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WEST SIDE ITEMS BY PROF. A. L
SIMPSON.

Mr.. Chas. Wheeler and Mr.. /. Har-
ris are racing every day, to see which
can keep the people the cleanest over
here.
Miss Jessie Lucas is very proud OF
her new position and says she will be
glad when the day comes, that all
Colored girls will be in as good, or
better places.
Mrs. James Gordon furnished the
music for the West Side Sunday Club.
Sunday.
The West Side Sunday Club was
well attended last Sunday, owing to iC
being ladies day. DR.. Mercer was
kept quite busy with his new auto
and the ladies.
Mr.. ]. H. Zedricks. Mr.. S. Sutton,
and party of st. Louis ladies visited
the parlors of Prof. A. L. Simpson
recently.
Mrs. Wilson the conductor of the
new cafe Wilson at Lake and Leavitt
streets had to turn people away last
Sunday. Still the Jackson Cafe at
92O W. Lake ST., had all the people
they could handle.
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INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH AND So
cIAL SETTLEMENT.

A grand June Bazaar will be con-
Quoted at the above Church, begin
ming, Tuesday night, June %. On this
night an excellent program is to be
furnished by Prof. N. Clark Smiths
Boys Cadet Band and Drum Corps.
consisting Of 80 pieces. This promis-
es to be a grand affair.
The second night, Wednesday 26th.
will consist in a fine program render
ed by the new organization OF Jubilee
Singers.
Thursday night, 9th, is to be the
banner night. A great Ogan contest
between some of the best organists
of the city also Mayor Busse will be
present at the church. This has been
assured a great success.
The proceeds of this bazaar is to as.
sist in the decoration Of the church
the cleaning. and carpeting etc.
Season ticket 35 cts.
The committee is making extensive
for a most excellent
time.
Booths have been put in the hands
of some of the best workers of the
city and they and their friends will
assist in this worthy effort.
Hear Rev. c. w. Thompson at the
Church. Sunday. He
will fill the pulpit for the pastor, Rev.
n. e. Stewart, both at the morning
and evening services.
Rev. Thompson is an excellent
preacher. IS"
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San Francisco as q Phenix.

On the average a new building has
been finished every forty-fiye minutes
In San Francisco since the fire. The
building permits issued In San Fran
cisco In 1905 were about $22,O00.OO0.
That year was a record breaker up to
that time. Labor Commissioner Stat
'ford's report shows that 100000 a
week Is now paid out for wages, or
$62,OO0O0 per year, and as wages only
represent about 30 per cent Of actual
cost Of building It Is conservative to-
say that San Francisco at present Is
building at the rate Of over 100000
900 per year.
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BARGAINS La horneheah.

Father Blind. winner Of the Great
Metropolitan at EPSON, who Is said to
have cost his owner no more than f4O,
Is the latest addition to the long list
OF successful race horses which have
been picked up for a paltry sum. The
historic Eclipse, who won at least f25.-
900 during his brilliant career. was
bought as a yearling for 20 guineas.
which was, we believe, the exact sum
paid for Peep o. Day. winner OF many
big races; Deadlock, dam OF Isinglass,
came into Captain Machelrs hands for
the absurd price Of f20, one twenty
fifth Of the sum Major McCalmont pur-
chased her for little later; Rover.
whose son, St Gatien, was sold for
$4,000, changed hands for ESQ. and
go secured two capital horses in Al
thorp and Carlton; Thrastle, who beat
Ladas so sensationally In the st. Leger,
was actually given away by one Of her
owners, and Stockwell, a famous st.
Leger winner and sire OF three winners
OF the Derby, was bought by Lord
Exeter for Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
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PooIad rhair Resources.

LANG Tung Yn, the new Chinese
minister to the United States. is a
pretty good business man. according to
the stories OF some Of his old class
mates at Yale. When he was in col
lege he was closely associated with
set OF young fellows, ten in all, who
had about the same allowance each
month. $780, All the checks came at
once, and after day or so every men,
Der Of the set was strapped" Liang
finally solved the difficulty. The checks
were all pooled, and each 500 was to
last the coterie three days. For exact
~ three days one man had to pay all
the expenses Of the ten. Thereafter
every one was able to get through the
month without being in danger Of star
walton.
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A WcTIM OF TRADE.
Naturs'S -crassy Ocean Pyramid.
Leased to q Quarry Firm.

