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THURSDAY The San Francisco' Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS . . . . . Proprietor CHARLES W. HORNICK.. General Manager . ERNEST S. SIMPSON ........ . . .'. . . . .Managing Editor Address All Comiannlcattoas to THE SAY FRAXCISCO CALL Telephone, "Temporary 88"— A«k for The Call. The Operator Will Connect Yon With the Department You Wish. ..-.-. .BUSINESS OFFICE Market and . Third Streets, San Francisco Open Until 11 O'clock Every Night in the Year. EDITORIAL ROOMS Market and Third Streets MA IX CITY BRANCH. 1«51 Fillmore -Street. Near Post OAKLAND OFFICE — 168 11th St. (Bacon block).. Telephone Oakland 10 S3 ALAMEDA OFFICE— I43S- Park Street .....Telephone /.lameda 559 BERKELEY OFFICE — SW. Cor. Center and Oxford. Telephone Berkeley 77 CHICAGO OFFICE — Marquette Bldg-.C. George Krogness, Representative NEW YORK OFFICE — 30 Tribune Bldg. .Stephen B^-Smith, Representative ' WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT • -Ira E» Bennett SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by Carrier. 20 Cents Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Single Copie3 5 Cents. Terras by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 1 year $8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months *4 00 DAILY CALL— By Single Month ..-• \,ln SUNDAY CALL, 1 year **•*" WEEKLY CALL, 1 year • LOO Da nv *8.00 Per Year Extra FOREIGN / Sund ' a *y.'.* 4.15 Per Year Extra POSTAGE. C Weekly. r ..... ... 1.00 Per Year Extra Entered at the United States Postoffiee as Second Class Matter. ALL TOSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS Sample Copies Will Be Forwarded When Requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRES3 in order to Insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. PLAIN DUTY OF THE CONVENTION *OF THIRTY A GREAT civic duty has been laid upon those organizations v/\v /\ of labor and capital which have been requested to choose San "^^"l^ Francisco's new mayor. It is a duty that cannot be ignored. "*" "*" The graft prosecution lias waged relentless, successful war on governmental rottenness. It has made a jungle of unspeak-' able administrative filth an open plain. It has razed the citadel of the worst administration that ever disgraced the annals of Ameri can municipalities. The destructive work is done. The ground is prepared for the erection of a municipal government which shall be a model for the cities of the world. The constructive work has been placed where it belongs — in the hands of the people. True to. the promise made by Rudolph Spreckels at the incep tion of the graft prosecution, the district attorney's office has refused to play politics with the situation it controls. For the solution of San Francisco's most important problem the district attorney has submitted a plan which will cpmmend itself to the sane, conservative members of all classes and political organizations. The rehabilitated government must be built around an honest, energetic, competent mayor. Time presses. Such a mayor must •oe chosen immediately. The body of the people cannot be appealed lo until the November elections. The graft prosecution has turned to those organizations which may be fairly considered representa tive of the whole people. The delegates and the responsibility appear to be equitably apportioned among the organizations of employers* and employes. There can be no question of class or partisan advantage. This is no time, for class- or partisan: differ ences. The graft prosecution and the people of San Francisco have the right to expect and they do expect that the organizations appealed to will respond as one man. They should and they undoubt edly will assume cheerfully the duty laid upon them. In the man ner of their response lies the test of San Francisco's cryic virtue — the