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The San Francisco call., 1910-02-28

Railroad people do not so much dread
strikes IS they dread the effect upon
net earnings of granting merely such
demands for higher pay as they pri
vately believe to be reasonable.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-28
MCCARTHY DEFENDS
HIS AIDS DIGNITY
Mayor Holds Secretary Jnstl=
fled in Refusing to Act as
a Messenger Boy
Declares That Charter Does Not
Make His Office a Rent
Collecting Agency

That the mayors secretary was far
too important and busy parsonage to
collect the rents of city property was
the declaration made yesterday by
Mayor p. II. Mccarthy in torrid re-
ply TO the legal opinion handed down
the day before by City Attorney Percy
V. Long. Mccarthy refers to the duty
as messenger boy service.
The trouble arises over the fact of
the mayor engaging the Trevor-Sloan
real estate company to collect the city's
rents. The Southern Pacific company,
one of the lessees, refused to pay its
rent to any but public official, and
City Attorney Long held that the re-
fusal was proper, as the collection of
public moneys, being a public duty,
could not be delegated to outsiders.
The board of, supervisors having
kindly shifted the burden of collect
ing the rents upon the mayor, it ap-
peared that his office would have to
collect them. To this both Mccarthy
and his secretary, E. c. Leffingwell, OBJ
jected.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-28
M1NIsrER no LECTURE

MINISTER TO LECTURE Rev. William RAIDER
will deliver lecture Men Have Known
under the auspices of the Young Peoples So
ciety of Christisn Endeavor In the lecture room
OF the Calvary Presbyterian church at jackson
and Fillmore streets the evening of March e.
Messrs. Marrack. Anger and Parker and Mrs
Richard Elrlck of the choir will give selections
There will be reading by Mrs. Steele and
a violin solo By Miss Elizabeth Doon.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-28
MAYORS PUBLIC PROTEST

The mayor said yesterday:
do not believe that the mayors
Office should be made to serve as
a rent collecting bureau. Upon as
sumlng the office of mayor my sec
retary, Mr.. E. c. Leffingwell, came
TO me with request that the busi-
ness of pursuing and collecting
rentals be intrusted to some highly
emclent and responsible real estate
nrm, lnasmuch as he did not have
time personally to look after each
one of dozen tenants and make the
dehnquents toe the mark. l gave
my consent, knowing that under
all previous administra tions, ex-
ceptlng the one just preceding me,
which the people have distinctly
disapproved, followed such Gus
tom.
My secretary then called upon
City Treasurer McDougald and con
ferred both with that official and
the latters chief deputy, Mr.: Perk-
ms. Both approved Mr.. Letting
wells idea and gave their unquali-
fed sanction to the plan.
PROPOSES TO SAVE MONEY
The mayors office, as at present
conducted, aims to save money to
the people and not to waste ii. If
the city was obliged to create a
position for an official rent collector
TO I'LL an extra salary would have
to be Saddled on to the tax payers
which would exceed by five times
at least the amount OF cash COM
missions a real estate firm can
earn by doing the work.
A big real estate firm is invari-
ably a heavy tax payer, and l do
not know why this small work
should not be intrusted to them
Heretofore, and for many years,
the firm of Madison G. Burke has
collected for other mayors, and no
protest was made, inasmuch as the
mayor assumed full responsibility.
SECRETARY OR MESSENGER
The mayors secretary can not
be blamed If he refuses to act as
messenger boy in pursuing city
tenants. The charter does not con-
template any such work being put
upon the mayors office. / would
be indeed sorry to learn that any
petty jealousy between rival real
estate firms should have inspired
this new and unique ruling. 1t is
certainly a very small matter.
e. c. Leff1ngwell. the mayors privat
secretary, said:
If the supervisors now find that
the mayors Office must do this
collecting, thereby placing the un-
pleasant burden back upon my
shoulders, / shall certainly accept
nothing but gold coin in the future.
the same to be paid al the mayors
office on the day it is due
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-28
STAFFORD ANSWERS ADMIRAL

