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30 San Francisco Proud of Its Prominent Men Brains, Grit, and Energy Help in Development IMPORTANT PARTS PLAYED BY MANY Individuality Potent Force in Industrial Growth In any campaign for "more smokestacks" such as the one San Francisco is entering upon in preparation for the opening of the Panama canal, there is something more than mere money, energy or progressiveuess needed. The city that wants to make homes grow on its vacant lots and factories spring up on its outlying fields, must first have the support and moral influence of big men—men who are hig in purpose, ability and influence. By its directory of men who "have done things'' any city is known abroad. The number and quality of the names in such a directory is of itself an advertisement of the city's right to "more smokestacks." In this regard San Francisco is peculiarly fortunate. Jt has a long list—a never ending list— of men whose names shed a luster across the city of their home. It is a list that micht well arouse the enw of many older and larger communities than the Pacific coast metropolis. It is a list that is potent in many of the city's biff affairs, and is bound to have its proper —elffhl la the future development of greater Francisco. Attorneys, capitalists, merchants and financiers all have done their share in their different fields toward helping: the city grow. The scope of their service has been wide, the parts they have played varied. The worth of some is history; the activities of others have been directed in quieter channels, and are not so well known. The city itself, however, is a lasting testimonial to all of them. H. P. HERMANCE Whenever Fillmore street merchants render up their thanks for the success that has come to them in the promo tion of their street as a business thoroughfare second only to Market street itself, they lay aside an especial consignment of appreciation for H. P. Hermance. assistant Pacific Coast manager for the F. W. Woolworth com pany, the ten cent store magnates. Fillmore street today 1s an imposing monument to the foresight of Mr. Her mance. who enjoys the distinction of being the first merchant to reopen his store during the trying days of 1906. Tn the excitement of the memorable April of 1906, Hermance, who then was manager for the E. P. Charlton company, owners of a chain of ten cent stores which since has been ab sorbed by the Woolworth company, was t!.i<>. first merchant to settle upon Fillmore street as the neighborhood where San Francisco business men .mild rehabilitate themselves. Tho business concerns which later flocked to this new neighborhood, some of them to remain, followed the lead of Mr. Hermance with his ten cent store and the opening of his store began to help the city return to its business activity. The first store to open after the fire was the one story frame "shack" which Hermance hastily erected at Ellis and Fillmore streets. The build ing still stands, with a second story added since. From all the confusion of the closing days of April Mr. Hermance succeeded in abstracting sufficient stock, shipped by other coast stores, to fill the shelves in the frame building. On the day he opened he sold out his ftitire stock, repeating this experience each day thereafter for many weeks. San Francisco especially owes a debt of sratitude to Hermance for the first shipment of medicines which came into the stricken city after the fire. While General Funston was putting forth seemingly fruitless efforts to find a sufficient supply of the needed drugs for the relief stations and hospitals, Hermance, upon his own initiative, found his way to Stockton,, where he purchased from that city's drug stores all the available medicines such as were wanted here and brought them into the city. For this thoughtfulness he was presented a letter of appreciation by General Fun.ston. Mr. Hermance is connected with vir tually all the public movements for the betterment of the commercial and in dustrial conditions in San Francisco. He has maintained the store so hastily erected at Ellis and Fillmore streets through loyalty to the business district which owes its foundation to blm. WILLIAM M. ABBOTT One of the San Franciscans who is playing an important part in the state's development is William M. Ab bott, corporation counsel for the United Railroads, Solano county land project, and various other California corpora tions. From his offices In the Wells Fargo building, on Second street, Ab bott exercises the legal Influence over the vast activities of development con cerns which represent many millions of dollars invested in California. The recent organization of the So lano county project, involving 65,000 acres of farming land and an invest ment of $7,500,000 of eastern capital, was directed by Mr. Abbott, as was the organization of the power projects through which the United Railroads makes its own power and sells Its ex cess in various interior cities. Although the Solano project is but two months old. the work of irrigation 5s being done now and planting already has commenced. Plans looking to the colonization of the tract are being made, ana it is expected that within the year hundreds of settlers will have colonized the lands which, until Abbott saw the possibilities of development, were practically a waste region. The Luther Burbank society and tho Luther Burbank Press also were or ganized by this attorney, who found among his clients the money necessary to properly promote the Burbank dis coveries and finance