prophecy of the city's future. The Call has no candidate for the mayoralty, nor will it have. This newspaper believes that, in this hour of the city's need, the men of San Francisco will do the city and themselves full justice and will select a mayor belonging to all San Francisco and not to | any faction or special interest. Partisan and industrial differences must be left outside the door of the convention. The Call believes they will be. If the dele gates enter upon their service animated solely .by the desire to serve San Francisco, the work of genuine rehabilitation will be quickly and satisfactorily accomplished. STANDARDIZING THE MILLIONAIRE TT' is reported on credible authority that John D. Rockefeller 1 regrets his investment of $20,000,000 in the University of Chi- J_ cago. He has installed a great plant; designed to improve the breed of millionaires and he gets no results. He is so much depressed that on the occasion of his recent compulsory visit to Chicago he overlooked the child of his pocket as if it had been merely 30 cents. He finds the output of this institution of learn ing quite discouraging. The effort to standardize the millionaire appears to have failed. , . "The only regret I have concerning the university," says Mr. Rockefeller, "is that there are not as many men as successful as I hoped there would be after their schooling there." Such are the sorrowful limits to the power of wealth. Mr.- Rockefeller- spends $20,000,000 to make men after his own image and finds in the end that they look, like college " professors rather than ? millionaire products. - * Mr. Rockefeller will not, it is hoped, be utterly discouraged. There is room for improvement in the breed of millionaires.* He cannot spend "his ill gotten gains" in a better cause, and itf is obsen'ed with satisfaction that he has' two strings ''to His bow. The Rev. Dr. Faunce, who passed through San Francisco the other day, is president of Brown university and was formerly pastor ; 'bf Mr. Rockefeller's church in New York. "Dr. Faunce freely gives a handsome certificate of good moral character to Mr. Rockefeller. "The integrity and high purposes of Mr. Rockefeller's life," says Dr. Faunce, "cannot now be properly understood, but his; detractors will learn in, time that he is what his intimates believe him to-be, a simple and sincere man.*' Thus it might seem that the way ;to the kingdom of heaven must be paved with gold. It makes no . difference how the gold was acquired. The appointed guardians for the way of salvation are sure that money. carries no taint. Non i olet.; Mr. RockefeTler As for Chicago, it is humiliating to find that city unable to turn out millionaires with the; same facility as sausages. Possibly^ the-millionaire, like the poet, is born, not made. - The .poet givesUo his airy nothings a; local habitation^ and a name. Thermillionaife takes his watery nothings and calls them stock certificates Finance and poetry are chiefly creatures of the imagination— kings in tKe Kingdom of Humbug. v - BfclmHljßßß WILSON TO THE ASH BARREL tN interesting and instructive commentary on. the state of mind of \u25a0 our "governing classes" is f urn ished by the fact that they can spare a .rascal or two, ifor 'the^sake.of^ - appearances;^ and still, retain full control of the '.reins of power. It: is* announced' that Andrew Wilson 'will be quietly.. dropped -from the state r'raijl r6ad commission. Indeed. -..Wilson: is unkindly, expected to assist at: his own unhappy official decease. He will" neither be fired nor EDITORIAL PAGE extracted with a corkscrew, but rwill himself go up the spout. v Out of regard for his colleagues he will be given decent burial and will direct his own funeral." * r*-' / It is the homage that vice pays to virtue^ When Wilson's : mas te^draws the line at felony^ says; "I have 500 as-good who have not \u25a0•been'fqiinii?outT^dVwill never confess. Your offense is rank and smells to heaveo." iThe language of Wilson's master is ,a i little rude, : ; but he can't help quoting Shakespeare when his passions ; are Caroused. The process of keeping a- straight face \u25a0on the government ; of California entails certain hardships. