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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
What Figures Prove
About San Francisco

ME roll Francisco for the current
completed from valuations
Dodge makes comfortable and gratifying total for
city that little than three ago ravaged the greatest
ire history with losses that certainly aggregated $O00O0
not The taxable values in Francisco
close that valuation values
OF that Inquire Tor dgen successful
drawing his net include all forms property
cash value
1t encouraging fact that the valuation buildings
this assessment than of the
cys history Before the fire the buildings
at S9oo whereas they assessed S11400000O The
buildings although doubtless fewer April
eoo are much improved quality since reconstruction that
the advance of than 100000 in value fully justified
his where money talks for the
world We who live San Francisco know
IN the way OF rehabilitation but the exterior world only vaguely
realizes the magnitude of the work The city took
halt century to build has been almost from the
ground in three years with comfortable balance
right side
of the real further
sales greatly exceed the totals for the years 1900 and 1901 We
nave not the last the totals for the period
between 1902 and the early OF 1906 when something like
boom prevailed but the following table supplies proof
healthy constantly improving
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

The accepted idea OF a college edu-
cation seems to be the fitting Of a
young man or woman for the world. I
think the best way I ever heard it
expressed-as to men-was the max
ing of scholar and gentleman
DR.. Eliot gives list of books to I'LL
five foot shelf. the idea being that
these books would tend to do this.
Reading that list. it strikes me that
Dr. Eliot has his back TO the sun; that
especially in those works whose pur-
pose is to give man some understand
ing of mamie has picked writings
which in this day would lead their
readers away from rather than toward
humanity.
It is hard for man who has not
even reached middle age to look upon
things of this sort without much preju-
dice. The years have not given me
any length of perspective and possibly
I am unfair in saying that am rather
glad than otherwise that I have not
put in time reading some of DR.. Eliot's
list.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
ANSWERS TO QUERIES

MOST PoPULAR-Dispute. City. What is
the name of the most popular book written by
the late F. Marion Crawford
The one for which there was the
greatest demand at the libraries is In
the Palace of the King" as that was
dramatized, and every one who saw
near the dramatist stuck to the text
Other popular works of his are "Saraci-
nesca" and Mr.. Isaacs."
CHANDELIER-subscrI City. In what
theater in San Francisco was there very large
glass chandelier before the fret
Wade's opera house. subsequently,
changed to the Grand opera house, in
Mission street west of Third 1t was
taken down when Morosco obtained a
lease of the place, as it INSTRUCTED the
view of many in the galleries.
NO AGE LIMIT and p, Siege, Cal Is
to the admission Of children into the grammar
schools7
Children who graduate from the pri-
mary grade to the grammar grade are
admitted irrespective of age.
NATIvE+N. n. San Rafael. Cal Is
vergilia Bogue, the beauty selected for the
Portola festival. a native Of California;
She is; born in Auburn, Placer
county.
DREAM Subscriber Oakland, Cal. What is
the meaning of seeing prize fight in dream !.
The interpreter of dreams says that
means that the dreamer will meet or
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
The Campaign
Against
Consumption

Hutchinson the have quoted illustrates his conclusion
by giving particulars of the proved
effective for the consumption The old plan write
prescription which when filled for 80 give
patient temporary relief nothing
OF The radically different.
change OF environment good plenty nourisng
food and fresh air. All that lot of money given the
funds the of inent tuberculosis
will pay for the of life earning power
this disease make drain of ncacuabe magnitude
the OF the nation
IS realization OF this business side undertaking
well humane OF consideration people that
has inspired the British government official legislative
action the campaign against tuberculosis
efficient basis This policy has been largely inspired by John
Burns who began life dock laborer by
force the exalted position of cabinet knows
from sad the suengs poor this
disease The mortality cause is in fact chiefly
due poverty Doctor Hutchinson gives figures this
point that tell their tale in this wise
desire be rhfor by be-
from
40 OF
627 OF and g.
with few exceptions, those that wages.
American effort the lines indicated vet reached
the OF official and legislative action, campaign
far conducted by individual enterprise but the
time coming when the economic aspects of question
The country permit this permanent on its
continue in the face of convincing demonstration that it
is remediabe
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

