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LEASE OF CHINA BASIN.
The Final Report of the Com
mittee Will Be Pre
sented To-day.
MR. SUTRO IN OPPOSITION.
His Amendment Voted Down— He
Fears the Southern
Pacific.
The committee appointed by the Harbor
Commissioners to draft the lease for the
China Basin to the San Francisco and San
Joaquin Railway Company nnished its
labors yesterday, and to-day the board,'
Governor Budd and Mayor Sutro will prob
ably ratify or reject the work. The report
of the committee will not be signed by the
Mayor, and he will oppose its acceptance
by the Board of Harbor Commissioners.
The meeting held yesterday in Attorney
Stratton's office was a very warm one, Mr.
Sutro had two amendments •which he de
sired incorporated in the lease and the dis
cussion of them provoked a heated debate,
■which resulted in their being voted down.
At the meeting there were present Mayor
Sutro. President Colnon and Commissioner
Chadbourne of the board; Attorneys Ford,
Preston, Stratton and J. T. Rogers. Preston
represented the road and Rogers the
M ay or.
Commissioner Cole's amendment mak
ing It binding on the lessee tfc complete
100 miles of the road in five years and tap
the bay at some point was'first considered.
The only objection to the amendment was
raised by President Colnon, who did not
think the last clause necessary. Mr. Col
non probably had the interests of Stockton
in view w nen lie spoke, but as the rest of
the committee strongly favored the clause,
and Attorney Preston assented, the objec
tion was withdrawn.
Then came the presentation of Mr.
Sutro's amendments. The first reads as
follows:
It is agreed that nothing herein contained
ehall abridge the right of the State of Califor
nia through it? proper officers to collect wharf
ace, or dockage, or tolls, or all lawful charges
Upon shipping or merchandise, or both, at any
tvnw all, pier, slip or wharf constructed at said
■premises hv the i< -
It is further agreed that neither the lease nor
any of the rights hereinunder shall ever be
Resigned or be sublet as a whole or in part. Jf
the lessee corporation shall at any time during
the term of this len«e. directly or indirectly,
fall under the ownership, management or con
trol of any railroad corporation or the .stock
holder or stockholders of any such corporation
having terminal facilities anywhere upon or
adjacent to the water front of the City of San
Francisco, or if the ownership, management
or control of said lessee corporation becomes
vested in any railroad corporation having such
terminal facilities or the stockholder or stock
holders thereof, or if the said lessee corpora
tion shall enter into any combination, pool or
trust for tne purpose of regulating fares and
freishts or for the purpose of preventing or
limiting competition with nny railroad corpo
ration or individual having railroad terminal
facilities upon or adjacent to the water front
of the City of San Francisco whereby any of
.the advantages reuniting from this lease *hn\l
inure either 'directly or indirectly to such cor
porations or individual! so holding suuh ter
minal facilities, or if any said lessee corpora
tion shall from any cause cease to be a com
peting railroad, or" shall cease to be a compet
itor iii the business of carrying passengers and
freights, then this lease shall determine, and
said demised premises, with all the improve
ments and appurtenances, shall revert to the
State of California.
It is further agreed that should Channel
street be widened at any time, and it become
necessary that any portion of the premises
described in this lease- should be used therefor,
such portion shall be thereby expressly ex
empted from the operation of' this lease, and
that the improvements thereon shall be re
moved from such land so required at its sole
cost.
It is further expressly agreed that neither the
estate hereby granted* nor the improvements
that may be erecied on said demised premises
Fhall ever be mortgaged, hypothecated, incum
bered in any manner or to any extent charged
with any debt save ami except such tax
charges as may be levied by the National, State
or municipal governments; and any attempt
to mortgage, hypothecate or in any manner in
cuEaber the said estate hereby granted or the
premises herein described or the improvements
thereon shall at once work a forfeiture of all
rignts hereunder, and entitle the said parties
of the first part or their successors to re-uiiti-r
the said premises and determine the estate
hereby granted.
Thi? is the original amendment which
was proposed by the Mayor at the first meet
ing of the Board of Harbor Commission
ers, at which were present the Governor,
Sutro, J. D. Spreckels and others. At
torney Preston then objected to the
amendment, claiming that it gaveno privi
leges to the road at all, and under its pro
visions Ja peanut-stand could not be sub
let. At that meeting the amendment was
referred to the committee, and at the
meeting of the Harbor Commissioners on
last Saturday the Mayor complained that
it had not been incorporated is the lease.
