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The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
PROGRESS
BREAKS RECORDS
Berkeley and Palo Alto Dis
tanced by Exclusive Town
on the Peninsula

The progress Buriingame has made
within the last two years is one of the
great surprises of the real estate
world Before the fire Palo Alto and
Berkeley had the reputation of having
made the greatest growth of any two
places in the state but their efforts
have been shadowed by what has been
done at Burlingame.
1t was originally intended for the
very rich, but after the fire Burlingame
began to be popular with those who
were not millionaires, and under the
skillful management of Lyon e. Hoag
property has been made more than four
times its value since the disaster
Cottages are springing UP in every
direction and new streets are being
rapidly opened up. f. l.. Hoag has
every faith in the future of the place
and has built for his own use hand
some residence which is in five acres of
land. 1t is a combination, as he ex-
presses it, of English cottage and
bungalow" 1t has IA rooms and with
a number of courts, making all the
rooms light and sunny. 1t is finished
in hardwood and is one of the hand
soonest places at Burlingame.
His brother, w. r. Hoag, is building
also a handsome residence close by,
while George f. Lyon is the possessor
of place near to that of his partner.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
kE[FFS SUPPORT
OF TAFT REWARDED
Labor Leader Who Disregarded
dompers Gets Sargent's
Position

WASHINGTON, Dec. President
Roosevelt today appointed Daniel ].
Keefe of Detroit commissioner general
of immigration to fill the place made
vacant by the death of Frank P. Sar-
gent, and made known his intention to
reappoint to their respective positions
w. D. Crum, collector of the port at
Charleston, S. c.. and Martin Knapp,
chairman of the Interstate commerce
commission.
Keefe is president of the Interna-
tional association of longshoremen
and former vice president of the
American federation of labor. During
the recent campaign Keefe announced
his support of Judge Taft in defiance
of the policy of President Gompers of
the federation of labor. He was one
of the most loyal Taft workers in labor
circles. The president signed his COM
mission today and he received it from
the hands of Secretary Starus
At the expiration of his term of OK.
fee early this month, Collector Crum,
at Charleston, will be reappointed.
There was a long and bitter fight on
the original appointment of Crum, who
is negro For several years his name
was hung up in the senate and the
people of Charleston stubbornly fought
his confirmation.
AS chairman of the Interstate COM
merce commission. Knapp. who has
been identified with the commission
for 1S years, has made record which
has won the admiration of the presi-
dent, and at the expiration of his pres
ent term, the first of the year, the
president Will reappoint him.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
NO FRENCH SHOW NEXT YEAR

According to advices from Paris, the
French makers are firing of the ex-
pense and burden of annual shows, and
are signing an agreement which will
abolish the Paris salon for the year of
1909. The agreement provides that the
makers subscribing to it shall not ex-
h1b1t at any motor show which may
be given in Paris during the coming
year. under penalty of forfeiture Of
$4,000 francs. The signatures of prac-
tically all the larger makers-those
making more than 100 chassis a year
are said to have been obtained and
the circular Will be presented to the
smaller makers as we'll The object to
be accomplished is not to do away with
the show in Paris entirely but to
make 1t a bi-ernial event. The fact
that years time no longer develops
changes or improvements of any great
Importance in the French models has
led to the belief that the time has come
when a show every two years would
be sufficient. The agreement which is
being circulated does not affect the
1908 salon. except that the manufac-
turers are being urged to do their ut
most to make this years show a sue
cess because of the prospects of its
being the last for two years II II be
deficient in interest or returns, how
ever, the exhibitors will be all the
more ready to turn to the biennial
plan, which now enjoys every likeli-
hood of adoption
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
MILE SPEAK ON THE
!. GRAFT PROSECUTION
Rev C.: n. Lathrop of League
of Justice to Deliver Adj
-. dress at Stanford

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Dec. l.
The: work that is being done in San
FRA ncisco TO further the completion Of
riae. graft prosecution viii be the topic
ef discussion at the next meeting OF
L he Stanford social service organiza-
'sir5h.: a club. comprising many promi
nent: : undergraduates. Rev. c. n.
1aaf4irop' of the Citizens League of JUS
tee OF. San Francisco has consented to
speak before the students. who viii
meet at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra
fernity Thursday night. and he has told
DR. d Charles Gardner, the local chap
lain that he will deal with the situa
tion IN san Francisco.
Professor S. Eozawa, one of the best
fnowu JAPANESE fish experts in the
world. IS visiting the campus and is
Investigating the valuable collection of
fishes which President David Starr
Jordan and other members of the local
faculty have collected. The noted Jap
anese visitor is chief of the fisheries
bureau at Hokkaido, Japan.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
WARNED AGAINST
OVERPRODUCTION
Fruit Growers Told to Study
Problems of Market and
Transportation
President Jeffrey Says States
Greatest Industry Is
in Danger
Especial Dispatch to The CALI

