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The San Francisco call., 1913-11-08
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Italian conductors to travel with him
and direct his new work
His next step upward was his en-
gagement by Puccini to conduct that
composers Girl of the Golden West"
which had just been presented for the
first time under the baton of Arturo
Toscanini, now chief musical director
of the New York Metropolitan opera
house
Director General Gunsbourg of the
Monte Carlo opera house came to
Genoa especially to attend one of these
performances, and Immediately en-
gagged Belucci for the following sea-
son.
HIT AT MONTE CARLO
At Monte Carlo Belucci made such
an instant hit that he was dubbed the
Mascot of Monte Carlo" by the crit
les. and Gunsbourg made haste to re-
engage him. He goes there at the
close of the present season in San
Francisco and Los Angeles
Belucci admits desire to conduct
Wagner's Tristan and Isolde" in
preference to all other operas.
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Activities of Smart Set
Here and In Other Chimes

Music is asserting its place in the
winter gaities, and society in all of
the bay cities viii enjoy a number of
excellent chamber concerts. which
seem at the present time to be the
most popular form OF musical enter
tainment. The Minetti string quartet
is responsible for some of these af-
fairs, and during the winter will hold
three recitals in this city and three in
Piedmont. The first in this city will
take place Monday morning, when
Miss Mauricia Mintzer Will open her
home TO music lovers in Pacific ave-
nue.. Miss Agnes Tillman viii be the
hostess a the second Minetti concert
at her Washington street residence
November "a, and on December s Mrs.
William G. Irwin will entertain at the
third of the San Francisco series.
Mrs. Max Sloss. Mrs Edith Blanding
Coleman. Mrs. Maurice Leipman. Mrs.
Stanley Stillman, Mrs William Den
man, Mrs. Edwin Newhall. Mrs. Sidney
Liebes, Mrs. Walter MacGavin, Mrs.
William G. Irwin, Mrs Frederick
Tillmann, Miss Lena Banding. Miss
Beatrice Vrooman, Miss Hazel King.
Miss Genevieve King, Miss Louise
Mailliard. Miss Agnes Tillman and
Miss Mauricia Mintzer are the pat
ronesses. Some of the other music
lovers who have subscribed for the
series are:
Mrs. George Almer Newhall. Mrs.
William Sproule. Mrs. Frederick Sha-
ron, Mrs. Hamilton Stone Wallace,
Mrs. George Pope. Mrs Charles Josse-
lyn, Mrs. Eugene Lent. Mrs. James
Robinson. Mrs. ]. ". Wright. Mrs Jo-
seph D. Grant. Mrs Ira Pierce. Mrs.
E. D. Beylard, Mrs. Milton Esberg,
Mrs. e. S. Haller. Mrs. Jonathan Kit
tie, Mrs. Peter MEG. Mclean and Mrs
William Smith O'Brien
Tomorrow the Piedmontese will en-
JOY the first of the Minetti concerts.
which viii take place at the home Of
Mrs Mark Requa. Mrs. Requa and her
sisters. the Misses Herrick. are ex-
! tremely musical and can always be
depended upon to further any musical
undertaking of merit The drawing
room in the Mark Requa home is of
splendid proportions and will make
an ideal background for toIaorrow's
concert
The William Z. Sharon home, which
has long been the center of musical
activities. will be opened to the public
two weeks later. on November %, and
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sutro will provide
the hall for the third of the series on
December Z. The Oscar Sutros have
recently moved into their new resi-
dence at Piedmont. and plan to do
great deal of entertaining during the
season. Concerts and recitals are fa-
vorite forms Of amusement with them
and the chamber concert is only one
of the many musical affairs they ex-
pect to give within the next few
moths. The patronesses for the Pied
mont concerts are: Mrs. William E.
Sharon, Mrs Mark l. Requa. Mrs. Os-
car Sutro, Mrs Herbert Hamilton
Brown, Mrs Oscar l. Long, Mrs. n. A.
Ever, Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Harvey Toy,
Mrs, Oscar Luning. Mrs. J. r. Soup
ham, Mrs Annie Little, Mrs. Frank c.
Havens. Miss Annie Miller. Mrs. Frank
h Mott, Mrs Sarah Horton, Mrs T.
c. Coogan. Mrs. Loundes Scott, Mrs
Mrs Charles Wetmore, Mrs. Samuel
Taylor. Mrs. Charles J. woodbury..
MIS- r,In,.issie Taft
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As a curious concession to the in
fuence Of the times the women's s
clubs of the bay district have con-
cerned themselves with the modern
dances to degree that is aston
ishing
Many of the organizations have
stood for purely intellectual things
or for matters of the mental sphere,
with an admixture of civic, philan-
thropic, sociological and, perhaps,
music and art interests. Even in the
most conservative of these are to be
found modern dance sections now. If
the interest has not gone quite so
far, there are to be found on many
of the programs of the month an
nouncements of afternoons devoted to
exhibitions Of modern daneing.
Where the sections have been eStab-
Ished there are no reports to the
effect that they have failed through
lack of membership.
Age can not wither nor custom
(thus far) stale" the enthusiasm for
the new dances
There is an excellent reason for
every one who goes in. If she is
young it is the natural ebullition of
youth; if she is old, she must avoid
getting older; fat women seek to lose
curves; the strong find it keeps them
in trim; the weak find it an erergiz-
ing force-and so on to fit eachcase.
And the best of it is that they are
may prove the salvation of the race
provided it needs saving.
In any case. it is certainly better
for woman to wear loose, comforts
able clothes and attempt to be ener7
getically graceful for an hour or two
day than it is to do many Of the
other things which have been con-
suming her time. They like il, TOO.
1t makes them happy, and some of
them never know how queer they
look Others are truly graceful and
realize that, which never hurts any
woman.
On the whole. there are many rea-
sons for the commendation OF the new
interest and unless it is wholly agree
able no woman must needs join the
section.
X
La Mesa Redonda club entertained
its members yesterday at civic day,
and the president, Mrs. o. l.. Sues,
called for a review of everything done
or discussed in the club for the good
of the public during the last year.
Mrs. Hadenfelft. chairman of the civic
section, then called on the members
for a one minute discussion as to
what line of civic work impressed
them most, the opinions thus gained
aiding her in the preparation of her
program. for the coming year.
The next meeting, November II. will
be in charge of Mrs. Charles Lau-
|.meister. chairman of the program
committee.
The Philomath club, of which Mrs
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HALLOWEEN PARTIES
ENJOYED BY SOCIETY

