The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
Police Commissioner Makes
Hebrew Citizens Angry
Dismissal Of Bingham May Be Asked or
Voters Turned Against Democrats
By C. c. Carlton

win, who came from Boston to this
city IN 1876. OF him the veteran said:
AND Nat Goodwin. When he came
down from Boston-not yet 20-he
wanted to quit al the last minute.
. had 10 push him on the stage, and he
made the biggest kind of a hit right
away with his limitations"
May Irwin was another to whom
IonY Pastor gave a metropolitan on
portunity- She and her sister Flo were
playing in a sketch. "On Board the
Mary Jane at a Detroit variety the
ater' and he saw them and engaged
them Tor his theater. May Irwin was
with him for seven years, and then
went to Days
Others of Pastors discoveries were
aarrigan and Hart Harry Kernel.
Evans and Hoey, Neil Burgess, Gus
Wllilams, Denman Thomson Francis
Wilson. Vesta Tilley, w. j. ScanIan and
Bessie ,Bonehill
PROFESSOR AS MESSENGER Roy
clyde Fitch, the noted playwright.
was az DAYS the other night watching
a performance OF Girls" from the
wings. He was ,mNttering to himself.
as ne sometimes does. and felt inspired
70 quote a French phrase, feeling per-
Iecuy saIe from detection. But a mes
senger boy, in uniform, touched him
on the sleeve, and, doffing his cap. re-
Speciully said: If you please, sir, you
nave not quoted that sentence quite
correctly" and proceeded to speak the
phrase in accents truly Partisan.
Fitch was too amazed to speak. and
by the time he had recovered his senses
the messenger boy had vanished. Later.
Mhen telling the story to some MEM
oers OF the Lambs club. he was told.
aInld general laughter: IF you had
stayed a little longer at your own show
you would have discovered that vour
messenger boy is.a member of the com
pany' Edward Morrissey,. and takes the
part OF messenger boy in the play.
N MMorrlssey was once a professor in the
University Of California"
PORTRAIT KEPT IN CLOSET
When the Rocky Mountain club was
organized an invitation was sent to
United States Senator w. A. Clark of
Montana The charter members were
largely wealthy men. majority of
them being mining men. In reply Clark
counseled the clubs management to
beware of extravaganza and to incur
10 Indebtedness. This advice seemed
TO the club members TO be gratuitous
and IL was apparent that Senator Clark
had regarded the invitation as a bid
Tor a contribution. The members re-
sented Senator Clarks letter Nothing
was said, however, at the time. But
recently when one of the members pre-
sented 10 the club gorgeously framed
oil portrait of Senator Clark it was
consigned to dark closet in the club
rooms at the Waldorf-Astoria and
there it is at present.
The club. which started with $50
members, among whom were many
wealthy westerners, has grown rapidly
and has prospered. so that within a
short time title will be taken to a val
liable club site. Among those who
Joined as charter members were John
Hays Hammond, William H. Thompson
f Augustus Heinze, Arthur p Heine
and former Governor Hauser of Mon
tana. These men formed an under
writing syndicate TO take care of any
financing that might be- necessary when
a favorable opportunity came for buy
ing a house.
Hammond offered TO provide such a
house and equip it free of cost. but the
offer was declined, and since then the
club has been maintained out of its
own revenues. and in addition TO being
out OF debt has a comfortable balance
in the bank.
PROVERBS FIT OCCASIONS
Jim Corbett says that when he began
his career in San Francisco as a pugil-
ist one Of his first trips was to Port
land, Ore, where he took part in a
boxing bout.
When he returned old man Corbett
asked his son, How did it turn out? ?"
Being advised that the fight was a
financial failure, he advised the youth
full pugilist TO remain att home in the
future.
Remember. me lad" he said, there's
an old proverb and true one, "A roll
ing stone gathers no moss"
rain in New Orleans and when he came
home his father again approached him
This time Jim replied that he had made
a lot Of money. and paid his father $50
borrowed on a previous occasion.
We'll, me boy" said Pop Corbett
remember there's old proverb and
a true one. It's the rowing bee that
gets the honey"
Nance O'Neill the California actress,
who seems to be appreciated every
where but in New York, will, early in
October, make another bid for the IA