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THURSDAY The iSati Francisco Call JOHN D. 5PRECKEL5. ........ . . ... ... . . Proprietor CHARLES W. H0RN1CK. . . . ........ . .... .Qeneral Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON .".-. ........ . . . .Managing Editor Addrtw All CommuriMtUM Jto t TBE SAX FRANCISCO CALL Telephone. "Temporary SO" — Atk for The Call. The Operator Will Conntct Yon With the Department Yon Wlab. . BUSINESS OFFICE. ...Market and Third Streets, San Francisco Open Until 11 O'clock Every Night in the Year. EDITORIAL ROOMS • .Market and Third Street* MAIN" CITY BRANCH 1«51 Fillmore Street. Near Post OAKLAND OFFICE— I©I« Broadway ' Telephone Oakland 1083 ALAMEDA OFFICE— I43S Park Street Telephone Alameda 659 BERKELEY OFFICE— 2I6S Shattuck Avenue Telephone Berkeley 77 CHICAGO OFFlCE— MarquetU Bldg.-.C. George Krogness, Representative NEW YORK OFFICE— 3O Tribune Bid*. . -Stephen' B.. Smith, Representative WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT. • • -Ira E. 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Though Commissioner Umbsen has stated that his retirement from this department of public service is due wholly to the pressure of his private affairs, it is not difficult to find a deeper and stronger reason— a reason written at length in,.the minutes of the board. It is that there is neither use nor usefulness in the Police Commission for citizens of Mr. Umbsen's views and principles. There is no profit in such a commissionership for an honest man, nor. in the present conditions, any honor. Mr. Umbsen stayed long enough to prove to himself that he could not serve the public, and. being incapable of serving any other interest, he re tired — wisely. It will'be remembered that when Mayor Schmitz invited Mr. Umbsen to a .seat on the Police Commission he was having one of his virtuous spells. He had evicted Poheim and O'Grady, nominally for misuse of their positions: actually, it is -understood, for "hog ging" the illegitimate perquisites thereof. The appointment of Mr. Umbsen and Mr. H. T. Creswell looked like a belated effort of the Mayor to redeem his enthusiastic promise of "the best admin istration this city ever saw." But pretty soon came Heney and an honest Grand Jury, and the Mayor was too busy trying to dodge trial for grafting to make any more efforts in that line. IJpon Chief of Police Dinan also fell Uie shadow of San Quentin. The Police Department was needed — and£4sed — to protect Schmitz and Ruef and Dinan from aroused public sentiment manifesting itself through Heney and the Grand Jury. This need and use make the commis sion no fit place for a citizen like .Mr. Umbsen. ..... . It would be pleasant to say these same things in commendation of Commissioner Creswell. who ought to be in the same class with Mr. Umbsen. but they would not be true. There is something the matter with Commissioner Creswell's spine or his public conscience. At any rate, he is'not standing up for public decency and he is not resigning. It is reported that Commissioner Creswell has developed political tendencies — tjiat he dreams dreams of the Democratic nomi nation for Mayor this year and is trimming sail to catch that breeze; Xow. Umbsen a,nd Creswell together could have made a sturdy fight for the regeneration of , the Police Department. They might even have succeeded in deposing a Chief of Police wlio has neither the respect nof the confidence of policemen or public; a Chief of Police indicted and on tr^al for perjury; a Chief of Police who brazenly associates on terms of intimacy with a notorious pick pocket. Umbsen alone could do nothing — and it appears that he was alone. To remain longer in such a place in such circumstances was to lend an honorable name as a cloak of respectability for the crooked work of a crooked administration. Mi\ Umbsen did well to resign. v^v-J: Obviously, reform of the Police Department must come from the outside. It must be reform with an ax. v THE RACE FOR BOODLE THAT was a suggestive remark made by a member of the local Board of Public Works to the Grand Jury : ; • "Levy beat us" to it." The subject matter of this ingenuous explanation was the issue of a permit for a firetrap playhouse. There are. many such houses in San Francisco today, and their presence constantly invites catastrophe of the kind that makes the whole world shudder. The official who issues a permit for such a commits a fearful crime against humanity. He takes chances on becoming accessory tothe murder of hundreds under the most cruel conditions. . - "Levy beat us to it." > There appears to have been some kind of race among muni cipal officials to seize opportunities of selling permits to break the law. That is the simple theory of the Schmitz administration in all its branches — a law is something to convert into merchandise. Everything is for sale, and it is a race among the officials, subordi , nates and chiefs, to see who can get there first. There is no dis cipline and the devil takes the hindmost. As they are all grafting, it becomes a scramble, for the. spoil, and when the long reach gets it the others have no kick coming. That is part of the game. * There cannot be any doubt that every firetrap theater in town is paying/ for pcrmissip^ to run. Every last one of them -should be shut up before disaster unspeakable arrives to. horrify, the world. A LOOSE-JOINTED EMPIRE OXE very .curious result of the absurd Swettenham incident and the rude behavior of that mad Governor of Jamaica is that Canada and the Canadians are hugel>v disgusted with the mother country for- neglecting her dependencies -to the degree thai^in the hour of need the people were dependent for relief on foreign agencies. -Now it is the British programme toy ask Canada for a round * contribution to • Help build ships of war for England, and a conference *to that end is shortly to be held. But the Canadians are asking. Where is the British navy in the; hour of need? In the House of Parliament at Ottawa, \V.F. -Maclean, a member of that body. discussing the incident, hinted at secession, and said: . \u0084 I take the . opportunity ,bf this motion to say, for myself, perhaps for many' of my fellow-Canadians, "that I regard certain incidents'^^of the Jamaica* earth quake as a distinct: loss, to imperial prestige "or. 'this continent—a, thing -all Canadians tookpridein.^ , m.^^^. " '' \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0^, ' : \ :.^ :"\u25a0 '- The British,^nayal^tations^ on the Atlantic coast are no more.. There is a lessen in" it 'for ,u\. •'-^•"^ X .... /' '\u25a0 -^s^^ Intimations some : time ago we may hive 'failed to apprehend," though as EDITORIAL PAGE distinct as the sun rising in the east.' That was to have a care .fpr^ ourselves. If we are, to be continental , in^ our own aspirations we must ..-have the means of expressing it ourselves, even as our neighbors have. ;--. • We may yet find need of a Canadian flag on Canadian ships in seas that are as much ours as others'. V, \ ' * • \u25a0 , . \ • '.: .f • There has been for some time a strong national party in Canada that desires'; complete 1 It may .be regarded a§ certain that Greats Britain -[would not resist*.,by: force a move ment of that kind, and if * Canada desires'to r work out her own des tiny as a new-born- nation; the .mother country-would probably say, "Go in peace and^good' will." At the* same' time, 'every effort in the way of and diplomacy wilbbe made to reconcile colonial disgruntlements 'and^lnaintain the nominal^ integrity of the unwieldy and loose-jointed ' That' organization would probably fall to, pieces of its own weight' if- it were- subjected to any real test,' but it has become a fad .With British statesmen to keep up' the make-believe. ' p_f course; Canada and Australia are lmrely connected with*. the.'eVnpire by a nominal and purely sen timental bond. . . : '-/>>' r : The Smart Set INVITATIONS have been received 1 to the wedding of Miss Charlotte Wil : son and George Cadwajlader, which'iß to take place at noon on- Saturday, March 2. at the home of the bride's mother. Mrs. Russell Wilson, 2027.Cali fornia street. A large number of guests will be present, as