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The San Francisco call., 1908-03-27
eIEETINGs-spectal


A REGULAR meeting Of the Board Of Medical
Examiners OF the State OF California VIII be
held TUESDAY. the 9TH day OF April. 1908,
San Francisco. Cal. at a. m. for the pur-
pose Of considering applications for certificates
and such other business as may properly come
before il. Applications fOr certificates must
be fled with the secretary prior 10 March "a.
1908. The examination will take place IN
Cooper Medical College. corner Sacramento
and Webster Sts.. san Francisco. April I.
and .. 1908. at 10 a. m Board Of Medical
Examiners of the State of California.
CHARLES T. TISDALE. NJ D.. secretary.
Dated san Francisco. March 20 1905
The regular annual meeting of the stock holders
of the Insular Improvement Company viii be
held az the Office Of the company. 90 Clay
ST.. san FrNncscn, Cal. the 30th day OF
March. 1908. at the hour of II O'Clock a. To-.
for the purpose OF electinS board OF directors
transaction of such ether business as may
colle before tire meeting. The transfer books
viii close on Magch y, 1908 at D. N.
W. f. HANNAH. Secretary
ANNUAL. meetiog-The annual meeting OF the
stock holders Of the Western sugar refining
company will be held st the Office Of the com
MONDAY. the 3Dth day Of March 1903 at n
O'Clock a. m. for the purpose OF electiug a
board Of directors 70 serve for the ensuing
year and for the transaction OF such other
business may before the meeting.
Transfer books viii close Friday March 20
1905, at II o'clock m
". H. HANNAH. Secretary.
CALL BRANCH OFFICE. 1851 FILLMORE st,
near Post.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-27

Average depth of ground, rs inches.
SYNOPSIS
The pressure has risen rapidly throughout Cali
fornia and conCh tons favorable for fair
weather Tie rainfall has been light In northern
California, but heavier in the southern portion
Of the state. Snow has fallen in the Sierras. In
tab and in northern Arizona. High southwest
winds are reported along the southern coast and
also at Yuma, Flagstaff and Modena. In Ari-
zona the temperature has fallen from IA TO SO
degrees.
FORECAST
San Francisco and vicinity-CIoudy Friday;
brisk west winds
Santa Clara valley-Fsir Friday; fresh north
winds.
Sacramento valley Cloudy Friday; fresh south
winds.
san Joaquin valley-cIoudy Friday; fresh
orthwest winds.
Los Angeles and vicinity--Cloudy, unsettled
weather Friday, possibly light showers; light
south winds changing TO north.
A. G. McADIE. District Forecaster.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-27
Army Transports

The burnside is at Seattle.
The Buford left Manila March is for San Fran
cisco.
The Crook sailed February 90 for Manila.
The Fitzpatrick is at Newport News, Va.
The Dix arrived at Manila February 10.
The Logan Is in port undergoing repairs.
The Meade is at Newport News, Va.
fhe ingalls, is at Newport News Va.
The sherman is in port.
The Sheridan Is at Mare island undergoing
repairs.
Tie Thomas sailed March II from Honolulu
The Warren is at Manila
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-27

vICToRIA-.-sai March 2s-Nor stmr Thor
for San Francisco; Br bark Invernsill. for United
Arrived March 26-Nor stmr Transit from
Gusymas
CARMANAI-Psssed March 2G-Stmr shaw
NUT, from Yokohama for Seattle.
FALMOUTH-Arrived March 2f-Br stmr
Crown OF Arragon. from Everett.
HAAiBU RG-Arriyed March 24-Br stnr Glen
strae. from Oregon.
PORT sAID-~Arriyed March 2s-Br sfmr In
CoIoN@Arriyed March ~ s4mstmr s.,vsnce
MoRoRAN-A Arrived March "a -Br stmr Ma
NEWCASTLE \ w-Arrived March 10 Br
stmr Strathairly, from Manila; loads for san
DovER-Passed March 25-Nor stmr Herm.
from 9I9 :, Oregon = sSg1 for Unite tinted Kingdom
stmr aieTa from Hamburg for San Francisco.
NAGASAKI-Sailed March 3Nor stmr Adj
miral Borreson for TakM
OCEAN STEAMERS
NEW 1ORk-Arriyed March 26-Stmr Car
mania. from Liverpool.
Sailed March 26-Stmr Adriatie, for Southamp-
Observation-Disclosures preyiously-stmr rosa
Maru. from Seattle.
Maru. from Seattle via Yokohams: stmr Korea
from San Francisco via Honolulu. Yokohama etc
Cecilie, from New York.
PLYMoUTH-Arrived March 26-Stmr Teu-
tonic, from New York for Cherbourg and South
hampton and proceeded
MADEIRA-Ssiled March 22-Stmr Amiral
Exelmans, from Seattle. San Francisco. etc, via
Montevideo for Havre.
AUTHORIZATION March 2e-Stmr Finland
from New Iork
SOUTHAMPTON-Arrive March 26-Stmr
Teutonic. from New York.
Sailed March 26-Stmr Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse and stmr Oceanic for New York.
Memoranda
Per power schr MOnterey-Was too rough at
Albion TO finish loading.
Per ship Chas z Moody. at San Francisco
March % from Newcastle. X-Saled from
Newcastle. W. Dec ~; Sunday. Jan 10.
latitude 81 81 south. longitude LIS 43 east had
heavy gale from the SSE, shifting to SSw,
lasting 81 hours. throwing ship on her beam
ends, filing decks to the rail and shifting cargo
to starboard; ship labored heavily: sent crew
below to trim cargo for days; washed
board everything movable on deck; stove in the
forward house. blew away several sails; barom-
eter 2S6 50: crossed the equator Jan 10. longitude
1I9 10 west; thence TO port had head winds
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-27
special NOTICES

