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VICARINO'S TONAL
OUTBURSTS AMAZE
DOUBTING CRITICS
Coloratura Soprano Sur
prises by Proof of Ca
pacity to Compass
Dramatic Music
HISTRIONICALLY IT
IS DIFFERENT STORY
Singer Fails to Be Theatric
ally "Effective" in Vicious
Role of Opera
WALTER ANTHONY
Admirers of the art of Regina Vicarino
did not attend the performance of
Massenet's 'Thais" last night with vivid
expectations of unusual pleasure. We,
and I say we because I count myself
one of the most ardent of tho admirers
of the little singer's vocal abilities—
wended our way to tho Valencia main
ly because "Thais" is still in the nature
of a novelty to us and we were some
what dubious about the quantity of
enjoyment the opera would yield.
The surprise that awaited us was
Yicartno's capacity to compass dramat
ic music. The coloratura soprano was
amazing in her dramatic outbursts of
big tone.
Histrionically, it is a different story.
DAZZM\U SCALE FLIGHTS
As the "misguided one" in "Tra
viata." with her dazzling scale flights
to fhe pinnacle of pitch, Vicarino can
be and is splendid. She is the poor
deluded Lucia of Donizetti's "sextet
opera' , wherein her "mad scene" is the
essence of sanity in song; or, as Gilda,
singing the apostrophe to the myste
rious but dear name, "Caro nome," she
hi an emphatic success to the tip of
the high E natural; but, as the seduc
tive, vicious, agonizing courtesan in
Massenet's opera, it is inconceivable
that she could be' theatrically "effect
ive."
One might as reasonably expect that
Tetrazzini—and the comparison is not
strained—would qualify as hideous
Salome dancing evilly about the head
of John the Baptist.
HEHLT VOCAL. TRIUMPH
And, so, indeed, it turned out.
There was nobody else in the com
pany who could sing "Thais." There
<lls for its presentation. The j
management desired it and Vicarino,
who ihowe signs of a Sembrich vir
tuosity and sings anything from colo
ratura arias—which have to do with
trills—tv dramatic roles —which have
to do witti thrills —consented to under
take the part, and the result was a
vocal triumph for the little singer,
win: is no Mary in the garden of evil
libretto.
In the first half of the opera her ef
forts to expurgate the role of its licen
tiousness must have discovered to Vi
cartno that there was little else left of
it. but in attempting the vehemence of
the latter part of the work, where
Thais seeks a higher life, she was j
Infinitely more genuine and appealing.
The purity of her voice assorted beau
tifuliy with Massenet's fluent meiodies
and despairing phrases as the woman
turns saint and the monk, Athanael, I
turns sinner.
MUCH FEELING IX SCEXE
There was much feeling and beauty
in the scene where Thais desires of the
monk that he permit her to carry from
her past one memento —the little Eros,
and where, with bleeding feet she seeks
with Athanael the house of God, ask
ing "Are we far?" Her broken phrases
were full of tender pathos and resigna
tion. • But the impersonation of Thais
as a completed work is not for Vicar
ino, who, fortunately, brings to the
l> ri<*al stage great beauty and flexibil
ity of voice and a temperament far re
moved from the miasmatic, unhealthy
story fro;;i Anatnle France as set to
music by r.iuss'-iifci.
Nicolettj made inucb of Ills dignified
scenes in the first half of the work,
but lean of the latter half, thus com
pensating- for Vicarino's reversal of the
order of excellence. His condemnation
of Thais, whom he as Athanael would
was a sample of sustained no
bility.
IK\OK EFFECTIVE VOCALLY
The tenor was Qfrafiant, in the role
of Nicias, the voluptuary of Alexan
dria, and was effective vocally.
< >rchestrally the work was done with
beautiful grace. The instrumental or
ganization proved its worth, ami the
director, Arturo Bovi, was freer in his
Interpretation—more poetic, one might
say—than In anything he has given us
thus far, with the exception, perhaps,
of "Cavalleria."
