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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-25

tomorrow will be Thanksgiving Day and The News in
ance with Its nvaable custom will observe it by ong pubca-
ton.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09
Tragedy of Lost Glory
Marks the Solitude
of RincO7 Hill.

IN painful contrast to this gay
and effervescent bright spot in
a the great city's wilderness Of
houses, Rincon Hill raises itself in
the widows weeds of it's departed
grandeur. There the very gables of the
old stone mansions are dropping in de-
lection at the ever present spectacle Of
the evil days which are now upon them.
Rust and SCOT have swathed the once
glistening marble columns in mourning
bands. Some of the streets which once
resounded with the wheels of gayly paint
ed carriages now find weeds and grass
forcing their way through the crevices
between the cobbles.
Years ago. when the full tide OF the
gay society of the new city carried crest
ed millionaires on its flood, old Rincon
Hill was made the chosen place of luxury.
Stone mansions, brought in the holds Of
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09
Little Italy, a Typical
Colony of 4ltrurid
in Our Midst.
. AN FRANCISCO is pre-eminently

~ AN FRANCISCO is pre-eminently a
place wherein to study life.
~ No city of the United States
offers such a cosmopolitan throng
for the pencil of a Hogarth or the
pen of a Dickens to depict as does this
swarming beehive of every race and con-
dtion of man under the heavens. From
Fishermens wharf to Ingleside, from the
Potrero TO the Cliff House there are
housed in tenement and in palace such
an ola podrida of Gods humankind DIS
would have delighted Stevenson, that rare
teller of tales, or furnished ample ma
terial for the scalpel of that greatest
dissector of human life, Emile Zola
Few San Franciscians themselves know
what a store of vivid human interest
studies there are right here in their midst.
1t is only the prowling artist or the some-
times enormously self-styled Bohemian
who knows the joys of plate of ravioli
and glass of chianti in Luigfs little
kitchen up on Telegraph Hill, or who sees
the pitiful drama of decay among the old
time mansions of Rincon Hill. The typical
San Franciscan knows not the terra in
cognita of the water front; he never
watched the happy members ofga Slavic
social club swing through strange reels
to the wild strains of some Hungarian
melody up in a dusty hall at North
Beach; he does not know Natoma street;
yet it is all Of these things which give to
the life of San Francisco dash and
piquancy which makes it the most bizarre
city of America.
If one would learn lesson in optimism
and the true laissez faire mode of living,
let him betake himself to that part Of
town where the houses totter on spind-
ling props over yawning chasms, and the
sidewalks are cleated like the gangplank
of a river steamer-little Italy. Here on
the shaggy sides of Telegraph Hill, will
he find the most supremely self-eontented
and light-hearted people of all San Fran
cisco. On the sunny slope of the hill and
down to the bay shore is San Francisco's
colony of Altruria.
BY day. when the swarthy Italian fish,
ermen are all dipping over the waves
out by the Farallones, the rocky streets
and goat trails of the hill are given over
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09
WoOLineSS Has Departed
Uith Past Days and
Culture ReignS.
IF San Francisco can be kind to others

IF San Francisco can be kind to others
it certainly cannot do too much for its
= own. Long will the record live of the
delirium Of JOY which marked the reception
Of the battle-scarred First California Vol
unteers upon their return from Manila.
San Francisco had graciously decked the
guns Of every soldier who had embarked
at her shores for wars in distant lands,
but when her own sons returned to her,
laden with honors of battle, she gave her
self over TO a welcome such as has never
been accorded any one entering her gates
before.
This spirit of generous good fellowship,
which is characteristic of all California as
it is Of San Francisco, seems to be born
in the blood. Pride of our State, our city,
a desire TO show our heaven-cast bless
ings TO those whom we consider less
blessed by natures bounty-these feel
ings prompt our sentiments in a measure.
But there is behind II all the spirit Of the
old argonauts of 40, who made the
mountains disgorge their treasure and the
valleys smile with grain field and orchard
by the travail Of long years. They saw
that the land was a paradise and well
coined others to a share Of its bounteous
rewards.
It has become proverbial that an Eng
lish tourist to San Francisco always car
ries a gun. Probably back in his club on
Piccadilly he has gravely discussed with
his companions the possibility Of being
made to dance the high step on Market
street by some red-shirted ruf1an or hav-
ing to fee for his life because he wears a
silk hat. This tourist, like so many of
his worthy fellow countrymen, has de-
rived all Of his knowledge of San Fran
cisco from Bret Harte's books. He has a
vivid notion of San Francisco of forty
years ago.
But your typical Englishman is too
shrewd TO admit his surprise when he
comes here and meets gentlemen instead
of ruffians-when he discovers that others
wear silk hats and still walk the streets
unmolested. He finds, instead Of lynching
bees and open gambling hells, clubs COM
posed of college graduates, art galleries
and grand opera seasons. At last he must
put his treasured gun away and get out
his frock coat, for the wooliness has
passed from our city with the past and
we have renounced forever all the ro-
mantle distinction which may have been
ours in the old days of gold.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09
Delights of Horseshoe
Fraternity Members
on Docks End.