i NatSNS SraaSI Ocean Pyrantd5
Leased to q Quarry Firm.
Great indignation has been exc;ted
by the story that the Marquis of AIIsa
has leased for the purpose of quarry
Ing Its granite the noble rock known as
AIlsa crag. says the London News.
This stupendous crag, rising abruDt-
" from the sea to a height of lila
feet and having a circumference Of
nearly two miles, stands sentinel at the
entrance to the estuary OF the CLYDE
almost eQuidis tant between the PENN.
suIa OF Klntyre and the County of AYR
and within sight Of the Irish coast.
hence its sObriQuet, Paddy's milestone
The rock Is an object Of great NAT
ural beauty and inspires feelings OF
wonder and admiration. The Thought
Of its demolition to make paving stones
raises bitter resentment among a peo-
pie who are at present collecting 500
900 to preserve the 'auld brig O. Ayr'
against the adaptations Of time, sim
ply because their beloved peasant poet
had endeared that structure in their
hearts. Ailsa crag, storm beaten by
the foaming pillows, has enlisted thd
muse Of Keats and Wordsworth, and
Daniel Defoe Is among the many prose
writers who have paid 1t homage.
Apart from Its recognition as ma
lures "craggy ocean pyramid" as
Keats called II, the rock is of great
strategic importance. 1t Is the Gibral-
tar Of the Clyde. Although unproteCt-
ed. the rock commands the waterway
that leads to GreenOck and Glasgow.
It has besides great geological and his
torical value. Scientists say IL is of
volcanic origin-thrOwn up from the
bed OF a crater like Berwick. Low and
Edinburgh castle rock. Many basalt
columns, four, five and six sided, re-
sembling those seen at the Giants
Causeway and the island of Staffa. are
also found there, and there are besides
several interesting caves.
Above the lighthouse on the eastern
side there stand the ruins of an old
castle. and the ruins Of an old church
and burying ground are known to have
existed near by. The castle Is said To
have been the property OF early monks.
Quarrying operations to the extent Of
the material for 1000 pairs Of curling
stones have been permitted at the rock
for a number Of years. but the whole
sale deprivation Of the granite, OF
which II Is largely composed, is excit-
ing stern opposition.
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cation In taxes

N11AOh ~ S-4Cos
Neither do the swarming Slavs,
Italians and Poles N our Northern
cities. They pay little in taxes and
yet enormous sums are expended in
their Improvement For their benefit:
or course, but chiefly for ours. 1t is
better to educate men in school than
to let them so educate themselves as
TO become a menace to society. The
present kind of education in the
South may possibly be wrong; but
for the protection Of society 1t is as
necessary to train every Negro as it
is every white man.
When see the crowds OF young
Negroes being made criminal
through lack of proper training
can't help thinking how pitilessly ig-
norance finally revenges itself upon.
that society which neglects or ex-
ploits it. CMr. Bakers next article
will follow the Color line into the
county districts of the south.)
The End.
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THE BEST SKIN AND SCALP FOOD
IN THE WORLD.

The Penn-Jones Company makes
the best skin and scalp food in the
world. For many thousand years
people have been looking for some
thing like it, and this new discovery
by Prof. Penn for the hair is Jus.
what you want, for it gives new lie
to the hair by cultivating the roots,
and II you try 1t once you will never
be without IT, for it is absolutely
harmless in every respect.
BY using Prof. PENIS skin and
scalp food you can throw away your
irons, for it softens the hair and
makes it pliable, and IL It fails to do
the work your money viii be re-
funded.
Prof PENIS new skin and scalp
food, which sells for &c, Soc, and
75c. a Jar, can be secured at all the
leading drug stores, department
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HUMOR OF THE HOUR
Tit For Tat

Young Stevens was on bis way north
70 spend the week end with his par
ents and felt in a particularly joviaI
mood.
The train In which he was travelling
had stopped at a small village. As a
farmer who was sauntering ND and
down the platform came opposite Ste
vens compartment he was asked BY
the youth II he knew that the Duke Of
Devonshire was In the train.
Immediately the man showed great
interest and said:
mo. Is he?
7 think he r. not" answered Ste
vens. Il only asked II you knew that
he was"
The farmer said nothing, but con-
tnued his walk on the platform. As
ne came opposite the window again
he remarked that their town had been
experiencing some excitement.
whats the matterY' asked Stevens
The authorities wouldn't let some
foEks bury q woman" replied the
farmer.
what was the reason for rsfusinRP'
HShe wasn't dead" was the Iaeonic
reply.
And then he stroIIed away, leaving
young Stevens biting his lIp.-Judge's
AaDrary.
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C9 FPS.

