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The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
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"HE Town and Country Club has
sent out "at home" cards for
Il Tuesday afternoon, August %,
from 3 to 5 in the afternoon, when
the members will welcome their
friends at the clubs new home at 1916
Franklin street, near Clay. The for
mer cozy rooms of the club on Post
street were, of course, destroyed, with
all of the club belongings, but this
house has been taken for two years,
redecorated and furnished, and prom
ises to be one of the pleasantest spots
in the city Mrs. George Pinckard is
the president, and among the direc-
tors are Mrs Benjamin Ide Wheeler,
Mrs. Horatio Hellman, Miss Mary
Eyre, Mrs. J. R. K Nuttall, Mrs. Will
liam H. Crocker, Mrs. William Hinck
ley Taylor, Miss Alice Griffith, Miss
Casserly and Mrs. William Mintzer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Clark,
who are at Del Monte for the golf
tournament, gave dinner there on
Saturday evening, at which their
guests were: Mr.. and Mrs. Walter s.
Martin, Miss Alice Hager and c. Tenn
pleton Crocker.
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A merry party which went in auto
mobiles to Del Monte last week for
the golf tournament consisted Of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter S Hobart, Miss Jen-
ME Crocker. Miss Anita Harvey, Miss
Genevieve Harvey, Oscar T. Cooper,
Lawrence McCreery, Harry n. Stet-
son and Harry R simpkins-
Mr.. and Mrs. James Bishop and
their family returned on Wednesday
from Santa Barbara, where they have
been for several months, the last two
of which they have spent on the
Bishop ranch near the city They are
at present the guests of Mrs. Thomas
3. Bishop at her home on Washing
ton street, but will go shortly to their
own fat on Cough street, near Val
lejo. where they will spend the winter.
Mrs. Thomas Findley, who has been
visiting her daughters, Mrs. George
Gardiner in Cleveland and Mrs.
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ingsher mother, Mrs. Patton, has been
in New York much of the time, but
has lately visited Quebec and other
cities in Canada Mrs. Chenery will
return to San Francisco early IN Sep
tember.
Miss Carrie Waters of San Ber-
nardino is spending few weeks IN
San Francisco and is being gladly well
coined by her many friends here,
many of whom will entertain in
formally in her honor. Mrs. Linda
Bryan will be the hostess at a little
tea this afternoon for Miss Waters, at
which a score or so of guests will
gather. Miss Waters comes of one OF
the representative families of the
southland, but is very we'll known
here, having been student at Mills
College and having spent much time
in San Francisco on one occasion and
another She is at present at Fl
Drisco on Pacific avenue
Miss Carolyn Fowle, who has been
visiting friends and relatives in the
East and in Seattle for several months
past, has returned to San Francisco.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Hale, who
were on their way to Europe at the
time of the disaster and who returned
here at once, are spending most of
the summer at their town home, with
short trips to the country occasion
ally They have recently been spend
ing few days in Ross Valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Foster Dutton
and Mrs. Alfred Baker Spalding have
returned to Sausalito, where they are
spending the summer after fort
nights stay at Lake Tahoe.
Mrs. Robert F. Davis. Miss Con.
stance Davis and Mrs George H. Roe
went up last week from Ross Valley
to Lake Tahoe.
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Among those who are at Del Monte
at present, but who will visit San
Francisco a little later, are Mr.. and
Mrs. Gail Borden of Pasadena and
party Sof fifteen friends, all OF whom
came up in their automobiles.
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Harold Cloke in New York, for some
months past, returned last night to
California and is now with her son
and daughter-in-laN, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Findley, in Sausalito Mrs.
Findley, who has been for the past
few months in Cleveland. has been far
from we'll of late, but when the news
of the death of her brother, Mr.
Young, reached her she insisted upon
returning here at once.
Miss Ella Morgan, who is spending
the summer in San Rafael, is visiting
Miss Flora Low at Monterey at
present.
Mrs. James Cunningham and Miss
Sara Cunningham, who arrived a short
time since from the East on business
trip, are still here and the date of
their departure is as yet uncertain,
but will probably be within a week or
ten days. Mrs Cunningham had ex-
pected to leave ere this. but has been
detained by her affairs here There
is possibility that they will return
here for part OF next winter, but
they will not spend the entire season
in California
1t is announced that the wedding of
Miss Helen Meiggs of Santa Bar
bara and Frederick Thompson of this
city will be celebrated some time dur
ing October, although the exact date
has not yet been arranged. Miss
Meiggs has been the guest of Miss
Kathleen Thompson and Miss Teresa
Thompson in Mil Valley for the past
few weeks, but will leave this week
for her home in the south.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Lewis of Port
land, the latter of whom was formerly
Miss kittle of San Francisco, are re-
joicing in the birth of little daugh-
ter fortnight since.
Mrs Francis Davis is at present the
guest of her sister, Mrs. R. Porter
Ashe, at the latter's home in San Ra-
fael
Mrs Leonard Chenery, who went
East shortly after the fire and is visit
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q AN FRANCISCOS travelling public mood for
strike too busy collecting clearing
Offices
poe and employed should be the $4,000
OF whom walk
to work and back again And think condition will be toll
Grated for many days
If there were demanding
peaceful adjustment industrial difference that time here
and those conditions This the hour
which United Railroads
fat dividends stock comfortable interest
millions that through
predecessors by the people who will be walk of
tie up is by virtue OF the privileges that thousands
United Railroads. exchange
these privileges and for nickes the public askand will hav
sate swift and comnodou the furnishing which the BUSH
OF the United Railroads and its employees They have their
of that service Otherwise the the privileges will be-
nusted to other hands In the present always the
of the public the of the corporation
or those of its employees.
the United Railroads spring upon certain
defined work
tract the conditions of employment have been materially changed
chiefly Because
a modification of the
the reducing the The resident
REPLIED asking
the United Railroads. This the
will be called the whether
The of the for is
that tact OF the caravelng thousands acompetent
The OF the days of delay be
good faith equally reasonable Moreover
ua obligated stick their work their reasonable be
denied until the
the public when they demand better While
they bound however, they
principle organized labor for which they
body would compeable
The world understand
gdy and honorab engagements
individual association of individuals corporate incorporate
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Sobriety Of Belgian Municipal and
State Employees.

