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The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26
VISIT OF BURGLARS TO
BARBER SHOP DISCOVERED
Police Make Investigation and Come
to Conclusion That Intention Was
to Rob Neighboring Saloon.

When the barber shop of William
Baron at O'Farrell street and Grant
avenue was opened for business yes
terday morning there was evidence of
the fact that 1t had been visited by
burglars during the night. A hole
had been bored in the front door to
enable the lock to be worked. The
police were notified and Detectives
Dinan and Wren were detailed on the
case.
AS nothing had been taken from the
barber shop the officers made thor
ough investigation of the premises
and came to the conclusion that the
hole in the door had been made from
the inside. The shop is under Galley
& Roeder's saloon and it is the the
ory of the officers that the burglars
had been in the saloon and had gone
to the basement, opening the door
leading from the shop to the saloon
with a skeleton key. Their intention
had been to hide in the shop till the
saloon closed at o'clock in the
morning and then rob 1t. A Chinese
who sleeps in the saloon commences
work as soon as it is closed and his
temperance disconnected the burg
lars and they made their escape
through the front door Of the barber
shop.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26
rather Accuses Daughters.

Andreas zihn, aged executor of the
estate of his wife. Abigail A. d. Zihn.
who died in 1901, yesterday applied
to the Probate Court for an order COM
pelling his daughters, Elizabeth,
Emma and Clara, to account to him
for large sums In rents, the collection
Of which he intrusted to them. He
says he has demanded a report, which
they refused. Zihn already has civil
suits pending against the daughters for
reconveyance of valuable property,
which, he says, he decided to them in
trust.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26
BRENNAN NEED NOT TELL
WHAT HE DID WITH MONEY
Judge Sloss Sustains Important OBJ
lection to Question Asked by
Father Grey's Attorney.

JccuOn 10 QucSuOn ASKED Dy
Father Grey's Attorney.
The question, What did you do with
that money!" which Attorney NJ. c..
Hassett propounded more than a week
ago to DR.. James F. Brennan for the
purpose of tracing the funds the doc
tor is charged with having taken from
Father p. J. Grey, need not be an
swered, at least at this stage of the
trial. When the question was asked,
Brennan's attorney, William M. Can
non, objected and several sessions of
court have been devoted to arguments
on both sides. Yesterday Judge Sloss
sustained the objection, as he did OBJ
jections to. other questions of the same
purport relating to Brennan's deposit
and withdrawal of $4,000 from bank.
Hassett declared to the court that he
desired to prove that Brennan drew
$4,000 in March, 1903, when he sup
posed Father Grey was about to die.
and redeposited it in April, when the
aged priest had recovered. The hear
ing will be resumed this morning.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26
Travel Talk.

Mr.. Frederick W. Prince will talk Of
"a Jaunt to Chicago" at Y. NJ. C. A.
Auditorium. Tuesday January 81; adnnis-
sion twenty-five cents.
There will be 200 magnificent stereop-
ticon slides; grand views Of Yosemite and
beautiful pictures Of the Grand Canyon
of Arizona; interesting glimpses Of Moki-
land and the snake dance. Tickets on
sale at Office Of Y. M. c. A, Mason and
Ellis streets.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26

Mrs. A. T. Stills, 607 Post street. re-
ported to the police yesterday that the
rooms of III. T. Belmer and j. c.
Hampson had been entered and gold
watch and S11 in coin stolen Isaac
Rudie, 306 Sixth street, reported that
a dozen shirts had been stolen from
the front of his store. A report was
also made that carpenters tools to the
value of SO so had been stolen from
a new building at Clay and Spruce
streets.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26
Bartender Sunocated.

Henry Beversdorf, bartender in
the service of w. ]. G: Muhl, was suf-
focated last Tuesday night in his bed
at the corner of Ninth avenue and
Fulton street. Gas was escaping from
an open burner. The window was
open for about ten inches at the top
and Beversdorfs clothes were folded
neatly on a chair. He retired to his
room intoxicated at half past 2 o'clock
yesterday morning. His friends be-
lieve that his death was accidental.
He was a native of Germany, 40 years
old and unmarried.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26
wyman Argument Postponed.

