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OAKLAND, Aug. 16— A social excur
sion and picnic will be given at Sunset
Park on August 29 by the members of the
First Unitarian Church. Arrangements
for a special* train have been made with
the Southern Pacific and the number ot
tickets sold will be limited, so that every
one will be sure of a seat.
The train will leave First and Broadway
at 8:30 a. m. and stops will be made at
East Oakland and Twenty-thinl avenue.
The following committees have been ap
pointed to complete arrangements for tha
outing:
Dancing— E. H. Benjamin. "W. H. Gor
rill, Bert Quayle, Percy Hall. F. M. Till
son. Henry H. Mills and Rollins Fitch.
Games and rares— B. C. Cuvelller. J. A.
Bliss. R. E. Elight. D. L. Lyon, Mrs.
Courtier. Mrs. Bennlson, Mrs. Tillson and
Mrs. Anna
Amusements for children— Mrs. J. F.
Willard. Mis3 Ida Fox, Miss "Winifred
Warner, Miss Ethelwyn Mills. S. C. B.
King and S. G. Whittsley.
Transportation— A. H. Elliott. TV. H.
Gorrill. H. L. Piersol and Jesse Dibert.
Announcement— D. L. Lyon, A. A. Den-
Ison and E. Fritsch.
Committees Are Appointed to Care
for the Arrangements on
." C August 29.
UNITARIANS PLAN BIO
EXCURSION TO MOUNTAINS
ALAMEDA. Aug. 16.— Railroad fran
chises, applications and ordinances will
occupy the attention of the City Trustees
at their regular meeting to-morrow night.
It is expected that the City Attorney will
submit two ordinances containing the stip
ulations upon which the Citizens' Commit
tee of Fifty recommended that the South
ern Pacific be offered the two local fran
chises it seeks. One of these, however—
that for the north side of Railroad avenue
—may not be necessary, for the Southern
Pacific management has intimated that
it will file a withdrawal of the application
for a franchise on that road. The com
pany has always operated the Railroad
avenue branch without a franchise and
has concluded that it is as easy to con
tinue to do so as to worry over additional
trouble before the application now on file
is acted upon.
Howard K. James, who refuses to say
who he represents, has been circulating a
petition to have the matter of the fran
chises referred to the people to vote upon.
Some of the City Trustees hold that under
the provisions of the referendum ordi
nance that measure cannot be invoked at
the present time.
Hermann Epplnger Jr. and Robert B.
Mott, who applied for the two local fran
chises, saying that they would pay the
city a bonus of $10.000. for the same after
they had been given the privileges free
of any.incumbrance, have not made any
move lately since the Citizens' Committee
of Fifty investigated the financial stand
ing of Eppinger. It is said that Eppinger
and Mott have had a falling out with the
principals of the American Surface Elec
tric Railway and Supply Company, wElch
corporation owns the patent and rights
of a" third-rail electric system, said to be
a mechanical and safe success. Eppinger
and Mott implied in their statements to
the City Trustees that if they secured the
franchises they would install the third
rail electric system of the American Com
pany. '. . < .
Referendum Petition Is Ready
to Be Filed With the
Municipal Board.
Alameda's City Trustees
Again to Discuss the
Privileges.
WILL CONSIDER
THE FRANCHISES
PIONEER SHIPBUILDER
CALLED TO LAST REST
Alexander Hay, Senior Member and Last Sur
vivor of ttie Firm of Hay & Wright,
Passes Away After a Short* Illness
OAKLAND, Aug. 16.— Boys playing in a
new apartment' house" at 1372 Franklin
street set fire to the place. ¦< Dr. W. O.
Buckland, residing next door, saved tne
partly completed dwelling by prompt work
with a garden hose. HSBSiS&flBMf
Physician Turns Fireman.
OAKLAND.,, Aug. 16.— Elmer Tobey, a
cigar' dealer, residing at 2554 Shattuck
avenue, Berkeley, \was thrown out of his
buggy at 8!30 o'clock to-night through a
collision with a San Pablo-avenue elec
tric i car at Thirty-first street , and San
Pablo avenue and badly injured. Tobey
was removed to the Receiving Hospital.