Attorney Stratton at that time remon
strated with his Honor, calling attention
to the fact that the spirit of the amend
ment was in the lease and that the language
fully covered the ground.
Yesterday morning Mayor Sutro offered
a second amendment, which he* claimed
overcame the objections of Attorney Pres
ton. In the- amendment were enumerated
all the privileges to which the road was
entitled. This did not satisfy Mr. Preston
at all. He said that the clause in the lease
as it stood at present sufficiently covered
the ground.
'•Tiiere has been considerable time lost
in the consideration of this lease,'' said
"Mr. Preston, "and the directors of the road
are at a kiss to understand what is being
done. Wo would like to have the matter
closed up."
"I have been trying to get away to the
country for a mouth." retorted the Mayor
with some acerbity, "but the consideration
of this lease has prevented my doing so."
This brought Mr. Stratton to the front
with a sharp remonstrance.
"Mayor Hutro." said he, "you are the
only one who has delayed the proceedings.
After the meeting in the Harbor Commis
sioners' office it was understood by the
committee that all amendments were to
be in by a week ago last Monday. You
did not act in the matter until we met on
the following Wednesday, and then the
amendment which you had first proposed
had been considered and incorporated,
stripped of it* verbiage."
"\e», that is so," assented the Mayor,
"I must apologize for my iemissness, but
I have been very busy with the cares of
my office. I do not want to appear as
throwing any obstacle in the way of thr.
competing road, but I want the road to be
a competing one in the strictest sense of
the term. Ido not want to see the South
ern Pacific come in and absorb the road."
Mr. Rogers entered into a long ex
planation of Mayor Sutro's ideas. He
said that the substitute for the amendment
which had been put in the lease did not
afford sufficient protection to the public.
The Mayor, he said, wanted to prevent a
pool or a combine with the monopoly of
the Pacific Coast, and too strong a clause
could not be inserted in the lease.
Attorney Preston burst in impatiently
at the conclusion of the remarksof Rogers,
caving:
"What do you mean by a competing
road? Do you want us to compete with
the roads of the world ? Why, if these
provisions were incorporated in the lease
the road could never be placed on a paying
basis. We could not sell any stock. We
could not form a combination with any
transcontinental line, for as soon as we
did we would forfeit our lease. The people
would be protected, but where would be
the protection to the road? Gentlemen,
we have wasted too much time on this
matter already and I cannot make any
further report "to the directors unless the
business is finished."
"I tnink that the lease as it stands suffi
ciently protects the interests of the peo
pie," said President Colnon, "and I am
not in favor of changing it."
Attorneys Ford and Stratton expressed
themselves as sharing in this belief.
"There is no use of mv saying anything
further," said Mayor Sutro, resignedly.
"The committee is against me, and I can
do nothing."
"You must remember, Mayor," said At
torney Stratton, )r that there are two mem
bers of this committee, Mr. Ford and my
self, who have no voice in the action of the
Commissioners on the reDort. You have a
vote in the board and can there express
yourself. You need not sign the report or
the lease either if you are not so inclined."
"That is so," said the Mayor, "I will
wait. I certainly shall not sign the re
port, and I will insist upon my amend
ments being heard at the meeting of the
board."
The meeting adjourned, and the
whole matter will be again gone over this
morning before the Harbor Commission
ers, the attorneys, Mayor and Governor.
E. F. Preston^ attorney for the Valley
Railroad, was of the opinion that Mayor
Putro was not opposed to the leasing of
China Basin for terminal facilities to the
competing railroad. On the contrary, he
is inclined to believe that Sutro's motives,
although prompted by unreasonable fears
or suppositions, are honest enough, inas
much as it is apparently the Mayor's hobby
that no possible chance of a transfer of
China Basin to the Southern Pacific Com
pany may be left open.
"Sutro is not in an attitude of opposition
to the granting of China Basin as a termi
nus for the San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley Railway," said Attorney Preston.
"He would be hurt if we thought that he
was opposed to it. His idea is substantially
that there should be every safeguard around
the lease of China Basin, so as to prevent a
possible divergence of the land from the
uses for which it was originally intended^
"I think that limitations in the lease
give that protection and that Sutro's pro
posed amendments are too drastic. The
effect 01 hi 3 amendments on the financial
status of the company should it ever co
into the market with" a bond issue would
be very bad. This enterprise goes into the
millions, and it is a question which de
serves very careful consideration.
