of
whom Bank Commissioner Barney Murphy, was
one of the best known members. The Murphys
came to California before gold was discovered, and
became very extensive land holders and, in time,
as the State became populated, their wealth grew
to be enormous. Like most California families,
however, they have not succeeded in retaining their
possessions intact. They are no longer distinguished
amongst the wealthiest cf our citizens.
Mrs. Hill's marriage was most romantic. Her
father left a clause in his will, which was to seri-
ously affect her fortune if she married. It trans-
pired soon after Mr. Murphy's death that his
handsome daughter had for a year or more been
married secretly to Mr. Hill, who was a dashing
young man at that time and noted for being one
of the best dressed in San Francisco. The clause
in the will was inoperative and young Mrs. Hill
came into possession of her fortune. She now has
a grown daughter, who is said to inherit her
mother's beauty. For some time after their mar-
riage Mr. and Mrs. -Hill lived at the Palace Hotel
in fine style. Then they went, abroad and on re-
turning settled in Washington. In this choice of
a residing place Mrs. Hill was influenced somewhat
by the Patten sisters, who had already established
themselves at the capital and were prominent in
Society. The Pattens and Miss Murphy were school
girls together at Notre Dame Seminary, San Jose.
The Washington Society reporters have taken
quite an interest in the engagement of Miss Emma
Mullan to State Senator George Russell Lukens
of California. Miss Mullan is a daughter of Captain
John Mullan, who for many years turned up regu-
larly at every session of the California Legisla-
ture to urge the payment of his commission for
collecting war claims for this State.
Captain Mullan was a venerable-looking old gen-
tleman, with a long beard, extremely white, as was
his hair. Nature had been generous to him in the
gift of language, and he was as voluble as a phono-
graph in advocating his claims before various legis-
lative committees. Several times he succeeded in
having the Legislature pass relief bills for his bene-
fit, but they contained some technical defect, or
else the Governor refused to sign them. Event-
ually, however, perseverance had its reward, and
the Captain succeeded in getting a fairly large slice
of the public money. When not engaged in advo-
cating his own claims before the California Legisla-
ture at Sacramento, Captain Mullan employed his
time profitably as a lobbyist in Washington, and
he must have been a very useful and successful one,
judging by the energy, eloquence, and the persever-
ance, which he manifested in advocating his own
claims here. The statement has been published
that Miss Mullan first met her prospective husband
at a dinner given by Mrs. Eleanor Martin in this
City, but that is incorrect. Miss Mullan, who as-
sisted her father in his legislative work, had met
Senator Lukins several years before, and the meet-
ing at Mrs. Martins' dinner was only a resumption
of their former acquaintance.
The Wasp hastens to correct a.n item in last week's
issue, caused by a coincidence of names and residences,
in the case of Ralph E. Parr, alleged embezzler of the
Burlingame Country Club funds. His residence was
correctly given to us, and our informant remembered
the block in Alameda as the residence of the former
Miss Theo Parr, who married Mr. Roger Chickering.
Hence the mistake in identifying Mrs. Chickering's
brother with Ralph E. Parr. The two senior Parrs,
both mining men, lived within a few doors of each
other, but the Chickerings have no connection with and
never knew of the existence of the other family. Mrs.
Roger Chickering's family belong to the exclusive set,
both of Alameda and Oakland ; her young brother is at
present attending school in Nevada.
Mr. George P. Snell will retire, on July 1st. from
Hotel Del Monte, which he has given efficient manage-
ment since 1903. His place will be filled by H. R.
Warner. Ill health is the cause of Mr. Snell's resigna-
tion. He had previous experience at the Lick House,
this City, and the Vendome, San Jose. It was through
his efforts, with the support of the Pacific Improve-
ment Company, that Del Monte was brought to its
present perfection through elaboration in the details of
entertainment.
Why not subscribe for The Wasp and have it
mailed to your address every week?
REMOVAL NOTICE
The L. P. Fisher Advertising Agency
are now permanently located in the
Merchants' Exchange Building, 431
California Street. Phone Franklin 584
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RACING
New California Jockey Club
Oakland Race
Track
SIX OR MORE RACES EACH WEEK-DAY
Rain or Shine
Races commence at 1 :40 p. m. sharp.
For special trains slopping at the track take S. P. Ferry,
toot of Market street: leave at 1 2:00, thereafter every twenty
minutes until 1:40 p. m. No Smoking in last two cars,
which are reserved for ladies and their escorts.
Returning trains leave track after fifth and last races.
THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President.
PERCY W. TREAT. Secretary, '
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Kinds of Baking
FRESH DAILY AT YOUR GROCER
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NOW OPEN
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They were indeed sweet peas, red
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By AMERICUS
San Francisco has now two Mayors : Acting
Mayor Gallagher and Actual Mayor Schmitz. The
title "Acting Mayor" is misleading. It implies
action, but virtually is mere stage-acting; and
Gallagher should be called the Actor Mayor. Our
beautiful City is the only civic corporation in the
world with Mayor's office under a Sheriff's lock
and key ; the only genuine, latest style, proud-eyed,
high-stepping, honest-hearted body of free citizens
governed by a convict from his cell. After going
to no little trouble and expense putting the man
Schmitz in jail, we still take his jailed signature
as law. If there could be nothing new under the
sun of Solomon, we surely have not the same orb
that illumined his day. The situation is too con-
fusing; and editorially we must fain weep on the
bosom of Common Sense.
This is the man we called Ruef's puppet. This
is the puppet that, hedged in office with a hundred
henchmen, had been created by the smile of a
Boss for the laughter of intelligent San Francisco.
This is the laughing-stock that never breathed a
public sentiment without waiting for the nod of
his political maker. Now, alone, bending his beard
over his folded arms, he holds a city at bay. He
still seems to be in himself the "unwhipped mob."
The audacity of him makes one wish to look at
the color of his eyes, out of mere curiosity. But
what of the dapper citizens who cannot touch their
City's wealth without the consent of this convicted
felon? They, who requiring a mayorial act, must
travel out to County Jail No. 2. The very prose-
cutors who sent Schmitz there fear to impede him
lest they involve themselves in a legal puzzle. This
then must be what has been termed the Majesty
of the Law. It is good to be here and behold it.
A Disgrace to Civilization
The Police Courts of America are by reason of
the election of the judges a disgrace to civilization,
and have a most powerful influence in corrupting
government. They are the stronghold of the ras-
cally boss, who wants to debauch politics and get
rich by plunder and blackmail. The following of
the boss is in proportion to his power to control the
Police Courts, and keep all the burglars, thugs and
ballot-box stuffers from being indicted. Deprive
him of that power and his occupation is gone. If
he cannot keep rascals out of jail they will not com-
mit crimes to enable him to carry primary elections
and control conventions. If he cannot control con-
ventions and thus elect his henchmen he is power-
less to reach the public treasury through them or to
blackmail corporations.
Criminals on the Police Bench
The Police judges should above all be appointed.
To elect them is a crime. We see the evil effects of
it in San Francisco. Nearly every police judge
makes his position either a direct source of dishonest
profit or an indirect source of political power. He
punishes only the weak and friendless and caters
continually to the good will of the criminal element.
They are most interested in the police courts and
on election day work hardest for the success of the
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worst candidate. An honest man will send them to
jail, so the}' advocate the election of the biggest
crook on the tickets.
Good Work for the Grand Jury
If the Grand Jury will indict, and the District Attor-
ney will prosecute, vigorously, the outlaws who attack
non-union carmen with bludgeons and pistols they will
be doing an inestimable service to our City. What we
need now is the restoration of confidence in the ability
of the government to restore order and enforce the
laws. More good can be accomplished by jailing
rioters than by any other exercise of authority. Intelli-
gent citizens have been asking for a month past why
the Grand Jury took no steps to indict the outlaws who
have been intimidating passengers on the cars of the
United Railroads. If any action was taken by the
Grand Jury the public had not been informed on the
subject.
It is well known that the police have seized a very
large amount of dynamite with which the striking car-
men intended to wreak vengeance on the United Rail-
roads and terrorize the public. In one instance dyna-
mite was seized just as it was delivered at the house of
a striker. It was then stated that suspicion pointed
strongly to several of the carmen's leaders, and that in
all likelihood, the suspects would be indicted. Nothing
came of the investigation, apparently, for the matter
died out and no arrests were made.
The suppression of rioters who go forth with fire-
arms, bludgeons and dynamite to kill non-union men,
destroy property and terrorize the community gener-
ally, is surely the most important work to which the
Grand Jury could address itself. Beside that task, the
prosecution of leading citizens who paid blackmail to
the Union Labor administration is an affair of small
moment to the City of San Francisco. The outside
world is not afraid to send us goods on credit, or visi-
tors on pleasure bent, because leading citizens are on
trial for giving "fees" to Abe Ruef.
Every time, however, that the news is flashed across
the continent that more bricks have been hurled
through street car windows, and more non-union car-
men battered up, without serious interference by the
police or the courts, the outside world regards us with
greater suspicion or abhorrence, as a community of
anarchists who have said farewell to all the amenities
of civilization. The Eastern wholesale merchants de-
cline to extend credits to such a turbulent community,
Eastern financiers decline to lend money to rebuild our
stricken City, and prudent travelers avoid us and turn
their steps in other directions.
If the Grand Jury and the District Attorney had at-
tacked the rioters and dynamiters in San Francisco
with half the zeal they have arraigned and prosecuted
the "Held-ups" the car strike would now be ancient
history, and many a merchant would have been saved
from financial distress. It is to be hoped that, though
rather late in the day, the Grand Jury will awake to
the fact. that the vital question and the real issue in
San Francisco are whether the mob or the decent
people rule the City. The instant confidence is restored
the wheels of industry and commerce will once more
revolve briskly and the community will be lifted out of
the Slough of Despond, into which the bad government
of Schmitz has plunged us.
A Mere Fizzle
The reply of the Fourth of July Committee to
General Funston contains nothing of the fire-
cracker style that characterized the original
draught. It seems to bear itself more like that
low-scooting bit of pyrotechnics known to our
young days as a "smoker," or "nigger-chaser."
Their excuse for not having given the general's
whole letter to the press at first was that they
considered it confidential. Such fiduciary nature of
the communication, however, did not induce them
to withhold the most sensational phrase therein, to-
wit : the now famous "unwhipped mob." Funston's
letter, in its entirety is amicable in tone, deferring
to Colonel Lundeen of the Presidio. Pasting the
two quoted words on its yellow banner, unwhipped
journalism at once endeavored to have all its read-
ers believe .that Funston would have liked to
trounce them just to pass the time away. As the
General states, there is no duty so disliked by
soldiers as being ordered to fire on civilians, en-
dangering the lives of innocent by-standers.
Among the Fourth of July men embrocated to
patriotism for this hypothetical mob are O. A.
Tveitmoe, P. H. McCarthy, Father Philip O'Ryan,
Samuel Adelstein, Louis Levy, E. E. Kahn and
Otto Schiller. There is hardly a Colonial ring to
this roll of names. It reminds one of the St.
Patrick's Day Parade once held here and led by
Max Popper. Those things all go in e pluribus
unum. As for the parade, it is all over except the
shouting, which is all it will consist of this year.
Calhoun's Fight for the Open Shop
Now that the street car service of the City has
been entirely re-established, we are enabled to more
thoroughly appreciate and understand the signifi-
cance of Mr. Calhoun's fight against the Carmen's
Union and for the principle of the open shop. In
order to thoroughly and clearly understand this,
we must realize the fundamental purpose and func-
.tion of a labor organization and then note just
where and to how great an extent the original pur-
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pose is overlooked in our present labor unions.
In order to insure prosperity in any community,
labor must co-operate with capital and since capital
is organized, labor can only meet organized capital
by organizing also. But the vital trouble is that
labor does not meet capital but antagonizes it.
Labor only co-operates with capital in theory while
practically it does nothing else but antagonize
capital.
Now we have noted the fundamental, theoretical
function of a labor organization. Let us now see
where our labor organizations of today differ from
these purposes. In the present car strike if certain
members of the Carmen's Union are not satisfied
with the wages they are receiving they are at
perfect liberty to seek other employment, but they
have no right to force others, satisfied with existing
wages to leave their employers and thus take from
them the very liberty which they possess through
the doctrines of their country. These actions are
just where the labor organizations fall wrong in
their purpose.
Now, seeing that these abominable conditions
exist, the significance of Mr. Calhoun's noble fight
fi ir freedom and the open shop cannot be overes-
timated. It signifies not a fight of labor against
capital, but a fight of right against wrong, a
fight of freedom against slavery and anarchism,
a fight for the glorious American open shop
principle; it signifies, to the delight of every-
one having even the slightest conception of the
difference between right and wrong that at least
one citizen of this country has the spunk, grit, and
patriotism to defend and uphold the foundation of
the government of his country — FREEDOM.
Let us hope that the country will be found to
contain more men of the Calhoun type.
What the City Most Needs
The week has been an eventful one in the prose-
cution of the "hold-ups" and the publis has taken
no feverish interest in the court proceedings. At
this stage in the restoration of our City, architec-
turally, and commercially, what every sane and
law-abiding citizens most desires is peace and har-
mony. The all-important thing is to get rid of the
atrocious Schmitz, as quickly as possible, and re-
place that felon by some capable man, who will
discharge the duties of Mayor pro tern till next
November.
It is to be regretted that ex-Mayor Phelan has
at this writing declined so positively to fill the va-
cancy caused by the disqualification of the Convict
Schmitz. Mr. Phelan's clear record and his emi-
nence in the community would restore the confi-
dence of the outside world in San Francisco, the
instant he assumed the reins of authority.
The Convict Schmitz
There is not the shadow of a doubt that the con-
viction of Mayor Schmitz disqualifies him at once
for holding public office. That point has been
decided by the Supreme Court, and is so generally
accepted by the best lawyers that to raise it in the
interest of the disgraced Mayor is futile. The in-
stant a jury returns a verdict of felony against any
public officer he ceases to be a qualified incumbent.
Schmitz is no longer the Mayor of San Francisco.
The Union Fare Nag
(With the ha-ha to Lord Alfred Tennyson.)
1 come from haunts of cat and goat;
I make a sudden sally.
And say good-bye to sheep and shoat.
To amble down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip upon the way ;
With fifty blocks once through the town,
Ten trips I make each day.
All day I stumble to and fro,
"With blows for the endeavor.
And cars may come and cars may go,
But I go on forever.
I joggle over stony ways,
And slide among the pebbles,
While women, bouncing on the drays,
Scream little sharps and trebles.
I flop, I fall, I stump, I strive,
I stagger round the corners;
And when at last at home arrive,
I feel like twenty goners.
Then out next day I wobble slow,
With poorly-fed endeavor ;
For cars may come and cars may go.
But I go on forever.
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A Premium on Lawlessness
Last week The Wasp showed that under the pres-
ent plan of union labor organization the control must
pass into the hands of outlaws. Our point has been
proved correct by the utterances of men like Furu-
seth and Tvietmoe who are quoted as exhorting
strikers to commit acts of violence and thus win
the carmen's strike.
Labor unions cannot be made effective for aggres-
sive purposes unless lawlessness be resorted to. Mem-
bership cannot be kept up by mere moral suasion. The
bovcott and sundry unlawful methods of interfering
with people's constitutional rights have to be used.
American boys must be kept from learning trades so
that there shall be a constant scarcity of skilled labor
in the market. When a strike occurs, the men who
might take the strikers' places have to be clubbed,
and if necessary, killed. All this creates a lawless
spirit in labor organizations and helps the more turbu-
lent spirits to obtain control. The more lawless the
methods of the organization the larger the member-
ship becomes. In time, the conservative and orderly
members of the organization, lose any voice in its do-
ings and the control passes to avowed outlaws, who
are ready to resort to the most desperate methods
to keep the reins of power. The Moyer, Haywood,
Pettibone and Orchard combination is modern labor
organization carried to its logical conclusion. If it
•be permissible to stop a man from going to work by
seizing his coat collar it is allowable to punch him
on the jaw. If you can strike him with your fist
it is permissible to hit him with a club, and finally
by rapid stages you come to the point where you
can shoot him down with a gun or blow him up with
dynamite. If necessary to your personal comfort
and ease of mind you may blow up a score of men,
as did Harry Orchard, when he placed the bomb
under a railway platform, as per instructions of the
inner circle of the Western Federation of Miners.
