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The San Francisco call., 1910-01-06

went as merry as a barn dance until
Just as the whistles were blowing the
nour OF noon on certain chill day in
October. Entering the dormitory din
ing room for his waters and tea Ned
was transfixed by a strange spectacle.
An undergrad was openly whiting
chunks from a wedge of pie and trans
porting them to his mouth upon the
fiat of his knife. The president of the
college made desperate efforts to ap-
pease Ned and to wipe the stain from
the college escutcheon. In vain. Ned
left the college and returned home; but
the old place had slipped a cog during
his absence and he could not bear it,.
After a fearful farewell go with the
Baltimo oyster he answered the call of
the wild, arriving in San Francisco in
1883.
He must have seen his opportunity
preparing easy first lessons for woolly
westerners. During his first week of
watching our best families eat, drink,
dance and go to the theater the Ba' til
more kid probably witnessed social
atrocities that made him want to fly
back to the siwash college and beg that
pie-eater's pardon.
While clerking in a mining Office he
learned to direrentiate at a glance be-
tween nugget in the rough and a gold
BRICK In after years he came to stand
for triple plate, but the pure brick he
always passed up. no matter by whom
steered. firing of mining on paper he
broke into newspaper Office and wrote
society notes. He has admitted that
his later success in society was made
possible by the fact that in his report
ing days he never wrote what he really
thought about our best society as il
was then.
All this time the star OF Ned's des-
tiny was humping itself to get above
the horizon. and II was now due TO
make the social astronomers sit ND and
cape through their telescopes. A French
wine maker whose product is consumed
mainly in the United States arrived in
town, spotted our Edward. and next
day made him the local captain of cork
aSe and supreme boss of our smartest
set. OF course. the aforementioned star
OF destiny had much to do with if. vet
1T can not be disputed that it was the
coming of the vintner that lent bead
and sparkle to Ned's champagne for
social leadership.
The sway of Greenway has continued
interruptedly since, despite many bold
attempts to put crimp in it. The
gentleman has dispensed wine by dav-
light and priceless social favors by gas
light The socially ambitious might
not see at first any concrete relation
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THE SMART SET