TIE Pacific Hebrew orphan Asylum and Home
society reports the following admissions Into
the orphanage OF whole and half orphans rom
Jnly ] to Dee 81. 1907. viz. Silva BoOS-
berg, aged 4 years month"; Benjamin BooS-
berg. aged s years o months: Louis Writer.
aged years months; Julius Cohen. aged
years . months; Annie Cohen aged II years
months. and Jacob Klein aged years
months.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-27
Weather Report

nited States department of agriculture
Weather bureau. San Francisco, March &c. 1908.
RAINFALL, DATA
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-27
Z. 5. Branch Hydrogrnphic Ofice

A branch OF the United States HydrOgra phic
Office. located at the Merchants Exchange Is
maintained ln San Francisco for the benefit Of
mariners. without regard TO nationality and free
OF expense Navigators cordially invited 20
visit the Office. where complete sets OF charts
and sailing directions Of the world are kept 1t
hand FOR comparison and reference and the lat
est Information can always be obtained regard
ing lights dangers t. naYigation and matters
of interest TO ocean commerce.
J. c. BURNETT.
Lieutenant L. 5. n. in charge
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-27
BUSINESS PERSONALS

FOR AN EFFECTIVE AND LASTING CURE
OF PILES REQUIRES ONE BOX HEMLOCK
SAME SEND 20 CENTS To JOHN PAUL
GARDNER. SOS FAST STARK STREET
PORTLAND. OR. SUCCESSFUL IN EVERY
CASE.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-27
Time Ball

United States Branch photographic Office Mer-
chants Exchange. San Francisco, March
26 1905.
The time ball the tower Of the Ferry build
ing was dropped today exactly at noon. Pacific
Standard Time 12oth Merdan}, or at Sh. com
oos', Greenwich Mean Time
j. c. BURNETT
Lientenant IL s \ in charne
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-27

Schneider, Mrs W. j. Allison, c. r. Magagnos.
Harold Phillips, Albert Foster, Alvs weise
Ernest j. Kenney, Robert w. Lind, Miss Elsie
Hebrank, Stanley Jonas, Leo Kenney. Fred Mac
Ciellan
sabdistrict No. s-Fruitvele and adjacent ter
ritory, that is, from Twenty-ffth avenue to San
Leandro creek.
Less than 100 votes-Claude Griffith c. T.
Griffin, Edward Smith, W. Martin Manuel
Kelley. Oswald 2. Herman.
S1hdis--ict En. ln--all of Alameda cnnInt.. not
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
OLD-AGE INSURANCE PLAN
rs SUCCESSFUL IN EUROPE

pence halfpenny) for class 5, says
Chambers Journal.
Not only do Belgium and Italy also
give lead to Great Britain
and the United States. The colo
MES are far in advance of the mother
country. In New Zealand persons
reaching the age of 65 whose income
does not exceed one pound per week
receive a pension of eighteen pounds
per annum, roughly seven shillings
per week. The act of parliament
which gives this power has a clause
which is worth repetition: Whereas.
it is equitable that deserving colonists.
who during the prime of life have
helped to bear the public burdens of
the colony by the payment of taxes.
and to open up it's resources by their
labor and skill, should look to the
colony for a pension in their old age"
This strikes one as sound doctrine,
the justice of which is as applicable
to the old country as to the new.
A not uninteresting sign of the times
comes from France. A leading plank
in NJ Rouvier's platform is old-age
pensions. The government of France
at present subsidies the pension funds
of trade and friendly societies, but no
general scheme of old-age pensions has
yet been adopted.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
MINISTER'S PLAN
PROVES SUCCESSFUL
WORK FOUND FOR MANY UN.
EMPLOYED
Citizens Greet Canvassers and Aqree
to Have Grounds improved in
Order to Supply En-
ployment