Merit Recognized
That most delectable scoundrel Mayor Schmitz,
recognized the worth of Furuseth as a consistent and
tireless disturber, and made the anarchist several offers
of positions. Furuseth declined them, being fully
occupied with his Sailors' Union, and having sagacity
enough to know that a bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush. He is the large toad in the city
front puddle and might be only a small tadpole
amongst the crowd of wigglers in the City Hall. He
is anything- but a fool, this undesirable resident who
left Sweden for Sweden's good, and was blown hither
in the forecastle of a foreign wind-jammer by some
unpropitious fate to afflict us perennially.
The Story of Election Figures
The discovery that a street railroad could exist in
San Francisco without the nickels of union labor
seems to have stunned the unionists themselves,
many of whom no doubt believed the assertions of
their politician leaders that they constituted a vast
majority of the population. The election figures
have several times shown, however, that the Union
Labor party in San Francisco could cast only eleven
thousand votes, and in the largest Labor Day pro-
cession ever held here, when a fine was imposed on
all union men failing to turn out, less than twelve
thousand men and boys were in line.
The Tail Wagging the Dog
This ought to be accepted as pretty strong proof
that there are no "90,000 union men and their fam-
ilies" in San Francisco. The labor union people in San
Francisco are in fact a small minority of the popula-
tion, just as union labor in the entire United States
is only a small fractional part of the army of wage
earners. There are about eighteen thousand non-
union wage earners in America as against one mil-
lion and a half of union men. Gompers, the head of
organized labor in America claims a membership of
only one million four hundred thousand, of whom
half are aliens.
What America May Expect
In the event of a war with Japan we might an-
ticipate the procedure similar to that which was fol-
lowed in the Russo-Japanese war. There was no
waiting on the Japanese side for a formal declara-
tion of hostilities. The serious blow was first struck
by the Japanese, and then war was declared. It is
well known that the Japanese shipyards and ar-
senals are busily engaged in preparing war supplies,
and if at a moment's notice, the friendly relations
with this country and Japan should be severed, we
should find the Mikado's army and navy fully
equipped and ready for business. On the other
hand, we would find our own army and navy insuffi-
cient and unprepared, and the war would be well
under way before the nation fully realized the seri-
ous work before it. This is the way with all re-
publics. They are not organized on the basis of
military nations, and are never ready for a sudden
call to arms. For the purpose of war and conquest
the Empire is the ideal government.
Much praise is being accorded Lawrence Harris,
who has written a book of verses and epigrams soon
to be published. Mr. Harris is a general favorite
and a clever member of the Bohemian Club.
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A beautiful San Franciscan whose engagement is denied
Ina Coolbrith. who, some say, is not a poetess
but a "poet," denies that she is being supported
by literary admirers, or such and such other indi-
viduals, clubs, society, or fund whatsoever. She
does not assert that she would reject such tributes
but that she has not been given the chance to do so.
There has been a veritable May-pole dance of prom-
ises around her, with the only result that the skip-
some, philanthropists had their names in laudable
print and gained a reputation for generosity and
devotion to literature. She states : "By the strictest
self-denial, f have published the edition of my
poems just out hoping that in time or eternity it
ma}' pay back its cost, and a little more. My
friends have not aided me in any way." Public
relief funds and private donations are acknowl-
edged ; but the plans for her permanent support
seem to have scudded before the winds of hope.
The home fund faded with the Hires. The Spin-
ners' offering dried with the dewdrops ; and was
not very brilliant in the first place. The poetess
expounds it as a scheme to publish a book and give
her not the royalties, but the interest thereon for
life. This is enough to put a whimsical smile on
the Three Fates. While royalties on some Cali-
fornia books may have sufficed to buy light break-
fasts for their authors during the Summer, the
interest on these same royalties would not keep a
mock turtle alive very long.
*" * *
Ina Coolbrith is not a poet that has ever let her
legs hang down over the edge of a cloud or gasped
grandly in the pits of realism; that is, in her work.
There are some who have, when in the humor,
flapjacked some conventional praise for her right
off the griddle of their own enthusiasm. It is not,
though, for her inspiration, but her historic asso-
ciations here, that Ina Coolbrith should be com-
forted. Not all her Bohemian Club friends sym-
pathize with her moods and statements. She has
aroused more than a half dozen hubbubs in her time ;
yet there is something distinctly Californian about
the lady ; and those high-stomached persons who
vaunt their local patriotism so much, could not do
better than robbing sunshine, fruits and flowers a
little to pay Ina Coolbrith.
* * *
Phillip V. Mighels, a leading writer of Harpers,
arrived last week from New York, accompanied by
his wife and is staving at the Hamlin.
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With all the boasted progress of the West, it
must be admitted that we possess no man like
the Rev. Henry Marsh Warren, of New York City.
Mr. Warren's profession is, to parody the ditty of
a local ice-cream peddler :
Weddings! Who likes weddings?
And who has ten dollars?
All the laddies and the lasses like weddings-ee-
dings.
And the honeymoon !
For tenna da dol, yuh getta da bigga da fatta da
honeymoon-ee-ah ! e — e a — h !
He has a record for bow-knotting them as fast
as they come that would make other while-you-wait
experts blush like a pigskin saddle. Rain or shine,
drunk or sober, lid on or lid off, whether the spar-
rows are twittering at morn or the night-hawks
begin to fall asleep over their glasses, makes no
difference to Warren. A word over the telephone
and he arrives on the scene with a sample case full
of assorted blessings, ready with any pattern of
ceremony, and creeds, and the heavenly blanks all
ready for signature. Supplies wedding-rings,. brings
witnesses, tidies up the bride if her hands are un-
steady and jolts three or four grains of presence-
of-mind into the groom should his memory seem to
be out of whack.
This purveyor of marriage believes that while
one is in business he should use business methods.
Occasionally he distributes circulars, bearing his
photograph and the indorsements of hotel men and
clergy. The Rev. Dr. McCarther and Bishop Greer
are down with words of cheer : but recently both
these have sourballed on Warren and do not en-
dorse his "advanced" practices. But Warren holds
gleefully on to the original testimonials and believes
there should be some one to succor a fleeing couple
that are only a mile and half in advance of a pur-
suing dad; also that when the hotel clerk looks
unfriendly, it is better to telephone for the Rev.
Henry Marsh Warren than to seek other quarters.
* * *
Miss Mazie Langhorne, whose engagement has
just been announced to A. B. Hammond, is the
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Potter
Langhorne. Mrs. Langhorne was a Miss Hayne,
cousin of the late Judge Hayne. Miss Julia Dean,
the talented actress is also a cousin. Mr. Lang-
horne is the well-known lawyer here. Since her
debut a couple of years ago, Miss Langhorne has
been a great favorite. Mr. Hammond is a son of
A. B. Hammond, the lumber man. The wedding
will take place this Fall. Miss Langhorne is an
intimate friend of Mrs. Arthur D. Geissler, former
attractive Miss Carol Moore, who, by the way, will
spend the Summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Moore, of this Ci'ty. Mr. Gussler will come
to the Coast in September and escort his wife and
baby home to Chicago.
* * *
Col. and Mrs. John A. Lundeen were hosts last
week at an afternoon reception in honorof Brigadier-
General and Mrs. Funston, at the Presidio. It was
the largest military function given here in years;
posts from all around the bay being represented by
the officers and ladies. Mrs. Lundeen was assisted
in receiving by General and Mrs. Funston, Mrs.
William C. Davis, Mrs. S. P. Adams, Mrs. Edward
T. Brown and Mrs. Altman. Colonel and Mrs.
Smedberg and Miss Cora Smedberg recently re-
turned from a visit in the East, and are now staving
at the Hotel Rafael.
* * *
Mrs. Morton Grinnell, whose marriage to Don
Joaquin de Perreyra, the Spanish Consul, took
place recently at Yokohama, was the widow of Dr.
Morton Grinnell of San Francisco, who was an
extremely clever man with much literary ability.
The Grinnells' honeymoon trip was to Egvpt and
over the Nile, and the bridegroom wrote a most
interesting' account of their travels. They were a
very devoted couple, and the widow was thought
to be inconsolable. Mrs. Grinnell was Miss Cather-
wood, sister of Mrs. C. E. Maude. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Darling whose husband Major
Darling was once so prominent in the Bohemian
Club. She is the granddaughter of the late Su-
preme Judge S. C. Hastings of California.
* * *
The Fairmont Hotel was the scene of a pretty
lavender tea last week with Mrs. G. Alexander
Wright and her daughter as hostesses. The table
decorations were in lavender hues. Each guest
found her bouquet to contain a dainty souvenir,
and, to their surprise, announcing the engagement
of Miss Ethel Wright to Dr. Allen H. Peek. The
wedding will take place in the early autumn.
* * *
Late news of Mrs. Llewellyn Jones and her
daughter, Grace, find them occupying Mrs. Ather-
ton's apartments in Munich. Miss Jones has long
desired a career on the stage, to which her famijy
were much opposed. She has, however, overcome
the objection and it is not unlikely we will soon
hear of this brilliant young woman's advent upon
a professional career.
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The young women of the Entre Nous social
club whose parents felt outraged, because Super-
visor Coleman attended a recent cotillion, will have
ii" cause for alarm nexl season, for I hear that
the boodling officials name lias been stricken from
the membership list, and dues will not be accepted
from him when the Winter season opens. This
action b) the leader- of the chill was brought about
by the publication in the-e column- of the incident
which caused the parents of some of the young'
women to declare that their attendance at the
dances would be prohibited if the bars were let
down to one of the bribe-taking- class. Now it is
announced that Coleman will not be permitted to
participate in the club's dances and similar efforts
will be made to keep out of the membership, any
other undesirables.
Shortly before the Coleman affair at the Fair-
mont the members of another dancing- club. La
Amisted. were horrified to learn that they had
entertained in their midst a woman whose repu-
tation was of a color decidedly carmine. She at-
tended a dance at Native Sons' Hall, appearing
in a gown strikingly decollete and of a shimmering
crimson. Being vivacious in manner she was quite
the hit of the ball until it was whispered about
that her residence had been in a down-town apart-
ment house where the lights never go out and
nobody asks questions. Then there was a demand
for an explanation from the escort who had brought
her there and the next day the newspapers were
asked to strike her name from the list of those
present. Since then, this club has been more care-
ful and now Entre Nous is going to follow this
example. * *
Word has been received at the university of
California that Dr. George A. Reisner, formerly
connected with the faculty and now working on
behalf of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst in Egypt, has been
appointed archaeologist in charge of the excava-
tions of the Egyptian government in Nubia. The
archaeological work about to be undertaken is the
most remarkable ever conceived. It is to be noth-
ing more nor less than the continuous excavation
of both sides of the Nile from Kalabsche to Derr,
a distance of 150 kilometers. This is rendered
necessary by the decision to raise the Assuan dam
another 8 meters. Professor Maspero, the head
of the department of antiquities, is to have charge
of the restoration of the known temples, and the
copying of their inscriptions. Captain Lyons, head
of the survey department, is in charge of the topo-
graphical and archaeological survey, and has as-
signed to Dr. Reisner the task of excavating the
monuments at present buried under the soil and the
recording and publishing of these excavations. The
work is expected to last five years.
* * *
Signor Riccardo A. Lucchesi, who has just been ap-
pointed one of the faculty of the New England Con-
servatory of Music in Boston, was some years ago the
musical critic of The Wasp. His critiques were very
widely read, mainly because of their Italian flavor, and
the intrepid manner in which the clever and capable
musician attacked what and whom he did not approve.
Lucchesi is a scholarly musician and a composer of
more than local fame. Blanche I'.ates was one of his
piano pupils at one time. He lost everything in the
lire, and went north shortly after, but finally landed in
Boston. The New England Conservatory has had
various San Franciscans as pupils. Carrie Roma is
a graduate. Signor Lucchesi comes of a.fine old family
in Milan, the home of lyric art. His father was a
banker of that famous city. Signor Lucchesi himself
had no talent for finance and is essentially a man of
artistic temperament. Some fine day we shall doubtless
see the dapper Signor strolling- along Market Street
again for old Californians always return to the City by
the Golden Gate, sooner or later.
The Misses Bruce of Edinburgh, Scotland, are
guests of their brother, Mr. Robert Bruce, at his
home on Jackson Street. Mrs. Bruce, who died
si ime months ago, was a Miss Nougues, sister of
Mr. Joseph Nougues. Mr. Bruce's daughters are
Mrs. Stephenson and Mrs. Macon, well known in
social circles here.
Johannisburg, Napa County, has been chosen this
year by several ladies from Sausalito and Ross Val-
ley ; among whom are Mr. and Mrs. Starr Keeler
and children, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Foster and family,
Mrs. Daesking and child. Many interesting letters
received report jolly times, with trout plentiful.
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Art collectors who have bought Keith's pictures
as an investment will be glad to hear, and those who
have not will not be delighted, that the old veteran's
recent sale in New York astonished the natives. The
Californian's landscapes struck a new note in the
Metropolis and added some thing like twenty thous-
and dollars to his already fat bank account. Since
Keith discovered that the New Yorkers are hungry
for his pictures he has almost ceased to paint for the
local market and before long will in all likelihood
sell no paintinge at all outside New York galleries.
I hear that Macbeth, the Fifth Avenue dealer who
conducted the recent twenty thousand dollar sale, is
coming all the way from New York to get another
collection from the famous California artist.
When Keith sent the former collection to Macbeth
all the knowing ones here were quite lugubrious as
to the prospects of his selling any of them.
"Too low in tone," the connoisseurs said. "New
Yorkers are used to the plain air style of work —
blazing, sunshiny pictures, and won't look at any-
thing else."
This showed just how little they knew. The low-
toned and deep brown pictures for which Keith
famous captivated the New York picture buyers at
once. '
The prices paid by the Gothamites would stun a
local connoisseur. Twelve to fifteen hundred dollars
for a little painting that would not bring quarter of
the money here was paid for several of the pictures.
Since Macbeth's success with Keith's work, other
prominent Eastern dealers are anxious to handle his
work, so we may safely say that San Francisco will
see little of it on sale here any more. Our loss is
the gain of the Metropolis and also of the really
great landscape painter who has developed his
genius here and remained amongst us all his long
life. That his fame will become national very soon
is a foregone conclusion, and California will have the
credit of adding to the list of highly talented men
who have gained distinction in several lines of art,
a truly eminent and most capable landscape painter.
* * *
Did you ever stop to think how many "standard"
photographs of Society beauties went up in smoke
in the big fire that destroyed the newspaper li-
braries? There was that one of Mrs. Augustus
Taylor when she was Helen Hopkins, a full face
with a pearl-trimmed bodice and an aigrette in her
pompadoured hair; and one of Miss Elizabeth Ames
in a classic drapery, by Arnold Genthe; Mrs. Sam
Shortridge's "only photograph she ever had taken,"
with her hair in a curly bang; Miss Jennie Blair,
in long ringlets which were at one time the mode ;
Mrs. Joe Tobin in a hat and jacket; Mrs. Martin
Crimmins, in her bridal veil ; and so on and so forth.
There were Society beauties' pictures in the press
libraries then to burn — and they did.
* * *
An interesting matron, who will soon return to
her home in San Francisco from a long residence
in Alaska, is Mrs. Harry Kierstedt, wife of Dr.
Harry Kierstedt, U. S. A. Mrs. Kierstedt was the
former Society girl. Miss Edith McBean. She will
visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. McBean, on Wal-
nut Street; also be the guest of many well-known
Society matrons spending the Summer at Bur-
lingame and San Mateo.
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When Rex Beach, author of "The Spoilers," de-
nied his engagement to Edith Crater, authoress of
a breach of promise suit against Wilson Mizner,
he neglected to mention the fact that marriage had
already taken place. Upon Mizner's taking Mrs.
Yerkes for his "life-partner," the first thing that
Miss Crater did was to emit the lavas of her indig-
nation. Subsequently she removed the scene of
eruption to Denver, her home. The affair was
hushed up, though, in the terrific uproar that en-
compassed the Yerkes-Mizner bout at that time;
and Miss Crater found it hard to make herself
properly understood — a difficulty common with
breach " of promise artists. The Yerkes-Mizner -
Crater trio began their act wrong with the avid
public. Their idea of good breeding was to refute
every rumor put to them. This complicated mat-
ters, of course, and required strenuous interpreta-
tion. It is singular how a couple will let a month
go by before letting the world know that wedded
bliss has started out on its endurance run, and,
barring accidents, will keep to schedule; that is,
until Death wields the Big Stick. Beach and Crater
were married a month ago by a Justice of the Peace
in Poughkeepsie, New York. This is the first
piece of news from headquarters. The next, as
likely as not, will be that the ceremony was per-
formed by a Benedictine monk in Schenectady.