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Mr. Herrin .never knows which of his rascals ; will break loose -next. Schmitz and Ruef .and Wilson have' spoiled on his hands and saltpeter : won't save them. So it- is 'Wilson to (the ash barrel . This is what is called "a measure of reform*'— about half an inch. \ *.;.*/" It cannot; be successfully maintained that Boxton is not a logical successor to the red automobile. "Everybody knows," .shrieks i: Mayor Schmitz/ "that I have been railroaded." Just so— street railroaded. ; Schmitz has resumed his violin' practice, and his rendition : of "Mr. Johnson, Turn Me Loose,"' is said to be characterized by great feeling. \u25a0 Brother Herrin' may have retreated in the first skirmish, of trie campaign, but it : is a case , of "walk right^ out and turn around and walk right in again." .!«> -•''-,"*! The Schmitz sentence' was- not spoiled by the ; fact- that it con tained a parenthetical clause aimed at the methods of one of the lawyers of last resort. "Buttermilk Charley!'- Fairbanks has washed out , the ? memory of those indiscreet r cocktails by a supposable^ cold water Vdip >± In volved in one of those Jiefoicfahd romantic rescues '-which justify; the political press 'agent's' high salary. >-' : ..;; y ' \ F. W. Oldfield of Denver \u25a0• la «t the Palace. -t^@^»^fljßHH9iHßHßsßßf "Charlea \u25ba Steele ot Portland la \u25a0at the Jeff ersonA ,; ' :"-". '-.'..; .V. \u25a0\. . -V ./'\u25a0'- • W. : ~Rl\ Spaldlng of E3ureka : la at the St.* Francis.': ': y]^.- '_•\u25a0.'.. ._;v-', v. /\u25a0;; \u25a0/-. :.;. O. P. Posey of Goldfleld la at the, Fairmont. ..-I'.:' : . "\u25a0: A. : 1.. ! Bayre.'fa Madera ; , capitalist, ils at the Baltimore. 7*H -^ >V !' '' '': "'\u25a0'.. F. M. ' . Buckley ; ? and \ wl f e •of \ Bpokan e are-at;the Hamlin.',!.: _^- A. Klrkpatrick"; and family of Chicago areat:tho Hamlln. r^i^ ;: '_..,, ' r : " Oscar" Wallen';Of Chicago i« registered at;the;Dorchester.'"/ ; ; ... -. '\u25a0;, L. : L." Patrick* a" Goldfleld mining man. ls;atUheiFairmontJ"r, ' ,-"'\u25a0 , '..-'i ;; -\u25a0' :.:\u25a0 „ -Garnlsln tTurner,; of j Modesto 1« Irtg ißtered'at;thelHamlln; * ;;' VV-'- , , w \u25a0 T." 8., Hunter' and^wif e? of .Monterey are'fatfthe; St ; ;> Francis* 'tV.-^;;- /•/;. ''-:1%--\\ 7 August l^; Mathez/j -": a';;» Denver.'\u25a0'\u25a0]a ';;» Denver. '\u25a0'\u25a0] mine owner,* lb at ; the Fairmont. '//. :-..;,'\u25a0/ '-. : ;; -J : . In the Joke World ."; Hicks— lt costs ;' more *to live than ; it did ; a^ hundred i y ears j agqT , " f '/,*», \u25a0\u0084 ;Wlcks~Aridiyetlvery.f ew, of ,us would like! to be the" people who < lived then -i£ Somerville'Journalo.cT *,;;;:.; >> : r^t. " Mrs.; Money.- Bags-^-I^hearVyou have spent" -a : great /deal:-, of ."'your time ;in Italy? • •- . \u25a0 .. - _,'..-"-, • - Mrs. Parvcnue—^-Oh, j; yes.'r';rhy idear: we're^quite;ltallciaed.^Tit^Blts.i; 7 '£;>\u25a0';_; Knickfir-— What isUhe's)xth^6ense?t^s Bocker— Horse.^i'lew^XorklStta?^^ CoMitigHis Wax note'and Personal ; Mention /,: Albert ; Plssls and family have -taken apartments at the Fairmont. 1 "".; \u25a0 John :. Lebold, a globe : trotter *of Attioa.NO., ls:at;th«"lmperiaL v v C. '\u25a0\u25a0 H. v Anderson,-' a "; Seattle merchant, Is at tiie Savoy .with 'his wife/ : T islspend- Ing a few weeks at the Savoy. - ' RansomeiMobre of-Ennls.'iTex^ reg istered t yesterday, at- the! Palace. :; J ..'A;* Hamburg * of -Honolulu *reari«t«red yesterday at^the^MaJeijttofAnnexj^' ,:? ". Mrß/iF.^;; Swan ton [and*dau£hter of San t&\ Cruis i are at .the St.; Francis. r^Mr.