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The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
SOUTHERN PACIFIC NAY
PAY MILLION DAMAGES
Honda Wreck Victims Will
Be Asked to Settle Out
of Court
CAUSE NOT YET FIXED
Rails Probably Loosened by
Section Hands, It Is
Reported
CAUSE NOT YET FIXED
SPECIAL. DISPATCH TO THE CALL

LOS ANGELES, June 1.-The South
ern Pacific company, having admitted
it's liability Tor the disaster at Honda,
May II, when 33 persons were killed
by the derailing of a Shriners' special
train, is now seeking to settle all
claims for damages growing out of that
wreck without resort to courts. If the
real cause of the wreck has been dis
covered the companys officials have not
made it public, but it is said that the
statement of a San Francisco civil en-
gineer, published two weeks ago, in
which it was declared that the rails
had been loosened by section gang
and that the tremendous speed of the
train caused its derailment, was nearer
the truth than the company was willing
to admit.
The aggregate sum which the COM
pany will be called upon to pay be-
fore all of the claims have been settled
will exceed a million dollars and the
cost of ruined equipment will approach
or exceed $4,000 more.
Representatives of the legal depart
ment of the, railroad company have
been working for days in Santa Bar
bara and San Luis Obispo getting at all
possible facts which would be of use
to the company in the courts in the
event suits are fled Repres entatives
of thescompany have also been sent to
Reading, Pa, where quiet but thorough
work is being done in gathering data
as to the Shriners who lost their lives
in the wreck.
The company is seeking there accu-
rate information as to the financial
various victims. AS soon as the work
is finished at Reading similar inquiries
VIII be made in other towns which
were the homes of victims.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
MANY SAN FRANCISCANS
ARE IN FRENCH CAPITAL
Charles w. Clark Travels
From This City to Paris
in Eleven Days
MAKES RECORD TRIP
DR.. Danziger Says Roose-
welt Will Be Defeated
if He Runs Again
MAKES RECORD TRIP
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

PARIS, June CHARLES w. Clark.
eldest son of Senator Clark, is in Paris
after a record voyage to the French
capital from San Francisco. Clark made
the trip with Mrs. Clark without en-
ploying a special train or employing
other than the usual means of travel
in exactly IL days He crossed the
continent in a little more than four
days, coming by the southern route.
and got across the Atlantic in six and
a half days in the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
He caught the boat just in tirpe at New
York and there was not hitch from
the time he left the Pacific coast until
his cab dropped him and his baggage
at the New Hotel Maurice.
The San Franciscan colony in Paris
shows no signs of falling off this week.
The Call correspondent saw Mr.. and
Mrs. l. w. Cohen, who have placed
their two boys in school; Dr. Charles
Levison. Miss Alma Levison, Mr.. and
Mrs. Adolph Roos, who have been at
the Hotel Madison, but are leaving
soon to pass the summer in Switzer-
land; Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hobart, who
are leaving soon for England, where
Mr.. Hobart expects to remain for the
polo season. and Mr.. and Mrs. William
Morton, who are at the Grand hotel
'Tf Mr.. Roosevelt runs again" said
DR.. AQolpne DanZlSer OF san rdnclSc0,
'it Will be to go down in ignominious
defeat"
DR.. Danzinger, who was once Ameri-
can consul in Madrid, and a member of
Of the foreign literature bureau of the
republican national committee, spoke
with considerable heat while discussing
political matters the other day on
the Grand boulevard.
The next president of the United
States" he continued, will be Judge
Taft, a better, truer man than whom
does not exist. He has made an ideal
secretary of war and he will make an
ideal president. But as for Roosevelt
running, If he should ever so far forget
himself to allow his name to come
before the republican convention, he
viii split the party.
Thousands and tens of thousands of
republicans would vote against him out
OF sheer disgust for man who has
broken his word"
DIR. Danziger is on the continent for
the purpose of selling some Nevada
mining properties, for which he pre-
diets big future. He has been stop
ping at the Hotel Burgundy. From
Paris he viii go to Brussels
The following registered at The Call
Herald bureau today: Rev. P. ]. Grogan,
J. A Lankershim, Los Angeles; Leon
Kaufman and daughter, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
BRoApENs EpucATIoN