Commissioner StaffOrd's answer TO
these allegations was TO cite the ex-
listing facts regarding the San Fran
cisco hsrbOr. which he pointed out,
was under the absolute control of the
state and not dominated by the rail-
roads. He said:
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30

once vas popular top liner. He IS
William Cronin, once partner of Billy
Seaman, the sweet singer of long ago,
whose name is linked with that of the
elder Joe Emmett. and the other old
time favoritcs. When Cronin and
ScanIau were playing in the "varle-
ties" in the early '70s, the former
had as much to do with lifting the
team out of the run of the ordinary
as did ScauIau Scaulan became star,
and though he could not read note of
music. still he wrote fifty songs. and
from one of them, "Peek.a Boo, > the
royalties amounted to 100000 in SIX
weeks.
When Scauan went starring with
Minnie Palmer, in 1877, cronin went
his own way, and there were lust as
many who swore by HIM and the sweet
ness of his voice Somehow CronIn
never felt the confidence in himself as
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30

lie did when he played with his part
ner. and this feeling reflected itself in
his work. and he lost favor and began
TO 90 back and down until today he is
keeping body and soul together out
of the pjttance dolcd out to the ''su
per
Good Advice,
A few DAYS ago Frank Daniels re-
ceived a letter in which the writer said 4;
"D Dear Mr.. Daniels; ! am writing an
opera and am not familiar with the
methods used 10 get scenic effects, etc.
For instance, in one scene, ] want to
get the effect Of roaring lions off-stage.
How. can | get the desired result?
To which Dauiels replied: "To get the
effect OF roaring lions otfstage, Just fine
chorus CIR! 81.
New Star for Savage,
Henry w Savage has secured Henry
Kolker, Il new star who shows prom
ise Mr.. koIker has been placed under
long term contract and will make his
first bow under Mr. Savage s manage
ment Mr. Kolker is considered as ono
Of the most versatile actors while there
are many who regard him as the leglti
mate successor of the late Richarc
Mansfield
Some idea of the enormous success
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30

Intensely interesting" historical
ly correct,' is the verdict Of Utahns
who have read Josiah F. Gibbs g latest
work on the Mormon question. "The
Mountain Meadows Massacre" The
pamphlet of sixty pages is excellently
illustrated, with engravings from pho.
tographs taken on the scene Of the
at 40c each. two for 75c. three for ST,
six for $780, postpaid.
THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO.,
Salt Lake City. Utah.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30

The pleasant purgaS;7e effect expert.
enced by all who use Cham berlain q
Stomach and Liver Tablets, and the
healthy condition Of the body and
mind which they create, makes one feel
joyful. Sold by all dealers.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30
In Theater and Concert Hall in East

syndicate will guarantee TO send attrac'
tions there.
Sarah Bernhardt has arrived Her
tour will begin in Chicago by the forty
six members of Madame Bernhardt s
company who will be with her. The
repertoire includes twenty plays, some
in Chicago will be "L L'Aielon.' Bern
hardt wishes it to be understood that
this is not her "last farewell perform
ance." While the great American dol
lars hold out. Sarah will return.
Ada Rehan, once queen of the state,
who retired some years ago, arrived
from England a few days ago, and was,
owing to her poor health, dangerously
seasick during the entire voyage. She
will remain here for some time. Miss
Rehan. who is a Brooklyn woman. may
live in that borough for short time.
Her relatives still live there.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30

Tribune Reporter Printing 90.
66 West Second South st. Phone 7lS.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30

OGDEN EXCURSION.
Sunday, October 30, via Oregon Short
Line. Round trip 81. Choice of twenty
six trains. Forty-fve.minute service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18