or the many halloween celebrations
Of the different clubs. few will be
more pleasantly remembered than the
jinks given by the Players club.
During the course Of the evening a
cabaret performance of unusual merit
was given. many of the most talented
members of the club contributing.
Miss Steinberg rendered violin selec-.
tions and musical numbers were given
BY Joseph Macaulay. Miss Sigrid
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be followed by receptions at the
homes of the brides parents.
Mrs Alden McElrath has been
chosen by Miss Hart as her matron
of honor. The bridesmaids will be
Miss Alice IIiestand. Miss Lucille Nc
Cabe, Miss Genevieve Gross of Stock
ton and Miss Ruth Hamblin.
Miss Katherine Vail will be Miss
FarrelPs only attendant. while Albert
Vail will assist the groom.
In Plymouth Congregational church
Tuesday night will be solemnized the
marriage of Miss Mildred Prince and
Leon Marshall Wheeler. son OF w. M.
Wheeler. Rev. Albert w. Palmer VIII
read the ceremony in the presence OF
several hundred guests. Miss Bessie
Broadwell will attend her cousin as
maid of honor, while the bevy of
bridesmaids will number Miss Neville
Stevenson. Miss Lillian du Frame, Miss
Edith Woodward, Miss Mabel Gustam-
son. Raymond Wheeler will assist
his brother as best man. The ushers
will be Lloyd Fuller. Earle Steven
SON Leon Mayrish, Ray Angwin, E.
C. Asher and w. 9. Asher.
x
Miss WYNN Meredith has chosen the
evening OF Thursday, December Is.
for her marriage with George Harlow
in Alameda Both young people have
been popular with the smart set, who
have feted them extensively since the
formal announcement of the betrothai
in the late summer
X
The first dance of the Winter as
sembly will claim the presence of the
subdebutante set Friday night in the
ivory ballroom of Hotel Oakland.
Nearly $50 of the maids and lads who
have not yet been introduced will en-
Joy the series of affairs planned by
Mrs. Edgar Stone. Mrs. George Borne
mann. Mrs C. w. Armes Jr., Mrs.
Louis Ghirardelli, Mrs. William High.
Mrs. Edward NJ. Walsh
X
December 81 is the date chosen by
Mrs. j. Walter Scott for the reception
at her home in East Oakland. when
her young daughter Miss Adele
Scott, will be formally presented to
society. Miss Scott is graduate of
Miss Heads school in Berkeley and
has had the advantage Of wide travel
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TO TAKE POSSESSION
OF LINDA VISTA HOME