be under the control of an overbear-
ing man.
STRAY CHICKENS Alto. Cal. II
chickens. pigeons or cats come into my yard
can | shoot them without being liable to prose-
cution.
As rule no one has a right to take
the law in his own hands to remedy
a wrong or abate a nuisance. II it
Is your intention to shoot other peo-
pies property because such comes into
your yard you would better consult the
district attorney of your county as to
your rights in the premises.
BRUTUs-M F.. San Jose. CAL Are there
shakespeares plays such as Brutus and Cassius ?
You will find books on this subject
In the free library of your city or
obtain such through any first class
book seller.
TOO SooN-Rancher, Newcastle. Cal. What
states yield the best fruit-peaches, cherries
etc, and what states have bad crops this year?
AS the fruit result has not yet been
ascertained and the crop season is not
over the question is asked too soon
to admit of an answer.
EDUCATION Subscriber. City. Name some
OF the countries that show the highest per-
centage IN education.
Germany. 80 per cent of adults can
read and write Scotland, 81 per cent;
England, 96 per cent; FranceB95 per
cent; United States, So per cent.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
CALHOUN Would BETTER
HAVE KEPT HIS MOUTH SHUT
Santa Cruz News

Patrick Calhoun is out with a two
column statement in which he de-
nounces Francis ]. Heney and all en-
gagged in the graft prosecution, betray-
ing the same lively disesteem for the
law and its officers that every accused
man makes who has no real defense
to put forward.
1t were better for Calhoun that he
kept still. Were Heney the veriest
rogue on earth-were he "bribed" by
Phelan and Spreckels to throw more
vigor into his prosecution of the trolley
magnate-that would have no bearing
on the question of Calhoun's guilt or
innocence of the charge upon which he
was tried-the purchase of the over
head trolley franchise from the corrupt
board of supervisors.
His name has not been cleared of
that charge,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
Letters From The People
1NFLuENcE OF RICE cRrMINALs

INFLUENCE OF RICH CRIMINALS
Editor Call: The atrocious murder
of Gray Brothers young woman book
keeper by one OF the laborers formerly
in the employ OF that firm is no doubt
the result of the contempt shown for
the law and the success attending the
efforts of wealthy criminals TO evade
its stern DEGREES, and by the use of
tainted gold make the administration
of justice a farce and a miscarrfa ge
If justice was melted out TO rich and
and poor alike such crimes would be
unknown, but when the common peo-
pie see the rich and powerful batter
down the bulwarks of the law and ride
roughshod over all It's guarantees of
justice and right. the individual be-
comes the avenger, and civilization,
shocked and outraged by such crimes.
stands paralyzed and powerless.
In this great republic justice should
not be luxury nor its administration
monopoly. It's action should be
spontaneous and automatic and it
should be the cheapest and most popu-
lar product of the land. Then it's
mandates would be respected and our
loved country prosper and flourish in
that benefcient manner contemplated
by its immortal founders.
JUSTICE.
Gan Erau~ieoa T,rlr
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
GREATEST MISTAKE WAS
NOT. To TELL THE TRUTH
Woodland Democrat

this time further than to say the peo-
pie are disguised with court procedure
in San Francisco. Nineteen of every 20
people one meets in Woodland who
have read the testimony. even in papers
biased in favor of Calhoun, believe he
is guilty. We still adhere to the opinion
that the greatest mistake of his
life was made when he failed to go on
the stand. tell the truth and send
Schn1itz, Ruef and all the Doodle >su-
pervisors to the penitentiary.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
An Example of Up 10 Date American Business
By MICHAEL WILLIAMS