Especial Dispatch to The Call
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 1.-State Horti-
cultural Commissioner ]. w. Jeffrey, as
ers' association, warned the horti-
culturalists against overproduetion
through lack of a development of mar
kets in his opening address 10 the
thirty-ffth annual convention of Cali
fornia fruit growers, which opened
here today to continue in session until
Thursday.
The want of cohesiveness and an or
ganization among the farmers, whereby
the best results may be obtained,
scarcely any knowledge as to trans
portation and economic conditions and
even less attention to these problems
in the department of agriculture, the
college of commerce at the state uni
versity. or any other colleges, jeffrey
said, are all in a measure responsible
for this threatened overproduction and
consequent loss.
In part Jeffrey said: THE farmer
has not considered it within his sphere
10 create, control or even influence his
selling agencies. On the contrary, the
manufacturer has not neglected this
most essential matter. The farmer has
not created the demand for superior
service in merchandising g>his crop. What
do fruit growers know about railroad
ing that has a bearing upon freight
rates on fruit? An increase of prod
ucts should entitle the growers to the
best and cheapest freight service pos
sible, but are they getting it? Our, stu
dents, lecturers and writer's, the farm4
ers themselves, are doing nothing to
acquire q greater understanding on this
paramount question.
n iG
the getting down to fundamental prin-
ciples in the handling of fruit markets
This involves a study of transportation,
Of the distribution of fruits and of
carrying the risk Of getting your fruit
to the consumer, for this always falls
upon the grower
Il have tried to show you the folly
of going forward in producing more
and better fruits and not providing for
their disposal I have intimated that
il we do not delve into the economical
problems affecting our California fruit
markets, overproduction is already
upon u.s.
Prof. E. ]. Wickson, dean of the col
lege of agriculture at the University
of California, indorsed all that Presi-
dent Jeffrey said in regard to the neces-
sity for instruction in economies in
the college of commerce that would
relate more nearly to matters that
affect California agriculture and horti-
culture-that is. the economic and
transportation side of it AS conducted
now it concerns only manufactures,
giving little thought to the one great
industry that stands more in need of
attention.
The meeting was called to order by
President Jeffrey, and after an invoca-
tion by Rev Frank K. Baker, an ad-
dress of welcome was made by Mayor
White and a response in behalf of the
state by Judge n. P. Chipman, acting
in the place of Governor Gillett, who is
i'll. John Isaac was named a secretary,
although E. O. Bremner was suggested
by the president.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
OVERLAND AUTO
LATEST ARRIVAL
New Model Has Been Received
by Don c. McCord. Western
Representative
Motor Car Is Counted Among
the Best of the Popular
Priced Vehicles
By K. K. PHommedieu

The latest 1909 model to reach the
city is the Overland The car made its
nrst appearance in the saIesroom of
the Willys- Overland motor car COM
pany at 524 Golden Gate avenue. Don
McCord who has been handling the car
fore the last year from the Oakland
headquarters, brought a carload of the
new vehicles from the freight yards
late last night The car is one of
the popular priced vehicles which is
taking the public fancy this year. The
cars will be<on exhibition this morn
ing. When the shipment was unloaded.
Frank Wolf of Colusa was on hand
and at once took the delivery Of the
roadster. Wolf has been in town two
weeks waiting for its arrival. He had
a last years model which he sold so
that he could get the latest from the
factory.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
SAYS .HERBY'S CHARGES
ARE NOT WELL FOUNDED
District Attorney Explains the
Status of Water Front
Franchise

