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The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
HUNDREDS VIEW
RESTORED MILLET
Work of Reconstructing Mutt
lated Picture Has Been Re-
markably Well Done

The $4,000 Millet stolen from its
frame in the memorial museum of
Golden Gate park March 1S by william
Kunze. who became crazed with a de-
sire TO possess and study the master
piece, was yesterday returned TO its
place in the art gallery. The restora-
tion of the canvas was the sensation of
the day in the park and the turnstiles
TO the museum registered the greatest
attendance of the year.
The work of reframing has been so
complete and perfect that only the
closest scrutiny can detect where the
sharp blade of the student artists knife
cut the picture. Theodore Wores recon-
structed the desecrated painting.
George Barron, curator of the mu-
scum Has received letters from all
parts of the United States inquiring
about the stolen painting. He says that
pilgrimages from different parts of the
state and from other states have been
made to view the frame or the spot
where the picture hung. Many COM
munieations have asked concerning
Kunze and expressed pity for him.
Aside from the restoration of the
MiIlet a real treat was afforded the mu-
/ scum lovers in the unveiling of the
statue OF Eve. 1t Is a beautiful life
sized figure of the first woman, repre-
senting that momentous instant, "the
contemplation of the forbidden fruit"
Eve holds the apple aloft, and a hiss
| ing serpent coiled about the pedestal
| on which Eve sits lends his counsel.
! The fig tree and fig leaf are both In
evidence about the base of the pedestal.
The work is from the shop of An
dreoni, a famous italian sculptor of
Rome. It is made of Carrara marble.
The statue was bought by Kate John
son, the millionaire philanthropist, 30
years ago. On her death George A.
! Pope Of this city purchased it for $4,000
at auction Last Friday he donated 1t
1 to the museum.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
MINNESOTA TOWN
MENACED BY fire
Women and Children Pray in
: Churches While Thousand
Men Fight Flames

BIMEDJI. Mimi, May 15.-WOmen
and children are tonight in churches
praying, hundreds of men are out
lighting the flames and two companies
of state militia are fastening here from
Crockston and Duluth to quench the
blaze that is slowly moving down upon
the town.
The wall of fire started early this
morning about four miles south of the
city, and tonight had eaten it's way
through the dried forests and withered
bushes TO a point a mile and a half
from town. A thousand men are out
fighting it.
The militiamen are rushing here un-
der orders from Governor Eberhardt A
dense pail OF smoke hangs over the
town and breathing in the houses and
churches is difficult. Unless there is
rain soon or the wind changes the town
seems doomed
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16

his prompt treatment may save them
any serious effects from the accident.
B. J. Hughes. conductor of the car,
was not placed under arrest
Many indignant citizens who wit
messed the accident volunteered their
names and addresses to CoOney. de-
claring tha they stood ready to tell OF
the affair as they saw it. They stated
emphatically that all blame rested with
the United Railroads.
WOMAN'S CONDITION CRITICAL
Mrs. Cooney's condition az late hour
last night was pronounced by DR.. j. NJ
Quig1ey, who is attending her
at the home of her mother, 2s47 Post
street, to be very critical Danger of
fatal results from the accident is ac-
centuated by the fact that the woman
soon was TO become mother.
Scott was unmarried. He lived at
1885 Broadway, at the home of Philip
Herlihy. He was a deep student of
science, and his collection of Insects is
pronounced to be one of the best pr1-
vate collections on the coast The team
ster had fine library of books dealing
with science also, and in his pockets at
the morgue was found a carefully
worked out plan of the orbit of Hal
ley's comet, with memoranda regard
ing the appearances of other comets
and other notes concerning astronom-
ical subjects.
Among the witnesses of the accident
were George Drake of 1881 Greenwich
street; A J. Smith. 67S Eighth avenue;
Toby Bernstein, 656 Fifth avenue. and
II. Batter and d. II. Herschler, real
estate men, who were standing directly
opposite the wagon when the car
struck 1t.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
QUAINT CHARACTERS
VISIT BOOK STORE
Get Well Acquainted With the
Stock, but Never Purchase

Lots of queer people come in here"
said the proprietor of the old book
store as he wrapped up a copy of
"Peck's Bad Boy to send to a retired
banker in Forest HILL That woman
who just went out has been a regular
caller in the shop for two years. Every
morning about 10 o'clock she comes In,
looks around a while and goes away.
She never buys a book or takes one
down. She doesn't ask questions, but
Just wanders along the shelves reading
the titles. She knows the stock better
than 1 do. A man was in the other day
asking for a Vicar of Wakefield
knew I had Wears to burn, but
couldn't locate one to save my neck.
The woman was here, and she spoke up
and said: You'll find two copies up
there on the fourth shelf by the win
dow, and there's another over by that
Worcester dictionary. And, sure
enough, there they e."-Newark
News
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
UNCLE SAM REQUIRES
MEN AS STENOGRAPHERS
Civil Service Examinations Set
for June 1S