~F the water front by choice instead
of by profession, there are
~ some who cannot be over
looked by the saunterer along the
wharves. These are the fruit rust
lers, the gentlemen members of the
Horseshoe Club and other kindred spirits.
The dregs of a great city, nearly akin
only to the morphine fiends and rum
drinkers of Chinatown, these lost souls
who make the docks their home are new
ertheless types.
The Horseshoe Club is a collection Of
choice mortals whose raging thirst is
their only mutual bond Of sympathy.
Very rarely they act as stevedores for an
hour or two until the price Of several
beers is theirs and then they stretcn
themselves on the friendly couch of hay
offered at the docks end and dOze until
the beer call from their besOtted throats
rouses them to action again. The bitter
DRAWINGS from empty beer kegs often have
to serve as their stirrup cup when no
priced nickel is in hand. Famous among
the Horseshoe Club was a character, now
in the potter's field, who claimed pre-
cedence among his fellows through the
merit of a Harvard degree
Near brothers to these types are the
members of the confraternity Of fruit
rustlers. Beer Is also the handspring OF
their existence. but it is gained by how
ering around the fruit and vegetable
boats from the Sacramento Valley and
watching a chance TO turn an honest
penny. Should a crate Of pears, hoisted
in midair by the steam donkey, suddenly
collapse and spread its contents over the
wharf, instantly will the willy fruit rus
tier dart upon the scene and gather
enough OF the fruit to exchange with
some huckster for the price Of beer. In
the dearth of such opportunities. he will
search the piles at low tide for certain
variety of boring worm which he can sell
to the dealers in FISH bait and thus en-
compass the object of his burning desire.
With these bright spots OF local color
and others of as interesting a character
does San Francisco lay claim to being
the cosmopolitan city of the United
S,ates She has enclosed within her
boundaries the life Of the world. She has
within ..er limits all of the component
par,s which go TO make up that great
product of the modern AEGEAN American
citizen
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09
Roaring Uoice of Tradt
Makes q BedL0nl of
the Wdter Front.

YYAITH the rattle of truck and
putting of steam crane. the
slithering Shrek of pulley and
clank of chain, an army of stevedores
are overrunning the vessels from the least
to the greatest. Each dark hold Is either
disgorging the treasures of other lands or
receiving in its cavernous nav the pro-
ducts of our own shore to be carried 10
the four corners OF the earth.
Various as the cargoes are the types OF
men who make the water front their
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09

to swarms of tumbling, shouting chill
dren. Little tots with big, grave eyes and
smeared faces block the cracked side
walks with their hop-scotch, their jack
stones and their hea-bitten puppies tied
to soap box carts. Rollicking boys play
baseball on streets so steep that carts
cannot be driven on them, the lucky bats
man knocking the ball on the tops of the
houses half a block below. Often a troop
of ragged urchins bedecked in mock array
of priesthood, and swinging tomato cans
as censers, will be seen gravely conduct
ing first communion procession. An in
verted. ash barrel, gayly draped with a
cambria flag and a bunch of glaring mari
gods, is the altar.
'Care-free as their youngsters, comfort
able matrons gather in groups before the
bread shops and paste makers stores to
knit and chat and bask in the sunshine
the whole day through. From house to
house the CHEEKY badinage of turbaned
Margaritas and Lucias is passed, while
each is taking the air on her flower
decked balcony. Like the dwellings in
old Naples or Turin. house in the It
allan quarter is not complete without its
DdlGOAys 1AC OdlCOAy ocINCS dS d IGCGD-
ton parlor or a place from which to
string the family washing.
1t is at night when the men have re-
turned from their labors of the day that
the quarter is riotous with singing and
hearty laughter. After the gathering Of
knives and the chatter of voices in the
restaurants has ceased, the harp and fid-
die in the wine shops and the wailing
accordion of the wandering troubadours
in the streets take up the refrain of mirth
and jollity. The marionette theater re-
sounds with the crash of mighty battles
between Rolando and II Gianto. In Gar
ibaldi Hall the Beneficenzia Society is
holding forth with dancing and a bounti-
full supply of good red vino. Everywhere
is there happiness and spirits bubbling
over.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09

