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The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12
The San Francisco Fire
Department in Politics

HE efficiency the fire department matter of greater
the industrial and commercial welfare OF San Fran
any of municipal government The
condition the under Sullivan and Saughnessy
been admirable this because its carried ant
politics. Men held their jobs condition of demonstrated tness
and merit.
Now that the fire department. be thrown the
political places be used
pagn service Notice given that hold job the
department unless he applies his best building the
administrators political machine The work OF fighting fires be-
altogether secondary and will naturally than
perunctor observance who holds his job by
political he will be dismissed for neglect
duty and with that of security there will be slight motive
making efficient fire fighting organization
under Boss Buckley when the city employ pot-
the machine and owed his first duty the who
giving the jobs The evident to create
duplicate the Buckley machine for control of and municipal
politics. umen of that purpose have the
nearly all the municipal departments changed all down the
letting Hitherto the fire department had
this revolution of methods The schools the health
works board all pressed political and
the fire department.
There much complaint San Francisco of the high
against FIRE With what standing
property before the board of fire underwriters asking
department oered by political heeler who need little
their oensbe duties long they show their
loyalty o the machine?
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He'll" Q doubt that introduc-
tory word, but he says l slipped it
in my eXcitement). This would be
the same old town if they moved
it to the top of Mount Hamilton"
And my not unmanly tears are ull-
shed to this day
Never did | notice any difference
in the people, either then or now; ,
they remain the same easy,
lovable, open minded sulphites
that they were when the line ran
from the Baldwin to Bush; that
they were when Dennis Kearney
ran the sand lots; that they were,
doubtless, when the two original
inhabitants sat on the bay shore at
Montgomery street and alternately
divided their food supply ano
worked politics on each other
over the division of town lots.
They change their roofs above
them but not their hearts. But the
new city, on it's physical aspect,
has been a matter of deep and per-
sonal concern to exiled Califor-
mans. We have debated upon it
with a horror less our builders
would remake San Francisco on
the pattern of one of those middle
western cities which seem to have
been ordered by the size from
Grand Rapids. Ugly as were the
old buildings of the downtown dis
trict in detail, their massing and
their coloring of greenish gray
from accumulated sea moss made
them curiously attractive in mass;
the artist appreciated this con-
sciously, and l suppose that the
passionate devotion to San Fran
cisco in the mass of northern Cali
fornians was due in part to an un-
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EAGLES PLAN SERVICES
IN MEMORY OF DEAD
Will Hold Elaborate Ceremonial
in Valencia Theater

In honor of the memory of their dead
brethren, Golden Gate aerie, No. 81,
and San Francisco aerie, No. 5, Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, win hold me-
mortal exercises in the Valencia the
ater at o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Every effort has been made by C.
Fred Williams, chairman of the COM
mittee of arrangements; Martin Z.
Walsh, Joseph Gusick, Herman Gold
man Jesse Marks and Ralph McLeran,
10 insure a service creditable to the
order.
c. Fred Williams will deliver the in
troductory address; while John T. Will
Iiams, chaplain of Golden Gate aerie.
viii say the opening prayer. The exer-
cises will close by the Eagles quartet
and the audience, accompanied by the
orchestra singing America
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Where Ballinger
and Garfield
Differ

keep within the law and do much little Tor the people
This idea that Garfield enforced letter addressed
he in which he
The claim that acted illegally based entirely the fundamental
the and executive discretion OF cabinet o to
the there
hbto provision of law Mr. Balnger to take the position that
the people, unless there
specific permisory mandatory provision of law
thing the investigation has made clear and is that the
the Alaska would proceeded creased
the of Pncho and Claws
would have been by the OF Bal
inger. who had been in the employ of the claimants.
Garfeds testimony especially damaging Balinger in
Cunningham adavs filed by Banger while he
office in March and September 908 These ahdavits
positive that the Guggeneims had
false because, the
given option the Cunningham claims De-
ebe 1907 These afdavits prepared Mr. Bangers law
office in Seattle
The result of the proceedings that the attorney for the
Cunningham claims placed the head of the interior depars
charged with the duty of passing their validity while Pnchot
blocked the the punished
for their activity by dismissal for nsubordnaton presumably
encourage the others
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ERSONS IN THE NEWS