The United States civil service COM
mission announces that an examina tion
will be held June IS, 1910, for the po-
sition of male stenographer and type
writer at the following places: Los
Angeles, San Francisco; Boise, Idaho;
Phoenix, Ariz.; Portland, Ore; Billings,
Mont; Reno, New; Salt Lake City, Utah,
and Seattle, Wash.
Applications for this examination
will be accepted only from men who are
willing to accept appointment at Wash
ington, D. c., at an entrance salary of
$S40 or 5000 a year.
Persons who desire to compete
should apply at once to the local sec
retary at any of the places mentioned,
or to the secretary of the twelfth civil
service district, room 241, Postoffice
building, San Francisco. for applica-
tion blank and full information.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
TRAVELLERS FIND ENGLISH
SPOKEN THE WORLD OVER
Tourists Need Not Be Gifted
With PoIygIot Tongue

The Traveller OF today, unless he is
going to Tibet or TERRA del Fuego. ca
get along very well with a knowledge
Of the English language. The farther
le goes the more he is surprised at
finding that English is really the"
world tongue.
In France and Spain and Italy the
American traveller is craftily spotted" /"
says the Cleveland Plain Dealer He is
approached on the streets by those who
would, for consideration, make him
feel quite at home One of his chief
worries is 10 escape the pests who
can speak English and who wish to
apprise him Of the fact. They may not
necessarily desire to mulct him. Some
times they are seeking merely to
show OF" At any rate they classify
distinctly as bores.
One may go TO Smyrna or Constanti-
nople or Beyrout and still find the
streets plentifully full OF English He
may penetrate even 70 Damascus, and
he will find at least a befezzed hall
porter who can converse glibly with
him. and any number of auently willing
dragomans. He may go to Cairo, and
in the shadow of the pyramids he will
find blue gowned Bedouins speaking
more than passable English
He may go hundreds of miles up the
Nile. and may be steered through the
locks of tie first cataract by frizzly
haired Nubian boatmen who make in
sistent demands for backshish in very
intelligible terms. He may wander
donkey back to the tombs of the kings
in the Sahara desert, and be painfully
disillusioned by a few words of con-
else information or explanation by some
bsrefooted, dusky tent dweller
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
HALLEY'S COMETS TAIL
DECEIVES CAMERAS PLATE
By JEROME S. RIcARD, S. ].

tronomy has so far been wrong and
the camera has shown the mistake.
Pretty surely this will be the neces-
sary conclusion. True, great tele-
scopes have a correspondingly great
segregating power and so tend to
dissolve and dissipate the thickness
of the nucleus; but it is also true
that the same powers are equally
applied to the less dense parts.
Hence the general homogeneousness
of photographs is not easily under
stood.
Another serious question about
which we have seen nothing but
discrepancy is as to the variability
or invariability of Halley's comets
tail. Is that tail longer or shorter
now than it was, say 10 days ago?
About that length of time back the
Lowell observatory announced tail
Other observatories had enough
modesty to announce one-half of
that at about the same time.
We here, on the morning Of the
18th inst. between 2:45 and 4, took
every precaution to be exact in our
observation. The head of the comet
stood below Comma Pegasi, a little
to the north, very nearly half the
distance between Alpha and Beta
Pegasi. and the tail stretched away.
without any effort of the magma
ton, to west by south reaching as
far as the little Y shaped water
Jug" of the constellation or Aqua
rius, striking a short distance west
OF the Jug. Bys referring to a star
map and applying measuring In
strument to the points observed, we
estimated the tail to be 3S degrees
long. On the other hand, the comets
distance from the earth, on that
date, was 34,000,000 miles, whence,
by an easy trigonometrical manipu-
lation, the tails length was found
to be 22,0o0,000 miles approximately,
which tallies with the Lowell OBJ
servatory result of the date above
referred to.
In general, however, it is we'll
known that comets tails do change.
But 1t is not so clear that the
changes occur in the vicinity of per-
ihelion. Could it not be that in the
far distant regions of Aphelion the
tails are just as big and just as long
as elsewhere, only that telescopes
can not butt in" so far nor cam
eras either? If the perihelion hy-
pothesis is maintained there comes
to be some good ground for holding
the searchlight theory.
Halley's comets tail has, nearly
to the date of this writing, been BIZ
furcated; but now the inside has
filled in and the two branches have
united in one.
Santa Clara, May 15
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
PET DOG SAVES HIS
MASTER FROM PRISON
Animals Often Know More
Than Men, Comments Judge