side Friday evening, January 21, at
the Fairmont. preceding the next
Greenway assembly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T. Scott enter
tanned at an informal luncheon given
yesterday at the ST. Francis and among
those at the table were Mrs. Eleanor
Martin. Templeton Crocker, Duane
Hopkins and Miss Jennie Crocker. In
another party at luncheon were Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Eastland, Miss vir-
ginia Jolliffe, Walter S. Martin and
Raymond Armsby.
The wedding of Miss Christine Kean
Roosevelt and Lieutenant James E.
Shelley of the Eleventh cavalry, u. S. A,
which took place Tuesday afternoon,
December 2s, in New York, is of ex-
ceptional interest to friends in this
city, for the charming bride was Wis
itor here in former seasons and was a
social favorite during her stay with
her cousin. Miss Christine Pomeroy,
She was extensively entertained here
and one Of the memorable events of
her visit was an elaborate tea given
at the old home of the Carter PitkiA
Pomeroy family at Clay and Hyde
streets.
The bride is the eldest daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Emlen Roosevelt and
the wedding, to which invitations were
general. was celebrated at the Protest..
ant Episcopal church of Zion and ST
Timothy. In West Fifty-seventh street,
New York.
The reception was limited. however,
TO relatives and some intimate friends,
and was given at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roosevelt in Fifth avenue Lieu
tenant Shelley is a favorite In army
circles and has been stationed at Fort
Oglethorpe.
One of the weddings of the month
that will be of more than ordinary
interest to society here on account of
the connection with the family of Mrs.
Eleanor Martin is that of Miss Blanche
Oelrlchs and Leonard M. Thomas of
Philadeiphia, which will take place
Wednesday. January 26, at the home
OF the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Cnarles M. Oelrichs, in New York The
prlde is the younger sister of Mrs.
Feter Martin and was one of the most
popular debutantes of the season in
tne east, on acconnt of her personal
charm. quite as much as owing to her
extensive family connection in excIu-
sive society. Peter Martin, who passed
tne early winter here, left just before
the Mondays to attend the wedding.
Mrs. II. D. Green. who has been Wis
itlng here from Portland, Oregon, for
sevelai Gays, has decided to remain
Ior an Indefinite stay and has taken
apartments at the Hotel Victoria.
MIS-. Adrian sSplivalo entertained at a
recent dinner party given at her home
IN Green street. The decorations were
IN the holiday red and green with
vi, wred.ns and berries effectively used in
u,e taDie adornment. Among those
VINO enjoyed the reunion were:
Captain and Mrs. Miss Enid Gregg
Inomas =. Ashburn Miss Elise Schultz
1unge and Mrs. FrankiLee Cornell
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-HERE will be two dancing parties
to divide the interest of society
this evening, but the one of para
mount interest to the older set, at least,
is the Cinderella dance to be given at
the Palace. The second dancing party
will be given by Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
D. Bullard at their home in Pacific
avenue to introduce their daughter,
Miss Marie Bullard. and will be a gala
event for the debutantes.
The Cinderella dance will be attend
ed by 400 guests, and there will be a
score or more dinner parties preceding
the dance.
Among those who will entertain at
the Palace before the ball are Mrs. Will
liam S. Tevis, MRS. william B. Bourn,
Mrs. John McMullen and Mrs. George
Kelham.
The wedding of Miss Eleanor Cush-
place yesterday in the Episcopal church
at San Rafael, was conducted with the
utmost simplicity and the pretty bride
was unattended. She wore a gown of
white satin embellished with lace, and
the bridal costume was finished with a
veil and wreath Of orange blossoms.
Millen Griffith acted as best man and
the bride was given away by her broth
er, John Gushing. The church was
filed with the friends of the couple, but
at the wedding breakfast following the
ceremony only the relatives and closest
friends of the family were received by
Mr.. and Mrs. jenkins and Mrs. Sidney
3. Cushing, mother of the bride.
Aftef a brief wedding journey the
young couple With occupy the pretty
home that awaits them in Mill Valley.
The debutantes have begun the year
with a round of the most delightful af-
fairs and almost every day another
party is added to the list that has
served TO keep these girls continuously
occupied in a social way.
The luncheon given yesterday at the
st. Francis, with Miss Anna Olney as
the presiding hostess, was chaperoned
by Mrs. Andrew Welch Jr., and was q
thoroughly successful party as well as
delightful for the twenty-four guests
The three complimented guests of the
occasion were Miss Elva de Pue, Miss
Tia Sonntag and Miss Rhoda Niebling
The decorations were American beauty
roses, with a centerpiece of the flowers
and smaller clusters of roses radiating
from the central vase. Among the
guests who enjoyed the reunion were:
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Answers to Queries

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Berkeley. YouNh have
stared In answers to queries that there are NO
July and Thanksgiving day are not national
holidays kindly state just what constitutes a ma
tional holiday as all at sea on the sub
Ject and do not wish to stay SO?
If congress had the power to declare
July 4 or any other day q holiday for
all the states, territories and districts.
that would be a national holiday, be-
cause 1t would be national legislation.
AS 1t is. congress can only declare a
holiday for the territories and dis
tricts. The states have the right to de-
clare, by legislative enactment what
days shall be holidays. If a state has
not declared that Thanksgiving day
shall be holiday within its borders. it
does not become so except by proclana-
ton of the governor. even though the
president of the United States has pro-
claimed day of Thanksgiving
OIL STAINs-F D., Oakland. What is the
process for taking oil stains out of woolen
goods
The following is given~as a method:
place cotton or wooden cloth or g.
piece of blotting paper under the arti-
Gle to be cleansed. then rub upon the
spot some pure benzine, and the oil
spot will disappear but be sure to
place a cloth under the garment to be
operated upon. otherwise a circular
stain will remain, which can not be
removed. The benzine drives the oil
through the article and is absorbed
by the cloth under it. After the spot
is removed continue to rub with a dry
cloth until the benzine is evaporated.
this is done to avoid a stain.''
PToMAINE-J. L.. G.. San jose What is
ptomaine? :? How is the word pronounced? Is
ptomaine confined to canned goods or meats?
Ptomaine is one of a class of animal
bases or alkaloids formed in the putre-
faction of various kinds of albuminous
matter and closely related to the vege-
table aIkaloids. The word is pro-
nounced as IL written "to-ma-in or en-
Ptomaine Is not confined to canned
goods or meats.
COLLIE Subscriber. San Jose. To what va
riety of dogs does the collie belong? What ls
the distinguishing mark of genuine collie?
The collie is the Scotch variety of
the shepherd dog. If the animal is a
thoroughbred the roof of the mouth is
black.
CHURCH MURDERs-s Subscriber. Centeryille.
pected of the church murders In San Francisco
several years ago?
Within day after the discovery of
the crime.
REGIsTRATIoN-c. S.. City. man horn
in San Francisco will attain his majority tw,.
days before the next election for governo..
Can he register before @ he at attains his majority.
Yes.
QUANTRELL-Reader, city. Was ouantreu
the guerrilla chief Of the civil war. born in the
United States:
He was born in Alabama.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-06
Gossip of Railwaymen