Mr. and Mrs. Ewald Grunsky Jr.
are making arrangements to take
possession Of their new residence in
Linda Vista in the near future. After
their marriage in the early part of
the year Mr. and Mrs. Grunsky went
to live in Nevada, and their decision
to return to the bay cities has been
the occasion of much rejoicing on
the part of their friends both in this
city and in Oakland. Mrs. Grunsky
was formerly Miss Hazel Palmenteer
While the new home has been in the
course of preparation Mr.. and Mrs.
Grunsky have been the. house guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. William G. Palmen-
teer Mrs. Palmenteer and Miss Ethel
Palmenteer will leave Oakland short
ly TO spend the early winter in the
southern part Of the state
Miss Rosslyn Temple of Santa Rosa
IS being entertained by Miss Hazel
Shaw at her home in Broadway.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Archie Treat will be glad to learn that
their son. Van Treat, who has been
seriously i'll at the Lane hospital for
several weeks, has been pronounced
out Of danger and is rapidly con-
valescing, although 1t will be still
some time before he will have sufff-
ciently recovered to leave the hospital.
=
Miss Nora Oliver, who went east
about two months ago, has stopped
on her way home to enjoy a brief visit
in Boise City with Mr.. and Mrs will
liam Regan, the latter of whom was
Miss Mollie Merle of this city Miss
oliver will return to her home in Los
Angeles within fortnight.
X X
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Holmes are at
the St Francis and have taken pos
session of their home in Buchanan
street for the winter season.
y
Mrs Randolph v Whiting enter
tained at an informal luncheon last
Thursday afternoon in compliment to
Mrs. Dwight Edwards of Portland.
The affair was held at her apartments
in the Bella Vista Mrs. Edwards is
the guest Of Mrs. NJ. Wood at her
home in Pacific avenue. but will de-
part shortly for Berkeley. where she
will live while her son is attending
the state university.
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SOCIAL HAPPENINGS
IN TRANSBAY REGION

The wedding of Miss Eleanor Hart
and George d. Smith Jr. Tuesday
night and Miss Rose Farrell and
Rfdgeway Vail Wednesday night will
claim the attention Of the east bay
college circles the coming week Both
ceremonies are to take place In the
Unitarian church OF Berkeley and will
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in the United States and in the orient.
Local society will welcome Mrs.
Cleveland Baker. formerly Miss Pansy
Perkins, to their midst again Mrs
Baker has decided to establish her
permanent residence in Piedmont and
is already planning to build her own
home there.
The social which the Altos club
gave to celebrate its first anniversary
Thursday night proved to be brill
liant affair. All the clubrooms were
decorated for the occasion with baby
dolls dressed in the club colors.
Speeches were made by the officers
and members.
Those who helped make the even
ing a success were. Miss Witty Moii-
mari. Miss Agnes Names, Miss Georgia
Ginder, Miss Mabel West. Miss Alice
O'Neil, Miss Catherine Lonergan. Miss
Sadie Goldman. Miss Isabelle Spence.
Miss Leona Biber, Eaton Thompson.
Charles Carlson. Willie Sternseher,
Daniel Cameron, Bernard McGrana-
CHAN, Victor Spence William Bright.
Frank Lonergan. Dave Bright, Earl
Diamond. Ernest Williams, Harry
Landy and Albert /. Biber.
The Daughters OF Isabella VIII open
the season of 1854 with brilliant
ball to be given in knights of Colum-
bus hall November e21 why Smith
Left Home will be produced by the
following cast:
Mr. Smith. $1,000. ...-.-.... John Toomey
General BiIletdoux ..-...-....P Percy MeCanu
Count (iuggenheime- ...-..-..-.J. Basby
Bob ...........-...... .........--....C q Cone
Mrs. Smith. .-......*....... Irene Murphy
Mrs Biiletdoux. .-......-. Frances Dougherty
Miss Smith. .........-.-...-. Agnes O'Connor
Julia ..-..-.......-......s! Florence Smith
Rose ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS catherine Dowd
Elsie Anna Fay
LaYlna - Alice Grant
X
The Parent Teachers club of the
San Francisco state normal school
will meet at the school. at, Buchanan
and Waller streets. Friday afternoon.
November IA. at 2:30 o'clock.
X
The Kansas Society of California
will hold meeting next Friday even
ing, at $50 o'clock. in San Joaquin
hall of the Native Sons building, in
Mason street. musical program will
be rendered. oLLs ?
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] son Will return this week to their
home in Belvedere after having en-
joyed a pleasant sojourn in Montecito
as the guests of Mrs Harriet Miller.
During their absence in the south
their Belvedere residence has been oc-
cupied by their son in law and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Mailliard Jr-,
who recently returned from their
honeymoon in the high Sierras and
who expect to spend the winter across
the bay. In December Mr.. and Mrs.
Peterson and their sons will come TO
San Francisco to remain until the
close of the winter season.
Mrs. Harriet Miller is planning to
remain at Montecito at least until
after the Christmas holidays. during
which time her son. Earl Miller who
is student at Yale. will come west
to spend his vacation at their home.
Mrs. Henry L. Davis and Miss Ger
trude Davis are making arrangements
TO depart early in December for the
east. where they will remain indefi-
nitely. Miss Davis has recently been
the guest of Miss Esperance and Miss
Corona Ghirardelli at their home in
Pacihc avenue.
Frederick Corning Grabner took his
departure from san Francisco last
week and. will make his future home
in Chicago. Mr. Grabner has recently
been appointed executive secretary of
the Sigma Chi fraternity and his du-
ties will be to visit all the different
chapter houses connected with this or
ganization While in California Mr..
Grabner was associated with the Uni
versity Real Estate company, with
offices in Palo Alto, and he took a
prominent part in all fraternity mat
ters connected with the southern uni
versity He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of wisconsin
\
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Van SAINT are
expected home this week after de-
lightful honeymoon which they passed
in the Hawaiian islands They will
occupy their new residence in Berke-
ley on their return.
X
Mr.. and Mrs. Moylan Fox Jr. are in
Salt Lake City. whittier they went last
Friday to remain until the close of the
holiday season Since their marriage
in August Mr. and Mrs Fox have re-
sided on ranch in Idaho. which the
former is mana ging for his father and
which will be their home for nine
months out of every year. Mrs Fox
was formerly Miss Edith yMusser, a
belle of Oakland.
Mrs Frank Howard Allen has re-
turned to her home in Washington
street. after a visit of several weeks
in Chico. where she was called on ac-
count of the severe illness of her sis
ter. Mrs Dishiel1 Mrs. Dishiell
whose health has greatly improved
accompanied Mrs. Allen to San Fran
here as the guest of another sister,
Mrs Frederick B. Kellam. at her Pa
cific avenue residence.
4
Mrs. Mariana Coyle and her daugh-
ter. Miss Angela Coyle. have returned
to their home in Jackson street after
visit of several weeks in Los An
geles as the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Duryea Coyle
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MONTICELLANS HOLD
ANNUAL LUNCHEON

