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The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22
FOR EvANGELIsTIo CAMPAIGN

BERKELEY. March 21.-Plans for an
evangelistic campaign 10 be conducted
in a huge pavilion near the border line
between Oakland and Berkeley are
being made by local clergymen- It has
been suggested that a temporary wood
en- structure seating several thousand
persons could be erected and the lum-
Der returned after the campaign Is
ended. The Federation OF Ministers Is
considering the feasibility Of the pro-
ject, and if il is decided to build the
pavilion an evangelist OF national re-
nown probably will be secured.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22
GENERAL WHIT PASSES
AWAY IN PHILADELPHIA
Dies Suddenly While Under
Treatment by Heart
Specialist

PHILADELPHIA, March 21--Briga-
dier-General Theodore J. wint, L. S. A,
commanding the Department of Mis-
souri, with headquarters at Omaha.
died suddenly at hotel here today. He
was 50 years of age.
General Wint's death was due to
heart disease. He had come to this
city TO enter the Presbyterian Hospital
for treatment, but later engaged
apartments at a hotel where he was
ATTENDED by a heart specialist.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22
DIVORCES GRANTED

Divorces were granted by Judge Mu-
rasky yesterday to Eva B. Leonhardt
from Richard Leonhardt for cruelty;
TO Frances s. Cullen from Phillip j.
Cullen. intemperance; by Judge Gra-
ham to Annie Nelson from Carl Nell
son. cruelty; by Judge Trout to Carl J.
Sundberg from Wilhelmina Sundberg.
desertion. Laurence B. Taylor sued
Jennie w. Taylor for divorce on the
ground of desertion.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22
cuARaEn wrrH RoaaERY

CHARGED WITH ROBBERY = Oakland
March 21-Ira Butler. who Is accused OF holding
up and robbing ave men in the Albany saloon.
at Broadway and Fifteenth street. on the night
OF February %. and who has since been held az
the City Prison. was charged with robbery this
morning, the complaint being sworn to by De
tective Hodgkins- Butler. when arrested gave
the name OF Walter Myers. but was later identi-
fed by the man whose name he had assumed
whom be had met a steamer coming frorn
Seattle. Butler VII be arraigned tomorrow.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22

one Of the Princesses OF the Burmese
rourt a young woman not yet 20, IS
said 70 be the possessor Of the costliest
dress in the world. II is a court cos
tune. and worn only on rare occasions.
II is studded with jewels reputed 70 be
worth in the aggregate not less than
o. 10000
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22
DIVORCE CASES

OAKLAND, March 21.-Leopoldine
Ulrich was granted a final decree of di-
vorce today from Otto Ulrich. Julia r.
Johnston was granted an interlocutory
decree of divorce from Andrew john
ston for desertion. Kittie Turner has
begun suit for divorce against Clar-
ence Turner on the charge of desertion.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22

Shallow wells giving out a good
quantity of oil have been discovered
around Mexico City.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22
VALUABLE yEwELRY STOLEN

NEW YORK. March 21.-Eighteen
thousand dollars worth Of 1ewelry was
stolen from the home OF Charles Nor
gan. son OF the founder OF the Morgan
steamship lines, in Orange. n J., today.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22
SANTA FE LOCOMOTIVE
BOILER EXPLODES AT SIMMS
Fireman Killed, Engineer Fatally
Scalded, Brakeman Injured and
Four Cars DESTROYED

SAN BERNARDlNO. March PA
Santa Fe freight locomotive boiler ex-
ploded AZ Simms, west OF Needles, last
night, killing Fireman J. B. Kerr and
fatally scalding Engineer p. Barnum
Brakeman J. L. McElroy was badly
hurt. Four cars were demolished and
the track blocked with wreckage.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22

OAKLAND. March 21-Mrs. James
Tyson was hostess this afternoon at an
Informal luncheon, entertaining sew
eral friends at her home.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22

Among the hostesses who will en-
tertain at the Country Club next week
is Mrs. Frank Watson. who will pre-
side at an informal luncheon Thurs
day, her guests including few inti-
mate friends
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22

