The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-21

with some request. That is true, but they
came on matters of such interest to themselves
that it really was a satisfaction to give them
the little attention they asked. l think had
less annoyance than most Governors. Still q
great deal of hard work was required all the
time, and it naturally gave me feeling of in
dependence to be out of it.
sDown at Pasadena at dinner given to me
after left Sacramento 1 was asked to respond
to the toast, How liked my return to private
life I told them about man who fought all
through the war in the Twelfth Wisconsin.
Some of the men were talking about how it
would feel to be free from the discipline, and
especially the reveille beat at 4 o'clock every
morning. Il tell you what Pm going to do,
said my friend. When l get back home Pm
going to hire Billy, the drummer, to come
down to my house and beat his drum every
morning at o'clock, so can fire bootjack at
him and tell him to go to the dickens, and then
turn over and sleep all want to-"
Leigh II. Irvine has turned in more "space'
this week than he ever did before during his
career as knight of the pencil, scissors and
pastepot. The presentation of Gas You Like
IT. for the benefit of charity at Sutro Heights
this afternoon got the ladies of the Charming
Society into such deep water that they had to
call on practical newspaper man to rescue
them from their overwhelming responsibilities.
Mrs. Lowell White Mrs. Horace Wilson and
others, active members of the society, visited
the city editors OF every daily paper in San
Francisco, in the capacity OF press agents.
They were received with courtesy and prom
ised everything they desired ip the way OF free
advertising, the city editors resolving to escape
from the vigilance of the business managers,
who measure everything by "per square," by
covering themselves with the ample folds OF
no oil 10 ~ oh rit in
name many strange deeds are perpetrated in
editorial sanctums
"Oh, we own the papers! The editors are all
perfectly lovelyl" exclaimed the ladies when
they reported the result of their visit to Mana
ger Friedlander of the Columbia. But when
they sat down in the various offices to write
the notices q rare and puZZling array of
intricate head-schedules confronted them; for,
fond as they were of their knowledge of the
dreamy caprices of GAS You Like It," they soon
discovered that they did not know a two-em
dash from mile heat, or pyramid-head from
a circus-poster and when their carefully pre-
pared articles on the Bard of Avon appeared
the next morning they hardly knew them, so
they got Irvine to do the press-work for all the
papers, and he says he would rather do the
late watch on Meiggs wharf or camp all night
at the Morgue than indulge in such jugglery
again.
sit may be all right for man like Fred Law
renee to act as press agent for Sells circus"
said Mr.. Irvine last night, "for he can write
fables about animals and move on to the next
town without danger of exposure and without
being held accountable for deviating from the
truth, but when it comes to writing the cold
truth for every paper in town every day and
every night for a week, and then stretching
the limbs of the heads of departments until
they print the Aforesaid Washingtonian utter
ances it is more than can stand.
"Another thing is that l have become q
nuisance in my own office. / came in with q
genuine sensation the other night and my city
editor did not want to give me an audience,
fearing that came to- him as press agent of
the Charming Society. Then again, have for
gotten how to write Chronicle heads. have
caused the copy readers to doubt my sanity by
handing in CALL, Examiner, Bulletin, Report
and Post headlines over my copy, and by refer
ring incoherently to Orlando and Rosalind in
the midst of my reports of Judge McKisick's
speech on the Stanford case. l suppose / will
get over it, or that if do not recover the la
dies OF the Charming Society will use part of
the fund in properly caring for me-"