The argument on the motion for a
new trial in the case of Charles wy
man. convicted of fraudulently voting
at the last primary election, was to
have taken place before Judge Law
lor yesterday afternoon. As there
was a case on trial the Judge decided
man motion tomorrow morning.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26

ministered with clubs swung by Pa
trolmen Mcintyre, Doyle and Kenny.
who responded to the call telephoned
to the O'Farrell-street station by the
affrighted Miss Robertson. He had
leaped from the hospital balcony and
run nearly block when the officers
caught him and then he resisted them
SO fiercely that their club play was
necessary to effect his subjugation. He
said he was a sailor, but could not re-
member the name of his ship. The
police believe he has a bad record and
are trying to ascertain it.
The man who terrorized the nurses
had been playing ''Peeping Tom sew
eral nights prior to Dorsey's capture.
His visits were invariably made after
midnight, and several times he was
seen on the balconies endeavoring to
peep into the nurses sleeping rooms,
but In the darkness his features could
not be distinguished. 1t was about 8
o'clock yesterday morning when Miss
Robertson was first awakened by the
noise at her window and her screams
attracted to the apartment the other
nurses. They searched the balconies.
but no trace of the intruder was
found. An hour later he repeated his
attempt and the police summons was
sent in.
Rudolph Schwartz alleges that he
was given knockout drops and robbed
by Charles Brown in the latter's
apartments at 321 Sansome street, the
total value of his loss being $35.
Schwartz and Brown are members of
a secret society, and Schwartz believed
that Brown was animated by a frater-
nal spirit when he suggested the visit
to the room to indulge in "a little
drink" Judge Mogan has the case
well in hand and may dispose of 1t
tomorrow.
William c. Pedin was amusing him.
self by blowing cigar smoke into the
face of a woman who was awaiting a
car on Mission street when a police
man spoiled the joke by arresting
him. The woman failed to appear in
court and Mr.. Pedin's fate is depend
ent upon the findings of the police
man, who is now investigating his
character.
Jerry Fairbanks. who sells horse
racing literature at Ellis and Powell
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26
Workman Killed.

E. M. Carlson, an oiler employed at
the Union Iron Works, died in the
California General Hospital yesterday
of injuries received on the preceding
day by being struck by a travelling
crane while at work. He lived at 215
Arkansas street and was 81 years old.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26
Bankrupt OIL Promoter.

Frank Barrett. an oil land promot-
er, filed a petition In insolvency yes
terday in the United States District
Court. He owes $15.320 and has
$4,000 assets. Nearly all his creditors
reside in the East. Some of the debts
were contracted as far back as 1882.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26

streets, was arrested for expectorating
upon the sidewalk while pursuing his
vocation and when he pleaded that
the fog was so thick that he could not
aim with accuracy. his intention being
to anoint the roadway, Judge Mogan
took his word for it and dismissed
him.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26

When a man offers you cigar, and
you know he is doing 1t purely as a
matter of courtesy, should you take It
or refuse it:
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26
Sneak Thieves Keep Busy.

Ask for Log Cabin bread at grocers and
branch bakeries. Wholesale. 300 Dolores st. .
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26

There are nearly 100 High streets
in London.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26

Maria Manning, about 90 years of
age and married, maliciously black
ened the eyes of her mother, Mrs. An
ME Bessel, in the latter's home on
Sixth street, but maternal forgiveness
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26

Thought is stronger than blows.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26

Jerry Fairbanks, who sells horse
racing literature at Ellis and Powell
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-08