The first annual luncheon Of the
Northern California Monticello Stu
dents association was held last Sat-
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Mrs. Mariana Coyle and her daugh-
ter. Miss Angela Coyle. have returned
to their home in Jackson street, after
a visit of several weeks in Los An
geles as the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Duryea Coyle.
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Van SAINT are
expected home this week after a de-
lightful honeymoon which they passed
in the Hawaiian islands. They will
occupy their new residence in Berke-
ley on their return.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
Prompt Measures Needed

Prompt Measures Needed
Imperative and prompt measures to pre-
vent floods along the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers and their tributaries were urged by
Isham Randolph in an address before
the National Drainage congress today.
Mr.. Randolph held that the regulation
of the flood waters necessarily was a
federal duty, and he suggested that
eventually a new member of the cab
met to be at the head OF a federal de-
partment of public works would be neces-
sary-
He spoke in part as follows:
1.-The President of the United States in
a telegram to our executive chairman
says
" The calamity In Ohio and in Indiana
| makes clearer than ever before the i'm
perative and immediate necessity for a
comprehensive and systematic plan for
drainage and flood CONTROL
| In his reply our executive chairman
says:
1.-The National Drainage congress ac-
cepts the responsibility of presenting to
the Congress of the United States plan
to alleviate and prevent the recurrence
OF loss of life and property
"rhere are vast stretches of our coun-
! try where all l1CTtdSt VI CldllIltl Cdpdtily
affords the only method of preventing
flood damage and the method of securing
| this increase can be wisely determined
only after the conditions are fully known.
| There are floods to be cared for of such
| vast volume that securing channel ca
pacity by excavation is a task too
prodigous to be considered.
| I'm cases of this kind the only method
of keeping the waters from spreading
| 49, CT ic 1,xyh inc Qpl
side of the stream levees so far apart
and of such height that the necessarily
heightened flood plans will not overtop
them.
Stability of Levees
1.-THE stability of these levees then be-
| comes matter of great concern.s Their
| cross sections must be of such bulk as to
1 insure resistance to flood pressure, but
| when this is done security is not assured
| for the levee may be undermined by Hood
| erosion, or by the water finding porous
| substratum below the levee base through
| which it will tunnel its way and wipe out
ali the labor of the levee builders. There
fore it is necessary to secure the fuilest
possible knowledge of subsoils before de-
/ termining the proper location of leyees.
"I have been told that the estimated
| cost of a reservoir system which would be
| a flood preventive in the Allegheny and
! Monongahela rivers would be $20,OOO0OO.
| Suppose that system to be extended to
| West Virginia and Kentucky at cost OF
| 500 600 900 more. Would not this expenditure
| save life? Would it not be a good in
vestment? Would it not save property
along the Ohio river? 1t would also have
like results along the river below Cairo,
| for with the holding back of excess floods
| from the Ohio the flood plane of the Mis-
sissippi would be lowered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
GENERAL PROTEST
BY MANUF FACTURERS
ON TARIFF MEASURE
Sugar Men Thought to Have
More Ground for Com
Plant Than Others
THREE YEARS WILL
MAKE ADJUSTMENT
Explanation of Income Tax Feature.
Protests Against Its Provisions
Come From the Small
Minority"
BY C. E. STEWART