OAKLAND, Dec. THAT n. ]. Herby
Iabored under a misapprehension when
re filed charges against six members
~ the city council with the grand jury
was the opinion Of District Attorney
Donahue Herby complained that a
franchise on the water front had been
granted TO the Southern Pacific with
ont being. advertised
Dorshue said that final action re-
aarsfng the franchise had not been
faken. but that the act of which Herby
complained had merely been the pass
ing of resolution by the council
ordinance on which further discussion
OF the water front settlement plans
would be based.
TIE Herby charges are in District
Attorney Donahue's possession. but viii
not be laid before the grand jury.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02

torney who was arrested by a Mont
geometry county constable. the Judge de-
clared that before arrests could DO
made for speeding 1T must be proved
conclusfveIy that the offending auto
mobile Travelled full mile in less than
the prohibitive time. The constable in
the case had stated that he had meas
ured a course Of one-fourth of a mile
over which the chauffeur went at eX-
cessive speed. The judge also decided
that justices had no right to issue war
rants against the county in which the
offense is committed. that the action
was civil or penal, and not criminal.
and that the commonwealth could not
be a party to the proceedings
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
TRAINING SCHOOL ron OWNERS

There is training school for auto
mean for chauffeurs, mechanics, or
other hired hands, but for the owners
or cars themselves, including on the
Every Tuesday evening the class meets
at the factory of the Packard motor
car company which has established
the school, which has been running for
a little more than a month. The in
terest shown by many of the owners
as to their construction, mechanism
and operation prompted the company
TO organize the class under the dfrec-
ton of the manager of the technical
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
KNowLAND GIVEN BANQUET

ALAMEDA, Dec. 1.-Representative
Joseph r. Knowland will leave to-
morrow morning for Washington to
be. present at the opening of the second
session of the siXtieth congress. He
will be accompanied by his three
children The congressman was the
guest of honor at a banquet given by
Athens. parlor Native Sons of the
Golden West. in Oakland tonight.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
sECIiREs oPTIoN ON TRACT

REDWOOD CITY, Dec. 1.-The Fam
lily club of San Francisco has taken an
option on % acres of land in the Por-
tola valley, including the famous red
wood grove of the Kelly ranch, and
the deal may be closed soon. The
intention of the club Is to erect a
summer clubhouse and swimming tanks
with the necessary athletic facilities,
where the club members will spend the
summer season and hold their high
jinks, the grove which is included in
the option being one of the most beau
tiful spots in the valley.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
EARNINGS OF sELDEN PATENT

Among the October disbursements or
the receivers of the Electric vehicle
company of Hartford. Conn.,. according
to the reports fled for the month. was
the turning over of $76.5SO.41 TO the
Association Of Licensed Automobile
Manufactures representing Selden
pateat -vyalties in excess OF the Slo0.-
900 per annum maximum which the
company is allowed to keep under rpA
terms of the new agreement with the
association and-its members or the
81 sc, 600 which ii retains a maximum
of $4,000 a year goes to George B.
Selden. and the balance of $4,000 TO
the company itself. this amount hav-
ing been recently set aside BY tne
courts order for the benefit OF Tie
creditors as the companys snare IN
the royalties for the past year The
receivers report for October discloSeS
an increased factory activity, the pur-
chases amounting to $2S,2OS-5l, as
against S9,371.54 in September. and
the payroll being S24.7S0-12. as against
SIT .26267 in the previous month Ine
balance on hand November 1 was S119,-
s34.2S. as against $20S,1SS.46 on the
first Of October.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
GOLD MEDAL STOLEN

OAKLAND, Dec. IA gold medal
awarded to a freshman class of the
prowess was stolen from the princi-
pals office last night in the high school
building at Twelfth and Jefferson
streets. A peculiar feature of the bur-
glary was that of three gold medals
hanging together in the Office on the
first floor only one was removed.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02

Birth, marriage az &=-h notices sent by mail
viii not be inserted. They must be handed in at
either of the publicatiS> offices and be indorsed
with the name and residence Of persons author
lied to have TIE published. Notices
stricted simi>y to the announcement of the event
are published once in this column free of charge.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
MARRIAGES

CAMPBELL-BIcKNELL- this city, Novem-
Der 80 1905 by the Rev Edward X. Strong
Dave Campbell of San Francisco and Bergie
BickneI of Madison, Yolo county, Cal.
this city, November %
1905 by the Rev. B. NJ Kaplan, David
Moses and Belle Jacobs.
ScHEELINE-ToNN-In this city November
20. 1908, by the Rev. B. NJ. Kaplan, Louis
Scheeline and Ruby Tom.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
MARRIAGE LICENSES