HE nerve of some shippers"
would be Mt title for the fol-
lowing story told a few days
ago by C. J. Jones, assistant general
freight agent of the Southern Pacific:
I'VE shipped a merry go round out
fit to one of the southern states, and
before it arrived at its destination an
accident of some sort occurred. a clair
for damages was put in and it was a.
lowed by the railroads upon which
lines the accident occurred In due
course OF time the claim reached the
Southern Pacific offices, and imagine
our surprise when we found that an
allowance had been made for feed to
the horses. Wooden hobby horses!
And this story is absolutely true"
The item referring to the new steel
office car of the Pennsylvania lines.
which appeared a few days ago. in
which it was said that the car was
probably the first all steel car, was err
roneous, as the first all steel cars were
introduced to the railroad world by
the Southern Pacific company.
r. E. Batturs.> assistant general pas
senger agent of the Southern Pacific.
made his debut as lecturer last might
before the American railroad employees
and investors association.
The stock holders of the Northwest
ern Pacific held their annual meeting
yesterday morning and elected the fol-
lowing directors:
A H Payson, E. E. Calvin, e. 8.
Pillsbury, w. r. Scott, H. K. Gregory,
William Hood. w. A. Bisseli. Edward
Chambers and Thomas Mellersh.
The following officers were elected:
A. II. Payson. president; f. z. Calvin,
vice president; H. W. Ellicott, treas
urer; A. K. Van Deventer, assistant
treasurer; G. L. King, secretary; C. p.
Lincoln, assistant secretary, and
Thomas Mellersh. comptroller The
only change is that in the ONCE of
treasurer. c. II. Redington giving way
to H. W. EIlicott on account OF too
arduous duties with the Southern Pa
cifc.
The annual report of the officers
showed vast amount Of work planned.
much of which had already been COM
menced-
Overland traffic on the Atchison. To-
peka and Santa Fe railroad. which had
been practically tied up for two or
three days because OF the foods. was
resumed yesterday. Train No. 4 due
at Albuuerque Saturday. arrived there
yesterday morning at $40 o'clock.
H. NJ. Butterheld. general agent of
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A Yelled Attack on
President aft

Washington with surprising unanmiy the report
that without quarter will be waged by the Taft admin
istraon such republican insurgents congress as are
opposing the Taft legislative program.
Who insurgents and in what have they
the presidents legislative program? As the pu0c
knows chiefly for support the element
usually described the insurgents If he magine that
he will get help from Adch Cannon and the standpas IN
reform legislation relating railroads and trusts
he grievousy mistaken OF Mr. Taft not ignorant
political conditions help in this field from hat
faction except such gudgg assistance he be able to wiring
from them with the help of club.
The fact that the report which seeks to the president
with the Adrch and Cannon crowd obviously inspired by
Mr. Taft attempt to force the chief eecu
tves hand by him the schemes ana
plans of dscedted faction No blow could De
with the who lead the opposition to the
Roosevelt policies These with whom the president IS
open alliance every bone Roosevelt body and Will
fight ditch defeat any program OF legislation designed
put effect the policies that have become identified with Roose
yelt's name.
This report which obviously from poisoned source
identifies Mr. policies which have become hateful
whole under the OF Cannonsm hat faco
Hitchcock refuse believe that Mr. Taft has become
tainted by Cannonsm
report further gevous injury Mr. Taft by repre-
him doing politics to punish men VINO are
fighting Adrich and Cannon
that have the full and approval OF their
their this regard Mr. Taft would not
promote what party solidarity by taking part IN
any such policy of revenge
All this part of dishonest OF politics whose OBJECT
the president with the of the eactionar1es IN
alternating him the only conscientious support ne
legislation 1t imagine the sort OF
support president will for his legislative program from su
Adch and Cannon The report asks us to peeVe na ne
placed himself unreservedy in their hands and that ne mas
declared war on republican The report
absurd silly obviously manufactured with sinister
purpose
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TRIUMPH SCORED
| BY SUFFRAOETTESI
Policeman Dies as Result of
Feminine Riot and Is
Martyr to Cause
By MARY AsHE MILLER

