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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-12

PHEUM-There is a fellow by
the name of Harrigan on the bill at
the Orpheum who is pretty much a
whole show in himself. He gets his
money for doing a tramp juggler
stunt. but he gets the crowd
through his monologue, if you want
to style it that. At any rate he Is a
star juggler. but when it comes to
dishing up parodies and talking
sense and nonsense he is one of
the best ever.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GER
tainly is getting decidedly ambi-
tious when it offers such features
as Little Hip, the wonderful ele-
plant appearing at the Washington
this week. Hip gives the impress
sion of being educated instead of
merely trained, for he has a manner
about him that is decidedly human.
His stunt of going to bed and draw
ing the bed covers up around him
brings forth many laughs and a
round of applause.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
PROF. G. c. EDWARDS NOT
FIETCH HETCHY OPPONENT

retary Garfield was willing that Hetch
Hetchy should be made into a lake if
it would approximate this in beauty"
] can not see what harm can come from
impounding the flood waters of the
Tuolumne, and eventually making a
lake of Hetch Hetchy. If the sources
of that river were the only summer
Fairgrounds that the people of Califor-
mia had there would be some cause for
hesitation AS it is, we have 500 miles
of Sierra, in which are San Jacinto,
San Bernardino, San Antonio. Whitney,
LasSn and Shasta, together with the
Yosemite, the canyons of the Kings,
Mokelumne the American, the Sacra-
mento> and the Lake Tahoe country.
By the use of the Tuolumne watershed
as source of supply for the bay cities
| do not believe that any one would be
deprived of one particle of pleasure or
benefit And do believe that hundreds
of thousands. and probably millions.
would be benefited
l do not share the fear that the area
which is under irrigation from the
waters of the Tuolumne or which might
be would be reduced to a desert 1t
seems to me that the agreement already
entered into between San Francisco
and the irrigators has more than amply
safeguarded the interests Of the latter.
If any fault at all is to be found with
the agreement, it is that San Francisco
has promised too much. In the light
of what has occurred in the matter of
irrigation in and about Fresno, I do
not believe that the irrigationists who
depend upon the Tuolumne can profit
ably use all the water that San Fran
cisco has guaranteed them.
The George Edwards who has been
writing articles condemning the ap-
propriating of the Tuolumne water for
the use of the bay cities is a graduate
of the university, class of 1884, is a
member of the council of the alumni
and lives in Berkeley. but has no other
connection with the university 1 am
graduate of the university, class of
1873, and since the time OF graduation
have been continuously in the unfver-
sity as Instructor and professor of
mathematics. Very truly yours,
GEO. c.. EDWARDS. i
May s, 1910. --
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10

Editor Call: In today's issue of The
Call you ask if 1 am the George Ed
wards who recently published an article
in the New York Evening Post against
the acquiring OF Hetch Hetchy water
rights for the use of San Francisco.
saw the article you mention, and knew
then that 1 would be accused of 1t. The
same thing has occurred a good many
times in the last % years, and has
usually been annoying, because it sell
dom happens that the opinions pre-
sented are those entertained by your
humble servant.
In the past 1 have paid but little
attention to the matter of correction,
letting time and personal conversation
with friends bring about the knowledge
of the facts, as regards authorship. In
this matter and at this time | feel 1t
wise to enter disclaimer, and at the
same time state my own views with
regard to the use of water from the
Tuolumne. river for the bay cities.
For at least so years the subject of
adequate supply of water for San
Francisco and adjacent cities has been
a prominent one, at times very promi-
nent, and whenever the subject has
come to the front we have always
looked to the Sierra as a source which
would ultimately have to be drawn
upon. I think / am right when / say
that the Tuolumne project was the
first one proposed, even before the Lake
Tahoe project The late j. s. Emery
told me many years ago that he owned
the dam site and outlet to Hetch
Hetchy and that the original plan was
to store the flood waters in Hetch
Hetchy Competent engineers assure
us that the Tuolumne project will fur
nish an abundance of water, and that
it can be brought to San Francisco more
cheaply than that from any other suf-
ficient source. I believe them, and in
a very modest way registered my
opinions by voting in favor of San
Francisco when, at recent election,
the members of the Sierra club cast
their ballots for and against.
A couple of years ago, as 1 stood on
the rim of Crater lake in southern
Oregon and looked at that beautiful
sheet of water bounded by perpen-
dicular cliffs I remarked to my son,
who was with mes No wonder Sec
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
Notable Assembly Of Men and Women Related
To the Great English Poets