ALAMEDA, March 2L-Mrs- E. c.
Soules of 1910 Pearl street entertained
informally at cards yesterday after
noon. Whist was played, the prize
winners being Mrs. Theodore West
phal and Mrs. Bryant. The other
guests were: Mrs. s. @. Williams,
Mrs. Ralph Davis. Mrs. N l. Meads.
Mrs. Walter A Cundall and Mrs. Ed
ward Bunker.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22

The Irish dinner, with its Irish col
or. Irish dishes and Irish wit, is the
cleverly planned affair for tomorrow
evening to which a hundred guests are
looking forward. The banquet room
of the Home Club will be the scene OF
the affair. which is in charge of Mrs.
H. c. Capwell
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22

Preparations are being made by the
members of the Encinal 1ache Cluo
for the opening of the aquatic and So
cial season on April 5. During the day
there will be a programme OF water
sports and in the evening a dance will
be given in the clubhouse.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

year. They thought surely that by
this process the valuations were kept
up to the market rate. But the comp
troller has opened their eyes He de-
clares that the real estate, instead. of
being assessed at it's full market value,
is in reality only assessed at SO per
cent in Manhattan and q per cent.
in BROOKLYN. If Mr. Nets figures
are correct, the assessments would
be more than doubled again and the
tax rate further cut in half again. The
real estate valuations now amount to
about $5,000,0OO, 900. =;
The comptroller's new figures were
obtained by comparison of the
prices paid by the city, the largest
purchaser of land here, for real estate
for new schools and other public pur-
poses. In his letter to the department.
of taxes he gives numerous instances
where the city has bought land at
prices which range from so to Y per
cent. over their assessed valuation and
urges that something should be done
at once to correct the matter. The
prices paid by the city, the comp
troller says, are arrived at under con-
ditions which represent new values.
At any rate, the owners have no diff
Guilty in obtaining proof that the prices
are prevailable. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
MILLIONS APPROPRIATED
BY THE LATE CONGRESS
exceed those of the first by 41,208,

exceed those of the first by $41,20S;
958.
During the last session 16,434 sal
aries were increased at an annua:
cost of $2,949,352. This includes the
vice president, speaker, nine cabinet
officers, 80 senators, 396 representa-
tives and "a employees of congress.
Contracts were authorized for pub
lie works requiring future appropria
tons aggregating $67,934,349, of which
almost $16,000,0O0 is for battleships
torpedo boats, etc. The largest appro
priation carried by any one measure
was $212,091,193 by the post-office
bill. The naval bill carried $98,95S,
507, the army bill $7S,634,5s2 and the
pension bill $146,143,000.
A comparison of the total appropria
tons made at the second session Of
the Fifty-ninth congress for 1908
$920,79S,144, with those of the first
session of that congress for 1907,
$S79,589,185 shows an increase Of
s41,20S,959.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

WALL STREET has received the re-
W port that John w. Gates has de-
cided to quit Wall street and stock
speculation with a smile. The old
timers grin and recollect that once
there was great singer named Patti
who was always making farewell!
tours, and will probably continue to
make them until the sun goes down
for good for her.
Aside from horse racing and a little
speculation of an evening with pieces
Of cardboard having hearts and dia-
monds and clubs and spades on them,
tho wall street game is the only one
that Mr.. Gates knows and enjoys. No
one has ever heard that he spends
his spare time in deep devotion to art
or literature. He is not an expert on
theology, nor does he devote his hours
of recreation to chemistry or run
private machine shop in a country
home. His health has not been of
the best, but he is more or less of
what is known as game sport, and
he will die, when he does pass away,
with this boots on and will still be
playing his game-the same old game
of getting the other fellows money by
matching wits-when he passes away.
! : 1t is said that Mr.. Gates has lost
from $1,000, zoo to $4,000, 600 backing
his sons firm of Charles Gates & Co.
That may or may not be true, but il
it is. true it probably has not put a
shock Of gray hair over night on
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