The sixteen canvassers sent out yes
terday by the central registration
bureau formed by the Salvation Army
Volunteers of America, Associated
Charities and the Bethlehem institu-
tions, were received by the people of
Los Angeles with words of praise, and
many situations were secured for the
men, some of which will be permanent.
The monster campaign to create all
kinds of honest work for the unem-
ployed, started by Rev. Dana w. Bart
lett, has met responses from many
sources, and many people will have
their grounds improved to give en-
ployment to these men.
Out of the 100 men added by the city
council to the park force yesterday
twenty-five from this bureau secured
employment. The fifteen jobs of street
repairing to be opened soon by con-
tract will hold many positions for the
men, which will relieve the situation.
Rev. Mr.. Bartlett asks all citizens
who can employ any OF these deserving
men to call UP A 1928 or Main 5726 anC
inform the men in charge.
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f1idWdInd has the Last WOTu
From the past comes Hiawatha
When he hears the big debaters
Jawing, jawing with each other.
II am here" he says, ito vindi-
Cate the grand and good old author
Who preserved me. tetrametric,
4xAd me and preserved me.
Put me up in neat Iambics;
Picked me for all the ages"
] have met that Scandinavian
Or Icelandic rival yonder.
In the meadows of the sky land.
Snort and simple our debating.
Then I took my little hatchet,
And 1 did him with my Ratchet,
Did him with my little Ratchet.
Yes, tomahawkd the spirit
OF my Scandinavian rival.
Then seized him by the scalp lock-
By his flowing. ghostly scalp lock-
And took my scalping knife and
sca1p'd him like a man and brother.
Here's his spirit-scalp to prove it.
The discussion now is ended,
You have made mo very weary,
And have caused a rude disturbance
OF the rest and peace of skyland;
To say nothing of the fact that
Now my Scandinavian rival
Will exist through all the ages,
All the countless coming aeons,
In crude and queer condition.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
BREEZY FRISCO WELCOME
FOR BRITISH SQUADRON

morning, like Mr.. Hearst. But
watched war never boils, says the san
Francisco Call.
Let us hope that the British will come
and prepare welcome for the cap
tains and the kings. Mr.. Rufus Jen.
nings will tell you that they are good
for business. We will sell them hard
tack and plum duff and lobscouse--
such favorite Gates as the sailorman
loves with a 20 no no and bottle of
rum.
Go to it, grandam. You have some
unruly children up north and you need
. ship that can cross lots to keep them
polite and honorable allies. 1t may be
that your duty but not your will conf
pels. We can only guess, but we i'm
agine you don't quite like your job or
your bargain.
In the meantime the Call begs leave
to acknowledge with all respect and af-
lection the comp liment paid to the Pa
cific ocean. Things are coming our way,
all right Come on, We admiralS.
Whether you come to brave the battle
or the breeze you are welcome, and you
shall have your pictures printed in ali
the newspapers. Maybe you would like
to buy twenty acres of alfalfa or a
pocketful of oil stock.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
ILLINOIS PRIMARY BILL

Hy HE passage of the Oglesby Jones
direct plurality primary bill in Illi-
II nois brings into practical politics a
plan for improved governmental effici-
ency which only u few years ago would
have been looked at askance by the
conservative Americans" who in real
ity were only conservative" of tradi-
tionary methods that had produced the
greatest power for the greatest bosses
and the greatest revenues for the small
est number The purpose of the bill is
stated in the following words; ITO al
low the voters to pick their party can
didates by direct plurality vote at
the primaries without the intervention
of delegate conventions"
The bill applies to the nomination of
all candidates for elective state, con-
gressional, senatorial. county, city and
village offices. including officers Of the
municipal court Of Chicago: town and
judicial offices; members of the state
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
lust AS BADp

