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MONDAY The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS. Proprietor CHARLES W. H0RN1CK. . ............... .General Manager ' ERNEST S.^ SIMPSON Managing Editor Addrew All Ccmmnnlcatloa« <o THE SA>~. FRAKCISCO CALIj / Telephone •Temporary 86"— Ask for The Cull. The Operator Will Connect Yon With the, Department. You Wish. BUSINESS OFFICE Market and Third Stre«ts, San Franclaco Op«n Until 11 O'clock Every Night In , the Tear. EDITORIAL ROOMS .Market and Third StreeU MAIN C3TY BRANCH .1651 Flllmore Street Near Post OAKLAND OFFICE — 16S 11th St. (Bacon block) . .Telephone Oakland 1088 ALAMEDA OFFICE — KSS Park Street. .^....^ .Telephone AUimeda 559 BERKELEY OFFICE — SW. Cor. Center and Oxford. Telephpn*. Berkeley 77 CHICAGO OFFlCE— .Marqu«tte Bl<sg. .C. Georse Krogmess, Repreaeotatlva NEWTOEKOTOCB — 80 Trlbnne BldßT..Bt«pbea B. Smith, Representative WASHINGTON CORRESPO^'DENT. ...«>.... m....~.\u25ba•^.-JraE.m ....~. \u25ba•^.-JraE. 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The property owner who .builds flats and rents them for a moderate sum confers an inestimable boon on the city. Real estate firms in thje renting business are already calling attention to the scarcity of available residences. They predict that before the winter begins there will be. a return to high prices, with consequent hardship upon people with limited incomes. The de crease in rentals during the summer was temporary, house owners being compelled to moderate their demands because of lack of ten ants. Then the "To Let" sign was to be seen frequently, on account ' of the fact that there was a greater exodus to the country than at any time within the recollection of the railroad companies. . With the opening of the schools people began to flock back to town, and some of them are now experiencing difficulty in securing domiciles fitted to their purses and their needs. Though the build- Jng of flats, residences and apartment houses has been remarkable ' during, the last three months, yet it is asserted that there are not enough of them completed to accommodate the growing population. f Another thing must be taken into consideration. The apart ment houses that are being opened are of the high class, high price order, and comparatively few people can afford $70 and $75 a month for. a five room apartment. What the city urgently needs are flats renting at fair prices, and land owners will make no mistake in build ing them. This fact should impress -itself upon the minds of prop erty owners — that flats pay from 12j4 to 15 per cent on the investment and if modern and with conveniences are certain of being tenanted, in. the North beach district flats. were rented long before they were completed, and time leases were willingly signed. It is recorded of one land owner that he experimented last fall with a few flats at a cheap rental, after much persuasion, and that every one of them was rented before the walls were up. Times were never more pro pitious for building. Material is low and lumber is not likely to take a further drop. The question of labor^is apparently settled, and there is better security for construction work than at any time in the ' last six months. \u25a0- It must also be taken into consideration that the city is receiv ing large accessions to its population, and house room must be pro vided for these workers or else they will be compelled to seek lodg ing elsewhere. John H. Speck, who, perhaps, has as much knowledge as anybody on the rent situation, emphatically urges upon land own ers the necessity of building flats, and declares that cheap dwellings will be the means of adding to our numbers and increase the pros perity of the city. Since 'the disaster citizens have shown repug nance to the average lodging house, and as the apartment house is too expensive for most people, the only alternative is the flat; Builders need labor under no apprehension as *to their ability to rent; there is not a real estate firm that will not assure the land ' lord on this point. ENFORCING THE PURE FOOD DAW DOWN in San Jose a food inspector has been working under the provisions of the state pure food law > and the results are gratifying not only to the average man's sense of justice but to the stomachs of the good people of San Jose. The inspector has condemned hundreds of pounds of spoiled and moldy