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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09

actor OF de woild." Not 4one OF Us but
shared that messenger boys convic-
lions.
There were several leading ladies
during several different seasons at
Morosco's. but the one who made the
deepest impression on the Sunday aft
ernoor contingent was May Nannary.
Some other heroines might have looked
as we'll and acted better, but nobody
who wore skirts could hold a candle
to May, Nannary when there was ques-
ton of firing on those glimmerinz pis-
tolls. We ignored looks and histrionic
ability, but we did admire effective
shooting. My most vivid recollection
of May Nannary is where she dashes
into an Indian, tight astride a real,
prancing horse, holding the reins be-
tween her teeth and blazing away with
both hands at the bef1igerent braves
The redskins are all killed or put to
headlong flight, and the heroine and
the horse stand In triumph as the cur
tain falls.
The villains could never stand il long
at Moroscos. I well remember three
OF them. e. j. Holden for a while bore
the brunt of Mr. Brophy's gallant retrf-
button until he went 60 play the villain
in house Of his own, the Grove-street
Theater. Ed. Pierson proved a worthy
successor. and after him came Lspders
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09

would have to fight for fully Ave
minutes he and the hero, locked in a
deadly grapple, swaying to and fro
over the bridge; but the hero always
got the worst OF 1t in the second act
and fell Imply on the track. Then the
villain would say: Ha, hal me time
has comet" very low down in his
chest, and leave the poor hero to his
fate.
The suspense was awful. Our jaws
stopped working on our half-munched
peanuts and. the first violin's shrill
tones sent bits of ice running up and
down our backs Then. the man at
the right-hand end of the orchestra
would pick up two cloth-covered affairs
and rub them together. Chuck. chuck,
chuck. dang -dangi The train was COM
ing. Things looked dark for the hero
when-a patter OF feet, a swish of
heroine. That heroine at Morosco's knew
her business. She lost no time, even
though she did shrek Historically as
the chuck-chuck ~ulan In the orchestra
chuck-chucked louder and faster.
The hero was revived just as the head
light OF the; locomotive flashed OF
stage, and, grasping his che-ild in his
brawny left arm, he swung himself
between the ties with the right and
hung on for dear life. The heroine
hung likewise as, with a clangor OF
bells and a nare OF lights, the paste
board train rumbled> over the bridge.
Shooting, delightfully."- abundant and
refreshingly spectacular shooting. was
the naver falling prerogative of the
Morosco plays. have seen shooting
in plays since those hAlcyon days, but
never in such rich and griotous pro-
fusion or on a scale OF such elaborate
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09
By Will Scarlet

~ ONT talk about In the Bishops
Carriage" Forget Richard
Mansfield, and Sothern and Mar
lowe. Consign Robert Edeson
to his own place. There are no
plays nowadays worth the seeing, and
no players, either, that amount to
much We who were boys not so very
long ago know that the shows we used
TO take In, IN a fresh-crystallized-
1emon-drops popcorn and chewing
candy atmosphere. were the only plays
that count, and that the actors and
actresses upon whom we lavished our
sdolatry were the only wearers OF the
mask and dagger worth their salt. We
were boys, and we knew.
Who OF US shall ever forget old Mo-
rosco's. Not Morosco's Grand Opera
hcuse, though that in its early period
left some glowing memories, but the
original Morosco's on the south side
of Howard street, over the carbarns.
That was TINE theater in the later sos
and early EOS. It hadn't foyer that
amounted TO much and the chairs were
not upholstered; indeed, we gallery
gods had nothing but benches, some of
them minus backs. And the prices were
not ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS twenty thirty at
night and ten-twenty on Sunday after
noon; but we got the worth OF our
money and the play was the thing.
The bill changed every week at old
Morosco's- The management wouldn't
dare attempt two weeks run for the
reason that the patrons were regular
weekly visitors who under no. circum-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09

ply which was needed for the old ca
mails. Mexico, Texas and New Mexico
were arrayed against Colorado, which
robbed them of their priceless heritage
and threatened to transform thousands
of acres of fruitage and bloom into It's
original state-that OF the desert. AS
the water grew scarce there sprang up
hostilities between the citizens of the
whole Rio Grande Valley. Neighbor
began to be arrayed against neighbor;
there were even family rows over the
water. For years these conditions pre-
vailed. Mexico made respectful protest
against the diversion of the waters OF
the Rio Grande in Colorado, which de-
prived the ancient canals of the repub-
lie OF their rights long established. The
comfy of nations was threatened
1t was the passage of the reclama-
ton act which wrought a wondrous
change in the conditions and knit to-
gether in one brotherhood all the citi-
zens of the lower valley, imbuing them
with a spirit of cooperation and en-
thusiasm, the more remarkable when
we remember the long period of ILL
feeling which prevailed among these
people.
Following plans outlined by the pre-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09