JUDGE HENRY c. GESFoRD OF the superior
court Of Napa is spending few days in this
city with his family They are at the Stewart.
T. A. SEYMOUR. who is associated with the
receivership of the State bank and trust com
pany of TOnopah, is at the Palace.
FRANK MacGovERN. manufacturer. Of slec.
trical and steam machinery, is registered at
the ST. Francis from New York.
JOHN DoNNELLAN. a mining. man OF Rassrs
field who is now interested in oil. is a guest
at the St. Francis.
II. B. GUTHREY, an oil operator of Los An.
geles, is in town for short soiourn and ia
at the Stewart. =
R. c. GILLIs. an attorney of Los Angeles. ia
among the recent arrivals at the Palace.
Mr.. AND MRS. WILLIAM BUTLER =, n.
troit have apartments at the Fairmont.
ANDERSON TIGHE, an attorney OF Salt 1oSa
is at the St. Francis with Mrs. Tighe.
ROY L. coNLEY. a lumberman OF Keposh.
Wis, is registered at the ST. Francis.
J. A. YER1NGroN, who is building large
smelter at Carson. is at the Palace.
B. L. SMITH, banker of Reno is among the
recent arrivals at the ST. Francis
PETER KERR, businessman Of Portland. "a AZ
the Fairmont with Mrs Kerr
FRANK PETERSON, mining man OF Manhat-
tan. New. is at the Palace
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Answers to Queries

McENERNEY ACT-Sub. City When does
the McEnerney act for the settlement of title 10
property expire?
The statutes of 1909 say that ac-
tions under that law must be begun
before January 1, 1911.
oREG0N-Reader. City. When did the United
States battleship Oregon last leave the port Of
San Francisco?
March IA, 1898.
VIRGINIANS-H., City. When was The vir-
ginians' presented in San Francisco?
First in February, 1907, again In jan
uary, 1908, and recently.
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F. w. HORNE, importer OF American ma
chinery and farming implements in Yokohama.
Japan. has returned from two years trip
through Europe and is at the st. Francis with
HIS family Hornes office on this side is in
New York.
FRANK B. ANDERSON, president of the Bank
of California national association, returned
yesterday from six weeks tour Of the east
Anderson reports business as good in the east
but found much more optimism as he came
west
D. WILLARD LYON, associate general secre-
tary of the general committee OF the Young
Mems Christian association in China and Ko-
rea. Is at the Stewart with his family. They
will leave shortly for the orient
-
OTIS A. POOLE, tea merchant Of Yokohama.
returned yesterday from the east where he
went on business trip, and is registered at
the Palace. He will sail on one OF the early
outgoing steamers.
E. L. THOMPSON OF Portland returned yester-
day from an automobile trip to Mexico with
Mrs. Thompson and their son. They sraveled
in all about 2,eoo miles. They are registered
at the Palace.
C. G. wooDMANsEE. businessman Of Los An
geles DIR. E. L. Meyers of Reno and NJ NJ
Martin, merchant of Eureka make up
group of guests staying at the Argonaut.
HERBERT KULLMAN, a tanner Of Benicia. is
registered at the Palace.
A. h. DENIKE and wife Of San Jose are guests
at the Tairmout-
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CHAMBERLAIN WILL
GIVE SONG RECITAL