"Mr. Sutro has amendments which we
could not possibly provide for. "We had a
covenant in the lease providing that China
Basin should never be used except for ter
minal purposes. There is also a proviso
in the original lease which would make it
impossible to transfer tue land to any
other corporation for terminal or other
purposes, and it was furthermore ex
pressly stated that the lease shall become
void if any transfer was made. With re
gard to the Southern Pacific it was pro
vided that the property should never pass
into the hands of any railroad company
having terminal facilities on the bay of
San Francisco."
MADE HEAVY DISCOUNTS
Big Cut Announced in the
Cost of Electric
Light.
How the Edison Light and Power
Company Is Able to Make Uu
expected Reductions.
A new schedule of discounts for users of
incandescent current in arc lamps has just
been announced by the Edison Light and
Power Company. The cut rates go into
effect to-day and range from 5 to 35 per
cent, according to the amount of current
consumed. Hitherto the discounts have
been confined to two — '-'0 per cent on a con
sumption of from 50,000 to 70,000 watts,
and 25 per cent for current ranging in
amount from 70,000 to 90,000 Watts.
It is a year ago since the experiment
was first made of lighting arc lamps with
incandescent current in this City. The
usual method of using the arc lamps had
several disadvantages among them, the
facts that the light was not subject to the
control of the user, and that they had to
be turned on and off according to the con
tract with the consumer, whether the
lamps were needed or not. The only ob
jection to the new method, that of using
incandescent current, was the additional
cost to the company supplying the light.
This was due to the need of a much higher
graae of carbon for the lamp 3 and the fact
that unless the engines could be run so as
to keep the underground system fully
charged they would be running at a loss.
In view of the fact that the increased out
put reduced the average cost of production,
every effort was made to increase the uni
form use of the light. In this the comple
tion of the underground conduit system
was a great aid, as, though much more
costly than the overhead system to estab
lish, it is productive of more economic re
sults.
So well has the company been able to
put into general use the new style of lamps
that it is now able to make announcement
of discounts, which it was not thought
would be possible for two or three years at
least. The users of the lamps are jjainers
in other ways, for they have at all times
complete control of the amount of current
they use, they have a fine light and have
it only when they actually need it, not be
insr tied down to any set hours.
The first experiment with the lamps was
made in the Occidental Hotel, which in
parts is one of the best lighted hotel 3on
the Pacific Coast. Since then the lamps
have come into very general use; thus the
big store on Market, Taylor and Golden
Gate avenue known as "The Maze" uses
no less than thirty of these lamps, Will &
Finck in the Phelan block use twenty-two
lamps, Eugene G. Davi«' bazaar uses eight
lamps, and such establishments as the
White House, Raphael's Incorporated,
Roos Brothers, The Hub Clothing Store,
the Chicago Clothing Company and the
Grand Hotel bar are large and constant
users of the new lamps.
SPARF ACQUITTED.
The Circuit Court Decides That He
Did Not Take Part in the Heaper
Murder.
Herman Sparf, one of the Hesper sailors
accused of the crime of murdering Mate
Fitzgerald, was yesterday found not guilty
by the jury in the United States Circuit
Court.
Fitzgerald was killed during a trip of the
bark Hesper from Sydney to Honolulu
about a year and a half ago, and Herman
Sparf , Hang Hansen, Thomas St. CJairand
Henry Green were brought to this port
and charged with mutiny and murder.
(ireen turned State's evidence, and under
his testimony the other three men were
f onnd guilty. The cases were appealed to
th*' United States Supreme Court, and,
with the exception of that of St. Clair,
were sent back for retrial.
Upon the first ballot the jury stood nine
for acquittal and three for conviction. A
second ballot changed the vote to a unani
mous verdict for acquittal.
There is an article on this market seldom
equaled and never excelled— Jesse Moore Whis
ky. Meoore, Hunt <fc Co. guarantees itsp urity.*
German Benevolent Society.
The quarterly meeting of the German Be
nevolent Society was held on Tuesday night at
Druids' Hall, E. C. Priber presiding. There
was quite a large attendance, on account of
two important items on the agenda, the first
relating to making a charge to patients admit
ted to the society's hospital, and in & position
to pay extra in the event of surgical operations.
