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The San Francisco call., 1908-08-05
BRIDE BALKS At
COOKING DINNER
Charles Cotton Sues Wife of a
Month for Divorce, Alleg-
ing Cruelty

After but few days more than one
month Of married life, Charles Cotton.
of Hersch & Cotton, yesterday sued
Josephine Lillian Cotton for divorce,
charging cruelty. They were married
June 2S last. Colton's chief cause of
complaint is that his wife refused to
cook him a Sunday evening dinner.
His weekday dinners he had down
town, but on their first Sunday at home
he asked her to prepare the meal. Mrs.
Cotton answered that had she thought
he would be so unreasonable as to ex-
pect her to cook dinner for him on
Sundays she never would have married
him. This hurt Cotton exceedingly, as
1t was the first time he asked her to
cook dinner, and he states that he is
too poor to employ cook. Mrs. Col
ton is alleged further to have told her
husband she did not love him and mar
ried him only because her aunt sug-
gested it, and to cap all she hired a
wagon and carted away the $1,000
worth Of furniture and carpets in their
fiat. She is now with her relatives.
Spirits played an important part in
the matrimonial affairs of Emily c.
Matthias and Peter Matthias, according
to the divorce complaint of the first
mentioned, filed yesterday. On July IA,
1907, she said her husband struck and
cHOhtu HeT, telllnB Hei tHdl the
spirits had communicated the fact
to him that she had another man in
the house. Later he beat her again,
she charges, because the Spirits" had
informed him she was unfaithful.
Other suits for divorce filed yester
day were: Anna E. Stark against
William Stark, cruelty; David l.. Lloyd
against Louise Lloyd, cruelty; Florence
A. Goldstein against Ralph Goldstein.
cruelty; Uldene Barset against Robert
Eugene Barset. cruelty and infidelity
Judge Sturtevant yesterday granted
Frank j. Henninger a divorce from
Bertha Henninger on the ground of de-
sertion.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-05
FIscHER SET AT LIBERTY

Lucius G. Fischer, son of a banker in
Chicago, who was arrested by Detec-
tive Burke on Monday on complaint of
the management of the st. Francis
hotel, where he had run up bill of
about $1,000. was released from GUS
tody yesterday morning. The police
understand that Fischer's father tele-
graphed to the hotel people that he
would liquidate his sons Indebtedness
and advised that he should be sent to
a sanitarium
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-05
SURGEON TO RETIRE

The retiring board of the United
States revenue cutter service VIII hold
a meeting this morning at the Apprais-
ers' building 10 discuss the retirement
Of Surgeon s. J. Call. Call has been
III with Bright's disease for four years
he has been for a long period in the
revenue cutter service, and was I'm the
expedition which relieved the whalers
on the Bear, who in 1897 were locked
in the ice fn Alaska.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-05
HUNT STOLEN JEwrIRy

Detectives Ryan and O'Dea were as
signed yesterday to search the CITY for
from safe deposit vaults in Seattle IN
July 25 and which is supposed to have
been sold in this city. The haul con-
sisted of 5S pieces of valuable jewelrv
and reward of so per cent Of its total
value has been offered for the return
of It.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-05
CARPENTER FALLS TO DEATH

misstep on narrow scaffoiding,
three stories above the street, caused
the death of Alfred Larsen, carpenter
working on the new Union league club
building at Powell and O'Farrell
streets, yesterday. The workman
struck on his head on the cement side
walk and fractured his skull. He died
an hour later at the emergency hos
pital. Larsen lived with his family at
Harrison and Twentieth streets. Oak
land
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-05
stock In Nevada. Live and Otherwise

Life IN Nevada, in two aspects, as
Strongly contrasted as the trapping OF
Wild horses on the wild ranges and the
running of a newspaper during strenu-
Gus times in Goldfeld, contributes Il
the interest of the August number OF
Sunset Magazine. The wild horses are
trapped in reality by Charles (Pete)
Barnum. an expert horse tanner, and tho
newspaper is run in fiction in a good
story, when in Rome" By w. +,
Boericke.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-05