at moderate prices divert the taste
from alcoholic beverages which are
more costly
The importance of prohibiting the
use of all forms of Intoxicating LIQUORS
by railway employees is not only real
lied in Belgium, but also in the en-
pire of Germany, where the Director
General of the Railways in Alsace-
Lorraine has forbidden their use by
those engaged on the railways during
their hours of service This rule ap-
plies to all grades in the service and
to all hours Of the day. A first offense
is punishable by loss of grade and the
second by dismissal from the service.
The measure was taken in conse-
quence of the accidents which have
grown to be rather frequent both on
the railway and in the workshops.
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That's how the preserved from horrible
arrived
dwell promptly replied The
under it We'll dig said Mr.
and then he and the smiled together
Men who while
ungalant
by
forcby
O looking while
for
protected
be that she
feasible graphing
shall be considered amiss pistol pocket be
cosum of San
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Answers to Queries.

wHIST-R.. City. In cutting in
whist the ace is the lowest card.
GOLDFIELD-Subs Salinas.
Cal. There is no official census of
Goldfield, New.
LONGSTREET.-nea City Cen
eral James Longstreet, Confederate
general. died January 2, 1874, near
Gainesville, Ga.
THEOPHILANTHRO - Sub
scriber, San Jose. Cal Theophilan-
thropists Uovers of God and mani
were a sect formed in France in 1896.
1t was dissolved in 1902.
TRAINING SCHOOL-A. C. r., Ala
media, Cal. For rules and regulations
governing the admission of a boy to
the naval training station on Goat
Island address a communication to the
commandant at that station and you
will be sent circular of information.
WALKING WITH A LADY-M NJ.
City. As to whether a gentleman
should offer to or take a lady's arm
while walking by her side on the
street depends upon the Relationship or
degree of acquaintance. A blood rela-
tive or husband would be justified in
taking the lady's arm without asking.
but a gentleman who has had but a
short acquaintance with lady should
offer his arm and not feel offended If
she declined.
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/" HE American Consul General
sChurch Howe reports from
Antwerp that the use OF whisky
and other alcoholic beverages by Bel
gian Government or municipal en-
ployes during hours of service is
practically prohibited in Belgium, with
the result that drunkenness is rarely
met with in any branch of the public
service, and never among railway
employees.
In fact, it may be said that while
certain qualities of cheap gin are
available to the poorest classes of
laborers, drunkenness among them is
the exception and not the rule The
prevalence of mild. cheap, wholesome
brews of barley beer and light wines
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THE SPIRIT OF '4o.
really wheels.

