Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-24

of merit. In Manila Square, In front of the
ST. Francis Hotel, and overlooked by the
windows of the Pacific Union Club, is a
tall column, crowned by figure of Victory,
erected in honor of the California soldiers
who fought in the Spanish war. Out in
that part of Golden Gate Park called THE
Panhandle is figure OF Mckinley IN
bronze upon a granite pedestal, and a
monument to Bret Harte has recently been
erected by the Bohemian Club in Union
Square. 1t was designed by Robert Aiken
and represents The Luck of Roaring
Camp''-a minner with baby in his arms.
It's tiny fingers clutch his bony, calloused
hands, while ne mutters: He rassled with
'em, the little cuss." Upon the pedestal
are engraved several lines from the story.
This is not the first monument raised to
a literary man in San Francisco. Robert
Louis Stevenson was honored in a similar
manner five years ago. His monument is
a bronze ship under full sail, designed by
Bruce Porter, and resting a granite pc
destal, which is inscribed with an extract
from Stevenson's famous Christmas SER
mon:
ITO be honest: to be kind: to earn a lit
tie; to spend a little less; to renounce what
ever shall be necessary and not be embit-
tered; to make a family happier for his
presence; to keep a few friends and these
without capitulation and above all to keep
friends with ones self-here Is task for
all that a man has of forttude and dell
cacy.'
This monument was erected by the Ste
venson Club, literary organization which
always celebrates his birthday with public
ceremonies, and Mrs. Stevenson who lives
in San Francisco, is invariably the guest
of honor She occupies a modest cottage
overlooking the Golden Gate, and Lloyd
Osbourne, her stepson, lives in the adjoin-
ing house and looks after her business af-
fairs. Mrs. Stevenson suffered from pow
erty, which usually attends the families OF
geniuses, while her husband was living: but
since his death she has become independ-
emily rich from the ROYALTIES his hooks
They have amounted to $4,000 and S15, 900
a year, and have enabled her to provide
herself a home in San Francisco, a sum-
mer cottage at Gilroy, and to make invest
ments that bring her a sufficient income
Street Car Colony.
One of the most interesting objects in
San Francisco is a street car colony down
on the seashore beyond the Cliff House
and Golden Gate Park. When the street
car companies changed their motive power
and adopted larger cars to accommodate
the increasing travel, they hauled the old
fashioned small cars that were to be dis
carded to the end of the tracks. beyond the
park. and placed them in rows along the
sand hills. intending, l suppose, to dispose
of them to companies in smaller towns
But that never happened, and gradually
they have been taken up by squatters, who
have made alterations and repairs, in some
cases have built additions porches and
made other improvements, that there is
now quite village of nondescript people,
all living in street cars Some of them
have put wire screens in the windows and
spread awnings to keep out the sun. From
some of these odd habitations stove pipes
protrude and several are covered with
climbing roses and other vines. The land
belongs to the city; the cars belong to the
soulless corporation, but neither has ever
attemntpl collect rents The Village is
called "Carville," and the street railway
company has recognized it officially by
building a station, giving 1t name and
stopping there to let passengers on and off.