The custom now g&owing prevalent
by which boys and girls of the higher
classes in public and private schools
are given the opportunity OF visiting
Washington and observing life and
public institutions there marks a de-
cided advance in educational ways and
means. 1t also speaks Of the advance
in prosperity when pupils of families
in different grades in many distant sec
tions of the country are able to bear
the expenses Of this journeying and
sight seeing. A vacation from the rou-
tine of school duties, filled as this is
with so much to interest and delight
the youth in our preparatory schools.
SHOULD bring fresh and enlarged ideas
to their minds and lay broader foun-
dations for good citizenship in the fu-
ture.-Boston Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
"CARMEN SYLVIA" SELLS
EPIGRAMS FOR CHARITY
Queen of Roumania Adopts Unique
Method to Aid People
Who Are Blind

In order to raise money for the Home
of Light, the asylum for the blind
which she has established near Bucha-
rest, Carmen SYLVIA, the queen of
Roumania, has composed a new set of
epigrams which may be regarded as
supplementary to her Thoughts of a
Queen" These she has written upon
photographs herself, one epigram to
each, and signed them, and the collec-
tion has been sent to Paris for sale
These are some of the sayings:
I'VE exaggerate everything in this
world. The church is insufficient and
we reject religion; monarchies sin and
we create anarchy; history is a trifie
legendary and we deny the existence
of the great"
"If we are afraid Of doing harm we
will do no good; we will do nothing
lamenting meanwhile the waste of our
time and gifts"
TN this century of inventions why
can't we invent an engine of peace?'
The heart is like fountain pen.
It is filed but once and 1t writes for
ever"
1--WE never exact enough from our
hearts and our heads 1t is only our
muscles that we use for all they are
worth"
What a friend ones pen is! 1t
seems to be endowed with a will and
an inspiration quite independent Of
ones SELF
Before aiding the unfortunate we
should love them like brothers. But
how hard that is. Hunger, blindness,
fails to stimulate our imagination for
Imagination lacks power to create the
horrors of the truth
The solitude Of work Is so peopled
that it is the vastest of all worlds"
Our sweet friend, Death comes so
late and after SO many struggles that
we do not salute it with the affectionate
warmth of our youth 1t has tired US
with waiting
Patience is one of the heroisms that
is never appreciated. because no one
realizes how much impatience is be-
hind it,
Vanity is sense of beauty gone
wrong. like good wine turned to vim
egar.''
'sFrankness needs courage because it
Is like the surgeons knife You never
know what vital spot you are going to
erce"-Chicago Chronicle
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
POOR PAY FOX PEDAGoGuEs

We pay huge salaries to the men who
are intrusted with our business in
terests; we disburse smilingly a high
price for two theater tickets to enable
US to see famous actor; we cheerily
contribute our share of princely SAL
ary to a pulpit orator who can sway
the multitude. we pay immense law
yer's fees uncomplainingly and with a
sort of cheerful resignation, but we
worry nightly when those to whom
we have intrusted the formation of the
characters of our little ones modestly
venture the suggestion that they would
ike to have better incomes.--Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
BILL IN LEGISLATURE
KILLED BY ONE WORD

Ready wit IN the form OF ridicule is
many times more effective in legis-
lative body than the most eloquent and
carefully studied speech The late
1850 to 1890 was one of the best known
campaign orators in America, was ever
ready to turn any opportunity OF this
kind to advantage. A true incident is
told of him to appreciate which Il is
only necessary to realize that a Maine
legislature is composed chiefly OF farm
ers and also that it is customary in
rural districts to plant pumpkins be-
tween the rows Of corns as they grow
in the field.
In 1856 Baker was a member Of the
Maine senate from Penobscot county.
In the same senate sat A G.. LIE Broke
of Piscataquis county and between the
two lawyers existed a friendly rivalry
LIE Broke was at one time deeply in
terested in the passage of bill which
Baker opposed. but for reasons of his
own did not care to speak upon Le
Broke had prepared masterful speech.
which he delivered, and closed with the
usual impassfoned appeal to the farmer,
saying:
'I call on the farmer of Maine for
help in the passage OF this bill And
why should I not appeal TO the farmer?
What man on this floor has a better
right to claim the earnest and hearty
sympathy of that noble body of men?
NAV truly say that / am a farmer
myself My earliest recol1ections are
of ti1ling the soil. blowing the fields.
hoefng the potatoes. milking the cows.
doing the daily chores and raking the
hay. In fact, Mr.. President and fellow
senators. / may say l was brought up
between two rows OF corn"
AS the applause which followed the
close OF lie Broke's remarks died away.
distinctly audible voice was heard
from the seat of the senator from
Penobscot:
"A pumpkin. by Georgew
And lie Broke's bill was utterly lost
from that moment.-Boston Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
LOCAL OPTION AT THE SOUTH