ana widely bruited regulations win i'll
fame for the old QUARTER and the right
full denizens thereof.
play? Oh! yes, we played! The
time | mean was just after Beranger-
he was the Anthony COmstock of Paris
had been making himself obnoxious.
The two heads at the gate of the Ecola
I don't remember who they were, but
they were of some tremendously cele-
brated, dignified old chaps, and had had
their noses Clipped since the commune
had been taken away for repairs, ana
the pedestals looked empty.
1.-THE name of Beranger recalls to
mind that queer little uprising in Paris
threatened for an ephemeral day to be-
come a second commune. 1t will be re-
membered by many, but chiefly by
those who have ever followed the me-
teoric career of that strangest and most
fascinating figure of bohemian life in
Paris-Sara Brown.
1.-The name sounds harmless enough.
but Sara Brown made more trouble
in her brief public life than any hun
bred other women that you could pick
on two continents. Her antecedents
were exalted-Russian and English in
the way of nation and as high as pos
sible in the way of birth. OF course
she was illegitimate.
Her childhood was spent in a French
convent, from which she ran away at
the age of fifteen. She became a cir
Gus rider in the Hippodrome, and so
began her career. The various Incl
dents of this career will only bare re-
peating in briefest outline. She was
one of those extraordinary creatures
for whom laws or standards do not
exist She ruled supreme, with her
pink hair and beautiful figure, over all
men. Her brain was almost as marvel
Gus as her body, and her charm was
monumental
"She posed for some of the most
wonderful pictures of modern times:
she fitted, glowing, vivid figure, from
studio to studio; she loved many times,
enjoyed tremendously, suffered horri-
bly,. -Four times she tried to commit
suicide and all her life bore the scar
of one jagged wound which she had
given herself in a fit of desperation.
And all this before she was twenty.
"Her escapades are legion and are
known to every man or woman in the
Quarter. But probably her most ia
nous one was the Quatres-Arts affair.
She went to the ball as Cleopatra,
wearing only a jeweled head dress and
emerald studded belt, and was carried
in this garb-or ungarb-through the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-08
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just little, honi soft qui mal-y pense-y,
to find the slightest suggestion of wrong
in high souled, prosecuted consump-
tive like Camille l am tru..- sorry to
see this tendency in parents, and feel
that something should be done to eradi-
cate 1t. fear, though, you would have
to begin in your infancy, it seems so
deeply implanted.
"Your music lessons and practicing
are another thing which requires con-
slant reproving on the part of parents.
Why they should make such fuss over
so trivial a matter is what puzzles me.
They are perfectly aware that you will
never be a musician and that it's an abb
solute waste of time to spend all that
money on your musical education.
You don't even want to play-that is,
anything more than 'Arabella' or Be
delia'-yet they are forever nagging at
you to know if you have practiced and
if you know your lesson. You would
think it one of the serious matters of
life to hear the way they go on, ana
you are often quite out of patience
with them. [ know of parents who seem
to think that their chi!dren's practicing
is of more consequence than the saliva
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-08

him alone at first. But after a while
we decided that it was high time he
was hazed, like everyone else, and
properly initiated into the studio. He
was a nouveau; he must bear the al
lotted torrents of all nouveauX. WE'LL
first we ordered him to go out and get
some black soap to wash paint brushes.
That's one of the first gags in hazing
nouveau, you know.
But the big Swede had been warned.
He pulled a piece of black soap out Of
his pocket and asked very mildly if it
would be enough!
well, for a bit we let him alone
after that. Then we commanded him
to go up on the model throne and sing
a song. So he climbed up on to the
platform and faced that room full Of
bowling demons. And he began to
sing. Well, the walls expanded, 1 give
YOU my word! The fellow had voice
like Edouard de Heterogeneous! he
opened his mouth and let that superb
voice roll out over the turmoil, and
in two seconds every man in the room
was silent-and when he stopped the
applause shook the building!
But there was one ordeal which all
nouveaux must go through, and which
he had failed to undergo. He had not
stripped before the atelier. So one day
he was orderer to do that. He quite
calmly began to undress. He stripped
t. his waist and then, suddenly folding
his arms across his chest, said quietly:
CTS there anything else 1 can do for
you?'"
1.-THE man was a Sandow! He stood
there motionless, with his enormous
muscles standing out under the skin,
staring us all down with his calm
ewes, and we wilted. Some of us were
big chaps, but by Jove! he could have
licked any three of us! We never
troubled the big Swede any more after
that He had won!
Its a great life over there, like
nothing else in the world; and one may
only live it once"
There are cases where the poor nou-
veau wins our sympathy but even then
we know that he was not lastingly the
worse for his ordeal. Did you ever
hear the tale of Malterre-pale, pretty.
yellow haired Malterre, who wore
velvet coats and store collars and
bouffant ties and gloves that just
matched his curls? He drifted into
one of the big ateliers one day to learn
to paint, and he was the most tempt
ing morsel of a nouveau that ever
dropped from the gods into the
clutches of ? dozen or so of scalp
seeking savages.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-08
"Ah When We Were Nv enty at the Beaux-Arts!"

