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Jewelry importatiohss for the pres
emf year viii amount over $57, 000,-
600 which Is so per cent in excess
of the hishslt record yet established.
The Rome Naples express ran into
q locomotive killing seven passen-
gers and m61ndilg twenty-five.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-08
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Monday. December s.
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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-04-25

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special to close ~. SOC
Mems black Saline shirts SOC
Mems soft shirts, French cuffs,
for dress wear 500
Fine summer shirts, collars at
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The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
PLANS GROUPING
! OF SCHOOL PUPILS
President D'Ancona Consid-
ers Move Aid to Back
ward Children

PRESIDENT d'Ancona reported at a
meeting of the board of education yes
terday that he had discussed with Pro-
lessor Maximillian p. E. Grossman a
preliminary survey of the schools to
ascertain the condition and advance
ment of the children
ne said the professor declared that
u the results obtained warrant def
lions, ne Is prepared to assist in the
segregation and proper grouping of the
children. in the training Of the
teachers detailed to do the special
work and in planning the specially ad-
Justed course of study. Consideration
OF this was postponed until next Tues
day.
The schools committee recommended
the appointment of one teacher of
Spanish, Italian or French at the Mon
roe, Mckinley, Franklin and Fremont
schools, and that the board have In
struction In one of the Romanic Ian
guages I'm each Of the intermediate
schools with the opening of the second
term of this school year. The recon-
mendation was adopted
Director Power asked that the COM
mittee on buildings and grounds be in
structed to negotiate for the property
adjoining the Emerson school to in
crease playground space. He also sug-
gested that the board recommend to
the supervisors the purchase of land to
the north of the Roosevelt school for
the same purpose.
The Golden Gate kindergarten asso-
citation was granted permission to open
kindergarten class In the Lincoln
day school. The association will fur
nish the teacher.
Rose Gallagher was transferred from
the Monroe to the Sherman school and
Mary l.. Regan was assigned to the
Marshall school. A. G. Morse and Miss
M. l.. Hayes, teachers at the High
School of Commerce, were transferred
to the Mission high school.
Grace Walcott was appointed a
teacher of science at the girls high
school
b. M. Nevison was appointed
teacher at the Polytechnic school.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
SELF-GovERNING EGYPT

Since the treaty of Berlin in 1873
there has been a strong English party
in favor of driving the Turk out of
Egypt bag and baggage"
At the end of last month Sir z. Grey
announced in the house of commons
a plan for new constitution for
Egypt which is intended in part to get
rid of the Turk, whose nominal de-
pendency Egypt is, as its ruler, the
khedive, is his viceroy, though actu-
ally controlled by England.
The new constitution provides for
legislative assembly of 50 members.
of whom II are appointed by the gov
ernment. This body will have author
ity to legislate on all subjects except
those concerning the constitution.
For the first time in its history
Egypt will have real home rule, inde-
pendent of any authority, and the
dream of the exiled Arab Pasha,
who headed revolution in the early
eighties, of Egypt for the Egypt
ians," will come nearly true, though
it was England who exiled Arab for
the ideas he then advocated, which
are now for the most part voluntarily
to be put into effect by England her
self.
What Egypt really will become will
be, in law, as it has been in fact.
self-governing English colony. Tur-
keys hold on Egypt has been so NOM
inal that during the war with Italy it
was not allowed to send its soldiers
through Egypt, and with the adoption
of England's new project Turkey will
quietly vanish from Egypt, which,
under government, should ulti-
mately become as prosperous as when
it was actually the land of the
Pharoahs
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
HOTEL NEWS