With Theodore Roosevelt taking a
few shots at Tolstoi in the Outlook 10
vary the monotony of shooting lions;
with Mark Twain pulling down
Shakespeare in favor of Bacon, and now
with Dr. Eliot completely ignoring not
only Shakespeare. but the authors Of
the bible and Homer and Balzac and
Whittier and Whitman and Poe and
Hawthorne-to say nothing of Ebert
Hubbard and Laura Jean Libby-in
selecting his famous five feet OF liberal
education, on the installment plan of
payment. for all those who have been
denied the ineffable advantages OF a
Harvard training, inconoclastie lit
erary criticism. open and implied.
seems decidedly to rule the seats, of
the bookish mighty.
Leaving the discussion of the why's
and wherefores of the equafy astound-
ing inclusions and exclusions which
mark DR.. Eliot's list to those who can
get interested in the subject. permit
me to say that perhaps Dr. Eliot viii
himself gain some education not in
cluded in the Harvard courses nor in
his so inch substitute for the Harvard
courses. through his efforts to help the
house of Collier continue its benevolent
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
CASE OF COFFEY
AND CALHOUN CONTRASTED
Woodland Democrat

Mr.. Calhoun may vehemently pro-
claim his innocence until he is black
In the face, but he will never convince
a human being of ordinary intelligence
that he did not have guilty knowledge
that 100000 was paid to Ruef and
that the curly headed boss bribed the
supervisors with a portion of the
money.
But the particular point to which we
desire to call attention is that former
Supervisor Coffey was speedily con-
victed on practically. the same evidence.
But Mr.. Coffey is a poor, friendless
CRATER, who had no money with which
to employ technical, lawyers or delay
the selection of a jury for three of
four months.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
The Making Of a Scholar and a Gentleman
By FRED BEcHDOLT

But it seems to me that there are
many classics which are more fitted
toward a liberal education and less
likely TO make pedants than these
which he has named. I think. for in
stance. that Ceramics Dox Quixote"
would give a reader who is in his early
Juveniles more OF understanding and
more OF ideals than any u inches OF
space occupied by volumes specified BY
DR.. Eliot
And to make any one wade through
all OF Paradise Lost" is. TO say the
least, unkind- one might as well tell
young person TO read the whole OF
Spencer's "Faery Queen"
This is mage where things move
swiftly and men nowadays have much
to do would they be useful For that
reason one looks with at least sus-
picion. II not with intolerance. at vol
umes which contain much dead matter.
There are too many live problems CALI
ing: men can't afford to give the time
which is needed in getting at what
meat such works contain.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
KIND of VERDICT
SETTLED NOTHING FOR PUBLIC
Pasadena News

The kind of verdict rendered in
the Calhoun bribery trial settles moth
ing for the public. Those who
before believed that the money which
bribed the San Francisco supervisors
was paid by Abe Ruef with the knowl-
edge and consent of Patrick Calhoun
have no reason to change their minds
as result of the trial or as a result
of any evidence introduced on the trial,
especially in view of the fact that no
evidence was introduced on behalf of
the defendant and that the whole en-
ergy of the defense spent itself on the
abuse of Rudolph Spreckels and Mr..
Heney of the prosecution.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
NOT A DENIAL ANYWHERE
OF SUPERVISORS BRIBERY
Los Angeles Express


We have read with care the state
ment made by the defendant after the
verdict was rendered, and we do not
find in it anywhere a declaration that
the supervisors were not bribed to
grant an overhead trolley franchise to
the United Railroads. We have read
with care the statements made by the
newspaper apologists for the defendant,
including a column editorial in the
Times, and we do not find anywhere
a declaration that Mr.. Calhoun did
not do the thing he was charged with
doing. We find but one statement, re-
iterated again and again in changed
form and varied phrase-it wasn't
proved. And now that this trial is over
what did the United Railroads do with
that s200,0002 And who was directly
interested in bribing the supervisors
TO give the United Railroads that fran
chise?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
Senate Is
Giving An
Object Lesson