meat in restaurants and butcher shops. He has put a stop to the unpleas ant habit restaurant men have of making* hash the refuge of various discarded meats in all stages of dissolution. But, more than all, he has brought the milkmen to a realization that the pure food law is a fact and not a theory. He has given them notice that bad milk means arrest and prosecution. As a consequence, there has been a decided improvement in the quality of this important article of diet. . . ' To one of even a rudimentary sense of honesty there is some^ thing incomprehensible* in the callousness of dealers who delib erately sell impure food, especially impure milk. Purveyors of the latter know themselves to be murderers, for it has been fully proved that tens of thousands of infants die every year of drinking milk that comes from foul, 'unsanitary dairies or is "doctored" to' keep It from souring. Greed for gain has apparently deprived them of all sense of honor or decency. True, they would not maliciously slaughter^ neighbor's dog or his pet goat. But when it comes to, a more serious offense with money the reward they are as morally obtuse as a Schmitz supervisor. After acknowledging through their quick albeit forced compliance with the law that they rare criminals, they still; "go about unabashed among their neighbors And the pity of it is that they are treated as equals by their neigh bors—except, perhaps, by some unduly sensitive parent- whose baby has died through drinking impure milk. A GOOD WORD FROM THE EAST AFTER all it may not be so difficult to get the outside money that is needed to complete the rebuilding of burned San Fran cisco. There may be left a few local pessimists wagging heads' and tongues to keep eastern and foreign investors away, but they are. chiefly gentlemen whose interests have been or, may be touched by the graft prosecution. Even they are beginning to'singsmall: Already the effects of the jailingof [Schmitz and^the ousting of his boodle board are obs'ervableabroadr. The installation of the Taylor administration is being taken— as" The Call declared- it would be— to be the end of misrule and the : opening of "an era ; of decent and: dependable government. The Wall Street Daily News of August 6 devotes a considerable part of; its editorial^ page -to ; good EDITORIAL PAGE words for regenerateid San Francisco. After a complimentary refer ence to Mayor Taylor it says : • With good there is no'reison whatsoever why San Fran cisco should ' not^j renew ; her former prosperity and , stand in '\ cv.en ' a better position" as a financial : center. . The' opportunity ; is there, as is also the^ need for capital i. as .well as.' for *labor. If the; citizens' will- stand. in'withi their, men of ] affairs -and Mnake" their -; city/ attractive 'enough j.to '.lure . investment, ithere are plenty : of. eastern who .would be -gladiof rthei chance ; to place their funds for the purpose', of -the upbuilding of even: a finer city than that which suffered destruction. , That there is Ino other .' point : on' the Pacific coast "which could equal Frisco,' nor^ could take its r place,^ is ;thc: belief of even those who, see both ' the southern and northern points growing steadily. There.arefew harbors the 'equal of. the Golden gate,- and; its position makes it the natural shipping point fprthe orient, as well as the rich district sur rounding it. If .San Francisco will continue to build up - instead of check trade, with the far east, continue .toiadvertise advantages ;instead of misfor tunes and show to . the world , that fairness and lack of prejudice prevail iri that most wonderful of cities, the present year will not pass, without seeing her rise from: the ashes ;of. her. accumulated disasters, new and clean :and ready for greater prosperity than she has ever known. It is safe' to claim that there is no other place in the world which offers just the advantages which San Francisco can, nor where: money is so easily and readily made. Its investments could not; be better, \u25a0 ; its : . banks are as solid as .Gibraltar/; and its. business openings. numerous.'