Burton Holmes. the lecturer, is at
the ST. Francis.
w. e. Drury, an oil man Of Bakers
field, is at the Sutter.
Q. ]. Anderson, mining man of
Phoenix, is at the Manx.
M. B. Steadman, merchant of Mon
terey, is at the Argonaut.
u. w. Brown, banker of Colusa, is
registered at the Stewart.
q. r. Braley. business man of Pas
adena, is at the Stewart
William Brewington.' business man
of Red Bluff, is at the Manx.
IT, L. Whitney, meat packer of
Omaha, is at the Union Square.
j.. b. Drew, an attorney of San Jose,
is registered at the Argonaut
Charles E. Lathrop, executor of the
Stanford estate, is at the st. Francis.
W. L. Welsh. a steamship agent of
Honolulu. is registered at the Sutter.
a. A. Bryan. a manufacturer of
Rochester, n. ", is at the ST. Francis.
Clarence N. Parsons. an oil man of
Coalinga. is staying at the Argonaut
r. S. Titlow and H. f. Wood, rail-
road men of Goldfeld, are at the Belle
vue.
j. A. McCandless of Honolulu is at
the Bellevue, accompanied by his fam
lily.
ID. NJ Bernard. owner of the Mary
land hotel. Pasadena. is staying at the
st. Francis.
w. G. Sargent vice president of a
chain belt foundry in Milwaukee, is at
the Palace.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Phelps of Salt
Lake, who are touring the coast, are
staying at the Palace
A. A. Kerwin, San Jose clubman,
and his bride of few days. are at the
Fairmont en- route to the north.
III. w. Henshaw. connected with the
department of justice, Washington, d.
c., is a guest at the Union Square
T. w. w. Shanahan. newly appointed
director Of the United States mint at
San Francisco, is registered at the
Palace.
Tang You Lee and Tack Tik Ko,
members of the national Chinese COM
merce commission, who are in the
United States to study trade condi-
tions, are guests at the Fairmont.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16

odor with his sting They would
learn that for SO small creature the
bee has wonderfully high develop
ment of his nervous system, of his
brain and all his senses. They would
learn that the bee is an expert car
penter, builder and trained geometri-
clan: that he can tell coiors apart
better than a kindergarten kid; he
has a government of his own. As old
Du Bartas, poet of centuries ago, said,
where's the state beneath the firna-
ment that doth excel the bees for
government
Knowing all these things and much
more-as they do-why bees should
go to school is problem that would
trouble people much older than chill
dren to solve. And yet there can be
no doubt that there is world old wis
dom that no human understands in
the booming. singing, zooning, busy
bee
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
A BAY BATHING BEACH

At the expense of few thousands
of dollars the city of San Francisco
can insure to its citizens the enjoy
ments of one of the finest protected
bathing beaches on the Pacific coast.
Thanks to the fact that the mnnici-
pal government has never exhibited
any affirmative interest, the great ma
jority of San Franciscans are wholly
ignorant of the beauties and advan-
tages of Bakers beach.
Under the bluffs, with its westerly
end opposite Thirty-first avenue, is
a long sheltered cove An ideal bath
ing surf breaks on its broad strand.
1t is protected from the ocean winds.
The bluffs behind it form a great
natural, circular sun trap.
Every Sunday and holiday through
out the spring and summer a few
scores of family parties brave the
difficulties of reaching the beach to
enjoy natural advantages unlike any
thing within several hours travel of
San Francisco.
To reach the beach they must
struggle down the COW and cliff paths
leading from the northerly ends of
the avenues from Twenty-ffth to
Thirty
The extension of one of these
streets and the construction of stair
ways to the beach floor would in
voive but slight expense. That would
make the beach easily accessible from
both the municipal railroad and the
California street line of the United
Railroads.
The erection of practical and
satisfactory municipal bathhouse or
pavilion would involve an expense of
only few thousand dollars. This
expenditure would provide the people
of San Francisco with one of the
finest public resorts on the coast.
Other cities have proved that the
erection and maintenance of munich
pal bathing plants is mighty good
municipal business. Every Sunday
through nine months of each year the
people of San Francisco spend thou
sands of dollars in the quest of the
kind of outdoor recreation they are
unable to find at home.
A little money spent at Bakers
beach or at Black point inevitably
would result in turning a very large
portion of the money now spent for
recreation outside the county into the
channels of San Francisco's home
trade.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
DAVID BISPHAM WALKED
rs MILES ON PACIFIC
Famous Singer Not q Water Walker,
Either, but Stroiled Around Deck
I.5S0 Laps

David Bispham, the famous singer.
has added to his many triumphs that
of having walked It's miles of the way
across the Pacific. He did not walk on
the water, but on the deck Of the liner
Ventura on which he arrived yesterday.
Ten times round the liners upper deck
makes mile, and during the voyage
from Sydney Mr.. Bispham made 1,15o
laps, or IT'S miles.
He kept his own tally on one of the
after boat skids and yesterday morn
ing made that skid famous by signing
his name thereon He arrived here in
the pink Of condition and gives all the
credit to his persistent pedestrianism
and the fact that he took but two meals
q day.
Bispham left here four months ago
for concert tours in Honolulu and Aus
tralia. He is on his way to New York
to begin rehearsals of the Jolly Peas
ant" a light opera, in which he will
play the stellar role
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
A WOMEN'S WORK