The second important matter for consideration
was the admission of patients who are unable
to speak the German language. After a heated
discussion on both questions the meeting ad
journed till July 30, at the same place and
hour.
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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1895.
TOUCHED WHERE TENDER
"Blue and Gold" Displeases
Certain Professors at the
University.
EDITORS MAY BE PUNISHED.
Made Merry at the Expense of the
Faculty — Hints at Dire
Discipline.
A little cloud "no bieger than a man's
hand" hangs over the University of Cali
fornia. The cloud is little now, but the
men of wisdom who guide the course of
the institution of learning at Berkeley be
lieve that it will ere long overspread the
heavens and discharge a torrent of wrath
upon the heads of those who are responsi
ble for its existence.
The stuaents of the university publish
an annual called "Blue and Gold," which
contains rosters of the faculty, the schol
ars, the fraternities and clubs and so
cieties connected with the institution.
Blue and Gold also contains a choice
collection of flings at professors and un
dergraduates, and jokes more or less grad-
K. R. Rubs, Managing Editor of Blue
and Gold.
uatorial at their expense. And it is on ac
cou nt of these jibes and jokes that the lit
tle cloud has come forth.
Two members of the faculty, it appears,
have realized that there is truth in the
divine declaration, "It is not well for man
to be alone," and are laboring earnestly
and ardently to better their condition. It
also appears that they have been rewarded
with a measure of success and are engaged
to marry the ladies of their choice. The
Blue and Gold writers made merry at
the expense of the two professors, made
allusion to their love-making, and lam
pooned the grave and reserved president.
When the annual appeared the instruc
tors who had suffered at the hands of the
editors made no secret of their anger, and
now it is said Raymond J. Ituss, chief
editor of Blue and Gold, and some of his
assistants will be punished for their of
fenses. The faculty may suspend or expel
them, and, what is perhaps a more serious
matter, they may be prosecuted for libel.
Following "is the chapter from Blue and
Gold that caused the trouble:
A FACULTY MEETING.
(As reported by a student.)
Scene— The president's room. (The presi
dent, Professor Lange, Dr. Richardson, Profes
sor Putzeer, Professor Howison, Mr. Richard
son, Protessor Paget. Mr. Henshaw, Dr. Plehn
and Mr. Armes seated around table.)
President X.— You will please come to order,
as it's very Ist*. We've waited altogether too
long for some of the faculty. The secretary
President Kellogrgr as He Appeared to a
Blue and Gold Artist.
will please read the names of some of those ab
sent, and \vp -will try to ascertain whether they
are simply late or whether imDortant business
will prevent their ultimate arrival. Oh, I'd
better say that we've waited so long: that we
have no time to read the minutes of the last
meeting.
Secretary— Professor Edwards.
Voice from the faculty — Unavoidably de
tained.
Secretary— ls his business of such a nature
that he will not be here at all?
Voice again— l think so. He is watching the
football practice.
Secretary— Mr. Pierce.
Mr. Ile'ishaw (indignantly)— Mr. Pierce is
now on the football field engaged in active
practice, and of course could not be expected
to leave for such a thing as—
Secretary (hastily)— Oh no, of course not.
Mr. Huntington.
Voice from table— He's probably on the way,
but don't wait lor him, he won't be likely to
get here till we are adjourned.
Secretary— Dr. Hengstler.
(General smile).
Mr. Richardson (mirthfully)— He hp.s proba
bly walked home with her and is saying good
by at the gate. He'll be here very soon.
President— The rest have all sent their ex
cuses, so there's no need of our spending more
time on that. We will proceed to the discus
sion of dogs, which was left over from our last
meeting.
"Allow me to say a few words. The dogs
have been so numerous and are becoming so
troublesome about college lately that it is posi
tively necessary that something be done im
mediately. You know that there are faculty
dogs, fraternity dogs, student dogs and stray
dogs. Now, in order to do away with then
fairly, justly and thoroughly, it seems to me
that we must begin at the beginning, that U,
I— fear— with the — the— well— the faculty dogs.
A motion is in order." (Everybody scared.)
Dr. Richardson (boldly)— I move that we
make it a rule that from this time forth all
dogs be excluded from the classroom.