THE spirit OF dead sleeping The old gua
the front The number OF the argonauts dwndles,
the that led them the plains
the Horn and still vital The
example OF grit they have always Not
the troubles of San Francisco they resolved to rebuild
their hall and home the before more
magnificent scale Such the spirit that buded
and and thrice and will rebuild the city fourth time
Only few Of left, theya all right
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NOTE AND COMMENT.

Police Commissioner Leahys barroom drinkers
shall from the view of passeby against
peekaboozng.
remarks liquor served
his hearers that may lack kinds
and yet have other kinds
with the theory that half loaf
will gratefully accept board sidewalks
more durable material can laid Walking upon wood is
preferable lodging in the roadway
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reason suggested is that the figures
may have been the result of an opera
ton in which nitrate of silver was
used on the eyes But the girls
parents say that she has never had an
operation.
A singular coincidence is recorded.
A fishing boat in the neighboring port
OF Douarnenez bears the hguers 22. a.
With this boat little Marie's father
had something to do. 1t could be
seen entering port from the lie
Guens house. Old women neigh
bors declare little Maries numbers
are only a birthmark, as just before
her birth her mother watched fanx-
iously every night for the fishing
boat.
Little Marie is to be brought to
Paris and will be examined by ocul-
lists and several scientists.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
By James Crawford.

Ty HEY are still telling the earthquake story Of
which Mcguire, longshoreman, is the subject.
Experience had taught Maguire's wife and chill
dren that it safest for them be where he could
neither nor hear them when he returned from pro-
tracted sitting in the grocery, for when aco
holcaly stimulated he of sour say destruc-
tive disposition. So at o'clock the evening of April
they prudently into secusion behind locked DOORS
and hour later the husband and father soddenly
inebriated staggered home and without undressing.
rolled into bed.
The seismic upheaval morning wrought such
havoc in Mcguire domcile that all inmates fled
with the exception OF the masculine head whom it did
not awaken Quake No ?, however, broke his
sumber, and when he opened his eyes and the
wreckage all around and atop of him ne Justify yelled
for his family and pententy soiloquized:
How kin l blame 'em fr comm? If l was
weak little kid dye think I'd stay in tn
house with thatd smash furniture an kick holes
in TIL cein' l did last night? But wish somebody
here t tell me tn kind O. whisky drank.
The bargain sale was on and the crush was simply
horrd. 1t seemed that nothing could the few
present when quick-witted shouted:
Ladies, please remember there gentlemen in the
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Townsend's Cal glace fruits and can
dies at Emporium, Post and Van Ness.
and 1903 and 1870 Valencia street.
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Arthur Stringer, the author, is an en-
thusiastic farmer, and has fine fruit
farm at Cedar Springs, Ont, where he
spends his summers.
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T7IIE remarkable campaign waged the
South for twenty years that which virtually concluded on
Wednesday in Georgia withe OF Hoke Smith, who
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24

WHIST-R., City. In cutting Il
whist the ace is the lowest card.
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GOLDFIELD.-Subs Salinas.
Cal. There is no official census of
Goldfield, New.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-30
>EA GIRT DOCUMENTARY
Rain Interferes With the Shooting
 Match Abandoned.