ttVE HAT tumultuous and complicated
M emotions must be stirring the
hearts of suffragettes in England
today. They have advanced one decided
step in their probable progress toward
rights. A policeman has died in
Leeds as the result of injuries received
in riot caused by suffragettes try
Ing to force an entrance to a mass
meeting, and he is the first genuine
martyr On either side. He has cast
| into the somber shadow those women
who starved in prison and came forth
to tell about it.
What will be done in his memory?
Will the government raise monument
to him and will they. should he leave
a sorrowing family. provide pension
for their maintenance?
| Or will the suffrage party. realizing
he has helped to make 1t the vital
issue" it has aspired to be, and sor-
rowing that human life was taken
by its enthusiasts. come. to the fore,
pay his funeral expenses and send gro
ceries and coal to the widow? 1t Is
thing for this policeman whose death
brings its portion of triumph to both
sides. Through it the suffragettes
gain more standing as persons of veri-
| table Importance. and force the gov
ernment to realize their power as fac
| tors in the national whole.
The government party, likewise,
reaps strength, for 1t may point out
the dangers of permitting women to
engage in anything save home indus
tries.
One wonders If it were any salts
faction to the policeman during his
lingering illness-he was injured Au-
gust lo-to know that he was doing
something new under the sun.
The suffrage movement is so strange
ly unfeminine in some of its prac-
| tices, and yet so curiousIy feminine in
| its logic and methods of thought! Rea-
son and unreason mark the peculiar
fanaticism which is like that of a holy
war.
The so called emancipation of women
is as the rising of a tide, and suffrage
may be compared to the turbulent ed
dies among the rocks.
It would seem that the whole thing
is tiresome and proflteth little.
The advanced of my sex will point
with pride to their gains in the last
century Boil it down. and what is it?
Much more work, some more money
and endlessly more responsibility.
Are women any better or any hap
pier? have yet to meet the person
who will tell you that they are. "They
amount to so much more" is the
declaration, which may be true; but it
has not seemed to make much differ
eiice thus far in the sum total of the
universe.
The tendency of the age is like the
kitten chasing Its tail. We are con-
tinually striving for something of no
particular use which is just ahead of
us. We and the kitten go faster and
faster until we drop, exhausted-and
we never get more than the very tip
or the tail. Just as we are preparing
for death some one discovers something
that opens up an endless vista and puts
us in the back number class at once
But the world moves on and police
men die because men, for no particu-
larly apparent reason, refuse women
the simple right of casting ballot,
and because women--many of noble
birth and inherited refnement-fght in
the streets like drunken mobs to Gre
ate vital issue"
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the Lackawanna in this city. returned
yesterday from Los Angeles.
A delegation of fruitmen. CONSISTING
of r. D. stephens. C. NJ. Hartley and
NJ E. Angler. appeared before the
traffic representatives of the Southern
Pacific. Santa Fe and Western Pacific
yesterday and argued for reduction
of the rates east on decfduous fruits.
No decision was reached. Another con
ference may be held in the near future.
j. n Norton, general agent OF thu
Missouri Pacific. with ONCE at Los An
geles, Is In the city He was introduced
around the row. yesterday bv tha
Schmidt.
G. H Ketcham. division superintend.
ent OF the Western Pacific, with ocIce
at Sacramento. was in the city yester-
day on business trip.
j. NJ. Duekworth. city nasxer~..
agent of the Santa Fe. returned yester.
day from visit to Chicago. Duck
worth reports unusually cold weather
IN the east.
lnsistent complaints having been
ana regulations OF the interstate rail-
ways to prevent substitution of to1-
mage at transit points, including mill
ing IN transit points, the interstate
commerce commission has Announces
that 1T will conduct on it's own initi-
atlve hearing of the whole natte-
and inquire fully into the. practical
operation of the Objectionable ruIeS
The first hearing will be held before
the commission in Washington. D. O.
June Il. -
The interstate commerce commissio,
mas again held that rate is NOT nm
reasonable because a lower rate fs =,
enect via other lines of other raiIwavs'
An innovation in railroad litsratrr.
Is the space devoted by the Nris~o-,~s
Pacific in It's new PASSENGER foI5e~ -
the merchandise service OF 81 T,,,,ts
An additional move in the Atchi->.
Iopeka and Santa Fe rafIroad.. 49,
to double track its road from r.h,ess.
TO Los Angeles was taken vezfar-,sr.
when a contract was let TO ,so,,N,.
track the section from Ash Forl< -
Winslow. Arizona. a distance ~ az
miles The work will be rushsd. r,
reported the next step will ha the
double tracking of the section So
Aloerquerque to Gallup. $50 miles. S''
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Another of
! The Old
Guard Gone