There is no special reason for hitting on a Bene-
dictine monk, except that he is not a Justice of
the Peace ; and Schenectady, because it is not
Poughkeepsie. Hitter experience makes one in-
credulous in those things, and a great deal of high-
priced enthusiasm frequently has to be charged up
t< i profit and loss.
* * *
Miss Walker, who will come out from New York
to be the guest of Mrs. Eleanor Martin and be the
attendant of her cousin, Miss Anita Harvey, when
she becomes the bride of Oscar Cooper, is the
daughter of the Martin boys' father by his first
marriage. The late Edward Martin has a number
of children by his first wife, and many relatives
in this City who are not often seen at Burlingame.
Among his nieces are Mrs. Spear, wife of the well-
known auctioneer.
* * *
The W. J. Bartnetts are building a beautiful
country home on an island near Sausalito which
Mr. Bartnett has purchased. Mrs. Bartnett has
for years been a great friend of Mrs. John Dahl-
gren of Washington, who was Carrie Colton. She
is a sculptress of no mean ability.
* * *
Mrs. Harry Young, who left the City recently with
her little son, on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Whitney of Santa Barbara, writes enthusi-
astically of the many delightful entertainments in
her honor taking place in her old home. Mr. Young
will join his family during the month of July.
* * *
Mrs. R. N. Graves left the City last week for
White Sulphur Springs, St. Helena, where she is
now occupying an attractive cottage. The hotel at
this place was burned last year and now only these
cottages are left on the grounds.
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Women who smoke in public are still exceptional
enough to figure in the news from time to time.
Especially is this so if she wear a white satin gown
and a 32-candle-power tiara, as does Lady Paget.
When Mrs. Potter Palmer dined Ambassador Reid,
six titled ladies remained with the men for after-
dinner smokes and a few droll stories. It seems
rather a juvenile feat of newsgathering that within
a few hours thereafter, Lady Paget's cigarette
glowed and smoked from headlines throughout
this country. Some of the papers waited till Sun-
day to make the case more impressive. Of course,
there is no moral difference between a woman's
holding a perfumed roll of tobacco between the
teeth and eating a lobster salad. If anything, the
lobster salad is the more immoral. Politeness for-
bids reasoning out such question to a frazzle. But
every time a woman attempts something new, the
deep stomach-tones of "unladylike" resound from
the sanctified slats of men who judge womanhood
by the home-made biscuit standard. It may not
look divine in a dame, partly submerged in $5000
worth of latest style, to pull out a bag of Bull
Durham, straw papers and seal the cigarette with
her dewy lips. No ; not divine ; it is merely charm-
ing.
Few women take to tobacco the way men do :
as an aid to profound thought, rich philosophy and
sedentary work. Were that the primary influence
of the pungent brown, you could not get a woman
to touch it. A man smokes because he cares for
tobacco ; a woman to show she does not care a
tinker's tiddledewink for anything. Chicago's repre-
sentative female, with "I will" on her corselet,
should be portrayed smoking a cigarette as the
loftiest expression of feminine independence. That
there is something more than this in tobacco is
shown by the fact that all — yes, ALL — literary
women smoke. Cigarettes must have something
to do with brains ; though, some good folk insist,
only to the extent of causing loss of memory.
* * *
The John Hays Hammonds intend to build a
beautiful home in Washington and will live there
during a portion of each year. They have a place
at Lakewood, New Jersey, and another beautiful
heme in the Massachusetts hills.
* * *
Just as all her friends were planning entertain-
ments for that popular matron Mrs. Theodore
Tomlinson (Ethel Keeney) it seems she will return
to her home in New York and not spend the summer
here as at first intended. She came to California on
account of the serious illness of her father Charles
Keeney, who is now pronounced on the road to
recovery. Miss Inness Keeney will leave in Septem-
ber and spend the winter in New York with her
sister.
* * *
At last accounts Miss Hattie Jolliffe was visiting
in London with Mr. and Mrs. Claus Spreckels, but
was soon to leave for Dublin to rejoin her cousin,
Mrs. Richard Cryan, who was recently left a widow.
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Mrs. Cryan spent the winter in Italy with her in-
valid husband and but recently returned to Ireland.
* a
Mrs. Andrew Rowan who lately returned from
the Philippines will be remembered as the attrac-
tive Mrs. Josephine de Greayer before her marriage
to the popular Army officer. All of Mrs. Rowan's
beautiful mahogany and costly furniture which she
fondly imagined was stored safely, went up in
smoke in the great fire as did her jewelry, laces, etc.
In fact everything she possessed has been swept
from her. She did not learn of her loss until her
arrival here last week and the shock can be imag-
ined. Mrs. Rowan's first husband is a well known
stockbroker, who in the early days was one of the
best looking and best dressed men in town. He
is still in the stockbroking game. Major Rowan has
unfortunately come back from the Islands consider-
ably shaken in health by reason of the trying
tropical climate.
■■■i * *
Airs. Lincoln Sontag and daughter will soon
leave for a tour abroad. Mrs. Sontag was Miss
Belle Reis, daughter of the late Julian Reis. Mrs.
Reis was a Miss Dent, whose mother Mrs. Dent is
still living at the age of eighty-five and
is an inmate of the Reis household here.
Mrs. Dent and Mrs. U. S. Grant, Sr., were
relatives. Miss Helen Dent Wrenchal who recently
married Chaffee Grant in the East is also a con-
nection of this family. Miss May Reis who has
recently returned from an enjoyable visit in New
York, spent last week at Del Monte with a party of
congenial friends. Nothing more has been heard
of the rumored marriage of this popular heiress.
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Mr-. C. B. Alexander recently entertained the
Duke of U>ruzzie at her Tuxedo home. The Duke
visited San Francisco some two years ago and won
i ,an) friends here. He was entertained quite ex-
tensively by the young girls of the ultra smart set.
*' ' * *
To the regret of her man) friends here Mrs.
John C. Hays has left the City for Honolulu, where
sin- will reside for some time. Mrs. I lays was
Anna McMullan. daughter of that well-known and
prominent family, the John McMullans. Francis
I feney's wife is a sister.
* * *
The famous bit of repartee between the pot and
the kettle has been about equaled in a squalid
remark made by the leaf-lard pig to the long-ton
coal. It was before a Chicago judge that a Pitts-
burg co-respondent was named, followed by the
ruling that mere acquaintance with a Pittsburg
millionaire is sufficient proof against a woman in a
divorce case. Mis Honor. Judge McEwen, in speak-
ing of His Dishonor. W. H. McKelvy. said that
long experience with the manners and customs of
millionaires, especially those marked Pittsburg,
makes authentic mention of their names warrant
a decree. It is hard to see how there can be
anything homogeneous in Smoky City Society at
this rate. But perhaps the same facts would not be
so damnificallv held against a millionairess of that
burg, who might be considered more inured and
immune to their bituminous blandishments.
The bewildered defendant in this case is Nora
Bayes, only an actress, of a class that popular be-
lief, based on the long experience aforesaid, finds
peculiarly susceptible to Coal Barons. Nora Baves
is the name of the her who popularized "Waiting
at the Church" here at the Chutes, setting the
gallery rampant with telling, "Lord, how it did
upset me I" and how every kiss left a mark. Her
lyric lover's desertion was brought about by the
wife who wouldn't let him. It was not understood
at the time that Nora herself had a husband to
tousle up the course of true love.
Sympathy ebbs out to A. O. Gressing, the plain-
tiff husband and traveling salesman, but leaves
astonishment stranded and helpless as a jelly fish.
It modifies the Biblical warning to read. He who
looketh at a woman with a Pittsburg millionaire
feeling in his heart hath already committed grounds
for divorce.
* * *
A congenial party composed of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Foster Dutton, Mrs. Harry Macfarlane and
Mrs. Wakefield Baker, left the City recently in the
Dutton motor car for the McCloud River Country
Club. They will remain ten days.
The Sequoians opened their new rooms on Bush
Street last week with a delightful musicale ; Dr.
Humphrey J. Stewart at the piano. A large num-
ber of guests were present.
* * *
Lieut, and Mrs. Emory Winship and Miss Pa-
tricia Cosgrave have returned from the East, where
they have been visiting Lieut. Winship's family
in Macon, i la.
Valley.
and will pass the Summer in Ross
Luncheon at the Fairmont Hotel, followed by a
"Peter Pan" matinee party to several little ones,
was given by Mrs. William 11. Crocker recently.
The youngsters and their chaperons were the fol-
lowing : Master Russell Wilson. Miss Josephine
Grantj Master Robert Coleman. Miss Emily Tubbs.
Master George Howard. Miss Constance McLaren,
Miss Sophie Beylard, Miss Helen Crocker. Master
Mountford Wilson. Miss C. Coleman, Master
Henry Howard, Mrs. Robert Coleman, Mrs. Tubbs,
Mrs. Redington. Mrs. Polk. Miss Frances Howard,
Mrs. McLaren, Mrs. Beylard, Miss Sieberman and
Mrs. Crocker.
* * *
Mrs. R. C. Foute and Miss Foute will soon return
from a lengthy visit in the East, and spend the
Summer in California. Mrs. Foute is the widow of
the late Rev. R. C. Foute, long the popular min-
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-THE WASP-
THE ENERGETIC MISS MAY SUTTON IN ACTION
The Fun Mill at Sausalito is far different from the
place it was in the days when you and I were
young Gwendolynne, and you spelled your name
M-a-g-g-i-e. Then one did the bucolic on the front
stoop of a shade tree with a menu of green apples.
Maggie (that is, Gwendolynne) could preen up for
the occasion by sticking a rose in her life-buoy
coiffure, and, if desiring to heap on style, could do
so with two yards of ribbon. Killing time was a
game then ; now it is a science : if war can be
called a science. Sausalito Society is now worked
with a dynamo, while the extra paraphernalia is
enough to make the genii of Aladdin's Lamp go on a
strike.
That land-mark, El Monte Hotel, was an easy
mark for the destroyer, and the heartless real estate
agent subdivided the poison oak patches with utter
disregard to romance. The cottage crop was plen-
tiful ; but even those who owned a bungalow about
the size of a tonneau, fitted it up like the art-
studio of an heiress returned from the Orient. "The
Hutch," where Claude Terry Hamilton and that
autocratic hob-nobber, Ed Sheldon warmed the
palates and incarnadined the noses of the Bohemian
Club, is now under the daisies ; and Sheldon too.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Greer are now sole agents for
swelldom on the spot. "The Hacienda," once the
open door in bachelordom, is occupied bv the
Beattys, who have somewhat oxidized the silvery
gleams of gaiety within. C. J. Foster, Charles Rollo
Peters, Joe Redding, Frank Carolan and Alexander
Hamilton were the forest princes, and their para-
phrase of "Howdy do" was the word cocktail ,
The "Hill Set" made a jolly Pantheon, where the
spare moments of divinity were exercised in laugh-
ing at the "Water Fronters" below. The English
Colony topped the hills as early as twenty-five years
ago. William Lane Booker, British Consul ; the
late Charles Mason, Vice-Consul, and his wife ;
Lawyer Cormac and his widowed sister, Mrs.
Groome ; Mr. and Mrs. George Theobald, Sr., both
now in the requiems; the junior Theobalds, the
Tillinghasts ; the bachelors Black, Russell, Beasley,
Wood, Okell, Woolley, were good British that
hung on to their h's disappointingly and were imi-
tated from their pipes to finger-tips, at which latter
place they had everything worth having. "Red
Gables" was denizened by six longed-for masculine
eligibles, most of whom lost their eligibility in the
right way.
Gazing back to the simple past is a fever from
which even Societv is not immune. In the magic
of "Those were happy days," lies many a dreaming
soul. Pleasure is now become a sort of endurance
contest. The fun-makers have come to deploring
the hot-heir hostesses, debutantes with stage-fright,
men of Smithsonian dignity — glacial shoulder and
Medusa stare. Sacred Monkey ! And sumptuous
tarradiddle ! say many of the yearners. Swelldom
certainly has its hard-luck story. But then, are not
decollete and high heels consolation for all that has
gone from the view and a warranty of other good
things still with us? In place of the free-for-all
comfort (which, peradventure, was more free than
free for all, after all) Sausalito's all-star cast is now
divided into the infallibles and the inevitables. The
first are necessary; the latter, tolerable. In spite
of that, a juicy tale or a dry Martini will probably
find as much appreciation as it ever did, even though
the men no longer laugh in corduroy or the women
giggle in ticking.
Let them know!
Your friend can reserve a room at the
Hotel St. Francis
when he leaves home, and find it ready
for him when he arrives. Tell him so.
Every comfort at hand.
-THE WASP
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MISS MARIE C. HURLBUT
There are some valiant entertainers yet on the
Heights and the slopes. Such families as the
Sperrys, the H. C. Campbells, H. Clay Millers, Kil-
gariffs, Starr Keelers, Watkinses, Williars, and
Findleys can shed as fine a light on hospitality, even
though through the medium of a bronze electrolier.
And it is rumored that William Randolph Hearst
is planning the erection of a huge hotel or apart-
ment house on the site of his present home over
there. Whatever Hearst does is interesting, though
frequently ill-advised and unsuccessful. His ideas
are not usually received as rosy-fingered Auroras
rising to an ideal sky. But this one is still unproven
for Sausalito's future. And, as to the past, no need
for the Ravings of John McCullough.
* * *
A great many San Rafael people have betaken
themselves to the mountains and valleys of the in-
terior of the State, but the fashionable suburb has
received numerous accessions from San Francisco.
Many of our prominent people have taken houses
in San Rafael for the summer.
Mrs. Lawrence Pool has taken rooms in one of
the cottages. Mr. and Mrs. Biglow are already
settled there. Mrs. Termone Lincoln and Miss
Ethel have also opened their home there. Mrs. Ben-
son and her little son will start for St. Helena soon.
Mrs. Norwood and Miss Evelyn Norwood will also
entertain many week end parties at their attractive
cottage at White Sulphur.
• * *
.M i>^ Lillie Lawlor, who gravitates between New
York and Paris has learned to make her way in
those cities in a most astonishing fashion, for now
1 hear she has an automobile of her own, and is
Hashing up and down the boulevards like a rich
American lady of fashion. When her father died
he left her about ten thousand dollars. She had a
pretty voice and winning manners, and became the
protegee of first one fashionable woman and then
another, her chief protectress being Mrs. Gus
Spreckels, whose apartments are across the street
from Miss Lawlor's in Paris. The young Cali-
fornian's path was not altogether a pleasant one, for
when she went to sing for some rich but stingy
woman at Newport, they declined to pay her for
her services, on the pretext that they were really
trying to help her along in the world by making
her the fad. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, however, treated
her very differently, and paid her quite liberally.
In the matter of pupils, too, Miss Lawlor en-
countered difficulties, for some of the rich girls who
came to learn singing stayed all day and wanted to
convert their music lessons into society teas, so
that the expenses were greater than the teacher's
profit-. Seeing that there was not much to be made
out of her voice, Miss Lawlor developed her business
talent, which appears to be quite considerable. She
has gone into the business of leasing and sub-letting
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-THE WASP
The Yosemite Valley has become a week-end resort,
by reason of the completion of the Yosemite Valley
Railroad. I spent several days in the incomparable
Valley last week, after completing my journalistic
work for the week, and got back to the City on Sunday
evening for dinner. The trip could not be called a
flying one, by any means. On the contrary, it was a
leisurely one. I took the 8 :20 a. m. Southern Pacific
train and reached Merced about 3 o'clock. A short
ride of a few blocks in a bus brought me to the station
of the Yosemite Valley Railroad, where a train was in
waiting for the passengers from San Francisco. In a
few minutes we were flying across the well cultivated
plain beyond the Merced River and headed for the
Yosemite Valley. The run on the plains is short. Very
soon we were in the gorge through which the Merced
River comes tumbling and brawling from the snow-
capped mountains. A more picturesque ride is not to
be had in the world. The trip to Santa Cruz over the
narrow gauge road gives a faint idea of the beauty of
the scenic route traversed by the Yosemite Valley Rail-
road trains. The latter, however, affords a continuous
feast for the eye during the three and a half hours it
takes to make the run from Merced to El Portal, the
gate of the Yosemite Valley. The name is most ap-
propriate.