C. both the Wilson and Cadwallader families are among the oldestand best known here and they have a large circle of friends who are eager to.wish Mr.. Cadwallader and his charming.' bride all . happiness. Miss Emily Wilson will be the maid 'of honor and the brldesmalds'.wlll beMlse Linda Cadwallader, thevgrpom's.sis^er; Miss Lucie King, • the cousin; Miss Jennie- Croclfer and '-Miss ; Mary Keene^v. Bert Cadwallader will be his brother's best- man and ; the -ushers will be Percy King, the bride's cousin ;-Kndx Maddox, Willard Drown and Oscar Cooper. \u0084" . . / Mrs. Malcolm -Henry entertained very charmingly . \u25a0 last night at an in formal bridge party,- given as -a fare well occasion for Dr.C./E. Riggp, U. S. N., who sails today 'on the Siberia for Peking. The .handsome rooms .were prettily decorated ' with' j quantities of exquisite jonquils.. Those, present were T)r. and' Mrs. A. H. Voorhies, Dr.^'and Mrs. Reginald Knight Smith, Mrs:^ W. M. S." Beede.- Mrs. E. Walton Hedges, Mrs. -Leßoy Nickel, -Mrs. Charles But ters, Miss lives, Dr. Klggs,,PhilipiPas chel, ; Drti'Pressley, Major Stephenson, Paul Koeakeyitch and Lieutenant Com \u25a0mander' Barries.'. _. '. . .- . -: ,>. - ' Mrs.. A.- P.; Ni black entertained half a dozen guests, quite informally 1 at tea yesterday afternoon, who were asked to -meet V her slster-ih-^aw, , :Mrs. .•W.V.-.C. Niblack of Chicago, who Is here for a few days en route. to Southern"Califor nia. \u25a0' • . \u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0 .-. ; \u25a0 \u25a0 " •; '^ _* : Mr. and Mrs. James Carolan and Miss, Emily Carolan' have gone, 'to .Santa Barbara for a stay of several weeks and are at present guests at the Ar lington, although thesf expect to take a cottage there later. ; . Mrs." George 11. -How\rd went down a few days since from San Mateo' to Del Monte to visit her mother, Mrs. Henry Schmiedell.: . \u25a0 ; ;; Mrs. Philip Lansdale^ has returned, to Personal Mention "J x < Judge -Henry M. Hoyt of Nome &at the St. Francis. . \u25a0 . .> - Cecil H. Bacon and wlf.e of Seattle are. at the Baltimpre. / . Edward: Morgan of New York "is : registered -at '.-the Hamlln., i .^ Fred. B.^Glass and his bride, of Red W^K?J^iftt^th'e ; Hotel"Sayoy/-.ji.x>.^.>.;.-.-; ; W. Gi Saunders, . capitalist of Fresno, is registered at the Baltimore. X . J.* H.. Lockwood: and wife of .Minne apolis are guests at the Hamlln.- Dr. W.\ G., Downing of Suisun .and wife are at: the Majestic: Annex. * \u0084 ,_ A. A. Stanton andlwife b^Manhattan are registered \u25a0 at , the St. 4 F raftcls~J? •" \u25a0'.'' ' C.-Ml'Hobbs.Va'.mlningt man of Toho pah. Is a" guest. at. the St.' Francis. " , \u25a0\u25a0 ; W. JE. Bush, a ; Los Angeles business man, -is a late :s arrival at' the : Hamlln;' Frank H. Johnson, and wife of ; San Rafael- are . registered, , : at 'the--; \u25a0= Dor chester. v " \u25a0 \u25a0' '.•'/".«• "iI-~ - - . W.'iH.'- Park i son, . manager of several Goldflald •'mining.'^ interests, ; Is at ;the St. Francis." ;; rV.-**- ; ,T .."\u25a0:-.}- • ; -\u25a0 - '..;\u25a0; \u25a0- - '<.'/£.' \3.~- McKay, ; a prominent; business man r of rHollister, is., registered" at; the Hotel' Congress. ' r v "."" r^\ W. " G: Rice, .'a r prominent i.buslness man of; Detroit, : is 'among -; the ? recent arrivals at.the^Hamlin. ; . V' ' > i r , L.-'A. Nares of Los Angeles,; who came up-to ;attend'-,the, automobile -show, :^is staying at the' Baltimore. - . - * ColoneliO. :-Y. owner.. of Woodwortnsjlsland: in 'the \u25a0Sacramento Rtver.is afthe Imperial. \. . E. W. 'Hale. ; a \u25a0 merchant ; of - Sacra mento, i : feccompanie'dY-by .-'his' wife,.' Is registered ati^hel Majestic. ;V; V '- .v. v .; •* : ;- W. ." H. .; Quln\by,» and; party.Sof '(Clevef land.jOhio,' ; who ;are:-on s;their,iway/.'tb5 ;their,iway/.'tb Japan, "are * staying" at^the-' St. 'Francis. ;W. v Parker Lyon; j Mayors of i; Fresno, arrived :' yesterday „ and : ißf'?a guest ? at the|Majeßtic;HoteLM;He;;is;determihed,* he says, that the: oil districts shall not The Schmitz Reception Committee - \u25a0.- . - \u25a0 ... •:\u25a0 » .' .. . • • :."