That he is a competent routine con
ductor, with good control over and sea
sonable demands on his players ha*
obvious BiftOe the first night of
"Aida"; but « .-oniing after the intense,
exacting and nervous Bavifpioli, his
readings have suffered :n the esiltna*
tion of many and seemed less colorful
than, perhaps, they really were. Lust
night, however, ho grave a line presen
tation of the "meditation"' intermezzo,
in particular, and of the sensuous tind
plastic harmonies of the score, in
general.
HIS CAMERA A WHOPPER
SNiten Pbo<oK~rn|>lier Building Machine
Kcquiring Film -•"» ln«hes Wide
lil Dispatch to Tttc Call)
TONOPAH. \ev., Feb. 4.-F. W,
of tsisaon, Cal , ip constructing
here what lie says will lie the
cari'era in th<> world. It will weigh
260 pounds and will reiiuire a Him Sβ
Inches wide by 40 feet long. She* lor
plans to take panoramas- of Death val
ley. Mount Whitney and other land
marks.
CAPABLANCA HALF GAME AHEAD
mjw YnHfv. i-vb. 4. Tix- . .-mt—i betwvea
pclilaii'H ami Frank J. Marsli;i!l tomorrow
in rbf thirteenth MNj flrml round of the Inter
■atlona! cJhmm piasters' tournament «i!i ii<>i-i<ie
the winner of first place, (upablani-n. with :i
■cere at 10% gaipee mmx, hurt c half eau« ifa<!
ovPr th«- (Jolted st:iu-s rliampicin at tli>- roochi
*ion of the rmiud today. In whi.-lj tlio
(ut<«n Title holrter drew with Chajes urn! Mar
hlmll defeated Rnbißsteto. Jaffc. who defeat) .
Knixlii)'. ii'iainpU tlifrd place with a "'liaucc of
n r. f..r KK-i.ii.. 1 poeltieo. Wbitak«r and Llebeu
hfein were wiopiTa o%er Teeetiwuereel aad Klin.
reapectirely. Tbc tweea Stepfor ami
Z«j"ili'O:i v.u<[ .!iii:o«>Ki udiJ Mm risoi, «iw ml
jounir'd.
TACOMA MAN IN PENSION NET
SEATTLE, Wasfe., Feb. 2. —Josrpli
Ltnsberry of Tacoma. was arrested here
today by United .States Marshal Jacoby
<mi a charge of attempting to obtain a
on by fraud. Complaint against
L*nsberry was made by Pension Exam
iinr Milford M. Bmwer, who alleged
Jjansberry had ma4e application for a
pension, representing himself to b« liis
iatliPi" of the .sHmt- name. L&BSberrj?
wan taken to Tacoma,
ALL SET FOR THE SOX
l.os an*;ki.|:s. F<>k i. Tin O'Neit. acting
fr>r Piefideat Oomif&ejr of tbe Chicago American
league team, concluded iinimscinciiis today for
ti>t White Ces training quarters at I'abaikua.
Wife Is Hurt in Wreck
Trolley Smashes Auto
Mrs. E. B. Holladay Is
Hurled From Machine
To Pavement
Mrs. Caroline H. Holladay, wife of
Edmund Burke Holladay, narrowly
escaped death yesterday afternoon
when n Sacramento street car struck
an automobile in which Bhe was riding
at Sacramento and Broderick streets.
Mrs. Holladay was thrown into the
street and struck the pavement on her
head. She incurred lacerated wounds
over the left eye and on the scalp,
severe bruises of the right shoulder
and probable Internal injuries. After
treatment at the central emergency
hospital she was removed to her home.
Mr. Holladay. who was driving the
car, and hie 16 year old daughter.
Helen Holladay, who also was in the
car, escaped with a few trusses. A
slight premonition of evil had pre
vented S. W. Holladay, father of Kd
mund Holladay, from taking the ride.
The father, who is a pioneer of the
city, is 90 years old.
Holladay was driving the automo
bile in Broderick street. Hearing the
streetcar coming down Sacramento
street hill, he turned east, in the direc
tion the streetcar was going, to avoid
crossing the tracks. The car struck j
the running board of the automobile
and threw the machine against a tele
graph pole 20 feet distant,
Mrs. Holladay, who was sitting In the
front seat, was thrown out. Holladay
was held in by the steering gear. Miss
Holladay. in the closed tonneau, was
shaken up, but uninjured.