Sea Girt, N. J., Aug. 29.-Torrents of rain, which fell almost without inter- mission, compelled the abandonment of the Wimbledon cup match to-day in the national rifle tournament after the competitors, to the unprecedented num- Der of 267, had lain for hours in pools of water, drenched to the skin, and fired almost at haphazard at the misty out
 lines of the targets on the 1000 range. The range officers in charge notified the executive officers that the targets were practically invisible at one stage, but the latter officials insisted that the match be continued. Only about one- third of the rifiement consented to re- turn to the firing line, and soon after the executive officer ordered firing to cease. It was then officially announced that the match was declared off and would be made a ten-shot instead of a twenty-shot competition on Friday next.
 The Company Tyro match, the only other event in programme, was started late in the hope that the skies would clear, and was carried out in a contin- uous downpour. The match is five shots, each at 200 and 800 yards, open to teams of three men from any company in the army or marine corps and com- panies from the nevy, the naval and the military academy, the National Guard of any state, which have never been on winning team at Sea Girt The match was won by the team of the Calling Gun Platoon, National Guard, of Hi nois, with a score of 139 out of possi- ble 150. The members of the team will receive gold medals, The second prize, silver medals was won by the First Denver City Troop, score 13S, and third prize bronze medals, by Company H, :" Sixth Massachusetts. Through an error of a. scorer it was first announced that the winner of the match was Company ID" First regiment. National Guard, of the state of Washington, which in real ity finished in eighth place.
 The annual meeting of the National Rifle Association of America will be held tomorrow evening.
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INTERNAL MACHINE IN
 HOLD OF STEAMSHIP
VESSEL SAVED FROM DESTRUC- TION BY FRACTION OF
 SECOND.

Bomb Explodes as It Touches the
 Water After Being Thrown Overheard
 Discovered by Stevedore-Sus-
 piciOn That Former Member of Crew
 Placed It in HoId-Had Grievance
 Against the Captain.
 Philadelphia, Aug. 29.-An internal machine was discovered to-day in the hold of the steamer Eagle Point, as the vessel lay in the Delaware river. The steamer was saved from destruction by a fraction of second, as the bomb exploded as it touched the water after being thrown overheard.
 The Eagle Point is one of the vessels of the Philadelphia Transatlantic line and plies between this city and Lon- don. The internal machine, which en- dangered the lives of Captain Robert- s1n and a crew of thirty men, was dis covered in the afterhold by a steve- dore, He carried it to the captain who threw it into the river As it sank it exploded, sending a column of water fifty feet into the air.
 It is hinted that former member of the crew who felt that he had a grievance against Captain Robertson placed the bomb on the vessel.
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PROF ", B. DWIGHT DEAD.
Succunbs to an Attack of Apoplexy--
 Graduated from Yale.

Cottage City Mass, Aug, 29.-Wil- liam Buck Dwight, professor of geology and mineralogy at Yassar college, died suddenly of apopleXy here to-day. Pro- lessor Dwight was at work on pier in front of his summer residence and it is supposed that over-exertion brought on the attack. He was seen to fall from the pier into shallow water and when brought ashore was dead.
 Professor Dwight was born in Con- stantinople on May 22, 1883, the son of Harrison Gray Otis Dwight, an Ameri- can missionary, He came to the United States permanently in 1S49 and was graduated from Yale in 1854. In 1859 he founded the Englewood (N. J.) Fe- male Institute and later taught at West Point. For twenty-seven years he had been connected with Vassar college and since 1894 had been university examiner in geology for the state of New York. In 1891 he invented rock-slicing ma chine for making scientific sections of minerals, for which he was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris exposition in 1900.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-30
CLOTHTER THE MAN.
Defeats BeaEs c. Wright at Tennis With
 Ease.

Newport, R. T., Aug. 29.-The ease With which William J. Clothier of Philadelphia won the national lawn tennis championship from Beals c. Wright of Boston, last years title holder, on the Casino courts to-day was one of the surprises of the tennis Year. A victory for Wright, or at least a hardfought contest was an- ticipated, but that Clothier should win in straight sets, 6-3, 60, 6-4, was be-. yond the calculations of even the clos est followers of the sport. Wright's playing was fifty per cent. below the form shown on the some court last year, when he won the title from Hol- comb Ward. On the other hand Clo- thier displayed well balanced game. carefunlly planned and skillfully exe- cuted. As usual he was Slow in get ting into position on his own service but in those half a dozen moderate steps back to the base line, he husband ed his strength and gained a rest. At the net he was like a stone wall against which Wright hammered in vain, unable to either go around or over it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-30
JUST A BRIEF HEARING.
TO CERTAIN RAIL
 ROAD REPRESENTATIVES.