/ her home "in San Mateo after .a visit of several days In town with iier parents, Bishop and Mrs. William Ford Nichols.- -[ 1 ' , \u25a0 ' v - • • ' . -\u25a0. \u25a0; \u2666" * - • \u25a0<* : Mrs. C. O. Alexander and Miss Mario Berger.'who went abroad early in the year, .were,. when last heard from, in Naplos. . '.;' ; \u25a0 • . ; •\u25a0•'*.. .' Dr.. and. Mrs. E. : E. Brownell, who have been 'in Berkeley, since last^ June," are anxious to | retnrh 'to \u25a0 town, and as soon as.; they can Arid a suitable house will move . acrdss.i .'Mrs. Jack Johnson, wlio- has "been spending a; week in OaklaudV visiting her parents, Mr. ; and "Mrs. William 'J. Landers, returned to "her home in Los Angeles iast'Saturday. During her stay Mrs. Landers entertained at an elabor ate- luncheon at the Clarembnt Country Club in her.horior.: Miss Frances Reed of Sausalito has been! spending. several days in Oakland as the guest of. friends. . . . ' ;- , ' .-.:.•\u25a0<;\u25a0 *'• : \- •'- ,: Alden Ames, » who has, been appointed private secretary to Consul Ragsdale at Tientsin, will sail . ; today, on the Siberia *\u25a0 for his new post: :. Mr. Ames, who, is the son of-^lr." and' Mrs. Pelham Ames,' haa many friends both here and at Stanford where he was a leading; member,, of the '06 class,- who aresloth -to see him depart : for China,' althoughth'erelis great rejoicing at the honor shown ~*him ; and at the apprecia tion of; his* cleverness and ability.' .: ,Mfs.v Charles Schoonmaker has re turned to her. home in Sausalito after a visit tofrlends'at Men lo Park. 2 Miss Genevieve Harvey has returned to her- home in. Gait, after*a week in town as the guest of Miss-Minnie Rod gers;.'-^, ;;..;\u25a0;., ... '•\u25a0 .'.--.\u25a0'\u25a0•.•, ,'r. ;--^; --^ ,' '-\ ; \u25a0 '• - ' - : .*..;.< ' : .:*-;• Mr. and Mrs. Worthington Ames went down last .-week from: their home. ,at Fairoaks for a sojourn at Monterey. '.. Mrs. M. P. Huntington has returned 1 from' a visit of a' few days to her moth er, Mrs. Prentice, in Sacramento. _. Miss T^aura Hamilton is spending some days at Del Monte as the guest of Miss Louisa Breeze. , ' In the Joke World Patience— Did. you ? encounter any rough sw,ells while crossing to Europe? Patrice— Two. ; .One nearly .bit a; hole in my cheek, andthe other nearly broke one eff my ribs!—^-Yonkers Statesman. Ragson Tatters — Wts' dat yer swiped o'uterjdat drug store? \u25a0 , '.: Weary Wllile— A bottle o* nerve tohi ie!: .Ain^t.dafgreat? \u25a0-.-.''. " '\u25a0 \u25a0.'\u25a0--. . ' r-Ragfori: Tatters— G'on:-w;t rood is datto'yer? :;;\u25a0;; : ' •' • Weary 'willle— Why, rnebbe;- after] we've took^a : few? doses we'll be able tef brace. people 'fur^champaghe instead o* beer.— Philadelphia Record. :',-\u25a0 • ; \u25a0• . "''-\u25a0\u25a0'^"? 'VJ' 1 ' '•''.*'' •* \u25a0\u25a0''„\u2666 •'»'\u25a0'? ' \u2666'\u25a0-.\u25a0 \u25a0';. \u25a0 '.;:' Losing, (after : his confession )-rr Sb^ you. loßt-*nve, pounds, -then?, llpw of ten"* have :I'- warned ytfu against -fast horses? 's*';\u25a0% ?4--'"'.'U' - V- \u25a0jjf^wßJffiftSß \u25a0 '"- '. ;' ; i- Ben i'L^jplngr^T hat's the trouble, v .;; \u25a0Mrs.VLostng^yhat's- the "trouble?/;,; \u25a0 ••-\u25a0 Ben !? Loslng—^lo, took:, your ': advice. - , I bet Jon. the islow/;ones7— Scraps., - : . : ; : \u25a0 •\u25a0'":\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0•,- '•,''£*\u25a0..'} \u25a0,'\u25a0• .-,• '• \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 * - ,\u25a0' • -^"v, J ;'\u25a0: \u25a0\u25a0.\u25a0"'.\u25a0' -•-\u25a0- ; "Jimmy's ? 'gpt \u25a0 aVgreat scheme to get out;o'.;'scho6l^pn ;these^nlcp days.". • , '.'How.'does-nejworktit?"; VHe goes but'an'iwashes his face, -'an* the; teacher' thinks he's ill ah', sends him home !V—^-Rhiladelphiat" lnquirer. ' " \u25a0 sever themselves -from \ Fresno^" County and become'partrbf Kings Countj'.'- ;. '•}:-. Lt : Van ? OrdenT- ; formerly room", clerk at the' St.7 Francis/* has returned' from Seattle -on a slfort • visif>to "thla city: J. M. McGeel an t attorney^bf ; Oroville/ is ;stayingyatithe^llptel 'Congress:^; Me: Gee Ms interestedv In; putting^ up ; a" num ber of> buildlngs'iriithisjcityo ; t .v; v Gil^sple^Miss^: Curtis 3, and!jMiss;Gll : lespie; all"of-New,York,jWho.areitqur ingithe coast, "are", atHhe Jefferson. ,' > \u25a0 Admiral .