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The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03
MORE DAMAGE is DONE
BY RAIN IN FRANCE
Floods Again Threaten Republic
and Wine Crop Is Damaged

PARIS Dec. 2.-Flood conditions are
again general throughout France.
About 3Is feet of rain fell in November
and from all sections come stories of
immense damage DONE Although the
Seine and the Rhine were stationary
today, the Gironde, Garonne and the
Loire rivers continued rising, and the
rivers of Normandy and Brittany are
greatly swollen. Great fear of. serious
effects on next years cereal and wine
crop is felt
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03
ECCLESIASTICS ARE
RESTRICTED BY ORDER
Administrative Posts Now Held
Must Be Vacated

ROME, Dec. 2.-The official bulletin
of the holy see today publishes a papaI
decree forbidding ecclesiastics TO oc-
cupy administrative posts. Where now
held they must be resigned within four
months OF the date of the decree.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03
NEW YORK TO BECOME
A NOISELESS TOWN
Flatwheeled Trolley Cars and
Auto Horns Prohibited

NEW YORK. Dec 2-PoIice Com
missioner Cropsey has decreed that
New York must be a noiseless town,
and today issued an order for the po-
lice to put a hush on "hatwheeIed"
trolley cars, new tangled automobile
horns and other disturbers of the city's
quiet.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03
Crime Confessed
TO SECURE FAVOR
Life Convict Protests Innocence,
Saying That He Was Prom
ised Light Sentence
Continued From Page 1

on trial. Being ignorant of the laws
and without money, an attorney. Will
liam G. Page of Ukiah, was appointed
to defend him.
During the trial two women were
produced as witnesses who said that
Owens had knowledge of the plot
against Drake and had assisted Finley
to escape. The jury failed to agree.
Shortly after. Owens says, he was
persuaded by the sheriff, the district
attorney and his own lawyer to plead
guilty on promise of a light sentence
He regarded this as the most eXped1-
tious method of ending what he re-
garded as a bad mess. He says that
he was given to understand that his
assistance to Finley at the time of the
escape rendered him liable to the most
drastic punishment. 1t was while in
this condition of mind. he declares, that
he confessed. Instead of light SEN
tenee he was given a. life term.
Protest of Innocence
Owens now maintains that he was
without guilt. He is emphatic in his
assertion that he was involved in no
plot against Drake.
In his efforts in behalf OF Owens,
Ahern has found cooperation in in
fiuential quarters. He has received the
following letter from w. S. Gillett,
brother of the governor, and store
keeper at San Quentin:
Your favor received and in reply
thereto will state that 1 have known
William Owens for number of years
as a hard working, Industrious wood
man, and no one could have been more
surprised than I was when I found him
an inmate of this institution. l sim
cerely believe that assistance rendered
him will not be misplaced"
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03
# You Need a Medicine
You Should Have
the Best

Although there are hundreds Of preparations
advertised. there is only that really stands
out pTeseminent as a remedy for diseases OF the
Kidneys. liver and bladder.
swamp Root is not recommended for every
thing.
sworn certificate OF purity Is with every
bottle.
For sale at al drug stores. in bottles Of two
sizes-50c and 500.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03

BURGLARS RAID BANK-Franklin. Ga. Der
2-The Bank of Heard County WAS entered hy
burglars, the safe dynamited and $1,000 in
cash taken last night.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03
ONLY ONE ~BRoMo orT1NYxr,
FIFTEEN HURT IN coILIsIoN-T.anon

That is Laxative Bromo Quinine. Look
for signature of E.W. Grove. Used xvorl,j
over TO Cure Cold in One Day. 25c. =
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03
NEVADA CAN KEEP FAME,
SAYS DENVER JUDGE
Don't Want Reputation of Be-
ing a Divorce State"

DENVER. Dec Although he
granted a divorce today to Mrs. Marion
Boswell from Arthur H. Boswell of
Chicago. Judge Allen of the district
court asserted that he did not want
Colorado TO get the reputation, like
Nevada. of being a divorce state" The
court closely questioned Mrs. Boswell
regarding her residence in Colorado.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03