DIR. Alfred Eichler has resumed prac-
tice. Office, 203 Church St, cor. Mar
ket; residence. 18th and Eureka SITS. .
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-05

% per cent off on all orders for wigs
and toupees. S. Strozynski Co., 100
Sutter street.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

Congress Likely to Lin9er Until June I

was reported January %, is the only
one that has become a law; having
been approved February Is. The In
dian appropriation bill, which was re-
ported January ~ in the house COM
mittee on Indian affairs, passed the
house February IL and passed the
senate February % and was sent to
conference March 4. The pensions
appropriation bill was reported Febrti-
airy 4 and passed the house March II.
It is now in the senate. The execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill
was reported February II, passed the
house February II and the senate
March Fl, and is now in conference.
The army bill passed the house
February 20 and the postof1ce bill
March 10. The agricultural appropria-
ton bill was approved by the house
April 1, while the Notifications meas
ure passed that body March Fl. The
District of Columbia appropriation bill
was reported the other day, but will
not be taken up for a couple of weeks.
The diplomatic and consular bill, gen.
eral deficiency, military academy,
naval and sundry civil appropriation
bills are in various stages Of prepare
ton previous to being reported.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24
Much Music in Wall Street These DAYS

custom house, now being demolished
with Earring clash of apparatus, the
ear becomes somewhat soothed in
South William street by q well-built
hurdygurdy operated by an Italian and
his MISUNDERSTANDING daughter. This
Italian is usually to be found at the
corner Of Exchange place and William
street, and his repertory of tunes runs
a gamut from mo Wedding Bells for
Me" to the famous wedding March,"
Arriving at the Cotton Exchange
and going up into the gallery, one
may hear the Exchange quartet sing
ing few "swipes." This quartet is
a particularly good one, and the songs
1t frequently renders have been the
delight of the smoking room for sew
eral years.
All over the financial district ven
ders Of the scores of current popular
Broadway musical successes are en-
countered. Songs are frequently ad-
vertised by having them sung from
sign-lfttered wagons that traverse the
district. "Zoboes," in the hands of
newsboys and messengers, are echoing
at every corner of New street. Music
boxes that start their revolutions at
the touch of nickel are to be found
In numerous entrances
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24
Forced to Hurdle Train of Duchess

that swept the floor for nearly ten
feet behind her, and this lay spread
out, completely blocking the entrance
to the banquet hall. There was no
way to pass except to step on this
magnificent creation or to jump it. No
one stepped on it, and the series of
high jumps taken by some of the
crowding women from downstairs
made sight almost worth the price
Of banquet ticket.
Some of the women who took the
hurdle were of build which does not
admit Of long steps and their efforts
to clear the wide train were painful
to witness. One expected to hear
sound like r-r-r-p-p, but If anything
gave way the wearer made no sign. A
few of the men, trying to look as If
they were unconscious of the barrier,
stretched their legs and took the step
with clear forty-two-inch stride from
tiptoe to tiptoe.
The struggles Of the walters to
cross were painstaking and deliberate.
Finally the duchess turned and, taking
in the situation, she quietly drew her
train to her side with quick, grace
full motion, and went on talking with
Mr.. Glider. A long sigh of relief went
up from the more nervous persons be-
hind her who had been watching the
hazardOns nr0ceedinpo
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24
Why Congressman Criticised Pinchot

knowledge before the public of the
work that they are doing. The trou-
bic was that the men who prepared
the reports did not know anything
about the popular side of the questions
discussed, and as a result the news.
papers to whom the reports were sent
did not use them to any great ex-
tent.
Now in several departments of the
government there are trained men
whose business it is to take the gov
eminent reports, and while preserving
scrupulously every fact contained
therein to present the prepared mat
ter SO that the newspapers will use
it and the peope will read it. The
forest service and geological survey
have press service of this kind.
The reason that congressman are
hearing from their constituents is not
because the congressman are criti-
cised, because no line of criticism
does or could appear in the matter
sent out. 1t is a case simply of in
teresting the people and of inducing
them through their interest to write
letters in support Of measures before
congress-.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24
Musings Of the Metropolis
News of New York Town
Outlined in Brief = Form
amen Corner" Is Now But a Memory