International Harvester company Man
 Submits to the Commission n Number
 of Inqmiries--Relnte Entirely to the
 Position the Industrial Railroads Are
 Placed in by the New Law.
 Washington, July 29,-4A brief hearing was accorded by the Interstate Conn nnerce commission to-day to represen- tatives of what are known as industrial railroads Hines that have been estab- lished by large corporations for the purpose, primarily, of taking care of the switching of those concerns,
 r. B. Montgomery of Chicago, who represented the international Harvest CT company, submitted to the commits sion a number of inquiries on which he wanted rulings by the body. The inquiries related entirely to the posi- tion the industrial railroads were plac- ed in by the new rate law They were largely of technical character, but were important to the roads them selves. One of the most important was whether an industrial road would be required by the commission to issue a through bill of lading to shipper on goods intended to be sent outside of the state and whether the industrial road would be- in any sense, responsible, in tn eway of damages for the delivery of those goods. Mir, Montgomery explain ed that 1t was practice of some of the roads oaccept from shippers goods for delivery to through lines of rail- road, but that their work was practic- ally a switching convenience.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-30
GRAYS ELECT FOX CAPTAIN
OTHER ELECTIONS AND PRO-
 MOTIONS MADE.

Captain Fox, Son of Colonel Simeon FOX
 of 27th Regiment, c. v.-Has Been
 Member of Grays Twelve Years
 Judge Tyner Made First sergeant--
 Pictures Presented to Company.
 At a special meeting of the Grays held at the armory last night, First Lieutenant E. l.. Fox was elected cap tain to succeed Captain E. o. Gruener, who had retired after twenty years connection with the company. Captain Fox was heartily congratulated by his comrades in the company last night on his election. His many friends all over the city will also be pleased to hear of his success. Captain Fox is the son of Colonel Simeon J. Fox of the Twen- ty-seventh c. V. who had a splendid civil service record, and who is now president of the National Pipe Bond ing CO of this city.
 Captain Fox enlisted in Company F on November 5, 1894, and was made a corporal on September 15. 1898. Since that time his promotions have come in rapid succession. He was elected first lieutenant on July 26, 1905. He is pop ular with his associates He is secre- tary of the National Pipe Bending Go.
 Other elections last night were Sec ond Lieutenant Fitch to be first lieu tenant, and Sergeant Fred G. Crabbe to be second lieutenant. At the close of the meeting Captain Fox announced the following promotions: Sergeant R. H. Tyner to be first sergeant; Corporal A. N. Ellis, to be second sergeant and Private Carl Beers to be corporal.
 Mrs. c. Berry Peets presented to the company an historical photograph ofaa group of Grays who went to war in '61 In the group is Brigadier General Frederick Myers who was an uncle of Mrs. Peets The company also received a framed picture of Go. M of Torring- ton, who were neighbors of the. Grays during the last encampnent, and a let ter expressing the good will of that company toward Co. F. In return for the compliment the Grays voted to send a framed picture of themselves to Co. M,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-30
DEAIED BY AMERICANS.
Report of Uprising Against Them i'm
 Mexico.

New York, Aug. 29.-The Associated Press is in receipt of the following tel egram, dated Chihuahua, Mexico, Au- gust 2S.
 "On behalf of sixty prominent Amer ican residents of Chihuahua we desire, through the Associated Press, to cons tradict the many false and sensational statements In the press of our country regarding an uprising against Ameri- cans in Mexico. We are thoroughly in formed as to the conditions existing in the state of Chihuahua and are con yinced that no antl-Alnerican move- ment is contemplated or probable. Ouf lives, families and property are secure. A protest against such statements has been filed with the American repre- sentatives."
 The telegram is signed by several business and banking firms of Chihua- hua.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-30
NEWSPAPER MEMS DINNER.
Enjoyed by Sixty Local scribes at savin
 Rock Yesterdax.

" NN@~sS A-OGefA SGKAuSS SRe 1e$FN~A
 Rock Yesterday.
 Newspaper men of this city, to the number Of about sixty, including guests, enjoyed, a, shore dinner at Lucey's, savin Rock, yesterday after noon The trip to the Rock was made in a special car which left the corner of Temple and Chapel streets at 4 o'clock.
 After doing the White City the party was escorted to Lucey's by the Second regiment band. where full jus tice was done to an excellent repast.
 The speakers were Colonel N. G. Os- born of the Register Manager Speck of the White City, William Young of the Register, General Manager Punder- ford of the trolley company, Assistant City Attorney Hoyt, Judge R, H. Tyner of the city court, President E. I. Atwa- ter of the State Business Mems asso- cia and the Second Regiment band furnished music