The mute appeal Of his pet mastif
saved James Conrad OF Elizabeth, n. j.,
from Jail.
The dog had followed a member of
Conrad'S family to the courtroom,
where its master was arraigned before
Judge owen P. Mahon on a charge of
larceny. The animal put its forepaws
on Conrad's shoulders and licked his
face When Conrad was remanded and
the door closed behind him the dog ran
about the courtroom licking the hands
of each officer. Finally 1t put it's paws
on Judge Mahon's bench and whined.
Dogs often know more than men,"
commented Judge Mahon. Conrad can
not be SO bad. after all, IL the animal
loves him like that"
He had the prisoner brought back
from his cell and sent him home with
a reprimand.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16

For a long time astronomers were
spectacle Hauey's comet would pre-
sent: but all doubt is now removed.
When the great masses of mankind
come to look upon it in the western
sky almost Immediately after sun
set on the 18th inst. and the fol-
lowing days. they will wonder how
such big searchlight came to be
stationed up there, as it were, to
pry into the private affairs of their
secluded homes in this part of space.
Ignorance and superstition, espe-
cially in hooks far away from the
big centers of learning, will wake
up once more and lots of people will
tremblingIy await for the dire re-
suits. Their wiser brethren will
seek to assuage the excitement and
dispel the fear. But all in vain.
Deep rooted prejudice is like the
sturdy oak of the ancient forest. 1t
lives on with every succeeding gen.
Grafton.
In the meantime, it may be con-
soling TO know how our sister Venus
got out safe from <the ordeal and
how she now looks more beautiful
than ever in the invigorating morn
ing air. And, yet, she fioated in the
projected beam of the searchlght
Of the universe, being much nearer
to it's focusing lens than the less
favored earth will ever be.
Since the comet passed perihelion
it has grown at sight. yea, grown SO
much as to have nearly passed out
of the control of those masters OF
the heavens whose names appear so
conspicuously in the fiashy head
lines OF our newspapers. Yes, truly.
the comet seems to have outgrown
the usefulness of the telescope, an
instrument of very limited field and
more or less segregative power.
No astronomical camera can any
longer take in the full length of the
tail. and. even supposing it might,
it is very doubtful whether its eX-
treme gaseous tenuity would at all
affect the most highly sensitive
plate. This thing seems to be pain
fully evident in the photographs
that we have seen published of late.
1t is to be feared that photography
applied to comets is not likely to do
them justice. fact exceedingly to
be regretted.
To mention q case in point;
Astronomy has so far recognized
that comets have a nucleus. Every
telescope that we know of shows a
nucleus. But behold. the camera
eliminates it and makes the whole
thing-head and whatever part of
the tail it can grasp-run almost
perfectly homogeneous and of equal
density. Shall we assume that as
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
WOMAN APPOINTED
COLLEGE PROFESSOR

DR.. Mary NJ Wolfe has been appoint
I'd clinical professor of psychiatryN in
fhe Woman's medical college of Penn
gylvania- She was graduated from
Bucknell university with the degree of
A. B., in 1896. and from the medical de-
partment of the University of Michigan
in 1899.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
CUSTOMS COLLECTIONS
SHOW GREAT INCREASE

The customs collections at Windsor.
Can, for the fiscal year ending March
81 were s1.086,o99, an increase of nearly
40 per cent over the previous year.
notes Consul Harry A. Conant The In
crease is largely due to numerous new
Industries locating in that border town.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
BRITISH IMPORTS AND
EXPORTS ON INCREASE

British foreign trade statistics for
February, forwarded by Consul General
John l. Griff1ths from London, show
imports to the value of s24S,962,1 ,144, an
increase of s3,S5S,926 over February,
1909, while the s154.22s,4s5 exports
were $17,s47,490 larger.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
SIAMESE LANGUAGE
MIXTURE OF DIALECTS