plot adjoining Madison square realized
that the building was not returning the
percentage of interest on the valua-
ton of the land that it should. The
land. is assessed at. 81, 500 900, but al
ready a loan of much more than that
has been negotiated on. it.. A modern
sky-scrapers- Office building will soon
replace the hotel. :;
For more than 80 years the Fifth
Avenue has been one of the most:
notable hotels of the United States. No
other single hotel in the world has
ever entertained so many distin-
guished people. Presidents of the
United States, emperors, princes, for
eign ambassadors, untitled men and
women Of renown-the list would fill
volume. Rosters of its later patrons
include all names of prominence up to
the date of Roosevelt's election. He
is the only president since Lincoln.
who has not made his home there.
1t is Of the Fifth Avenue that the
story was told originally of the man
from the bleak Massachusetts, hills,
who, in war times, was compelled to
pass his only week in New York. He
wrote home: This is the greatest
tavern you ever heard of. The bath
tub is so inviting that I can hardly
wait for Saturday night to come
around. And they give us four meals
a day on their American plan. 1t keeps
me busy and have to stay up every
night until the shows are over so I can
get that last meal"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

NEW YoRK:-The Fifth Avenue
~ hotel, one of the famous hostelries
of the city, has 1T last ended its ex-
istence Of half century. The end
came the other night when many of
the old timers once more sat upon the
plush-covered seat in the Amen cor
ner and once more breathed an &C.
quiescent "amen" to the words of the
"easy boss" whose political plans,
there promulgated. gave the spot world
renown.
In the old day Tom Plat was secre-
tive. On this last night he confessed
that the Amen corner had made and
unmade presidents" Chauncey Depew
spoke with caution when apart of the
inner circle in days gone by. The
other night he boosted that he had
known governors who thought they
did things from the executive cham
Der, but they were done from the
Amen corner"
With the passing of the Fifth Ave-
nue. the day Of the American plan hotel
In this city is over. Not that this is
the reason for the demolition of the
hotel, but because the owners of the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

HE developments in the Alfred G.
Vanderbilt family troubles during
the past week would indicate that old
Cornelius Vanderbilt, while he was a
man of vast affairs and great business
acumen, did not know his own sons.
Ten years ago young Cornelius Van
derbilt married Miss Grace Wilson. He
did not approve of the choice.
He prophesied disaster and scandal,
and he denounced young Cornelius as
an migrate who had blighted his own
career.
The elder Vanderbilt then turned to
Alfred as the head of the house to sue
coed him, and made him the heir to
his vast fortune. Meanwhile Cornelius
Vanderbilt and his wife, Grace Wilson
Vanderbilt, have gone their way, win
ming admiration, respect and friend
ship here and in Europe, They are
friends of royalty abroad. They en-,
tertained Prince Henry of Prussia
when he was in New York. They
have taken the lead in society. They
have family of fine children. They
are typically American. =.
But these social successes have not
interfered with Cornelius career. He
would have made his own way IN the
world without any money, or any great
family name. He has been q worker,
In spite Of his millions, for the wrong
his father did him was in part righted
by his brother, who gave him $1,000
|. 900. He Is q skilled mechanic. He Il
nrstclass engineer. He il IN n
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

NEGOTIATIONS are being conducted
~ by the Michigan and federal au-
thorities for a scientific compaign Of
wolf killing in the upper peninsula.
1t is quite probable that within a
month Vernon R. Bailey, the wolf ex-
pert in the biological survey, will go
into the upper peninsula and will in.
augurate the campaign. With Mr..
Bailey and the officials of the bio
logical survey, Game Warden Pierce
has been in correspondence. The plan
which has been considered contem-
plates cooperation between state and
national authorities. Mr.. Bailey will
spend about month on the ground,
and during that time he will instruct
agents OF the state in the best method
of catching wolf pups in dens and of
trapping the old ones.
Mr.. Pierce is the first Of the state
game wardens to seriously take up a
thorough and scientific project for rid
ding the upper peninsula of the pests
will kill almost as many deer as, per-
haps more than, all the hunters. The
plans which have been formulated call
for systematic work extending over ap-
proximately two years. The expecta-
ton is that the state will employ two
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