The streetcar proceeded after th« ac
cident and detectives are investigating
the identity of the crew.
TORNADO STIRRED UP
BY MISS SALLY JONES
Indoor Luxuries vs. Outdoor
Necessities, as Per Super
visor Gallagher
Supervisor George E. Gallagher told
Miss Sally Jones of the board of edu
cation yesterday that school yards are
in a deplorable condition, that janitors
have to carry children over mud holes
and that it is practically impossible for
the children to get the proper amount
of fresh air, exercise and outdoor play
under healthful conditions.
Mr. Gallagher did not mince words.
The outburst came at the meeting of
the supervisors' public buildings com
mittee, when Miss Jones appeared in
the interest of a request from the board
of education that $1,000 be set aside
out of the school bond funds for fixing
up the stage in the auditorium of the
girls' high school. »
"I for one," said Gallagher, "will not
agree to one dollar being spent for
stages, platforms, drop curtains or any
other such luxuries while the yards of
the schools are in such a deplorable
condition. We don't need luxuries.
We need necessities —decent yards,
where the pupils can get fresh air,
healthful play and exercise without
having to wear gum boots or bathing
suits.
"It is shameful," continued Mr. Gal
lagher, "that new school buildings have
been accepted with yards In such abom
inable shape. It is well enough to ask
$1,000 for indoor entertainment when
you have first provided proper facilities
for outdoor exercise."
Miss Jones, the only school director
present, finally caught her breath.
"I think you're right," she remarked.
At the request of Lieutenant Tobin,
superintendent of the city prison, the
committee recommended the purchase
of eight tables for prisoners, Mr. Tobin
remarking in answer to a question as
io the necessity of the tables that the
improvement would spell the difference
between "feeding men like dogs and
feeding them like human beings."
FAILED TO CONCILIATE
CUSSING SHOOTS SELF
Domestic Trouble* Prompt Staminrd
Oil Empleye to End Hie Carrer
On Earth
RICHMOND, Feb. 4. —Brooding over
the breaking up of his home a month
ago when his wife left him, taking
their two children, Claude Cussing, L' 6
years old. an employe of the Standard
Oil company, committed suicide some
time Sunday evening by shooting him
self in the head.
His l.ndy was found tonight by Mrs.
Flora Jacobs, a sister, and Charles
Cussing, a brother, both of Oakland,
who came to Richmond to visit him at
• his liotne, 119 Richmond avenue.
fussing's wife had gone to Fresno
and he had made a trip there to effect
a reconciliation, returning Saturday.
He had been unsuccessful and had
spoken freely of his troubles to his
sister. A bundle of child's clothing
and the pictures of his two children
were found near the suicide's body,
and he had evidently handled them be
fore killing himself.
HEARST HALTS SUBWAY
Pultllnher, FljthllnK for Municipal
IMant, Enjoins New 1 ork Contract*
NKW YORK, Feb. 4. —Thirty minutee
before the public service commission
uas to have met today to sign the op
fMjiting contracts of New York's $300,
--000,000 subway, aji injunction was
•erred prohibiting the commission
from acting. The injunction was ob
tained by Clarence J. Shearn, counsel
for William Randolph Hearst. Hearst
has been lighting for a municipal oper
ating , plant.
QUITS POST UNDER FIRE
Probity of Spanish Ambassador to
l'r«n«-e Questioned
MADRID, Fetf. 4.— J. Pirez Caballero,
Spanish ambassador to France, today
resigned his post owing to his connec
tion with the South Spanish Agricul
tural bank. The French judicial au
thorities are conducting an investiga
tion into allegations that this bank ob
i large sums from investors on
l'alae .statements.
WASHINGTON LEGISLATURE
OL.YMPIA, Wash., Feb. 4.—The bill
to legalize boxing in Washington wait
defeated by the state senate today.
The new state military code, en
larging: the powers of the governor to
call out the militia and making the
state troops available for fighting for
est hies, was passed by the senate, as
whs a bill placing the assessment for
iHxation of fish traps, trap locationn
and water craft in the hands of the
state tax commission.