streets of Paris on a platform that was
borne by four huge negroes as black
as night.
THAT was the time that Beranger
demonstrated. A gendarme attacked
the man who was protecting Sara. 1t
was in the Luxembourg, and the man
threw a bottle at the gendarme, and
so began the little communicate on ac-
count of Sara Brown. They even got
up a little communistic paper called
Sara de Luxembourg, all of which is
another phase OF student life in Paris.
THE papers had 1t a few years ago
that Sara Brown had been assassinated
by a revengeful lover whom she had
forgotten. But one day a certain great
artist stood in a toy shop in Paris
buying toys for his children, and at
a counter near by stood a lady. heavily
yelled, also buying toys. The great
artist could almost have sworn that
it was. But after all, who can
know the truth Of it?
The Great Event
"That Quatres-Arts ball, by the way,
is the great event of the year in artis-
tic Paris. For months beforehand the
different ateliers prepare their cos
tunes and effects, and gorgeous enough
they are, indeed. All the thought, all
the research and all the money possi-
BILE are made use of in the preparation
of these costumes and the perfection
90 detail and accuracy of period OBJ
served might be models to the pseudo
artistic theatrical managers who pre-
tend to have the costumes correct in
their great productions. Women there
are at the Ouatres-Arts, but the puri-
tanically inclined woman usually wears
mask and keeps as much as possible
out of the thick of things-that is, if
she wishes to remain puritanical.
zone of the merriest times ever had
in a studio was in the quarters of
we'll known young artist, where an en-
tertainment, lin the American style
was given. We blush to record that
the leading features of this affair were
the presence of a chorus girl Zone of
the students dressed up for the occa-
sion) and a great number of glasses
and siphons, and-other things!
ut is strange to realize that after a
night of this sort the young students
rose promptly in time to begin work
in their respective ateliers, all things
forgotten in the close and imperative
desire for accomplished work.
do you remember jacques cry as
they lowered Franchise into her narrow
grave:
"'Oh, ma jeunessel C'est yous que
Pin entered! cob. my youth 1t is you
wrom they have buriedl0"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-08

turning it on its side and making the
fellow within a cell, or cage, for nou-
veaux, using pokers for bars. But
through all these bewildering trials the
right sort of nouveau passes pluckily,
rather the better for his experience and
usually on excellent terms with the
very men who contributed most mark
edly to his wretchedness in the days OF
his initiation If he be made of tie
proper stuff his time of probation vii!
be short. Even if he be not barytone
or an athlete, like the big Swede, fe
will win through good comradeship,
good nature, pluck, intelligence and
hard work. 1t is only the weaklings
who usually suffer, and they have no
business in an atelier anyway.
"Once accepted into the actual life
and work of the ateier a new existence
begins for the student in Paris. Fer
the first time in his life he finds on
what work means, for work is the
guiding star there; work in the morn
ings. as soon as a cup of coffee is swa!-
lowed; work until dark. Work in the
hottest summer afternoons; work III
winter weather when, as one young
American Quarter Latiniat observed,
You have to put your feet in your dress
suit case to keep warm Work for
eight. even ten hours at sitting
snatchinG the first and the last gasp of
daylight, and in the ateliers of archi-
lecture and sculpture working far into
the night.
~ have known men to go for nights
at a time without sleep. They work
then under a strain which can hardly
fail to leave a permanent mark upon
their health. The years seem too short
to accomplish all that they have to do
and the high pressure of skilled compe-
tition and medals of honor to be at
tanned keeps every one at fever heat
all the time.
1--WE certainly played hard in Paris
when we played at all, but the pervad-
ing myth of depravity and dissipation
in the QUARTER Latin is one of the most
preposterous in existence. There are
men who live riotous, useless lives
there, who play at their work and steep
themselves in vice. but they are not
representative-thank goodness!-any
more than certain classes and types in
New York are representative examples
of American life. And, to our shame be
it spoken, the widest and least honor
able aspects and elements of Partisan
life in the QUARTER are introduced by
outsiders, by Anglo-Saxon specimens of
the cheap bohemian type who come to
the student world and by their habits
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-08