4 NEWSPAPER of this state whim-
~ pers editorially that it is a shame
to say that there has been reign
OF ruinous corruption in the United
States BECAUSE our politicians and
fnanciers are no worse than those of
Great Britain. Some of the biggest
rascals who ever operated in business
or in politics have afflicted the British
empire. The very man who grabbed
India for the islanders was impeached
for bribery and corruption on a scale
SO gigantic that it is still standard
Of official immortality, and not even
Bill Tweed measured all the way down
to 1t. But, as Shakespeare says, what
a-mischief' hath this to do with the
condition of public morals in the
United States? We are perpetually
comparing ourselves with Great Brit
ain. 1t is our worst trick. Ii Great
Britain has great man we have one
Britain has a good man we have one
just as good, or better. And now we
are told to solace ourselves for an I'M
happy and we believe temporary con-
dition of depression in Americanism by
rejecting that If we have evildoers
Great Britain has evildoers that are
just as bad. These fantastic rivaIries
between the United Kingdom and the
United States remind one of the age
long competition between Scotland and
England, which evoked incidentally the
fnfIras.-s-- ~-E rited oIfhI1rst
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
ECHOES OF PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE STILL RINGING

willing to spend can be gagged by
their recent publications broadcast
throughout the papers of this country
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The
books and pamphlets, the controlled
newspapers, the speeches by public and
private men to which I|refer, are usu-
ally and especially in the interest of
the Standard Oil trust and of certain
notorious railroad combinations of
great wealth that have been guilty
of wrong doing" This, of course, re-
fers to the paid-for articles defending
Standard Oil and Rockefeller which
have been flooding the newspapers and
the magazines during the last few
months-the cost of which, amounting
to hundreds of thousands of dollars,
comes out of the pockets of the users
of coal oil the country over.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
is Ellen a Nature Faker?

The late Henry Irving was such n
sentimentalist that during his lifetime
his best friends refrained from telling
various stories that might have made
audiences giggle when he was deepest
in tragedy. Here is one that was sup
pressed until after his death:
One day when he was studying
Hamlet" in a narrow English lane he
saw plaintive lamb gazing at him
from the top of the bank. Overcome
by an emotional wave produced by an
alogy and Bible symbolism, Irving
scrambled up the bank, slipping often
in the damp red earth, and f1inging his
long, lean arms around the dear lambs
neck he kissed it. The brute bit him.
Of we are to believe Ellen Terry.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
FOR WHOM?

For whom those color-beams we cannot Sec
The under-red-the over-violet?
For whom the tones that none hath listened
yet,
No player yet enthralled in melody?
Those unheard waves Of sweetness wander
free,
They rise round strings that muted are. TO
them!
Those beams of color. mute in flower or
gem
They cross our path. on unseen erantry!
The teasing Fancy vainly makes her plea.
The eager Sense no clue TO these may
trace.
Shut with the treasures of mysterious
space,
They are not for such mortal men we.
For whom? Who, then. shall turn. at
length, the key.
And wander into Beauty we forego?
I dream, those tones shall sound. those
colors glow.
For men of subtler sense-men yet to be!
Edith NJ. Thomas in Smart Set.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
SAM DAVIS DENIES HE
WAS CONVERTED BY BULGIN


CARSON, NeE., Feb. 10.--Sam Davis,
the publicity commissioner of Nevada,
who was reported in many papers as
being a religious convert in Reno on
Saturday night. denieG the story, and
gave the following interview:
II was merely on the train that went
to Reno. 1 die not take part in the
parade or head any procession to clean
out the gambling hells of Reno. l at
tended one service of DR.. Bulgin's in
Carson, but did not go again. l don't
believe in gambling, but If other people
wish to lose their money that is their
affair. No, can say that the revival
panic that swept over this city and
Reno never touched me-"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
HEsPER

Her eyes are like the evening air,
Her voice 10 like a rose,
Her lips are like a lovely song,
That ripples as 1t flows;
And she herself Is sweeter than
rhe sweetest thing she knows.
A slender. haunting. twilight form
or wonder and surprise,
She seemed a fairy or a child,
Till, deep within her eyes,
saw the iomeward-leading star
OF wo1nanhood arise.
Henry Van Dyke in the Alta
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
.IaIadroIt Artists

"Most of the cartoonists picture
Speaker Cannon as swinging his gavel
with his right hand, when as a matter
of fact the speaker is left-handed and
does not swing his gavel with his right
hand once in a thousand times" says
careful observer
Is this bid for the left-handed vote?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
Thousands Are Destitute