Dr. Plehn— lsn't that a little rigid? It is
easy to propose it when one hasn't a dog of his
own.
Professor Paget— l weesh to make a second to
that motion— it pleases me much. [To Dr. P.]
I feel sad for my young friend here. He has
had so much of the trouble to find a dog to
match hoes hair and hees shoes. It ecs hard
under some cases to subsist — you call it— no?
Submerge— yes? Ahl Submit— yes?— thank you—
submit gracefully. Umph!
President K. (quickly)— Are you ready for the
question?
[Cries of "Question!" from a few bold
spirits.]
President K.—lt has been moved and sec
onded that we exclude all dogs from the class
rooms. Those In favor? Opposed? The "ayes"
have it— motion carried.
Professor Howisou (rising) — Gentlemen. I
cannot find words to express my deep grief at
the action of these men around me, who I have
ever thought were my friends. The exclusion
of Socrates from North Hall will cause domes
tic hardship. My wife will be obliged to take
Socrates for * walk every afternoon if I am
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unable to take him to the buildings. [Exit in
dignantly.]
Professor Bacon (to Dr. Plehn)— Well, this
thing's perfectly plain to me. Nobody but
Richardson would have made that motion;
nobody could have any objections to Timothy
Dwight except Richardson: Richardson is the
only man that Timothy Dwight ever bit.
(Enter Dr. Hengstler, closely followed by"X."
He is greeted with a broad smile from all
present.)
Dr. Hengstler— May I ask what has been the
business transacted" in my absence? I have
missed much, I fear. Being, however, un
u\ oidably detained— cr —
Dr. Richardson— Why, er— really— don't you
know— reminds me— yes, reminds me of un
friend Austin Dobson's little poem. You
know— poem. Yes, poem. Very appropriate,
you knew — appropriate — yes — appropriate —
very— very. Just let me quote it. Won't take
but a minute— you know— a minute. Ahem!
Ahem—
Rose kisser] mo to-day,
Will she kiss me to-morrow?
Ho*.- kissed me to-ciny.
And I ask witli dismay, not unmixed with sorrow,
ROM kisscii me to-day,
Who will kiss her to-morrow?
You must beware, my young friend, you
know— beware, beware. yes| beware— you know.
Dr. H. (blushingly)— Yes, but what—
Mr. Henshnw — Dr. Richardson has explained
it well. You don't miss much. Why, at Har
vard, yon know—
Dr. Richardson— Just so— just so. I fear, yes,
really fear, my friend, my friond— er— that you
— ye«, that you will regret — yon know — regret
your absence, as we — all of vs — you know —
quite official and nil that— you know-
Mr. Henshaw — Yei, quite right. Dogs
wouldn't have been tolerated at Harvard as
long ns they have been hero, by jove !
Professor Putsget (sympnthizingly) — I feel
deep sympathy for de voong man here. He has
de ocesaripointment, de sorrow.de— What shall
I call it? for himself. But ah, he ees in love,
this yoongman.and what care the yoqng, when
the rosy bootiful claims of Coopid bind their
tender hearts. Dogs, they do not count.
(Smiles t> am itigly.)
Dr. Hengstler (vexed and puzzled)- Cannot
some one tell me in plain Fnplish?
Mr. Henshaw— Why, you know, me dear man,
at Harvard and at haw'ston. don't you know.
Dr. Rifhard>on- Well, I will tell you, my
young friend; er— er tell you, tell you. We
know you are a splendid mathemetiVinn, but
you must learn how to eliminate "X," and yes,
learn bow, you know, to eliminate, to elimi
nate "X," aha, quite a joke you know, learn
how to eliminate "X." /
Professor Putzger (pompously)— Mote I be al
lowed the privilege of explaining to de gentle
man: but tirst I weesh to tell him that when
"Bennie at Palo Alto."-Caricature of
ex-President Harrison in Blue and
Gold.
lie will talk to me of English speaking, he must
not know that I haf been told in England that
I speak English like de Englishman. Every
where I am took for the native of the country.
In France, many haf told mo, "What! a Cher
man? I would have swore you was a French
man: you speak so perfect our langwich." In
spam I am took for the Spanishman; in Etaly
for the htaliHn; in Chermauy for theCherman.
Lanswichcs they are a natural gecft to me. I
cannot help it, I am quick to learn everything,
but tho langwiches [ n «.. sp ecialty.