^and ' Mr»; f AirJ.l Evansfof f Newj Or leans I arrive<l « at i the? Hamlin j yesterday. ;3? G.I Bauei^ and Vwrtf «'\u25a0 of "Alexandria^ La., are,at;th« Majestic ohlaHour^of(Call fomla. ..\u25a0-.'-: !C' \u25a0 -"\u25a0 -- \u25a0 "'.\u25a0\u25a0•\u25a0:\u25a0\u25a0 * ;Dr. ;"WV W. Allen ,and wlfeFof Jef ferson, \u25a0; Ore. 1 ;^ arrived ' at i: the ' Majestib yesterday. ._",.: :.\y"-'- :: -. ; ~'~ .»*. "\u25a0-' i '\ P.^W^Carewkand ?,wif e 'i left . yester-? day.^f or* yi three > months' .7 trip to : the principal J European 1 cities. : ANSWER TO QUERIES -'THE -FARAIiONK^r-R.; , qty. ; The distance Jfrom^ the^Cllff I house - i 6% the north^Faralloh^island y; is % 26 Wy miles; to ; the j middle I island" 23 % • miles^ and the^ south! Island * 22 Vi miles. -s .THE i FIRE-4A. v-w., V City, v The area of , p roper ty j destroyed by the I big i flre ,in | San j FranclsccfApril.^ 1 906;|was « 614 city;block«^aboutl3,ooo£acres/; ' v ;-:vy.^^??3|aMßaiffißJ!*BS^' "\u25a0 - :-\u25a0;, ; . : s. j JAFFA— G. • G., A 1 amedaf. Cal.; Ja ff a i s distant 23 miles . northwest- 'from In ßailway Circles B-; H. MORRISET, grand . master, of - the brotherhood of railway train men, ; and R. M. Mclrityre," chalr^ man of ; the grievance committee, m^tjß.H. Ingram and El Buckingham, representing the Harrlman. lines, In conference yesterday. . Morrisey has come ; to : San Francisco to throw the I weight of his influence in. trying to ob tain from the Harrlman system the concessions which -his order Is seeking;. The^trainmen, It appears/ are not satis fied with the Chicago,' schedule/ and \u25a0 are I seeking to /:; secure :an 2 | cents rani hour over- the A. 4 V cents addi tional they were granted by ,the agree ment made In Chicago. '; This movement was i started ibyl the i switchmen -on the roads east iof Denver, 'and \ their reason for ; demanding; 6^cents' an hour;! In stead .: of .;*;: cents was, 4 they said, owing to the .high cost of living in the west, i They. > were | not, however, suc cessful In their request,, tor} most of the roads | have signed with' the men for the original additional 4 cents an hour. The : : ; railroad f - official a . say 2'\u25a0 that f- the switchmen ': are-^ ".well ~ paid. •. They are getting ,'B4 cents^an, hour," and engine firemen .are" receiving 87; i cents an hour.' All have : the . opportunity of ?, making overtime,* and ': their > wages " run : from ?125 ;toj$140*a, month. ; ' : - The : switchmen," 'also; are demanding another : concession. . They v^waht ';.' to \ legislate|for,; theiyardmasters. and. the i assistant :-. yardmasters, i and i the offlcefs I of_ithei system^ say,?. this.^cannot : be, as ' yardmasters ; and \ assistant . yardmasters ] are "officers land "so I are "outside 'of the j Jurisdiction of: the brotherhood. SF. "W. \u25a0 Hoover," ;lridustrlal v agent of the Southern \Pacific, '. was . at : Lake ITahoe the i i other ; day and "; was fso 'engaged iin the pastime'; of I slaughtering J trout ' that he $ overlooked v the : dinner, hour, : : and whenihe^went-to the } hotel : the dining room '[ was / closed. ?£ He had ( to , f ace ~ the pleasant I prospect :" of :^- going -'hungry until : he I reachedtTruckee Jon This (way home. ?! George? R. Gay-: was,- however, on ; fi hand t; to « console ', him**? and V holding out .. a^menu ;~ expatiated '% on vthe"*" fine dinner j the |Tavern | glves.V; ; JVhen- - they goitpn*. board?^the] train? Gayi found Uhat his; berth* had'ibeen| pre-empted and; he had' 4 a" fair;; chance : - of; sitting "/all 4 « 'fWhy V don't i you xgo to - bed T'- urged Hoover,' \u25a0 who \ was * preparln gI to . retire." ,'rThe '\u25a0 Pullman 'carj Is * the j (deal ' place to sleep « in. ?'v Do i you j. know,", he •'.: added thoughtfully,y"i » much prefer sleeping to* starving?"' '•\u25a0-'\u25a0" - . . •;.-\u25a0•\u25a0\u25a0' v.-.