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The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
PREG|O|0 To BE
4 BRIGADE POST
Plan to Perfect a Mobile De.
fense for Coast Defenses
Put in Action
Twelfth Regiment Coming
From Monterey-Corn-
mander Not Named

The Presidio will be made brigade
post on November /. This is @pur'
suant to the policy adopted two year:
ago by the war department of re.
organizing the coast defenses by
STRENGTHENING the, land defenses of the
posts The Twelfth regiment, com
manded by Colonel William III.
Bowen will proceed from Monterey
to the Presidio on November l, and tht
First cavalry, Colonel Walter Finley
will proceed to Monterey. Fleid amnu'
lance company No 2, field hospita
company No. and the school of cook:
and bakers will go from the Preside
to Monterey.
No intimation has been given out by
the war department as to who will be
i'm command of the brigade post. The
Sixth and Sixteenth regiments are now
stationed at the post with Colonel Les
Febiger in command. Brigadier Gen
eral William Potts, now stationed al
the Presidio. will probably be post com
mander. with Colonel Bowen ranking
officer next in command.
There is no significance to this
change except the carrying out or an
announced policy of the war depart
ment," said Major Hines, adjutant gen
eral of the western department.. II
is only move to perfect a mobile de
fense of our coast defenses.
This change will make the Preside
the first brigade post in the country
ranking this post as the most impor'
tant and most efficiently equipped pos
in the United States.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
POET ACCUSED Of
KILLING PRIEST
TO GAIN R[N0WN
Madame Crespy Wanted to
Be Heroine of Love Muir
der, Alleges Judge Who
Tries Her

AGEN LOT T-ET-GARONNE, France.
Aug. 5.-A minor poet. Madame Alice
Crespy. charged with numbering the
priest. Able Chassaing, on January 10,
appeared before the assize court today
and related her version OF the clergy
mans death.
At moments the scene enacted before
the Judge was very dramatic. The ac-
cused Is little woman, neither pretty
nor plain. As she told her story her
voice at times sank to an almost in
audible pitch and at others rose to a
shrek as she insisted that the young
priest committed suicide.
Her story remained mistaken under
the searching interrogatory OF the pre-
siding judge. who declared that she
had murdered the man in order to OBJ
tain notoriety.
Tn the accusation brought against
you, yon are alleged to have said to
your dress maker that your books were
not selling well and that il you were
the heroine of a love murder, for
which the accused are always acquit-
ted. It would be otherwise said the
Judge.
Madame Crespy denied this allega-
tion with the greatest Indignation.
The presiding Judge then remarked
sternly:
"You had no great literary notoriety,
but You have acquired much greater
notoriety by your crime. You have
thus attained your object"
Medical and other evidence was
brought forward to show that the
priest had not committed suicide.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
CROPtMOVING BY GOVERN
MENT

Secretary,of the Treasury McAdoo
has taken new step in summoning
bankers in 5o,cities of the south. mid
die west and Pacific coast to meet
him in Washington and confer on
financing the usual fall crop move
ment
The secretary's purpose, to get frst
hand information as to the specihc
needs of each section is admirable and
should lead to unusually good results.
Mr.. McAdoo proposes to distribute
s5ooOOD0o of government funds
among the banks which usually
finance the movement of crops in
such time and place as it may be used
to the greatest advantage.
Heretofore the yearly moving OF
the crops has led to tight money and
has worked some hardships on those
least able to stand it, the farmers.
Money for moving the crops has
been borrowed at high rates by
the country banks from those of
New York city, as a rule. This plan
will serve to keep the banks OF the
interior and of the west free as far
as possible from the influence and
charges OF the New York bankers.
and to make money easy throughout
the country.
The plan to deposit the government
funds only when and as they are
needed, and to require the deposi-
taries to return the deposits to the
treasury as soon as possible, will pre-
vent undue imitation.
Mr.. McAdoo's act is one of be-
nevolent paternalism
Never before has the federal gov
ernment undertaken to move his
crops for the American farmer. That,
in effect, is what this plan will do.
AS the annual crop movement here
tofore has been a cause of financial
unrest and hardship, and as this plan
should put stop to any trouble, Mr..
McAdoo's plan is almost certain to
prove a public benefit wherever crop
moving money is needed
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
POST DANGER NOTICES