.i r <i nl K — i'r. Hengstler," we've just de
cided that in future all dogs are to be excluded
trom the ciassrooms. If you have objections
you should have been here* to state them. Too
late now. The next question for discussion
must come up now.
Professor Lange— I move that the standing
committees report first.
President K. | think your motion is out of
or «f 1 ha(ln ' t finished what I was saying.
Professor Lange— It comes under the' head of
unfinished business
Professor K.—WeU, all ripnt, then.
Dr. Richardson— I don't see how we can do it
— rearly can't do It, you know, for the commit
tees are not here; they're, so to speak, absent,
you know— absent.
President K.— The question is, are their re
ports here? No? Well, I suppose not. After
the discussion of the next question those pres
ent will have to form themselves into tlie dif
ferent committees in turn and attend to the
reports. as this must be done right away. Now,
to proceed to new business. We have to-day a
very important question for discussion — "What
is to be done 10 prevent the matrimonial ru>h
for fellows in this university? What is to be
done in order that during their courtship-; n::d
engagements said fellows do not entirely in_'
loct the work in their various departments?"
This question is now open for discussion, and
I would suggest that It is so serious that great
stress should be laid upon whether we are to
keep on allowing fellows in the various de
partments —
Mr. Richardson (with malice aforethought)—
I would suggest that one of those gentlemen
most nearly interested open the discussion.
"Richardson is the only man that Tim
othy Dwight ever bit."— A Carica
ture in Blue and Gold.
Mr. Henshaw (blushing and stammering)—
Oh, really, now I'm not prepared, you know —
why. er— pretty hard on a fellow, er-er—
Dr. Hengstler (with becoming blush and
frown)— Really that seems quite irrelevant and
unnecessary.
ProfessorPutzger— I may be allowed to re
mark, perhaps, that it seems to me eminently
proper, for the young ladies, who are ideals,
ah! yes, more than that, they are idols, let me
say idols. Is it not right that in the freshness,
the dewy freshness, the blushing sweetness
(what mom can I say, yet I don't express their
pertection?), shoukt choose strong and noble
Hcreuleses to— to— to be in love with them.
It ees a case of right and wrong, as I said to
my -ophomore class the other day. I said to
them:
"The Regents, with the noble kindness which
distinguishes all their acts, have asked of me
to accept a assistant. And I haf said to my
class: 'Shall I give over my sophomore class,
I, who have made the course so popular, shall
I give it to another? Shall I put sophomores
who have expected, hoped, to have my instruc
tion into the hands of some one else? Is it fair,
is it just, is it honest, when they might have
me. to give them another? So it is here. Is it
not tv be expected that such young ladies*,
booteful and blooming, should, like the sopho
more class, fall in love with some strong, some
brilliant young—"
Professor Laiige— Really, we never get down
to the question. It seems to me that we ought
to be able to find men who are engaged or mar
ried and lill the vacancies wit.i them. This
would prevent the alarming crisis that now
threatens us.
Mr. HonshHW— As my fellow sufferer has said,
really, you know, this' seems a little superflu
ous, a— a— a little, well, a little—; why, you
know there ought not to be much danger, the
California girl, you know, well, you know, is
so strenuous, you know, and, well, there are so
few that one would care, you know, to —
Dr. Hengstler (angrily)"— I don't agree with
you at all. Every one knows that the Califor
nia girl is every wheie regarded as one of the
best specimens, mentally and physically, of the
noblest womanhood. Of course, there are a
few sentimental— .
Mr. Armes (cynically)— Don't grow excited,
my friends. The California girl may be good,
but she i.s not by any means perfect. Xow ~ ,
Professor Putzger (excitedly) — Yon to taiK.
You, at your age, and have never found among
all this garden of bootefiil flowers one to sun
you! Ah, you should have a shame for being
so cynical", so criticizing, so— [Voice from
table* in low tone, "Perhaps it is not his fault. J
Isnould think you would hm' fear that as a
puneshment, some day, when you are walking
in the University Park the gods will allow to
befall you the same fate which to your tavonte
.Eschvlus befell. Ha! Ha!! Ha!!!
IT. >"ident K.—WeU, you'd all better think
about this question. I've got to catch the nexr
train to be present at a Repents' meeting this
evening. CAs lie rushes out.)— And that com
mittee work—
Dr. Hengstler (quietly)— Move we adjourn.