RAILWAY TO FIGHT wEEvIL-Mont tgomery
Alas Dec. 2.-Fearing big traffic loss from
the boil weevil. the Southern railway will es-
tablish demonstration farms showing how to
fight the weevil.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03

Dec Z.-tiffeen persons injured when
Missourl Pacific passenger train was wrecked
two miles cast Of knobnoster, No, early to
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

lhe employer OF James, will suppose, has
dropped into the little gymnasium of weight reducer
and spent his 10 minutes on sundry weird machines
and exercsers. From there he had passed to the Of
fee OF the foundry company in which he has in
terest, called his lawyer about pending suit,
paid his subscriptions two trade journals visited
underwriting firm, purchased Persian rug and
opened negotiations with diamond importer Find
ing himself with some minutes to spare he walks
INTO the room of stock brokerage concern and
watches the blackboard He is excited on noting that
x. Y I. had fallen off 10 points. Horrors! Over
come by the shock he staggers. To friend who
catches him he gasps doctor"
The friend, fearing apoplectic stroke, supports
him out into the hall and helps him to door on
which physicians name appears The sick man still
has strength to shake his head vehemently. The
friend understands that alopathst is wanted
and stumbles further to where homeopathst's
sign Is Again the holds back. The friend
struggles until he sights the door of Christian
Scsntist and tries to prop the patient against it. An
other refusal In despair the friend resumes the jour
ney and tries two varieties finally landing with
an osteopath where the consents to remain.
Restored later, when he learns that X. Y. Z. has
recovered the lost ground he celebrates by ordering
fine gloves made for his wife, then continues his
round He stops to see how the colored glass
window for his church is coming on, chats with an
acquaintance who is running a little bundle of gold
and silver mines, hears that the theosophist the
sixth floor is drawing many followers, leaves speci
sent him from Arizona with firm of assayers,
calls realty Office learn the latest figure placed
that lot places advertisement for Chicago and
St Louis papers with agent, notices pretty girl
who is entering the Office of theatrical company and
another closing the door of vocal instructor and
winds up at the rooms of business club. He decides
that FIVE months trip around the world is what he
needs and leaves order with Somebody's tours to
make him up two books of tickets SO he won't have to
bother about transportation while he is away. Finally
having worked late that night, he is unable TO get
home and goes up the little bachelor hotel depart
ment the top floor, where he gets room and bath.
The Office building, which stands for all this and
much besides that the receunting would be
wearisome, is itself machine that requires expert
guidance. 1t is public character and such has
reputation to lose. 1t is capital and such be
watched and nursed 1t is community and as such
must be governed. recent incident which took
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

place unsmirched If there is anything suspicious
going he IS going know it if he has to gum
shoe" himself
Like any other community, the Office building IS
tempting to vice in many forms. Swndlers and
blers the enemies that the superintendent
on the watch for. faro game may be in surrept-
tous operation behind investment company,
pooroom behind suburban development firm. He
frequently hnds it difficult to know whereto draw the
line with companies that the mails exclusively
But he is alert throw them out step ahead OF the
postofhce authorities
An Office building presents rich field Men en-
ployed within it usually well to do, it hes in
prosperous district and its miles of corridors hold
promise of safe retreats where the hard working
sharper may ply his trade in peace. Then there
the dignity and the stiff front which large and
busy structure contributes If it were left to the
ninble witted gentry choose their quarters they
would flock to the big Office buildings by thousands.
They get in and it is only at the expense
of ceaseess vigilance that their are headed off,
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