. With the assurance '-'of ? honest government it would seem that San Francisco offers one of the best-fields in the country for ground floor investments and chances for upbuilding. So just, and .kindly an observer may well be forgiven his mis calling of us by the odious no^ameof "Friscp.'f He says nothing less than the truth when he tells > his readers tl?at no other place' in the country offers such inducements for capital seeking sure, safe and large returns. We may well-believe that capital will not overlookthe richness of this field. . There will be plenty of money from afar; and itwill'earn big profits; . ... EIGHT'HOUR LAW— R. E. W., City, and A. S., Healdsburgi The secretary of war In a- recent decision held that the national, eight hour law applies in Alaska as it ;' does elsewhere,'; even though there' is not .eight hours of daylight Jn>that section at "certain times In" the -year. J ,: Under, "the .United -: States .law eight hours* is a day's ,work rfor all laborers, workmen and-'mechanics ' who-, may.'be. employed by the United States or by any Club Women of the State Busily Engaged in Prepairijßgfw- an Active Winter Season THE closing weeks, of this month '_ arid the beginning of September will- witness the' reopening, ;;of women's clubs throughout the state, and -preparations, are ; ; going, on here for the work of^trie coming year. Many of the^ clubs have" found [new quarters for/the winter," but ,. a number of others will continue to; meet 'ln the parlors of the Calvary Presbyterian church as ' they did last winter. ; ; The 'California ; club will be. in the new- clubhouse, which is . now building on the site "of its former home in Clay street. AH the energies of , this -club are now directed toward "house . fur-' \u25a0 nishlng;and fitting: up, and everything > it -is; confidently anticipated- will be in readiness if or ; the -opening -meeting on Tuesday,; September S.- \u25a0 - Last"; week' about "20 ' club members^ Including ythe/ board ; ? of*4directors,^ the ? building l; : committee, -/the furnishing^ committee ;and 'several ' members >' living ; in ' Berkeley.^were^eritertalriedl at' lunch- j eon',by:Mrs. Aaron' Schl9sslat{her/home In Berkeley, / after iwhlch^the^workl: of ,; hemstitching^ the new^curtains'for the clubhouselwas ,begu»w P Tomorrow Mrs. H. HJ Hart&wlU; again,: entertain ' the club 'at| luncheon i in . Berkeley £ and , the curtains will be flnished.'i'Among^ those' present ". were '. Mrs.'t. JJ-' W." : Orr, -p'res!-*^ dehtVof;.thel club; sMjrsV;E. ; . : ;K ,; Baldwin;-.: Mrs.' : F. . W. \u25a0 Har nd en,~ Mrs. 4y o n ' <, Ha r e n ,'\u25a0< Mrs.'- L. -By Barnes^ Mrif; Horace * Coffin, - Mrs. J. ,'- J. '\u25a0) Sco ville", "Mrs^Bro wn, . Mrs." L;|A;iHaywardnMrs:lcrebfge"jpyer^Mrs.\ D.*J.'MacMastersj Mrs. 1 C. Mason Kihhej Not tike the Olden Tithes In Answer to Queries contractor ,or ;subcontraetor upon any of 'the public! 'works Vof the -^United States. Thirty-two : states and three territories - have : 'special, -.not '-. general, laws.y under ...whiqh; eight hours a day constitute a day's work." \u25a0 ~ • LONE FISHERMAN— T.' i G, City. Qe^rge Knight. : the Dutch comedian, played the ipart ', of. the . lone\ fisherman in: ."Evangeline.7" at : the ;Grand opera house in Mission street, about 20 years ago.- " • *- Mary Ashe Miller Mrs.,H. V.' Scott; Miss Carrie Wiggins, Madame Tojetti, -Mrs." J.i C. ,' Crawford, Mrs. B. X.-. Rolker," Mrs.": lladwen' Swain, Mrs. C. P. Fonda and Dr.iMinora Kibbo. •"\u25a0 -The ' furniture for ; the which is i being ; by,- Mrs; D. J.v MacMastera and i Mrs." .George- Dyer, wilj" consist :of : furnishings for the as sembly room,"* the 1 ; directors'" roonvf and chairs ; for j the 1 ' auditorium. ?J A'; business meeting, at >which i the i- president," Miss Orr, will have" some 'important 'remarks to make and? some; matters'- of Smoment to lay before .the club, } will Jopen- the club's \u25a0':-\u25a0 new> ' -;' season : V and : < '\u25a0.'\u25a0 afterward there' .will -" be .^an'; informal Only clubY members^ will be "; permitted 1 to attend ;;'thl3 , but onitiie last Tuesday 'ln! the; month an informal reception, will ?be held;; at; whichu the friends ; of lth'e7 club will ibe' Welcomed, 1 the 'delights [of "the newi home displayed and . tea 'served; \u25a0 ' . \u25a0 • -' \u25a0The .; Association ; £of Pioneer .-Women will ;be;'one. "bf "the first? of J, the; clubs to fbegln the "now -year's .. work,- > : and they ,." will : open , with ": a^ delightful -oc casion. On /Wednesday; e August 'i 2B, theyiwill \u25a0 have their.? annual |breakfast at %\u25a0 Calvary/ Presbyterjanlchurch? annex and., all 'manner "of 1 enjoyable t» features in v the ~ way ,: of addresses,'! Interesting reminiscences arid: a" musical wlHxbe v given.' "' \u25a0'".