He sustained a ', fracture of the frontal
bone, had a splinter driven, into his head
and was cut* and bruised on the head.
The < hospital surgeons say the injuries
will not prove fataL '
Hurt in a Collision.
Mrs. Anna R. Dictz, residing at . 128
Twenty-eighth street. San . Francisco,
called at the infirmary yesterday and to
day. She said he had formerly^ lived at
her house. According to her story Rhodes
was a widower and a native of Ohio. He
had no relatives in this . State. An au
topsy'will be held to-morrow.. The date
for the inquest has not been set.
OAKLAND, Aug. 18.— Irwin C. Rhodes,
67 years of age, formerly a commercial
traveler, died to-day at the County In
firmary under circumstances which .in
duced the hospital officers to turn the
case over to Coroner Mehrmann.
Late j Friday night Rhodes was taken
to the infirmary from a cabin on the
Thornhill road, back : of Piedmont, where
he had been living In indigent circum
stances. The patient was suffering from
severe hemorrhages of the stomach and
poisoning was suspected. As reported to
the Coroner, Rhodes, told a friend that
he had taken noison. ¦ |t
TELLS FRIEND THAT HE
HAD TAKEN POISON
There was nothing- to Identify the body,
except a receipt found In the pocket that
showed that F. Morrlssey had worked
for Erickson & Petterson of Sacramento
In July. 1902.
The dead ' man was about 60 years of
age and had evidently been working with
different contracting firms. » ..
OAKLAND, Augr. 16.— The body of an
old man was found beside the Alameda
local track this morningr by the tower -man
at the foot of Harrison street. It is sup
posed to be that of F. Mormsey. He
had apparently been thrown from . the
Alameda local train and had suffered a
fracture of the skull that resulted in his
death. '.
Aged Laborer Thrown From Train
Sufters a Fracture of Bones
of Head.
REPORTS IN FAVOR
OF BOYS* RETREAT
J. C. Astredo, Who Investigated the
Institution, Says Mummert
Deserves Great Credit
OAKLAND, Aug. 16.— J. C. Astredto,
who was appointed by the committee rep
resenting the Associated Charities and
the "Boys' Retreat." to investigate the
¦Retreat" *and its management, has filed
•he following report with the committee:
To tfc* Committee Appointf-d by the As*o
iated Charities Oakland. Cal.— Acting under
¦ .jur ir»ftructlon» of Jun<» 11. l»0O. to "Inves
'. :if*te Mr. Mummfrt's work and character."- I
-.-cured « list of references from Mr. Mura
:utCl another from the Associated Charities.
.. third from the members of your committee.
.aid to thf»* have been added euch names sug
.¦ipstini? themselves to me.
All these persons I have seen or heard from.
; have visited the Retreat a number of time*
:.r:f1 have had many talk* with Mr. Mummert.
I have {rone over th«> accounta of the Retreat,
i have investigated all charges brought against
Mr Mummerfe character.
1 find that Mr. Mnmmert'i work for the
•.;<;>•!> at the Retreat in helpful to the boys,
;hfc carpenter work, gymnasium and games
•ceeping them from the istreet and its tempta
tion* - -
I find Mr. Mummert conscientious In his
work and deserving much credit for the. gym
. : ::.-atui- constructed, for the selection of
reading matter and for the condition. regard-
Ing cleanliness of the Retreat.
I find Mr. Mummert conscientious In his
vork and find nothing against his moral char
actrr. Very respectful. £ AgTREDO
The committee is composed of B. H.
Pendleton. M. J. Keller and Katherine
Felton representing the Associated Char
ities, and Benjamin Fay Mills and Frank
Mott, representing the Boys' Retreat.
Young Men Will Entertain.
ALAMEDA. Aug. 16.— California Council
C f the Young Men's Institute will hold an
' ntertainment and banquet in Lafayette
Hall Tuesday night. President Frank N.
bodd and the officers of the council have
arranged a first-class programme and
many invitations have been sent out to
the members of the councils of Oakland
and elsewhere to attend the event.