his employer is without hat or overcoat and
he Is surprised
Not outside. but around the building I've got
some shopping and general business to attend to-"
10 go out IS expressive term 1t suggests that
man is placing himself in touch with the world at
large To 60 out" in a modern Office building is to
from one Of the countless BODY cells that 90
te make up its vast organism and circulate through
OsAers OF his cells The only difference in an Office
budding is that lie is placing himself in touch with
perfect compact chunk OF the world at large
Possibly you pass your working day in an Office
building. Probably you think you arc perfectly IA
miliar with that institution OF course But are you?
It is compendium of business, an epitome of COM
mercial and professional enterprise 1t is complete
including within its walls every essential and many
nonessentials OF modern existence 1t is sample
strip OF the worlds greatest city, pred UP and pro-
jected skyward.>
An occupant Of Office building can call the turn
on the residents OF high Olympus Without leaving
the four walls he fnd first every facility offered
by any first class hotel and then opportunity to cult
vate patronize literature investments, religion.
isns, art, recreation, inventions, medicine. law.
banking, speculation, physics health decoration. sci
enoe, general information and all branches of COM
merce, wholesale retail At one elbow telephone
links him with home friends and immediate interests
At the other pad of cable blanks represents potential
hold upon Hongkong and Finland. He can buv the
contents OF house pair of socks. souander 4
fortune make it, attain wisdom or lose tooth ali
IN person and without putting his nose out of doors
An Office building is hive, but hive where the
bees gather and store their treasures and carry on
their occupations without leaving the common shelter
of the roof.
To begin at the root, down in the underground
chambers where the Office building has its respiratory
system Of pumps and engines and its crculatory
TEN OF boilers and pipes there is Turkish bath es-
adjustment Having started thus with opened pores
and reshened eye the investigator is ready to work
up. He ascends to the natural level and is in the
lobby The lobby is part bazaar, part arcade and part
railway station. This being typical Office building
there dozen OF elevators sliding to and from
It's surface running regular schedules of express
and local and bearing the busy thousands of outside
bees that have affairs hand with the bees in the
hive
Toward the front is the side entrance to bank
The bank occupies the cornerstone position which is
eminently just and proper in commercial and bust
community Almost every occupant of the build
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

The chips were clicking merrily and the cards were
flirting from the dealers hand with precision that
spoke eloquently of that genteman's long practice
The third man to the left, with long, solemn face
and keen eyes, glanced around the room approvngly
Three other tables held their quota of seekers after
truth as exemplifed by the royal flush
THE SUPERINTENDENT
Neat scheme of yours this he observed, with the
gold mining company as blind"
The dealer nodded. Smooth friend got the place
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26
IN The Great Skyscrapers Housing Thousands of
Persons, Can Be Found all the Necessities of Life
NOT Overlooking Mans Spiritual Welfare-Pe Perfection Of
Community Organization

1t is bad barber who can not command his
local trade. Even the Office boys wander i'll with
lofty air to sacrifice the first, invisible down at
rinous cost of 20 cents when they could achieve the
result elsewhere for dime. 1t matter of
honor that the building barber be given their
Adjoining, i'll order shoe shop, haberdasher,
cigar store and tailor The Investigator will OBJ
that with the exception of the candy store and
possibly the bank, there is nothing here attract the
patronage of the fair But this is the lobby where
everything is rush and hurlyburly Women do not
do their shopping landing stage, and it is
fact that Office buildings have little offer
feminine trade, i'll spite of the stenographers.
Over on the opposite side, behind the elevators,
side door Not just any side door, but the side door,
the naughty kind that everybody hears about during
reform campaign. The shrinking Investigator does
enter, but he the long, shiny bar and the
glittering glasses and is thereby wiser At the back
of the lobby is large restaurant, where there is
music during the luncheon hours, covering the twin
points of gasronomic and esthetic joy for the Office
building occupant A passage leads to drug store
and a clothing establishment at the other corner of
the structure
Clinging like fungi about the pillars or in corners
of the wall is growth of minor enterprises, booths
and stands, whereat newspapers, magazines flowers,
fruits and the like trivalities of blossom
forth. One place of vantage is taken up by public
telephone exchange and of sentry boxes,
other has the blue and white sign that announces
telegraph and cable service. Through and between
and among these the crowd hurres, pauses and hur-
ries again ceaselessly from early until late
The first floor presents very different set of at
fractions Here is luxurious billiard paror just
off the elevators, where the occupant passes idle
hour nails his clerk, who has such intention
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

the solce building runs on without rhyme or reason
from foor.to floor and corridor to corridor Lawyers
do not herd with lawyers nor publishers with pub
sners. pass along any hall at random and inspect
the gded lettering on the frosted doors is to drop
from mortgages to brewing association and to climb
from corsets to ethical culture Many strange and
commonly unsuspected ways in which persons
earn their Ivehoods revealed the investigator
in roaming the Office building And there is avail
able something or somebody to minister to every
legitimate freak or fancy of human conception.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