and mellow fruitfulness. sunrise.
sunset. the moon throwing her sill
yer mantle Ger the dark, the
galaxy of the stars. the mountain.
the lake, the river. the sea. the
melody of the birds. the plow
driven along the furrOw, the sower.
the reaper, the churchyard at even
tide. the eye travelling from mount
to mount through clOudland. the
thunder and the rainbow. the wind
and the rain-what would they be
to us without the poets? Who is
there so stoclSish as not to find
these sights and sounds more elo-
quent to him from a study and a
reading of our singers? Turn from
nature to human life. The greatest
poet of all time-who held the
mirror up to nature-of whom il
was said of old that. though his
line OF life went soon about. the
lifetime of his like would never out
on the royal stage of Shakes
peare all the great figures OF his
tory pass before her eyes. Greece.
Rome, Italy, Scotland. England-on
all he casts what has been rightly
called his kingly gaze.
Time would fail for me to tell
you Of all the poets who have
drunk deep at the CastaIian spring.
OF many of them, alas, the world
was not worthy. Many OF them
died neglected and fOrIorn. But
we tell them tonight that their
words still live We are grateful
TO them as the enchanters who, in
the moment could dissolve us into
ecstacies and bring all heaven be-
fore our eyes. Whether we be in
JOY or in sorrow, whether we be in
sickness or in health, in youth or
in manhood or in old age, we tell
them that they have left US a rich
storehouse for the glory of the
estate.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
ANSWERS TO- 'QuERIES

CREDIT. W, Pittvi1le. What are letters
of credit and how are they used by people who
travel?
A letter of credit is one addressed by
one person to another requesting the
one addressed to pay a specified sum to
the bearer or some third party named
in it and charge the same to the writer
or draw upon him for the amount A
person Intending to travel in a foreign
country usually goes provided with
one or more such letters from his
banker or some merchant doing busi-
ness with merchants in the lands to
be visited This enables him to travel
without the necessity of carrying his
funds with him.
OIL COMPANIES-Are there any oil com
panies in California doing business at this time
Address letter of inquiry to the
oil exchange. San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
Transgressor's
Way Is
Getting Harder

when useful enforced by
we'll known and undsputed facts of his
Benson acquired large fortune by stealing from the public
domain may be that public sentiment during the earlier
of his did regard severely this of dishonesty.
have been this tolerance for raids public
domain that repeated efforts bring Benson the
failed But the here be made that while
did change there has been distinct advance of moral
standards obtaining the American people There longer
that tolerance graft and roguey affairs that
twenty thirty years held such things lightly and almost
matters of
If the of the not hard might be it
nevertheless distinctly notably difficult than
Benson began his The other New York
boss who known have accepted corruption had
impudence himself congress, trusting the great
normal the his district He decsive beaten
$4,000 republicans turned and voted for demo-
the Ptsburg San Francisco graft found
moral sentiment operation In the New York
investigation of the operations of the BLACK Horse Cavalry the
legislature Illinois concerning bribery
United States find evidences that people
regard transactions political
There longer disposition among honest
wash their hands of the whole dirty business and let that
despair of making politics cleaner This this moral
awakening you will does proceed with equal step There
here there ebacks and reverson but the whole it
the whole again. the way Of the offender longer
either prosperous happy
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10

IRONS IN THE NAvYLL.. City. When was
the law prohibiting the use of irons on men in
the United states navy passed and what is
the law?
The act of May 13, 1908. says: The
use of irons. single or. double. as a form
of punishment in the navy of the
United States. is hereby abolished. ex-
cept for the purpose of safe custody or
when part of the sentence Imposed bv
a general court martial
BUILDING RESTRICTIONS-M B. Berks-
ley. Can restrictions as tc the cost of bnfIfi,s.
named IN deed be enfOreed7 II So how?
If these are in the nature OF a con-
tract they undoubtedly can. As to
how this should be done. you will have
to seek the advice of a LAWYER
AN OLD DATE-On what dag Of the wsak
did October IS, 1878, fall?
Friday
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10