Newspaper exploitation OF the
splendid accomplishments of women
civic workers throughout the country
has become commonplace.
Every community jolted into an ap-
probation of its civic obligations by
the insistence of public spirited
women Immediately decides that IT IS
Unlike any other American community
and begins to brag in the newspapers.
In at least one particular the public
spirited women of San Francisco have
accomplished as much for the COM
mon veal as the women of any Amer
lean city. And in another particular
they have accomplished more. They
have attained results without pub
licity.
The Improvement in the condition
of San Francisco's streets during the
last year is largely due to the efforts
of a special committee representing
one of the women's organizations.
That committee has been insistent
that its work shall be accomplished
through official channels without as
sunling the risk of friction and failure
incident to exploitation by the press.
That policy has been carried to the
length of earnest requests that the
identity of the members of the COM
mittee be not disclosed by the news
papers and that its accomplishments
be credited wholly to the officials ulti-
mately responsible for them.
A year ago that committee induced
the supervisors to print in pocket
pamphlet form all the ordinances gov
erning street conditions and for the
enforcement of which the police de-
partment was responsible.
Then the little booklets were taken
to the chief of police with the request
that he give one to each patrolman
and instruct the men on the beats to
familiarize themselves with the regu-
lations and then to see that they were
enforced.
The police department was neither
bearded nor threatened. The women
tactfully asked that they be permitted
to assist the department in the per-
formance of is duties. There was no
criticism, no quarreling. Extraordi-
nary results have been attained and
only those immediately concerned
know why.
These good women may we'll under
take another work closely associated
with what they have accomplished
In view of what they have done they
seem TO be the logical champions of
a movement that will result in the
employment of the auxiliary fire fight
ing system to get water on San Fran
cisco's streets.
It is conceded that the Spring Val
ley company can not furnish or will
not furnish sufficient water for the
needs of San Francisco exclusive of
proper street sprinkling.
IL IS ulIHCuit 10 DeIleNc IHdt
means can not be devised to utilize
the high pressure system for the dis
tribution of sprinkling water from the
bay
The San Francisco wind is objec-
tionable only because it carries street
dirt. Sprinkle the streets properly
and the cool winds from the Pacific
will become one of San Francisco's
most benehcent and priced assets.
There is a job worthy the metal of
-even San Francisco's women
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
SOCIAL NEWS

The ninetieth birthday of John Crist
Coleman was made the occasion of a
family reunion in the Coleman home
In California street.
Twenty-seven members of the family,
including sons and daughters who had
come from France, England and South
Africa to be present at the gathering.
attended
Among those who extended their
good wishes were Mr. and Mrs. George
Coleman, Mr.. and Mrs Franklin Zane,
Mr.. and6Nfrs. Hennen Jennings of Wash
ingtcn, Miss Persis Coleman. Miss Janet
Coleman, Mr.. and Mrs. Duke Coleman.
Miss katherine Jennings and Coleman
Jennings.
Mr.. and Mrs Andrew Carrigan, Miss
Margaret Carrigan, Andrew Carrigan
and Jack Carrigan are on a camping
tour on the Russian river. They will
be away 10 days.
Miss Clara Goodioe will depart i'm a
few days to visit Miss Lillias and Miss
Olive Wheeler at the Charles Stetson
Wheeler country seat on the McCloud
river.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorenzo Avenali have
returned to their home In Leaven-
worth street from San Rafael. where
Mrs. Truxton Beale for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Geer Hitch
cock have decided to prolong their So
Journ at Shasta springs, whittier they
were accompanied by their son and
nephews. Gordon Hitchcock and Frank
and Allan Drum.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Clay, who are
sojourning at Shasta. will remain un-
til October.
Mrs. John Heath and her son. Jack
Heath. returned yesterday to California
from Honolulu.
Miss Lottie Woods is among the re-
cent arrivals at Lake Tahoe, where she
will spend the next two weeks as the
guest of friends
Mr.. and Mrs. James king Steele and
their son, Shorb Steele, motored to
Tahoe Thursday afternoon for the
weekend.
Mountford s. Wilson Jr is entertain
ing friends at Tahoe over the weekend.
X X
Mrs. Bronti M. Aiken is spesaling
several days with her sister, Mrs John
=. kirchen, at her home IN Berkeley.
Rev. Edward Morgan. who has been
summering In Europe, sailed yesterday
Tor the United States. He will return
10 san Francisco about September l.
Miss Cornelia Kempff is spending
several days at the Mare Island navy
yard as the guest of Mrs Cults
Il
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Edgar Todd
are receiving the congratulations Of
their friends on the advent of a son.
Mrs Todd was formerly Miss Madge
cunningham. the eldest daughter Of
Mr. anc Mrs. Loring Cunningham
x
MT and Mrs. William b. Gring mo-
tored yesterday from Santa Barbara to
monterey to spend the weekend at the
Hotel del Monte
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
| FERRY T ALES !
BY LINDSAY CAMPBELL
THE commuter brigade is busy