Mr. Alexander S. Gardiner makes
the timely and needed suggestion tna'
notices should be posted on the ocean
beach at the spot where two ooys
were drowned on Sunday.
Danger notices are needed, ano
needed at once. if such unhappy
events as that of Sunday are to be
avoided as nearly completely as
possible.
Danger notices as to the undertow
should be posted not only at the
nIace where the two boys were
drowned. but all along the beach
where bathers are likely TO go into
the ocean.
There is no danger in bathing
inside of certain distances, which can
readily be defined.
The drowning of the boys on Sun
day should arouse the public and the
authorities to the need OF doing every
thing possible to prevent drowning
accidents, which are always prevent
able.
Not enough precautions against ac-
cidents are taken now, and the won
der is that more people have not
been drowned by reason of their ig-
norance of the dangers of the under
tow.
The great beaches on the Atlantic
at Atlantic City, Asbury Park, Cape
May, Coney Island and other places
where multitudes go in summer-are
patrolled constantly, life lines are
provided and no one is allowed to go
outside the lines.
On a pleasant summer Sunday
nearly as large crowds from this city
are to be found on the ocean beach
as are to be seen at some of the
Atlantic resorts; but we have not such
complete provision for safeguarding
the lives OF the bathers. 1t should
be supplied.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
SKATING PARTY TONIGHT
AT THE COLISEUM RINK
In the Final for the worlds Cham
pionship Next Sunday

A skating party will be held at the
Coliseum this evening, a specially at
tractive program of music having been
arranged by the band. The greatest
skating floor in America is just now in
first class condition.
Dan Arenas victory over Clifford
Howard of Los Angeles has rendered
him the runner up for the world
championship and the Oakland skater
meets George Richardson in the final
for the title next Sunday
Dan Arena is regarded as one of the
most brilliant skaters ever produced by
the west and Oakland in particular
will be delighted to see him defeat the
champion.
Richardson is skating better than he
has ever done in his life. His tour, dur
ing which he had several races in Can
ada. put him in good condition and he
has been indulging in some practice
spins each day since.
The race should be the fastest seen
at a local rink for many months.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
ENGLAND MAY EXHIBIT YET

The declination of the British gov
eminent to take part in the Panama
Pacific exposition has had one effect
which is not prejudicial
American newspaper comments
cabled to England have stirred up
the English press so that there may
be brought about change of senti-
ment.
The comment Of the Pail Mall
Gazette that the exposition might give
British traders chance TO make up
leeway on the German drummers,
who are already busy on the coast,
contains a suggestion which might be
for an American to make,
but which should serve to awaken the
possible British exhibitor to slight
of what the exposition
may do for him.
Why the British manufacturer or
other exhibitor should give distance
as reason for failing to exhibit is
hard to see. Other nations do not
make that objection. Neither do
other nations say it is impossible TO
get together worthy collection at
place so distant as San Francisco.
Apparently these worthy gentlemen
have little idea how far it is from
London to San Francisco. or how
long time it takes to get here. It
certainly is not as far as Australia,
and London has found little difficulty
in sending goods there.
If Great Britain wakes up to realize
that she probably can get her exhibits
through the Panama canal; it she is
afraid of transshipment over her own
line at Tehuantepec, or, failing there,
can ship through Canada by rail and
thence by steamer. or through the
United States by rail; if the meaning
of the exposition in the west coast of
America trade becomes understood in
time, then it will be found that a
worthy collection can and will be
made "at place so distant as San
Francisco"
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
IMPROVING THE MEXICAN
SITUATION

President Wilson has taken the first
step toward cleaning up the Mexican
situation by accepting the resignation
of Ambassador Wilson.
Without any desire to criticise that
gentleman, all of whose acts may
have been strictly in accordance with
the diplomacy which he has practiced
for nearly 20 years, it has become
evident that he has become such a
storm center and target for the
opposition of friend and foe in Mex
leo that, unfortunate as it may be
for him personally, it is better that
he should retire, if only that by his
retirement some altogether new situa-
ton may be developed.
John Lind, who goes to Mexico as
personal representative of the presi-
dent--a wholly novel position in
American diplomacy-is a tactful,
adroit politician, a Swede by birth,
who has held executive positions as
governor of Minnesota, is a former
member of congress and a Spanish
war veteran, and may prove to be
the right man in the right place At
any rate, hardly any one could be
chosen more unaffected by Mexican
affairs
Only one important fact develops
out of all the rumors and gossip
President Wilson evidently does not
intend to recognize Huerta.
On the moral side, the president
will have the support of the people
in his attitude.
Civilized as we call ourselves, few
republics have suffered more by assas-
sination of its presidents than the
United States. We can not afford
to tolerate government by assassina-
tion.
On the political side there are rocks
ahead. The course indicated as that
which the president is likely to take
may lead to unknown and unexpected
perils.
There is no occasion for excite
ment, and there should be no out
break of fiery emotion even should
untoward events occur We must not
let ourselves get into the same class
as the revolutionary republics, ready
to rush to extremities without reason.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06