ships from China, lined Harrison and
Bryant streets Old South Park was the
promenading place for dandies Of the
sixties and their bell-skirted ladies. Many
were the routs and balls given by gilded
princes in the mansions on the hill
But tickle fashion decreed a change.
The elite gradually forsook the hill and
began to build new palaces on a new hill.
Mob Hill blazed forth and the old places
of the charmed circle slipped into decay.
Now encroaching foundries and brewer
les belch their grimy fumes into the aris-
tocratic old faces of the forgotten man
sions. Too often a clothes line stretches
from the convenient finger of the cherub
in the fountain to the carved griffin on
the gate post. Drays thunder along the
streets where dainty barouches used to
roll. A saloon stands where once a fash
ionable flower garden supplied lilies Of
the valley fol- the corsage Of a belle OF
the olden days.
Yet with it all some of the gallant old
mansions still would be deemed arlsto-
cratic as of yore. Like some seedy old
gentleman of a past age whose shiny
green tile and rusty black stock show the
marks of constant brushings, the old
Rincon Hill houses carry themselves
with an air. Despite the broken glass
of their Conservatives, despite the shut
tiers swinging askew on one hinge and all
the other shameful signs of their decay.
the grimy old mansions live on and on in
the pale halo of the memory Of past
grandeur.
Within stones throw of Rincon Hill
lie part of the docks, a link in the great
Cham Of wharves, slips and moles which
embraces the water front in a great cres-
cent from tie Potrero away around to
Meiggs wharf. There is a great, hust-
ling, clamoring world by itself. There the
strident voice of commerce gives itself
tongue without ceasing in the creak of
pulleys, the snort of tugs, the rumble of
laden trucks and countless other dins.
There feverish activity alone finds place.
With their noses all nuzzling the
wharves lie ships of all kinds-ships
from every cline. The round-bellied egg
scow from Petaluma rubs shoulders with
the slender little yacht from the South
Seas with it's fragrant cargo of pineap-
pies. A makeshift river steamer with teet-
ering smokestack and asthmatic cough
lies cheek by jowl with giant coal ship
from New Zealand. Natty army trans
ports, slovenly tramp steamers, imper-
tinent little tugs-all the various messen-
gers of commerce are tied there in rows
like horses in their stalls.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09

still exists as the dominant note Of our
strong. clean San Francisco life.
Another feature Of our San Francisco
life which has prompted the wondering
comment Of our Eastern friends is it's in
genuous generosity and good fellowship,
which is extended to native householder
and traveller alike. The city by the Gold
en- Gate has long been the favored spot
for the assembling of national organiza-
tons in convention. Fraternal orders,
Christian societies and business organiza-
tions have come here to find a smile, a
wreath Of flowers and a hearty welcome
extended to them by San Francisco. Their
stay has been marked by a genuine en-
thusiasm on the part Of the municipal
bodies and the private citizens, vying, The
one with the other, in their efforts TO
spare nothing for the welcome of the Wis
itors.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09
Typical Bits of Local Color of Odd Corners

habitat. From the believing, red-faeed
captain Of a limejuicer to the coloreo
cook of a Bolinas butter boat there is rep
resented every variety OF race, color and
present condition of servitude. The fiorid,
loud-swearing British skipper, with his
great sea coat and oakum tuft Of whisk-
ers, puts his foot on the bar rail Of some
Sailors snug harbor" and drinks his por-
ter with the keen-eyed, hatchet-faced New
Bedford Yankee, who has given up the
fishing smack for the whaler. Gentle
voiced, soft-eyed Kanakas and brown men
from Pago Pago mingle with the raw
boned Norwegians from the deep sea
craft. Staggering men-o'-warsmen, in
beIl-bottomed trousers and open blouses,
roll down the line of swinging green
doors, burying their bronzed faces in
foaming schooners.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09