A y embryo young politician of Alexan-
dria who aspires to oratorical honors
made bulls-eye last week. 1t was at q DO
litical convention. and candidates for the
various local Offices were to be nominated
1t fell to his lot to nominate for the Office
of Justice Of the peace a friend Of his who
was the incumbent of the Office and
desired another term. The young orator
polished himself up an orotund speech.
bristling with SMILES and tropes and clas-
steal illusions, and concluding with a Gu
losy on the would-be nominee
When the time came for nominations he
got up and voided his Niagara of oratory
upon an Indifferent convention; HIS lofti-
est flights. his most brilliant sallies. his
most poetic periods evoked not a single
handicap. a single chuckle, a single boot
stamp. At length, after eulogixing his
nominee to the top of his bent, he con-
cluded in this fashion:
And l say to you. gentlemen Of the
convention. that the man I am nomfnat-
ing for Justice Of the peace has for the
last two years filled that ONCE with an
ability and honesty that has been a re-
buke to his enemies and an astonishment
to his friends!'
And when the young orator sat down
amid a storm of shouts and cIappines
that made the very building rock he felt
that he had arrived
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18
Four Taste Qualities.
the Chicago Tribune.

From the Cnlcaxo 1rlDane
Only four distinct taste qualities are
discoverable by the human tongue is the
announcement of scientist.
Sweets and salts. two of the taste quail
tiles. are observable at the tip OF the
tongue, and in determining whether the
white crystals be salt or sweet the tip
Of the tongue unconsciously is used Sur
and bitter fiavors are the other strictly
tongue tastes. and can be determined only
upon their being carried back upon the
tongue toward its root. when the sensa-
tons will be interpreted to the brain by
the edges of that organ.
Dry substances that remain dry cannot
be tasted, and many things remain taste
less to us. not Lecause they are tasteless
but because they are not soluble in water.
Again. spices IRE differentiated through
the correlative sense Of smell. Holding
the nose and chewing a raw onion and
raw apple by turns the gustatory
nerves VIII show little or % difference
tsle .e,No.' - the wv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18
A Wise Little Fellow.

DOESN'T take a squirrel long to get
wise TO the ways of Washington city.
The other day a Star man was coming
down the avenue in front of the White
House and saw squirrel spring through
the White House fence and trim daintflv
across the street toward LAFAYETTE
Square. The squirrels over there are
very fond of making excursions into the
White house grounds.
Now this little fellow. when he got
within about six feet of the east-bound
car track, halted, set up on his haunches
and gazed up the track as wisely as any
old stager of the town would stop, look
and listen. A car was approaching aboui
fifty feet away. He sat immovabie. uptfl
the car had passed: then he tripped into
the middle of the track, sat up again and
east a wary glance downtown. Close,y
approaching on the west track came an
other car.
Again the little fellow held his position
until the car had rumbled past when he
dropped to his feet and with an fmpudent
firt of his tail scampered across the
track and disappeared in the shrubbery OF
Lafayette Square. And vet scientists in
sist that man is the only rational animal!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18

lifts. pulls & jerks. they remove from
the seething splatter ore red hot Dread
nought entirely complete except for an
American flag and a bottle OF CHAMPAIGN
Il did not think that battleships could
be cooked SO easily" + yellup with minus
brain
After you have associated with hnan
ciers.' say Hon. Corey. you will be sur
prised at nothing
So he depart off to telephone to the
Gar of Russia, leaving us standing in
complete beswitchment.
Social life among the lower classes OF
work hours they pitch horse-shoes. roll
cannon balls & play other iron games
which makes them strong so they can
work harder for Hon. Carnegie When
not otherwisely engaged they gather I'm
clubrooms and enjoy athletick enter
tainments. These are called 'Pittsburg
smokers
All houses in Pittsburg are surround
ed by lawns OF delicious Paris green
What is reason for this lawnish beauty.
Because! Pittsburg lawnmowers are pc
culiar for their sharpness & grow TO
great size intelligence in this smoky
climate.
After We had made promenade through
business section for hours studying
taxicabs, suffering among rich classes.
high cost OF eggs, biographies of Pitts
burg Philanthropists. annual death and
injury from cocktail and other com
pressed statisticks. We accidentally COL
Iided upon Congressman Dalzell who was
filled with Republican jokes which he
learned amidst them sinful folks at
slight anecedote to be used only I'm Pitts
burg:
prom Pittsburg clergyman was elop-
ing lonesomely down street when he
made bump with Stranger who was con-
fused in fog.
How you like Pittsburg?" require Hon.
Rev.
II amt seen it yet," suggest Hon.
Strange.
How do you like our air." require
Hon. Clergy with hat
II amt breathed il yet reject Hon.
Person blotting himself completely out.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
HASHIMURA TOGO.
S. P
Please to insinuate following Adver-
tising on middle of your front page:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18
An Odd Vacation.