-- : ':---* : "•::\u25a0'•\u25a0-.• ?~ . • -i- •- ••"*; \u25a0 -\u25a0 ' ',v c. • Black tax • attorney '\u25a0 of . the Southern) Pacific," says that it ', ls' ; al most refreshing f ; thing <* to Z find \ nowadays vi publio^ official |, who >' has a^.' conscience andUs? alsoX thorough: ; "They tare - rare as '£ white ablackblrds,"^' declared "«Ryah, "but 1 1 v know: of . one ..who I. is f. the 1 most conscientious; rnan?inf.the^state;'>; He i*i3 the \f assessor >'. of Compton,"":, which,' --by the'lway,^ is " a.% flourishing i dairy 'center jlnllrbsiAngelesTcountyAvHelwritesme •to j send S him jan f account ; of /all ' the /as-, sessable) property: the? Southern^ Pacific owns I ln^ the^ town, T^also f the 1 real Restate out^; of 2 town; 1 all : about '\u25a0.' our rights of way ; ; and ; the ';\u25a0. length :^of 'the S* sld9 tracks, % the v lengthTof j^ourj long 'distance .wires land jthe if- number? and : i size Tof Jour telegraph ' poles.'H I [supposed he » will J a^ sessHtheipoles "according? tb>.thelrjslze and t for £ the I sakejof Ithe j company's ?ex-" chequer, let 5 us \u25a0 hope -they,! are short**, r - Harry,i,W/; Adams,'. "commercial agent of;.the^Rock^y: lsland-Frisco lines. Is spending jVav few t-weeksc' at-- Bartlett SpringsJ"-Vv;^.--v*: ; .' ; -; : ;r- \u25a0^"/\u25a0/?-"' :-">: "."-.\u25a0>"\u25a0•; *> Melorie ..Joyce, :. district n passenger agehtfof M the "• Colorado"- Midland in Los "Angeles^i has '}, been"? in v this ;: city yon a short* visit;'X?'j»;.; ;?.->: ';: \u0084: °:l'-~y, \u25a0•.•\u25a0•."•', :">' .; \u25a0 \u25a0r-J ti.S. N.v Snyder,v clty^ passenger agent of rlthe SWashington-Sunsets-route,. is spendingrhis>acatlonHnXthe|;Tosemite: ;H. : A.- Jories.^freishtitrafilc^ manager >f g.the|S6uthern;;Paclfic, has^left stfor mom^^^^£^lj^sjua6ay&t'ths -ai&£>~ THE INSIDER Tells of democratic tendencies' of Mrs.'Peter Martin and of .relief committee's, dec™ to spare the feelings of aristocratic sutterers „, ._/,'„ D t rn HE society scribes \u25a0 treat the expected Trundles Her Baby^ j visitof Mrs . Peter Martin to her mother on Newport Walk i- i n law, Mrs. Eleanor Martin, with the extreme' •attention T accorded =to royalty abroad. Her progress across the con tinent will, doubtless be recorded in" allita details, and her. re-entree to the city which she formerly graced with her presence will be heralded by a brass band and appropriate ceremonies. I wonder how all thl3 sort of thing strikes the young, matron herself, and what she really thinks of those who subject her; to this sort of thing. Any one to read some of the stuff written about Peter Martin's wife would /imagine her to be some great personage who con \-eyed a tremendous honor upon our little city by occasionally spending a few' days in It. As a matter of fact, Mrs. -Martin makes no pretensions to being other than a New. York girlof the "inner circle," who married Peter Martin, unbillioned as he was, because she loved himr They have -been a happy couple ever since their marriage, and they bid fair to keep on in the 6ame Darby and Joan like .unfashionable harmony.- Mrs Peter has done many things that, though unconventional In her own set, are common In the middle class, walks of life, where they do not fur nish food for criticism or paragraphers. For instance, when her baby waa a few months old she used to wheel It In its perambulator along the board walk at l Newport, Instead of employing the service of a nurse maid. This was considered. worthy of comment at the time, showing how Newport society regards such things. Whatever the society parirgraphers and the dispatches would have on© believe/ Mrs:« Peter Martin Is not such a beauty as would win a prize In an international"^ contest She is tall«Jid carries herself with a certain air, and her small head has an aristocratic poise, but there are many California women who do