The temperance movement NJ the
south is characterized by such persist
ence and intelligence that 1t can not Be
placed in that category of spasmodic
reforms which at times stir the mer-
curiaI people of that section to frenzied
enthusiasm Nearly every state on the
other side Of the Potomac has been
Influenced by the movement
In Kentucky the only counties that
have not adopted local option are those
in which large cities are situated and
in them the fight Is being kept UP In a
most determined fashion In Texas
quite as large proportion of counties
has swung into the local option move-
ment as in Kentucky. Abou- the same
condition exists in Alabama South
Cardinals dispensary law has recently
been modified. but not on the side of
the opponents of temperance. Tennes-
see is just now the theater of deter
mined activity against the easy public
drinking place--Washington Herald
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

STRIKE TIES UP FRENCH
PORTS AND IS SPREADING
Only Foreign Vessels Being
Unloaded in Repub-
lies Harbors
SHIPPING PARALYZED
Government Cannot Meet
Demands for Increase
of Pensions
SHIPPING PARALYZED

PARIS, June 1.-The strike of the Of
ncers, seamen, engineers and longshore-
men at the ports of France was ex-
tended today to Dunkirk Calais. Bou-
iosne' Gravelines. Bordeaux and other
ports which were not affected yester-
day, and is now complete Everywhere in
france, Algeria and Tunfs. Thus far
the strike affects only French shipping
and foreign vessels at French ports
that are being unloaded. Unless an i'm
mediate settlement of the dispute be
reached, many industries will be COM
peiled to shut down and workmen in
other branches of trade will be thrown
into enforced idleness.
The commercial interests are de-
nounclng the so-called tyranny" of Ia
Dor organizations. The position OF the
government is extremely difficult, as
with the means at its disposal it is i'm
possible to increase the pensions of
the marines to the extent demanded by
the laborers
The cabinet met today and consid-
cred the strike situation. The meas
ures taken by the minister of marine
to insure the dispatch of, the mails to
the colonies were approved and other
measures were decided upon in case the
strike were prolonged, but the nature
OF these was not announced.
The cabin passengers who were to
have sailed today from Havre for New
York on the French line steamer La
Provence were sent to Cherbourg,
where they embarked on the st. Louis
of the American line. The French
transatlantic company has arranged
to forward the steerage passengers of
La Provence on vessels of the White
Star line sailing from Southampton.
ROTTERDAM, June 1.-The strike
fever has reached Holland. The local
branch of the Dutch seamen's associa-
tion has proclaimed general strike of
sailors. All members Of the association
are forbidden to join the naval reserve
and those who are in the reserve are
invited to resign from the government
service The strikers demand an in
crease of pay and the Introduction of
labor contracts
HAVRE, June mo French ship left
this port today. A crowd of 1000 strik-
ers, hearing that an attempt would be
made to take out the steamer Suzanne
w. Marie, arrived just as the steamer
was backing out. The men at once
closed the gates to the basin.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
TOYS OF THE ANCIENTS
SHOW HOME TRAINING
Thousand Years
Old