THE commuter brigade is busy at
this time swapping vacation
= yarns. This is how I came to
learn about Clarence. the wayward
parrot. and his devoted mistress. They
live not far from Guerneville. The In
cident would not have caused such ex-
cftement among the campers If they
had known from the first that Clarence
was a parrot.
Clarence and the dog, 1t appears, had
been having words which, but for the
protecting armor of the parrots cage,
would have led to bloody deeds on the
part of the dog. Clarence, remember
ing the contemptuous epithets he had
hurled at the dog from the safe refuge
of his wire prison, beat hasty retreat
the following morning when his mis-
tress opened the cage and let him out
for his daily fiutter. He noted, per-
haps. CLEAN of satisfaction in the
dogs eye At any rate he flew out of
the window and took refuge in the
uppermost limbs of a large bay tree
that sheltered one wing OF the bunga-
low.
Naughty Clarence. Come down, you
bad boy, or you'll get hurt" This is
what the campers heard. In vacation
time very trivial incidents are regarded
as great events. and it was not long
before word was passed that a little
boy had climbed to. the top of the bay
tree and was IN peril. The distressed
woman soon had company in her grief,
He'll come down." she assured them,
but, oh, I'm so afraid he'll get hurt"
y X
She took all her meals under the bay
tree that day and for hours maintained
siren song in the hopes of Turing
Clarence back to his cage
'.Muzzy is here she sang to the un-
seen runaway: ''Muzzy isn't angry any
more. Come to muzzy, Clarence. Tum
along, tum along. Muzzy has nice
crackers. Clarence. Speak to muzzy,
Clarence.''
Toward dusk neighbor. who knew,
volunteered to climb the tree. AS he
mounted from limb to limb, the tired
but hopeful woman assured Clarence
TITS nicey man, Clarence; he won't
hurt muzzys pet
From the treetop there suddenly
came an 'Oueh." followed by remarks
that can not be repeated here. The
man and parrot came down together.
Clarence was restored to hfs cage and
night fell on reunited family.
All of which would seem to indi-
cate that Clarence Is receiving lot of
attention that might better be bestowed
on some small boy or gifl, either of
whom would make better companion
for the dog, anyway
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
AN EASEMENTS
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Safest and Most Magnificent Theater in America
MATINEE TODAY AND EVERY DAY.
A WONDERFUL NEW SHOW
MILTON POLLOCK and co. in George AIDES New
Comedy P1aylet Speaking to Father: Will.
ROGERS. ''The Oklahoma Cowboy: WALTER
S. "RCBE" DICKINSON. In his Original Charac-
ter Creation. THE Ex-Justice Of the Peace
RAMESES, In his Egyptian Temple of Magic:
PIMA & CO.. in classy Singing and Dancing
Act; DIVINE and WILLIAMS: FRED HAMTLI
and CHARLEY ABBATE; ORPHEUM MOTION
PICTURES Showing Current Events. Last Week
THE BELL FAMILY, In Their Artistic Musical
Offering.
Evening prices. 1oc. CSC, SOC. 75c. Box Seats.
81. Matinee prices Except Sundays and Holi-
daysl. 1oc. 25c. soc. Phone Douglas 10.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
CAPTAIN GREGORY
QUITS TRANSPORT
Officer Ordered to Duty in
Georgia. Other Army
News