sung us songs which will live. Frank
Norris, the young San Franciscan whose
short life gave promise of wonderful
achievements, in his grim "McTeague,"
painted a living picture of his native city
which will last for years.
Besides our masters of words, painters
and sculptors of our city have done their
share toward the advancement of our
finer natures. William Keith, the master
color poet of nature, Yelland, his success
full disciple, and Miss Clara McChesney,
now winning fame in New York, have
all reflected credit and done benefit to
their city. Douglas Tilden and Robert
Aitkin make the stone and bronze yield
to the touch of their skilled fingers and
body forth the divine idea of esthetic
beauty.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-08
BLANCHE WALSH SAVES TRAIN
Her Private Car On Fire and She
Fought Flames Alone.

APPLETON, Wis, Dec. S.-Blanche
Walsh the actress, touring the coun-
try in Resurrection" and her COM
pany had a narrow escape from death
early this morning. 1t was only
through the presence of mind of Miss
Walsh that a terrible train wreck was
averted.
The train from Minneapolis to APP
pleton was speeding along at sixty
miles an hour this morning, when Mrs.
Walsh, in her private car, was awak-
ened by smoke. She jumped out of
her berth and was almost overcome,
so dense was the smoke that filled the
car. Not only this, but at the forward
end of the car she saw flames. The
other members of the company were
still asleep. Miss Walsh reached for
the bell cord to stop the train, but the
rope came away in her hands. 1t
haS been burned.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-08

| son, suspended receiver of the La
Grande land office, of the charge of ac-
cepting bride. Secretary Hitchcock
| declares Thompson cannot be rein
| stated. The secretary informed Sena-
tor Fulton that the mere fact of
Thompson having been indicted indi-
Gated that "sOmething was wrong"
and the Indictment, regardless Of
whether Thompson was adjudged in
nOcent, had impaired his usefulness as
a government official. He then and there
told the senator the delegation must
recommend some new man for ap-
point to this receivership. When the
Oregon senators learned of Thompsons
acquittal, they forwarded to Secretary
Hitchcock kilograms announcing this
fact, and added:
This result is precisely as we anti
cipated We believe now, and we have
always believed, that no man in Ore
gOn has a better character for integri-
ty and good standing than has Mr..
Thompson. We have been satisfied
from the first, and are still satisfied,
that any charge against him which in
any manner affects his integrity or his
competency or fitness for the position
of receiver of the land office is not
well-founded, and his removal, in our
opinion would be an act of gross in
justice to a good man.
After the secretary had received the
foregoing note correspondent in
quired at his office what, if any,
change it had made as to the secre-
tary'h determination to dismiss
Thompson, and was told the secretary
stood firm, and, moreover that in call
ing on the Oregon senators to name a
new receiver, the secretary acted by
specific direction of the president.
Senator Fulton said, when told of
the situation, that no one had been
recommended to succeed Thompson,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-08

The flames were gaining headway
and unless the train could be stopped
it would be but a few minutes uhlli
the members of Miss Walshs COM
pany would be suffocated.
Miss Walsh screamed and then with
a fire extinguisher and an AK she
fought the fire. By this time the male
members of the company were aWak-
ened. Miss Walsh had fought her way
past the burning part of the car and
had found the conductor, who stopped
the train.
The train crew and the passengers
then quickly eXtingulshed the names
Had the train gone ten miles more the
private car would have been wrecked
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-08
MAGNATES CONVENE
In Session in New York
City Today.
PFNNANT WAS FORMALLY AWARDED
Business of the Meeting Was Mostly
Routine-FouI Strike Rule
Receiving Consideration.
PENNANT WAS FORMALLY AWARDED