-"\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0' ' \u25a0 . \u25a0•-'.. >• .. • \u25a0,* \u25a0 ..-;'. , : _' ;j? The Cap'and Bells club, of which Mrs. Squire Varick.Mooney; is ; the • president; has £ secii red ; f > a'v meeting i place ,-tor 'the season; :;ih:Hhe.'i3eq.u6la^clubroorns;' f ; in Bush v street; : -They \u25a0\u25a0 W M - } - Rather :; there' for? th<j '\u25a0 first * time ;Thursday,faf ternoon," September ,5; - when 'Mrs. ' Howard "Hart will 'read 'a : paper oh " her trip i around Personal Mention .'. W..H. Carver of Ontario Is at the St James. • S.**C. ,Varlan of Salt Lake is at the Fairmont.?," ".' •; James CrandaH of Hannibal, Mass., la at the Savoy. -" % Rhodes Borden of- Madera Is staying at the Jefferson." . F. C. Galindo and wife are at the Ma jestic from Concord. • / S.VRehoefer, a. merchant of Hanford, is at i the ' Baltimore. . Louis Engel of Chicago arrived at the Dorchester^ yesterday. ; B. S.;Cosgrave and wife of Uklah are staying \u25a0; at the Savoy, ,'Frank Drake o/; New York city is a guest tat" the St. James. ... James Watson and wife'" of . Portland aro'guests at theHamlin.. . r. ; . J.'^ E. : Poole, \u25a0 accompanied by his wife and son,' are at the Jefferson. * V ; Sidney; Soule of Portland is In town and is staying at the Majestic. ;; R. S. Thompson, a railroad , contractor of Modesto,; is at the Imperial. Wallace Wiedemamantf wife of LO3 Angeles are guests \u25a0at the Savoy. Thomas P. Mumford and wife of Pas adena are staying , at the Fairmont. G.\W. Richards and wife. of Sacra mento: are staying at the Jefferson. ; Fi*ank Fletcher; and; Frank McCurdy of San Luis Oblspo are attheHamlin.: J. E. Sullivan, ; a* merchant.; of ,. Rio Vista, and his wife are at the imperial. John F.jKohlen and -wife, who are touring California, are staying at- the Baltimore; a v - : P. H.:PetcJi of the Eureka gas and electric company Is a guest at the Im perial; hotel. \u25a0: , * - V Colonel William M. Hatch and wife of; Union City, Mich., are guesta at the Majestic annex.;' -..;-.. : ; B. E.;Nlxon/asonof Senator Nixon of Nevada; is at the St. Francis with C. I. Tuttle of Salt Lake. • . : Charles ', H. .; Madison, : ; manager of "the Dorche3ter, v left yesterday for a month's leave of ' absence- in . southern Califor nia".. ,-"'\u25a0' '" "\u25a0\u25a0 A". Al i Hilton, who Ijas been purchas ing hundreds. of :tons of "steel; from the local ruins, is at 'the St. Francis from Tacoma. \u25a0. ' the world. /There also will be a musical . program in charge o"f Mra. <: D. * E.» F. : ; Eastoti. ; '. " \u25a0:' 1 -: The 'third. Thursday in September will be; social 1 day* and a number: of -guests , "willJbeentertalnedaslusual. .The pro - gram . for ; that • day will. be "in charge of Mrs.* L.-R; Ellert. ' -• ';'•*, •"'."•":• \u25a0 . • - Laurel Hallclub will holdi its first meeting; Wednesday afternoon.' Septem-^ ber y 4, : in'the parlors of Calvary Presby terlanj church, \which;.w!ll for the.prese nt be Ithe club's headquarters. Much vwork iof j importance ; is ! planned , for the ; coming ?. year ", by ..- this i club V' and '.the '^newly -elected ; board; of .'directors ; is . en- •'• \u25a0 gaged * In i many i schemes -for "the \u25a0 good of the; organization. \u25a0• ; . \u25a0;• \u25a0'.•'\u25a0\u25a0 'Anthony club will hold^ ra y meeting this ; afternoon : at 2 o'clock fat'.theVhome: of the. president,' Mrs. \u25a0-Nellie^Holbrook : Blinn,' at \u25a0 1824-;Pacl|lo 1 avenue.-: ? j There • will : ; be : ai varied " and ; rjihtereating^progranv-consiatlhgiof par- :s: s !-.Haraentary drill, • music and an address v !by-.prominent:suffragist«i. -'• "S-~ >""\u25a0 "•:* '•- \u25a0*',-''* ..-•' The Sunshine. society held, its s annual' reunion •; recentlyAat '.»• the : home "j of Mrs.f ,U , A. Davis, >and .•• enjoyed ? the \u25a0 meeting \u25a0 ;With< Miss sMabel > Adams x Ayer, the v former ;; state r president, L who \u25a0 was ; Mrs. } Davis'i guest , f or ; a ". f ew; days: ". The ; or- > gan ization has been in ; existence i seven i years ' and i its enthus iasm is '- undlmln \u25a0 ished. :, Those fpresent i were . Mlss/Aye'r^ I Mtb., Davis." Miss Lavlnia Gelstlng. 1 Miss \u25a0 .; Ir ma Gelstingr, Miss ' Grace '. Geistlng and r* ; The ; flrst^f all* meeting of the Corona?