new departure has just been
achieved in the Greco Roman depart
ment at the British museum by the in
stal1ation of a collection of objects
illustrating the home life and training
of children in Greece and the Roman
empire, as also of their colonies. BY
its means one may range over 1000
years of work and play in half an hour,
from early Hellas to the decline of
Rome.
The earliest Greek specimens COM
prise archaic dolls and toys. the latter
including an earthenware rattle rough
ly oval The skilled workers of Epheus
in later age contribute dolls in ala
baster and plaster with beautifully
chased features. The dolls house was
evidently as popular in classic days as
in the present, for there are a number
of models for its furnishing in bronze
or glazed earthenware, chairs, stands
and kitchens. The circular disks or
tokens, engraved with rams heads,
fowls, rats or flies and formerly sup
posed to have been vouchers for seats
at theater or amphitheater, are here in
abundance. These are now classed as
counters for games and there are 9TH
ers In bone and crystal inscribed with
Greek or Latin legends. Knuck1ebones
go back likewise to remote antiquity;
they are made of bronze or chalcedony,
shaped them in such forms as that of a
satyr or a dwarf, still preserving the
old shape as far as practicable.
The pastimes of children of a larger
growth" are suggested by those inven-
tions of Palamedes-dice. These, made
of ivory, bone or close grained wood,
show the same disposition of numbers
as our own, the points on opposite sides
summing T. Adjacent to these is a non
descript article in the form of a
twenty-sided model some three inches
in length and evidently used in some
games. From Cologne come painters
palettes, with a large cake of ultra
marine pigment; from Fay-yum. a large
portrait akin to those painted on
mummy cases of the later period and
two beautiful panels about 3x4 inches
in dimension; also six saucers contain
ing various pigments.
Literature and pedagogics are repre-
sented by various specimens of the an
cient stylus and of woolen tablets pre-
pared with the wax for their employ
ment, pens all in one piece, ink stands
in earthenware and metal and alpha
betical exercises on earthenware, in one
of which each consonant is followed in
rotation by the vowels. There is also
an iron handled writing board inscribed
with six lines from Homer; also papy-
rus written in Greek with a pen.-Lon-
don Standard.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
INDIAN CHIEF GOES TO
HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS
Last of the Pottawatomies Buried
With Unique Cere-
monies

The Last of the Pottawatonies" is
gone. and probably never again will
the members of the tribe see a char
acteristic tribal funeral. Kack-Kack
was buried last week with all the hon
OTIS due to his age and condition. The
tribal ceremony used had not been en-
ployed before for many years and it
is likely it never will be again The
body lay, or rather sat, in state from
the time of his death until the funeral
Immediately after death it was placed
in a sitting position so it would stifren
II was then put in one corner of a
room in his home. Here the funeral
services began Sunday afternoon, to
end Monday afternoon at the grave
which is in his front yard.
After the coffin. which was a square
box. had been made the body was
dressed in lnoccasins and leggfngs
much beaded, being left bare from the
waist up, except for much paint Of
many colors. A 2x4 scantIing was
placed across the top of the box. on
which the chin rested to keep the body
upright The funeral feast was pre-
pared Sunday and consisted of two
hogs and 10 turkeys cooked together.
with whole corn boiled with it ..Souaw
bread" was also made in large quanti-
ties and other delicacies furnished were
pies, cake. canned blackberries, dried
peaches, tea and coffee.
This feast was spread upon the floor
and all present including the white
people, were expected TO partake of It
A long grace or prayer was said be-
fore eating and the peace pipe was
smoked. The first feast was held on
Sunday and another one at the house
Monday. followed by one at the grave
Monday afternoon the box containing
the body was taken to the grave, which
was a hole only foot deep, intended
only to steady the coffin. The box was
placed in here and a peaked top was
put on with holes bored in it to fur
nish air. Kack-Kack's cane and his
bow and arrows were buried with him
His possessions were then all given
away to his friends OTTER the lengthy
funeral orations had been given. His
bereaved wife, who is nearly as old
as he was. presided over the distribu-
tion. no tomtoms were beaten during
the ceremonies and from the time they
began until he was left in his long
home not a drop Of liquor was drunk
Any one who knows the Indian char
acter will understand this was the
supreme testimonial TO the respectN in
which ble memory OF the dead chief is
heid.-Holton (Kan-) Recorder.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
CHECK ON TELEPHoNE TALK

The latest invention to protect tele-
phone companies from long winded
time to prevent their patrons from
being cheated is q wonder. Although
the new attachments have not yet been
placed In the ordinary pay stations
they will most likely be introduced In
the near future, as they are rapidly
being perfected. The patron drops in
his nickel when the attachments are
office and he talks to the operator over
one wire Then when the operator gets
the connection completed she switches
him to another wire, over which he
talks to the person called. The instant
he begins talking on the second wire
clock starts and at the end of five
minutes breaks the connection, but it
can be renewed with another nickel
without bothering central--Ph Philadely
phia Record
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
MANS THREAT TO S[hY
WOMAN CAUSES BATTLE
Rooners In House Beat and
Hurl Intruder Headlong
Down Stairway
REVOLVER EXPLODES
Weapon Discharged When
Used as Club to Fell
the Visitor
REVOLVER EXPLODES

