The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-11


the right way, which perhaps is not the way OF the
Fay. But some recent family jars have stirred his
bile and turned his soul to gall and bitterness. So
| find him quoted in the public prints saying in
connection with the recent civic center project:
James D Phelan has a friend. He is J. Downey
Harvey who is heavily interested in the Ocean
Shore railway With the city hall out of the way
and the civic scheme foisted upon the peo
pie, J. Downey Harvey and his associates would
make millions The stocks of the company he
represents would make sudden leap. Charley Fay
also to be benefited
Why should Mr.. Sullivan feel grieved because
Downey Harvey makes dollar a million? Some
body must make incidental money or reap indirect
advantage out of every public work. I that
Mr. Sullivan in his normal mind would not object
on that score. If there is any money to be made
there no one I would rather see enjoying it than
Downey Harvey. He is little gentleman and
man of enterprise and imagination. I don't need
the money and neither does Mr.. Sullivan. Perhaps
Mr. Harvey needs it. There is none so poor as
millionaire. The wise tells us, Blessed
the poor in spirit, for they shall be millonaires.
What wonderful people Irish would be if
we did not have such ready shillelah for each
other! What was it that Tom Moore wrote about
the meetings in support of the repeal of the union
with England that used to be held in Cancellation
hail. Dublin in Daniel OConners day:
Fighting like divils for Cancellation
An hating wan another for the love of God.
SO it is with the Sullivans and the .Downeys and
the Fays and the Phelans in San Francisco l am
the only man of peace in the clan.
A PEACEFUL FRESHMAN
Take example by Joe Tobin, man of peace and
plenty, who knows how to get the best out of life
without destroying his digestion with excess of
bile, quarres with and drives coach and
four. 1t happened once that Mr. Tobn was tooling
his famous Ballyhoo coach in Burlingame envi-
ronment and by way of fit finale for the excursion
he drove his lofty drag with flourish and a terri
flying blast on the horn around the sweep in front
of millonaires cottage, but contrived somehow
to upset his load in the middle of flower bed
Mrs. Millionaire, who was seated on the porch in
an elegant morning costume, raised supercous
1orgnette to her eyes-vide Laura Jean Libbey-
and called to the gardener
Remove those Irishp'
BANOUO ON OATH
The founder of the lady's family was an illus
trious builder of the commonwealth whose gram
mar had been picked up on the frontier. Once he
was witness in case on trial hereabouts and
John B. FELTON, was his counsel AS a man of
action relating his experiences it fell to him
than once to say, II done it" and again Il done it
and again, until it set Feltons teeth on edge
Shaking mnatory finger at his client he shouted:
Thou canst not say did it,
In California the evolution of an aristocracy may
be observed according to the laboratory method.
REFLECTED GLORY
Their dogs have pedigrees long and distirl-
gushed and these diffuse widely reflected glory
1t is the fashion trim these real aristocrats as to
the ears and tail and the accepted method of trim
ming is to bite off the superhuity. There was