notable IN the history OF this country.
Mr. Mills had watchfu eye for the common good
moral and material He made high flown preensions
business but fact practical philanthropy
that does the most good His work this field makes important
part in the history Of San Francisco and New York.
Mr. Mills of extraordinarily wide range and uni
versal sympahes He could make splendid endowment
OF research moral and mental philosophy and he equally
alive the need improvement the conditions poor No
did much to relieve the quad congestion of New
tenement house district and he always foremost
pure milk In fine the points where
It would do the good.
Perhaps Mr. Mills will be best history
by his heroic rehabilitation of the Bank California
1t colossal undertaking carried with supreme
and nvincbe confidence the destiny commonwealth 1t
tremendous undertaking virtually parallel and carried
in the face of the dscouragng conditions
We could wish that his remains might California rather
than in New York
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1t is enou gh to
know that it was
more than So, and
less than so years
ago. Only meager
information is at.
hand regarding his
a &c try, but a
man so punctilfous
in all of the little
elegancies may be
presumed to have
exercised discre-
ton in the selec-
tion of his fore
bears, and it is said
that he is related
to some of the best
families of Vagin-
yah and South Ca
lima. Color Is lent
by the furth e r
statement that his
pearl teething ring
(now in the Smith
sonian institution
bore the magic in
itials "F F. W"
Dy the tlm6 the
me m b ers of his
family with the
possible exception
of h / S m a id en-
aunts-had ceased
calling him Eddie
and agreed to let
1t go at Ned. he
was sent away to
a perfectly proper
college HarA Gil
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ance OF what his
right hand was do
ing. The where
fore of the inside
and the outside of
high society is a
probI en- which
may not here be
elucidated for the
untutore a. 1t
may be remarked,
though. that the
pleasant fact that
all men are born
free and equal cuts
no visible ice in
the distribution OF
invitations to the
Friday night cotil-
lon. This is nc
insinuation that
anybody's birth
right is not fast
color and hand
m ade. Fact is,
low n e c K > and
swalIowtails come
only in adult sizes
and the equality OF
most OF US has re-
ceived a dishgur-
ing jolt before we
are old enough to
wear them. Dur
ing the years in
which we pass
along from milk
TO malt most Of us
are so busy keep
ing free OF the un-
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-06
Court Ruling
On Terminal
Charges

gave him of large wharf The relieved
OF all demurrage charges and wharf dues.
The that Texas
found themselves unable compete and they brought suit against
the Southern Pacific company before the interstate
mission The defense that the had jurisdiction.
The following propositions urged
FIrst-Tha II wharf with a fee simple title
leased Young with full make
without
Seeond-Ihat It
thereof and had right to lease portion OF its which
devoted to public
Thdat its contract with Young did constitute unlawful
undue preference
FouhTha without authority
which wholly domestic which moved
the intervention directly the ships hold
for export
The commission held that the Southern Pacific
ship lines and the terminal company
interstate business and therefore subject the Jurisdiction
the commission That judgment has been confirmed by
States judges in Texas with judge dissenting 1t goes
to the supreme court
The point is of considerable Importance in California
where the Southern Pacific much of the front
The indirectly concerning
terminal charges in San Francisco and Los Angeles
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Southern Pacific company. The Southern
Pacific terminal company controls most OF the
Galveston water front The stock of this cor
poration is owned by the Southern Pacific
company. The terminal company made a
contract with E. H. Young which, for stated
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-06

M GREENwAY was born
in the city of Baltimore on Novep-
L. Der 6. The year is of Importance
as something to be forgotten
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Miss Anna Weller, who has been
feted so much during the earlier sea-
son, will be the complimented guest at
several of the later affairs. One of the
most interesting parties in prospect
for this popular girl will be the dinner
at which Mrs. William Ashe will pre-