The senate killed the bill providing
(hat in all transfers of real estate the
actual consideration given shall be
stated in the deed of conveyance.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1913.
Mrs. E. B. Holladay, who is seri
ously injured when streetcar wrecks
auto.
FIGHTER, REFUSED DRINK,
STARTS PISTOL BATTLE
San Rafael "Blackspot" Goes
Home for Gun, but Offi
cers Rout Him
(Special Dispatch to The Cain
SAN RAFAEU Feb. 4.—Dave Mills,
prize fighter, sometim.es known as the
"Black Spot," was refused a drink be
cause of his color in a saloon here to
night and a gun fight resulted in which
the negro played a star part. No one
was injured.
Mills went into a saloon and asked
for a drink. The bar tender was not
overcourteous and Mills thought that
he was drawing the color line. The
bar tender practically acknowledged
that he was of that tendency and a
rough and tumble fight resulted.
Mills went home and returned soon
with a rifle and a revolver. By this
time several policemen were on the
scene and a running fight took place,
during which about SO shots were fired
between Mills and the officers.
Mills ran toward the city park and
disappeared. He made his way toward
the hills and a posse of police and
deputy sheriffs are now on his trail.
CHICAGO AUTO SHOW IS
GREATEST IN HISTORY
Dealers Throne Coliseum and Armory
and Overflow .show* Are Held
Along Automobile Ron
(Special Dispatch to The Call)
CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—The army of ex
hibitors at the big automobile show
nowr being held in Chicago under the
auspices of the National Association of
Automobile Manufacturers are par
ticipating in the harvest of orders. No
show ever held has achieved the suc
cess of the one now in progress in the
Coliseum and the First regiment
armory, according to exhibitors.
Retail sales aro large. There are
many more dealers here than ever at
tended a previous show, and they have
come for the express purpose of buy
ing.
The exhibition is called the "busi
ness show" of the country. So crowd
ed are some of the stands that several
of the manufacturers have taken ad
vantage of local representation by pro
viding special shows down the auto
mobile row in Michigan avenue.
PAYNE SMASHES AUTO
BUT HE GETS HOME
Belmont Polo Player Borrows Machine
After Wreck and Arrives In
Time For Breakfast
(Snpcl.nl Dispatch to The C.T.I)
BELMONT, Feb. 4.—Leaving his
wrecked automobile, at the concrete
bridge near Belmont against which It
had smashed early today, Bert Payne,
polo graduate, and society
man, finally managed to get another
machine and got to his home in Menlo
Park In time for breakfast without
his mother knowing of the affair. He
was on his way home from the Burlin
game Country club when the accident
happened.
BISHOP GIVEN RECEPTION
"Kojtfr Hundred Children Welcome Prel-
/%. ate at Presentation Academy
f BERKELEY, Feb. 4.—Right Rev.
Bishop Edward J. Hanna was tendered
a reception by the sisters and pupils
of the Presentation academy here this
afternoon. The 400 children welcomed
the bishop with eongrs and addresses,
and afterward a musical program was
given under the direction of Slater M.
Xavier, mother superior. Bishop Hanna
responded with a complimentary ad
dress. *He was accompanied by Rev.
F. X. Morrison, pastor of St. Joseph's
church, and Rev. Fathers Collopy and
LennoH.
NEGRO SANE, SAY DOCTORS
Burglar In Oakland Is Morphine Fiend—-
That Is All
OAKLAND, Feb. 4.—John A. France.
a negro, charged with burglary and
resisting arrest, was declared sane to
day by a lunacy commission sitting in
Judge Ogden's court. France beat his
head against the cell and refused food.
He is a morphine fiend, but he is not
insane. When arrested he had beaten
Policeman MeKeeghan severely after
jumping on him from behind a door.
ENGAGED PAIR 5 DAYS OLD
Illinois Parent* Betroth Heirs Born in
Sainf- Flat
EAST ST. hOlTri, II!., Feb. 4.—Al
though each in only live days old, the
engagement of Mips Clara Carter Mal
!ett and Mallett Carter has been an
nounced here. The marriage, it is ex
pected, will be an event of 193.°, or
thereabouts. The children were born
in the came flat within four hours of
each other, and the parents of both
have agreed to bring up the children In
the knowledge that eventually they
shall marry.
