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S~\ RGANIZEI> labor has a high and definite interest in the good
I I behavior of the men elected to municipal office as the nomi
nees of thet-union labor party. If these officials discredit them
selves by their votes and actions on important
public issues the result must be a severe set
back for the political influence of organized
labor. In the pending street railway contro
versy the issue is plain and unmistakable and
the record will betfield against the men who fall down. They can not
cover their tracks; because the whole public of San Francisco knows
the facts and the intents of the controversy.
The situation isinot at all obscure and organized lahor is on
record through one tof its central bodies in condemnation of the
proposition to make ia free gift to the United Railroads of the fran
chise or permit to operate the Sutter street electric cars in Market
street. On February 26 the labor council, through its secretary,
defined its position in opposition to the grant of the permit and ap
pointed a delegation to appear before the public utilities committee
of the supervisors to protest against the grant. This action of the
council accords with the^best political, social and industrial interests
of organized* labor.
It •might-appear needless to argue a proposition so one sided and
it would be needless were it not that certain supervisors, elected on
the union labor ticket, are apparently doing their best to throw
obstacles in the way of the Geary street project, while at the 'same
time they are making loud protestations of ' their loyalty to that
undertaking. In .fine, their words and their actions look two different
ways. The foolish excuse that the adoption of the Bancroft ordi
nance would meanva recognition of the legal existence of two street
railways in Market v street might have been invented in the United
Railroads office.
This is the reason why people^are watching so closely the course
of the municipal administration. They have reason to suspect the
purpose of tlje supervisors in refusing to deal at once with the peti
tion for the trolley permit and in postponing action thereon until
April 13. The proceedings of that meeting will be closely followed.
It is true that the alleged reason for refusing to enact Ban
croft ordinance — that it would mean the recognition of two street
railways in Market street— applies with. much greater force and cer
tainty against the grant of the permit for the Sutter street cars, but
there is ample reason on the face of the facts to doubt the good faith
of that excuse as applied to the Bancroft ordinance. Men who are
double faced in one proceeding are suspect in everything. If they
have made up their minds to give away public property to the United
Railroads without compensation it will. 1 not be difficult to invent some
other silh' excuse for such action.
It will not be disputed that there are just reasons for suspicion,
and therefore this warning is addressed to organized labor, because it
looks as if a program was -being framed to betray its interests. AVatch
!April 13.
Organized Labor
Will Be Watch
ing on April E3
BEFORE the senate of the .United States a bill is pending to
create a federal bureau of mines as part of the interior depart
ment, whose province shall be, among other things, to investi
gate "methods of* mining especially in rela
tion to the safety of miners, and the appliances
best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible
improvement of conditions under which mining
operations are carried on, the treatment of
ores and other mineral substances, the use of explosives and elec
tricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and tech
nologic investigations pertinent to said industries." An examination
of the causes and means of prevention for the explosions in mines
that are so destructive of human life is likewise included among the
functions of the bureau.
The need for government supervision in this relation will not be
-disputed. On the general policy of the bill the secretary of the
lAmerican mining congress :
Mining is one of the two great productive industries in the United
States, with an annual production of over $2,000,000,000, and a waste almost
as great. It employs more than 1,000,000 men. It is now sacrificing an
average of over 2,000 lives per year. If the same effort were made to
protect the workmen here that is made in Germany, France and Belgium
it is fair to presume that the death rate would be lowered to an average
of those countries. This would mean an annual saving of, over 1,500
lives in the United States.
California, as one of the great mining states; has a large and im
portant interest in this legislation and it will not be doubted that
the bill will receive the loyal support of the delegation in congress.
California Wants
a Federal
Mining Bureau
CONGRESSMAN S. C. SMITH of the California delegation,
who is a member of the committee on postoffices,. addressed
the house recently, presenting a review of the pending con
troversy concerning the pay of railroads for
carrying the mails. Mr. Smith desires to be
fair in this matter as between those who con
tend that the sums paid bylhe government are
extravagant and excessive and the railroads;
"which declare that they are headed for. the poorhouse by reason of
inadequate pay for this service.