The new L<?eb physiological laboratory,
which has just been completed, will be
dedicated to the uses of the University of
California next Thursday afternoon,
August 20. the ceremonies for this occa
sion having been arranged. The dedicatory
address will be delivered by Professor
Wilhelm Ostwald of the University of
Leipzig who is accounted the world's
greatest chemist. Ifvwas altogether
through the interest of Professor Jacques
.Loeb, for whom the laboratory was built,
and Professor* F. G. Cottrell, both former
personal friends and former pupils of Dr.
Ostwald, that the distinguished German
was prevailed upon to come to America
and his visit will be made for the special
purpose of making this dedicatory ad
dress.
In addition to Dr. Oetwald's address,
there will be speaking by President
Wheeler and Professor Loeb.
The ceremonies will begin at 2:40 o'clock
with a procession that- will form In front
of the library building under the direc
tion of Professor Frank Soule. It will
consist of graduate assistants, instruct
ors, professors, .alumni officers, regents
and newspaper representativel. In the
order named. These will move in double
flic to Harmon Gymnasium, where. the ex
ercises will be held.
The - Loeb laboratory is the gift of
Rvdolph Spreckels, by whom it was par
tially equipped. . Dr. M. Herzstein also
furnished equipment, the library was
given ' by " Mrs. William H. Crocker and
an anonomous friend of the university
provided the salary of the chair, of
physiology for two years.
Berkeley Office San Francisco Call,
2148 Center street, Aug. 16. •
The active pallbearers, all of whom were
old .employees of. the >flrm of Ames &
Harris, were: Joseph McDevitt, Mark Col
lins, F. L. Williamson. E. P. Duffy, J. A.
Scriven and Charles Miller.
The honorary pallbearers were: Fred M.
Campbell and J. C. C. Bruns from Oak
land Lodge, F. and A. M.; J. M. Garoutte
and W. T. Galway from the Society of
California Pioneers.' Judge Charles N.
Fox. John Edgar, , E. C. Chapman and H.
S. Weaver.
At the conclusion of the family service
the remains were remr'M to the chapel
of the Oakland Crematory, where the fu
neral rites of the Masonic fraternity were
exemplified by the officers and members
of Oakland lodge. The remains were then
incinerated^;'?, v-.. : :
The funeral of Jpsiah P. Ames, who di«<l
suddenly on his farm near Martinez last
Friday, was held from the lute residence,
1132 Adeline street, at 2:3'J this afternoon.
The services at the residence were con
rtucted by Rev. E. R. Dille, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, and special music
was furnished, by the Masonic quartet.
The coffin was covered with a beautiful
pall of violets and maidenhair ferns, sent
by members of the family.
Delegations from Oakland Lo'dge No.
1S8, F. and A. M., and the Society of Cali
fornia Pioneers attended the funeral, and
two members of each organisation were
appointed honorary pallbearars.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
1113 Broadway. Aug. It!.
Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald
Will Dedicate Loeb
Laboratory.
Last Respects Paid to
the Memory of Well
Known Pioneer.
BERKELEY, Aug. 16.— Trinity Sun
day-school Chapel, born and
reared within a week, was dedi
cated to the cause of religion to
day with appropriate exercises,
in the presence of such an audience as
threatened to burst out the sides of the
little building. The dedicatory sermon
was preached by the Right Rev. John W.
Hamilton, resident Bishop for the Metho
dist churches of California. With his us
ual eloquence Bishop Hamilton stirred his
auditors to enthusiasm and before the day
was over $1585 had been subscribed toward
paying off the indebtedness on the chapel,
besides that for an organ, chairs and li
brary.
The chapel was unheard of, unthought
of, a week ago. Then Ernest F. Barry
presented a petition to the Rev. C. K.
Jenness, pastor of Trinity Methodist
Church, In which the residents In the
neighborhood of College avenue and Rus
sell street agreed to send their fifty chil
dren to Sunday-school if a chapel was
built. That was enough for Mr. Jenness,
and on Monday he purchased a .lot at Col
lege avenue and Russell street for $3000
and made arrangements to buy a ready
made chapel for $500.