* club .wlllibe held Thursday.', September/ : 1 2, 'at i'the j Mission "Masonic , .temple.' ' .".voted, .on . the. ; question.^ .whether , the ; reopening 'should . take : Symphony Concert Will Inaugurate Music Season That Promises Great* Treats James Crawford WITH the first symphony concert of the university orchestra's fourth series, announced to take place August 29 in the Greek theatej, the music season of 1907-S in this neighborhood will be fairly In augurated, and a very busy season It promises to be. • '\u25a0•..• •• In addition to five symphonies at fort nightly' Intervals ': scheduled by Dr. J. Fred Wolle, we shall have four con secutive weeks of. Italian opera by the Milan company, %o begin September 11. at the . Chutes, and an unprecedentedly large number of world famous singers and. pianists and violinists are booked for. the Pacific coast tour. lime. Johan na GadskJ, the Wagnerian soprano, will be the first of the platform artists to arrive. Her , dates are In mid-October and she will give two recitals In San Francisco and one in Berkeley, accom panied by the. university .orchestra. Among the, great ones to follow are Mme. Calve, Paderewski. De Pachmann and, Bauer. Sousa's band, Walter Dam rosch's Ne-w York symphony orchestra and- Henry Russell's San Carlo opera company, with .Nordlca, Nellsen and Constantino,, are also coming. , :Of the. outlook for the university or chestra's season it would be almost superfluous to speak, so assured, is its success, and the - prospect confronting the operatic venture Is made bright by its .unusual phases. Chief of these is the fact that San Francisco money and San- Francisco brains and managerial experience are invested in it. One cause of the failure of so many Italian opera .organizations in San Francisco was their. mismanagement. They were not. directed in accord with American methods, which hold the convenience of the public above that of the perform ers. / -.- • \u25a0 • • r. Slgnor Lambardi,: who enlisted the Milan company, did very well last win ter at the Central theater until his dramatic soprano, Adaberto. began to disappoint people who had paid their money to hear her sing and then were compelled either to demand a return of their. Investment or listen to an in ferior substitute. But associated with Lambardi ) In his present enterprise are men who can be depended upon to pre vent any '- more of that kind of thing than Is absolutely unavoidable. If a prima donna is announced as unable to appear because of her illness, fZ>e popu lace may rely upon it that she really is ill.. In Italy they. have a way of mak ing operatic contracts that places the Impresario pretty much at the mercy Beautiful Santa Barbara Becomes Mecca for the Artists of Southern California Hanna Astrup Larsen SANTA BARBARA, combining the beauties of the/ north and the south, of the mountains and the s*a. Is to be another art cen ter, gathering to -itself the art life of-the south as Monterey does that of the north. If the predictions of Artist Breuer come " true. Breuer has spent i the last two years in the southern city i and • though he has taken . ai studio in Berkeley for a limited time he expects i to go back to Santa Barbara to paint. "There Is nothing of the bohemlan life in Santa Barbara," he said. "We do not ss f eel the need of it. In a dark city artists need some place where they can forget the ugly thlnga of life and shut out. what is not bright and beautiful. Down there It is so different.* You have only to step out on the porch of your own house (almost everybody's house has v a porch) and you will see much beauty spread . out before you. Of course we come together for a dinner occasionally so that we. do not lose sight of one another, but generally we> live very quietly, each one busy with his work. One can work in S,anta Bar bara without the disturbing influences of a larger place. "Julian Rix painted some of his most famous pictures in Santa Barbara. His pictures of the Mission canyon, the Hope ranch- and the. cliffs were exhib ited in New York and were very much admired. If he had lived he would have been one of the greatest painters in .the country. Then there was Me- Comas, who also did some of his best work in Santa Barbara and made his home there.. .' "William Harmer lives on his own ranch near . Santa . Barbara. In the sum mer - and . spends the winters" In town. He has made a great success with his paintings; of Spanlsh-Callfornlan sub jects- He painted a series including some. pictures of the old missions for Attorney General Knox. George . Wag ner, the portrait •" painter, was In Los Angeles after the fire, but is now in Santa Barbara; where he has a studio. Willis : Davis, - the , president of the San Francisco art ' association. , is ; also there. Among the other, artists who have been attracted to the place is Lundgren, the illustrator. place in August or September, but. so many members were out of town dur ing thi3 month that it was decided to defer it until the later date." " \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0•>».