than attorneys for greedy special change proposed
involves OF constitutional amendment senate has
always stood in the by refusing submit question for
ratification rejection by the possible to compel
the senate to act under the constitutional provision that the
legislatures OF tohrds OF the officially demand the sub
mission OF amendment the alternative but to obey
The status Of this matter is that wenseven
have already made this more states ioin in
the call will become mandatory The continuous
performance OF Adr tactics oeraby accelerate the
demand and complete the two-thirds roll
The popular impotence with present vicious system
appears from the very general all America to side
track by of direct primary legislation giving the electorate
advisory mandatory the choice legislatures in
this regard The Boston Transcript course of this
movement:
While waiting for the slow obtaining through CON
shuuon amendment
enacted
the people actually do choose These Alabama
Mississippi
North Dakota are
the legislatures in the fourteen laws
elected democratic Chamberlain
The OF constitutional amendment undoubtedly slow
and difficult but Mr. Taft regard impracticabe as
he suggests the submission of amendment There
much imperative popular demand for election Of
senators by direct than there for income
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

DR.. Enot's list seems albright for one
whose mental domain is Of and in the
past From that point of view it's
pity it can't contain Memoirs Of a
Mummy and Heart to Heart Talks
With Sardanapalus.7
So far as poetry goes DR.. Eliot is
apparently opaque TO it, as all his Sc
lections seem made with view to their
plot-human-or thought value. StiI
were one in quest OF the latter it seems
to nae that one might have selected Ten
nyson's In Memoriam" rather than
Paradise Lost" since the latter is
based on absurdities.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

system Of spreading enlightenment BY
means of the (strictiy noncopyrighted)
classics. CThe word classic Is derived
from the word classified '-labeIedS
tagged; guaranteed safely dead)
The highly cultured former president
OF Harvard omits from his shelf any
work even remotely dealing with the
subject OF chief importance to this day
and generation. namely. commercialism,
the system under which we live DR..
Eliot might prohtabIy ponder the fact
that the publishing house issuing his
hve feet OF polite fiction. fancy and fun
saw fit to'appeal for public support long
before the public was informed what
books had been selected for the honor
of being bound in the Harvard crimson
and printed on paper bearing the name
Eliot" as a water mark. the appeal
being based solely on the exploitation
of DR.. Elot's unique reputation as an
educator. If the significance OF this
characteristic example OF up TO date
American business becomes apparent 10
Dr. Eliot he might in some future re-
vision OF his list include a book or two
dealing with modern social science or.
at any rate. one OF the psychology OF
advertising
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
IA Safe and
Sane Fourth in
San Francisco

appealing and mpong editorials have been printed this
and the volume OF pleading against this method of celebration
strange commentary civilization To plain
might superfuous to adure the American
their offspring to behave safe and fashion
plea directed fathers and mothers allow
children to set the house fire MAIN themselves Yet
the figures presented it became manifest argument
did not counsel OF There
sraed obvious lack of safety prevail
methods of celebration for the national holiday
made clear that the American needed be talked
his Dutch uncle
There need San Francisco pound the
drum this subject We had learned
burned child breads the fire. The lesson of conagraon
needed and action took shape radical
of the sale OF fireworks San Francisco of the few cities
the United States that enjoys fourth and our
patriotism and love of the flag does suffer all
that limitation youthful exuberance example that
other cities might do well to initiate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
NO DOUBT IN PUBLIC MIND AS
TO HIS GUILT
Stockton Mail

Stockton Mail
Calhoun knows where this money
went, and if it was not used for Illicit
purposes there would be no difficulty
in explaining the use that was made
of it.
A gentleman anxious to vindicate
himself would take the stand and make
such an explanation and would produce
all the evidence available to show that
the money was not used for bribery.
This is so obvious that the action of
the defendant in standing upon his
legal right to compel the prosecution
to prove that an offer of bribery was
actually made leaves the public mind
in no doubt whatever as to Calhoun
guilt.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
Books Better Than Those On
DR.. Eliot'S Five Foot Shelf.
Bv GEORGE STERLING