A dinner was given in London re-
Gently at which those assembled at
the tables all were able to claia kin
ship to some of the great English
poets. Included in the company were
four of the kin of Shakespeare, al
though none was of direct descent.
Many were there who bore the names
made famous for all time by the illus
trious lights of English verse in the
Elizabethan age and the following CEN
turtles. Among them were those re-
lated to Spenser. Sir Philip Sidney.
Milton. Dryden, Chaucer, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Pope, Scott, Burns. Byron
and Shelley.
Lord Coleridge presided over the
gathering and in his address said in
part:
1 am not quite sure whether we
are here to testify to the soundness
of the hereditary principle or the
reverse. OF course. it may be that
we are all of us poets, either actual
or potential, and illustrating the
saying that pOeta nascitur non fit
Or it may be that we are sitting
ranged round these tables waiting.
like the scholar gypsy, for the
spark from heaven to fall. And L
could wish. indeed, that, as with
Halley's comet, there was a peri
odicity, and that at stated intervals
the divine affiatus revisited the de-
scendants of the poets. If in the
case of any of my hearers that long
periodic time has at last run out
and the poetic star has again
mounted into the heavens. let not
modesty in him or her prevent us
from sharing in that Inspiration.
This is said to be a material age,
but it is sentiment, pure sentiment,
that has brought us all together
tonight.
The winters frost, the spring
with it's flowers, the high midsum-
mer pomp, autumn with it's mists
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
Rivalry

Squire Durnitt-I notice they's lots
more funerals in your town than we
have in Loneyvi1le.
Uncle Welby Gosh (of Drearyville)-
Yes; people seem to kind o. hate the
idee of bein' found dead in your viii
lage.-Chicago Tribune.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
Condemned

DO you use condensed milk at your
house?''
Il guess so. We order quart a day
and the milkman squeezes it into a
can that holds about pint."-CIeve-
land Leader. --.. -
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
PERSONS IN THE NEWS

FRED A. HINES of Los Angeles. imperial poten.
tate of the Mystic Shrine, is at the Palace
He is on his way to Indianapolis to dedicate
recently erected shrine.
l. w. PIzzINI, planter of Richmond. Va. 1.
at the FairmoDt with his family. They have
recently enjoyed outing in the Yosemite.
W. S. HEGGAR of Los Angeles and Mrs. Heggai
are at the Colonial. Mr.. Heggar is the ownei
of a large electrical plant in Los Angeles.
G. E. LILLY and R. NJ Helms. contractors Of
Santa Cruz, are in town on business and ar,
staying at the st. Francis
J. RUPERT FOSTER, president Of the Marys
vile chamber Of commerce, is staying at tbs
St. Francis.
REESE LLEwELLYN. an iron manufacturer o
Los Angeles is among the recent arrivals a
the Palace.
C. B. wH1LDER Of the state board of phar
macy and Mrs. whilder are staying at th'
Turpn.
ALEXANDER BROWN president of the stat,
board Of equalization, is registered at th'
Stewart.
JOHN W. BURKE, an nelectrical engineer Of New
York. is among the recent arrivals at tn,
Fairmont.
JAMES A. BERNARD. hotelman of Bakers
neld is staying at the Palace with Mrs Ber
nard.
Z. B. LONG, associated with the forestry bureau
Of the United States. is guest at the Manx
J. v. FULLER, paymaster of the United States
HENRY CRANDALL. fruit grower Of Hoo,
River. Ore. IS staying at the Argonaut
E. R. HAMMOND. merchant OF Seattle. is a
the Belmont.
CAPTAIN N. E. COUSINS is guest at the st
Francis.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
The GIrls

Mabel-That story you just told is
about so years old.
Maude-And you haven't forgotten II
in all that time ?--Cleveland Leader.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10