^O.Aw.ilFarehhol t, JJ. -- S. . N:. who; has ibeeh^vlsltingf friends v in V Los Angeles j for^thVilastJtwo"' weeks, 1 ; is ;'ex pected:,back' at HhelCosmosJClubl today/ \u25a0•\u25a0.\u25a0(-.\u25a0'-\u25a0\u25a0 • •- •\u25a0-. -«^ v' ; «.f--j/ Mrfivv-TM rf ivv-T. l ? i ;. ;! '.:r-, l vsr;».««s Gossip of the Doings of Railroad Men "Talk about- material going astray," remarked a railroad man. "I believe this story beats, anything I ever heard about lost Some time last October the : Pacific , Coast Machinery Dealers' Association placed an order 'for 'a carload. of iathes in New York. The lathes, did not show up and a tracer was^sent after the car.' The New York firm aserted that' the car had been. sent to California, : and that it was the fault of the railroads that it had not reached the coast. \u25a0 Naturally we began an extended search for that car. "We learned that Clt had never been . re ceived; by any.road, and the firm was equally confident -that it had gone -out of its shop." We finally located the carload; of maohinery In Paris, France, It had paid', duty to enter the French republic and It will have to pay duty to , get out. As far "as I know the lathes are still in France. The firm that wanted them had grown tired of asking .the same old question as -to their whereabouts, and when I told its members, that the shipment was in Paris ,'• they, -were too .tired even to laugh." \u0084 "That is nothing to a story I can tell about,, shipments," -put in another freight/man. ','Last September a busi ness, man of this city ordered from Chicago a lot of machinery. It. ar rived'and i was- delivered v in \u25a0• the; middle of December,> About bne;week ago one of \u25a0"\u25a0thej* agents of the delivering 'line asked.m e for' the | addressi of that mer chant.Vl-toldhim. ijt appears the way bill --had been ; lost- and i the'- merchant had received his rpachlnery and had not paid for its- transportation, as no demand had been made; upon him by the ; railroad. That. is one .time when tire -merchant,- had no kick- coming." - '-. . ".* ';' * '\u25a0 *'\u25a0'\u25a0 :\u25a0 '\u25a0 ' "Well, how about this?" remarked a third. "A hop "dealer of Santa Rosa wanted .to. ship a * carload of , hops to New. York. .lie; had 176 bales, but the car^ would" hold* only 160 bales, so he consented: to let sixteen, bales go in with 1 " miscellaneous freight and get there when they could. The hops were shipped on November 10. The sixteen bales, arived in New York bn.Novem ber.;2s and the. carload, was las], heard of .on; January '16 ias having' reached Chicago. Since that' time that car has disappeared from the,.face of the globe." - \u25a0' \u25a0 • > \u25a0••-.-"." - .-.,*\u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0- \u25a0\u25a0• "Who Is that. important looking little man who just left your . office?" 'was asked of a ; freight man. ... • .'.'. ;;''Oh,\ that '"chap?" he answered care lessly. ."He is' the traffic manager for Bllkem & Sellem." "What- do those fellows do?" \u25a0,\ "Traffic managers for. private firms," wag; the answer, "are. men who .are a little more skillful in raisings trouble and ask: more tomfool questions than the average merchant, and that's about all they are useful for: They are employed "by > the merchants -to. worry us, who \have enough: trouble without it being, piled on by. a traffic manager. They are; generally, men who. have been agents In ; some, small 1 place and are 'just aching'all over- to ;make, us jump as we~ma.de-; them- Jump \u25a0 in the svreet old summer-time." t-' \u25a0 S ; W.~ J/."- Shotwell*-:' general .- agent of the , Denver and Rio Grande and also a .'director of the Western Pacific, said yesterday:. >;." " "".The' Western. Pacific- is beginning to receive .