Colonel John p Wiser. coast ar
tilIery corps. commander of the Pacific
coast artillery district. and Major j.
C. Johnson, coast artillery corps. prob
ably will depart early in September for
the annual target practice of the coast
artillery at the northern posts.
Captain Junius c. Gregory, medical
corps, has been ordered relieved from
duty with the army transport service.
San Francisco. to take effect on expi-
ration of his leave and will proceed to
Fort Screven, Georgia. for duty.
x X
Lieutenant Raymond E. Lee. coast
artillery corps. Fort Winfield Scott, has
been ordered to proceed to West Point,
N ". for duty as assistant to the
quartermaster there and will depart
soon.
Lieutenant Harry G. Ford, medical
corps, has been ordered relieved from
duty at the Presidio of Monterey and
to proceed to Camp e. S. Otis, canal
zone, Panama. for station.
X
Lieutenant Adna G. Wilde. medical
corps. has been relieved from duty at
Fort Flagler, Washington, and ordered
to proceed to San Diego and report to
the commanding officer, signal corps
aviation school, for duty, relieving
Captain Mathey A. Reasoner. medical
corps, who will proceed to Texas City.
He will report to the commanding gen.
eral, second division, for duty and sta
tion at Fort d. A. Russell, Wyoming.
X X
Registered at army headquarters
yesterday was Lieutenant ". A. Se1lick,
First field artillery. Schofie1d barracks.
H. T., who left last night for West
Point N Y
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
RICH CHIcAGOAN WEDS
SIBERIA'S STEWARDESS
Commission Mans Romance Reaches
Climax I'm Honolulu, but Bride Full
hIls Her Ship Contract

1t was not until the liner Siberia had
reached the harbor yesterday that her
shipmates learned that the stewardess.
whom they were addressing as Miss
Dorsten. had changed her name in Ho-
nolulu and was Mrs. j. C. Tapscott,
wife of a wealthy Chicago commission
man.
Tapscott was passenger on the out
ward voyage of the Siberia He fell In
love with the pretty stewardess and in
Honolulu they obtained license and
Were married.
She decided to fulfill the contract
she made when she signed articles on
the Siberia. She stayed with her Job,
but handed in her resignation yester-
day and will wait here for her husband,
who is coming home on the next ship
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
LOS ANGELES MERCHANTS
ARE REAL PACEMAKERS
Miss May Greenblack, Getting Pointers
for Local Merchants, Impressed
with Uniformity

Especial Dispatch to The CalD
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15.-Miss May
Greenblack, assistant secretary of the
San Francisco Retail Dry Goods asso-
citation, Is here on a tour of investi-
cation she is making along the coast.
Il must admit said Miss Green
black, that the Los Angeles merchants
are setting the pace for the entire
coast in the matter or uniformity This
uniformity makes for a higher eff1-
cheney, and that is what the entire
coast Is striving for. I am getting
much information here that will be of
value to us in San Francisco
Miss Greenblack also said she had
noticed that the "get together spirit
was the dominating feature In bust
ness circles all along the coast.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
AkED CHURCH FAREWELL
Last Services Tomorrow, After which
the Building VIII be Raxed

The last services in the First Con-
gregationai church will be held to-
morrow, as Monday the work of de-
molishing the present structure to
make room for the new building will
begin. DR.. G. r. Aked will preach in
the morning on the subject. Arise and
Build; the Faithful Present and the
Historic Past" while In the evening
his topic will be "A Time to Break and
a Time to Build" The following Sun
day the congregation of the First Com
gregational church will become the
guests OF Temple Emanuel
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
MRS. BAKER ON WOMEN'S Il
PENSION COMMISSION
Cottage System for Orphans One
of Three Agents

SACRAMENTO. Aug. 15.-Mrs. Clara
d. Baker OF Los Angeles was appointed
today as one of three women children .
agents who are to carry into effect the
provisions of the women's pension bill.
The appointment was made by the
board OF control.
Mrs. Baker has been in care of the
Los Angeles orphans home for seven
years and was for two years head of
the admission committee. She is cred
tied with inauguratina the cottage sys-
tenn of housing orphan children in Los
Angeles.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16
JERSEY MAYOR MAY COME

That Mayer William Biddle OF At
Iantic City probably will visit San
Francisco during the Portola celebra-
tion was the announcement made yes
terday by Mayor Rolph following the
receipt Of q cou4munication from the
eastern executive. Dawson Mayer, edi-
tor Of the Jewish Times. is responsible
for the promise Of participation sent
by Mayor Biddles