J. W. Jackson. Colored, is a success
full boot and shoe dealer of Denver,
Col.
DIR. Ames, one Of the leading Ne
gro physicians Of Detroit, Mich, spent
a few days in Chicago the first of the
week.
Miss Nettie French, of 1888 Evans
ave-, returned home last Friday after
spending the winter in Montgomery,
Ala, as a teacher.
Mrs. Julius n Avendorph and son
julius will leave next week for an all
summer visit in Salt Lake City, Utah.,
and other western points.
Mr.. Geo. Kelley, 3716 Wabash ave.,
is confined to his home sick. Mr..
Kelley is one Of the old members of
Golden Fleece Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Miss Gertruce James Of st. Paul
Mimi, is the guest of her sister Mrs.
Robert Taylor, 1929 Dearborn st. Miss
James will remain in Chicago all the
summer.
Mrs. Clara Belle Barley, 4157 Ellis
avenue, has returned from her sum-
mer home in Cassopolis, Mich, where
she went to bury her brother Richard
last week.
Mrs. Katherine Barr, Of Los Angc-
les, Cal, passed through the city the
first Of the week en- route to jackson
vile. ILL.,, to attend the wedding of
some friends.
G. w. Mckinley has removed his
barber shop from ia West 51st street
to 51oS STATE street, where he would
be pleased to meet his old friends and
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Ennals, 661s |
Vernon avenue, are visiting friends |
and relatives in Detroit, Mich, after
which they will spend a while visit
ing some Of the Michigan summer re-
sorts.
Clarence McKoin,' Of Muskogee, |.
T., is visiting his brother and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. B. Crum, at s14 In
glewood avenue. Mr.. McKoin is a
oficer in the Indian Ter
ritory.
Invitations have been issued to ths
Of Miss Helen Mckinney to
Mr.. C. A Jordan which win take place
Thursday, June the 9th at 4 o'clock.
It the residence OF Mrs. J. Wallace.
1928 Forest ave. The bride and
groom win reside at 51s5 Grove ave-,
litter July 9Th.
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Pittsburo Lead, In Pis Iron.

OF the total production OF 25,307, 191
gross tons Of pig iron In the United
States In 1905 Pennsylvania made H..
247,S69 gross tons, and Of this output
the Pittsburg district allegheny, Bea-
yer and Washington counties) contrib
uted 6,230,S63 tons. In other words,
says the Iron Age, the Pittsburg dis.
tict last year made nearly IS per cent
OF the total production Of pig iron In
the United States and IS per cent Of
the output In Pennsylvania.
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BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT
COMPANY.
Notice

Every stakeholder Of the Black Dia-
mond Development Company should
send his address to the Secretary's
office room 21U. Securi-V Building, 1SS
Madison ST.. Chicago. so that he may
be properly informed as to just what
the Company is doing and assist the
Secretary in keeping the Stockholders
posted by Bulletins.
There is good news awaiting every
Black Diamond Development Com
pany stakeholder.
The Secretary must have your cor
rect address.
A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAMS.
President.
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BOOKER WASHINGTON ELECTED
TRUSTEE OF HOWARD
UNIVERSITY.
Leading Industrial Edueationist Put
on Governing Board Of Higher
Education School.

Education School.
Boston Post, June Z, 1907
The Suffrage League Of Boston anil
vicinity held an enthusiastic meeting
at the New Twelfth Baptist church at
Shawmut avenue and Madison street
yesterday. A vote of welcome to the
Niagara Movement, which comes to
Boston August 1923. was passed. The
main business was action against the
recent election of Booker T. Washing
ton as a trustee Of Howard Univer-
sity. Secretary Taft was severely
condemned. The following resolution
was passed unanimously:
Whereas, Booker T. Washington
was recently elected as a trustee Of
Howard University, his name being
proposed by a white trustee, who on
March 8, 1904, appeared before a cor
gressionaI committee on behalf Ct
trebling the appropriation fer an in
dustrial department of said uniyer-
sity saying: I can see nothing more
important than the industrial system
for our olored race
Therefore, be it resolved, That we,
the Suffrage League of Boston ami
vicinity believing in the America
system of education for all Americans.
regardless Of race or color, unalter-
ably opposed to any color line in ed
ucation, do protest against Booker I.
or any man who is COM
mitted to industrial training as best
for Colored people or whose chief in I
terest and work is for that brand, be-
ing made trustee Of Howard Univer-
sity. Higher education men for high |
er education schools"
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TheIrony of Fate.