NEW YORK, Dec. S.-Au of the
magnates of the National League were
present at the Victoria hotel when the
regular annual meeting of the organl-
cation was called to order behind
closed doris. The business of the
meeting is mostly of routine CHAR
acter, including the formal award OF
the championship pennant to the Pitts
burg club and the election of off1cers
and directors. The pronounced sue
cess of President Pulliam in directing
the affairs of the league during the
last season insures his unanimous re-
election and the present directors Will
in all probability be chosen to serve
another year.
The gathering Of the club owners
and managers offers excellent oppOrtu-
nitv for the trading of players and 1t
is probable that several prospective
deals will be contaminated. Another
matter to receive attention at the
hands of the magnateS is the 1Oul-
strike rule which was the subject of
much discussion during the past sea-
son. The desira bility of having uni
form rules for both of the major base
ball organizations is conceded and to
bring this about it is likely the ma
tional will appoint a committee to con-
fer with a similar committee repre-
senting the American league and to
settle for all time the destiny of the
foul strike rule
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-08
IN FIGHT TO STAY
Ama|gamated Company
Threaten to Close Down.
Will BE CLEARED UP SOMt DAY
Believed That Stock Of Company VIII
Not Sell Much Lower IN the
Open Market
WILL BE CLEARED UP SOME DAY

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-A representa-
tive of the Amalgamated Copper com
pany says:
The Amalgamated situation VIII
some day be cleared up; although no
man can say exactly when. Unless
the special session of the Montana
legislature acts favorably our mines
will be shut down again. we are IN
this fight to win and we shall win. II
has already taken time and II may
take much more, but when it is finish
ed we will control the copper indus
try of the world.
"Amalgamated Copper will not sell
much lower We do not feel confident
of a decision in our favor at TINS
special session, but unless the courts
decide with us we shall shut down
again, and, if necessary, remain
closed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-08
The Lauder Concerts and Lectures.

The largest audiences of the Sea-
son attended the lectures and con-
certs given by Mr.. Lauder at Whitman
college yesterday.
The morning lecture was devoted to
the Sonata and the speaker gave in
most interesting and entertaining
style the development of the Sonata
form of composition, beginning with
the earliest writer's and ending with
the last and greatest composer of that
particular style of music, the immor-
tai Beethoven.
The afternoon lecture was devoted
to the two greatest of the Beethoven
having been written after the great
master became almost totally deaf.
Mr.. LADDERS playing of these great
master works was distinguished by
the most admirable style, phrasing
and conception of the spirit Of these
wonderful compositions which was a
revelation to those who heard them
for the first time.
In the evening the program was of
a popular character embracing music
by Mendelssohn. Schubert, Weber,
Smetena, Strauss, Rachmaninoff and
others.
Particularly we'll played was the
Schubert-Liszt arrangement of the
''Auf dem Wasser du Singer" and
worthy of especial mention was the
first number on the program, the
Mendelssohn-Lisz wedding march,
and also the Schubert-Liszt 'Soirree
de Vienne" which was taken at a ter
rife tempo.
Other especially fine numbers We're
the Gounod- List selection from Faust,
the Weber-Tausig Invitation to the
Dance" and the Schubert-Tausig
Military March.
This morning Mr.. Lauder lectured
on the Symphony, giving as illustra-
tons selections from Beethoven's
| Eroica and the fifth and the seventh.
| This afternoon the lecture was on
| "Wanderings in England, Scotland and
| Wales" Tonight's program devoted
to Chopin and Schumann will be as
| follows
l. Masterpieces from Chopin
| Grand Octave PolOnaise-Op. So.
| ImprOmptu-Op. 30.
| Nocturne-Op. 60, No. 1.
| Fantasie-F minor.
| Berceuse.
Funeral March.
Two Etudes-"The Zephyr" and
| THE Duet
Two Polonaises-Op. 26, Nos.
| and 2.
| Andante Spianato and Polonaise
| OPP. %.
II. Masterworks from Schumann-
| a. Fantasy Pieces-Op. II.
Why"
| elevation"
| TN the Evening"
"Whims."
I'm the Night"
Dreams Confusion"
b. Arabesque.
| C. Novelette-"Tourney and Was
SAIL
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-08
California Fruit Growers.

FRESNO, Cal, Dec. S.-The annual
convention of California fruit growers
opened in ArmOry hall today with a
good attendance of members from
various parts of the state. The con-
ventiOn will hold sessions for three
days and addresses will be delivered
by Percy T. Morgan, president of the
California Wine association; President
Robert Root, Vice President T. E
White and Treasurer D. d. Allison d
the Raisin Growers Association and
by a number of prominent horticul.
turists.