had made sufficient investigation of
their own to warrant their recon-
meneation of Hetch Hetchy. Further,
he says the Blue lake scheme is OF
little value, and that the Mokelumne
and Railroad Flat dams, of the same
height as the Hetch Hetchy, would
hold only between a fifth and quar-
ter OF the Hetch Hetchy reservoir.
So ends the charge of fraud. There
never has been any fraud nor any
improper intent. except on the part
of those who have tried TO prevent
the city acquiring the use Of the
Hetch Hetchy reservoir site, in using
which the. beauties of the Yosemite
will be practically untouched.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
SOCIETY NEWS

Mrs. BENJAMIN Foss. who is visiting
at the Arlington in Santa Barbara,
was guest of honor at luncheon yes
terday over which Miss Marguerite
Doe presided. Some of those hidden
to meet her were Mrs. Pierre Moore.
Mrs William Holmes McKittrick, Mrs.
Edgar Wilson Mrs. William G. Hen
shaw, Mrs. Harry Chickering, Miss
Roista Nieto and Miss Florence Hen
shaw.
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Sonntag and
Miss Ida Sonntag, who have been
spending the summer in Palo Alto. re-
turned Monday to their home in Scott
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. willard Chamberlain
will close their home in Burlingame
the last of the week and will depart
on a motor tour of the south. They
will stop for several days in Santa
Barbara, where they Will be the guests
Keeney left Monday to make an ex-
tended visit with the Blakemans.
Mr.. and Mrs Samuel Hopkins have
taken a house in Franklin street which
they will occupy about September !.
n
Mr.. and Mrs Eldridge Green, who
have been residing in Sacramento
street since their marriage. Will move
next week into their new home at Jack
son and Laurel streets The new resi-
dence is the gift OF Mr.. Green's pa
rents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry E. Bothin have
arrived In Santa Barbara and are stop
ping at the Hotel Potter. They ex-
pect to remain in the south fort
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Sears Bates and
their family are spending several
weeks on the Russian river as the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Egbert Stone.
Henry III. Sherwood, Charles Loring
Brace, Miss Isabel Sherwood and Quen-
tin Roosevelt, who have been the guests
or Clarence Sherwood in Salinas for
the last week will depart today for
the Ripples. the country place of Mr..
Cruz mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorenzo Avenali have
returned to their home in Leavenworth
street after a weekend visit with Mrs.
Russell Wilson in her home In Bur-
lingame
Or. Edwin Y Van Dyke has returned
from a two months sojourn in Trim
ity county.
Mrs. Thomas r. Minturn has returned
from Carmel by the Sea and will spend
August with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Everett, in their home In Pa
cff1c Grove.
Among those leaving San Francisco
yesterday on the transport Sherman
were: Lieutenant and Mrs. Harold
Naylor and their children. Lieutenant
and Mrs. Henry 4 BurGin, Colonel and
Mrs. Ruggles, formerly OF Benicia, and
Captain and Mrs. Douglas McCaskey.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
CLEARING HOUSE To SEND
NAN TO WASHINGTON
President Lynch Designated
to Confer With McAdoo
on Government Funds

p. ]. Lynch, president of the San
Francisco Clearing House association,
was delegated yesterday by the execu-
tive committee to accept the invita-
tion to confer with w. G. McAdoo.
secretary of the treasury, in Washing
ton, regarding the distribution of $780,
900, 900 of government funds to facili-
tate crop movement
Mr.. Lynch will be one of SO delegates
from clearing houses in the principal
cities
"At present we do not feel any need
for any government money to be de-
posted in San Francisco banks" said
Mr. Lynch. but we can not tell what
the situation will be before the end
of the year. This question will be
taken up in Washington and it is our
desire to heartily. cooperate with the
government"
Mr. Lynch added that it is p1 bable
San Francisco bankers will oqDanize
a currency association under tNk Aid
rich-VreeIand act. similar to tf4se or
ganized in eastern cities.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
ARMY ENGINEERS FULLY
ADVISED