The following marriage licenses were issued in
San Francisco Tuesday. December 1, 1908:
Fred Vallejo. 81 1854 Golden Gate ave, and
Arleen Grant Wilkinson "a, 1921 McAllister st.
Ernest n. Smith. 81. and Jennie Bolles, %.
both Of 1871 Mission st.
Christian Christopherson. %. 2140 0'Farrell
St, and Anna J. IhOmasseD, %, Los Angeles.
Vincent A. Brink, 3S San Francisco, and
Sadie Ellison. "a, Vista Grande.
Louis de Martini. 81, Sacramento, and Alvina
Bacigalupi. D, 21A Lafayette place.
Alexander C. Gillespie, 35, and Norma L. Lew
ison, p, both of Truckee
Frank A. Hamilton, 35. and Agnes F.
Mathews 20, both of 134 Pierce st.
Lester +. Hayes, 20, and Emma L. King, 20,
both Of 1900 Golden Gate
Archie E. Richmond. D. 955 Howard st. and
Genevieve c. Gerbing. is, 415A Tehama st.
Edward Wessling, 81, 1854 Hampshire ST., and
Margaret Brennan, 2S 243O Folsom st.
James n. Bill. 81, Eugene Ore, and Flor
enee E. Howell is, 155 Twenty ave-
OAKLAND, Dec. THE following marriage
licenses were issued today:
Frederick ID. Saxon, "a, and Flora R.. Hud-
son. 49, both OF Oakland.
Henry C. Doyle, 2s, Fresno, and Myrtle NJ.
Runels %, Berkeley.
Floyd S. solley, 27, and Alice NJ. Brown, %,
both Of Berkeley.
Willard r. Wright 40, Berkeley. and Cassie
Layerne Carrin, 80, Berkeley.
Joseph Smith. %, and Lena Quint, "a, both
of Point Richmond.
Manuel F. Alexander, 49, and Maria Rozara,
80, both Of Hayward
Adds Manley, %, San Francisco, and May
Dsard, 81. Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
INTERPRErs SPEED LAW

rendered a decision relating to the ar
rest of persons for automobile speed
ing in that state. In a habeas corpus
chauffeur of John, Hay, a Carlisle at
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
cas oonsumer.. Attentlon

For q small monthly charge for use
Of our automatic regulator your gas
hills reduced TO a minimum amount for
the light and heat required For par
ficulars:
Gas Consumers Association
Phone Park SAG. S45 Haight ST.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
crRMANY MUsT BORROW

BERLIN. Dec. 1.-The imperial esti-
mates for 1909 balance at $7l6,250,oO0,
~ which s5O75O, 600 must be borrowed.
This latter sum is SIC, ,250,000 less than
the amount borrowed in 1908.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02

Lieutenant A. S. Kibbee is detached
from the South Dakota to temporary
duty on the Independence at the navy
yard, Mare island
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02

Or. G. A. Thirkon and family OF Pieasanton
have been spending the Thanksgiving holidays IN
San Francisco in their four cylinder Buick
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
BIRTHS

GAUGHRAN-In this city, November "a, 1908,
10 the wife Of Joseph Gaughran (nee Lampe)
a daughter
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02

There are $4,000 graduates Of Har-
ward university living. of whom one
half are in New England
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
MAsoNs CONDUCT poYsER ruNERA1.

Alameda, Dec. 1.-The funeral Of William r.
Poyser, who for years city engineer, was
held this afternoon from Masonic temple Serv-
Ices were conducted under the auspices of Oak
Grove lodge of Masons. The pallbearers in
cluded j. f. Forderer, A. V. Clark " NJ Frod-
den and ID. W. Martin
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02

Do You Want S5.0Of
Read THE CALLS weekly offer on
page IL.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02

Autumn leaves in England do not
have the brilliant coloring that they
do in America
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
BUYS ANOTHER AUTO

Frank H. Johnson Jr. of San Rafael
purchased another automobile yeSter-
day He bought from the Pioneer
automobile company the $3.50 horse
power special Chalmers-Detroit speed
ster. In demonstrating the car Calvin
I. Eib speeded the car until the speed
ometer registered a mile a minute,
which suited Johnson. 1t is reported
that this is the twenty fourth car that
Johnson has purchased
yesterday by the Pioneer automobile
company: w. K. Larsen, Sacramento,
Chalmers-Detroit 40 horsepower tour
ing car, john Plankner, Goldfeld and
+. H Grace, Thomas flyers.
According to w. W. Bottlmore, who
recently purchased a Thomas flyer. the
roads TO Gait are not in condition 10
warrant good touring, being cut up
and muddy in places This is especial
ly true on the Dublin road and the
valley motorist reports having had
anything but a pleasant trip home.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
DEATHS