Another nouVeau arrived about the
same time. His name has not come
down in history, and as he disappears
from our story shortly it is immateral.
But, first and foremost, to help them
both to feel at home, Malterre and the
other nouveau were stripped and set
to fencing with big paint brushes.
Malterres brush was filled with
chrome yellow, the others with Prus-
sian blue, and with these awful Weap'
ons they fenced and fenced, growing
angry with each other as they found
themselves becoming more and more
thickly daubed with blue, yellow and
a beautiful combination green. When
the battle was over they were made TO
sit down near the stone, so that the
Malterre's clothes had been confiscated
by the board of inquisitors. The other
nouveau got off more easily and was
allowed to go home. You see, he did
not wear curls, nor Elton collars, nor
yet canary colored gloves.
Malterre's garments were carefully
matted with quantities of nice, wet,
sticky modelling clay and rolled up
into balls. Then they were fired up to
the ceiling, where they stuck fast.
When Malterre, still dyed in exquisite
patterns of blue and yellow and green,
desired to go home he had to get
ladder to reach his clothes-and filled
with wet clay at that.
Sometimes the poor nouveaux are
sent from studio to studio in search of
black soap or red OIL and escorted
back to their own quarters by crowd
of bowling students and brass band.
Sometimes they are put in improvised
cages and have paint rags burnt i'll
front of them by way OF burnt offer
ing. 1t was in Gerome's stelier, 1 be-
lieve, that the idea first originated Of
Juggling the pedestal of one of the big
gest of the antiques up to the studio,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-08

it is the same with plays. If the lead
ing man has lovely, curly hair and
shiny patent feathers she don't look for
hidden meanings in the text. I am
sorry to see this tendency in parents
and think bread and water and a diet
of prudy books might be beneficial. AT
all events it ought not to be encouraged
and if you find your mother going to
see plays which are not fit for her you
should cut down her pocket money at
once, and then she couldn't attend the
matinee. | am sorry to say that 1 have
my suspicious of people who see so
much evil in a lovely place like the
theater. once Dimple Young and l
overheard our mothers discussing Ca
mile and saying it wasn't the sort of
play for young girls to see, so we saved
up our allowance for two whole weeks,
then slipped off to the theater and got
seats in the family circle. We thought
1t the loveliest thing that ever was
written. Camille wore a lace tea gown
which was a perfect angel and her
cough was the saddest thing. Dimple
and 1 cried all the way through and
decided that our mothers must be, well,
not exactly evil minded, but little
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-08

him for any sentimental reason, al
though he is perfectly lovely as a
father.
Another bad habit of parents is
correcting you before people. I would
almost recommend spanking for this
crime, it is such a particularly odious
one. But in case the spanking is UNI
available q severe reprimand before
going to bed at night should certainly
be administered. If you arc too young
to talk when it occurs remember it
ana have 1t out when you are Old
enough.
THE books you should read and the
plays you should see are another thing
which parents think they understand
better than you. For some strange and
unaccountable reason mothers are born
with the idea that they can read books
and see plays which their daughters
can't. Could anything be more absurd?
And yet have you not noticed how pre-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-08

This matter is much like the medi-
cine problem early in life. If at the
age of two a misguided parent should
persuade me to take dose of castor
oil or asafoetida, saying how nice it
to converse and say, If it is so nice
take it YOURSELF If the parent did not
take the dose, liquid or human, would
prove to her that it was because it
wasn't as nice as she represented 1t to
be. A boy would do we'll to carry this
out with the girl his loving mamma
selects for him. He might shut her up
in a deserted house with the large
WASTED, straight haired person while
a party OF high heeled, fuzzy creatures
were across the way. She would soon
see which made life pleasantest for
their companions, for those big wasted.
straight haired things are twice as
catty as the pretty, jolly ones.
Your father was not a sport when
I married him, but an earnest, indus
trious young man. a mother is fond
of saying: and somehow when you look
at the poor old daddy with his pink
bald head and funny little glasses way
down near the end of his nose you
can't understand any one ever being
madly in love with him and marrying