It seems there is a firm in Oakland {hat
builds portable; houses. It cuts them qut
in much the same way that dresses are
cut out, according to pattern, and in a
little while a house grows up, fitted with
doors and windows and hinges and all. If
the owners get tired of the site at ariy
time they can fold It up and cart it away
to some other place.
Such a structure was used in this case,
and now Trinity Chapel stands where a
few days ago there was nothing. It is a
little redwood building, 16 feet wide and
40 feet Ions and seats 100 people. It stands
on a lot 120x120 feet, a portion of which
the church people propose to sell.
At the morning sen-ice at the Trinity
Methodist Church J1591 was pledged by
the congregation to pay for the thirty
foot lot that the church has Just pur
chased on Fulton street, adjoining the
parsonage. With this addition the church
now has a lot 130x130 feet, upon which it
proposes to soon build. a $50,000 church.
0 , H . 9
FOUND ON THE TRACK
WITH SKULL CRUSHED
PASTOR OF TRINITY METH
ODIST CHURCH AND CHAPEL
DEDICATED YESTERDAY.
All of the information thus collected has
been carefully compiled and prepared for
public consideration. And it is the result
of all of this effort that is embodied in the
message and other documents now ready
for submission to the City Council.
Through all of the preliminary work since
the citizens" committee report was pub
lished the Mayor has closely guarded the
facts obtained, in order that no undue ad
vantage might be taken of the effort to
gain an Impartial knowledge of the ex
act conditions touching the best interests
of the city with relation to a municipal
water supply.
"That under existing conditions the city
of Oakland should own and distribute the
water supply to its citizens."
The committee also reviewed existing
conditions touching available sources of
supply and recommended the establish
ment of pumping stations In the Niles
cone or gravel beds contiguous to Ala
meda Creek, with pipe lines and all other
equipment necessary for supplying the
city from (that* source.
Since the report was presented two
members of the committee have become
members of the Official governing bodies
of the city. Mr. Olney was elected Mayor
and John L. Howard was choseri to be a
City Councilman. In their official capac
ity both have continued the work of in
quiry and Investigation. To gain further
light on the vast subject. Mayor Olney
and Councilman Howard recently em
ployed Expert Engineer . Fitzgerald to
make an independent examination of
available sources of water supply, in
cluding the Contra Costa Water Com
pany's properties, and to submit a report.
Other investigation along independent
lines has been in progress since January.
Mayor Warren Olney has completed his
message to the City Council, covering in
most exhaustive manner the subject of a
proposed municipal w'ater supply for the
city of Oakland. The document, together
with a voluminous report on the subject
from Desmond Fitzgerald, the eminent
hydraulic engineer of Boston, and other
data will be presented at the regular
meeting of the City Council to-morrow
evening.
These reports and documents cover a
record of long and laborious investigation
of the subject of a municipal water sup
ply. They are the result of the work of
the citizens' committee of five reor
ganized a year ago by popular appeal
after former Mayor Anson Barstow had
dissolved the committee he named. The
quintet, composed of R. H. Chamberlain,
Sol Kahn, John L. Howard and Warren
Olney, submitted its report in January.
The money, 14300, required to pay the ex
penses of the expert engineering work re
quired by tne committee in securing data,
was raised by popular subscription.
In its report the committee unanimous
ly recommended:
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
'•• 1118 Broadway, Aug. 16.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.
1118 Broadway, Aug. 16.
Men of prominence in the commercial,
the political and the proCession&l world
asFeinbled this afternoon at the residence
at the late WillJam D. English, 12& Tenth
treet, to attest their esteem sad regard
. r one who had occupied a high place
.: the political history af the State and
D the hearts of thousands of persons
a- ho knew him well.
The parlors were crowded and many
that attended the services were compelled
:o stand in the gardens and the entrance
\.ays of the residence.
Mar.y beautiful flowers were laid about
the bier, tokens of sympathetic respect
from friends, emblems of love frou mem
bers cf the family and from other rela
tives.