THERE'S young bank clerk in Wash
ington who takes his months vaca-
ton in most unique and philosophic
way. He goes off TO mountain or sea-
shore for week and then returns to the
city Every morning thereafter for the
next three weeks he goes promptly to the
bank, loafs around there for five minutes.
having word here and there with the
clerks, and then departs, perhaps return
ing again once or twice during the day
for another look around.
1.-The reason l do that?' he said to a
Star man who inquired the cause of this
odd manner of spending a vacation.
"Why. because that's the way ! get the
full taste of the joys of not working. 1
go off and get weeks lungful of fresh
air somewhere in the country, but that's
no vacation At every resort you are do
ing just what everybody else there is do
ing-loafing. Nobody's working, so you
don't feel any particular superiority over
the rest Of the bunch. You're all on the
same level, just as 1 am with the rest Of
the boys when I'm working in the bank.
Now there's no real fun i'm that. To
get the real sweetness out of loating you
must be where you can see other folks
hard at work, and not have lick to do
yourself. At the seashore or the noun
tains nobody's working, SO there's no con-
trast to emphasize your own idleness to
the point of squeezing the honey out of
it. So after week ] come home and go
up to the bank every morning just as
though l were going to work. | see the
boys come in. shuck off their coats. and
with a sigh of resignation buckle down to
hard, hot days work. And then with
a sigh of complete content l think to my
self: That's awful hard work this hot
weather, and. lucky dog that l am,
don't have to get down to it myself.
can just go out and loaf around and do as
l please"
ITO add the cherry TO the cocktail of
my Joy | say to one of the boys, Get
busy, there, You slave or to another,
Wouldn't you like to go. fishing or boat
ing with me down the river this morn
ing?' and then I twiddle my fingers at
them and sail out, catching up whatever
Of fun and enjoyment there is scattered
around the city-and there's always plenty
Of it, too. When I grow a little weary
so back to the bank. watch the boys
sweating over their desks. devil them a
little and come out refreshed with new
sense of the pleasures of loafing That's
the only real way to enjoy vacation, l
tell YOU.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18
Vulgar Americans Abroad.

From the London Chronicle.
A good many of us know charming
Americans and are prepared to defend
the nation from the attacks of people
who don't know. But there Is a type oG
American woman who is beyond the
beyond" This writer saw three Of THAI
kind the other day. They came into the
morning service, guide-book in hand.
They took no heed of the kneeling. con-
gregation or of the litany, but stared
about them as though they were in
circus. When q vergef. with amazing
politeness and self control, firmly con-
Quoted them to seats, one saw q sur
prised air of protest and heard--the
American accent. 1t Is inconceivable that
people of any other nation could behave
like that Even the most vulgar English.
man abroad is MOI quite 50 bad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18