Chorus (briskly)— Second it.
[Exeunt omnes.]
All the complaints which have arisen
j among the faculty concerning these arti- i
I cles seem to have emanated from one
I source, and that source is Mr. Henshaw, a
I fellow in philosophy.
He sought immediate revenge upon the
man who was responsible for the publica
tion of the piece of poetry bearing on his
intended and himself.
It was on the night following the day
upon which the publication appeared that
his wrath boiled over, and at 11 o'clock he
went to the house of the Beta Theta Pi
Fraternity to seek out Associate Editor
Galen M. "Fisher and Mr. Brown, the sketch
artist.
After being told that these two gentle
men did not live at the "frat" house he
departed angrily. Next he sought Editor
Raymond Russ at the Delta Kappa Epsilon
house, arriving there at 1 o'clock in the
morning. As Russ lives in Oakland, the
fellow in philosophy did not find him at
the second fraternity house which he vis
ited. Mr. Henshaw was given the Oak
land address of Mr. Rusfl before leaving,
and was told that he might lind him there.
At 5;30 o'clock a. m. Mr. Russ ST. was
awakened by the eontinved ringing of the j
doorbell, and dressing hurriedly, he went
downstairs to see what was the matter.
He was accosted by Mr. rienshaw. who
said lie de^red to see Raymond RUBS,
against whom he had a grudge concerning
certain things that appeared 111 the Blue
and Gold, for which he was responsible.
The conversation wsxed warm, and it be
came necessary for Mr. Russ to use a few
dictatorial sentences before the excited
man from Berkeley could be quieted.
Finding that he could not see the editor,
he left and at once endeavored to secure
reparation for the wrong done through the
aid of the faculty.
The result was that the faculty met for a
ohort session on Monday afternoon and re
ferredthc matter of complaint oa the part
of Mr. Henshaw to the committee on
j students' affairs, who were to report at
I some time later in the week.
Thus the difficulty over the articles in
I the Blue and Gold arose, and as other per
! sons in the university began to peruse the
"Eferywhere I am took for the na
tive."—Caricature of Professor Putz
g-er in Blue and Gold. •
lines in the several pieces of doggerel,
they too felt that they ought to complain
a little'in order to be in fashion.
Raymond Russ, editor-in-chief of the
Blue and Gold, when interviewed yester
day by a Call correspondent s-aid :
'"I have been grossly misrepresented
with regard to my relations with the fac
ulty concerning the edition of the Blue
and Gold oF which I waa editor. The
statement that I was summoned from
Santa Rosa, where I had gone with the
Glee Club, is wholly erroneous.
"After my- return I was informed the
committee on students' affairs desired to
meet the gentlemen members of the staff
on Thursday. As to the articles which
have been the cause of so much comment,
I will say that they were in no case pub
lished with a malicious intent or with the
purpose of giving any one a 'dig.'
"The, poetry, which relates to Mr. Hen
shaw and his fiancee, was written by one
of the most highly respected ladies in col
lege, and approved by the staff before it
went to press.
"The term 'college widow' was meant to
convey the idea of the popularity of th«
lady, at whom it was aimed, among her
classmates in college.
"As for giving Dr. llengstlera slam, that
would be the last thing that I would do,
for he is a personal friend of mine.
■f saw Professor Bacon yesterday and he
said that what appeared in the Blue and
Gold concerning him made no difference
so far as he was concerned.
"I will admit that some of the jokes in
the miscellany and the 'josh' on
the faculty "meeting were a little
harder than they ought to have been, and
to the outside public seem much in the
nature of slander, but they were all given
with the best of feeling "and highest re
spect for the persons concerned. I regret
very much that the jokes are looked at in
i the" wrong light by some few persons, and
I feel satisfied that the staff will come out
all right at the meeting of the faculty com
mittee to-morrow. Iv a matter of this
kind the whole staff is responsible, and
whatever one suffers the}' all will suffer.
"The probable outcome of this matter
will be that the miscellany of future edi
tions of the Blue and Gold will be prohib
ited.
"Not a word has ever been intimated to
me by the faculty with regard to the ex
pulsion, and I fear that fate the least of all
things."
Tlii' committee on students' affairs,
which will meet to-day at 11 o'clock, con
sists of Professor George Edwards, Frank
Soule and Thomas R. Bacon.
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