In the rush of conflicting claims: Mr- Smith finds himself con
fused in some degree, but he concludes that the rates of. pay are no€
excessive. Mr. Smith goes into the comparison of rates for mail arid
express matter:
A . common rule' of comparison is with the movement of express
matter, but that is not a fair basis. It is .admitted all around that raft- ;
roads do not charge the express companies so much, a pound as they'
do the government, but, on the contrary, theyget a percentage ; 6f -the \u25a0
receipts of the express company — generally said to; be 40Ho; 50 per cent. •;
It is also known to all men that express rates vary much according to the "
value of the commodity shipped.-^lf . I want to\ send , bullion,^it. will ibe ..':\u25a0
\u25a0weighed, to be-sure, but the charges will be- governed^by* its value and
not by its weight, except as the latter- helps to fix the former. If I send;
Smith
on Railway
Mail Contracts
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL
valuable -papers — stocks, bonds, deeds and so forth— the express com
pany cares nothing for the weight— value is the thing that counts. From
these things of value the rates grade downward till lor some short hauls
the express companies can take some business away from "the p,ostal
service. . \u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0;
The reasoning does not appear very conclusive either way. Mr.
Smith professes to bepuzzled by the arguments advanced on the
railroad side of this controversy. Indeed, his estimate of his own
mental condition need not be disputed in view of the fact that he
adopts at its' face value the ridiculous argument that the railroads
ought to be paid for transporting railway mail clerks. ;. He might as
well argue that railroads should have extra pay for carrying brake
men and dining car waiters. How much pay do. the railroads get
for carrying express messengers? \
A REMARKABLE exposure is being made in the course of the
current investigation of official bribery and lobbying on behalf
of the life and fire insurance, companies in New York state.
The revelations go into an unusual field and
deal with; corruption of the highest court of
that commonwealth. William H. Buckley
was a lawyer and lobbyist in Albany, em
ployed by the fire insurance people to handle
the legislature. It appears that he was able to do very much what
he pleased with that body, but his influence by no means stopped
there. Letters were produced in evidence showing that Buckley had
advance information of the nature of forthcoming decisions of the
court of appeals. and transmitted the knowledge to his clients in New
York, who were able to estimate the effect on the stock market.
One of these letters was written by George £. Sheldon, president of
the Phenix fire insurance company of Brooklyn. Sheldon wrote:
I note that the court of appeals has decided that the franchise tax t
law is constitutional. I wish I 'could have got on to this early enough, -
£or I am satisfied that this is one of the things that have been hanging
over the market/ and if . l could have learned previously what the de-.
cision was likely to be, there would have been money in this for all of
.us. Whenever anything like this is pending in Albany, it will always
pay you to advise me, if you can, of the probable outcome.;
This was Buckley's reply :
I am sorry that I did- not know that it would be of any interest to
you to have information about the" franchise decision. I told some of
our friends two weeks' ago what it would be, but I was advised from
very important quarters that as long as the decision would be that the
law was constitutional it would not have much effect on the majket, and
I did not think it advisable to say much about it.- If it had been the
other way you would have been advised, because I knew of your interests
in "Big Gas." In the future I- will keep you advised.
As for the legislature, Buckley wrote in one of his letters, refer
ring to some proposed legislation affecting the insurance business :
"I agreed to let the bill be reported to'-the senate. It will probably
pass that house,: but give yourself no concern about it. It will be
blocked by. the rules committee.'' . •
Buckley, appears to have been nearly the whole government of
New York state. •.-- v ,
Government
by a Lobbyist in
New York State
Ri£ V. M ALCO LM McLEOD, a; noted New York divine, under
took recently to edit' and direct one day's issue of the Pasa
dena Star. The Star is a newspaper which j meets the local
requirements of a suburban city of
size. We venture no guess at the population
because that would be hunting- a fight. Doc
tor McLeod; at the close ofthe editorial -hurly
burly and' before shutting off the typewriter,
wrote this to describe his state of mind: .