The holdup of the Hetch Hetchy
project in the present congress has
been due chiefly to the more or less
vague and indeterminate charges of
fraud on the part of the city.
This allegation of fraud has been
based on the assertion of person
not wholly uninterested in the Sui
livan Blue lake scheme, and has been
to the effect that if certain report
by the city's engineers were to be
made public it would appear that the
board of army engineers would be
seen to have been deceived as to GER
tain facts and figures
Allegation of fraud is easy to make,
but not always easy to prove In
this case there are but two parties to
the proposed contract-the municipal
government of San Francisco and the
federal government The only party
injured by any act of the city of San
Francisco would be the United States,
which at all times would have re-
course against the city if fraud had
been committed.
This charge of fraud is not new.
1t has been made publicly for many
months The government has been
fully - advised of the charges and
knows that they are trivial.
All doubt on this subject has been
ended by Colonel Biddle of the corps
of engineers, who says that, even il
the city had suppressed a seemingly
unfavorable report by its own engi-
aeers, the board of army engineers
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
WORE DRAGONS ON HIS
FEET, NO WONDER HE WON
But when Count SObraI showed Ur
for Second Gnme Superstitious
Sailors Avoided Him

Among the passengers due here to-
morrow on the liner Shinyo Maru is
Count Sobral de Cavalho. a wealthy
resident of the Portuguese settlement
in Macao.
The count travelled as far as Homo
lulu on the liner Korea, on board which
he won $1,000 playing chuck luck
with the Chinese crew. 1t WAS not un-
til he had cashed in--and he insisted
on having it all in gold coin--that the
Chinese discovered the figure of a
dragon worked on the slippers he wore
while playing.
To this dragon they ascribed his un-
canny luck and when he showed up
next day for another tussle with the
tiger. the Celestial sailor gamblers re-
fused to let him play.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
MEDAL FOR SAVING CREW
King Of Sweden Decorates Captain
Andrew Dixon Of Pacific Mall

According to advices received yes
terday from the orient. Captain An
drew Dixon. commander of the Pacific
Mail liner. is to be decorated by the
king of Sweden as a mark of appre-
citation of his services in rescuing the
crew of the stranded Swedish steamer
Nippon The Nippon was driven ashore
in Philippine waters last May by a
typhoon, and the screw, after being
marooned for several days, were res
cued by Captain Dixon, who had been
notified of their plight before leaving
Manila.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR WILL
DEDICATE NEW STEAMER
western Pacific Ferry Boat Edward r.
Jenery VIII he Used by Order
on Initial Trip

The new western Pacific ferry steam
er, the Edward T. Jeffery. which was
launched July 10, will make its initial
trip for the knights Templar, who
leave San Francisco Friday evening en-
route to Denver via the western Pa
cific. A concert has been arranged for
the trip across the bay, and an In
formal dance will be given
The Knights Templar will have one
of the finest special trains on their
pilgrimage to Denver that ever left
the state. 1t will consist of standard
drawing room and compartment sleep
ing cars, buffet, library and dining cars
and observation car.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
MOSQUITOES DRIVE MEN
FROM SUISUN MARSH
Workers ON Southern Pacific Sink Quit
Work-No Mails In Benicia Since
Monday MOrninx
lspeclsI Dlspatch to The Chln B,

Especial Dispatch to The CalD
BENICLA, Aug. 5.--Great swarms of
mosquitoes on the Sufsun marshes east
of this city caused the crews of the
Southern Pacific at work on the Suisun
sink to quit their posts.
Sunday night the sink upon which
the railroad company has expended
about $4,000 year for many years,
began to give trouble again.
Yesterday several trains were an
nulled, while others were routed around
by Stockton. AS a result there have
been no mails arriving or leaving here
since yesterday morning.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
PASTOR ASKED TO RESIGN
o. H. L. Mason Of Les Angeles Told
Charges Would BE Dropped