M EMBERS of congress have been
wi finding faul with Clifford Pinchot
because he has been making the peo-
pie OF the country familiar with the
work of the forest-saving service. The
members who have criticised Mr.. Pin
chot are the members who are opposed
to the bills which have for their OBJ
ject the saving of the forests on the
eastern mountains.
The forest service simply has sent
out publications showing the neces-
sity for the saving of the forests, but
the result has been that members who
don't want to save the forests have re-
ceived letters by the hundreds from
their constituents telling them that
they must vote for forest reserves.
This has made the members angry.
Some time ago it was hard for the
departments Of government to get
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24
Uncle Sam to Aid in Hunting Wolves

or three men, who will become, under
Mr.. Bailey's instructions, expert in
wolf killing. During three months of
the spring they will hunt the young in
dens, and during the summer they will
trap the older wolves. They will be
kept busy about six months of the
year.
Mr.. Bailey says that a very rough
estimate of the number of timber
wolves in the upper peninsula is 200.
In one days travel on snowshoes last
spring he found the tracks of Is differ
ent wolves. A very rough estimate OF
the number of deer killed by the
wolves each winter is from 1000 to
1000, although Mr.. Bailey says that
the number may run much higher. A
single wolf is altogether capable of
killing ten deer in a single night.
In the upper peninsula the wolves
begin to breed about April Is, and the
present plan is that the campaign will
be inaugurated at about that date. The
killing of the pups after they have
been taken from the dens involves no
practical difficulties.
The success that has followed
scientific wolf killing in other parts of
the country is indicated by reports
from the forest reserves. The bio
logical survey has worked with the
forest service in an effort to clear the
national forests of timber wolves and
coyotes, and reports received by the
survey indicate that between 1,400 and
1900 timber wolves were killed last
year in and near the forests, and about
10000 coyotes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

HERE is music in the air Of Wall
! street these spring days. Wall
street, with its harmonious ticker song,
is one Of the last places In the world
where an outsider would expect to find
the romantic element of music, and
yet a stroll through the money dis
trict during the market hours is con-
trarily convincing.
Starting at the foot of Wall street
proper, one finds a heterogeneous
group Of mendicant musicians. There
is a haggard, tousled, old woman, on
whose bones is hung faded calico, play
ing a violin outside the coffee bro
kers' Offices. There is a one.legged
man, along about so years old, playing
harmonica for stray pennies. There
Is young girl-deaf, dumb and blind
playing weird tunes on a dilapidated
accordion.
:, Walking down the street to the old
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

1t is pleasant to hear of the bravery
and unselfishness of American sailors
even in time of peace, when they are
supposed to have little to do outside of
routine duty. Rear Admiral Evans,
commander Of the battleship fleet, re-
ports to the naval authorities at Wash.
ington the highly commendable con.
duct of four seamen while at Punta
Arenas, Chile. This consisted of en-
tering, at great personal risk, a boat
that was leaking badly and proceed.
ing to the rescue of two midshipmen
who had been thrown into the water
by the capsizing of dingy and were
in imminent danger of drowning. But
the Yankee sailor is always COOL
headed, resourceful and dependable.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24
Value Ct Psychical Research.


Why should not psychical investi-
cation lead to practical results, asks
Sir Oliver Lodge, F. R. s., in the,
World To-Day. Are we satisfied with
the preaching of chaplains. That is.
o. civilized people content to grow a
perennial class of habitual criminals,
and to keep them in check only by de-
vices appropriate to savages; hunting
them, f1ogging them, locking them up
discriminating them? 1t is unwise and
unscientific to leave prisoners merely
to the discipline of watdens and to
the preaching of chaplains. That is
not the way to attack disease of the
body polite. 1 have no full-blown
treatment to suggest, but 1 foresee
that there will be one in the future.
Society will not be content always To-
pursue these methods of barbarism ::
the resources of civilization are not
really exhausted, though for Gen.
turtles they have appeared to be. The
criminal demands careful study on the
psychical side, and remedy or pallia.
ton will be direct outcome of one
aspect of our researches. The influ-
ence Of the unconscious or sublfminal
self. the power Of suggestion, the in
duence Of one mind over another, the
phenomena Of so-called possession"
these are not academic or scientific
facts alone; they have a deep practi-
cal bearing, and sooner or later it
must be put to the proof.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