My timeis now almost up as I pen this last, line; my hand is almost
paralyzed; my brain is befuddled,' and I am free to confess that I am right ;_
.glad to vacate the holyspot. Such rush' and. riot- and disarray. , Such a.',
jumble* arid It stritoes; me as the daily effort 7 to bring; order
out of/chaos, and to^do ;it ligl)tnirigly= quick: I 'am reminded ,of the.
memorable words, "The earth was 'without , form and void,', and darkness ,
v was upon the* face > of Uhe- deep. "And the spirit moved upon the face' of :- :
the waters." Never shall I"; criticise newspapermen 'more..' I shall pray,
' for them. '* They; will have my; heart's; forbearance, henceforth" and for- t
ever, the '- hardest \u25a0worked,^shortest lived, poorest paid brain \vorkers on
this weary oldworld bf^oursi i : -". " > "\u25a0''
Not^ impossibly^ tliere is .\u25a0[some;- exaggeration^ about this, but it
appears to be clear^ that ' Doctor McUeod was thoroughly; rattled
Why should he not' be rattled? \£ you should put the editor of the
Star in a pulpit; facing a/congregatiqn of ; Easte r to tell them
"their sins, •he would ; be w<srse' rattled . than the dominie in the : nevvs
paper office.- To a man who does not know the busine-ss, a newspaper
office -looks i anc[; acts like -,a bughousei whereas, in /fact, it
must go like clockwork if it is to^go at all. *: v «
It is quite/probable.thatD^ pieces
Vnd:thenitriedUblputUt>to^ether,-again^;Giiiidren are like;that;; \
A Dominie
in a Hard
Place yi^
Solid Comfort'
Letters From the People
: FRAUD IX MAIL. SEIIVICE
Editor The. Call: While the press
of this country Is busily engaged in
explaining the causes for the large
postal deficit it would be interesting
for. the public to know of a gigantic
swindle that is being perpetrated by
the postofflce officials to benefit the
railroads and transportation lines.
The /fraud has to do primarily with
the transportation of postofflce sup
plies. All postofflce supplies are trans
ported by mail instead of by freight.
The shipments cost the United States
government several timps what they
would if the supplies were sent by
freight, and since the supplies are
always ordered in advance the element
of time does not enter into the ques
tion of shipment by mail Instead of by
freight.
- At this time the United States mails
are being weighed during a period of
three months to determine an average
weight upon which the 'postofflce de
partment and the railroads can base
the compensation to be received by the
railroads for hauling the mails during
the next four years. So that the rail
roads may receive as large rates as
possible, rates far beyond those earned
by the companies under normal circum
stances, the postal officials have con
spired fraudulently to aid the railroad
companies. To do that, the mails are
being enlarged so that the test weights
will be far heavier than the normal
weights. .
Since postofflce supplies are trans
ported by the uneconomical method of
shipment by mail, it is only fair to the
railroads that a proper proportion: of
the postofflce supplies be sent through
the mail during the period 'of test
weighing.
• But the postofflce officials who are
working in league with the railroads
do not take that stand. Instead there
has 'been shipped during the three
months of test weights a . year's post
office supplies 1 , for no other possible
purpose- than to Inflate' the malls with
heavy matter and Increase the average
on which the rates for the next four
years will be based. The United States
\u25a0government will pay the railroad com
pany every quarter for weight carried
only during one quarter. The govern
ment bills for the shipment of supplies
will be nearly four, times what they
should be. \u25a0 : •
Not- content with that trick to
swell the railroads' income, the | post- |
office officials have" hit upon '. another
scheme for doubling the weighj. The.
government pays the railroad for ship
ment by weight and not by mileage.
That"i 3, mail matter shipped from San
Francisco to Oakland is charged the
same as would be charged on the same
matter shipped from Washington, to
San . Francisco. .
Recently 100 large cases of postofflce
supplies, amounting to several hundred
tons, the estimated requirements of the
Oakland postofflce f or ian entire year,
were shipped out from "Washington.
Instead of being billed to Oakland,: the
goods were , shipped to San ": Francisco
and: from here, to Oakland, giving the
railroad company a double haul and a
double weight. . T • „
Is It not time for congress to begin
an *j Investigation in this postoffice
fraud?-— • - ".",-. : .;a s ' .'\u25a0':. ;
San Francisco, March 30, 1910.
| Answers;lo;Queries |
' . RAYMOND'S \ WIFE— J. F.'l 1t., , City. TVhat
was the. name. of the wife of Jobs. T. Raymond,
the actor, who; played with him at*the old Call
fornla \u25a0 theater ..' ln Bush street, above Kearny in
the seventies? :. \.~\' >*. . ---,-
Marie Gordon. •\u25a0'•:. .
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;IPOLL'TAX-f-L. G.V Willow*. Whnt persons In
California are exempt from the provisions of the
poll tax:law?; *.< ' , .. '
V Any " male \ over. 60 ' years of agre, \u25a0 pau
pers, idiots, insane persons and In
dians: not- taxed.