magnifcence. Shooting and being shoe
were fine arts on the boards OF the old
Howard-street theater. The pistols
were big and shiny and heavy, so
heavy, indeed, that it is wonder the
actors didn't get bow-legged CARRYING
them around. The guns were always
pulled with impressive delfberation
blood-curdling first violin. Slowly and
nervelessly were. they trained on their
tense faced victims, and-bang!-a
puff of smoke a binding flash, and
down went the victims, their arms ex-
tended, their hands clutching the air,
their faces twitching. their eyes
glazing, their lips kissing ''Veng-
eans-ce," Oh, it was great.
The very best shooting, however,
came not singly, but in battalions. A
Civil War battle, a cowboy fight or an
Indian skirmish gave those inimitable
Morosco shooting irons the oppor-
tunity to blaze away f1erceiy. repeated
ly, uproariously. And the opportunity
came almost every week. When IT
didn't come we sighed and voted the
weeks Offering a bum show. But, IS
was usually the case, when the cur
tain fell at the close Of the fourth
act OF bowling, smoking, reeking,
corpse-strewn stage. we dug our heels
into the flooring and shouted to every
body else, Gee, wasn't that great?"
And 1t was
The younger portion Of the audi
ence, many OF whom still cherished be-
lief in Santa Claus, thought that real
bullets flew thick and fast. Most OF
US, though. were skepticai. Some OF US
had pistols OF. our own. Just As we had
Morosco plays Of our own, and We knew
there Were such things - PLANS
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cartridges. This knowledge was
strengthened one afternoon when the
hero fired his pistol in proximity
to the villains face, and the villain,
instead of clutching the air and with
ing as an orthodox villain should,
rubbed his cheeks and nose and, NUT
tering something that seemed like
prayer but wasn't, walked off the
stage. The powder had burned him.
The hero of the Morosco plays, the
divinity before, whom we burned the
Incense OF our boyish admiration, was
James nj. Brophy. There have been
stage idols in San Francisco since then.
but none of them know. as Mr.. Brophy
knew. what 1t means to be popular. It
was treason and heresy to so much as
intimate that his acting was anything
but faultless. II he ranted. and he
usually did, ranting was the proper
thing. II he posed and strutted, posing
and strutting were the good actors
distinctive accomplishments. They tell
the story of an A. D. T. boy who once
had the happiness of bringing tele-
gram behind the scenes. Dis" said
the youth impressively. 'is for James
~. Brophy." Don't know him." re-
turned the stage .doorkeeper. manifest
w new to his job. Eyer don'tr' ex-
claimed A. D. T. contemporary. "Why,
be woiks here, an hess the -cha1dpeen
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Stevens. Mr. Stevens was then a very
young man, but IN stage vi1lainy he
was older than his years. He still re-
lates with pardonable pride that as he
was passing down the alley one after
noon after impersonating BIZ Sykes in
oliver Twist an old lady neighbor
who had witnessed his performance re-
venged the wrongs Of poor Nancy by
emptying a tub OF soap suds on his
head A good overcoat was ruined, but
the old lady's appreciation was sincere.
We look back now at those plays OF
yesterday and smile. But we are glad
we didn't miss them. They contributed
vastly to our happiness and they left
no bad taste in the mouth. They were
impossibly blood and thunder IL you
viii, but they were honest and clean.
on the whole, their effect was salutary
NO matter what happened in the first
acts, the final curtain fell not until the
good, the generous and the chivalrous
had trfumphed and the villain. like
Judas. had gone to his own place. And
II we San Franciscans are today op-
timists-not blind optimists, but op-
timists none the less-it is in some
measure due to the good old M0rosco's
or yesterday, and to the heroes and
the villains. the Indians and the cow
punchers who strutted and fretted their
brief hour upon its pndesysiys stage
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09