not rank as beauties who would deserve the title as well. The last time Peter Martin's wife was in this city she set the mode of dragging the train of a ball gown when dancing, unlike the custom formerly In vogue here. Before her advent our economical belles and buds used to grab their trains with their disengaged hand when pirouetting In the mazy valse or tbe deux temps, and thereby saved their chiffons for another wear ing. However, after observing the unprovinclal oracle from the east they let their trains drag also, much to the profit of the cleaning establishments, the modiste and the dry goods merchants. Thus does trade receive occasional stimulant by the injection of knowledge. _\u0084,,„\u25a0 ' ~*C ITr , Some of our aristocratic residents who suf- Relief Board's Work fered losse3 ln blg flre and wno sunk to Be Closed Book their pride sufficiently to supplicate aid from the relief committee have been bewailing ever . since that,' by reason of the /card system of investigation, their f names must go down In history side by side with those of less well family treed petitioners. Now,. let those proud beings take heart of grace. I have inside information, which I have no reason to believe otherwise than creditable, that all the In criminating cards, with their pathetic details, are to be destroyed. The names of .those who accepted a. railway ticket, a bundle of garments, a temporary habitation, a house and lot, or merely asked for a check for a few hundred dollars, will all alike be buried in oblivion, and .In a very short time. .The Inhabitants of the blue book need no longer tremble. The relief com mittee's investigations and disbursements may live in the memory of the grateful; perhaps, but the written records will be no more. nGDre J vs Stlppon remembered lit the distribution of the relief ! a. Gentile School fund. Many of the Mndergartens here are charities, having no endowment, but depending upon voluntary contributions. The Adleru kindergarten, which I : recently mentioned : as hTaving been named after Dr. Felix Adler, is one of these genuine charities. The children are not charged for tuition, and" society— with ' the large S— has never "taken them up." Charitable Jewish women are the patronesses. The school is open to any" and all small children, and though* it is Jewish money that is the mainstay If not the entire support of the kindergarten at North beach, there is ,not a" single Hebrew child to profit by the'eharity. 1 doubt if any other reli gious sect , or denomination would long sustain any institution that did not help in some way to feather its own nest. \u25a0.- v The; Smart Set A PLEASANT bit of news la the announcement of , the engage ment of Miss Lillian Selz and Steuart Cotton, which was told to their closer friends yesterday and which comes as a charming surprise to 'many, although the engagement has existed for several years. Miss - Selz, who is the younger daughter: of Mrs.' Harry G. Young. Is a charming, at-^_ tractive girl, : who has been a decided belle since her debut a few seasons since/ \u25a0""\u25a0 \u25a0' : .'\u25a0 <-~ '\u25a0'/'': .:' .-. ' Steuart Cotton Is the second son of Judge land. Mrs.; Aylett Cotton and Is one of the popular -young men of "the "city. .Ho is a' Stanford graduate - and two years ago went to Key "West, Fla., where .he has 'had a number \u25a0 of gov ernment-contracts.. He .has had his, headquarters "there ; and; has • recently completed : some; important -work in' Cuba." -,V He; returned .; here -about six weeks ago.ona visit to *his~i parents. Mr.\ Cotton has decided ability and is ,well knoVn'-'ahd well "likecr 3 both In a business and; social! way. : The, wedding will: probably : Uncelebrated in- the near future* 'although no date . has been an nounced as yet. -'•-\u25a0.? Mr.'and Mrs. L. MaynardDlxon have sent -out invitations to an exhibition of \ the '. mural *.