".SHIRT WAISTS — How should lace shirt waists
be cleaned? / .. ;, - ;
•The method depends upon the.char
acter, of :the_'waist, whether 'white,
black- or ecru. . ...
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TIMK— A Subscriber, Sacramento. -What; is
the difference' In "time; between ;Sacraojento and
San Francisco?^. .\u25a0-..• , .: ; -\u0084
Three minutes and -forty-seven sec-
HAPPENINGS IN
THE SMART SET
Friday y Night Club Closes
Dancing Season With
A Bal Masque
THE final dancing party of the sea
son, given last evening by the mem
bers of the Friday Night club, was
a delightful affair and'was the more
enjoyable on account of .being a bal
masque. Th*e costumes were unusually
attractive in their variety. There were
scores of pierrots folly costumes,
with several effective Spanish dancers
and a large representation of peasant
costumes in brilliant colors.
The dance was given in the Califor
nia Club hall in Clay street, "and th 3
auditorium was decorated for the occa
sion with ferns and grotesque masks.
The party was followed by an elabor
ate supper and thers were over 100 of
the younger girls and boys at the
reunion. The club has given a suc
cessful series of dances during the
season and the dance last evening was
a thoroughly delightful party. The
patronesses who have been guiding the
club to syecess Muring the season are:
Mrs. Frank Bates I Mrs. Frank Powers
Mrs. Wendell Hammon ]«rs. Robert Bentley
Mrs. Fred Thompson (Mrs. Eugene Bresse
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One of the most recent engagaements
that will be received with interest by
local society is that of Lieutenant
George Patton, TJ. & A., now stationed
at Fort Sheridan, and Miss Beatrice
Ayer of Boston. The bride elect is a
society girl and the member of a very
wealthy eastern family. Lieutenant
Patton Is a graduate of West Point
and a clever officer with many friends
here. He Is the eldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Patton of Pasadena and a
nephew of Mrs. J. de Barth Shorb of
this city, He is a cousin of Miss Ethel
Shorb and is related also to Miss Nan
Wilson, with whom Mi3s Shorb Is trav
eling In Europe. It is probable, by the
way, that Miss Wilson may come home
for the wedding in June, but Miss Shorb
will continue herS journey abroad.
Lieutenant Patton is a cousin also of
Mrs. Carroll Buck, Mrs. John Murtagh
and Mrs. James King Steele.
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Mrs. Dudley Knox. who was Miss
Lily McCalla. and her little son, are
at the home of Admiral and Mrs. Mc-
Calla in Santa Barbara. She will re
main for a visit of several weeks and
is receiving an enthusiastic welcome
from her friends in the southern city.
Mrs. Knox has been in the east lately,
but her friends-will be pleased to learn
that she is coming, here^shortly and
will be at Mare island with her hus
band. Captain Knox, who has been ap
pointed aid to Rear Admiral Osterhaus
at the navy yard. Captain and Mrs.
Knox will have an attractive home at
Mare island and will entertain inform
ally later in the season.
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Rear Admiral Joseph Trilley and Mrs.
Trilley have gone to Santa Barbara for
an early summer visit that will be
prolonged Indefinitely at the Hotel Pot
ter.
• • •
Captain Albert U. Faulkner and Mrs.
Faulkner are receiving the congratu
lations of their friends, upon the ar
rival of a little daughter this week at
taeir home at the Presidio.
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Miss Mabel Gregory entertained at an
informal luncheon given, yesterday at
the Palace hotel for half a dozen of the
younger girls. The table decorations
were spring flowers with yellow as the
dominant color."
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Miss Lurline Matson, accompanied by
her parents, Captain and Mrs. Mat
son, returned yesterday on the WIV
helmina from Honolulu and was given
a cordial reception by her young
friends. Another in the party of re
turned travelers was Miss Metha Me-
Mahon, the daughter of Mrs. Eugene
Bresse, who has been enjoying the
leisurely journey in the Islands with
the Matsons. . •» ' .