The train follows every curve of the beautiful river
and reveals vista after vista of mountain scenery that
keeps the passengers entranced. Then as the sunset
shadows deepen the purple of the towering mountains
covered with forests the journey for the day ends at
the canvas hotel of El Portal. There has not yet been
time to erect the hotel which is to become one of the
permanent attractions of that beautiful spot. The
mountain gorge widens at El Portal and affords ample
room for the hundred or so of comfortable tents, and
the large canvas pavilion which serves as a dining
room. The spot is so beautiful in the summer evening
haze that the traveler feels that he has been well repaid
for his journey, even if he saw nothing of the wonders
of Yosemite. Here the City tourist, tired of the dust
and turmoil of the metropolis, could gladly camp for a
week and enjoy every moment of it, while the white
riyer below at the bottom of the ravine cooled the sum-
mer air and rushed on tumbling over endless cataracts
in its mad haste to reach the ocean.
But the tourist must be up and stirring with the
early birds for the last and most delightful stage of the
journey has to be made next morning. After a dinner
worthy of the old Palace Grill I turned in to my tent
with its boarded and carpeted floor and was soon so
soundly asleep in a bed that was the acme of comfort,
that the porter's loud rap on the doorstep woke me out
of what I thought was an hour's nap. The sun was
already climbing over the eastern hills, however, and
the air was full of the song and twitter of birds and
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
The only original Vienna Model Bakery and Cafe
has moved from Geary Street and Grant Avenue to its
permanent location at 130 Geary Street, between Grant
Avenue and Stockton Street. Breakfast, lunch and
dinner is served a la carte, and there is a regular din-
ner between 5 and 8 o'clock at $1.00.
This select and well-known restaurant was estab-
lished in 1876. No branch stores.
the perfume of the wild azalea and the balmy pines.'
After an enjoyable breakfast in the canvas pavilion
there came the always interesting scene of the starting
of the stage coaches for the Yosemite Valley. One by
one they filled up with their passengers and rattled off
amidst the cracking of whips, waving of handkerchiefs
and the chorus of good-bys from the outward-bound
tourists who were waiting for the train to go back to-
wards Merced. In all, five stages rolled up the left
bank of the river, heading for the Yosemite, and a
lighter-hearted crowd than those Yosemite tourists, on
a fine June morning, with the pines rustling above their
heads and the river roaring below them, would indeed
be hard to find. Very morose must be the man whose
mind at such a moment would remain filled with dis-
turbing thoughts of business or any other troubles.
The City with its cares, seems as far away as if planted
on the planet Mars.
Nobody has ever written a decent description of the
Yosemite, no more than has any artist ever painted a
correct picture of it, so I shall not attempt the task im-
possible.
From El Portal to the actual boundary of the
Yosemite Valley is but a mile. Then for twelve miles
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more you ride along the bank of the mad Merced
amidst scenery unsurpassed in grandeur, only by the
titanic majesty of the walls of granite that compose
El C'apitan. Cathedral Rocks, the Three Brothers, the
South Dome. A score of nameless but beautiful water-
falls greet the eye before it i^ -.pell-bound by the sight
of cataracts over which the foam-beaten waters come
tumbling down thousand- of feet and form the famed
Nevada Falls, the I'.ridal Veil, Yosemite Falls, Vernal
Falls, etc.
* * *
The living trip to the Yosemite Valley, which
was made quite recently by M. Fisher, the noted
San Francisco builder, illustrates the present pos-
sibilities of rapid travel to and from the Yosemite.
Mr. Fisher's visit was for business purposes, as he
has the contract to erect a fine 200-room hotel at
El Portal, lie left this Cit) in the afternoon and
slept at Merced. Xext morning at 7 a. m. he left
Merced for El Portal on a Sheffield twelve-horse-
power gasoline motor car, with ( >. W. Lemmer, the
popular and capable manager of the Yosemite
Valley Railroad, H. P. Anew alt, assistant general
freight agent of the Santa Fe. W. J. Shattuck, dis-
trict freight agent of the same road. J. Reimers,
landscape gardener of the Santa Fe, and D. Cole-
man, the San Francisco architect. At 10:45 the
party arrived at El Portal and lunched on mountain
trout and other delicacies with which mine host,
Sells, keeps his larder stocked for hungry wayfarers.
After lunch the party took a stage from El Portal
to the Yosemite Valley and dined at the Sentinel
Hotel. Xext morning the party returned to Merced
in time for lunch, and Mr. Fisher dined with his
family the same evening in San Francisco.
The stages from El Portal run under the super-
vision of D. K. Stoddard, who is well and most
favorably known to most people who have visited
the famous Valley by the old stage route, via Ray-
mond. The El Portal stages are fine, comfortable
vehicles and driven by noted knights of the whip.
Old Al Sleeper, who has tooted a stage to and from
the Yosemite for twenty-five years heads the pro-
cession every day, and is a favorite subject for the
snapshot camera enthusiasts with whom the Valley
abounds. This picturesque old stage-driver has
probably been photographed oftener than any man
in America, and by people of more nationalities, as
great numbers of foreigners visit the Yosemite
Valley each year, and justly regard it as one of
the great wonders of the world.
* * *
When Mrs. E. Walton Hedges left California,
it was her intention to spend a couple of months
abroad this Summer. Recent letters from this at-
tractive matron, however, informs her friends here
that she has entirely given up the European idea
and will pass the entire Summer at her cottage.
Point Breeze, with her husband and children.
* * *
This week's Wasp contains a picture of Miss
Marie Hurlburt, daughter of the wealthy lumber
man of Portland. Oregon. Miss Hurlburt 's engage-
ment was recently announced to Leon Kuttner of
Fresno.
None of Mrs. Alice Elliott's friends were sur-
prised to hear of her marriage, which followed fast
upon the heel- of her divorce. L). Lyle Chirardelli
and this interesting lady have been engaged for a
long time, and were only awaiting her final decree
of divorce to enter upon the matrimonial sea. Mrs.
Ghirardelli is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Siebe of this City.
* * *
Invitations have been issued by Mr. John Shee-
han for the wedding of bis daughter. Miss Eliza-
beth Estelle. tii Mr. ISernardo Y. Shorb, on Tues-
day evening. July second, at eight o'clock. Saint
Mary's Cathedral. After the ceremony, a reception
will take place at the Fairmont Hotel, to which a
limited number of guests have been bidden.
Mr. Shorb is the younger brother of Miss Inez
Shorb White and son of the late De Barth Shorb,
who was one of the best-known residents of South-
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-THE WASP
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ETHEL CLAYTON
Another of Frawley's Popular Company
It is to be hoped that the yellow editors will have
a glorious time over Brigadier-General Funston's
use of his phrase, "the unwhipped mob." More
than one barrel of whisky will be required to in-
spire the editorials that will go keen and quivering
Funstonward, unless in the meantime some other
disaster should precipitate the City into requiring
his services again.
Yet, what is there so stingish about the term
"unwhipped?" True, "unwhippable" would be a
higher compliment. But do not the "unbeaten
Jeffries" and the "undefeated Roosevelt" receive
such epithets as encomiums, and why should not
the mob take its "unwhipped" as encomiastically?
Perhaps, though, it sees in the word a subtle yearn-
ing of the General to have been given the oppor-
tunity of reversing it. Officially, San Francisco is
grateful to this soldier for the part he played, or
rather worked, on the 18th of April, et seq., 1906. But
there is no doubt that in this City, as in others,
there exists, a mob who had nothing to save —
who were merely to be saved from, and therefore
have no personal cause for gratitude thereat.
Another thing the mob (which when about to be
whipped always turns the most whippable part of
itself toward the pursuers) never resents, but is
proud of the appellation "mob." It is quite content,
morally, immorally, politically and bad-whiskilly,
to remain mob. It is only the mobocrats and the
mob journalists that, trying to persuade the work-
ing classes to consider themselves part of the out-
classed, cause a few honest but foolish cheeks to
blush with fancied insult.
One hardly supposes that Funston's boys in leg-
gings would get gollynoggles of the knees on being
met with a few jeers at every beer sign along the
line of march. Their trade calls for tougher work
than that ; and no one knows how soon they may
have to go to it. But should those jeers be likely,
it was the commander's policy, in the interests of
tranquility at the present time, to do nothing that
would augment the present municipal mess. And
a Fourth of July Committee with a finer nostril
for the sublime than a nose for news would have
passed the general's letter into unwritten history.
* * *
Sam Chamberlain, who has for so many years
been a newspaper editor, has at last stepped out
of the journalistic sanctum to become a magazine
editor and has taken Bailey Millard's place on the
Cosmopolitan. Mr. Chamberlain is the son of one
of the old-time New York editors and began life
as James Gordon Bennett's secretary. Later he
was the editor of the Paris Herald in the days when
young Bennett was making Europe ring with his
escapades. When Bennett had dined too well he
was seized with a desire to wire editorials to the
New York Herald, and these Chamberlain always
used to kill before they left Paris. Once Bennett
while at dinner, it is said, conceived the idea of
writing an editorial on the Pope and dashed off a
superheated screed on His Holiness which was
headed, "To Hell With the Pope." The effect of
such an editorial appearing in a daily newspaper
in New York where the Catholic influence is ex-
tremely powerful can be easily imagined.
To make sure that the impolite article should
get into print the bibulous author took it to the
telegraph office and filed it himself. He had a dark
suspicion that Chamberlain might thwart him and
was correct. The watchful secretary followed his
employer, and when the fatter had gone home to
sleep, canceled the telegram and the New York
Herald next morning occasioned no unusual sen-
sation when New York read it.
When Bennett arose, however, he had a dim and
unpleasant recollection of having done something
the night before that he wouldn't care to be charged
with in his cooler moments.
"Sam," said he to his secretary, "I have a recol-
lection that I wrote an editorial or something last
night."
"You did," said Sam.
"Was it something against the Pope?"
"I should sav it was. You consigned him to
Hades."
"And I took it to the office myself, didn't I?"
"You did."
"I guess it's all in the Herald this morning,"
said the millionaire proprietor, gloomily.
"No it isn't," said the secretary. "I had it killed."
Sam got his reward in the shape of a three-
months' vacation with an unlimited letter of credit
for expenses.
Sam Chamberlain was one of the most popular
editors that ever came out here, and every one
-THE WASP
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Bunnell Pholo OTIS SKINNER
on the Examiner from the office boys up adored
and imitated him from the way he held his head to
the pipe he smoked. He was always the glass
of fashion and some one asked Mr. Hearst once
why he didn't dress as well as his managing editor.
"I would, but I can't afford it," said the yellow
millionaire.
Mr. Chamberlain's daughter is Mrs. McEntee,
who was a great friend of the Merry girls, Mrs.
Sam Boardman and the girls of that set. The Mc-
Entee's are stationed at Mare Island.
* * *
A correspondent in Washington wrote to his
paper recently a long description of the lot pur-
chased there by E. A. Hayes, the Congressman
from the Fifth California District, and his plans
to erect a $65,000 mansion on it. It caused some
amusement here where the political signs indicate
that Congressman Hayes is serving his last term.
Building a residence in Washington would lead
one to think that "Red" Hayes is under the im-
pression that he is to be Congressman for life,
whereas the powers that be, have already arranged
to displace him at the next election, Arthur Fisk,
Postmaster at San Francisco, having been chosen
as the man to succeed him. Hayes tried to curry
favor with the labor unions by declaring that the
Japanese must be excluded, but he incurred the
enmity of the prune growers of his district who
are forced to depend upon the Japs to harvest their
crops. He is between the devil and the deep sea.
The lire in San Francisco caused the Fifth Con-
gressional District to acquire the "south of Market
Street" population that formerly belonged to the
Fourth District. The Fifth District has become a
union stronghold and in favor of the expulsion of
all labor that has not the Gompers tag on it. The
prune raisers can be relied on to vote dead against
the unions every time and in most country dis-
tricts, the candidates for Congress can straddle the
fence gracefully or jump over it to the side they
see is strongest in votes. The strong side is usually
the farmers' side, for there are ten millions of peo-
ple engaged in agriculture in the United States as
against the million and a half in the labor unions.
But the Fifth District of California is a puzzler,
for it has the unions on one end and the farmers
on^ the other. If Mr. Fisk can please both ends
and the middle and win the District he is a much
better politician than postmaster.
* * *
The statement of his attorneys that Schmitz is
suffering from an incurable disease has caused a
laugh. They were discussing it the other day at
Heney's office. "I see Schmitz says he has an in-
curable disease," said one of the group of prose-
cutors. "That's right," said another, "he has."
"What is it?" asked the first speaker." "Klepto-
mania," replied the other.
* * *
"Do you think women will ever run this country?"
"Say, you're single, ain't you?"
Stanford Pholo LOLA MAY
One of the Talented Frawley Company's Beauties
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-THE WASP
Automobile News
William Letts Oliver, the Oakland banker, with
his wife and family, went to Del Monte in his
White steamer for the week end. Most of the driv-
ing was done by his son, Leslie Oliver, who is
a student in the California School of Mechanical
Arts.
Autocar runabouts have been delivered to Dr.
J. Stowe Ballard, Dr. Bertram Stone and C. W.
Gompertz.
The Winton Motor Carriage Company has estab-
lished its own branch house in Seattle, at 715 East
Pine Street, where extremely commodious quarters
have been secured. Winton interests in the north-
west have been .growing so rapidly as to demand
closer attention than could be given otherwise than
through a branch house. George W. Miller, for-
merly manager of the Boardway Automobile Com-
pany of Seattle, is in charge. The Winton Com-
pany now has nine branch houses in this country
and London.
Mrs. J. Levy has -taken her Royal Tourist car
to San Rafael for the Summer months.
J. Eugene Freeman does considerable touring
about Ross Valley in his 45-horse-power Pierce
Arrow car.
Pope-Hartford cars have been sold to M. H. Orr
of Stockton and Mrs. Wiley B. Allen of this City.
J. D. Hoff, president of the Pacific Coal, Clay
and Oil Company, travels constantly in his White
steamer between Oakland and the company's prop-
erties in Monterey.
DIVIDEND NOTICES
Several well-known San Franciscans were at Del
Monte last week. Miss Phelan, accompanied by Miss
Sullivan of San Mateo and Miss Mullen of San Fran-
cisco, motored down in Miss Phelan's 40-horsepower
Mercedes. H. W. Postlethwaite and Mrs. Postle-
thwaite also toured to that delightful resort in an auto-
mobile. William Greer Harrison, ex-President of the
Olympic Club, came over from Carmel-by-the-Sea one
clay to luncheon. Brigadier-General Frederick Funs-
ton, accompanied by Captain E. C. Long, U. S. A.,
spent two or three days at Del Monte last week, being
frequently in the company of R. M. Loeser and Mrs.
Loeser and their party. The gallant little soldier ap-
pears to find the job of generalizing in time of peace a
flattering one, for he has grown decidedly stout. Fre-
mont Older of the San Francisco Bulletin and Mrs.
Older paid a short visit. "Jimmie" Hopper, who is
now a resident of the quasi-literary and semi-artistic
colony at Carmel, dropped in to luncheon one day with
J. I. Bamford, Associate Librarian of the Oakland
Free Library, on his way up to San Francisco for a
short visit. Another visitor was Edward Chambers,
Assistant Freight Traffic Manager of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, whose wife and daugh-
ter will spend two or three weeks at the pleasant resort.
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ciation, Market and Church Streets, San Francisco, Calif., has
declared for the six months ending June 30, 1907, a dividend of
4 per cent per annum on ordinary deposits, and 6 per cent on
term deposits ; interest on deposits payable on and after July
1st; interest on ordinary deposits not called for will be added
to the principal, and thereafter bear interest at the same rate.
WASHINGTON DODGE, President.
WILLIAM CORBIN, Secretary.
DIVIDEND NOTICE— Mutual Savings Bank of San Francisco, 706
Market street, opposite Third. For the half year ending June
29, 1907, a dividend has been declared at the rate of three and
three-quarters (3J4) per cent per annum on all deposits, free
of taxes, payable on and after Monday, July 1, 1907. Dividends
not called for are added to and bear the same rate of interest
as the principal from July 1, 1907.
GEORGE A. STOREY. Cashier.
DIVIDEND NOTICE — San Francisco Savings Union, northwest
corner California and Montgomery streets. — For the half year
ending June 30, 1907, a dividend has been declared at the rates
per annum of four (4) per cent on term deposits and three and
six-tenths (3 6-10) per cent on ordinary deposits, free of taxes,
payable on and after Monday, July 1, 1907; depositors are
entitled to draw their dividends at any time during the succeed-
ing half year; dividends not drawn will be added to the deposit
account, become a part thereof and earn dividend from Tuly
1st. LQVELL WHITE, Cashier.'