ing must have intimate relations with the bank and
here is in the house with its depositors Along
the side, adjoining the bank of shops 'front.'
ing the street concession the larger public
but doing most of their trade through their lobby
enhances. Trunks and leather goods next to the
bank, establishing suggestive connection of ideas
Here the place get money and here the place to
get something to carry it away in.
THE WILES OF THE CANDY MAN
Shouldering the trunk store is a candy shop The
thought of this willy merchant is obvious If one is
going a-journeying may as well pack box of
sweets in the valse. For another thing the candy
is always just opposite the elevator where the
homeward hurrying throng may note and be re-
minded of certain small but hungry candy eaters
To walk straight out of the elevators is to walk
straight into the temptation of sweets.
Next in the is a barber "parlor" Usually it
is matter of pride loyalty with the. occupants of
an Office building to have their chns scraped and
their locks trimmed by the operator on the premises
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

himself Spite of the high tension and fast pace at
which business is driven an Office building there
are always the wiser ones who manage to salt i'll a
session with the ivories for the good of eye and
health Across the hall is the entrance to furniture
firm with display room that covers something like
half Whereabouts. large part of its trade
in the of many other occupants drawn from
the building. 1t supplies Office furniture of every
conceivable kind but stands ready to meet orders for
the home or club
On the second floor the dgnitaries of the place are
usually assembled. Here is one of the large branch
Offices of big life insurance company, the headquar-
ters of hreinsurance company a gas company and
title guarantee company. Swarms of clerks and
stenographers center here betimes the morning and
along about the elevator stops at the second
floor to lef off sleek, pursy gentlemen of important
and frowning aspect
TOWARD THE ROOF
Above this point precedence ceases can be said
TO exist below, and the great bewdering variety Of
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26
Organization

< ANES I'm going out for half an hour or so >
Out, SIR" queries James, the new clerk,
fresh from fathers store. He observes that
his employer is without hat or overcoat and
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26
TOWARD THE ROOF

Above this point precedence ceases it can be said
to exist below, and the great bewdering variety Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-28
DOUBLE CELEBRATION.
Patriotic Societies Invited to Bally
McElroy July 4.

The patriotic societies of the District
have been invited by Col. John McElroy.
who is the leading candidate for election
as cOmmander-in-chief of the G.. A. r.
to visit Bally McElroy on the Occoouan
July 4 and participate in the joint ceie-
bration to be held there. The event will
be in commemoration of both the nation s
natal day and of the hath anniversary
Of the driving of the British ships out
of Occoquan river in July. 1II6.
The invitations for the celebration were
issued today. The frontispiece is draw
ing showing Virginia hunters along the
banks of the Occoquan river firing with
their fiintiock rifles upon an English war
vessel. Ii is announced that Commander
Henry A. johnson of the Department of
the Potomac. G. =. T.. with his staff.
will be in attendance. Also that the
train will leave tho Union station for
Colchester. on the Richmond, Fredericks
burg and Potomac road. at the gate
marked Richmond local" at I::,5 Mon
DAY morning. July (. IL will he a fifty
minute ride 10 Colchester. The return
train will leave Colchester at I:33 in the
evening. arriving at Washington at So
\ feature of the gathering at Bally Nc
Elroy will be the reunion and reorgani-
cation of the United States Historical So
ciety of this city. OF which Harry A. Col
man is president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-28
PICTURE SHOW MUSIC
CONSENT OF NEAR RESIDENTS
MUST BE OBTAINED.
Decision Reached by Corporation
Counsel After a Careful Study
of the Matter.