• (iruver Fined for IliinnlOß' Joint A.
Pamus, proprietor of a fruit ami
grocery ytore at 2SO Fourth street,
cottVfeted Monday by Police Judge Sul
livan of running a gambling place and
keeping a. "blind pip:.'' yesterday was
fined $75 for gambling: and and $100
for selling liquUr without a license.
SAN FRANCISCO'S
POLICEMEN COST
CITY LARGE SUM
Census Report Shows Cost Is
Larger Per Population
Than Any Save New .
York and Chicago
PER CAPITA COST IS
$3.48 FOR OFFICERS
Statistics Show That Larger
Areas Are Patrolled Else
where by Fewer Men
According to the Unitod States cen
sus bureau San Francisco is paying
the highest per capita price for po
licemen oj any of the large cities of
the country. Los Angeles has $1 per
capita the best of it, Seattle has $1.52
the edge on this department and even
Boston, the place where the original
policeman was made in the days of
Arcadia, has .11 cents to the good
when city "cops" line up with the cor- |
porate possibilities of the Bean City.
San Francisco's per capita cost per
year is $3.48 per patrolman, St Louis
$2.99 Boston $3.17, Cleveland $1.58,
Baltimore $3-09, Pittsburg $2.05, De
troit $2.11, Buffalo $2.36, Milwaukee
$1.53, Cincinnati $2.16, Los Angelea
$1.99, New Orleans $1.19, Washington,
D. C, $3.14; Minneapolis $1.29, Seattle
$1.96, Kansas City $2.30 and Indianapo
lis $1.54.
I NUMBER OF POLICEMEN
Among the principal cities the aver
age number of patrolmen to every
10.000 inhabitants is given as follows:
St. Louis 20, Boston 18, Cleveland 10,
Baltimore 14, San Francisco 18, Los
Angeles 15, Washington, D. C, 21;
Minneapolis 7, Seattle 10, Kansas
City 11 and Indianapolis 10.
The census bureau, that plays no
favorites, says that San Francisco has
49 and a fraction square miles of ter
ritory that has to be policed. It fur
ther says in its reports, just issued and
received here, that Los Angeles has
nearly three times this area to cover
and that Seattle has about the same.
Kansas City, a larger city than San
Francisco when its dependable area
is , considered, has only ene-half
as many police as San Francisco
and it has very few holdups and
very few examples , of obvious crooks
basking in the shadows of its city
jail.
COSTS MORE THAN A MILLION
It costs San Francisco 11,480,970 per
year to employ 780 patrolmen and 25
detectives to cover 49 and a fraction
square miles of territory, and it costs
Los Angeles $834,531 to cover more
than 124 square miles. Washington,
D. C, is one of the cities that pays
more than $100 per month to its police
and has more than 700 men on
the force. Washington pays $300,
--000 less than San Francisco for
police protection, and a crook is
almost unknown in that city. Wash
ington has 85 detectives.
San Francisco is next to St. Louis
and Boston in the average number of
patrolmen to each 10,000 inhabitants,
but tjie efficiency of the forces Iβ in
excess of San Francisco. These cities
pay out more money than does San
Francesco, but they have, in the ca?e of
St. Louis, twice as many men, and in
the case of Boston 45 per cent more
men than this city.
LARGER AREA, LESS 3TEX
The police force of Seattle has 264
patrolmen, about a third less than the
local number of men. In this direc
tion Seattle Is about on a par with
San Francisco, as far aa the cost of
maintaining the force is concerned, but
the area covered by the Seattle police
force is much greater in extent than
San Francisco.
San Francisco has the largest ap
propriation for police protection, com
pared to population, of any city in the
United States except Chicago and New
York and pays the highest salaries to
its men of any city in the United States.
The question of well paid policemen
does not seem to enter into the matter
of United States statistics so long as
service is given for the money paid out.
The government makes no mention of
specific salaries, but its obvious inten
tion is to place before the tax payers
examples of police costs per capita and
policemen that figure in the per capita,
but not in the delivery of the goods.