DIVIDEND NOTICE— Central Trust Company of California. 42
Montgomery street, corner Sutter street. For half year ending
June 30, 1907, a dividend has been declared on deposits in the
savings department of this bank as follows: On term deposits
at the rate of four (4) per cent rrtjr annum and on ordinary
deposits at the rate of three and three-quarters (3->4) per cent
per annum, payable on and after Monday, July 1, 1907. Dividends
not called for are added to and bear the same rate of interest as
the principal from July 1, 1907.
B. G. TOGNAZZI, Manager.
DIVIDEND NOTICE— Security Savings Bank, 316 Montgomery
street. — For the half year ending June 29, 1907, dividends upon
all deposits at the rate of four (4) per cent per annum, free of
taxes, will be payable on and after July 1, 1907.
FRED'W. RAY, Secretary.
C. 1-1. REHNSTROM
Tailor and Importer
SPRING AND SUMMER STYLES
NOW READY
Formerly of
The Mutual Savings Bank Building
2415 FILLMORE STREET
Telephone West 5769
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326 BUSH STREET
Music on Sundays Phone Temporary 1821 Jules Wiltman, Prop.
grocer for President's Taste
Macaroni, Vermicelli, Spaghetti
L. R. PODESTA, Manufacturer 512 WaihinE[oo Strut
Telephone.^
Established 1890
F. ROSSI
Dominic""'1 Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Depot of Italian-Swiss Colony Wines
Specialties: Belmont. Jesse Moore, A. P. Hotaling's O. P. S., Lovdand Rye,
King \Vm. Fourth Scotch, Glenrosa Scotch, Dew of the Grampians, A. V. H.
Gin, Buchu Gin, Cognac Brandy, Bisquit Dubouche Cognac, Fernet Branca
Italian Vermuth, French Vermuth.
217-219 Washington St., Bet. Front and Davis
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Willie Hearst, who has become quite a mathema-
tician through counting the votes for Mayor Mc-
Clellan, has figured out that 1500 children could
have been clothed with the $15,000 which was the
cost of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt's vanity box, or
that 10.000 bushels of unmashed potatoes could
have been bought for the money. Hearst fears
that some thousands of his future readers are in
danger of starving to death, and would like to have
Birdie Fair keep them alive at her own expense.
Every editorial in the Examiner and the Journal
can lie figured out on that basis. Years ago,
watchers of Arthur Brisbane's effusions were pe-
riodically dumbfounded at the wildcattiness of his
philosophy, until they found the key. This was an
isothermic line drawn through the numerical hot-
beds of readers and voters. Once there appeared
in the Willie papers a fast and furious approval
of the benefits of the tipping system in restaurants.
It caused some scratching of foreheads among the
pundits of I 'ark Row until they thought of the
voting capacity of waiters. Not long ago, our
esteemed contemporary, the Examiner, had a queer
editorial ridiculing culture of the artistic tempera-
ment. But that was a raw-boned one. The appre-
hension that anyone acquiring an artistic tempera-
ment would not vote for Hearst was too obvious.
As for costly bawbles whose price might have
bought food for the poor, how about the vanity box
advertised by Hearst for the reception of ballots
in the last mayoralty election in New York? It
certainly cost more than $15,000. and perhaps would
have purchased silver cockroach-powder squirt-
guns for every tenement family on the East and
West Sides, making the philanthropist a household
word from basements to seventh floors and a terror
in the mouths of insectdom.
Causes Smiles
The petition filed by the attorneys for Schmitz
asking his release on bail has caused a broad smile
among those who have been instrumental in break-
ing up the ring of graft that surrounded his ad-
ministration. Particularly were they amused by the
statement that his presence at the Mavor's office
was demanded by the necessity of repairing the
public buildings and constructing streets and sew-
ers, when it is well known that not a day's work
lias been done on any of the city buildings since
the fire and that not a bit of permanent street
work has been done. So Schmitz's sudden call
to do something for the good of the people who
foolishlv elected him is ironical to say the least.
Conviction and imprisonment seem to have
awakened him to a realization that his office de-
manded something more than graft. It is a pity-
he didn't think that way sooner. He might have
kept out of jail, though judging by his natural
crookedness, if he didn't get in for one reason he
would for some other. It is now doubly unpleasant
to him to be a convicted felon, for he has stacks
of dishonestly gotten lucre that would make life
pleasant to him outside prison bars and free from
the dread of a trip to San Quentin.
Remarkable News
There was a remarkable piece of news in the
leading dailies of San Francisco on Monday, June
24, Anno Domini 1907. Attention was drawn to it
not only by its "head," but in the dingbat. At the
last census it was estimated that there were in this
City five adults and eleven children who did not
know what a dingbat is. So for their benefit we
explain it as the running head across the top of
a page . noting usually the four most important
items anywhere in the seven columns below. The
referred-to piece of news was that when the news-
papers went to press early Monday morn, they
were possessed of the all important information
that "Jimmy Britt Announces His Weight 136^4
Pounds."
Observe that the pronoun "His" begins with a
capital letter, a distinction hitherto accorded only
to the Deity, and the beginning of a sentence or a
line of poetry. The weight's exactitude to a quarter
of a pound might appear superficial to a casual
observer. But when it is known that Britt is
shortly to engage in an exchange of blows with
Mr. Battling Nelson, both to weigh 133 pounds
on said occasion, the importance of the 4 ounces
is apparent. He asserts that ridding himself of
the 3J4 pounds of Jimmy Britt will be an easy
task. We hope so. California can well afford to
lose 3J4 pounds of this young man, without suffer-
ing a material shock. And if he thinks he could
take off another quarter of a pound or so without
impairing his pneumogastric nerve we should urge
him to do so, purely in the interests of sport and
without ulterior motive.
We don't like to knock our esteemed contempo-
raries yet it does not seem reasonable that momen-
tous news like this should be relegated to the
interior of the paper, while such frivolous topics as
Mayor Schmitz's fracas with Gallagher. Phelan's
bickering with Eastern capital, Prof. Felix Adler's
lecture, and three columns of telegraph news take
up the front page.
The first thing in the morning, if you need a bracer, should be a Why not Subscribe for The Wasp and have it
-tablespoonful of Abbott's Bitters in an ounce of sherry or a glass of mailed to VOUr address every Week?
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What Joke Killed Him?
The newspapers record the sudden death in Ari-
zona of an ex-motorman of the United Railroads
who left the City two weeks ago. He was "joking
with friends" when he dropped to the floor and ex-
pired. The joke which killed the unfortunate man
must have been particularly atrocious. Perhaps they
told him that Cornelius would yet win the strike, or
that ex-Mayor Schmitz would be freed by an insane
Appellate Court. It would be a very insane one that
would do it. I should hate to be the Judge that
would help that infamous crook to get back into a
position where he might prolong the disgrace of San
Francisco and the disruption of her prosperity.
The Czar's Desperate Expedient
In dissolving the Douma, and strengthening the
arm of his despotic power the Czar is adopting the
desperate tactics most likely to save his crown. How
long he can keep that insignia of hereditary authority
is however doubtful. The Wasp pointed out long
ago that the conditions in Russia were similar to those
that existed in France before the Revolution that cost
the king and queen their heads. Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette were better people than many of
their predecessors on the throne of France, who had
died in their beds and been buried in royal state. The
misfortune of Louis XVI and his wife were that they
came upon the stage when the scenery was being
shifted. They were out of place. New conditions
confronted them and called for a man with the
genius of a Napoleon. Poor, half-baked vacillating
Louis, devoid of foresight and resourcefulness, could
only let things drift, and the rising tide of popular
disaffection finally swept him and the monarchy to
destruction.
Who Hesitates Is Lost
In Russia today as in France under Louis XVI the
forces of political evolution have undermined the old
order wherein the nobility and the church dominated
the government and the common people were slaves,
without a voice in the expenditure of the heavy taxes,
that were wrung from them. The ill-fated French
king might perhaps have delayed the revolution by
clinging desperately to the principles of his ancestors
and holding down the common people by force- He
vacillated, however, as did the present Czar of Rus-
sia at the outset of the Russian revolution. Louis
was by turns a liberal, in favor of concessions to the
people, and an autocrat desirous of crushing all popular
aspirations for political liberty. In the end he was
not successful in any of his tactics, and the triumphant
mob took him out and cut off his head and that of
his luckless consort.
Clamoring Revolutionists
The advisers of Nicholas perceive that there is in
store for him the fate which befell Louis XVI un-
less he can stamp out organized revolution. Armed
force is his only hope of saving his crown, if not his
life.
In the French Revolution no sooner did Louis
grant one concession then the populace clamored for
another more radical. The rival factions of revo-
lutionists that fought amongst themselves found that
their greatest strength lay in trying to degrade the
kingly power. Finally they cast aside all moderation
and held out to the bloodthirsty populace the hope
that they could convict the king of treason and thus
murder him legally to make a Parisian holiday, and
they did it.
Nicholas the Counterpart of Louis
Emperor Nicholas, like Louis XVI, is one of the
wickedest of his. royal race. He is regarded as the
least capable of living European sovereigns, not one
of whom is distinguished by conspicuous genius.
Nothing is more certain than the dethronement if
not the execution of Nicholas, if he should permit
his autocratic powers to be destroyed and the gov-
ernment of Russia transferred to a constitutional
parliament. The nation is not fit for self-rule. It
has been held in subjection by the sword and knout
for ages, and bloody revolution and not peaceful evo-
lution will be the result of any sudden and radical
changes in the direction of popular freedom.
As soon as the autocratic power of the Emperor
is destroyed, the fratricidal strife of the revolutionists
is sure to become fierce and sanguinary. In these
convulsions, the last vestige of imperial authority
would be taken away and the deposed ruler got rid
of — most probably by violent death.
Twenty Years of Education Needed
It would take at least twenty years of popular edu-
cation and judicious political agitation to fit Russia
for peaceful evolution, from a despotism to a con-
stitutional government by the people. Such a change
in twenty months would only be the prelude to a
Reign of Terror, similar to that which deluged France
with blood.
The advisers of Nicholas are therefore wise in their
generation, in holding fast to the despotic power and
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trying to save their master's crown by military re-
pression. Whether they can succeed will soon be
seen- The new members to the Douma will be chosen
in November and that election will go far toward
showing whether Nicholas is the master of his own
empire.
Only a Slip of the Tongue
In exhorting the discouraged remnant of the strik-
ing carmen to. stand fast for the sake of "unionism,"
Agitator Furuseth said "If the pickets are arrested
we will get them out. If we can't get them out we
will bail them out. If we can't bail them out, they
must stay in jail."
Supervisor Tvietmoe declared that if necessary they
should "wade through rivers of blood." This states-
man whom Schmitz pulled out of the submerged
depths and made a municipal lawmaker, has not been
long enough from Sweden to handle our language
fluently. He probably meant to say "rivers of boodle"
and made a slip of the tongue worthy of Yon
Yonson.
Why the Striker Returned
Recognizing in the man who took his fare an old
union conductor, a citizen asked him the other day
how he came to be working again.
"It was go back to work or let my wife and six
children starve," the conductor answered. "I was a
loyal union man, but there was lots of talk of help
that never came. Week after week we got no strike
benefits except the $2.50 a week paid to those who
did picket duty. All the money I had was soon
spent and my credit soon ran out. I had to go back
to work. Some of the hoodlum crowd are laying
for me. They have followed me nearly every night.
I could lick any three of them, but they are waiting
to strike me in the dark or from behind. They may
kill me but I couldn't hear the children crying from
hunger any longer. In my neighborhood there are
a dozen conductors and motormen who know I am
working again. They don't blame me nor molest
me. The decent crowd in the union doesn't expect a
man to let his wife and babies starve."
That is the' sort of thing Cornelius has led his fol-
lowers into, and all over the city workingmen are
cursing him for what he has done. When he stood
up in the union meeting and said only a coward
would ask for a secret ballot he pronounced his own
doom. He bullyragged the men into a strike they
didn't want, but he has lost it and every vestige of
influence. He is the head of a union that is prac-
tically disrupted. Its funds have been "misman-
aged"— a fact that is being very carefully guarded
from the public. The labor leaders of the City are
trying hard to save the union by patching up any
kind of a truce with the California and Geary Street
lines so that union men may go back to work there
as union men, thus keeping the organization alive.
The scheme isn't working well and even if it should
succeed, the union would lead a very puny existence.
Cornelius stands discredited with the workingmen
of the City and the best of the carmen now hate him
and have ample reason. He is a blind leader who
has led them into the ditch.
HARVEY BROUGHAM.
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Original Coppa
Formerly at
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IN BUSINESS AGAIN AT
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Private Rooms for Families Up-Stairs
Service Unsurpassed
JOE COPPA, Proprietor
Phone Temp. 623
AL. CONEY
J. HUFF
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TURKISH AND HAMMAM BATHS
PRIVATE ROOM AND BATH $1.00
Open Day and Niaht
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Points of Interest on Trade and Finance
Rufus Jennings is keeping the wires hot to New
York with most remarkable information about Cali-
fornia. Most of it might well go by mail, but if Rufus
thinks it ought to go by telegraph, let 'er go. Rufus is
the doctor. The other day he aimed squarely at New
York's solar plexus with the astounding information
that the terra cotta work of the new Humboldt Savings
Bank building alone would cost $50,000. That is some
money out here, of course, but we must learn that in
the matter of buildings, bridges, tunnels and various
public enterprises New York does things on so mam-
moth a scale that our biggest things sound small in
the telling to New Yorkers. The very day Rufus told
about the $50,000 worth of terra cotta, the Knicker-
bockers were reading that Mayor McClellan had turned
the first sod of earth in the great acqueduct that is to
bring the waters of Esopus Valley through the Cats-
kills' to New York at a cost of $162,000,000. The same
day Rufus shouted into their ears that seventeen build-
ing permits had been issued here, twelve for per-
manent buildings, cost $70,000, and five for alterations,
cost $2,000.
In the Building Trades
The value of permits issued from April 18th, 1906,
to June 1st of this year has been in round numbers
$70,000,000. What the value of permits for the month
of June may be cannot yet be stated, but the value of
contracts recorded show a considerable improvement
for the past week. It reached the figure of $530,162.
The total for. three weeks of the month has been
$1,469,341. These figures are lower than they have
been, but considering the drawbacks of strikes, high
wages and tight money, they are good, indeed.
Cheaper Material
Pine lumber has continued to decline and now as low
as $13 is the base, for random cargoes here, while $16
is the highest asked, even when cargoes are ordered.
Deliveries have, however, fallen off and June will
show lesser totals than May. The redwood men, how-
ever, hold firm to list 21. There may, however, be
some reduction in merchantable when it comes into
close competition with pine. There have been consider-
able arrivals of cement and the California product is
down. Lime has fallen to $2.50. So that as far as
materials are concerned, contractors and builders are
down to ante-fire prices. The only obstacle now is the
tightness of money, and that will cause wages of build-
ing mechanics to drop to the normal.
INVESTOR.
Doings at Soda Bay Springs
This well-known resort on the shores of Clear
Lake, in Lake County, is getting very popular. The
First Corps Cadets of California, under the com-
mand of Major H. V. Ramsdell and Lieut. M. Or-
ville Jones will hold their annual encampment at
the Springs, beginning July the first, for three
weeks. The Corps numbers some seventy-five mem-
bers, and with_ their families, will add over 125
guests to those now sojourning there. Grand even-
ing concerts, balls and parties will make things
very lively for the next month. Soda Bay Springs
Hotel is the only tavern that, from location and
equipment, is also capable of catering to the wants
of tourists at all seasons, and its unique position
by mountain and lake especially adapts it to the
pleasure seeker and those looking for rest, health
and recreation.
Why not subscribe for The Wasp and have it
mailed to your address every week?
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK
706 Market St.
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Opp. Third
Guaranteed Capital, $1,000,000
Interest Paid ei all Deposits
Paid up Capital and Surplus, $620,000
Loans om Approved Securities
OFFICERS- James D, PheJan, Pres., John A. Hooper, V. Pres., J. K. Moffatt. 2d
V. Pres., GeorRC A. Story, Sec'y and Cashier, C. B. Hobson, Asst. Cashier, A. E.
Curtis, 2d Asst. Cashier.