Those familiar with the results of
American exploration have known for
a few years that there are three ma
tural bridges III southeastern Utah as
much larger than the natural bridge
in Virginia as Pixies peak is than
Mount Washington. 1t is only within
a short time, however, that much &C.
curate information about these Utah
wonders has been accessible. In 1905
an expedition of Salt Lake City men
visited them in company with an art
list and q surveyor Pictures of the
bridges have lately been published.
The Augusta bridge, with a span of
800 feet and a height of 265 feet, is
the largest, and so far as known there
is none larger in the world The Car
oline bridge has a greater span, $50
feet, but is smaller in other ways: and
the third, the Edwin bridge, although
not so high as the bridge in Virginia,
has span several times as large. AS
one has to travel a hundred miles over
a barren country to reach these mar
wells Of nature, the summer tourist
will not visit them very frequently.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
Excellent Form Of Mental Diet.

l notice some one-I think it was
cotton broker, of all people-making
a plea for bound magazines. In this
day of numerous and cheap magazines
we no longer bind them-at least not
TO the extent that our forefathers did.
We have more reading; and we are
like the true human beings that we
wasteful with it, Yet we lose a
great deal in not binding our good
magazines. It is not that we will
want to read them again ourselves so
much-though that will occur-but a
few bound volumes of a magazine are
a God-send to the man or woman who
is laid aside by illness, and must
spend few days or weeks within
doors. The varied richness of such
a volume-prOvided a good magazine
be chosen-supplies style of mental
fodder which is not to be rivaled by
any book, says National Herald. One
may be too mind-weary to face the be-
ginning of long novel; but the bound
year. of a magazine offers a tit-bit
OF poetry here, a few flashes of humor
there, then short story or so; and
finally we are led on to try the serial
that is running through all the num-
bers. 1t is the ideal dainty mental
luncheon for the invalid.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

Many writer's on esthetics and art
have dWelt upon the close relation be-
tween religion and poetry Some of
the great poets have been creators of
religious thoughts, and others the me-
diums of making religion appear
beautiful. 1t is interesting that the
first organization to take formal notice
of Whittier's centenary, which falls on
December II next, is the American
Missionary association. 1t will invite
the Congregational churches to unite
in the celebration. Whittier was
missionary himself, fighting the good
fight for justice and liberty. And in
his early manhood a poet who. ex.
pressed minority opinions as vigorous
~ as he did was in danger of mob
violence. There is no finer image
in our literature than that of the calm
gentle Quaker blazing into passionate
devotion to freedom and rine;no
pleas for right
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
ONCE PROGRAMME BOY;
NOW AMUSEMENT CHIEF

profound knowledge of stage require
ments and what the amusement-seek-
ing public desires, a large share of
their success may be attributed. Mr..
changers sole recreation is in ath-
letics and saddle and driving horses
He is undoubtedly one of the best all
round athletes in this country, and, as
a rider, could follow President Roose-
welt wherever he might lead.
To-day the little Cleveland pro-
gramme boy is millionaire, and can
control more ready capital, probably,
than all other managers in America
combined. His income from all his
enterprises must exceed $25O,0OO a
year, and yet he is now just as dem
ocratic as he was the day he first
stood in the box at the Euclid avenue
opera house as full f1edged treas
urer. That day he remarked to Wis
iting manager: Some day I'll get
there and be known with the best of
you He has kept his word. He is
the leader of the theatrical enterprise
in America and has set the pace for
the managers of the world to follow.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
Limit of the Inventor.