Simplicity was observed In the funeral
service It had been intended that the
Very Rev. Father Prendergast, vicar of
the archdiocese of Ban Francisco, should
<;£3ciate. but that clergyman could not
be present. Instead, the Rev. Michael
Kir.g, the veneratJe pastor of tne Church
of the Immaculate Conception, conducted
tee services. They consisted of the re
ligious rites appropriate to the occasion.
.There was no music
After the service the coffin was borne
to the hearse by six foremen of the Con
:ra Costa Water Company, of which Mr.
Kng-lish had been vice president and gen
• ral manager. The employes were Ed
ward McKinney. William Broderick. Wil
liam Johnson. J. J. Casey. S. Bartholo
mew and B. Byers.
The honorary pallbearers, selected from
• mong the intimate friends of Mr. Eng
,!sh. were Sylvian Weill, S. D. Barstow.
'".. \V. Kline. Ryland Wallace, Rudolph
licrold. William J. Dlngee, Robert Mc
.::'.:ir£.n t Rear Admiral Louis Kempn*.
•Jarret W. McEnerney and Frank J.
Uoffett.
The 'ntennent was in the family plat
<u Mountain View Cemetery.
MASONS HONOR
JOSIAH P. AMES
The Church of the Good Shepherd was
founded on August 14, 1S78. and has had
a long career in Christian work. The
church- building was consecrated on the
day it was built and it has never been
in debt. It is a mission church and its
management is directed by a council,
consisting of A. L. Harrison, Frederick
Heard, Dr. A. F. Gillihan and E. F. Pas
coe.
#.M»In^H..i..i..H"H"l"Iini.Il..H..i.0
BERKELEY, Aug. 16.— The Church of
the Good Shepherd, which has stood for
twenty-flve years at the corner of Ninth
and Bristol streets in West Berkeley,
celebrated its silver anniversary this
morning. The services were not elab
orate, consisting simply of singing by
an augmented choir, led by A. L. Har
rison. The sermen was preached by the
Rev. C. J. Marshall. The Right Rev.
William Ford Nichols was to have been
present, but he was detained at the last
minute.
church of good shepherd
celebrates: anniversary
Little West Berkeley Mission Passes
Twenty-Fifth Milestone in Its
Career.
Mayor Will Submit Doc
uments to Council
To-Night.
Throng of Friends Gath
ers at William D.
English's Bier.
GREAT CHEMIST
IS COMMING WEST
unexpectedly at his home, 1530
Railroad avenue, at 10:15 o'clock this
morning, after an illness of less than
eighteen hours. An autopsy showed the
cause of death to have been stricture of
the bowels.
Hay was one of the pioneer and best
known builders of wooden vessels on the
Pacific Coast*. Born in Nova Scotia sixty
eight years ago of rugged stock, he came
to California in 1S58 and for a time fol
lowed his trade as a shipwright in San
Francisco, later going to British Colum
bia, where for ten years he followed the
fortunes of a miner. He then returned to
San Francisco and established shipbuild
ing yards at the foot of Sixth street,
where many of the famous vessels of the
Pacific Coast, notably the Handy type of
steam schooners, were constructed. In
1890 Hay formed a partnership with the
late Ellsha B. Wright, who died here six
teen months ago. and moved the plant in
San Francisco to Alameda Point. There
the firm built a large fleet of vessels of
various classes, Including barks, barken
tlnes. steamers, schooners, dredgers and
smaller craft. The oil-carrying barken
tlne Fullerton. launched from the yards
at Alameda Point about fifteen months
ago. was the largest vessel constructed
under the supervision of Hay. ;,
Hay was a warm personal friend of the
late Irving M. Scott, the two having been
roommates and workmen together when
Hay first came to this State. Hay was a
past maeter in the art of constructing
ALAMEDA, Aug. 16. — Alexander
Hay, senior member and the last
survivor of the shipbuilding firm
of Hay & Wright, passed away
wooden ships, having learned the trade
when he was a lad in Nova Scotia. It is
said of him that he would not retain a
man in his employ who would put into
a vessel an unsound piece of timber, or
who evinced a tendency to be careless in
his work. For this reason all of the ves
sels turned out under the supervision of
Hay were generally considered to be as
good as first-class material and workman
ship could make them. Hay was a man
of large stature, retiring disposition and
kindly manner. He never took an active
interest in political affairs, although he
had been requested several times to al
low his name to be used as a candidate
for City Trustee. He was a member of a
Masonic lodge in Nova Scotia, but had
never affiliated with any fraternity here.