TONOPAH, GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG
MANHATTAN and COMSTOCKS A specialty
Have Installed a Private Wire Connecting San Francisco with Goldfield
Phone TEMPORARY 1725
ZADIG & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
Formerly 306 Montgomery Street, have resumed business in their
Own Building, 324 BUSH STREET
Directly Opposite New San Francisco Stock and Exchange Bldg.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK
OF SAN FRANCISCO
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS,
PAID UP CAPITAL,
DEPOSITS JANUARY 1, 1907
108-110 Sutter Street
$693,104.68
$600,000.00
$3,772,145.83
Charles Carpy. Pres. Arthur Legallel, Vice-Pro. Leon Bocqueraz. Secretary
John Ginry, Asst. Secretary P. A. Bemerot, Attorney
INSTALLING MODERN SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
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Rhyme of the Week
Ml kinds oi weather with prices i" suit;
Very few winds blow good news to Schmitz.
High-record prices for apricot fruit;
Orchard's word baited as nut worth two-bits.
Fire in the flower of Van Ness1 trade;
Fl 1 in the Valley of II"|hjs of the Czar.
Roosevelt still hundred-and-one in the shade;
Japanese cool though going too far.
Judge Hebbard wields periodical pistol:
Hebbardward this time, when asked i<> resign.
Heney's position not clear as a crystal.
In the light of the law as his foes make it shine.
No '■hock "Mrs. Warren's Profession" has given;
The mob shocked, ti> find itself as yet "unwhipped."
With such as these things through the week we
have striven.
And others, which worse, we therefore have skipped.
.Miss Cornelia W. Armsby won the Ladies' putting
competition at Del Monte last week.
The fourth competition in the Ladies' Continuous
Handicap Golf Tournament was won by Mrs. R. M
Loeser, who received a handicap of 12 strokes, from
Miss Cornelia W. Armsby, who played from scratch.
The Dake Advertising Agency, interested in the
welfare of San Francisco, is sending out news of
the industrial situation to the local and ' interior
press, resulting in the publication of news bene-
ficial to this City. The successful running of street
cars, the satisfactory settlement of the iron trades'
strike, the laundry and telephone facilities and hotel
accommodations are set forth in contradiction of
the erroneous impressions that many outsiders no
doubt have entertained.
The Sultan Baths, open to the public on July 3d,
will be a modern illustration of the luxury in which
Roman and Oriental wealth once disported itself.
< In Tuesday the 2d, at 10 a. m., the visiting public
will be admitted, with formal opening of the baths
at 6 p. in., the day following. There are seven
floors to the building, each elaborately fitted for
its requirements with all the detail and accommoda-
tions of a hotel.
Miss Guittard, whose picture appears in this
week's Wasp, is the sister of Mrs. Hanford, second
wife of the well-known mining man. Miss Guittard
is considered one of the beauties of the younger
set. Her engagement was recently rumored to the
son of a wealthy familv in Mexico, but not con-
firmed by the young lady herself.
Mrs. Sallie Stetson Winslow is one of the women to
whom purple is becoming. She wears a very handsome
purple cloth gown which suits her vastly. Miss Elsie
Sperry, who is one of the real beauties of Society, is
seen these days in a pretty tan cloth gown.
OUR INVITATION
WE INVITE DEPOSITS FROM EVERYONE
Rich, poor, old and young. We recognize no
classes but treat large and small depositors with
the same courtesy and consideration. We do
more than this however, we pay liberal rates
of interest on checking accounts, savings ac-
counts, and Certificates of Deposit.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST CO.
- HOME OFFICE —
CALIFORNIA AND MONTGOMERY. STREETS
Wo! End Branch. 1531 Devil
Mission Branch, 2572 Mission, ni
.22a
Up-lown Branch, 1 740 Fillmore, nr. Sutter
Potrero Branch, 19th and Minnesota
VALUABLES or all kinds
May be safely stored at
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Cor. Bush and Sansome Sts.
Safes to rent from $5 a year upwards
Careful service to customers
Trunks $1 a month
Office Hours: 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The German Savings and Loan Society
526 CALIFORNIA ST., San Francisco
Guaranteed Capital and Surplus
Capital actually paid up in cash
Deposits, December 31. 1906
$2,578,695.41
1,000,000.00
38,531,917.28
OFFICERS-- President, F. Tillmann. Jr.; First Vice-President, Daniel Meyer
Second Vice-President, Emil Rohte; Cashier, A. H. R. Schmidt; Assistant Cashier,
William Herrmann; Secretary, Geome Tourny; Assistant Secretary, A. H. Mullcr.
Goodfellow & Eells, General Attorneys.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS -F. Tillmann. Jr., Daniel Meyer. Emil Rohte, Ign.
Sleinhart, I. N. Walter. N. Ohlandl. J. W. Van Berscn, E. T. Kruse and W. S.
Goodfellow.
MEMBER STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE
MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO MINING EXCHANGE
J. C. WILSON
BROKER
STOCKS AND BONDS Kohl Bldg., 488 California St.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES San Francisco
Telephone Temporary 815
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Lament Juvenile
O slush! Is it true? Do I c'rectly hear?
We'll have no Fort o' J'ly Puhrade this year?
Can such enormuhties exzizt in this free land
With innercent children found on every hand !
Such calumnies upset the wine of life
And make a man unfaithful to his wife.
O woeful fate! Am I tuh understand
We'll have no liberty and no brass band
To make us recollek the splenjous day
When Washington washed out King George's
sway?
No pleeceman marchin' manfully along
While every noble heart is filled with song!
No floats wid girls in cheesecloth, crowns and flag
on,
Drawn by Bucephalus and Xpress Wagon.
No soldiers right about face forward march!
No crowds on Market Street, no Dewey Arch!
No Suprevisors bowing from their hacks
Upon a grateful people in their tracks.
0 hearts of stone! The Old Exempts I wunt
To haul the engine out wid wreaths in front,
The Prune and Poppy Parlor of the Native Sons
With ribbons round their hats march eight by ones,
Behind their gold insignia of state
With two boys holding ropes to keep it straight;
Coons carrying the Grand Old Flag, and some mick
The Iroquois' big flag stick on his stummick.
1 can't believe these things will not be seen
On Independence Day, wid bands between.
Two years ago, when I wuz young and gay,
They sellybrated in the real old way.
But" now it makes a heart of oak turn sour.
Oh, friends, we live in a degenrit hour.
Hearst's Program
The presence of W. R. Hearst in San Francisco
has been explained by some of the men who work
for him as having been prompted by his desire to
have work started on the new building for his news-
paper which he will build on the old site at Third
and Market. But, as a matter of fact, that is only
a side issue: Hearst is really here because the
Mayor of the City has been sent to jail and a new
set' of officials to govern the City has to be
selected. He has already caused it to become
known that when the men associated in the
prosecution of the grafters are ready to agree upon
a man to fill the office of Mayor he wants to have
his finger in the pie, if not to cut it up himself. In
short, Hearst is here to do politics and grab the
City Government if he can. He wants to do 'here
what he tried to do in Chicago, and what he nearly
succeeded in doing in New York, get control of
all the offices and run things in the peculiar Hearst-
ian way, which God forbid. Ever since his hand)'
man, Lawrence, failed to get an incompetent favor-
ite made Chief of Police under the first Phelan
administration Hearst has been itching to get con-
trol and he regards the present opportunity as a
favorable one for a Hearst coup.
It is hardly likely, however, that the Bulletin
and the prosecution will recognize the right of
Hearst to step in and carry off all the trophies of
a battle in which he had no part. They cannot
forget all that Hearst did to raise Schmitz to the
position he occupied at the time the attack upon
his scheme of graft was begun. At the time far-
seeing men were denouncing Schmitz and Ruef
as grafters and declaring their administration was
corrupt, Schmitz was off in New York living at the
Waldorf-Astoria and fiddling for Hearst in his
campaign for Congress, and because of those ser-
vices and the connection of Schmitz with the unions
Hearst forbade his local paper, the Examiner, to
say one word against either the grafting Mayor or
Ruef. This policy was adhered to until it became
apparent to all that Heney and Burns would land
them both in jail ; then Hearst lost no time getting
aboard and whooping it up for conviction.
Exposed
"What are you doing?"
"Burning Poe's poems. He was a nature fakir.
Ravens never sit just above chamber doors and
croak 'Nevermore.' "
Hard on Her Right
"Perhaps," said Dubley, during the waltz, "you
don't like my style of dancing."
"Well," said she, in evident distress, there is
rather too much sameness about it."
"Er — how may I vary it?"
"Suppose you tread on my left foot once in a
while." — Philadelphia Press.
Whv not subscribe for The Wasp and have it
mailed to your address every week?
PHIL S. MONTAGUE, Stock Broker
Member of S. F. Slock Exchange
Goldfield, Tonopah. Manhattan and Bullfrog Stocks Bought and Sold.
Write for Market Letter.
339 BUSH STREET. STOCK EXCHANCE BUILDING
BURNED HOMES MUST BE REBUILT
The Continental Building and Loan Association
Having sustained practically no loss in the recent calamity, is in a
position to loan money to people who wish to rebuild. 5an Francisco
must restore her homes as well as her business blocks.
DR. WASHINGTON DODGE, Pr«.
GAVIN McNAB, Atty.
WM. CORB1N, Sec. and Gen, M8r.
OFFICES -COR. CHURCH AND MARKET STREETS
OPEN AND DOING BUSINESS
Rooms 7 to 11
Telephone Tmpy. 14IS
W. C. RALSTOIN
Stock and Bond Broker
Member San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
Mining Stocks a Specially
Code
Bedford McNeill
Western Unioa
Leibers
368 BUSH STREET
San Francisco
-THE WASP
25
A Boon for the Duke
The Duke of Manchester's income is better by
$15,000 a year, through the death of Harriet,
Duchess of Manchester, the second wife and widow
of his great-grandfather, the sixth Duke. She was
the daughter of Conway Dobbs, of Castle Dobbs, in
County Antrim, Ireland, and married the sixth
Duke of Manchester just fifty-seven years ago.
Three years later she married Sir Stevenson Arthur
lUackwood, secretary to the general post-office, who
died in 1893, but retained her title of Duchess of
Manchester, and likewise the annuity of $15,000
settled upon her by the sixth Duke at the time
of her marriage to him, and chargeable on the es-
tate. In fact, it was a first charge on the ducal
property and had to be paid before anything else.
Not that she needed it. For she had inherited a
very considerable fortune from her father and from
her relatives, and this enabled her to show herself
most liberal in her contributions to the various
funds of the Methodist persuasion, of which she
was a most enthusiastic member. She was a
deeply religious woman, who may be said to have
devoted the greater part of her long life to evan-
gelization.
She was never seen in Society, her appearance
was altogether unknown to the London great world
and she possessed but the slightest acquaintance
with the wife of her stepson, the seventh Duke of
Manchester, the lady now known as the Duchess
of Devonshire, and with Consuelo Duchess of Man-
chester, the American widow of the eighth Duke.
Both of these women are extremely worldly and
ultra-fashionable, the antithesis of the Dobbs
Duchess. The latter has likewise seen but little
of the present Duke and of his American wife, who
was Miss Helen Zimmerman, while it is doubtful
whether she has ever set eyes upon the present
Duke's children ; that is to say, the great-grand-
children of her stepson.
The increase to the Duke's income resulting from
the release of the obligation on the part of the trus-
tees of the Manchester estates to charge the latter
with the payment of the late Duchess' annuity,
will atone in a measure for his having been com-
pelled by the King to resign, after a tenure of only
a few months, his lucrative office of captain and
commander of the yeoman of the guard.
•The Bohemian Club is looking for a temporary
home, and has been thinking of taking the Little
Palace, but, the rent is thought by the members to
be rather steep for them, and so the agreement has
not been signed as yet. The Fairmont people are
thinking of closing up the Little Palace in any event
before long. The University Club for a time was
desirous of taking the place, but that organization
is also more careful of its expenditures than before
the great fire. The Bohemian Club hopes to have
its new place finished in time to hold the Christmas
Jinks there.
end on the 21st, at the Presidio. Twenty companies
from the southern part of the State will attend.
Tent quarters will be provided near the Marine
Hospital and near various batteries.
Mrs. Eleanor Jarboe, who left here for the East
a short time ago, has arrived in New York. Mrs.
Edward Dimond, her sister-in-law, is visiting re-
lations.
Jr Skin of Beauty is a Joy Forever.
Dr. T. Felix Gouraud's Oriental
Cream or Magical Beautifier
Purifies as well as beautifies the skill. No other cosmetic will do it.
Removes Tan, Pimples, Freckles, Moth
Patches, Rash and Skin Diseases, and
every blemish on beauty, and defies de-
tection. On its virtues it has stood the
test of 58 years; ho other has, and is so
harmless we taste it to be sure it is prop-
erly made. Accept nocounterleitor simi-
lar name. Dr. L. A. Sayre said to a lady
of the haut-ton (a patient) "As you ladies
will use them. I recommend 'Gouraud's
Cream' as the least harmful of air the
skin preparations." One bottle will last
six months using it every day. GOUR-
AUD'S POUDRE SUBTLE REMOVES
SUPERFLUOUS HAIR WITHOUT IN-
JURY TO THE SKIN.
FRED T. HOPKINS. Prop'r, 37 Great Jones street, N. Y.
For sale by all druggists and Fancv-goods Dealers throughout the United
Statea, Canadas and Europe, gj^" Beware of base imitations. $1,000
reward for arrest and proof of auy one selling the same.
Extensive preparations are being made for the
maneuvers by the United States troops and the
California State militia, to begin on July 5th and
JULY SUNSET
THE MAKING OF LOS ANGELES
Photographs of the rise and growth of Cali-
fornia's Southern City.
THE TEACHERS' PILGRIMAGE
The story of the convention of the National
Educational Association to be held in Los
Angeles during July.
THE SPREAD OF SAN FRANCISCO
Manufactories along the Bay Shore.
WHERE MAMMOTHS ROVED
Recent discoveries of footprints in the Carson,
Nevada, Stone Quarries.
4 SPLENDID STORIES
SEND SUNSET TO YOUR EASTERN FRIENDS AND KEEP THEM
POSTED ON SAN FRANCISCO'S WONDERFUL PRO-
GRESS IN RECONSTRUCTION
On Sale June 25, 1907
Summer
The Potter
SANTA BARBARA
AMERICAN PLAN $2.50 PER DAY
Fronting the Ocean in cool Santa Barbara. A daylight ride
through the prettiest country in the world. Most picturesque coast.
Golf, polo, tennis, fishing, automobiling, surf bathing, yachts and
launches and horse-back riding. See the Santa Barbara Mission
(still in use). Hope Ranch, Channell Islands, Le Cumbre trail and
a thousand other things that will interest you. Accommodations for
1200. Rates May 1st to January 1st, $2.50 per day and upwards
Our representative, at 789 Market street, phone Temporary 275 1
will show you floor plans, secure your transportation and attend to
other details of travel. Reduced round trip rates good for thirty days.
OAKLAND'S BEAUTIFUL NEW HOTEL
NOW OPEN
Twenty-Second and Broadway, Oakland
European Plan
Beautifully Furnished
Cafe a la Carte at Moderate Pri
N. S. MULLAN, Manager
Formerly Assistant Manager
Palace Hotel, S. F.
SiS DEL MONTE
A Week of Sports at the Famous Resort.
Gymkhana Races, Tennis, Bowling, Swimming.
Automobile Run July 3td and 4th.
GOLF TOURNAMENT. July 2nd to 7th
Handsome Silver Trophies.
A SPECIAL ROUND TRIP RATE OF $4.00
July 3rd and 4th, good to return July 8th.
C. W. KELLEY, City Representative
Telephone Temporary 2751 789 MARKET STREET
SANTA CRUZ
The Atlantic City
of the Pacific
World's
Most
Beautiful
Playground
Summer Season
Opened May 1st
Never a Dull
Moment
Grand Opening of the Casino and
Bathing Pavilion announced later
•
!
Pacific Grove Hotel
Formerly Hotel El Carmelo, Pacific Grove
under the same ownership as the Hotel Del
Monte. A quiet resort, with every comfort
at most reasonable rates. In close touch
with San Francisco, San Jose and Santa
Cruz. Through chair car and parlor car
service to and from Los Angeles and San
Francisco daily.
HOTEL RAFAEL
San Rafael, Cal.
OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND
SO Minutes from San Francisco
The only first-class hotel in the vicinity of
the city. American and European plan.