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 5-Following
the resignation of 10 elders. four dea-
cons and four trustees from the First
Presbyterian church of Long Beach.
Q. II. l. Mason. pastor, was formally
notified by the remaining officers OF
the church today that the inyestiga-
ton of indiscretions alleged to have
been committed by him would be
dropped II he would consent to relin-
quish his pulpit and leave the city at
once
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06

The st. Louis Walters union has in
duced the city council to pass an ordi-
nance forbidding tipping. Wings must
be sprouting on those walters. who are
entitled to a monument to their self
sacrifice.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06

Some of the worlds richest men are
the poorest and some of the poorest
are the richest" said John D. Rocke-
feller's minister last Sunday, but it is
doubtful If he met the approval of his
richest parishioner.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
LOBBY GOSSIP
sENoRA DIAz INTERESTING

Sonora Diaz. wife OF General Felix
Diaz. who is accompanying her hus-
band, is recognized as one of the most
interesting. beautiful. accomplished
and seeretive women of all Mexico.
Mrs. Diaz will talk but very little Of
her husbands affairs or his ambitions.
When she speaks it is with caimness
bordering on the oriental.
Senorita Obregon, a dear friend of
Sonora Diaz, explained that the wife
Of General Diaz does not speak for
publication Senorita Obregon said:
"She does not speak for publication,
senior. 1t is not the custom in our
country for gentlewomen to parade
themselves through the press. This is
why we do not willingly oblige with
our photographs 1t is considered very
forward"
In speaking of the women of her
country Sonora Diaz said:
The women of Mexico are. as they
always have been. content to remain
in woman's sphere the home and pur-
sue those things for which a woman is
best suited We do not mix In affairs
OF state, and 1t is our duty to concern
ourselves as little az possible in po-
litical matters"
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
GRADUATES CLOSE SCHOOL
Nine of II ChiIdren Of One Farnser
Finish Conrse II Elisabeth Lake

Los ANGELES. Aug. 5.-Because
nine of the IL children OF an Eliza
beth Lake farmer graduated from the
West Elizabeth Lake public school re-
Gently that institution will be closed
This announcements was made by the
county superintendent Of schools to-
day when 1t was discovered but two
pupils remained. these being sisters OF
the nine graduates. -
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06

Mrs. Marshall. wife of the vice presi-
dent, says "the fashions of today
ought to convince any one that a
woman is not fit to vote" Is that
what has been called feminine logic;
If SO, how about a man in a bathing
suit?
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
MORAGA COMPANY IS SUED

hOse HHy WAS Attacme0
Want e11,4O0 Damages and Costs
Special Dispatch to The CALI
MARTINEZ. Aug 5.-,As result Of
levying upon the baled hay in the
Moraga valley and the stationing of
armed deputy sheriffs to guard the hay
the Moraga company, owners of the
land which was purchased from c. A.
Hooper Is named defendant in cross
complaints filed by Jose Serpa, Thomas
Silva and John Devlin. the ranchers
whose crops were attached. Damages
and costs asked for aggregate $11. 400
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
S. S. MARYLAND LEAVES
ALASKA FOR THIS PORT

Oruasef festing NOrtnern Sodi on run
From Controller Bay TO San
Francisco
VALLEJO, Aug. 5.-The cruiser Cali
fornia arrived at Mare island navy yard
today The California will probably
remain in San Francisco bay for a
couple of weeks and will then proceed
to San Diego for target practice.
A radiogPam received today an
nounced that the cruiser Maryland has
sailed from Controller Bay, Alaska, for
San Francisco.
The Maryland has aboard 700 tons of
Alaskan coal which will be tested dur
ing the trip south.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06
SUGAR REFINERY ENLARGED
Work started Mt Crockett which VIII
Incrcase Capacity
Especial Dispatch to The Cain

Especial Dispatch to The Cain
MARTINEZ. Aug. 5.-Work was
started today on the additions to the
refinery of the California Hawaiian
Sugar company in Crockett which will
cost more than $2.500.000 and which
will double the. capacity of the refinery.
The output of the refinery when run
ming to full capacity will be 100000
tons Of refined sugar annually Appli-
cation has been. made to the board of
supervisors for franchise to extend
and enlarge the present wharves and
docks OF the refinery
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-06

Three men will not do the work
which former President Mellen UNDER
took to do single handed. They AFFORD
three good reasons for his retirement.