The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
WORKS WANTS HIS
FACE PROTECTED
The Young Gentleman From San
Diego Is Tired of Being
CariCatured.
Observation-Disclosures

MENTO, Jan. 23.-The younger Mr. Works
of San Diego is right mad. Justly so no
one who knows him will trouble to deny.
1t is not that ripping, crimson article that
finds its vent on street signs and ones
wife, but that gnawing-worm -to-the-soul
sort that finds surcease only under a cof-
fin lid or in the courts. This time it looks
like the courts.
Providence, or whoever it's makes
faces, gave to the doughty San Diego AS
semblyman what is not really an unlovely
countenance; but providence saw fit to
accentuate some lines; set them in italic,
as it were, with a space or two of minion
and an EN- dash thrown in here and there
to lend variety. Providence didn't stop
there. 1t sent Mr.. Works to the Legisla-
ture.
And he has been caricatured copiously,
gratuitously, and worst of all, exactly.
Wherefor this soul blight 1t all started
on Saturday when Mr.. Works declined to
become one of the investigating committee,
forsooth, he would be AFRAID, he said, to
return to his San Diego home and law
practice if he were to vote to cenSure Mr..
Ulysses S. Grant Jr. 1t was an ingenious
statement for one of Mr.. Works mature
20 years, and was quite popular in the
House for some minutes af lot of real
caught The Calls caricaturist, and next
morning he had Mr. Works astride
velocipede going it at a record breaking
pace for the sunny orange groves of the
other accessories of youth, including short
pants, trailing along in the rear.
press desk since. He has sat at his desk
in moody silence and knawed his mus
tache, which, in accord with the above
typographical description of his features.
is set in agate, and it was evident to
every quaking scribe at the desk that his
hot southern blood was engaged in COM
ing to boil. To-day it came. Without
got to his feet. MIR. Speaker" faltered
Bright boy. muttered the motherly
Mr.. Johnson of Sacramento; hes be-
ginning to take notice,
"A bill from dr. Works. smiled Speak
er Wright, approvingly. And, imbued
Clerk Kyle took Mr. Works offering to
tonation began to drop shudders down the
backs of the occupants of the press desks
just under his voice.
House didn't know just how to take it for
a few minutes. 1t was the realization of
the dream of Grove Johnson's 4lfe. but
he didn't know it for some time. Then
| he beamed over at Mr.. Cosper of Fresno,
formerly of Indiana, and Mr.. Cosper
lick said Gee and Judge Clough tried
to chew the tip of his beard and smile
all at the same time, and every one whose
distorted likeness had ever got him into
the droning of the succeeding bill put
an end to the admiration mat went out
10 the pTOulSN VI ille Assembly, WHOSE
maiden attempt at law making was along
lines they all had feared to walk in.
Here is what 1t was all about:
A new section is hereby added to-
the Penal Code, to be known as Sec
ton 259, and to read as follows:
It shall be unlawful to publish in
any newspaper, handbill, paper or
serial for publication or supplement
thereto, the portrait or caricature of
any living person, resident of Cali
fornia, without the consent of such
person first had and obtained; pro-
vided, that it shall be lawful to pub
lish the portrait of person convicted
for crime.
For violation of this section it
shall be misdemeanor and shall be
punished by fine of not less than
500 or more than $500 or by i'm
prisonment in the county Jail for not
less than one month or more than six
months, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment.
All persons concerned in said pub
lication, either as owner or manager,
editor or publisher, or engraver, are
each liable for said publication.
In other words Mr.. Works is going to
effect immunity from pictured libel by
recourse to the law rather than do bodily
harm to the offending artist. The law
he has introduced is not original 1t is
copied from one introduced at the last
session of the New York Legislature, and
there were those at that session unkind
enough to call it very ordinary type of
"cinch bill.
Whether it was or not it cost the
publishers of New York City in the neigh
borhood of 100000 to beat it, which they
Works it would be hardly fair to let the
same impression get out with regard to
his pristine effort. Mr.. Works is 26 and
quite old enough to appreciate that the
artist, at least. had his excuse, but it is
probable that Mr.. Works does not want
the fact advertised.