\u25a0. v ' * * iHBnl The Carrnel club of arts and crafts at Carm<?l-by-the-Sea opened its new cjubhouse August 1 with a reception inaugurating the exhibition of paint- Ings, in the art gallery which) will con tinue throughout this month. About 200 guests: were present and the affair gave .the members an -opportunity to welcome . their ' friends to their artistic clubhouse. ;The exhibition *is very successful, considering sthat many of the artists lost most of their work in , the fire. About 130 pictures are hung, many by the' best known artists of the $*,-- m * • s> , ' Mrs. 1 Rachel Foster Avery, who Is traveling in. the northwest and j the Pacific ; coast, writes that the presi dent \u25a0 [ % of the Washington state fed eration »of women's - clubs, has just Joined the state Equal Suffrage as sociation. The : rank \u25a0'and file of club -women are still divided on the i suffrage question, but the leaders, from • the \u25a0 president •of the general fed eration down, \ are apt" to be found among the advocates of equal ' rights. • *•. v ' -' • ' A dispatch to the New York World reports that c;the : czar •> is planning to dismiss the parliament of Finland as summarily as he dissolved the -Russian douma, and * that > he . objects - especially to the 19 women members .whoVi'dls "approve^ofj all his : plans to Russian ize Finland by 'force... Premier Stolypln is "reported in the same dispatch as ex pressing . similar distrust of : Finland. HeX said.' ."I \u25a0• always have ' been fearful of ': from * this Switzerland near by ,your, y our capital.'* of the singer, but I don't believe that I Mr. Patrisl. the Americanized Italian. : who was In at the booking of the pres ent company, and knows the game thor oughly, has given his financial sponsors the worst of any covenant be approved' *•• \u25a0 \u25a0 That the new Lara bardia come direct from Italy to San Francisco also au gurs well for their success at the Chutes. Preceding operatic organiza tions of Italian nativity did not arrive her© until they bad acquired unbusl nessllke^ habits through being subsi dized in Central American alties. The impressarlos had learned to b« careless and the singers were more eager to' malinger than to honestly earn their salaries, which, according to their] Italian contract, were paid semimonthly' and, in advance. Lambardt. even If: there were no Patrlzl to guide him, has*, had experience enough here to satisfy.. him that slipshod management Is fatal! and his artists, let us hope, bare- not' been taught that la the United States' it Is just as profitable to play as to* work. If the Adaberto had come d!-I rect from Milan to San Francisco, ln-j stead of via Mexico her manager and j herself would have had a much better' time while they remained here. • • • : There la no denying that the Chatet' might be improved upon as a place for I the presentation of grand opera, but If: the Lambardi performances turn out tot be half as good as the press agent! predicts the public will undergo con-! slderable Inconvenience to attend them. The location of the theater, the etreet railway service or tbe weather will have less to do than the quality of t&a offerings In deciding the success or failure of the season. For this com munlty is not easily prevented en-i couraging good opera— or condemning! the other kind. And no amount of eu-| logistic heralding, especially of a eon- 1 pany or an artist of whom the eom-j munlty has heard little or nothing be- 1 fore, can do any more than secure a big first night audience. After that It: Is "up to" the folk on the stage to de-. termine what the remainder of tha ; engagement shall bring them. , *-- • • • With Febea Strakosch, Elisabeth Wolff, Rena Vlvlenne and Dor* do. Filllppe for the title