Washington. April 10.-(Special)-
simultaneously with the introduction
of the tariff bill and its widespread
publication throughout the United
States, loud cries of anguish arise from
every section of the country from those
interests which have been fattenine,
or as they claim. have been only able
to exist and prosper under a protective
tariff system.
The groans and complaints as a rule
come from those gentlemen represent
ing certain lines of industry in the
country, who have taken their places
in American politics like the profes-
sional juryman takes his place In the
county courthouse, and who are usually
on hand at every change in the tariff
laws with the same line of argument
against any reduction in the rates
When the Payne Aldrich bill was being
formulated they entered their pro-
tests placing limit upon the commit
tee as to suggested reductions and de-
claring that there was no way for them
to meet the lowering of the duty rates
below certain point except by re-
duction in the wages of their employees
Woo1en manufacturers of New Eng
land are besieging their representatives
now with this horrible intelligence
Fifty per cent reduction in wages
they declare, will not reimburse them
for the losses they are bound to sus-
tain il the present tariff bill becomes
q law.
Cotton Men Protest
The American Cotton Manufacturers
association in session in Washington
adopted resolutions protesting against
the schedules of the Underwood bill re-
lating to cotton manufactures and ap-
pointed a committee to present to the
democratic members of Congress pro-
test from the organization. Fully real
izing that there was sure to be a re-
duction in the duties on their goods,
the association, or at least the manu-
facturers of cotton goods. were before
the committee when its hearings were
being conducted, and there admitted
that reductions all along the line could
be made without impairing their busi-
ness and they freely admitted that they
could stand far greater reductions than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
Third MODEL ROAD
WANTED IN MADISON
Six Pixies Leading From
Huntsville Are After
Appropriation

Huntsville, April 1o.-(Special )-Half a
dozen pike roads leading out of Hunts
vile have been entered in competition
for the third model state highway to
be constructed this year. The county
commissioners decided this week to ask
the state for an appropriation for the
third highway and everybody seems to
want it. The two model roads now in
use have already paid for themselves in
arousing sentiment in favor of good roads
Frank McKissck and Miss Vera Smith
of Walker street were married last night
at the home of Reuben McKissick, a
brother of the groom. The Rev. J. E.
Rice performed the ceremony.
Oscar Campbell a demented man, es-
capped confinement at the home of his
brother in the eastern part of the city
yesterday and created a panic among the
women of the neighborhood chasing sew
eral of them until they outran him. He
was finally taken up when he went to
Maple Hill cemetery, and is now in jail
awaiting papers that will admit him to
the asylum at Tuscaloosa. Campbell has
been in that institution before and was
recently discharged as cured, but his
mind gave way again. He had been con-
fined to a room at his brothers home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
WHITE CAP CASES IN
LIMESTONE COUNTY
More Than 100 Witnesses
Summoned in Cele-
brated Case

Athens. April Especial 1.-The white
cap cases which have been on the Grim
inal docket in this county for more than
a year, number of prominent farmers
in the east part of this county and in
the west part. of Madison county being
charged with white Gaping John Davis,
ment being demurred to by the attorney
for the defendants, the same was thrown
out as defective. The grand jury being
in session, one of the men charged i'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11

Property owners on two streets In the
residence portion of the city are prepar-
ing to take steps to enjoin E. w. Baker
from building new planning mill on
Green street. The Baker mill near the
Southern depot was burned in January
and since then Mr.. Baker has bought a
lot uptown and had the foundation for
a new establishment laid before his neigh
bors found out what he intended to do.
The city commission is pursuing a policy
of hands-off because the mill is being
put up few feet beyond the fire limits,