\u25a0 the'; steel '\f or the bridges it will .build in:, various' canyons .in Cali fornia,' and we , shall 'be enabled j to com mence work; at -once. •We shall begin also to^lay tracks near Marysyllle and Orovillei*- and ; lOrders-'. have . been": given to-lay, track, lh;the NilesCanyon." : -'\u25a0':':" Achilles Ottlnger Is back from New York.'- 'lie. has; brought with,-him a w.ardrobe- of -strange \u25a0 colors : and new. styles and :also;a -, ticket-. to \Southamp ton,!* for -which vpo^t" he and his family arejlo sail about . the "middle of next mo-nfli. v '-J'':-. '>'."\u25a0.- "••.-V J - : .-.--'\u25a0' - '\u25a0\u25a0'.. '•\u25a0 ''\u25a0-'. \u25a0'\u25a0<' * t "I have cast business cares to the wind," he." explained. "I have closed up'all my'offices except the one in this city/ and Uhat;*ln",Los.- Angeles and; I intend j to "' pass the summer in Europe. 1/ may 1 hire a palace jon-. the -Riviera, which {will remind me of California, or I imay; sojourn 3 in i Paris. '.'\u25a0\u25a0. I Ijear that the socle ty ; in 'Vienna; is delightful, 7 and I r may,:" go "\ there." '\u25a0> ' I shall •'-. be - for - the next 'six months^ a' 4 bird of. passage, spreading; my wings and* taking- long or! short, flights 'asjfancy/dictates."* \u25a0>* v-'As-': Ottinger i Is"-' worth '^considerably more,* than ?; $1,000,000 <hl? can \u25a0 indulge any'whlm he-may entertain.', '..* •.'. - - \u25a0 '\u25a0•'" •'•"- \u25a0-'\u25a0\u25a0-;*\u25a0\u25a0-.-•---\u25a0'• r."jfC \u25a0,' V ".*\u25a0 • ' : , John' A. GUI. ; In -. charge of -freight for.?. the ~ New;- York,! CentralT>'iines.T is back^fromvthe ; southern 'jpart^ of Mthe State- and; says that'as "far^as^hls ob^ seryatlonjgoes there' is? no .shortage,; in refrigerator; cars 'at the" different' points from \ which foranges are; shipped. •; Citrus' fruit 'was - going ;-; Eastv at ;• the? ratei of 100 cars a'day," and from what. he. could* gather ; the /growers were expecting *to do well : with their "crop. \u25a0 :: i ,'Peter^ Harvey of, th.c Baltimore and Ohio left last ; night for; the south to look after orange'shipments.^'* \u25a0;* John ; Y.: Calahan,"; general / agent , of the : ; department . otV the Nlckel>Plate,\wlth. headquarters in: Chif cago,"iwas v In -;this Jcity,; on*: a ; ; pleasure trip'Jand Jleft* yesterday ; for -' the;^?south ern i part iofJtheJStateiwithrJaV.: Adams, the » general' agent on .this -coast. '-','. f||KUARY 2i; 1907 1 The Insider Things Institution source of Sunday stories and Confesses in i^terest'in ; Davis' defense of Stanford White. HOW many readers of the sensational pages of" the New York Sunday sup plements know where the authors of the highly illustrated articles get the matter for their "freak" stories? | I mean the articjcs on airships, marine monstrosities, Egyptian vdiscovene-, natural histbry monsters and freaks of nature. I am willing to wager that most of the ideas for t&Vse stones were obtained from the reports ot the SatAsonian Institution. These reports are more interesting than a novel and pub lished volumes are hard to get hold of outside of the membership but they contain % a mine of information. Out of two vo.lumes of Smithsonian 'Institution reports I would guarantet»to furnish Sunday supplernentstorics for five papers for a twelvemonth. . jkk- C Source of Gotham's Sunday Tales One of the Eastern weeklies recently ran i page article by Richard Harding Davi in defense of Stanford White, of which the general argument. is that, having known White intimately, h« believei it j would have been impossible for him to have been such a monster withtut revealing it. Now Davis, though it is the fashion for, his rivals who hate met with less financial success to sneer at him and his heroes as cads cut out of the same piece, did not come down from the clouds with this morn ing's sunrise, but he impreised most of us who met him here as being a clean, vvhQlesome chap. He couldn't be what he is, a war correspondent, alway3 as ready for an assignment as a soldier asleep on his arms, nor could he be fit to'endure what corresponding under fire, means, if he were given to undermining dissipations. It would not be possible for him to keep ''straight" if his friends — not mere acquaintances,- but chosen