IS new, too-very new. This delightful
admixture Of the recent and the an
tique is full<of surprise and charm.
Right up against the old Spanish dwell
ing OF adobe with its long, low win
dows. heavily barred, and its patio in
the center. you are likely to find mod
ern skyscraper with elevators and eIec-
trio lights--the leviathans of todays
architecture casting portentous shad-
ows over the structure of a day long
past
A feeling of living in the past comes
over you when you enter one OF the
old churches-churche erected more
than 300 years ago. The solemn silence
of these shadowy allsshas been broken
by the prisons of countless thousands
and softly intoned ayes were echoing
here long before the eyes of the Anglo
Saxon had looked upon Plymouth Rock
In the first half of the sixteenth
century the Spanish Conquistadores.
seeking new fields of conquest for the
glory of the king and church, swept
UP the Rio Grandc Valley. They found
pastoral settlements Of Pueblo Indians
practicing agriculture through the aid
of irrigation, carrying the precious
waters of the Rio Grande out upon the
desert and reaping harvests from fields
which had been in cultivation beyond
the memory of the oldest member IF
the tribe Spanish settlements fol-
lowed the conquerors. The church
waNed strong upon the offerings of its
Indian converts. With the ready adap-
liability of the early explorers they
utilized the old irrigation systems, and
judging by evidences now existing,
they never took the time to improve
them. The unprogressiveness of the
Spaniard is nowhere more strikingly
revealed than in the Rio Grande VAL
ley, where the descendants of the early
Spanish explorers are today engaged
in agriculture in just the same manner
as their forefathers practiced it, and
indeed with methods strangely like
those in the days Of Abraham. You
can see them reap with the sickle and
thresh by the trampling of goats.
Progressive Americans settling in
the upper reaches of the Rio Grande
in later years showed small regard for
the settlers in the lower valley. Soon
their long lines Of broad canals began
to make sad .inroads in tie water sup
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09
By c. ]. Blanchard,
United States Reclamation Service

~ n the southeast border OF the
Great American Desert, where
our sister republic, Mexico.
touches the commonwealth Of
Texas on the east and the progressive
old-young territory of New Mexico on
the north, stands the largest city m
the largest Congressional district of
the largest State of the greatest ma
ton OF the earth"-El Paso, Texas.
To the fastener who first visits this
charming city and enjoys the hospital
fty which its citizens know so well how
10 extend. the question is uppermost
What makes a city here2 After jour
neyiuz more than 500 miles across
Western Kansas and the Panhandle of
Texas the short-grass country, where
AZ is all one vast cattle range, down
snto the adobe hills and sagebrush
wastes Of Eastern New Mexico, there is
= reason for asking this question. You
naturally want to know whence
comes all this hustle and hustle, with
all these evidences of progress and sub
Htantial growth. In the first place you
DO not look for all this activity in the
,nanana land. All your notions, long
held and regretfully let go OF, are that
this sunny land of the border is the
AdA0 u AOA-oAAOna bAdl lis ddS y
awakening Is not yet come Well. wake
upl Life is just as real. just as earnest
and strenuous in FL Paso as in New
York or Chicago, or San Francisco. and
when you rub UP in business against
the FL Pasoan. you need all your
Ehrewdness and business acumen.
One Of the delightful features OF Ell
Paso IS the social life Of its people You
may perhaps cherish the fond belief
that YOU have often eufoxed real box
pitslity. but when you have once been
cared for by an FL Pasoan host and
hostess you realize your mistake Hos
pitality flows as naturally from the
heart of the FL Pasoan as eloouence
from his lips. and both are without
limit.
FL Paso is old-very old, and FL Paso
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09
The MEW MEXICO ~
AG2IcLZ7Il2Ak COLLECT

lirninary surveys which were made by
Arthur p. Davis assistant chief engi-
neer, the reclamation service selected
B. M. Hall, supervising engineer, to
make final surveys and report on the
feasibility Of the project on the Rio
Grande to store the food waters which
were annually a source OF much loss
to the valley and which were wholly
uhutilized. Mr.. Halls work was thor
oughly well done. He easily won the
confidence OF the people and when his
plans were completed and presented to
them the meeting became yeritable
love feast.
One hundred miles above FL Paso
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09

needed by zoe. 900 thirsty acres IN the
valley below will be released and led
through . network Of canals and
ditches through New Mexico into Texas.
clear down into old Mexico
IT Will cost millions 20 do this work
s7.0oo,p0o II the figure, but what OF
that? Under the magic Of irrigation,
MesiIlA. Las Palomas and FL Paso val
legs. now only dotted here and there
with verdure. will spring into
full fruitase. producing harvests un-
rivaied in quality and quantity Ten
Thousand new homes will dot the desert
plain, and Ell Paso, the central point
for transportation and the greatest
market in the valley, will wax into a
city OF 100000 souls. Twenty thousand
acres OF irrigated land support q splen-
did city now What shall 1t be when
100000 acres are added to tke crop
producing area OF FL Paso territory
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09