Here's a box Of candy and run
Along" said John Schneider Of 1872
West street, Oakland. to the II year
old son of Mrs. Mollie Hoffman of
1899 Geary street at o'clock last
hight you will never see your mother
again. She is going on a long jour
hey
The lad, seeing that Schneider was
srunH. scented trouble and ran into the
house TO tell his mother to be careful.
Schneider followed the boy into the
house and went to the door OF Mrs.
Hoffman's room. She would not let
him in.
Let me in or I'll break down the
hoor," the roomers in the house heard
Schneider say, and as he began to
pound on the door the roomers ran out
into the hall
clear out, you fellows" said
Schneider, who is husky young car
penter. Frank Asbill, g butcher and
nephew OF Mrs. Hoffman, seized
Schneider by the shoulders and tried
TO rush him down the stairs, but
Schneider was too much for him
Three or four other roomers then closed
In. one of them pulling Schneider's re-
volver from his pocket as he reached
for IL. Asbill then pulled out his re-
volver and beat Schneider on the
head with il.
With blood running from his fore
head Schneider made a fight against all
the men in the house. but was van
uuished under the repeated blows and
thrown headlong down the stairs At
the bottom he jumped to his feet and
turned on AsbiH, who struck him a
heavy blow on the head with the cyl
lnder Of the revolver. The revolver
exploded with the force of the blow and
the bullet lodged in the wall.
Detective Harry Braig found Schnei-
aer's revolver in the possession of Ed
die Jewell, a roomer in the house.
Schneider and Asbill were arrested.
Immediately after the shot was fired
Asbill ran from the house, and, al
though he would not admit that he had
the revolver in his hand when it ex-
bloded. he let it be inferred that he was
the man who bad beaten Schneider,
Eaying that he did so to protect his
Eunt
Mrs Hoffman. who was formerly Mol
lie Robertson. is known TO have been
friendly with Schneider for several
wears and is said TO have borrowed
$4,000 from him to furnish the rooming
house in which the battle took place.
Schneider became jealous of her and is
believed TO have come to this city from
Oakland last night with the purpose of
killing her When taken into custody
he claimed that he had no revolver
with him. Asbill said at that time that
il was Schneider's revolver which had
exploded, but when Schneider's revol-
Ner was found all the chambers of the
cylinder contained unexploded car
tridges.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
THE HOME AND THE SCHOOL

Parents and teachers have a strong
common interest in the welfare of chill
dren. who can be properly trained only
through complete sympathy and unre-
mitting endeavor on the part of both.
Unwisdom or Indifference on the part of
one will do much to neutralize the best
intended and most inteligently directed
efforts of the other If the highest re-
suits are to be accomplished for the
children there must be no working at
cross purposes by parents and teach
ers. between whom effective co-opera-
tion is as easy as it is desirable. Their
respective fields of activity are clearly
defined and both are moving toward
the same goal by different paths.-
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
BACK TO THE SIMPLE LIFE

Michael Lavelle, policeman of the
West One Hundred and Twenty fifth
street station, has seen the light. After
three weeks of brave effort to make
Harlem obey the laws he has turned
In his shield and resigned from the
force to become farmer in Ireland
No more patrolling for him. Not even
the historic goats of Harlem can exer-
cises their charms upon him, or the
newly discovered police mortuary fund
of $4,000 1t Is back to Tipperary for
Michael Lavelle. with three acres and
liberty, plus COW and pig or two
and bit of bog thrown in. This true
philosopher is an example to our mil
lionaires who never know when they
have enough--New York Evening
Post.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
LANDGRABBING In CANADA

The crop acreage last year was only
about 100000 acres in Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta, where 75.O0O,-
600 acres of good land has passed out of
the possession of the government
Part of this great area is in the hands
of local school authorities. A small
fraction of it represents railroad lands
not yet selected by the companies
which have earned them as a bonus for
building pioneer lines. few other
allowances have been acquired by COM
panies and individuals who do not in
tend to use the land themselves. They
are holding it for an advance in prices
Leader.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
TEXAS TO ABOLISH GAMBLING

Texas, we are told in the dispatches,
is going to rid herself of gamblers. Two
county officials were killed the other
day at Fort Worth by gamblers This
seems to have especially aroused the
people against the fraternity. The leg
islature is going to pass stringent laws
against all games of chance and Gal
weston dispatch says various conmuni-
ties are organizing vigilance commit
tees for the purpose of chasing out the
members of the sporting fraternity.
The spirit of antipathy toward gam
bling seems to have spread pretty much
over the whole country. including even
Cincinnati, and the honest gambler
has now few places in which he can
lay his head with safety.-Savannah
News