The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15
BARNETT, THE MAN

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muddleheaded and impractical
His colleagues on the committee,
which comprised dozen of the EDWARD
ablest lawyers in California, would
listen politely and then pass on without comment
to something else.
Yet BARNETT the man who, on the day of
the earthquake, when the fire department was
paralyzed for lack of water, jumped into a launch
and rushing up the bay brought back at express
speed boatoad of dynamite from the powder
works He is man of action and initiative,
always ready to take chance. It should be re-
membered to his credit that he did more than
any other to hasten the coming of the Western
Pacific to this coast
WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED
There is a lot of luck in these things 1t is
quite possible that had not big fire ravaged San
francisco Bartnett might now be regarded as the
greatest financier that San Francisco ever knew
That the case with Raston in his day and
he travelled the same road as BARNETT using the
money of depositors to finance industrial and
mining enterprises of his own. I remember in
early days how friend pointed with pride at
Ralston's watch factory standing lonely in All
empty plain where is the town of Berkeley.
California had much for watch factory in
those days as it has now for Abe Ruef
NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS
A statesman of local fame, but nameless here,
describes the Disbursements candidates for
supervisors as "Calhouns negotiable instruments .
Fragrant memories of Martin Kelly's businessmen
invade the civic nose. Who saw them first
From what garden of the gods was that bouquet
plucked! AS matter of perhaps mpertinent
curiosity the inquring citizen might like to be
informed as to the principle of selection AS for
the results there is nothing left for curiosity to
feed on
TENDERLOIN DRAMA
The woman of easy virtue is coming into her
own as modern heroine and is earning, or at least
receiving, a certificate of good moral character
before the footlights. California talent, native or
acclimated, is foremost in this work of mercy
Wilson Miner produced play in New York last
week which one learns aims to depict the ethical
machinery of the tenderoin, using for the purpose
puppets who wear the garb of the whitelight
region, and talk the language peculiar to that
glitterng territory"
THE CARMEL SCHOOL
Mike Williams high priest of the parlor social
lists and beachcombers of Carmel tells me that he
has a play on the stocks in which the second act
will depict the interior of what the police reporter
delicately calls "a dsorderly house" Since the
day when the devil on two sticks lifted the roofs
quake tore off the front of Demonico's nothing
has been seen like it. But the woman of these
dramas never was on land or sea. She is Just a
pot boiler 1t would need the remorseless hand
of Ibsen to draw her as she is.
AN OLD SAN FRANCISCAN
How many San Franciscans remember Horace
Fletcher? He once the foundation for the
human pyramid staged with great eclat by the
Olympic club. | we'll remember him in blue silk
tights at the authors carnival, notable society
event OF the early eighties His legs were poem.
Fletcher's recent fame came to him when he
invented chewing Mike Williams has written a
book expounding the virtues of Mr. Fletcher's
system of mastication. Fletcher is now delivering
Chautauqua lectures in the east with side line
in defense of the cnex ectularius which has no
wings, but gets there just the same. Fletcher
depores the approaching extinction of this unde-
sirable. Bird which he says is not an enemy of
mankind, but friend, whose presence is warn