William Blaisdeli. son of the late DR.. Blais-
dell of New York city, and beloved brother
Of Charles Biaisdell, native of Mississippi,
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
HAWKINS ISSUES CHALLENGE

G. A. Hawkins. western manager Of
the White company. is so anxious to
see one of his steam cars in the com
ing meet at Tanforan that he is out
with sweeping challenge to race any
stock car In the state regardless of
price or horsepower. He will enter
against all comers a 80 horsepower
$4,000 White stripped stock car for a
race of either or 10 miles. Any owner
or dealer in the state is eligible to
enter any number of purely stock cars
against the White. All of the cars
which enter this race can be fully
stripped. Hawkins asserts that this
challenge is not aimed against anv par
ticular car. Al Piepenber the veteran
race driver, will be at the wheel of
The Washington times., 1908-11-01

members, then including John Twachtman.
signed. They felt sure they could work IN CON.
plete harmony among themselves. without any
more onerous organization than an annual din
ner and that their year. work. assembled in any
exhibition they might arrange would command
all the public attention requisite for practical
purposes.
This year. more ambitiously. they held their
exhibition In the Pennsylvania Academy Of the
Fine Arts scrupulously stipulating that Sailing
IN the Mist" a canvas BY the dead conrsde
Twachtman, be accorded an honorable place for
old sake's sake. There, amcng the others. the
three pictures were shown which have been ac-
quired by the Boston institution. Two. by
Messrs. de Camp and 3enson, are reproduced to-
day, with another by Mr.. Tarbell. which adapts
itself readily TO illustration where Mr. Net
calf's "May Pastoral" by It's nature. could not
receive justice. The photograph, reproductions
were made by Haeseler of Philadelphia, who
does this work for them
The Ten stand for very distinct thing in
American art. although students of their work
might declare, on the one hand that they are
distinct exponents Of impression and. on the
other that they are assdistinctly identified with
realism 49,. aseef, sszats
Perhaps4fhe fairest cFftic-sufii a critic he
would be who. wasEhinlseif thecspable artists
would decide that they sfan9.8oFsthe thing which
.ls 4the qulntessence of ethe Sn4olerE noYement.
an painting Their effort ia always to present
the actual, visual aspect of things 1t IS real
Ism IN that sense, rather than in the scientific
sense; and, to that extent it is impressionism
l4he movement they embody IS esthetie- rather
than scientific
Nevertheless. il is scientific so far as the
actual analysis Of color Is concerned. The Ten
may De regarded. IN effect. the men who. in
The Washington times., 1908-11-01

The Unted States have really digestcd the les
son Of the French impTessiOnists.
They are not the only Americans who have
done that. although the number is limited. There
are. BESIDES Howard Cushing Ernest Lawson
and Hugh Breckenridge, the latter so known for
portraiture that few would class him at all as a
follower of the impTessionist school But when
Breckenridge paints any canvas of which the
prime object is the attainment of abstract beau.
~. he concerns himself almost exclusively with
his color problem.
Painters have eternally sought to translate
nature into terms of pigment with as little loss
Of the real color value of things as was me-
chanieally possible. Monet, leader of the school
which evolved the use of pure color to produce
half tones, conceived the theory that a truer re-
suit might be produced by the use of primary
colors IN iuxtaposItion than by the attempt 10
blend the primary colors on the palette
He relied upon the spectators eye, view
ing ihe canvas at the proper distance for the
blending Of the juxtaposed primary colors into
the hues they had originally assumed in nature
'Impressionism has become now the study of
atmospheric conditions, either in or out of
doors, presented with purity Of color as the
prinaa ~ Ellrp posesg The individuals among the
Ten, Understanding thoroughly the theory .
Monet have learned to utilize the means which
he used whenever they deem it necessary; but
the theory not having originated with them, nom
among the group has been tied hand and foot to
its persistent exposition
They set the attainment Of real beauty a.
their necessary goal IF, 10 attain it. the m
pressionistic method afforded the most direct
means they employed the i.opressIauist
method if it didn't. they let it calmly alone. If
a little of It would go a long way for tlt par
ticular task they had IN hand. little was what
hey induleed in: snd if ony odifcation OF the