LARGE AREA RELEASED
FROM SHEEP QUARANTINE
Secretary of Agriculture
Issues Order to Take
Effect February 1
(SpprlHl Dispatch to The Call)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.— Secretary
WilsQn has issued an order to tnkp
effect February 1 releasing from the
federal quarantine for sheep scab 13
counties in California and 10 counties
in Nevada, aggregating more than 100,
--000 square cniles in area.
This action has been taken as the
result of the work which has been car
ried on*by the bureau of animal in
dustry In co-operation with the stato
authorities for the eradication of this
disease.
The territory still remaining in quar
antine consists of the states of Texas
and New Mexico and parts of Califor
nia, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona
and Kentucky.
The California area released by Sec
retary Wilson's order comprises the
following counties: Del Xorte, llum
boldt. Trinity, Shasta, Sisktyou, Modoc.
Lassen, Plumas, Sierra Nevada,
El Dorado, Ama«*or, Alpine. Mono, Inyo.
Tuolumne and San Bernardino.
BANDITS USE HOT POKERS
Aged OreK'on Man Tortured to Reveal
Wealth He Does \ot Have
PORTLAND, Feb. {.—Because he
could not tell the location of hidden
wealth he did not possess, Ventura
Battone, an elderly Italian, was tor
tured with hot pokers and then benten
into insensibility in his loney cabin in
the hill south <>f Portland last night
by three masked men. Only 10 cents
was obtained by *i»e intruder*.
.InpnnrMc Held I'|>--Told tv throw up
his liatui.s by iw<> moti armed with
revolvers, who stopped him at < >'Farrell
and Uough streets. 8L Saki, a Japanese
of 340 Mason street waa robbed early
3 7 eeterday morning of $50 uml threat
ened with death if he reported the
Holdup to the police.
CANNED WIND TO
WRECK AIR SHIPS
French Army Trying Out Ap
paratus Which Will Provoke
Cyclones
PARIS, Feb. 4.—An apparatus which,
it is said, will cause an aeroplane of
any type to capsize in the air. is being
investigated by General Hirsehauer of
the flying corps of the French army.
The apparatus', which is light and sim
ple and can be carried in a soldier's
knapsack, will provoke atmospheric
disturbances sufficiently heavy to wreck
any aeroplane flying lower than 9,O(K>
feet. It is thought the invention. \t
proved practicable, may have a serious
bearing en the value of the aeroplane
in war.
U.S. FAIR COMMISSION
PROVIDED FOR IN BILL
Lenroot of Wisconsin Intro
duces Measure Specifying
Manner of Selection
By IRA E. BENNETT
(Special IHspatch to The Call)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.—Representa
tive Lenroot of Wisconsin today intro
duced a bill in the house providing for
one government commission for the
Panama-Pacific exposition to be se
lected by the secretaries of war,
navy state, the salary to be $7,500
and to be paid by the government, lie
will offer his bill as an amendment to
the Kodenburg exposition bill, which
is expected to come up on the floor of
the house today.
Embarrassed by the strong appeals
made by the friends of Representatives
Kahn and Needham, both of whom are
being urged for a prominent place on
the district bench made vacant by the
death of Judge de. Haven, Senator Per
kins announced today that he would
make no recommendation in the mat
ter until the bar association of San
Francisco had stated a preference.
Neither Kahn nor Needham are
avowed candidates, but each man is in
a receptive mood. Senator Perkins is
friendly to both of them and feels that
the best way out of the difficulty is to
leave the matter to the bar ( association,
which may decide to favor neither of
the congressmen, but may advocate
some man not previously mentioned in
connection with the vacant judgeship.
Even if one of the two should be rec
ommended by Mr. Perkins and the nom
ination sent to the senate it would not
be confirmed, since the democrats have
announced their intention of holding up
appointments until Wilson comes into
office.