After spending eight years In volun-
tary confinement. immured In a cell Of
his own construction, and undergoing
great hardshlps and privations, an Ital-
ian, who was legally an escaped con-
ivict, has again fallen into the hands
OF the law, to discover that his self iu-
hicted punishment counts for nothing
and that he viii have to serve the
whole Of the ten years sentence orig
inaIly passed upon hIm.-wide World
Magazine.
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81 AVE WINS 100000.

Dallas, Texas, June 1S.-The Texas
Supreme Court has decided the noted
Maria Hamilton land case. involving
half q league OF land in Hardin Couu-
ty, in the heart of the OH and lumber
region. valued az more than 100000,
in favor Of the descendants Of Maria
Hamilton, a former slave.
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stores and also barber shJpsL 1t viii
also be for sale by frst-class lady hair
dressers.
Main ONCE 1SS Madison street, F. A.
Wescott & Co.; branch once, SS42
Stlte street, Chicago. all mail or
ders will receIve prompt attention.
The broad ax., 1907-06-15

Do you know. after being down here
for some months it keeps coming to
me that this is more a white mans
problem than it is a Negro problem.
The white man as wen as the black
is being tried by Ere. The white man
is in full control Of the South, polit.
icaIly, socially, industrially: the Ne
gro, as Ex-Governor Northen points
out is his helpless ward. What win
he do with him? Speaking Of the ed
ucation Of the Negro. and in direct
reference to the conditions in ATTAIN
Ia which I hare already described.
many men have said to me:
think OF the large sums that the
South has spent and IL spending on
the education OF the Negro. The Ne
gro does not begin to pap for his edu-
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Demand Eight Hours and
Present Scale of Wages
Meeting Called to Consider
Request for Arbitration

Although delegates of trades council will the
afternoon take under consideration the offer of employers for
arbitration about 1000 affiliated with that body will strike
this morning in cities surrounding the bay
Four thousand of the strikers belong San Francisco, where
the sentiment of the unions is opposed to arbitration.
The board of
yesterday California metal association
the members of which the employers OF the striking
which requested that the be submitted
board OF arbitration It late then stop the strike the
8 local unions could be advised OF the letter time take
definite before the strike The board
deemed allow the strike ateriaize originally voted
upon by the separate the of arbitration
settled later.
1t this decision of the executive board that resulted in the
call meeting of the council this afternoon for
considering the proposed arbitration The meeting wifi be held
the labor union temples Fourteenth and Mission sas between
2 and SO clock.
Among will join strike machinists
including Oakland macnists blacksms black
smiths helpers boiler makers iron ship builders machine hands,
moders filters, coppersmt electricians and ship
builders.
that they have been assured of the eight
day by the Fulton iron works, Moore
elevator works and the Keystone boiler works It
the eight hour day
Among the that expected fight the strike
the Rsdon works, the Union works and
Der of smaller shops
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OPERATORS MEET
AND DECIDE To
SUBMIT DEMANDS
Big Strike Will Follow if
Company Refuses to
Make Concessions
ASKS FOR FLAT RATE
Members of Union Declare
for Abolition of the
Sweating System
VOTE IS UNANIMOUS
Time for Decisive Action
on the Reply Is Set
for Tomorrow

San Francisco will have a big
telephone strike unless the Pa
cihc States telephone and tele-
graph company accedes today to
demands adopted at meeting of
the operators union last night.
These demands include fiat
rate Tor air operators after they
have served an apprenticeship,
and the abolition of the sweat
ing" to which the company has
been subjecting the girls since
they have organized their union.
The company has been carry
ing on this sweating despite the
promise it made to a committee
of the girls that waited upon the
officers to protest against it two
weeks ago.
officials Of the company have been
Interviewing the girls separately and
giving them the alternative Of signing
one OF two papers. One of these papers
binds the signer TO resign from the
union under penalty OF being dismissed
from the company. The other offers an
increase Of wages to the signer pro-
vided she remains with the company
and abandons the union in the event
OF a strike
The vote by which the demands were
adopted last night was unanimous, and
this committee was selected to present
them to the company today:
Secretary McCabe and William Bell
iof the labor council: Miss Wheeler,
business agent Of the operators union;
Miss Alice Lynch and Miss Nellie
Sweeney.
The operators will meet again Thurs
day night to vote on strike should
the company refuse to accede to their
demands.
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GIRLS LOSE POSITIONS
DisrnissaIs Follow Effort of Tele-
phone Operators to Form Union