role in "Madame; * Butterfly.". Willy Schuller and Raonl da 1 Valmar for Plnkerton. Ottley Cranstonj and Thomas D. Richards for Sharpless.' Harriett Behnee and Ethel Houston for' Suzuki and Walter . Rothwell. CorneUlsl Dopper and Guy Ambrose as con due-: tor 9. Henry TV. Savage feels that he has; a stronger English grand opera com- ; pany for the second tour of Puccini's Japanese opera than he had for Us pro- . sentatton in America last season. "The marine artist. John Donovan, Is another who has made Santa Bar bara his home for a time. He Is from the middle west, but has been in San Francisco and in Los Angeles. He is a comparatively young artist of great promise. His work Is pure and strong and unusually pleasing. "Why, even Charles Rotlo Peters, the high priest of Monterey, > had to come to . Santa Barbara last year, though he* does not say much about it. A number of eastern artists come out for a part of the year. Among those who return to us year after year are Arthur Coast of New York an.d De Forest, the secretary of the Ameri can art association in New York. "For myself, my home Is California, not any one part of it. I look upon Santa Barbara as a retreat, where I can live quietly and apply myself to work. I ' found many fine subjects there that escaped 1 the ordinary ob server, but reward the artist for his diligent search after beauty." 'Breuer has some Interesting can-, vases painted In Santa Barbara,! among them a view of the cliffs, with a gray surf and a gray, overhanging sky. • • • The exhibition of Isabel V. Percy in the Studio building in Berkeley is re markable for the skillful handling; of various materials and methods not in common use. The work Is saved from freaklshness by Its delicate charm, and through It all runs a certain sim plicity that is very attractive. As an object lesson In the methods employed by several of the world's master art ists the exhibition is extremely inter esting, while the ordinary homebody who loves beautiful . pictures will be Just as much attracted as the student.: Miss Percy's favorite medium is' water colors, but she combines them with charcoal In a way that Arthur: Dow, teacher in the -Columbia sum-; mer- school, ' made* known in the east. The outlines are drawn., and th«! shadows laid in with charcoal, thus giving -the texture and depth usually, wanting In the 'water color painting.! The colors are preferably in flat tone*.! some of the pictures being, In fact., merely tinted outline pictures. Thlsi gives a decorative poster effect, no-t ticeable especially in a delightful little* thing called "Eucalyptus." Some views; from Monterey are in the same ma terial. - Some Brittany scenes done In colored crayons are sparkling and transparent! with great delicacy of coloring. These! were done under the direction ofj Brangwyn. as. were also some opaque 1 water colors painted on dark gray' paper. This method is said to be that' employed in old tapestries before oils, were used and it Is still in* vogue In Holland.. There is a coldness in the tone of the blue-gray paper and the use of the 'white paint destroys th«. transparency that is the chief merit ef> water colors. Still there ; is always a. charm In work where extremely simple means are employed to express the artist's ideas. Some English views done under the instruction of Snail are repeated twice/ first being drawn in charcoal and then; painted in. oils. .This was the master* a [ method of teaching his pupils to s*t as' much as possible out of their subjects. An English garden with a thatched cottage and a clump of red gladiolus Is particularly strong. . The exhibition is hefd under the Aus pices of the School of the Guild of Arts* and Crafts in which Miss Percy Is an instructor. HKH The exhibition of the Bookworkers* guild, which was announced in The.: Call, will begin this evening in th» rooms o£ the California Guild of Arts and Crafts at 1325 California " street. ' The Bookworkers' guild is an eastern! organization and the collection Included work by some of the best men of their ; craft, not only In the United States, but! In France. England and Germany. It la! through the efforts of Miss Octavia' Holden that the exhibition has been! sent west It was shown In Lo« An- geles, where it won much favorably* comment. .The exhibition will continue until August 31 and will be open from 10 la the morning till 3 in '.the afternoon. "