PHILADELPHIA, Feb 10.-An APP
zeal for aid for destitute people in the
Kensington mill district of Philadel-
phia, one of the greatest Industrial CEN
tiers in the world, was made at the
meeting yesterday of the Central Labor
union. A delegation of textile workers
claimed that some $4,000 to $4,000 men,
women and children in the Kenslngton
district are in need Of relief
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11

mans ana the ttOchelSliSlS'
"The methods by which the Standard
Oil people and those engaged in other
combinations of which ] have spoken
about have achieved great fortunes
can only be justified by the advocacy
of a system of morality which would
also Justify every form of criminality
on the part of labor union and every
form of violence, corruption and fraud
from murder to bribery and balot-box
surfing in politics" One cannot help
but wonder whether this truthful
statement of the indecent dishonest
and criminal methods they have pur-
sued in accommodating their great for
tunes will have any effect upon the
Harrimans and the Rockefellers, ex-
cept to make them more angry at the
president, more determined to continue
to defy the laws and more eager to
continue to rob the people. Probably
it will not; because men who will do
things these men have done are men
tally impervious to any idea of mo-
rality and look upon anybody who en-
deavors to curb their criminal propen-
sites as an enemy to be disposed of
at any cost and in any manner, says
the Oakland Enquirer.
Referring to the frantic attempts
which the Harrimans and the Rookie
fellers are making to fool the people
into the belief that the president was
wrong in bringing Standard Oil and
the railroads to justice, as all crimi-
nails should be, for their fragrant, I'M
blushing and continued violations of
the law, the message says: 1.-The
amount of money the representatives
of certain great moneyed interests are
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
Saved bY Famine

During a famine in Ireland kind
hearted woman supplied all her peasant
nefghbors with plenty of food. Sure,
am" said one of them in thanking
her, "if it hadn't been for the blessed
famine we'd all have been shtarved to
DEATH"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11

Storm water roared and poured in
Los Angeles Sunday. Well, who's kick
ing? If it had been a blizzard there
might be some excuse for a growl.
Water is all right, excepting in stocks
and cream.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11

Dinizulu, son of the great Cetewayo,
has been arrested in Zululand on the
charge of disorderly conduct. He says
and made him obstreperous. He has
forty wives. His British judges have
agreed to regard them as extenuating
circumstances, and DIM will be dealt
with leniently.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
Harsh Addenda

Sharpe--Did you hear about the de-
Placement of SINNERS tombstone?
Flatte-No. What was it?
Sharpe-The last line in his epitaph
was HE did his best" Somebody has
chiselled in friends"
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as a we'll deserved compliment to the
Pacific ocean. There would be no of
Tense.
1t is the duty of the hour to say that
the ocean, the multitudinous seas,
makes the free highway of commerce
and the common battle-ground of ma
tons. 1t belongs to the just and the
unjust. To be sure, all that has been
said before; but, bless your heart, 1t
will be said again right now as many
times as there are editorial writer's in
America. They know their business.
Welcome-we would say-weIcome
good grandam, to your CORY bed. It
you some in peace and friendship you
are doubly welcome. If you come in
search of a free fight you may be ac-
commodaIed. Please yourself. You are
the mistress of the seas.
There are those fearful, timorous
souls who see war hiding in every
bush. There are those who will sell you
nickels worth of hot battle every
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
They're Better Boiled

Suggestion is made that eggs laid by
Los Angeles hens should be dated.
Trouble is some procrastinating egg
merchants might wait until the last
minute and save bother by stamping
all the eggs with the same date.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
Speak Up, Mary

Now that the regulations Of Shake
speare and Longfellow have been as
sailed will somebody please indicate the
real authors of the works of Laura
Jean Libbey and Mary MacLean?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11

Even if the Japs were not restrained
by other considerations from the folly
of conflict with the United States,
they might paraphrase favorite song.
and chant TITS best to be off with the
old war debt, before you are on with
the new"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
Priceless Peaches

A commission agent in the Paris fruit
markets recently shipped a basket con-
tanning GO selected peaches to London.
The price paid for the lot was $40, or
about SO each. Pretty good. but there
are peaches in Los Angeles worth much
more than that-not for sale.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
Hoch der Kaiser

A German court has decided that the
word "Tokay" must not be misapplied.
No longer will the puzzled wine bibber
have to ask, "Tokay or not tokay, that
is the question:"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
Makes Rich Suckers

a. Charlie Schwab has sailed to
Europe. ~. 1t is understood the prince
of Monaco is enthusiastically in favor
of the American high tariff on steel.
Do you trace the connection?