hi* investigations and experiments. The, publication of all data covering tbe Burbank re searches up to date will soon be an accomplished fact, the societies or ganized by Abbott having made such a stupendous work possible. Tn his capacity as general attorney for the United Railroads Mr. Abbott handles through his office what is probably the most various of any of the practices in the city. The entire claims department of the company is dominated by him, and to him go the complaints for damages. It is worth remark that in the adjustment of claims for damages sustained in acci dents and through neglect Abbott has struck a happy medium of arbitration between the company and those who make claims against it that has done away with almost all the litigation of this sort that, at one time, crowded the courts. The res-ult has been more t-atisfaetion for the victims of accidents and less controversy for his client. CAPT. WILLIAM MATSON One of San Francisco's best known men is Captain William Matson, whose "experience as marine capitalist is un surpassed. He is the pioneer in the industry of transporting oil by sea and may, with reason, be called the oil king of the Pacific coast. Captain Matson is an intensely prac tical man and has achieved success in life by forming sound business judg ments concerning the possibilities of San Francisco and the state. He has large interests in Honolulu as well as in San Francisco, and Is the local representative of the Honolulu Plantation company. He is general manager and president of the Matson Navigation company, is the owner of many ships sailing the Pacific, and a number of his vessels ply between San Francisco and the Hawaiian islands. Captain Matson is also a large owner and director In oil pipe lines and has been greatly instrumental in building San Francisco's present enormous trade in that valuable natural product. He was one of the first of San Francisco's commercial magnates to realize the actual and prospective wealth and per manent productive power of the state's oil wells. He Is identified with several oil transportation companies, among them being the Pacific, the Coalinga and the National. PATRICK CALHOUN Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads of San Francisco, was born at Fort Hill, Pendleton district, S. C, March 21, 1856. He is the son of Andrew Pickens and Margaret Maria (Green) Calhoun, and a grandson of John C. Calhoun, vice president of the United States from 1525 to 1829. He moved to Dalton, Ga., in 1871. He was educated in private schools and adopt ed the law as a profession, being ad mitted to the bar of Georgia in 1875 and to the Missouri bar the following year. He practiced in Atlanta from 1878 until 1894, and early became prom inent in the consolidation of railway and traction interests, notably in the cases of the Central railway of Geor gia, the Richmond and Danville and Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse company, for all of which he was counsel from 1889 to 1892. Since that time he has de voted most of his time to the consoli dation of street railway systems, tak ing active parts in the consolidation of the street railway systems of Pitts burg. St. Louis, Baltimore and San Francisco. He is a director In the Philadelphia Traction company and the United Rail ways of Pittsburg. In addition to be ing president of the United Railroads of San Francisco, he is also president of the United Railroads Investment company of San Francisco, of the Houston Oil company of Texas, of the Calhoun Falls Investment company and of Calhoun mills; owner of Euclid Heights, Cleveland, 0., and largely In terested In real estate In South Caro lina, Georgia and Texas. He has three homes, one each In Charleston, S. C. Cleveland, 0., and New York city. He maintains his principal office in New York. He is an indefatigable worker, in spite of his age. for he has a vigorous constitution and great powers of en durance. He has inherited the cour ageous com-bativeness of his distin guished ancestors and in his commer cial campaigns exhibits many of tbe characteristics of a great soldier. He is as efficient an'executive as a leader, his wonderful powers of organization being one of his most marked traits. He can see at a glance a weak point here or a strong one. there and is quick to discover and apply a'remedy for the THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1913. MEN WHOSE NAMES LOOM LARGE IN HISTORY OF MODERN SAN FRANCISCO one or a means of application for the other. In 1885 he married Miss Sarah Porter Williams, daughter of George W. Wil liams, of Charleston, S. C. C. H. WORKMAN One of the prominent figures In the industrial life of San Francisco, one whose business successes are a true index to what may be accomplished in other lines by perseverance and faith in California as a manufacturing state, is C. H. Workman, president of the Work man Packing company. Under the hands of its president, this firm, which turns out for the market packed ta males, enchiladas, concentrated chill con came and other products, has grown from a "baby industry" with a capacity of 300 tamales a day, in 1900, to a concern which, in 1913, ranks with the most progressive Industrial firms In the state, with a capacity of 20,000 cans a day. It Is the largest tarnalo and enchaladas factory In the world. In 1900 Mr. Workman commenced to make tamales and enchiladas, and to can clams, under the name of the W. G. M. Canning company, at 1205 Fifth avenue, San Francisco. The full capac ity of this factory was but 300 tamales a