ENTIMENT triumphed over com.
- mercialism in the house of rep
resentatives the other afternoon, and
it was one glorious triumph for John
Wesley Gaines, the battie-scarred
legislative warrior from Tennessee.
The agricultural appropriation bill
was under consideration, and Repre-
sentative Burleson, of Texas, in an
effort to save few southern trees, Of
fered an amendment providing for the
removal of mistletoe from all trees in
the southland on the ground that it is
parasite deadly to tree life.
Instantly there was an uproar on
the floor, but Gaines emerged with a
volume of "Pickwick Papers," out of
which he proceeded to read the touch
ing chapter on the wedding party at
Mr.. Wardle's home, where the mistle-
toe permitted many an innocent lib
erty that might have provoked a fire.
arms display or at least a rough-and-
tumble fight under other circum.
stances.
Just at this juncture a message was
received from the president, and Rep
resentative Lo1gworth, Of Cincinnati,
was called upon to take the chair, thu
house previously having been in con-
mittee of the whole.
After the message was read and
Mr.. Longworth left the chair, Gaines
called upon him to arise and testify
to his experience under the mistletoe.
mick" scarcely blushed as he made
his way back to his seat, although the
suggestion created laughter. Burle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

THE appearance of the duchess of
Marlborough at the Playground
associations dinner to Mrs. Humphry
Ward the other day was a great treat
to the women guests at the Waldorf
Astoria. as we'll as to those who saw
and heard her in the banquet hall. The
women deserted Peacock Alley and
crowded the neighborhood of the AS
tor Gallery and the Grand Ball Room
the minute announcement was made
that a real live duchess was in the
house.
When her grace left the informal
reception and led the procession
toward the ballroom, leaning on the
arm of Richard Watson Glider, a halt
was made at the entrance while Mr..
Glider presented friend. The duch-
ess stood facing the two screens op-
posite the entrance, and directly be-
tween the walls, and no one came
very near her.
Her magnificent princess gown of
blue embroidered satin had train
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

WAsH1NGTON.-1n spite of the fact
w that the speaker a few weeks ago
selected May 16 as the probable
closing day of this session, Repub-
lican leaders in the senate and house
express the fear that adjournment can
not be reached before June 1. It is
possible that Uncle Joe" will bring
to bear the pressure.he knows so well
how to use and clear the docket by the
time of the original schedule. How
ever the outlook for an early ending
Is not now promising.
The status of the annual appropria-
tion bills is discouraging. OF the
IA big money bills, five remain to be
reported to the house, while the others
are in the various stages of the Jour-
ney through the house and senate and
conference.
The urgent deficiency bill. which
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

Apropos Of its bargain list" a
firm Of manufacturers announces that
it recently sold "a 1907 secondhand
automobile to the vice-president of
one Of the largest transcontinental
lines; another to the president of a
national bank; a third to a prominent
real estate dealer; another to a IA.
nous Wall street operator; one to
well-known and popular man of leis.
ure; another to the president of a
great commercial enterprise, and yet
another to noted corporation attor-
ney. This is class of buyers" it is
added, who in the past would not
consider any but new car" Perhaps
the reason is not far to seek. They
are not the only persons who are
economizing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-24

distinguished pupils but of those
and affection absolutely his
Asquith. $1,000
When he left practice law and bega
win recognition the His
1885, from astF
only after his political when MI
Asqulth cabinet
1892 He retained this position until 1885,
brought about his resignation.
with the rise OF CmpbeBnnerman to leadership
Asquth became chief lieutenant He did
tac was called codooded by his
attempt to push himself the head of CB
chancellor of the exchequer