A CHANGE FOR A REAL
CHARITY WORTH WHILE
Model Tenement With Nom
inal Rent Would Pre
vent This Evil
Violations of the lodging house ordi
nances in the Whosoever Will mission
in Pacific street came up for consid
eration at the board of health meeting
last evening. Unwilling to take steps
to prevent the mission from providing
housing , for unfortunates, the board
laid the matter on the table for two
weeks. It probably will be referred
to the committee appointed to confer
with the supervisors in regard to vio
lations of health and fire ordinances in
10 and 15 cent hotels.
The mission, which is housing many
homeless men every night, is said to
be violating the ordinance providing a
minimum of air space for sleepers. Vio
lations of plumbing? ordinances also are
alleged by inspectors.
'"The matter points to the need for
model tenements," remarked Health
Officer Dr. R. G. Brodrick last evening.
"The city can not start a lodging house
now with all the other matters that are
up for consideration. There i 3 a grand
opportunity for some philanthropic per
son who would be willing to erect a
lodging house, and then charge men
only enough to pay for the maintenance
of the place. Such an institution would
be better, as a rule, under private than
under municipal operation."
Eleven buildings were demolished by
the board o£ health last week and five
repaired to conform with the ordi
nances, according to the report made at
the meeting. Publication of action
taken by the board will now be made
regularly.
S.P. IN DEAL TO BUY
SAN JOAQUIN AND EASTERN
Pacific L. and P. Company
Expected to Drop Control
of Sierra Railway
FRESNO. Fob. 4.—The Southern Paci
fic is negotiating with the Pacific Light
and Power company for the purchase
of the San Joaquin and Eastern rail
road, extending from Klprado to Big ,
Creek, according to information received
here.
A party of Southern Pacific, officials,
headed by H. R. Judah, has been in
the mountains for the last two days
looking over the railroad. Officials of
the Pacific Light and Power company
have beefl with them. Accompanying
the party are D. A. Munger, traffic man-*
ager oC the road, and -T. F. Uixson, dis
trict freight and passenger agent of the
Southern Pacific here.
The Kan Joaquin and Eastern is 56
miles in length and extends far up into
the high Sierras. Jt was built by the
Pacific Light and Power company to
handle material for the big power plant
being erected at Big Creek.
The assertionehas already been made
that the line is to be sold as soon as
the power plant is complete, late this
year, but it is not believed that a sale
will be negotiated immediately. The
railroad cost $SOO,OOO.
PASSENGER GOES OVERBOARD
(Mjll'im I'NpiiKh to The Call) "
AHKRDEEN, Feb. 4. —Supposed either
to have committed suicide or acoident
nl!y fall<n overboard, F. 10. Crowe, a
pmHsttnß«r on the stenmsr Norwood, lost
Ms lifo Sunday night. Crnwe boarded
tli>' Norwood at San I'edro and had,a
ticket to San Francleeo, At Han Fran
i-isiu he purchased • ticket r>r Aber
deen, He was last seen Sunday night.
Crowe had packed hi* BUitcaae and liad
loft his overcoat and hat in his .state
room. He had addressed the suitcase
to K. Crowe, care of the Young Women's
Christian association of Los Angeles.
THIEF STUMBLES;
DROPS HIS LOOT
Diamond and Pearl Necklace
Dropped at Ballroom
Door
In Excitement Thief Makes
His Escape—Loss Not
Reported
A raised wooden panel at the exit
of the ballroom of the Palace court
prevented the re-enacting of a bur
glary reminiscent of the loss of the De
Sabla jewels at last year's Mardi Gras.
A stranger, hurrying from the ball
room tripped over this threshold and
half stumbling dropped a necklace con
taining 500 small diamonds suspended
from eight large pearls.
The accident was witnessed by B.
H. Pratt of 1431 Van Ness avenue, who
quickly recovered the jewels. In the
rush and excitement the supposed
thief escaped from the hotel. The
necklace was plaaed In the custody of
Frank Blake, house detective of the
hotel and Corporal B. J. Collins of the
local police department.
None of the revelers reported the
loss of a necklace or sought it from
the police.
PRESIDENT TUFT LANDS
BLOW ON "LOAN SHARKS"
Bill Limiting Charges of
Lenders and Pawn Brok
ers Is Signed
"Loan sharks" in the capital, credited
with doing an enormous business
among government clerks, received a
blow today when President Taft signed
the "loan *hark" bill limiting their
charges and also those of pawn
brokers to 1 per cent a month. Pas
sage of the bill had been fought for
years in congress and the money lend
ers appealed personally to the presi
dent to veto it.