The Siamese language itself is
great mixture of nearly all the dialects
and languages of the far east, namely.
Chinese, Malay, Mon, Cambodfan, San
skirt, Pail and others, but most of these
words have been transformed into
monosyllab1e form, which, in common
with the Chinese, Is characteristic of
the Siamese language.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
ASTRONOMERS
Will WELCOME
SKY WANDERER
Scientists Differ as to Effect of
Tail of HaIIey's Comet
on Earth
Shower of MeteOrites May AC=
company Visiting Star on
May Is

next Wednesday from the passage Of
the earth through the tail of Halley's
comet. New England astronomers ap-
pear not 10 concur as TO the possibility
OF luminous display similar to north
ern lights. Prof. David P. Todd of Am
herst college thinks the aurora effect
probable. Prof. Robert W. Wilson OF
the Harvard college observatory said
today that there may be a darkening OF
the atmosphere, while Prof. Edward C.
Pickering. head OF the Harvard observ-
story. said:
u doubt il there viii be any effect
RtaIl."
Professor Wilson said further that
there may be q shower of charged
particles. very small but numerous,
which may effect wireless telegraphy.
There is no cause for alarm or fear.
Cysnogen exists only near the comets
head and the tail is good vacuum"
Professor Todd declares that there
will be no more sensation than that
caused by the rays of light from a dis
tant candle on a persons hand. pro-
radiated from each, he says.
Leon Campbell. another Of the Har-
ward astronomers. thinks a luminous
display probable.
The increasing briIliancy of the
comet as IL approaches the earth was
shown today when Harvard astron-
omers found that the body with the
comet. or envelope, had reached pro-
portions Of nearly zero magnitude, the
highest stage Of stellar brilliance. The
rate of increase in brilliancy is indi-
Gated by the two photometric measure
ments taken at the Harvard observa-
tory.
The FIRST on May showed the nu-
cleUs 10 be 1.06 magnitude. Another
on Friday. just week later. showed
the magnitude TO be AL, an increase
in apparent size of 2.65 degrees.
Earth Not to Be Affected
CHICAGO, May 15.-Astronomers OF
Chicago and vicinity, who have lost
much sleep in studying Halleys comet
since its appearance this year, do not
expect its influence will in any way be
manifest on the earth.
There can be but little doubt that
tire tail of the celestial visitor being
some .000, 600 miles wide. viii sweep
over the earth, but we viii not even
feel it," said Dr. .. J. McHugh, astron-
omer at De Pauw university, today.
None of the gases of the comet will
come closer than say 45 miles TO the
earth's surface. At that distance the
earth's atmosphere is much more dense
than the tail Of the comet. Friction
with the atmosphere would destroy il
at that altitude. AS for cyanOgen gas,
that is mostly around the head Of the
comet. although the suns repulsion and
the speed Of the heavenly traveller may
have forced some Of it into the tail"
Professor Will View Comet
NEW YORK May 15.-Prof. Perceval
Lowell. the authority on the planet
Mars. returned today by the steamer
New York from a European lecture trip
and after brief visit to Boston viii
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16

The society of Amis de BaIzac has
rented the house in Rue Fortune
Paris. where the great novelist died
1t hopes to get enough money 10 buy ft
and make memorial storehouse
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16

For home consumption last year
England imported 2,1s7.2s0,0oo eggs.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16

He achieved rank and in this service
was the companion in arms of the great
Prussian, Won Moltke- When the Amer
lean civil war began, Won Hodenberw
then known as Won Gieglingen, was
one of the soldiers of fortune who
served the union cause. He was
major at the end Of the war Later, II
seems. Won Gieglingen was in Prussia,
and there Won Moltke interceded with
out avail for him at Hanover. Serving
for time as major In the Prussian
forces, Won Gieglingen. as the deposed
baron chose to be known. married
again and came to America to become
a citizen. He was connected with the
United States mint In San Francisco
in his old age, and when he died in
that city his second wife the step
mother of Arthur Won Gieglingen OF
this city, returned to Germany. She
had taken possession of all the papers.
which would go far toward proving
the Oakland's claimants case. and she
has these documents now at her home,
43 Il SOrda street. Damstadt. Germany.
Reichert, the justizrat. is commissioned
to treat with her for this evidence.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16

The city Of Winnipeg is literally built
ever & swamp.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
Professor Will View Comet

NEW YORK. May I5.-Prof. Perceval
Lowell. the authority on the planet
Mars. returned today by the steamer
New York from a European lecture trip
and after brief visit to Boston viii
20 direct to Lowell observatory at
Flagstaff Ariz., to make observations
OF HaTey's comet
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
COLLISION MAY
COST Three LIVES
Speeding Streetcar Crushes
Wagon and Driver Is
Killed
Woman and Child Perhaps Fa-
tally Injured, but Hus-
band Escapes