Mullowny, but L scarcely know what
practical advice to give. AS conditions
are here this woman is up against If.
She can find work. but, then. who will
look after her children? Put the boy in
an institution for even three months and
all his life it is on the records. We
should have a joint home for mother
and children. l am opposed to splitting
up families. The trouble is, couples can
get married so easily here in the District
that they take out a license as gleefully
as they would buy a ticket to Marshall
Hall. I would suggest that the woman
go to the Associated Charities. They in
variably look after such cases as finding
suitable work for the applicants
=
Mr. Zed Copp, lawyer in particular and
adviser to the public In general. was
next asked for an opinion on the case.
He fastened first upon the divorce clause.
The writer said in her letter: The
courts only grant divorce upon required
grounds. How can 1 furnish them. even
though 1 know they EXIST" Mr.. Copp
smiled at the ignorance Of the masses
when he heard that
IF she has reason to know that they
exist then she has a case" he explained
Eve do the tracing out and proving
And il that woman has tried every other
means of making her husband support
her and failed--as she implies-then she
should have divorce And I will get
it for her and it won't cost her cent
Not !. personally. understand. 1t would
advertise such woman publicly as in
want if / appeared in court for her, but
there are numerous good lawyers whom
| may speak of as on my staff who will
undertake it. Proof positive is rare i'm Il
divorce case. She could get alimony or
at least proper maintenance for her chill
dren.
women suffer and endure and when
one of them in the working classes a SKIS
for divorce you may feel sure she has
waited until all patience is exhausted in
the hope of making her husband do bet
ter. The law as it stands here now is
very hard on the poor women. though not
affecting the wealthy greatly. Those who
can afford it merely go over to Virginia.
where a years residence is sufficient. If
this woman could get employment there
would advise her to 60 The country
is the place for her. anyway. Schools
are just as good there for smaller chill
dren as in town in these progressive days.
And housekeepers are al such premium
in the counties that ones with children
are not refused. But il she wants
divorce it can be had without the eX-
penditure of any money on her part and
do believe it would give her better
standing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18

rosifiOns offered me, with good salaries,
md have accepted several of them; but,
Alas. I have had to relinquish them on
account of nv broken health and terrible
strain of trying to earn the money 1or
tho .unnort of the family and of taking
care of nv home and children. The task
&c ac,inp as both mother and father is
more than I can master now. What can
I do / sincerely and earnestly ask ad-
vice
such is the burden of a letter sent TO
The Star last week by a Washington
woman face TO face with problem that.
doubtless. confronts many of her sisters
i'm sorrow in this and other cities The
case In point is authentic. The woman
herself asks that her identity be kept
secret but gives her name and address as
evidence of her good faith.
4*
She further states tina, she is but thirty
years old and was married fifteen years
ago: has two children, aged thirteen and
eleven, respectively; that she was COM
ne,led TO part from her husband nearly
ten wears ago owing to habitual drunken
ness and abuse: that his mother, who had
always helped her out in time of financial
need withdrew her interest and assist
ance after the separation: that. despite
three appearances in the Juvenile Court
and the husbands promises to leave
money at a precinct station each week,
nothing but promises materiaized: that.
since the District courts grant absolute
divorce only upon certain grounds. most
difficult TO prove, that avenue OF escape Is
closed for the time being; and that, owing
10 her enforced absence from home, her
children run the streets without restraint,
the boy, in fact having disappeared from
home for two days and two nights.
II is a pitiful story, embodying pra cti-
caily every element which goes to make
up a complete domestic tragedy Almost
every legal weakness of the District is
betrayed through il, and scarcely NUM-
cipal body but in some way shares In the
responsibility for such a condition. Yet
IL Is not a complaint, merely a plea for
advice and aid.
Charity workers. socialistic disciples
advocates of a curfew law and just plain
citizens can all find special note OF In
ierest in this plaintive communication
for ii deals with "A problem that affects
not one woman. but hundreds who make
their home in Washington.
Where she has written others keep ST.
lent. And suggestions as made TO hei
Will reach them equally well. Only by
spending All afternoon at the Juvenile
Colirt--aS the writer did-can any con.
..at.tion De tained of the hopeless nun.