day, and at first it was not every day that this output was demanded by the market. A year later Mr. Workman moved his little plant to 343 Thirteenth street, and in the new quarters he raised the output to 1,800 tamales and enchiladas a day. The introduction of these goods to the San Francisco mar ket in the pleasing shape in which Mr. Workman turned them out proved to be a taking idea, and; against odds and despite the prediction of friends who were pessimistic as to the outlook for the business, the novel business grew until more factory facilities were needed. In 1902 Mr. Workman purchased the Kapp & Street Canning company and removed his business to this fac tory. It was here that the variety of articles manufactured was increased to include concentrated soups from Mexican and Spanish products. In two years the business had grown to such an extent that more facilities were required and then the I X L Packing company was purchased, its plant dis mantled and the two concerns com bined. The products then on the market under the brand name of W. G. M.. Kapp & Street, I X L. Cook Packing company and Crown Packing company, all articles competing with each other in their especial fields, thus came under the control of the Work man company, or, as this company was called after It had been incorporated, the Spanish-American Food company. San Francisco has its first experience with Spanish-American foods prepared systematically and in convenient form for restaurant and home consumption when Mr. Workman began their in Workman factories and now they are popular brands, reaching out well Into the east, each package bearing the stamp of California and each article foremost in Its line. In 1911 Workman formed the Work man Packing company, with a capital stock of $500,000. This company ab sorbed the Spanish-American Food company, and made available the enormous capital required to properly extend the business In keeping with the great demand for the products. The company now has an output capacity greater than that of any similar concern In the world. Prepara tions already are under way for the erection of a four story, steel frame modern factory building in Harrison street on property owned by the com pany. This new factory is warranted by an increase of 135 per cent in busi ness during 1912. Besides being a successful manufac turer Mr. Workman takes a lively in terest in every movement that tends to the upbuilding of the city and state. He Is a member of the board of di rectors of the San Francisco Cham ber of Commerce, of the Home Industry league of California, of the San Fran cisco Convention league; is vice presi dent of the Mission Promotion associa tion, a member of the San Francisco Ad club, a member of the Southern club and many other civic and fra ternal organizations. Mr. Workman has associated with him as directors and stock holders In his company many of San Francisco's ablest business men and confidentially expects to develop the sale of his gOods within the next few years to 100,000,000 tins per annum in the United States alone, saying nothing of the export trade which will naturally come to this company. Thornwell Mullally, assistant to the president and, next to him. the prin cipal executive officer of the United Railroads, Is a native of Columbus, 8. C, where he was born January 17, IS6S. His father was Rev. Francis P. Mullally, a distinguished Presbyterian clergyman of South Carolina, who was borff in Ireland. His mother, before her marriage to the elder Mullally, was Miss Elizabeth K. Adger, a member of a prominent old southern family. His early education was received at Adger college, South Carolina, the University of South Carolina and the Hopkins grammar school. New Haven, Conn. He graduated from Yale university in 1892. From his student days Mullally ex hibited the rflgh executive ability that has since distinguished him. He was editor of the Yale Literary Magazine, which he. handled ably, and he won dis tinction In Yale debates against Harvard in 1892. The faculty of Yale awarded him the Thomas Glasby Waterman prize for scholarship, which carries with It the decree that the winner is the student whose abilities give the best promise for a bright future. After leaving Yale he went to New Ycrk. graduated from the New York law school, was admitted to the bar and became a member of the law firm of Arterbury & Mullally. Such. marked ability did he show in his work in New York that President Patrick Cal houn of the United Railroads, upon ac quiring that property, induced him to abandon his lucrative profession in the east and to come to San Francisco as assistant to the president of the newly organized company. Mullally combines several highly valuable and attractive qualifies. His executive ability Is of the highest or der; he is a hard worker and a de termined one; has quick and usually correct decision In emergency; is of strong, virile personality, yet possesses a most polished, courteous manner. One of his strongest traits is his sense of absolute fairness and Justice to all with whom he has dealings. While he can not be bullied into doing what he thinks is wrong by the most power ful influences, he is yet prompt, If shown to be in error, to yield gladly to the .weakest. Loyalty to his rriends, honor in all his dealings and a nature that wins both respect and affection are traits that have done much to aid him In his rapid rise in the world of affairs. MARSHALL B. WOODWORTH In view of the activities of the gov ernment in hunting out tho various business combinations