Continued From Page One
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
Mother Died Early


knows little. She died in his infancy.
and II was only from his fathers casual
talk that he learned of his ancestry
DuttOn. the Grand Army veteran.
who is acting as local agent for the
young man. says:
His identity as heir to the estates
of Schloss Gieglingen can be estab-
hshed absolutely. I knew his father
and I knew something OF his history.
With what information I and the boy
had we were able to interest the proper
authorities in Hanover, and in short
time we expect TO hear just what can
be done to put Arthur Won Gieglingen
in possession of his birthright."
Il owe TO Mr.. Dutton the progress
made toward regaining my inher-
itance," said Won Gieglingen. "I know
very little about my family history.
but I will try TO prove my rights and
to obtain the title and estates which
my father once held
StepmOther Took Fortune
Il know that Won GiegIingen is not
my true or legal name, but was the
name assumed by my father in his ex-
lie from his estate, and shortly before
his death my father told me never TO
drop the won" from my name, for he
said that. was a symbol of what my
family had been for generations.
IF I had what my stepmOther took
to Germany in the way OF papers I
would easily prove my right. She has
every paper my father left, and she
has also the family heirlOoms. Jewels.
and some rare old pipes which my
father brought away when he left Ger
many after his duel. The heirlooms
alone are worth fortune"
Young Won Gieglingen drives A
wagon for w. ]. Lund, a butcher at
4042 Piedmont avenue.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16
dead EXILE'S SON
Claims BARONY
Arthur Won Gieglingen, Now
Butcher Wagon Driver,
May Be NObleman
Father Fled From Germany
After Fatal Duel; Estates
We're COnfisCated

Continued From Page One
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-31

New Jersey, but he has been so long
resident of Colorado and Bishop
Olmstead was insistent that he return
TO this state. that he decided that he
would remain in Colorado.
so far as Rev, Oil knows he will
take charge of a new and flourishing
parish In the city of Denver, under
Bishop Olmstead.
The many friends of Rev. Oil will
regret his leaving this city and un-
doubtedly there will be large turn
out for his farewell service in this
city.
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-31
REV. JOHN WALLIS OIL TO PREACH
LAST SERMON HERE NEXT SUNDAY
Popular Rector Will Leave for Denver to
Assume Charge Of Parish

Rev. John Wallis Oil. former rec
tor of st. Matthew'S Episcopal church,
but who recently resigned the rector
ship of that church. writes The Sem
tinel from Vineland. New Jersey,
where he and Mrs. Oil have been
spending very pleasant vacation
with the parents of Mrs. Oil, that he
viii hold his farewell service in st.
Matthews. Episcopal church in this
city next Sunday morning, Septem Der
4th.
Rev Oil had some very flattering
offers to take charge of parishes in
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-31
Brilliant reception This Afternoon.

t'''t'' . MS
This afternoon Mrs. Sprigg
Shackleford and daughter, Miss Lila
Shackleford, were hostesses at a large
and well attended reception at their
home on Ouray avenue.
The spacious rooms of the COM
paratively new home of the Shackle-
fords were made beautiful with pro-
fuse decorations of nasturtiums.
smilax and asparagus fern setting off
the handsome gowns of the ladies in
the receiving party.
Assisting Mrs. Shackleford and
Miss Shackleford were Mrs. S. n.
Wheeler, Mrs. Orson Adams. Mrs. w.
5. Wallace. Mrs. j. NJ. Sampliner, Mrs.
d, T. Stone. Mrs. II. S Barkuloo. Mrs.
Emma Wadsworth. Mrs. ]. II. Allen
and Mrs. John II. Fry.
Assisting in the dining room, were
the following young ladies: At the
punch table in the library. Misses
Margaret and Louise Barkuloo pre-
sided; while Misses Ida Wadsworth.
Edna Hoffman, Grace Miller served
the first half of the afternoon and
Misses Ruth Rankin and Margaret
Cole the latter half.
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-31
Pretty MaIringe.

fItilN haIliaee.
In the bridal room at the LaCourt
hotel at three o'clock this afternoon
a very Pretty marriage occurred unit
ing Mr.. Frank r. RAIDER and Miss
Iris Blckel the former of Kimball
Neb., and the latter of Palisade. Colo.
The bridegroom is prominent young
business man of Kimball where he is
well and favorably known and the
bride is the very pretty and amiable
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Bickel
of Palisade.
The Methodist minister at Palisade
performed the ceremony and he was
brought down to this city in an auto
mobile for the event. After the cere-
money, witnessed by only select
number. bountiful weddinE dinner
was served and the newly married
couple left this afternoon for their
Nebraska home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phidelah Rice and
Miss May Rice will entertain tomor-
row evening at prettily appointed
dinner party at the LaCourt hotel.
The announcement of Miss Ida
Wadsworth's S party in the morning
paper was made erroneously. 1t is