When Hay left his office at the Alameda
Point shipyards last evening he was feel
ing as well as usual, but before he
boarded a car near the Webster-street
bridge he was taken • with violent palna.
which increased upon his arrival home.
A doctor was summoned, but all attempts
to aid the sufferer failed and- he died in
great agony. Hay was a widower, his
wife having died in 1S92. He Is survived
by a son, Warren B. Hay, and a daugh
ter. 12 years old. Florence Hay. Opera
tions at the shipyard will be suspended
for one week. Arrangements for the fu
neral have not yet been completed. .
MANY MOURNERS
ATTEND FUNERAL
¦ r - . - ¦
SENIOR MEMBER AND I>AST PARTNER OF THE SHIPBUILDING FIRM
OF HAY & WRIGHT. WHO PASSED AWAY UNEXPECTEDLY AT HIS
ALAMEDA HOME YESTERDAY.
WATER SUPPLY
REPORT READY
. But at this juncture Mrs. Julia Z.
Hayes, a daughter of Mrs. Hughes, made
her appearance, and she has determined
to make a fight for her mother's prop
erty. Mrs. Hayes claims that her mother
deeded ,all of her property: to her, as her
only heir, many months ago; that the
deeds were made out 'and • delivered
through J. S. Meyers, a real estate ngeul
of Oakland, and she has retained At
torney. J. J. McDonald to protect her.in
terests. .Mr. McDonald will to-morrow
bring suit to recover for Mre. Hayes all
of the property of Mrs. Hughes^Barnes.
There has also been some talk of try
ing to secure a guardian for Mrs. Hughes-
Barnes, but it is probable that tho daugh
ter will rely upon the civil suit to recover
the property.
The property in question is worth some
$25,000, and it is claimed by Mrs. Hayes
that her mother secured the J1000 neces
sary to bail Barnes out of jail by mort
gaging the real estate.
The Hughes-Barnes litigation has be
come one of the important cases that
have fallen into the criminal courts of
the county. William E. Barnes was a
drummer and he boarded with Mrs. Anna
Hughes, a widow, who lived on the cor
ner of Twelfth and Jefferson streets.
Barnes was of an ardent disposition, and
Mrs. Hughes reciprocated. But Barnes
cooled in his affections and it was charged
that he finally "lifted" a watch and some
property owned by Mrs. Hughes and pro
ceeded to "blow" the proceeds in 'a lively
time in San Francisco. Mrs. Hughes ha<t
him arrested for grand larceny, but when
she called upon him in the County Jail
she relented. On Friday last she put op
$1000 bail for him, and then proceeded to
marry the : man whom she had had ar
rested. The marriage will prevent \ur
from testifying against her husband, and
the authorities of the county saw nothing
to -do when the case came up for triai
but to dismiss -it.
William E. Barnes has secured his re
lease from jail by marrying Mrs. Anna
Hughes, but. he has riot secured posses
sion of Mrs. Hughes' property by that
act. Mrs. Hughes' daughter, Mrs. Julia
'/•. Hayes, has retained attorneys to pro
tect her interests, and there will be a
suit filed to-morrow to secure possession
of all of Mrs. Hughes-Barnes' property by
Mrs. Hayes on the ground that it was all
deeded to her before the marriage witn
Barnes.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.
1118 Broadway, Aug. 16.
Daughter of the Bride Sues
for All Her Mother's
Mrs. A. Hughes Makes
Husband of Man That
Robbed Her.
MARRIES BARNES
AND JAIL OPENS
TBE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST ¦ 17.-.. 1003.