which come un der governmental notice as "combina tions in restraint of trade," and the ffreat amount of publicity being given these federal Investigations it is inter esting to know that a San Francisco lawyer has the distinction of being vir tually the pioneer in the initiation of litigation against the offending trusts. Marshall B. Woodworth, former United States district attorney for this dis trict, was among the first of the fed eral attorneys to begin prosecutions under the anti-trust laws. It was the Federal Salt company of California that furnished the material for practically the first of the great trust cases. Woodworth. after a long Investigation, instituted suit against the salt company, alleging fraudulent re straint of competition. After a long, hard fought suit he succeeded in forcing the salt company into liquidation as a trust and established precedents which still are followed in trust litigation. The Federal Salt company, an incor poration practically controlling the out put of salt west of the Mississippi river, was found to have forced its patrons to agree not to buy or sell salt that had not first passed through Its hands. By these contracts the salt market was tied up in the west and the price of the saline necessity-pushed up prodigiously. Rock salt, which before the trust days sold to farmers for $2.50 a ton. under trust domination rose to $35 a ton. Nor mal prices were restored as a result of Woodworth's proceedings against the the company. Many other San Francisco cases in which there was much public Interest are part of the record of Marshall Woodworth. The famous "Dimmiek" case, which Involved the mysterious disappearance of $30,000 in coin from the United States mint, was handled by him in conjunction with a famous de tective then in the secret service. Dlm mick. an official of the mint, was con victed by W r oodworth of having stolen the money In small amounts from the mint vaults during night time trips to the building, ostensibly upon business. Being: an expert In the mechanism of vaults, he so manipulated tbe time locks that they could easily be made Inoperative when he desired, and a skillful Juggling of suit cases carried by him. sunposedly with his evening clothes inside, made It possible for him to carry the money home with him. it was a baffling case at first, and even after the discoveries were made convic tion was not easy. Among the other case* handled b y over the country were the Chinese sub- Chinese who had no ripiit in the coun try always found it easy to escanc de portation, despite the fact that at that time hundreds were being returned t" China every month. Woodworth dis covered that deputy jailers in San Fran cisco were in league with the Chinese. and that during the night Chinese who had a right to remain in the country, but who had grown old and who want ed to return to their native land to die. were substituted for Chinese held in the jail and the latter allowed to escape. The deputy jailers and the United game until Woodworth broke it up. WILLIS POLK Tn estimating the value of the work done by different San Franciscans in the rebuilding period, too much can not be said for Willis Polk, the architect. In money, the work he accomplished would amount to something like $10, --000,000. In its material value to the city mere figures arc inexpressive. The volume of the work which has passed through his office is a sort of a revelation to most persona in this city and a surprise to his most intimate friends and associates in locai club dom, as most of the men comprising the inner circle of his acquaintance regard him as an easy going, good natured, companionable fellow rather than as n man handling so vast an amount of construction work in so brief a period, and among it some of the most Important structures of tksjfc, rebuilt city. v ' Among the notable buildings !n the designing or rehabilitation of which Polk has played an important part may be mentioned the P'lrst National bank of San Francisco, the building for the regents of the University of California, San Francisco; St. Mary's hospital, Pacific, Union club house. Mer chants' exchange building. Mills build ing, the Cuyler Lee building, Fredericks building, the Chronicle building, a num ber of large business and office build ings and residences, while he designed and superintended the construction of numerous public and private buildings in different parts of California during the same period. Polk is generous in refusing to claim all the credit, but gives praise to his associates for the part they have had In the work. E. MYRON WOLF One of the native sons of San Fran cisco who is prominent in the practice of law is E. Myron Wolf, attorney, of the First National bank building, mem ber of a dozen of the city's leading clubs, and an active member of the Masonic order and the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Wolf graduated from the Uni versity of California in 1894, with the degree bachelor of letters. He at tended the Hastings law school and was admitted to the supreme court of California in 1897. He was registered by the supreme court of the United States In 1905. and has fought many important cases before the highest tribunal in the country. Two terms as insurance commissioner for California were served by Mr. Wolf, who was first appointed In 1902 and again in 1906. In 1909 he resigned to re sume his practice of law. Mr. Wolf is a thirty-second degree Mason, anilr is a past president of the N. 8. O. W* California parlor. Continued on !fext Pu«