• • •
Edward M. Greenway Is enjoying a
stay at the Potter in Santa Barbara,
and was host Incidentally at one of
the recent dinner parties there. The
affair was elaborate and the decora
tions particularly pretty. The color
scheme was pink and green, with a
centerpiece of sweet peas, while the
same flowers were strewn effectively
on the tablecloth. Among those who
participated In the affair were:
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene fle Mr. and Mrs. George
Sabla £ Cameron
Mr*. MiloM. Potter Mr. anil Mrs. IT. H. de
Miss Pbyllis de Young Young
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Scott'enter
tained several friends at luncheon yes
terday, preceding the rehearsal for the
tableaux vlvants, and among others en
tertaining on the same occasion were
Mrs. Gerald Rathbone. Mrs. C. Fred
erick Kohl and. Cyril Tobln.
• • •
Another engagement of more than
passing interest in the service set is
that of Miss Harriet Sterling of Stock
ton and Midshipman Richmond Kelly-
Turner, which was an announcement
of the week. The news was told at a
recent luncheon given at the home of
the bride elect. The table was deco
rated with pink carnations and the
announcement cards were attached by
means of tiny silver wedding bells to
the place cards. The latter, were
adorned with water color sketches of
Cupids. There -were a dozen girl 3 at
the luncheon. Midshipman' Turner is
stationed on the "West Virginia.
PERSONS IN THE NEWS
and secretary, accompanies him.
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V. M. ROBINSOK, proprietor of a boot and shoe
store at San Diego; .George I. Gleason. a
minins: man of Virginia City, and E. B. Mor-
gan of Vancouver arc among the recent arriTals
at the Argonaut. ;
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A. C. HIKSHTEU), F.W. Dykes and W. H.
Leckle, of Vancouver, returned yesterday from
the! oil fields, where they went to Tislt some
properties, and registered at the St. Francis.
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J. P.-SWEEKT, a mining, man with interests in
Goldfleld. is,ataylnjf at the St. rrancla.
Sweeny returned from Xew York yesterday
where he had been on a business trip.
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C. J. MATTHEWS, N a businessman of Philadel-
pbia, returned from a tour of the world yes-
j! -EOSS CLABX, Tlee* president of the San'
Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad.
is at the Palace visiting hla brother.; Sen-
ator TVUltam A. Clark.
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ME. and MBS. BEUCE BONNY returned', from
a trip t4 Europe yesterday and pending the.
openlßS of .their'home: In Sansallto wtll-re-<
«,ln at the Fairmont •
MB. .ndMBS. A. E. BEBET of SfLouU. Mr."
\u25a0\u25a0 and Mrs. William Leslie of, Chicago and D« G.
Orerall of Vlsalla make op a group of guests
_at the.Manx. •,
J. S. McCANDLESSof Honolnhi to at the Palace *
with Charles F>- jinrray and M. B. Ymm*.
They hare large Interests In the plantations of
the islands. ;
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APRIL, 2, l*3lO
WILL IMPROVE
BARSTOW PLANT
Santa Fe Officials on Special
: Train Confer Regarding .
Betterments
« SPECIAL, train bearing Santa F«
A officials who have been conferring
** here regarding proposed improve
ments of the system left Los Angeles
yesterday for Barstow. whence it will
proceed to San Francisco.
It includes the private cars of Presi
dent Ripley. General Manager Wells of
the coast lines, Vice President* Hodges
and Nicholson and Passenger Traffic
Manaser W. J. Black.
Extenslve^Jmprovement of the rail
road plant 1 at Barstow has been
planned. A Harvey eating house will
be installed, together with social head
quarters for employes of. the company.
Separate yards for passenger and
freight trains are to be constructed.
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The Swiss are preparing to .show the
whole of Switzerland to the delegates
to the eighth International railway
congress, which. is to be held in Berne
T H Schumacher, vice president in
charge of traffic of the Western Pa
cific, is out of the city for a few days.
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H. E. Hale has been appointed prin
cipal assistant engineer of the Missouri
Pacific-Iron Mountain system, with of
fice at St. Louis, succeeding R. H. * ord.
transferred- •
J A. McWilliams has been appointed
a traveling freight agent of the South
ern railway, with office at Knoxvtlle.
Term.. succeeding C. E- Rising, re
signed.
The office of commercial agent at
Houston has been abolished ajid the
following appointments made:
Walter Shipley, commercial agent at
Dallas, succeeding W. T. Remhert. who
becomes a traveling freight agent, with
office at Dallas, and L. W. Sanderson
traveling freight agent, with office at
Dallas.