William Edwin Chamberlain, the
barytone, will be heard in a song re-
cital in Century hail. at Sutter and
Franklin streets, tomorrow afternoon
at 2:3O o'clock, under the auspices of
Claiming auxiliary. Harvey 10y will
be the accompanist. Much interest is
being manifested by music lovers in
the recital Tickets may be had at the
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12

erature of the catastrophe. Today,
} the city that the loves.l
conscious appreciation of this hid
den beauty. New buildings and
porcelain bathtubs and twentieth
century plumbing were all very
well, we told each other, but would
the new city run also to CASTLE
soap pillars and gilded plaster and
pressed glass mirrors? 1t was a
great thing to have a fine new
business equipment and to be mis-
tress of the Pacific, but could there
be anything of the old physical
charm about the modern San Fran
cisco?
The miracle has happened; mod
ern architects have built the new
city out of modern materials, on
modern plans, and the external
charm of the place remains. 1t is
just as hard to say why, as it ever
was to explain the allurement of
San Francisco for the eye. Much
of the new architecture is good.
most of it is passable, very lit
tie Is as bad as that old fancy
work architecture of San Fran
cisco which Gelett Burgess used to
satirize as Chaos avenue" On
the whole, it is certainly better
work than any eastern city would
erect were it called upon to re-
build. That is a tribute not so
much to our architects as to their
clients. Nowhere in the United
States is the art sense so general
among people of means as>in San
Francisco. If our builders here
have nearly worked out a new
American school in the adaptation
of the redwood bungalow style to
city uses, the people in general de-
serve half the thanks. 1t is won
derful new city with all it's old dis
tinctiOn saved; it becomes now my
mission to dry the tears of exiled
Californians. There are only five
American cities which stand apart
from the rest for appearance
Boston, New York, Charleston, New
Orleans and San Francisco. We
are preserved forever in that col
umn now.
For example. had done lot of
worrying about the crest of Rus
sian hill as seen from the south
east. 7 heard that buildings were
going up fast in that district.
They'll ruin it," l said. 1 came
up Taylor street last Monday in
the twilight and found that they
had not ruined Russian hill-they
had made it. Nowhere in the United
States is there a vista so satisfying
to the eye, so suggestive of ro-
nance, as that summit as seen
from Taylor and Broadway. | re-
membered then the old picture of
gray rOoftops and lanes of yellow
light which we used to admire
from our windows on Russian hill.
l looked down. There was only
one change in the picture. What
had been gray was now white. And
beyond that, eternal among these
changes of man, was that golden
bay with its surge as of river and
it's distant lights. That, and the
hills and the mists would make us
distinctive, l suppose, were we to
replace our buildings by Paterson.
N. j., or Chelsea, Mass.
1t is larger city, a more con-
venient city. and since it is also a
more beautiful and more distinct
i've city I announce myself a COM
plete convert. This city that was
business is the old stuff.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12
| The Postal
Savings
Bank Bill

