The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13

Mrs. Grant ashore and the incident did
not mar the reception. Pixley supported
Greeley in the cam paign OF 1872.
The Argonaut was established by Fred
M. Somers and Frank NJ. Pixley. The
first number was published Sunday, March
Is, 1887, and the leading editorial article
was an expression against Sargent for re-
election to the United States Senate.
The Argonaut was really the creation OF
and endeavored, without success, to enlist
in the scheme newspaper man with
whom he had been associated in Leaven-
worth. Then he directed his attention to
Pixley, and presented the venture in such
a favorable light that the latter relin-
quished editorial work on the daily press
and joined the Argonaut enterprise.
Subsequently, Somers started TIE Cali
fornian, monthly magazine, and began
Pixley dlsliked the side ventures and
offered to lend Hugh M. Burke half the
money necessary to buy Somers' interest
in the Argonaut.. Subsequently, Somers
started the Epigram, against Pixley' S
Judgment. and the brilliant sheet lived
only q week. It was bright while it lasted.
Somers health gave way under the strain,
and he was nursed to strength again at
Pixley's home, but the business partner
ship then terminated.
While Mr.. Pixley was in Paris during the
war between France and Germany he
wrote for the Alta California. His letters
were edited by M. G.. Upton, who was al
that time the leading writer on the Alta.
The correspondent was keen observer OF
events abroad, and contributed readable
letters.
Pixley always enjoyed clever hit, and
did not suppress good one because 1t hap
.oI @nI ~ h, q
as 1858 his fame as public speaker ex-
tended throughout the State.
When Eugene CasSerly was elected to
the United States Senate his law partner
w. H. L. Barnes, made a glowing speech,
going so far as to proclaim his allegiance
thereafter to the Democratic party. Pix
ley roasted Barnes for this speech, and the
general, finding as an old Repuollcan the
situation somewhat embarrassing, squared
himself with his party by this reply at
Pixley's expense:
81 am no more responsible for what / say
when am drunk than Pixley is for what
he says when he is sober"
Colonel Robert Simson of Fruitvale, who
graduated at Yale College In 1843 and
came to California in 1849. was an active
lawyer in early, days; he met Pixley in
said yesterday: '.Pixley was keen lawyer,
alert and cunning. AS an advocate he dis
played marked ability and readiness"
Colonel Granniss remarked: "Pixley
was impulsive and impetuous. There was
deal of fight in him. He espoused his
clients cause with the greatest fidelity,
and no man was more loyal to client
than Frank Pixley. The assurance of the
man was refreshing. When my wife came
here in 1852, via Panama, she asked me
shortly after her arrival if | knew Mr..
Pixley. I was slightly acquainted with
him then and so replied. We'll, she said,
needed money, and hearing that Mrs.
Granniss had some proceeded to borrow it.
OF course the loan was repaid as soon as
he met me.'
Charles Warren Stoddard, professor of
English literature in the Catholic Univer-
sity of America, said yesterday: II worked
on the Argonaut for nearly year; while
Mr.. Pixley was apparently hostile to Cath
olics he was personally very kind to me.
1T he had lived a few years longer he would
have joined the Catholic church. He was
well on the road to Roman Catholicism
when he died. He was a stanch sup
porter of the high church-very high
church--of the Episcopal faith. The little
church that he attended and thought so
much of, has the confessional in English"
Frank M. Pixley was elected member
of the Bohemian Club in 1876, after he had
been once re jected He resigned from that
institution two years ago. For twenty
years he was an active spirit IN many of
the club entertainments, and was espe-
cially clever and happy at the banquet
Midsummer High Jinks, and on one occa-
sion in the woods ascertained that the
beautiful grove could be purchased for