The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-22
AROUND THE CoRR1poRs.
''What do 1 know ?' said District Attorne
Barnes at the Occidental last n light; "well abs

i'What do / know ?' said District Attorney
Barnes at the Occidental last night; "well aoso-
lutely nothing, but ! will tell you about the
funniest lawsuit ever heard of. was in New
York at the time, and Robert Mantell ana
Katie Stokes were playing at one OF the Dig
theaters. They were having new play WIT
ten by some celebrated playwright, and, as ad-
vance proofs had been distributed, it was the
talk of the town. The piece was called Tangled
Lives" and was pronounced by every one TO
be exceptionally strong. l venture the asser-
ton that no drama of recent years created
such an amount of talk before the bill-posters
got in their little work. and / am sure that
none were ever so much laughed about after
ward.
"The management wanted to spring sort OF
surprise, so the bill-posting was postponed I'M
til the night before the first performance.
When New York got up the next morning har-
ing bills met their gaze, but instead OF
Tangled Lives the printing-house had made
them read, Robert Mantell and Katie Stokes
in Tangled Liyers."' On every side-hotels,
barrooms, barber-shops and restaurants-was
the startling announcement that Tangled Lly-
ers' would be presented that night.
''Well, that killed the play. 1t was Just
simply laughed to death. The papers took it
up and made all sorts of fun of play, author
and actors. big damage suit followed, and
believe the printing company was finally
forced to put up several thousand dollars as
sort of compromise"
Louis Ghirardelli is q believer in practical
patriotism. He was talking yesterday about
the work of the late Manufacturers conyen-
ton and its attempt to induce Californlans to
patronize home industries. There are good
many people here who have a prejudice
in favor of foreign goods, and many OF
them are Americans, too, mind you. Take
such an article as Colman's mustard, for In
stance. The Colmans get most of their mus
tard seed from this country, ship it over to
England and ship back the manufactured ar
ricle, paying duty, and get 20 to 40 per cent
more for it than mustard made here of the
same seed. 1t is simply Colman's name
that sells it. So it is with cigars, wines
and many other articles. But the work
that the CALL has been dong is having good
effect, and the time will come when people will
quit paying higher prices for the same grade of
goods because they bear foreign labels.
"Nine-tenths of the chocolate consumed in
California is manufactured in this City of
cocoa beans imported from Ecuador. The rest
is imported from France, where it is made
from beans from the same place, and, of course,
is higher priced"
The lobby of the California Hotel was Uttered
up last night with the impedimenta of the
mighty bear hunter, Charles NJ. Stone, who is off
to-day for the mountains about the upper part
of the McCloud River in pursuit of his favorite
game. With him go his wife and sister and
Mrs. Warfeld and Emerson Warfield. The
party will go ninety miles from the railroad,
moving much of the distance on muleback,
and will be supplied with a pack OF hounds,
three servants and an elaborate outfit in the
way of tents and other camping paraphernalia.
They expect to be gone five weeks.
John Currie, the noted Scotch evangelist
who before he took up his present calling was
one of the best-known trainers and hackers of
tootracers in this country and Scotland and
England, is making his headquarters at Pacific
Grove for q time, but comes to town occasion
ally. The other day some friends were speak
ing of the table at the Palace Hotel.
"While you are on the subject of bills of
fa1e,' said Mr.. Currie, "let me show you one
that got up nine years ago while at work at
q mission in Brooklyn, n. Y, and 1 think you
will admit that it is up to any that you can
produce, even in this City famed for its res
taurants. 1t SO tickled some of the tough boys
that were about the mission in Brooklyn that
through it some of them became great Bible
students and are useful men to-day back East"
The following is John Curries bill of fare:
RIRJICAI DINNER