aggavae already existing condition which New
York the surplus funds of the whole country with
time of trngncy the interior banks not recall their oans
relieve the local market.
The proposition to invest the postal bank funds
with Senator support
urged that other of would
This does appear have carried much weight with
the and Senator Dover pointed the Root
designed chiefly help the bankers who hold large
United States bonds bought artificial
their availability for issues The
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regarded
Protective Tariff League would rejoice to burn the stake
In the outspoken fashion he talks about the ownership
public utilities He would all these franchises in the local gov
and makes exception They will be calling him
anarchist
Mr. Carnegie delivers hrewd sdewinder directed his sen-
mental fellow John Muir whohas off wrong the
Hetch Hetchy question. Says Mr. Carnegie:
John Muir fine Scochman like friend John Burroughs
for all that foolish that the needs of
full and should be thwarted for the
for beautiful it might be
in is no Of
men broad
of York;
the hills which
New York
Doubtless Mr.. Carnegies of the
prevail when for settlement 1t is pressing
city first exhaust the Lake Eleanor possibilities.
Bangers adjudication will settle nothing other
when the that the bay cities
there real need of the Hetch Hey supply congress
the administration will refuse the grant.
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HIS tcdIS IOHS since IOTgOIleD, MTs
FIRST came into the new San
francisco in August, 1907, DUR
ing the era of rebuilding. |
returned, | remember, to weep.
was In the condition that morning
OF man preparing for sentimen-
tai jag. l parted at the Oakland
mole with my train friends of the
overland journey; I wanted to go
to my sorrow alone. AS l sat by
the front rail Of the boat watching
that 1ndescribable swell of the bay
surge down on us, | was startled
by laugh beside me. turned
with feeling of indignation. 1t
was unseemH-mirth at funeral.
| had to shake myself to remember
that these people had been dwell
Ing in crushed San Francisco for
year, and that year is long
time to pack around any grief
There they were, talking business,
reading their newspapers, flirting
with their girls, l. / alone was
living through new grief | looked
at the bare hill below the Fair
mont at the bump where the Hop
kins institute used to crown the
citadel of the town, and got ready
to shed not unmanly tears when
| should stand in the midst of that
ruin and wreckage At the station
| waved aside the omnibus and
prepared to walk up through the
wreck of dear old scenes-alone.
| might have wept there-it was
the only chance l had as it turned
out-but for a fellow | knew. We
fell into each others arms. Be
fore l had fairly wrenched away,
he had pulled the blueprint on me.
Ten stories concrete" he said.
See her up there-that skeleton
on Battery street? You remember
the old three story shack? Bill,
honest I'm glad she burned down.
Amt that the greatest sight that
ever was?" and he pointed up Mar
ket street There it was-a city
rising, Market street torn up to
its very entrails; a forest of steel
skeletons as far as the eye carried.
the Donahue fountain, in appropri-
ate setting for once, fringed with
bricks and mortar and girders; a
chorus of ratchets making music on
steel. AS we stood there watching
newsboy showed a paper in my
face and made jesting remarks, as
San Francisco newsboys will do,
on the shape of my hat. A man in
overalls rolled up and addressed
me, not with the professional whine
of the Eastern panhandler but
with the democracy of the unri-
vailed Pacific coast product.
You look like a nice young fell
low if you do have funny face
he said in effect Say, I'm just in
from Bellingham, beat out of my
pay and want two bits for drink"
AS | came across a sound of
music pierced the noise of the
ratchets. Beside the ferry entrance
Schuetzenfest park PICNIC had
stacked up, waiting for transpor-
tation. Girls in white dresses and
white caps, men in white trousers
and sashes, details OF ribboned
canes and official badges and bas-
kets and plump mothers and noisy
babies-there it was, just as
though the town had not burned
down. That touch finished me. [
turned to the fellow l knew. He
recalled to me yesterday what |
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interior department and that OF Secretary Gar-
field. Mr.. Garfield indicates his idea of Off
cial duty by the illustration: ga locomotive
on railroad track can either go ahead or stand
still and yet be on the track SO public Off
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12
The City That Is
Written for The Call
BY Will Irwin

a the
to H 1.-The
wni eo the
his ehesl
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12

relief have been suggested Senator Dover
obligation the maintain these artificial
and he said in the senate
Do the
part
undehand adopted by
per
there bunko payd? My friends
of national affairs
question of ethics and may be Dolver
altogether the matter but should be held
obligation bonds should
of promoting of srngency
market.
The that of haphazard scheme
currency Senator Root seeks
patch work
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OF the deposits in United States bonds. The
effect of that provision would be to create
money stringency by locking up the savings
of the people in form where they would no
be available to meet local needs. IT woulf
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12

THE testimony the Balnger investigation before the joint
congress brought contrast the
difference of policy between the administration of the
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12

postal savings bank bill passed by and trans
| med to the house appears have been
the objectionable provision requiring
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12

with foreign nat1ons The volume Of on
exports has shown marked decline in tn
last year, while imports are climbing up
ward Mr.. Clews reviews the situation in tfi
wise:
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12

of his habit of clear thinking expressed in
plain speech. He has said some distressing
things about certain forms of tariff robbery of
which he had intimate personal experience,
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Effect of
High Prices
on Foreign Trade


prices for commodities It the high prices OF merchandise which have
breadtufs
minished bv high prices influence
markets
that of This brings
ponce of big 1910 Nothing short of this will
The
supplies cultivation High
affords
profits seen n
The situation The country is passing through
familiar phase The prevailing high level of prices
invites imports and the
until n equilibrium of prices is established.
This general law of economics, and although
nerpose operation yet prices
tend to equaize themselves the world over.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12

T TENRY CI,EWS the New York fnancer and writer on
subjects discusses the relation that the prevailing
high prices commodities this country
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12

NDREW CARNEGIE has long ago be regarded as
the of te interests Although
is
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-18

ments of the cost of the decorations of
each, taken from the letters of the
owners.
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The Wichman Prize Winner.