associates— were of the btherMype. Since Dicky Davis is not the style of writer who, like a popular preacher,- jumps into the type case at every excuse, when he writes a per sonal article it ought to count for something. He would scarcely write the kind of stones he does if he were the other kind of man. Authors, more than any other class, live on their emotions, and there is nothing of the degenerate type in any of the Van Bibbers, Clays or Macklins of his stories. lorrce readti review in which the novelist's popularity was accounted for because his heroes were the kind. of. men that every girl woold like to know, they-'were what evefy young man thought he would like to be in the same circumstances, and what every old codger .imagined he wa3. Else where some/ one remarked that they were all Davis playing a game, and perhaps that is their true explanation... \u0084 Davis in Defense '\u25a0\u25a0 of Stanford White Professor William James, who has just re signed.from the faculty of Harvard, has many/ friends out here in the universities and ouC-\ side of the academic-set. He'is more popular than his brother Henry, the novelist. Somebody once said that William could write psychology like a romance, while Henry's novels were all psychology. William, by the way, is said to be the most ardent admirer of his brother's books and a voracious reader of them. Professor James lectured at Stanford 1 University last year. His most recent special prominence has been in connection with the Ivens ' case in Chicago. Briefly, a woman, a respectable housewife, was outraged and murdered. Ivens either confessed or was first arrested and sweated. He Brother of. Henry James Known Here \u25a0^vas .executed. Professor James and his colleague. Professor Hugo Munster berg, both say that In their opinion it was legal murder. Ivens was not a strong-minded youth and they say that nothing in the evidence produced at the trial proved his guilt. There was rather, so they say, much reason to believe that the > lad was hypnotized By police methods. The professors' argument is against hypnotism as a legal measure. \u25a0 I believe it was James whbeited a case, as an instance of self-delusion, of a girl who made circum stantialcohfession of,, having, killed a person of whom' she \ya* j«rfpus/. Xot only was her alleged victim not dpad at all, but she had not been molested and there had not been a death in the family. "Women pick their winners a good deal by intuition," said a bookie at the Oakland race track on Saturday when Voladay walked off with {he honors of the Family Club handicap. "Ask the pool boys, they'll tell you.T Men-look up _ the -horse's record, notice his points and reckon up the chances on solid facts, but. half the time they are" not such good guessers as the .woman who picks- a : horse because she likes. his name or because the jockey's colors are. favorites of her'own. It's a sojt of a happy-go-lucky Way of playing the races, biit v in most cases I find the women who go tb'A haphazard' way to pick a wfhner don't lose by it." \ 40 \u25a0^^ Women Pick Horses in Haphazard .Way » Seumas MacManus, who is still being lion ized by our Irish-Californians, was a Donegal . schoolmaster. He married Ethna Carberry, a poetess, not of the Brummagem Garrison type, but the real thing. Hia neighbors thought her too good for him, -he sa#rs, but she died, after a short wedded life, and then they all sorrowed with the young widower. MacManu3 .was not, especially well known but here until he paid us this visit, but now the .libraries are being rushed for copies of his books. He has written a number of stories of peasant life of his native country and probably took many of them from the "Schaunachy," the local narrator who keeps alive tradition by telling tales where books are few and people more or le?3 illiterate. MacManus is an authority on the proper pronunciation, of common .words that we have derived from' the Irish. "Tarmajent" 13 one which he gives as the genuine Irish version, and that is as much an improvement ovct Libraries Searched for McMan us' Books Answers to