Personally I would have selected
Nietzsche's Thus Spake Larathustra"
rather than the 'Imitatio Christi" Ten
nyson's Ulysses" rather than the
..Sfeditations OF Marcus Aurelius.' the
...Invfctus" OF Henley rather than the
Golden Sayings OF Epietetus and the
ePrometheus Unbound" OF Shelley
rather than his "Cenci." And why not
Brownings Ring and the Book rather
than his Blot on the ScutcheOn"7
Still the whole list having been in
validated by the omission OF the bible.
Shakespeare and The Testimony OF the
Suns" lengthy comment or surmiss
seems needless.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
| To Discomfit
| The
| Importer

judges with salaries of $1,000 year pass
all disputes the meaning of tariff provisions uris-
diction would be exclusive importer not
satisfied with the appraisers ruling the
question into the federal courts where he
hearing. But if Adrch's intentions
the purpose stack the with
appraisers official staff who would have mercy importers
This theory do Adrich injustice but
bill has chiefly prepared by the appraisers office
in New York Marion de Vries formerly congressman from
California has been Adrichs right hand making up
schedules and is nmated that he will be presiding
the proposed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
WHAT THEY SAY \
| OF Mr.. CALHOUN
Comments of Newspapers All
Over Nation on MistTial
Of Rich Trolley
Magnate

FOLLOWING are some excerpts from
newspapers in every part OF the
United States on the trial of Pat
rick Calhoun, that ended in a disagree
ment of the jury:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

These figures supplied by Thomas Nagee Sons and
authentic They show condition of rising prosperity
valuable demonstration OF average business
totals inflated by any abnormal sales up
of the steady of transactions
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

columns this campaign is largely a matter
of money" The conquest OF consumption by
cooperative effort will cost large sums, but
il is better than building Dreadnoughts and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

example the friction reform of any sort
and the amelioraon of social conditions under popular
of that the newspapers of the whole country
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

that may be expected and are intended to
harry and confound the unhappy importer as
well cinch the much neglected consumer
by adding to the cost of living Perhaps the
most important feature of this end of the bill
is the provision for a customs court of FIVE
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

10WHERE does the ingenuity of Senator Aldch attain
higher development than in the administrative
his tariff bill. These provisions fairly hre with iokersn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

Tor the last month been filled with editorial
appeals for "a safe and sane fourth" mean
ing thereby divorce from the destroying
frecrackers and the manning and wounding
that marked the path OF the toy pistol and
the internal bomb Acres and acres of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
Oregon Girls Secure
Tributes to Beauty

trust company IS an exceedingly unreasonable question
which has the went on the famous
Seattle. 'F :"
1t appears that when Promotion
Mdford boarded by OF the the United So
Those exuronsts who did ride pro -
the stayed the elected to ra 49,
entertain the ladies Barry. -
He fell He
because had
Give Of you that little book
with sparkling - ~ H'1i1
Barry tore out for a
surely you Will give too blonde
Barry another he began teang ont III -
coupon in lie book - -s Gut al the
~Oh hing to
Barry returntic ket r@ --ouaei
You missed U.S. one the -
guess ola ne answered musngy Then added How in tbud
What
well, gave grlsev common ~
handkerchief neeke my collars and ssIn eSs
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

ME valuation of the direct primary by the supreme court
to direct attention the United States
by popular reaching public move
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05
The lnsider
Strong Nan Spells
Moving Picture Act

unusually
The unfortunate few who have felt weight fists
declare they would rather be hit with sedge
in a
the distressed
occupants were aston
% blood curdlng shout
vehicle
and climbing PERCEPTIONS
Every Knight Of Columbus for the occasion outing
valley, this happened, held his breath
yelled
LEI that you
Finally Power reached the the hill in with
villain who had beautiful girl by the waist edge
of the when he lady
"Oh horid spoiled the
Spoiled OF breath 81 have CONF -
nohngi Oh
stalwart Knight OF Columbus the picture W. az
throw me over the a
What, pictures in San Fan
too?'
dereui neaVensi exclaimed Fowe What
what Burngame would say figure in moving p,-~
murdous villain Why Andrew McCrssry would eut me 80
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-05

ment IN favor of tins measure The spectacle
presented by the tariff debate in the senate
IS certain to add impetus to this movement
because of the sense, which it conveys SO
impressively that majority of the senators
elected under the present system are no better