The Wichman prize winner. here
shown, cost for decoration S25.75, the
detailed bill being:
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H. T. WICHMAN g. CO.

-.-- -. -,.,,,I ~o,-
49, aua
'H'O" -, - -, 49,, oapo-;on 80
T pvpuln, @P annna, fa.a +he FIoraI pa
=. 49,. roo,;ra hro,,s artistic
- 800 ,,,or,,
'As,e anu sOll,e ,.--.,o.,. eno-, -,
many t'of'e a. ,.sss,,ao - ~,
.s'lH- "a. =, ~ 49,. - .os-s -, in
i4eA P's, az Ia -
tue n"ho'','9 - -. =.
showing just no" 'Hi7 i'''' ''o7'
not the question now, the purpose III
this article being to show that the idea
,,..,.7 -, Tho facts in the case.
,,.,,, tho q,raa+-
Last year Nv '''' ''''''
est amount ol a'ii'''l d '''''
awarded The Speclm pflHe cost '"r wv
orator exactly twelve dollars. II t.
on;rad excellent Judgment to obtain
.-..la su,o, tho axpeDd,+ure of that
...I -,-,,,a,- i,,-as4aa
amount oAl the aqua.
as stated was twelve dollars.
Another car. which won adm1ung
,-.;s. s.,r, thousands and which Judges
80 ,,r,,,7 ,,riza cost
eohs!dete'i "oIi"S u 4,
in all intending hats Tor the '"lie7 1'
drove the ear and dress for a ENID
o..,,-,....- ..,....-l,- stv-aan dollars and
-
o-,
Mary "f tire cars cos over
hundred dollars. bug these were the ones
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-18

.aa dollars far Iaaar which entered into
-a- right spirit - More "a pleasure
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The above, Of course. says the letter
does not include labor Of friends who
kindly assisted in making paper flowers
We also used a few old paper roses
winch were left over ana used in the
1909 parade.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-18
etter says:

ltTttT says:
I'm reply to yours of the oath as TO
cost for decorating cars, I would say:
The car run by my daughters cost thirty
dollars. material only: and the Haynes
entered by the Pacific Club, one humid
red and thirty dollars, which was thu
contract price.
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No cost for labor $500
More Expensive.
I. Give Davies won his prize with a
car that came above the average in
cost Of decoration. He spent as follows:
Male. $1,000; paper flowers, $50. 90;
wire. $l.o0 and cotton s.. a total of
$1,000
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The Gilman Cars.

J. A Gilman had two cars IN the
Parade. one decorated by contract and
the other by himself and family. The
difference in cost represents the differ
puca between the two systems His
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Mrs. Waity's American Beauty.

Mrs Waity, in replying to the com
mittee. stated that she put twelve dol
lars worth OF material and one hundred
dollars worth Of the proper spirit into
the decorating of her ear. She wrote:
The iecorat NJ of my car American
Beauty RoSes} did not exceed twelve
dollars, for material. Assisted by my
friends, | did the preparing aud decor
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Extra cheese cloth ........ loo
heai asparagus ferns ....... 600
Labor, (maklng canopy on auto) $50
Lumber for canopy .... 1872
Cost Of metal lattice work for
front of radiator .. 125
Total S26l2
- 1t may be of interest to know, that
the total cost of decorating my machine
for the Parade of 1909, was $3.50.
Yellow chrysanr hemums and asparagu
ferns We're the scheme that wear. In
the decorations for both parades, about
100 paper flowers were used each time.'
Expect Many Entries.
With the knowledge that the, expense
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