The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
SOME MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

VE THlLE the attention OF the public has been
M given with less impotence during
the last ten days to reports OF the contests
between the two white winged drifting machines of
Sandy Hook, good many really lively things have
happened and passed unheeded 1t is but right that
some note be made of the remarkable OF these
minor items, for since we live in a mutabe world
we should watch the mutations.
Ever since the victory of the reform elements
among the people of New York, the election OF
Mayor Low and the retirement of Boss Croker to
England it has been believed that the Iamnany
tiger is sick; indeed more than he has been
cartooned dying tiger by local artists making
sketches as it were in the very lair OF the beast Well
last week Tammany had picnic for portion, or
rather for faction, of its braves What known
as "Hafens Jefersonans, 5000 strong, went for a
feast, and the reports tell us that they consumed
10000 ears of corn 10000 pounds OF beef, 1900 pounds
OF butter 5000 pounds of FISH 10000 pounds OF
chicken 5000 loaves of bread 10000 plates OF ice
cream and 1000 cigars. Without taking the trouble
TO figure accurately what was the per capita
sumption of the braves at that feast, it will be per
ceived they are not sick tigers by any means, nor
are they suffering from anything that tends loss
of appetite
| While Haffen's Jeffersonians getting away
with everything in sight at the picnic, Rochester
man making a still more remarkable record,
though a different line. He is the father of fam
! lily of nine children Near him lived neighbor with
eleven children. He fell in love with his neighbors
wife and she lovingly responded. Thereupon he
eoped with her and took the whole twenty children
along, thus breaking the elopement record and dis
tancing all competitors.
In dear old London" a man was brought into
court the other day for failing pay the license
which the city requires OF those who keep men en-
ployed as household servants The plea OF the &C
cused was that the man was "housemaid' and did
nothing but housemaid's work. Investigation dis
closed that the housegir has become so impossible
in London there is increasing tendency to en-
ploy men for such work The defense was not per-
mitted stand in the courts but the incident
to show that when women crowd men out OF the
shops and factories retaiate by invading the
domain of homework and driving the girls from what
was once looked upon woman's stronghold
At the recent universal peace convention the com
mttee on platform instead of drawing up series OF
resolutions" recommended the adoption OF a num-
Der of doctrines the Convictions OF the congress
The change from the customary word has been well
received by those who have paid it any attention To
declare conviction that white is black is much more
modest than to "resolve" that white is black and
since modesty is becoming and more charac-
terstic Of Americans in convention perhaps the
ventional word will be eliminated altogether before
the close OF the century and we shall have nation
full of politicians standing by their convictions in
stead Of asserting their resolutions.