the Rio Grande flows through q deep.
narrow canyon A dam 755 feet high
across It's lower end will create the
largest artificial reservoir IN this coun-
try. It will make q lake forty miles
long, one and q half miles wide and
from 100 TO 175 feet deep. II will con-
tain water enough to cover 2.oo0,ooo
acres q foot deep, or moro than twice
the capacity Of the great Asscuan dem
IN Egypt
INTO this vast reservoir tho greatest
food the Rio Grands has ever known
YIN quickly disappear, ana later when
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the southeast border OF the
Great American Desert, where
our sister republic, Mexico.
touches the commonwealth Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-16
HEARST BEATEN.
Loses in His Election Fight - Fraud
Stories Riddled

Attorney General Julius NJ. Mayer has
denied the application of William r.
Hearst at Albany for leave to institute an
action to test the title of Mayor George B..
Mcclellan to his office.
Mr.. Mayer filed a long memorandum
with his decision, In which he declares
that although eight months have elapsed
since the election, and the Hearst attorneys
have had every opportunity to discover
facts tending to show that the applicant
was elected, they have failed to demon
strate it. although for purposes of consd-
Grafton every claim of fact which they have
made has been fully allowed.
Perhaps the most striking statement OF
the attorney general in dismssing the case
is that allowing every claim of wrongful
counting of ballots. repeating. intimidation,
and Including every district in which 1t Is
claimed errors were made under circum-
stances not amounting to ndictable miscon-
duct, the utmost number of votes called
into question by the Hearst attorneys is
666
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-16
POSSE AFTER MURDERER.
Killed One and Wounded Another at
Knoxville, Tenn.

John Mcpherson, aged twentyfour. is a
fugitive from justice, with two posses pur-
suing him, charged with the murder of
Grant Smith. a merchant of Knoxville,
Tenn, and the fatal wounding of Deputy
Sheriff William Walker, who attempted to
arrest him.
Mcpherson shot and killed Smith IN the
house of Nettie Hall, apparently without
provocation. Mcpherson was accompanied
by his father, DR.. Buck Mcpherson, at the
time and the two left the city in a buggy,
going toward the mountains.
Three miles out their buggy collided with
one driven by DIR. Joseph Waddelf. break
ing a shaft. which so enraged young Nc
Pherson that he pulled the physician from
the buggy and beat him seriously. Wad-
dell went to Sheriff Walkers home, and the
two pursued the McPhersons. One mile
farther out they met. Walker demanded
surrender of young Mcpherson and was
shot through the right lung a result.
Walker viii die.
Young Mcpherson continued into the
mountains, while his father returned to
Knoxville and surrendered. and Is now In
JAIL Rewards have been offered for Nc
Pherson's arrest DIR. Mcpherson shot and
killed q fellow-physician some eight years
ago, and served five years on seven years
sentence before he was pardoned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-16
Killed Himself to Avoid Arrest.

To avoid the disgrace of arrest on the
charge of defalcation. Albert O'Brien, tax
collector of the borough of Totowa. n. j.,
shot himself Saturday night while officers
were approaching his house. He died in
stantly. His accounts had been involved
for some time but owing to his personal
popularity, every opportunity was given
him to make good the deficiency. believed
to be about 5000.
After OBrien's father had failed in an
effort to raise the sum IL was decided last
night TO arrest the collector, and war
rant was issued.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-16
Victim of Duel Will Live.

The surgeons in attendance upon NJ. Sar-
raut, who was wounded Friday in duel
with M. Pugliesi-Cont at Vile L'Avray
issued a bulletin in Paris yesterday saying
that their patients condition was consider
ably improved The dangerous period, they
say has been passed. but complete repose
has been ordered. A further examination
of M. Sarraut will be made today In order
to decide the gravity of the injury TO the
lung.
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Confessed to Killing Admiral.

A cablegram from Sebastopoi says: Al
former sailor named Shetenko. who was
arrested Sunday, confessed that he was the
murderer of Vice Admiral chouknin, COM
mander of the Black Sea feet. At cron-
stadt the sailors dcclinea to participate In
u requiem for Vice Admiral Chouknin.
Admiral Skrydloff probably viii succeed
the late Admiral Chouknin.
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4 TLANTIC COAST T INE

Effective May 81 1895.
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