\ decorations \ which .- Mr. Dlxon-; completed recently.'. The ;..,*ex hibition .will be held; at the Sequoia club, 1565' Bush street,'vtoraorrow\ after noon from 2 ; o'clock to.- 6. * \u25a0"-'•-..\u25a0:• ':* - 'Mr. and Mrs. Wilson! and Mr.; arid Mrs.\Walter Martin have taken a' house 'among 'the -mountains at Cisco arid ;.will spend the next'several weeks there.". .' ' . - : ~l " \u25a0-;"\u25a0 : - ' , '••' " •--' \u25a0 - i -""- • "'\u25a0- - "-.'. ' .- . , ; - \u25a0'::.- ',\u25a0 \u25a0 - \u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0' - '•' - ;. J. ; , Downey Harvey and ,Mias Anita , Harvey,^ who < have\been .'detained in '^the teast '. f or : so; many .weeks , by Miss Harvey's : lllness, are] expected: to leave New; York 'next week, and will coma directly - to ' San Franclsco^^fflgfflßi Mr. and Mrs. "Phil K. Gordon are ".re joicing in ithe,, arrival: of a! little son In their . horne • several days ago. Dr. - and Mrs. James W. r-Keeney.r -Keeney . and ins called to inquire as to whether .the railroads V did '; or . did \. not discriminate In > the "f distribution ;of * cars ': tor,-- the transmission of ; oranges east* " Conditions V in California :;Th«, c«iiforai *.l>rolJlotlon eommittw wired tlie following- to its eastern bureaa ia ifew ToA yesterday :.;._, ... California tomparatareg for the "past 24 hours: WMM Zi?^-S--^ 54...*... Maximum 80 Baa rraacijoo ...'.'.....;. Miaimnm 53......Iffaximnm' «2 ".;\u25a0'• Ban Francisco tuoldia» permits for July 10: The itew seven story steel and' concrete: Garten City, ttink building la San Jom U about,eo'mpUte4,taad.allth«;offlce»haTß;already,b««n engaged! ' Steel for the Eliin-Cohn-Gnnivhtiadingi at the^corner of Geary aad"Paw«U streets, Fi^ciMO,'; is now,Jbeing, f deliTered.;;The; to he «.* 10 story «U»» A office .- building,an*jwiUVoit $350,000. It will;conUinalxmt 800 otftces,~togeth«r ,with the store* occupying, the ground floor.- Miss Mary Keener are enjoying a so journ in Santa Barbara for a few weeks. Mrs. C G. Hooker and Mlsa Jennia Hooker, who * left last month for Europe, have arrived there and will spend some time traveling on the con tinent. ' Mr.. and Mrs. Louis E. Monteagle and Cutler.Paige are guests of Mr. and Mrs .Charles Stetson Wheeler at the beauti ful country place of the Wheelers at McCloud river. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Carrigan, 1 who have been traveling In the orient slnco early in April, sailed yesterday . from China for San Francisco and will ar rive here about July 31. Miss Nellie Stow has arrived - from Santa Barbara and is the guest of Mrs. .Vanderlynn Stow at the home of the latter In. Broadway. William S._ Porter, who has been so seriously ill in a sanitarium in LO3 An geles, is better and as . soon as he la able, to travelheand Mrs.: Porter will take a leisurely' motor trip through southern California 'and finally north to this cltyJßßßafiSma • ; - y . Mrs. C H. Sawyer is spending the week as the guest : of her sister. Mrs. Russell, CooL at the Cool country place, "Dotswood/'near Los Gatos. Mrs. Harry Macfarlane. who returned last week from a' fishing trip toth« McCloud river country club. Is now with her sister. Mrs. Henry Foster Dut ton.'.; In .'San. Rafael, .but in the near future " she and Mr. and Mrs.:Dutton will probably' leave for a trip to Tahoe. Mrs. Macf arlane expects ,to return to her home in Honolulu about the middle of September. \u25a0'• ; Mrs. .\u25a0Willie Davis arrived a few days ago from Santa Barbara and will make a brief stay -here. -Mr. and Mrs. Bernardo Shorb~ (for merly/Miss Elizabeth -Sheehan), who are \in southern - .. California ron < their wedding Journey, have returned from a sojourn at Catalina island and ar« now Ah". Santa. Barbara. . Mrs; W. H-'La Boyteaux left recently for; Seattle, -where . she la spending a month. V ** -