F. N. ORPIN, Lesser and Manager
-THE WASP
27
THE NEW ROUTE TO
Yosemite Valley
Only 9 hours from San Francisco; reached by the Southern
Pacfic or Santa Fe, via Merced, over the newly constructed
YOSEMITE VALLEY RAILROAD
80 MILES STEEI. TRACK
Four hours in a luxurious observation car through the finest
panoramic scenery in the United States. You leave San Francisco
after breakfast and take dinner in the Valley.
Fare $18.50 from Merced into the
Yosemite and return
0. W. LEHMER, Traffic Mgr., Merced, Cal.
Suburban
Deliveries
Campers
Contemplating a trip of any kind to the
interior should know that they can ob-
tain all the staple essentials at one place,
near all shipping points, quick delivery, finest goods, lowest
prices, courteous salesmen and competent packers. Let
us figure with you and supply you. Freight prepaid. All
orders free.
SMITH'S CASH STORE
UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS
14 to 24 Steuart Street
San Francisco, Cal.
TAHOE TAVERN
MRS. ALICE RICHARDSON, Manner
TAHOE, CAL.
Just the place for a few days rest and recreation
WEATHER DELIGHTFUL
FISHING EXCELLENT
Witter Medical Springs
Lake County
Witter Springs Hotel was built and
and equipped to please the really
critical. Cuisine and service un-
excelled. Table loaded with all the
delicacies of the season, supplied from our 1400 acre ranch. See
Sunrise Peak, Clear Lake. Blue Lakes, Horseshoe Bend and numerous
other places of interest. Most magnificient variation of scenery in the
world. Tennis, fishing, good saddle horses, bowling and other amuse-
ments. Automobile headquarters for Lake Co: Under the management
of Albert J. Arroll, formerly of the New Willard, Washington and the
Seelbach, Louisville. Rates $14.00 per week upward. Call or write
for booklet and general information. Main office, 647 Nan Ness Ave.
Witter Water Cures Stomach Trouble
AGUA CALIENTE SPRINGS
Send your family to the nearest Hot Sulphur Springs to San Francisco.
First-class accommodations. Special rates to families. No staging.
Four trains daily. Fare round trip $1.65. Tiburon ferry or Oakland;
two hours' ride. Address THEODOR RICHARDS, Agua Caliente,
Sonoma County, California.
Howard Sp
Lake County, Cal
VlTlOfQ Season 1907 opens May 1st.
© The walers of Howard Springs will
cure any case of Slomach, Liver and
— — ^— —^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^— ' Kidney Trouble. Recommended
by any physician who has ever visited the place in the past 20 years. Every outdoor
sport, 42 Mineral Springs, Hot Sulphur and Iron Plunge Bath, Magnesia and Borax
Tub Baths. Address all communications to j. W. LAYMANCE, Proprietor Howard
Springs, Lake County. Cal.. or 905 Broadway, Oakland, Cal.
Soda Bay Springs
Lake Co., Cal.
Situated on the picturesque shore of charming Clear Lake, season
opens May 1st, finest of Boating, Bathing and Hunting. Unsur-
passed acommodations. Terms $2.00 per day, $12.00 per week,
special rates to families. Route, take Tiburon Ferry 7:40 a. m.
thence by Automobile, further information address managers
GEO. ROBINSON and AGNES BELL RHOODES
Via Kelseyville P. O. Soda Springs, Lake Co., Cal.
TRUNKS
VALISES
BAGS
Victor's TRUNK Store
CHEAPEST IN TOWN
OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL EIGHT P. M.
ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO
626 Golden Gate Avenue, near Van Ness
SAN FRANCISCO
OF LEADING BUSINESS
HOUSES
DIRECTORY
AND
PROFESSIONAL MEN
MISCELLANEOUS.
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE, 226 Oak St.
ADVERTISING AGENCIES.
BOLTE & BRADEN, 105-107 Oak St., S. F. ;
Phone Market 2837.
COOPER ADV. AGENCY, F. J., West Mis-
sion and Brady Sts.
DAKE ADV. AGENCY, Midway Bldg., 779
Market St. Phone Temp'y 1440.
FISHER, L. P. ADV. AGENCY, Merchants'
Exchange Bldg. ; Phone Franklin 584.
JOHNSTON-DIENSTAG CO., 34 Kearny St.
ANTIQUE DEALERS.
THE LOUIS XIV. Curios, Objects d'Art,
Miniatures, Paints, Porcelains, Jewels, etc.,
C. V. Miller, 1117 Post, near Van Ness.
ARCHITECTS.
REID BROS, Temporary Offices, 2325
Gough it., S. F.
THOS. J. WELSH, JOHN W. CAREY, asso-
ciate architects, 40 Haight St., S. F.
ART DEALERS.
GUMP, S. & G., 1645 California St., S. F.
SCHUSSLER BROS., 1218 Sutter St.
ATTORNEYS,
DORN, DORN & SAVAGE, 717 Van Ness.
DINKELSPIEL, HENRY G. W., 1265 Ellis
St., S. F. Phone West 2355.
HEWLETT, BANCROFT AND BALLAN-
TINE. Monadnock Bldg. ; Phone Tempy 972.
GOLDSTONE, LOUIS, 1012 Fillmore St.
Phone Park 864.
KING, CHAS. TUPPER, 1126 Fillmore St.
AUTOMOBILES AND SUPPLIES.
PIONEER AUTOMOBILE CO., 901 Golden
Gate Ave., S. F. ; and I2th and Oak Sts.,
Oakland.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO., Market
and Van Ness Ave., S. F.
AUTO LIVERY CO., Golden Gate and Van
Ness Ave., S. F.
BOYER MOTOR CAR CO., 408 Golden Gate
Ave. Phone, Franklin 655.
LEE CUYLER, 359 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
MIDDLETON MOTOR CAR CO., 550 Gol-
den Gate Ave., S. F.
MOBILE CARRIAGE CO., Golden Gate
Ave. and Gough Sts., S. F.
PACIFIC MOTOR CAR CO., 376 Golden
. Gate Ave.
BANKS.
ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK, Ltd., cor.
Pine and Sansome Sts., S. F.
CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST CO., cor. California and Montgom-
ery Sts., S. F.
CENTRAL TRUST CO., 42 Montgomery St.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Bush and San-
some Sts., S. F.
FRENCH SAVINGS BANK, 108 Sutter St.,
and Van Ness and Eddy.
GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN SO-
CIETY, 526 California St., S. F.
HALSEY, N. W. & CO., 413 Montgomery.
HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN "SO-
CIETY, Tones and McAllister Sts., S. F.
HUMBOLDT SAVINGS BANK, 646 Market
Street, opposite old Palace Hotel. Phone,
Temp'y 249.
MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO, 710 Market St., opp. 3d St.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, N.W.
cor. California and Montgomery Sts., S. F.
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, 316 Mont-
gomery St., S. F.
THE MARKET STREET BANK AND
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT; Market and 7th.
UNION TRUST CO., 4 Montgomery St., S. F.
WELLS FARGO-NEVADA NATIONAL
BANK, Union Trust Bldg., S. F.
BREWERIES.
ALBION ALE AND PORTER BREWERY,
1007-9 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
S. F. BREWERIES, LTD., 240 2d St., S. F.
BROKERS— STOCKS AND BONDS.
MONTAGUE, PHIL S., 339 Bush St., Stock
Exchange Bldg.
ROLLINS, E. H. & SONS, 804 Kohl Bldg.;
Telephone Temp'y 163; S. F.
ZADIG & CO., 324 Bush St., S. F.
WILSON, J. C, 488 California St., S. F.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
CONTINENTAL BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION, Church and Market Sts.
CARPET CLEANING.
SPAULDING, J. & CO., 911-21 Golden Gate
Ave. ; Phone Park 591.
CLOTHIERS— RETAIL.
HUB, THE, Chas. Keilus & Co., King Solo-
mon Bldg., Sutter and Fillmore Sts., S. F.
COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MER-
CHANTS.
JOHNSON LOCKE MERCANTILE CO.,
213 Sansome St., S. F.
MALDONADO & CO., INC., 156 Hansford
Bldg., 268 Market St. Phone Temp'y 4261.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
FISHER CONSTRUCTION CO., 420 Mont-
gomery St.
TROUNSON, J., 1751 Lyon St.; also 176
Ash Ave., S. F.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
NATHAN DOHRMAN CO., 1520-1550 Van
Ness Ave.
DENTISTS.
KNOX, DR. A. J., 1615 Fillmore St., formerly
of Grant Bldg.
DESKS AND CHAIRS.
PHOENIX DESK & CHAIR CO., offi«e fur-
niture, 1538 Market St., west of Van Ness.
Phone Market 2393.
EXPRESS.
WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS, Golden
Gate Ave. and Franklin St., Ferry Bldg.,
and 3d St. Depot, S. F.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
OMEY & GOETTING, Geary and Polk Sts.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
CAREW & ENGLISH, 1618 Geary St., bet.
Buchanan and Webster Sts., S. F. ; Phone
West 2604.
PORTER & WHITE, 1531 Golden Gate Ave.,
S. F. ; Phone West 770.
GAS STOVES,
S. F. GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Franklin and
Ellis Sts.
GENT'S FURNISHERS.
HANSEN & ELRICK, 1105-7 Fillmore St.,
nr. Golden Gate Ave. ; Phone West 5678.
GOLD AND SILVER PLATING.
BELLIS, JOHN O., Mfg, gold and silver.
smith, 1624 California St., nr. Van Ness.
Phone Franklin 2093.
HARDWARE AND RANGES.
MONTAGUE, W. W. & CO., Turk and Polk.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
DAVIS, W. & SON, 2020 Howard St., bet.
16th and 17th, S. F.
LEIBOLD HARNESS AND CARRIAGE
CO., 1214 Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
HATTERS.
DILLON, TOM, Van Ness Ave. and McAllis-
ter St.
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIUMS.
KEELEY INSTITUTE, H. L. Batchelder,
Mgr. ; 262 Devisadero St., S. F.
JEWELERS.
BALDWIN JEWELRY CO.. 1521 Sutter St.,
and 1261 Van Ness Ave., S. F.
SCHMIDT, R. H. & CO., 1049 Fillmore St.,
nr. McAllister St. Phone Park 1209.
LAUNDRIES.
LA GRANDE LAUNDRY, 234 12th St., S. F.
LIFE INSURANCE.
HUNTINGDON, ARTHUR P., 925 Golden
Gate Ave. Phone Park 515.
LUMBER.
UNION LUMBER CO., office 909 Monad-
nock Bldg.
MOVING AND STORAGE COMPANIES.
BEKINS' VAN AND STORAGE CO., 13th
and Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13
and 1016 Broadway, Oakland.
ST. FRANCIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COMPANY, Office 1402 Eddy St.; Tel.
West 2680.
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
DEANE, JNO. J., N. W. cor. Sutter and
Steiner Sts.; Phone West 7291.
WARE, JOHN H., 307 Monadnock Bldg.,
Depositions carefully attended to. Phone
Temp'y 972.
OIL COMPANIES.
STERLING OIL CO., 1491 Post St., cor.
Octavia, S. F.
OPTICIANS.
MAYERLE, GEORGE, German expert, 1115
Golden Gate Ave., S. F. ; Phone West 3766.
SAN FRANCISCO OPTICAL COMPANY,
"Spences," 527 Van Ness Ave.; "Branch,"
1613 Fillmore.
STANDARD OPTICAL CO., 808 Van Ness
Ave., near Eddy St.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
KEEFE, J. H., 820-822 O'Farrell St., S. F. ;
Tel. Franklin 2055.
TOZER, L. & SON CO., INC., 1527 Pine
and 2511 Washington St., near Fillmore.
PAINTS AND OILS.
BASS-HEUTER PAINT CO., 1532 Market.
PHOTO ENGRAVERS.
CAL. PHOTO ENG, CO., 141-143 Valencia.
PHYSICIANS.
BOWIE, DR. HAMILTON C, formerly 293
Geary St., Paul Bldg., now 14th and Church.
BRYANT, DR. EDGAR R., 1944 Fillmore
St., cor. Pine; Tel. West 5657.
D'EVELYN, DR. FREDERICK W., Central
Bldg., Polk and Sutter, S. F., and 2103
Clinton Ave., Alameda.
THORNE, DR. W. S., 1434 Post St., S. F.
PIANOS— MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
BALDWIN, D. H. & CO., 2512 Sacramento
St., and Van Ness at California.
REAL ESTATE.
HICKS & MACK, Real Estate and Insur-
ance, 2091 Fillmore St. Phone West 7287.
7287.
C. R. WILCOX & CO., Real Estate and In-
surance, 837 Golden Gate Avenue. Phone,
Fell 1558.
RESTAURANTS.
MORAGHAN, M. B., OYSTER CO., 1212
Golden Gate Ave., S. F.
OLD POODLE DOG, 824 Eddy St., near
Van Ness Ave.
ST. GERMAIN RESTAURANT, 497 Golden
Gate Ave.; Phone Market 2315.
SWAIN'S RESTAURANT, 1111 Post St.
THOMPSON'S, formerly Oyster Loaf, 1727
O'Farrell St.
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER & WILSON and SINGER SEW-
ING MACHINES, 1431 Bush St., cor.
Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; Phone Franklin
301 : formerly 231 Sutter St.
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES, J. W.
Evans, Agent, 1658 O'Farrell St., nr. Fill-
more. Phone West 3601.
STORAGE.
BEKINS VAN & STORAGE CO., 13th and
Mission Sts., S. F. ; Phone Market 13.
PIERCE RUDOLPH STORAGE CO., Eddy
and Fillmore Sts.; Tel. West 828.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOS-
PITAL SUPPLIES.
WALTERS & CO., formerly Shutts, Walters
& Co., 1608 Steiner St., S. F.
TALKING MACHINES.
BACIGALUPI, PETER, 1113-1115 Fillmore.
TAILORS.
LYONS, CHARLES, London Tailor, 1432
Fillmore St., 731 Van Ness Ave., S. F. ; 958
Broadway, Oakland.
McMAHON, KEYER AND STIEGELER
BROS., Van Ness Ave. and Ellis, O'Farrell
and Fillmore.
REHNSTROM, C. H„ 2415 Fillmore St., for-
merly Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F.
TENTS AND AWNINGS.
THOMS, F., 1209 Mission St., corner of Sth.
TRICYCLES.
EAMES TRICYCLE CO., Invalid Chairs,
1808 Market St., S. F.
WINES AND LIQUORS— WHOLESALE.
BUTLER, JOHN & SON, 2209 Steiner St.
REYNOLDS, CHAS. M. CO., 912 Folsom
RUSCONI, FISHER & CO.. 649 Turk St.
SIEBE BROS. & PLAGEMAN, 419-425
Larkin St.; Phone Franklin 349.
WENIGER, P. J. & CO., N. E. cor. Van
Ness Ave. and Ellis St. ; Tel. Franklin 309.
WICHMAN, LUTGEN & CO., Harrison and
Everett Sts., Alameda, Cal. ; Phone Ala-
meda 1179.
WINES AND LIQUORS— RETAIL.
FERGUSON, T. M. CO., Market Street.
Same old stand. Same Old Crow Whiskey.
FISCHER, E. R., 1901 Mission St., cor, 15th.
THE METROPOLE, John L. Herget and
Wm. H. Harrison, Props., N. W. cor. Sutter
and Steiner Sts.
TUXEDO, THE, Eddie Graney, Prop., S. W.
cor. Fillmore and O'Farrell Sts.
YEAST MANUFACTURERS.
GOLDEN GATE COMPRESSED YEAST
CO., 2401 Fillmore.
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29
Mr. Mackay's Club House
The half-million-dollar casino and club-house, at
Roslyn, Long Island, built for Clarence H. Mackay
from plans drawn by the late Stanford White, is
almosl finished. It is 132 by 133 feet, and con-
tains marble from Alabama, stone from Maine,
limestone from Indiana, cement from England, steel
work from France, and tiling from Italy. The
building is constructed mainly of clinker brick with
stucco and half timber front. It is but one story
high, although there is a high roof over the porch,
the plunge room, and the women's bath room.
There is a porch 40 by 10 feet at the entrance to
the building. Eight Corinthian columns of cement
support the porch roof. Entering from the porch
there is the Dedans salon, with handsome red
furniture, tables, and sideboards of mission style,
red velvet curtains, all of which cost about $40,000.
The other rooms are just as handsomely furnished.