:. N. LEWIS, businessman OF Honolulu, is at
the Palace on his return home. He has com
pieted business trip through the east1a
states.
A. $. FARBER, clothing manufacturer Of CA
caso' is at the Fsirmont with party.
Mr.. SHEFFIELD, who is interested IN u. -
business In Seattle is at the Colonial
MIR. NOLAN and Owen Carroll tourists rom
sydney Australia. are at the Dale.
@. H. BECKER, wholesale druggist. is at N,
Manx. registered from Troy. n. Y.
DR. FRED B. CLARK and Mrs. Clark Of stock
ton are guests at the Stewart.
WARREN ROSE. mining man Of Angels
Camp, is at the st. Jsmes
HOWARD KINBRoUeH. Sacramento real s.-
tate man. Is at the Turpin.
E. EIFEEDAHL. mining man OF Lamoine. is
staying at the Stewart.
DR. LEON L. WATERS OF New York is regis
tered at the Argonaut-
z. {. LEAKE OF the woodland Daily peuoc-..
is at the St Francis
H B DUeDAIE Of Denver Is at the St. Francis
with Mrs Dugdale-
B. L. SMITH. oil operator Of Bakersfield. +.
at the ST. Francis.
NJ wATcEEE. merchant Of Sacramento \.
at the Normandle.
J. H. WILLIAMS. a capitalist from Por.,.,a
IS at the Dale.
R. H L. sEMrER, banker Of wooa,.ra :.
at the Stanford
ia. GRAVES, mining man Of jamestown. 4.
at the Palace
the Palace
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10

have SO grievously misapplied his powers and
faculties that in his prolonged conflict with law
and justice he had earned the wages of sin,
wrecked his fortune and his life and hastened
his own death. Yet because the man is dead is
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
| All the
Nation Applauds
San Francisco
deserved. Thus the


subscription:
Reading the of the il who
subscribed were inspired for holy be that they felt
final rehabilitation of
pended physical achievement this local
Certainly could happen anywhere
10 do anything the kind the
absence
OF other influences would absolutely prevent
1t ashe Post says that the aggressive
actezng the meeting revelation in American psychology
applied the gospel OF boost The national the
helps achieve wonders and inspired by promise large
accomplishment.
The Buffalo Courier the other hand finds for
shment the sensational uhment of great aspiration
the Portentou calamity by which ravaged
years ago. That paper proceeds to say:
How they do some things the far west astonishing the
the OF how able do
Everybody knows OF the terrible experience San passed
rebuilding OF
financial
hard the
than three hours is
Of the
Yes San Francisco herself again among
the cities the world place that every pefends
TO call himself educated must visit and examine remarkable
human phenomenon Quoting The Call the Courier
subscriptions proved that this poor but
Notwithstanding the troubled times have experienced
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10

the latter, under the leadership of Aldrich have
supported the bill in fulfllment OF a promise to
the president, but the fact is that the railroads
would prefer to see the bill fail altogether, and
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10

the phrase of the politician the railroad bill has
been shot full Of holes by congress- The apparently
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
A Badly
Shattered Rail-
road Measure


failed Adrich and quietly hoping destroy as
Whole by supporting the amendments offered by the progressve
The condition of the bill little
provision for commerce court deal with appeals from the
and this grave
The authorizing among mergers
transportation companies have been eliminated general
ground that they equivalent repeal
trusts this field of industry
There remains under Senator
Dxon long and short amendment intended to pu
the regulation OF mileage basis We pointed
how this proposition would present cond
ton OF productive industry and transportation would
commercial revolution But the trading
backing the the on sec
tona lines with the middle and the aligned
against the commemorative
The prospects, they appear that little
of the bill that the president will conclude the episode
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10
Some COncIu-
siOns for Political
Consumption

tariff the contributing the high
living
Confronted with astonishing conclusion this wise plain
prompted exclaim In Gods then are the
purposes tariff and the truss these moth
ing prices why they invented? they money
making propositions why expensive obbs defense
campaign contributions congressman to
support be that the tariff and
pected forms of philanthropy.
Oh they argue twenty wears and
the long, that the high
not be to these causes.
Why no Nobody pretends that these the only
they contribute all times prices and did they
would be dropped in Then they that prices high
all the world 1t The increase npor-
taons during foreign
rushing their goods these shores where the price level highest
and act the difference great that they able climb
the high tariff wall and make profit.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10

generous laudation for the energy and daring
with which it has taken up the Panama-Pacifc
exposition project. 1t is a welcome change.
and nobody need pretend that the pleasant
words of our ultramontane brethren are un-
-hicago Evening Post. speaking of the S4OOOOOO
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10