Queries EDUCATIONAL AMENDMENT— H. A. H., City. '/ Section I- of the constitution of the State of California says: "Every native male citizen of the United States, evpry male person who shall -have ac quired, the rights of citizenship under or. by virtue of the treaty of Queretaro, and every /male naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any' election, of the age; of 21 years, who shall. have been a resident of the State'one year next pre ceding the ejection, and in the county of .which he claims: his vote ninety days, and In theelectlon^preclnct thirty days. shall be entitled to'yote at all elections .which a,re nowor. may 'hereafter be au thorized bylaw; provided." no native of China, no idiot, no 'insane ; person, no person convicted of any infamous crime, no person* hereafter "convicted of' the embezzlement or misappropriation of public monej", and no person whQ shall not be able :to read the^constitutlon in the "English '.language and write' his name, shall ever exercise. the privileges of an .elector in' this .State; provided, that .the; provisions of this Amendment relative to an educational qualißcatlon shall not apply to any person ."pre vented by a physical disability from complying ;with^its:requisltions. nor to any : person who"; now -.has : thY right to vote, to any • person who* shall be 60 years^of agp.and upwaVd.at the'tlme that this amendment shall ; take (Amendment;: adopted: 'November 6 .1894.); .^ v :-j - ; - : ; This.a mendment relative to an edu ca'tiohal qualHicatlon-is'stiirin force.. WEST- POINT— A. C. S., St. Helena, Call, ._ Each,' Senator, Congressional Dis trict, and' Territory-^-also the, Distrtct of Columbia;- and ; Porto/'Rlco-^ls entitled to A h^ve;one;cadet.;at .the .United States Military,., Academy; at West : Pointi There are "alsoyforty v ; appointments at: large, specially; conferredtby}the?Presldent of the United : States. T The number of atu dents",ls^thus;limited; to ; 522. . Appoint men'tß_*are usually; made one year/; in advance- of., datef of : admission,* by the Secretary of ..War, 4 : upon the nomination of the Senator or Representative. These nominations may either be made after competitive examination or given di rect, at the option of the Representa tive. The Representative may nomi nate two legally qualified second can didates, to be designated alternates. The; alternates will receive from. the> War Department a letter of appoint ment, and will be examined with the regular appointee, and the best quali fied will be admitted to the academy, ln the event of the failure of the principal to pass the prescribed preliminary ex aminations. Appointees to the Military Academy must be between 17 and 22 •years of age. free from any infirmity* \ which may render them unfit for mili tary service, and able to pass a careful examination In reading, writing, spell ing. English .; grammar. English com position. English literature, arithmetic, algebra through quadratic equations, plane geometry, descriptive geography and the elements /of physical geog raphy, especially the geography of the United -" States. United States history, the outlines of general history and the general price Iples of physiology anl hygiene.; or In lieu thereof to submit a certificate of graduation from a pub lic high school or State normal school, or a certificate that the candidate is & regular student of an incorporated col lege or . university. ENLISTMENT— N. X.. Oleta. Ca!. Minor*,under the age of IS may. be en listed X at ; any naval rendezvous of the United States with the consent of par ents • of guardian. There Is such a rendezvous at Mare Island. A boy of proper age may enlist at the Naval Training Station. Yerba Buena. lalanrt. San Franclaco" Bay." For information *s to details.' address a communication t? the naval recruiting officer. Jlare -J*tf and, and another to the commands}!: Yerba Buena Island. - OLD LADIES' HOME— A. S.^, Oak land. Cal. There Is a home for elderly I women In -.Texas. It Is called St. / Matthew's Home for Aged Women *ad 7 Is located In Dallas. - f ;\u25a0•\u25a0 \u25a0--\u25a0 - '/