In a special message to congress to
day President Taft recommended legis
lation to compel exporters to prepare
accurate and complete lists of merchan
dise sent out of the United States.
President Taft signed the bill incor
porating: the National Institute of Arts
and Letters.
The president took a vigorous stand
against lengthening steamship piers in
the Hudson river at New York, in a
special message to congress today ve
toing the proposal that he appoint a
United States engineer to the Joint
harbor line commission of New York
and New* Jersey.
CANEPA WOULD PRESENT
HOSPITAL TO THIS CITY
Assemblyman Introduce* Bill Appro
priating 950,000 for Construction
of Such Institution
CALL BUREAU.
SACRAMENTO HOTEL,
Sacramento, February 4.
A $50,600 hospital to be built by the
state and presented to the city of San
Francisco is proposed by a bill Intro
duced by lA-fesemblyman Victor Canepa
of San Francisco today. Canepa's bill
provides for a hospital to be built just
north of the ferry building. After its
construction it is to be turned over to
the San Francisco board of health and
maintained by the city.
SMUGGLING PLOT NIPPED
Mess Boy Arrested for Conspiring to
Bring: in Japanese
Percival Fftrnall, a mess boy on the
steamer Lurline, was arrested yester
day by Immigration Inspector Captain
Frank Ainsworth for conspiring to
smuggle three Japanese into the
United States. Fernall stowed the
Japanese away on the vessel at Hono
lulu, representing to them that he
could land them as Filipinos at this
port. The Japanese claim to have paid
Fernall $180 but they were detected
and arrested before the steamer
docked.
ICEBERG PATROL PLANNED
British Government in Deal Witb Liner
Firms to Warn of Dancer*
LONDON, Feb. 4.—The British gov
ernment lias entered into negotiations
with the principal north Atlantic
steamship lines with a view to equip
ping a vessel with a powerful wireless
to patrol the ice regions and notify
wireless stations on the American coast
and liners plying the Atlantic ocean
of the location of icebergs and similar
dangers. The cost is to be shared by
the government and the companies.
HEIR IS CALLED LOAFER
Trustee of W. D. Douglas Estate Wants
to Be Youth's Guardian
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Feb. 4.—Alleg
ing that George Douglas, son of Walter
D. Douglas, the Minnesota millionaire
who lost his life on the Titanic, is liv
ing in idleness and is wasting the
money left him by hie father, George F.
Pipeij one of the trustees of the Doug
las estate, petitioned the probate court
today to be appointed guardian of the
young man. The Douglas estate was
valued at $2,500,000.
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and harmless process that acts almost
like a miracle. This is all there It to
it: Ordinary mereolized wax, procur
able at any drug store (one ounce will
do), is applied nightly like cold cream,
and washed off mornings. Thie grad
ually peels oft" the lifeless particles of
surface skin, permitting the underly
ing , skin to show itself. - The newer,
fresher skin, when wholly in evidence,
forme a complexion which for beauty
and youthfulness is incomparable with
one produced by other means. A com
plexion so natural, so free from arti
ficiality, no one guesses the secret of
its acquirement. You'll not regret
trying this really marvelous treatment.
iviiiHlly wonderfuj is the famous
saxolito formula for removing wrin
jsles. One ounce powdered saxolite is
dissolved in a half pint witch huzel.
Bathing t'.'c face in this immediately
erases the tiner lines. Gradually even
the deeper furrows and crow's feet
vanish uomDletelv.
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$18.70
Los Angeles
and
back
via
Santa Fe
on sale
Feby. 7-8-9
Return Limit
Feby. 10th
and on
Feby. 15-16
Return limit
Feby. 17.
The
Angel
Santa Fe's very
superior train
Leaves Ferry Depot
Daily 4 p. m.
Reservations at
Santa Fe city office
673 Market St.
Phone Kearny 315
Oakland office
1218 Broadway
Phone Lakeside 425-426
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