6IIItI OF LIE oUVS"eOS'
A machine to shuttle cards is an
nounced in list of recent Inventions
1t Is claimed that the new mechanism
will in an instant change the posi-.
ton of nine oat of every ten cards In
pack" Convenient accessories to
sport, like this and the pitching ma
chine which some ball-nines use in
practice continue to appear from time
to time, but inventors seem to have
given up the notion Of inventing ma
chimes capable of actually playing a
game. How long is it since the last
automatic chess player was fabri-
Gated? asks the Troy Times. Men
and women who impersonate automata
are popular vaudeville features, but
few persons pretend to take them Sc
riously. But the famous automatic
chess-player, in the form of a Turkish
figure seated before box which pur-
upon as many learned persons as the
Cardiff giant. Poe turned his talent
to the calculation of the mystery, pro-
pounding the thesis that if it were pos
slble to build machine capable OF
playing any game of chess, it was
possible to make it win every time,
while this pretended mechanism fire.
quently lost to good players. 1t is
possibly no harder to conduct a pub
lie deception now, but it certainly re-
quires different methods,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
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~ ~s 3D..

and there is only one house within
that range.
Other reasons than the danger Of
explosions led to it's isolated location
1t was necessary to remove it from
the danger of electrical and Earring in
f1uences. In order further to do this
the building is constructed on special
ly insulated foundations, and with nc
connection between it's walls anC
floor. The walls are anchored in deer
sand, and the floor of each room is q
cement island set in a lake of dry
sand.
This branch of Mr. Carnegie's in
stitution has already solved one prob
lem. 1t has made quartz glass; Its
second problem is still unsolved;
namely, what is Portland cement, and
why?
The new laboratory, with it's vol
cano machines, will begin to do bust
ness next month.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

A BE ERLANGER, theatrical man.
"A ager, and partner in the Klaw &
Erlanger trust, is about the most ia
miliar figure on Broadway. There is
something very remarkable about Err
hangers success. Through brains, de-
termination and the hardest kind of
hard work, he has advanced himself
from a programme boy at the Cleve-
land Euclid avenue opera house to be
the dominant spirit of the theatrical
syndicate which controls all the first
class theaters and attractions in the
United States.
Mr.. Erlanger is of very retiring
disposition, and breads publicity. In
defatigable in his attention to his busi-
ness, he no sooner gets his projects
for the season launched than he be-
gins to plan for the next, and from
nine a. M. to six p. m. every day in the
year, excepting Sundays, he applies
himself assiduously to his vast enter
prises, supervising every detail. He
personally directs the final rehearsals
of all his companies, and to his really
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

fathers in hardware
at Turner's,
wood of
southwest
n When he entered San Antonio Tex with
first
came from wild
handle
exhibition
AT the Gates
Whrl gambling
mmedhi
His philosophy the philosophy of Ameche philosophy
has been his He interesting whose
clear
of trusts
nothing
ing undaunted, inperubably
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
REALTY ASSESSMENTS
COMPARED WITH VALUES

OWNERS of real estate in this city
~ on whom the enormous burden of
all the expenses of the city falls sat
up the other day and rubbed their
eyes over the statement of Comptroll-
er Herman A. Metz, the financial wiz
ard of the municipality, to the effect
that the real estate assessments in all
the boroughs were in general far be-
low the market value owl the prop
erty. 1t was only few years ago
that it was declared to be the policy
of the city government to make full
law which had been a dead letter,
and Immediately there was tremen-
dous rise in valuations which cut the
tax almost in two and nearly doubled
the borrowing margin of the city,
which is limited to ten per cent. of
the realty valuation. This gave the
municipality wide leeway in the mat.
ter of public improvements, which are
paid for out of long term bonds and
not included in the budget except as
they fall due.
The realty owners were rather start
led at the first great hike in valua-
tons, but they had begun to get
used to it's play as the valuations were
put up at the rate of $500,000,0O0
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

in all the subjects the experts repre-.
sent Capt. Hobson will do the hand.
shaking and political qualification
act
Alabama people happen to know
that Mrs. Hobson is one of the best
women politicians in Washington
She drove with him over every coun
ty in the district. They got acquaint
ed with everybody, explained their
desire to 60 to congress, convinced
folks that they were justified in it,
and when primary day came bore of
tie nomination in triumph over Mr..
Bankhead, who had held the seat for
20 years.
Other representatives are casting
envious eyes on this Hobson pro
gramme and are beginning to prepare
applications for the use of govern:
ment experts. If the departments al
low the enterprise to be generally
copied there will be dearth Of ex.
perts and the scientific departments
have to conscript them before long.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