The stone fireplace in the salon cost several thou-
sand dollars. At the right of the salon is the
plunge room finished in Alabama marble, with a
12 by 20 foot pool and shower and plunge baths
and massage rooms. The Gaustavina tiling over-
head is a novelty here, and the floor tiling is
Italian. The women's reception and bath rooms,
east of the salon, is fitted up similar to the plunge
room. There is also a squash court for women.
Views of a Viscountess
The Viscountess Maitland, who is so well known
socially in America, and who has painted the
miniatures of some notable American beauties,
concludes that the English Society girl is far better
equipped artistically than her American sister, and
consequently more fitted to adorn the drawing
room than our own girls.
"You see," the viscountess said, "the English
girl is brought up to play and to sing and to paint,
while your girls in Society, the daughters of the
affluent, are brought up to observe rather than
to do those things. An American girl says, 'Oh,
I dislike amateur playing and painting. There are
so many people who do those things well, and
why not hear people sing and play who are pro-
fessionals and who can make music worth while?'
I have often heard your girls express themselves
that way, and no doubt the professionally paid ar-
tists who entertain the guests at American social
functions are better to hear than the guests.
"On the other hand, I contend that we have a
better system of bringing up our girls, for if a
girl only plays or paints indifferently well she has
a better understanding of these things and is better
able to judge than the girl who only hears profes-
sionals and who has no technical knowledge of
those things.
"Another advantage, is that in the event of any
financial misfortune we can put those accomplish-
n.ents to some practical use, as I have done with
my miniature painting, for instance. Why, what-
ever in the world should I have done when I found
myself practically without any money at all, if I
had not had my music or my painting? Your
girls, instead, must go into office work, become
typewriters, clerks, etc., which is so much harder
and so much less pleasant a way of earning a
living."
Not Wanted
Patience — Didn't she want you to stay to lunch?
Patrice — No, I think not. She said, "We haven't
much for luncheon; won't you stay and take what
we have?" — Yonkers Statesman.
Sure to Make a Hit
"At last," said the manager, "I have a part for you
in which you will be able to make a hit."
"Ah," replied the eager soubrette, "I'm so glad.
But how can you be sure that I will make a hit
in it?"
"A band marches across the stage in one of the
scenes, and you are to give the bass drum a thump
with a rolling pin."
Sensitive Subject
"Spacer out of a job? Why, I thought he was
running a fashion department in a woman's maga-
zine."
"Yes, but he caused the magazine to lose so many
subscribers they fired him."
"How in the world did that happen?"
"Why, the lobster headed his column 'New
Wrinkles for Women.' "
THE STRONGEST AND MOST
ROBUST OF MEN OCCASION-
ALLY REQUIRE A PURE TON-
ICAL STIMULANT. THE PUR-
ITY AND EXCELLENCE OF
Hunter
Whiskey
MAKES ITS USE PREFERABLE
AT SUCH TIMES
CHARLES M. REYNOLDS CO.
Agents for California and Nevada
912-914 Folsom St., San Francisco, Cal.
30
-THE WASP-
MARRIAGES
June 16 — Mis.s Daphne Grace Forsythe, daughter of
Mrs. William Betts, Berkeley, and Francis Isgrigg of
Berkeley.
June 18 — Miss Helen Bradbury Carter, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Carter, Lagunitas, Marin County, and
Homer Beck Cutting.
June 18 — Miss Kathryn Lowery of Tehama and
Franklin A. Almstead of Alameda, at First Congrega-
tional church, Alameda.
June 18 — Miss Hazel Wadsworth of Santa Cruz and
Walter Chase, at residence of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Berwick. Oakland.
June 19 — Miss Viola P. Truman and Frank How-
ard Abbott, Jr., at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mer-
cedes Truman.
June 19 — Mrs. Carmelita Long and Lieut. Thomas
West Hammond, U. S. A., at Hotel Rafael, San Rafael.
June 19 — Miss Violet Weniger of Vallejo and Stan-
ley Chisholm of Benicia, at Church of Ascension, Val-
lejo.
June 19 — Miss Lydia Mae Sadler, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Sadler, and Mr. Lewis Risdon Meade,
at Christ church, Alameda.
June 19 — Miss Mertin Vernell and William Bluett,
at residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George H. Burnham, Oakland.
June 20 — Miss Mary Lucretia Gross of Berkeley and
Dr. J. Albert Brown of McCloud.
June 20 — Miss Mabel Phillips, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. S. M. Phillips, and Monroe D. Green, at Ber-
keley.
June 20 — Miss Mary Cross and Edwin J. Williams,
at residence of bride's parents, Berkeley.
June 20 — Miss Josephine M. Miner and Edmund
Gio de Mange, both of this City.
June 20 — Miss Mamie Coffey of Santa Rosa and
Rudolph Schlueter of San Francisco, at Santa Rosa.
June 20 — Miss Bertha Waldenmeier of Stockton and
George Dohrmann, at St. John's Episcopal church,
Stockton.
June 22 — Emma Marie de Boom, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Romain C. de Boom, and Claus Frank E.
Witzel, at the residence of the bride's parents, on Page
Street.
June 24 — Mrs. Alice B. Elliott and D. Lyle Ghirar-
delli, at the home of the bride's parents, Sacramento
Street, San Francisco.
June 25 — Miss Dolly Trost and Mark Daniels, at
First Congregational church, Berkeley.
June 26— Miss Rose Cuneo, daughter of Mrs. Joseph
Cuneo, and John Lawrence de Benedetti, at St.
Mathew's Catholic church, San Mateo.
June 26 — Miss Gertrude Allen and Charles Tripler
Hutchinson, at home of bride's parents, Oakland.
June 26 — Miss Blanche Estelle Lund and Alexander
H. Smith, at the home of bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. P. Lund, this City.
June 26 — Miss Leona Condon, daughter of Mrs.
Christina Condon, and William George McMahon, at
St. Agnes' church.
June 26 — Miss Charlotte Burns, daughter of Mrs.
Ferguson Burns of Sacramento, to Bernard J.
Flood of San Francisco, at the Cathedral, Sacra-
mento. Rev. Monsignor T. J. Capel officiating.
June 27 — Miss Bessie Camille Raymond of Sacra-
mento and Victor Lyell Hatfield, at the Tremont Park
Presbyterian church, Sacramento.
May 29— Miss Hazel Roberts and Donald E. Scho-
field.
Mrs. Morton Grinnell, daughter of Mrs. John Dar-
ling, and Don Joaquin de Perreyra at Yokohama.
ENGAGEMENTS
Miss Ethel E. C. Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
G. Alexander Wright, of Palo Alto, to Dr. Allen H.
Peek, of Southern California.
Miss Florine Kahn announces her engagement to
Paul B. Manheim.
Miss Bertha Wolf, daughter of Mrs. H. Wolf, of
San Rafael, to B. Morgen.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rothschild announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss Ida and Walter T.
Welisch.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Mautner announce the engage-
ment of their eldest daughter, Theresa Ethel, to
Eugene C. Lewald.
Miss Irene Pendergast announces her engagement to
Lieut. Arthur J. O'Leary, U. S. N.
Miss Olive M. Clark, daughter of Mrs. Mabel Clark,
to Carl A. Larson.
Miss Mazie Langhorne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Potter Langhorne, to Richard Hammond, son of
A. B. Hammond.
American beauty roses were the decorations at
the delightful luncheon given last Monday by Mrs.
Linda H. Bryan at her home, 2422 Buchanan Street,
in honor of Mrs. Francis J. Heney. The others
were Mrs. Inez Shorb White, Mrs. Charles Dunphy,
Mrs. Charles F. Fee, Mrs. I. Lowenberg, Mrs. Gen-
eral Frederick Funston, Mrs. M. A. Huntington,
Mrs. Edward H. Hamilton, Mrs. Julian Sontag,
Mrs. Hiram Johnson, Mrs. William Sesnon, Mrs.
Florence Porter Pfingst, Mrs. Walter Remington
Quick.
Mrs. Charles Butters recently motored to Del Monte,
having as her guests Miss Marie Rose Deane and Mr.
Gowan.
Since the Willis Davises have gone to housekeeping
at Santa Barbara they have done little but entertain,
but their affairs are chiefly of the informal kind.
REMOVAL NOTICE
The L. P. Fisher Advertising Agency
are now permanently located in the
Merchants' Exchange Building, 431
California Street. Phone Franklin 584
CoBoniaS Tub and Shower Baths
BathS Ladies" Department, 8 io 12 a. m. weeL days
REGULAR PRICES
Now Open 1745 O'Farrell St.. near Fillmore
-THE WASP-
31
JOHN J. DEANE & CO.
NOTARY PUBUC
Real Estate and Insurance
N. W. Cor. Sutter and Steiner Sts.
Phone Wet 7291
DR. WM. D. CLARK
OFFICE and RESIDENCE
2554 California Street, San Francisco
HOURS:— I lo 3 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m.
SUNDAYS— By appointment.
PHONE WEST 390
Contracts made with Hotels and Restaurants
Special Attention given to Family Trade
Established 1876
Thomas Morton & Son
Importers ol and af ' f~\ /V I
Dealers in *~ V-F/-%1_
N. W. COR. EDDY and HYDE, San Francisco
Phone FRANKLIN 397
Thompson's FORMERLY
Oyster Loaf
NOW OPEN
All Night Service Popular Prices
1727 O'Farrell Street, Near Fillmore
Wichman, Lutgen & Co.
Formerly of
29-31 Battery Street, S. F.
Cor. Everett and Harrison Avenue
ALAMEDA, CAL.
Phone Alameda 1179
GILT EDGE WHISKEY
PATRICK & CO.
RUBBER STAMPS
STENCILS, BOX BRANDS
1543 Pine Street San Francisco
ASHSBBITTERS
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To restore gray hair to its natural
olor use Alfrcdum's Egyptian Henna —
vegetable dye — perfectly harmless and
le effect is immediate.. All druggists
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Indians in Divorce Court
The case of Natalie Brande Oron-
hyatekha, wife of Dr. rVcland Oron-
hyatekha, the Mohawk chief, whose
domestic affairs have had an extensive
airing in the chambers of the YTork-
ville Police Court came to a dramatic
ending. Magistrate Finn decided that
the woman lived in New Jersey and
had no standing in the New York
courts.
The husband's name, done into
English, means "Bright Cloud." The
woman has this Indian name, "Gay-
gengorah," which means "Fair
Flower."
James Nugent and William Rosen-
berg, counsel for the doctor and the
woman, respectively, submitted briefs
today, and then argued them. In the
course of his remarks Mr. Nugent as-
serted that the woman was a British
subject, and advanced other claims
which aroused the ire of the com-
plainant.
Rising dramatically, she shouted:
"Yai're a liar. I ought to slap your
face, you fool."
Magistrate Finn banged his gavel
down upon the bench with almost
force enough to crack it, and the wo-
man's lawyer turned sharply on her.
"You must keep quiet," he ex-
claimed. "This is a court."
"I won't; I won't," shouted Mrs.
Oronhyatekha. "I am going out of
this court. I don't uelieve in this
kind of justice. If I die tomorrow,
there will be no one to bury me, and
1 shall have to go to the potter's
field."
Ai d she rushed from the court-
room.
Well, Well!
"Mildred had hard luck with her
beaux. She was shaken four times
before Bob married her."
"Ah, I see. Well shaken before
taken, eh?"
Henry
"I wouldn't be afraid to trust my
husband anywhere," said Mrs. Hen-
peck.
"Why? Doesn't he care for
women?"
"If he does he's never shown any
signs of it when I was around."
Diamond Gossip
"No wonder our boys lost when we
played that female baseball team."
"What was the matter?"
"Every time we had our innings
our runners persisted in hugging the
bases."
DR. H. J. STEWART
Oraonisi of St. Dominic's Church
and the Temple Sherilh Israel
TEACHER OF SINGING
Pianoforte, Organ, Harmony and Composition.
NEW STUDIO: 2517 CALIFORNIA ST.
Hours, 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 daily, except Saturday.
LOUIS H. EATON
Organist and Director Trinity
Church Choir
TEACHER OF VOICE, PIANO AND ORGAN
SAN FRANCISCO STUDIO: 1678 Broadway,
Phone Franklin 2244.
BERKELEY STUDIO: 2401 Channing Way.
Tuesday and Friday.
William Keith
Studio
After Dec. 1 at 1717 California St.
SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE
Attorney -a t-Law
1107 O'FARRELL STREET
Cor. Franklin San Francisco, Cal.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of FRANK R. PRINCE, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
Executor of the last will and testament of
said FRANK R. PRINCE, 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 Executor at the office
of Dave Cosgrave, Esq., Room No. 6, 1443
Fillmore Street, San Francisco, which said
office the undersigned selects as his place
of business in all matters connected with
said estate of Frank R. Prince, deceased.
EDWARD R. PRINCE,
Executor of the last will and testament of
Frank R. Prince, deceased.
Dated, San Francisco, June, 1907.
DAVE COSGRAVE,
Attorney for said Executor.
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Mistress — I want a girl for general
housework; some one who is strong
and willing and will do everything.
Bridget — Do yez take me for a
Taft?
Versatile
Our President, remark!
His many powers note!
For with one hand he rocks
The cradle and the boat.
The Dear Old Flag
"I am always filled with patriotic
feelings whenever I gaze upon the
dear old Stars and Stripes," said the
large-waisted millionaire.
"That being the case," said the tax
assessor, "I'm going to carry a flag
with me the next time I call to have
you list your personal property."
Waste of Energy
His Wife — Why is it you never
start up the phonograph any more,
John?
Her Husband — There is no harmony
in two talking machines running sim-
ultaneously, my dear.
Considerate
Paterfamilias — Wasn't the gas down
very low?
Daughter — Yes, father, we had no-
ticed that the eighty-cent gas law
wasn't upheld.
When the White City was ready to
open for the Summer season recently
it sent a brass band around the streets
in a wagon on the sides of which huge
banners proclaimed the facts: "White
City Opens Tonight," "Be Sure and
Come Out," "Don't Miss It," while
the band, with a serene indifference
to the eternal fitness of things, played
nonchalantly, "He Walked Right in
and Turned Around and Walked
Right Out Again."
Rear Admiral Mead, at a dinner at
the Portsmouth navy yard, illuminated
with a story an interesting discourse
on food inspection.
"A sailor," he said, "brought a tin
cup to an inspecting officer and ex-
claimed:
" 'Taste this, sir. That is all I ask.
Just taste it.'
"The officer took a sip.
" 'Well, really, my man,' he said,
'this is not bad soup at all.'
"'Yes,' said the sailor, bitterly; 'and
yet they want to persuade us, sir,
that it's tea.' "
Subscribe to the Wasp-$5.00 per annum.
May Irwin opines that a woman is
happiest with a }roung husband. And
a man is happiest with a young wife.
T0Y0 KISEN
' KAISHA
ti
(Oriental Steamship Co.)
Have Opened Their Permanent Offices at
Room 240 James Flood Building
San Francisco
S. S. "Hongkong Maru"
Friday, June 28, 1907
S. S. "America Maru" (calls at Manila) . .
Thursday, July 18, 1907
S. S. "Nippon Maru" (calls at Manila) . . .
Thursday, August 15, 1907
Steamers will leave wharf, comer First and Brannan Sts.,
I P. M., for Yokohama and Hongkong, calling at Hono-
lulu, Kobe, (Hiogo), Nagasaki and Shanghai, and con-
necting at Hongkong with steamers for Manila, India, etc.
No cargo received on board on day of sailing.
Round- trip tickets at reduced rates. <ft
Fot Freight and passage apply at office, 240 James Flood
Building. W. H. AVERY, Assistant General Manager.
Peter Bacigalupi & Son
Headquarters for Talking
Machines, Records
and Supplies
1 113-1 115 Fillmore St, San Francisco
Albion Ale or Porter
Is a Great Flesh Builder, Tonic and Pleasant
Drink. Pure Extract of Malt and Hops.
BURNELL & CO.
1007-1009 Golden Gate Ave., Near Laguna
Dr. Wong Him
1268 O'Farrell Street
Permanently^! Located
Herb Doctor
AN EXCELLENT LETTER
San Francisco, March 17, 1907.
[ suffered greatly from indigestion. After taking £
a very few treatments with Dr. Wong Him I have 1
regained my appetite and can now eat any kind of
food without distress. It is with much pleasure |
that I testify to the skill of this eminent physician.
,W. ROGERS, 140 Glen Ave.t.