The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
NORMAN hAPGOOD
: And GIBSON HERE
Famous Writer and Artist
Visit San Francisco on
Flying Trip
New York Journalist Exhibits
Keen Interest In Local
Graft Fight

Regretting that their train arrived
after dark and they We're thus pre-
vented from gaining immediate i'm
pressions Of san Francisco. Norman
Hapgood. editor Of Golfers, and
Charles Dana Gibson. most popular Of
American black and white illustrators,
reached this city last evening and i'm
rnediately went 10 their apartments at
the Fairmont hotel. They located
themselves in the east front of the
building and went to bed early that
they might be able 10 catch sunrise
prospects Of the bay and the rebuilt
district.
The slim. sylphesQue maidens Of the
hotel rotunda, in their clinging. rather
dtrectoirish gowns, did not realize that
the husky, businesslike looking fell
low with the elephantine, battered
Gladstone bag and the Paris hotel
stamps, was the artist whose work had
governed the robust architecture Of
their elder sisters forms. Hapgood.
with his glasses and nervous, eager
poise 10 his head. appeared the sue
cessful journalist more than Gibson
ned the typical artist
TArERVIEw THE REPORTERS
The two travellers Immediately re-
ceiVed reporters, but in the colloquy
HAT followed were the more accom-
phshed tnterviewers Of the group.
Norman Hapgood. whose paper has
followed the events Of san Francisco
life and California politics with sconsid-
cradle attention. discussed current top
les freely ana interrogated insatiably.
He was very much interested in the
nght. carried on in this state between
ne people and the Southern PacifC
railroad machine He wanted 10 know
ot the possible chances for emancipa-
1ion.
i was afraid that there was little
chance Of California breaking loose
fTom the machine" he said. The di-
rect primary would be an efficient
measure 10 aid in that fight, but the
people must be careful for from the
completion of the legislature as / un-
1erstand it TO be, I fear that a fake
1trect primary law may he passed.
have not thought there was much
chance Of California beating away from
the railroad"
Asked if Golfers weekly contem-
plated an article on Senator Perkins in
ine with the series that has been run
ming attacking 'undesirabIes" in the
upper house at Washington. the editor
replied that he did not think such an
article would help any at this time.
THAT PLAGUE EDITORIAL
In regard 10 the bubonic plague edi-
torial which recently appeared in Col
iier's and which aroused the wrath OF
the local board of health and business
men. HapgoOd said that the editorial
n question stated that San Francisco
was doing its work well ia lighting the
plague, bur that. as he understood il
on the best of authority, the cities
and counties about the bay were not
taking proper precautions in the mat
ter, and that ID was toward them that
SHE editorial had been directed He
added that the paper had quickly Sc
cured an article from c. p. Connolly
and word from DR.. Rupert Blue the
federal Official in charge here. giving
the true state of affairs He ex-
pressed some surprise that san Fran
cisco had been wroth over the article
while the localities really attacked had
passed il in silence.
WANTED TO MEET HENEY
HapgoOd was very much interested
in the anti graft fight being carried on
here He had intended to see Francis
u. Heney and expressed sorrow over
the attack made on Heney's life. He
was very much interested in Henev's
condition ana in discovering what con
nection- If any, Abe Ruef had with the
crime. Gibson was equally interested
and eager TO learn Of the local situa- =
tion.
Charles Dana Gibson said that he is
not looking for any types on this
trip that he is simply seeing the coun-
Try. although he declared that it would
have an effect on his work and the i'm
pressions gained would stay with him
He was reluctant to discuss his views
on the change in woman styles. from
-o rrfrr J.
ized a decade ago TO the more compact
and perpendicular modes Of the day.
Speaking Of his work in the future
Gl bsOn said:
i plan to work in two directions
equally interesting TO me. or. per-
haps. 7 might say. in three directions
as my color work viii have two
branches. Some Of it will be done for
reproduction and viii appear in Col
lier's Weekly. Then I shall go right
ahead with nay painting of portraits
and shall give perhaps half nay time
for the whole future to that work Al
the same time my interest in black
and white has not tagged. and I never
expect il to. When 7 take it up again
ID viii doubtless be somewhat affected
BIZ my trip abroad and by this trim.
but shall always express in that
medium certain side Of life that in
terests me intensely.
What might be called. perhaps, the
observation Of human nature in detail
rhe minor Incidents the satire. the spe-
cial traits Of character. AS regards
painting. ] feel that I have mastered
the alphabet Of the art and that car
90 on expressing myself more fully and
satisfactorily every year"
Both Gibson and Hapgood are or
this trip as observers. not as Illus
visiting the west as they would visit
Venice or Florence TO see the land
Neither has been west before
Today and tomorrow will be devoted
to sight seeing and the pair viii leave
for Portland and the northwest tomor-
row evening The Family club has
prepared TO entertain the travellers.