The San Francisco call., 1909-11-21

that General Jim Smith, who recently
resigned as governor of the Philip
pines, will be appointed to the customs
court of appeals, created under provi-
sions of the Payne Aldrich tariff act
The salary is $4,000 a year. AS yet
however, no money has been provided
by congress, owing to an oversight.
and the law can not become effective
until congress makes the appr1pria
tion. For this reason it is not believed
that any appointment in the customs
court of appeals will be made by Pres
ident Taft until after further action by
congress. 1t is understood that former
Congressman Marion de Vries will be
continued as member of the board CT
general appraisers. of which he was
designated as chairman by President
Taft, on account of his legal knowledge
and familiarity with matters pertain
ing to the customs service The posi-
tion pays $1,000 a year and is for life
or good behavior The board is non
partisan, but it is a fitting compliment
that De Vries, a. democrat, should have
been named by President Taft as pres
ident of that body.
BEARS AFTER ACTORS SCALP
Some of the same bears" who raided
Nat Goodwin's Rawhide Coalition prop
erty are again after the actor with
sharp stick, claiming that the boosting
of Ely Central from so cents to 81
per share was wholly unwarranted. On
Monday 1t was pounded down to s1.50.
but recovered to s225 the same day
The Engineering and Mining Journal
calls ii a gross imitation that is decep-
tive even to Goodwin's own friends
many of whom in the theatrical pro-
fession lost heavily in Rawhide Coali-
tion.
George Graham Rice who was last
winter exposed as the side partner of
Goodwin in Rawhide Coalition. and
whose real name is Simon Jacob Her
zig, is not officially associated with
Goodwin but he has been actively
boosting Ely Central.
Goodwin appears on the 1etterhead
of B. H. Scheftels e. Co. as vice presi-
dent of that concern. They have been
booming the stock almost daily in
two column market letter, which GER
tain newspapers have printed. Like
wise. too, the Mining Financial News,
published by the Mining share news
bureau, next door to the offices of B. H.
Scheftels & Co. in the Edison build
ing, has been tipping Ely Central as
the "one best buy" and Rawhide
Coalition as another. A clerk in the
office of the boomers of Ely Central, it
appears is associate editor of the
Mining Financial News. On some days,
recently. as many as 10000 shares of
Ely Central have been sold.
PLANS OF THEATRICAL STARS
Goodwin will remain in New York a
part of the winter, looking after his
mining affairs, and will then go to
Los Angeles with Mrs Goodwin for a
rest and where, as he says: You can
bathe in the ocean with perfect COM
~ <,f4 he Voc
Goodwin has formed a partnership
with George Edwardes for a produc-,
tion of a new musical comedy by c. NJ.
S. Mcclellan and ivan Caryll, to be
produced in London next spring. In
the London production he viii be
salaried star, merely but he holds the
American rights exclusively.
George Broadhursts play. THE
Dollar Mark, produced by w. A.
Brady. that had such a remarkable
success at Los Angeles and lpoor luck
in New York seems likely to be a
money maker after all. Since it's brief
run in New York everybody but Brady
has been inclined to the belief that it
would not go. here in the east. but
Brady.s own faith in the play seems to
have been justified. The first nights
receipts at Troy were only sl77 but
the weeks box receipts were $4,000
IF | had been a gutter, says Brady,
the play would have gone to the junk
heap. but l had faith in IL from the
very start"
EFFECT OF ELECTION
The election result in San Francisco
has led many eastern turfmen and pool
room operators TO the opinion that II
will be a wide open town and has en-
couraged them to believe that the EN-
eryville races may also be made attrac-
tive and that enforcement Of the anti