Consent of three-fourths of the house
holders on the block with a moving
picture show must be obtained if the
likewise, three-fourths of the consents of
the householders on the confronting block
or blocks. This is the opinion of Corpora
ton Counsel Thomas and Assistant Cor
poration Counsel White.
The matter was bought up by Commits
sioner Rudolph. who recently let the po-
ice Of the fifth precinct know that a
moving picture show. at 18th and North
Carolina avenue northeast. had been OPP
Grating with a piano on the evening of
June ID. after it had obtained license
10 operate without music. according TO
his information.
The police applied for warrant AS
sistant Corporation Schultze refused &c
issue a warrant. He said that while the
facts seemed 20 indicate technical vio-
lation of one police regulation, there was
still another regulation on the subject
which had not yet become effective. and
which seemed to exempt moving picture
shows. In other words. the regulation
which had not yet become effective seem
ed TO allow proprietors OF airdomes
cheap shows. etc, to have music. Capt
Williams of the fifth precinct thereupor
threw UP his hands in despair and said
that there are so many regulations or
the subject that il would take smar
lawyer to ferret out the real truth Of the
situation.
Whereupon the corporation counsel.s
Office studied the matter. with the re-
suit that moving picture shows with
pianos will have TO get consent of three
fourths of the householders on their block
and the block across the way from them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-28
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
TO DO OWN SURVEYING
Saving of Time in Opening Public
Domain to Entry Is Now
Expected.

A departure in the survey of the pub
lie domain will be inaugurated with the
beginning of the next fiscal year.
The work then will be performed by
Surveyors employed by the general land
Office. instead of through the contract
system. 1t is believed by Commissioner
bennett that the change will effect an
enormous saving in time.
For several years the land Office has
been endeavoring to obtain authority
from Congress to do its own surveying.
Permission had been refused until the
session just closed, when 100000 was
appropriated for the work. This was an
increase of 1919, GOO over last year.
Under the old system. after the con-
tractor had made his survey, it had to be
inspected by an examiner of the land
office. 1t was never less than two years.
and often three and four years, before
the work was accepted and the land made
available to entry.
Under the new plan of. EMPLOY ing the
surveyors the delays previously encoun-
tered, it is said, will be obliterated. Two
supervising surveyors will be placed in
the field and will examine the work con-
stantly as it progresses.
Commissioner bennett today said the
new system will greatly expedite the
surveying of the public domain
AS soon as practicable the surveyors
will be appointed by civil service exam
nations. This cannot be done imme-
diately, as the system must first be in
stalled and placed upon a working basis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-28
Catarrh Can Quick
" Be Cured

\ hottie OF Hyomei. hard rubber pocket in
h1ler that will last lifetime and simple in
structions for curing cstarrh make a Hyomei
"ulht
Into the inhadcr you pour few drops Of
magical Hyomei pronounce 1t High-o-me)
This is absorbed by the antiseptic gauze
within and you ready to breathe IL over
the germ-infested membrane. where il will speed
liz begin its work of killing catarrh germs
Hyomei IL made of Australian eucaiyptol com
bined with other antiseptcs and is very pleas
ant breathe.
II is guaranteed to cure catarrh bronch hits
sore throat. Group. coughs and colds. money
hack II cleans out a stuhedup head in a few
minutes.
Sold by druggists everywhere and by Henry
Evans. looG + st. NV Complete outfit. - 90
and remember that extra bottles. IL afterward
needed. cost only 10 cents. Breathe il, that's
all.
TO break up cold in head or chest in q few
minutes, pour teaspoonful OF Hyomei into
bowl 81 boiling water. cover head and bow
with towel and breathe the vspor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-28
RAIL ROADS TO ADOPT
UNIFORM SIGNALING
Semaphore Code to Be Identical on
All Lines if Plans Go
Through.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 2s.-Cniformity in
signaling is to be adopted on the rail-
roads of the United States if plans now
under consideration by the various rail-
road operating associations can be work
ed out.
The question is being considered by a
committee of operating experts, which
probably will report upon the subject at
the fall meeting of the American Rail-
way Association.
The committee is composed of commit
tees from the American Railway Associa-
ton, the American Railway Engineering
and Maintenance OF Way Association and
the Railway Signal Association. II pos
sible. the committee. which held a meet
ing in Chicago yesterday, is expected to
inaugurate a movement toward uniform
ity in railway signaling in the belief that
it will promote safety of operations.
1t is the opinion of many operating ex-
perts that one position of the semaphore
Of a Block signal should mean the same
thing on every railroad in the United
States. in order to prevent confusion
when operating men go from one road to
another.