OAKLAND, April 3O.-Enorts to or
ganize nnion Of telephone girls in this
city has led, according TO charges made
by the central labor council to the dis
charge by the Pacific States telephone
company OF employees who attended a
meeting of girls that was held last
Thursday night under the direction Of
Charles ". Petry of the labor council.
The telephone company officials deny
that any of their operatives were dis
missed by reason of activity in the pro-
posed union. but that such dismissals
as have occurred were incident to. the
ordinary routine Of business.
Resolutions were adopted by the la
Dor council last night IN which the ac-
cusation was made that the Pacific
States company had violated the consti-
tuition Of the United States by dismiss
ing employees in an effort TO suppress
freedom Of thought and speech" The
council demanded an investigation, by
the secretary Of commerce and labor
at washington of its charges and re-
vocation OF the telephone companys
charter. Charles ". Petry, the councils
business representative, was directed to-
take such legal steps as should be
found necessary to carry out the coun-
cils resolutions.
Concerning the charges John hc-rns.
division manager Of the telephone COM
pany, said.
IT IS true that girls have been dis
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Father YOrke to Head the Committee to
Present Claims OF the Platform Men
;. Employees of the United Railroads Decide
to Delay Action Another Week

decision had
with the
nasko
to QUITO
decide to 1eavea all details % the
ewllo offer
Oakland sliding
sliding
GALE a
the notd
ndowing
final h on strike be
day
tuo o a which
Among the tina
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Midnight Mass Meeting Called to Decide Problem
Attracts Great T1rOng of Platform Men

meeting was called to order by Presi-
dent Cornelius.
A little over an hour before the ex-
ecutive committee of the union had met
at the same place. just after the even
ing audience had left the playhouse.
and while the scene shifters We're busy
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The mass meeting of the members of
Central theater called out one of the
largest gatherings OF platform men
that has ever been held by the union
in this city. over 1900 men were pres
ent at 1 o'clock this morning when the
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in arranging the stage for the of1cers
and speakers of the larger meeting
which was to follow
As the men left their ears between
IL and 1 o'clock they began to con-
gregate in little groups in front OF
Continued ON Page 5, Column
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Carmen Will Make New Appeal to Patrick Calhoun
Seven Thousand Iron Workers Will Be Idle To-day
Telephone Girls Threaten to Tie Up All Lines

IEd at mass gb
at til head nI eatrm rymd $3g
hh e
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STRTKE SITUATION

Carmen decide TO send committee back to
Calhoun with another appeal for an eight hour
day and IS wage schedule. Page /
Telephone operators union draw up demands
to be submitted TO Pacific States company and
viii strike unless they be conceded. Page
Seven thousand iron workers in San Francisco
and suburban cities VIII go On strike this morn
ing for an S-hour workdey Page /
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q THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL will
guarantee advertisers that it has larger
paid circulation than the Chronicle
G THE SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
establishment, and all its records are
open to public circulation examination at
any time---without previous notice.
San Francisco ADril o5 1907
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SCANDAL

Hiram johnson scores Henry Ach in open
court. Page 2
Reluctant Los Angeles witnesses are charged
with contempt of grand jury and must explain
to Judge Coffey. Page
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INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
NEWS TODAY
TELEPHONE TEMPORARY SO

TELEPHONE TEMPORARY SO
WEDNESDAY. MAY 1. 1907
WEATHER CONDITIONS
YEsTERDAY-CIear; maximum temperature,
Ga minimum, so.
FORECAST FOR ToDAT--Fair: light north
wind, changing 20 fresh west. Page
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SUBURBAN

Alameda's chief Of
lively political mixup.
Nine hundred business
Oakland chamber OF eor
Oakland labor council
company discharged 81
form a Union.
University professor
article dealing with gre
reconstruction work.
Besides changing mott
system from steam TO
cihc will establish fast
Meeting east shore cities
City officials Of Oakll
lation of traffic in TIVE
Mrs. Laura Pendleton
sue out a writ of habe;
daughter from the Ca
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The Call Will Do It Gladly.
III. !. Copied From MAIL ORDER JOURNAL For April 1907
m SAN FRANCISCO


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