HE conclusions arrived by legislative committees ntrus
with the task of asceanng for the high cost of v
always entertaining because they obviously and in
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10

Gently intended for political consumption only.
In Massachusetts one of these stuffed commit
tees has recently filed its report of findings,
and it announces with grave deliberation and
more or less impressive solemnity that neither
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-10

AN FRANCISCO is receiving compliments all the agree
able that they Instead of
another this community the object of liberal
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-03-10
JOHN B. REDMAN.
Prominent Maine Man Drops Dead in
Portland Square

Ellsworth. Me, March l0.-John B.
Redman, Democratic candidate for gov
ernor Of Maine 10 1884 collector Of In
ternal reveuue for the district Of Maine
during President Cleyelands first adj
ministration, for several years q mem
Der 81 the board Of appeals OF the pen.
sion department at Washington return
INK u Ellsworth three years ago, and
one Of the best known lawyers In
Maine, dropped dead "a Postofiice
square yesterday Of heart disease
For many years ne was q leader Of
thes Democratic party Ia Maine, but of
late years had been affiliated with the
Republican organization. He was a
delegate to the national convention.
which nominated Tilden and Hancock
for president In ls34.5 be was mayor
Of Ellsworth after serving four years
as Judge OF the municipal court lie
also held the latter Office At the time
Of bis death, having been reappointed
two years ago
Mr. Redman had been IN the public
service al his life He was % years
old, was graduated from Bowdoin col.
lege in 1870 and never was married.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-03-10
TRENTON can MEN on STRIKE
Walk Out Following Refusal Of Raise
New Jersey rieup Feared

Trenton. " J.. March 10 with the
employees Of the Trenton Street Rail-.
way company demanding % cents IN
hour, raise Of Az cents, q i0.hour
day, recognition Of the Amnleamated
Association Of tie Electric Street Rail.
way Employees Of America, and Gle fe.
turn 10 duty of men recently discharged
because of their activity iu working
up the union here, the trolley men went
on strike last night. following the re,
fusal of the company 70 aeeede 70 the
demands
The company refuses absolutely 70
accede 20 the demand that the umon
De recognized. 81 even admit that GER.
tain men have been discharged for TO.
menting the union, which il new here.
They win not put back To work men
recently discharged saying these men
we're laid Of for the good of the serv.
ice
There u no disorder Henry j Colt.
lob, vicc.president Of the State Fedora
tion Of Labor, sail last night that the
move putting Thomas N MeCarter
president Of the public service corpora.
tion, on record Ia Newrak against re-.
eeiying any committee from the Anal.
gamated association, possibly Is the pre-.
lude TO an extended street ear mems
strike I'M New Jersey
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-03-10
REFoRMER ARREsTEp.
On Mayors Order and Was Later Re-
leased.

Philadelphia, Pa, March l0-Logan
If. Builitt, son Of the father of Phil
adelpbias enarter. the Builitt bin and
himself prominent in civil reform move
ments, was arrested last night by order
of Mayor Hepburn and locked in cell
IA the city hall, when he endeavored to
serve the mayor with q subpoena in am
equity suit. brought BY a committee Of
citizens against the city officials
Bulitt IS the head Of the COMMITTEES,
which hes been making an exhaustive
Investigation Of the city's financial af-
fairs and cas- threatened to tie Zip an
further expenditures By two bills n
equity, filed some time ago 10 the local
courts
when Mr. Bullitt called at the
mavafs office the eity's chief executive
refused 10 see him BuIHtt chen sta
fIsnad himself ID the corridor and re
fssea rs leave when ordered by De-
festige Mefadden, the mayors body
anard Although he explained that be-
as al officer 81 the court and waiting
IS subpoena the mayor, me detective
took him up stairs to the cell room
Whefe he was slated and then locked
Mayor Reyharn told reporters eho
wers having their regular evening in