the Spanish war as we'll as cavalry
mans turn with SquadronA policing
the rioters at the Croton dam few
years ago. At Yale Kernichan was q
crack lightweight boxer, and they still
talk at Morley's, in New Haven, Of a
certain bout that went 80 rounds. His
principal sport now is riding. He has
followed the hounds ever since he was
old enough to mount and he often
takes fences in Virginia and upon
Meadow Brook ground. He is good
polo player and he has, distinguished
himself as a gentleman rider. But,
with all his love of sports, he has
found time to qualify himself as good
lawyer. Kernichan's appointment fol
lows closely on that of Big Bill Ed
wards as deputy commissioner OF the
street cleaning department. Edwards
was the captain of the Princeton foot
ball team in 1899 and @l900;' and, in
spite of his great bulk now he is one
of the most active men in the employ
of the city. III -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
Accounting to Come.

DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, the celebrated
Philadelphia physician, was a guest at
dinner of the National Board OF
Trade on one occasion. He listened to
one or two speeches and then slipped
out of the room. Later a friend in.
quired as to the cause of his disap.
pearance. Il grew weary" he said,
"of hearing men talk about millions
and billions and not word about ed.
ucation or moral progress or litera.
ture or poetry. Why, has the nation
got SO imbued with comercialism that
men can talk of nothing but dollars
ard cents? Let me tell you, sir, that
this country could we'll afford to pay
81, 000,000,000 for another Shake
speare." "But, Doctor" said his
friend, banteringly, I'VE have our DR..
S. Weir Mitchell, and he did not cost
us 81 ,000, 900, 0OO" "Wait," he answered,
and his eyes twinkled. "Wait; you
have never got a bill from me yet"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
SCION OF ARlSTOCRACY
ON MAGISTRATES BENCH

NEW YORK.-One of the recent ap-
~ pointments to the magistrates
bench by the mayor has attracted
great deal of attention in the social
world. This new Judge, who is now
sitting in what is known as the courts
of the people, where all the DRINKS are
arraigned and all the women of the
streets tried, is Frederick Kernichan,
a scion of one of the oldest and most
aristocratic families of the city and
one of the best amateur athletes in
these parts. Just to show that he is
popular with many different classes of
people it may be mentioned that he
found upon his desk when he first saw
many floral tributes, but the one that
overtopped them all was the mass of
flowers sent in by the Larry Mulligan
association, a well-known political or
ganization on the Bowery
In the course of nine years that he
has been out of college Kernichan has
had an artilleryman's experience in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
BULLDOG "PETE" AT LAST
MEETS HIS WATERLOO

Luckily the stranger got tired after
awhile and gave the White House ter,
rier chance to adopt the discretion.
airy part of valor, retiring in a mad
rush to safety under the White House
hedge. His superior knowledge OF
the holes through the thicket stood
"Pete' in good stead, and he got away
alive, thanks to the policeman on
guard at the White House, who cover.
cred his retreat and chased away the
most admired dog in the: capital.
If the owner of "Pete's" vanQuisher
will send word privately to a lot OF
officials high in the government serv.
ice, he will receive the finest collar
and dog tag that money con buy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

A GRAND total of 1888 new govern
"A mental positions was created by
congress at it's last session, with 49,
S51,759 in salaries. Most of the in
crease is taken up by an addition of
6,43p coast and field artillerymen,
1,541 seamen and ALTO additional en-
ployes in the postal service, leaving
a net increase of but $50 for all other
branches of the public service.
All the various acts of the last ses-
sion created 1898 new government
positions, but at the same time 1914
places were abolished.
Final figures show the total appro-
priations at the last session of con-
gress were $920,79S,143.S0. In addi-
ton authority was given to make
contracts aggregating $67,934,349. In
this way the total expenditures al
lowed fell but little below the billion
dollar mark, being $98S,732,492.
The total appropriations by the
Fifty-ninth congress we're $1,80O,3S7,-
1886. Those of the second session