BERKLEY OAKLAND ALAMEDA
NEWS OF ALAMEDATHE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA
Crowd That Almost Threatens Frail Walls of Structure Gathers in
New Trinity Sunday School Room and Hears Jubilant Serv
ices, the Right Rev. John W: Hamilton Delivering Sermon
CHAPEL THAT GREW WITHIN A WEEK
FINALLY DEDICATED TO HOLY USE
9
New Novels of This
Money-Mad World
THE world is money mad That statement looks absolutely start-
ling in cold type, but when r you realize that it is a sentiment em-
anatinjr from the foremost political and financial economists of the
world it is time to beein to sit uP and take notice. If you doubt its
truth just take a casual glance at the popular literature of the hour.
You will invariably find that the theme is wealth, and more wealth, and
yet again more wealth — wealth in the spending even as much as wealth
in the making. Not the fairy tale lore of wealth of bygone aees. but
modern wealth that has to do w«tl» empire building, the destiny of na-
tions, the struggle for commercial dominance and aristocratic social su-
premacy of the men and women of the hour. vea. almost of the very
minute, so vast and so rapid is the rise and fall of the bureauocracv of
wealth. No more the tales of buried treasure of picturesque pirates or
lost min,es and enchanted palaces stored with riches, but the gold that
glitters before our very eyes — rich, yellow gold that we watch in the
making — gold that is accumulated while you wait by men we all know,
and spent with greater ease and facility by women who are better
known.
Of such a dozen books that everybody is reading right now might
be mentioned at random. To begin with there is "The Spenders."
which is concluded in the Sunday Call to-day, and which not only shows
the excitement of modern money making, but the more subtle art of
spending it. -Then there is "The Octopus." Frank Norris* famous tale ,
of the building of vast wealth, and* his later book. "The Pit." which tells
of the awful struggle to corner that same vast wealth. Then there are
"The Autocrat." "The Thirteenth District," "Tainted Gold." "The Mis-
sissippi Bubble," etc.. etc. Indeed the list might be swelled indefinitely.
But of all these novels none are quite like unto that verv latest
creation, "Brewster's Millions." In point of fact "Brewster's Millions"
is absolutely unlike anything that has ever been written before, for in it
a perfectly adorable young fellow has 1 to spend a million a vear. get his
money's worth and yet have absolutely nothing to show for it at the
i d of that time in order that he may inherit six million more. Sounds
fascinating, doesn't it? Well, it is more than that. j*JH
Now you may think it is the easiest thing in the world to soend a
million. Never tried it. of course^ But wait until you have read
"Brewster's Millions." which begins in the next Sunday Call, and you
will see what a stupendous task it is to spend a million a vear — actually
spend it — not dissipate it or give it away or lose it in false speculation,
but get your money's worth as you would if you had only a hundred in-
stead of a cool million.
But the popular craze of literature of the bright, snaoov. uo-to-date
sort goes even further than this. Never before was there such a tre-
mendous demand for short stories of. the best sort. And what better
reading could you get? A eood short story is a complete novel in con-
densed form, and it is iust such excellent Tending as this that is pro-
vided ifi the Sunday Call's new "Half Hour Storiettes." of which, next
Sunday, you will get two full pages. Here are some of the titles:
"Mysterious Leofric." "In the F1 a «h of Strined Death." "The Secret of
the Jamaica Sink Hole." "The Beautiful Miss Marrnm." "Fables for
the Foolish," "Shorty. Mahan's Passing." "Love's Golden Tether."
"While the Train> Waited." "Wh't Tmy Peter Did." etc.. etc. Best of
all there is a new short story by A. Cnnan Doyle. "The Shadow Be-
fore"; "Millions in His Dreams." by MarV Twain: "Me-ows of .-» Kitty."
by KattfThyson Marr: "The Oracle of Mulberry Center." by S. E. Kiser.
etc. etc.
And besides all this there is the regular Sunday Magazine section,
giving you the very latest in everything that is going on in the world
to-day. The Sunday Call can't be beat.