The Chicago. Milwaukee aaid Puget
Sound has definitely decided upon the
route to be followed by its projected
branch to Everett. Wash. From the
main line at Moncton. a smaJl Motion
39 miles east of Seattle, the line will
pass through North Bend and then will
follow the Snoqualmie river valley to
the junction of that river and the Slcy
koraish at a point about seven miles
south of the town of Snohomtsh. thence
through the Snohomish valley to Ever
ett. 52 miles. The upper end of the
Snohomish valley is narrow and wind
ing, with mountain grades.
After the junction of the Snoqualml*
and Skykomish rivers, however, it wid
ens into a valley floor of from half a
mile to one mile in width.
The entire route Is heavily timbered.
Ground for extensive terminals in
Everett has already been procured and
construction will be commenced at
once.
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M. E. McKirahan. freight claim agent
of the San Pedro. Los Angeles and
Salt Lake at Los Angeles, having re
signed, that office is to be abolished
and the duties probably performed by
the general claim agent of the com
pany.
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J. N. Griswold. division freight agent
of the- Santa Fe at Dallas. Tax., has
been appointed traffic manager of the
Temple Northwestern, with office at ._.
Temple, T«c
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M. B. Irwln has been appointed live
stock agent of the Rock Island, with
office at St. Joseph. Mo.
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It is reported that the Southern Pa
cific hps l<rt a contract for a new hos
pital building to be erected at Houston,
Tex., at a cost of J150.000.
Mind Is Like Wireless
H. Spencer Lewis, a practical psy
chologist of Great Britain, is experi
menting in He holds that
thoughts are things: that they have a
psychological or material existence as
well as a psychological structure. He
also finds it demonstrated that thinking
is a process of varying vibrations, and
that a thought ia the direct result of
a number of such vibrations.
How far it has been proved that
these thought vibrations emanate from
our conscious being. Lewis does not
pretend to know. But as a hypothesis
he assumes that thoughts produce phys
ical vibrations whicji emanate In all
directions, as do the vibrations or
waves from Marconi's wireless tele
graph, says the Chicago Tribune. If
this Is granted It must be granted also
that in order for another mind to re
ceive such vibrations that mind must
be constructed physically upon the
same principle as a Marconi receiving
station. ~- ;.......
If thought waves are vibrations con
stantly emanating promiscuously. It is
apparent that only certain brains or
minds can be so physically attuned as
, to receive those purely physical vibra
tions. ' Thl3 explains why those who.
from a psychological point of view,
are constantly attuned to another can
not at all times and under all circum
stances receive mental messages, pic
tures or words directed to them by the
agent. Atmospheric conditions, bodily
ills, vitality and Us lack and numer
ous other physical conditions would
tend to prevent an agent from proper
ly emanating or directing thousht
waves and to prohibit th«lr reception
at any other point.
AXEL HYGAABD of. Copemugea and Paul Bca
's!* ?f? f Parl9. wbn *re interested la wlc« pro
'luctlon. are guests at tile Palace.
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CAPTAIN and HKS. UNDERWOOD came down
f ™m Mare Island yesterday and took apart
ments at the Fairmont.
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H. G.. LYTLE, a capltalhit w«& lumber inter
»st 3ln Oregon, is at the St. rtsncts reels
tered from Portland.
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H. J..GO3SZ. proprietor of the Riverside hotel.
„ •_ registered at the St. Irancla witb
Mrs. Gosse.
taWtto v vt-ot/mt • * *
-•ajuwj i. fEJTTON. a merchant «f Portlaml.
Francis! 115 rr *C"nt arrl '"v \u25a0* Use st
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OSCAE EDLHARD a well knnwn TT>n-«n.n
coi'stwS* t^ade'T «aX S'fi ?" ""
waae; is staying^at the Palace,
j. GORDAH BAHrlttt -. *
K«t£.£?i *ASGLETT, a w«n known man of
BaWerineld. is stopping at the Normamlie.
PAT7L ISEffBtTBG. a «aDltallst of M^«i,,in i.
among the recini a-riral, „\ZI l\T~i r
.- *rnval9 at the Stewart.
OEOBGE KEMP.'a pro'mme.r mining man of
ll"?* a * *«> U ""Wtoc at the Da*.
SYLVESTER. SCHATTSCHNEIDEB of Washins
ton. D. C, Is registered at the Stewart
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PBESCOTT ELY of CleTeland Is at thi Palace
E»y i* Interested In mines la Mexico.
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