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The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
Sec. Lane Appoints
Yosemite Commissioner

WASHINGTON. ID. c., Nov. 25.-Sec-
retary Lane has appointed an advis-
orys commission looking to the i'm
provement of the Yosemite national
park. The commission will consist of
former Mayor James d. Phelan of San
Francisco; Noah Daniels. landscape
gardener. Leslie Symmes. civil engi-
neer. and Major W. T. Littebrant.
acting superintendent of the park.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
/ ACCIDENTS CAUSED
BY SLIPPERY STREETS

Eleven accidents resulted yesterday
afternoon from slippery streets.
Three men were injured by being
struck by streetcars sliding on wet
tracks, and seven men and a woman
were slightly hurt by skidding auto
~, ,ohfleS
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
|Hammersteins Face
Charge of SWindIing

PARIS, Nov. 25.--Marvini, the French
opera singer. has brought q formal
charge of swindling against Oscar and
with their failure to fulfill their con-
tract engaging him to sing in New
York.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
Passionate Letters of Former
Marine Corps Captain In
cIuded in Deposition

Passionate love letters written by
DIR. c. E. D. Lord. formerly captain in
the United States marine corps and
now a physician in San Francisco;
pictures of beautiful women, includ-
ing Mrs. Annie Ingersoll Lord, who is
suing her husband for divorce, and
OF Mrs. Fannie Fohs. 'the Russian
widow" who obtained a $4,000
breach of promise judgment against
Doctor Lord in New York. were re-
ceived from the east today by the
county clerk. With the letters and
pictures were depositions of the
women involved in the divorce case.
in the deposition that attorneys for
Doctor Lord Immediately appeared
before Judge Murasky to ask for a
suppression Of the deposltions on the
ground that Doctor Lord was not rep
resented at the time of the taking of
the documents. When the motion
comes up for hearing. it is believed
that Attorney Henry G. w. Dinkel-
spiel will make every effort to have
the dispositions admitted. although his
opponents want them returned to the
east and new depositions takepr
Mrs. Lord. who is with her wild
owed mother, Mrs. Marcia M. Inger-
SOIL at Biddeford, Me-. in lengthy
document sets forth her reasons for
leaving her husband. whose letters
express such ardent love and whose
conduct, according to the wife, was
characterized by duplicity. With Mrs.
Lord are her two boys. for whom she
asks 500 a month and whom she is
supporting by singing in the Bidde-
ford church choir.
LORD LOST POSITION
Mrs. Lord says that shortly before
the birth of her second son she was
induced by her husband to leave New
York, where Doctor Lord was sta
toned in the marine hospital service.
and return to her parents home.
After the child was born she came
back to New York and was met by
Mrs. Fohs. Later she met her hus-
band. who. in strenuous interviews in
a New York hotel confessed that he
had become entangled with Mrs. Fohs
and tllet he expected to lose his posi-
tion with the United States govern
ment because of the scandal. and that
he hoped the presence of his wife
and children would aid him. The
doctor Is alleged to have declared
that Mrs. Fohs demanded money of
him under the threat of exposure.
Later President Roosevelt dismissed
Lord from the federal service and
Mrs Fohs won her breach of promise
case.
Scores OF letters written by Doctor
Lord to his wife accompany the depo-
sitions. Each one contained an en-
tire paragraph of three lines COM
posed of the words, II love you.r
many times repeated. The letters all
began:
MY own darling sweetheart wife.
my precious. adored and lovely little
Anna"
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
Boat Upsets, kennett
Miner Is Drowned

REDDING, Nov. 25.--Al Smith. 25
wears old, was drowned in the Sacra
mento river at kennett last night
Accompanied by his brother and Jack
Martin he attempted to row across.
None of the men was acquainted with
the high river and the boat upset
The drowned man was a miner.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
Schooner Burning in
Long Island Sound

NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Nov. 25.A
three masted schooner Is burning in
Long Island sound, according TO
wireless message received here today
from Captain Pettigrew OF the steamer
Chelsea.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
NATIONAL UNION WILL
GIVE LADIES' NIGHT

Cards and dancing will furnish the
entertainment for the guests OF Ala
media council No. 734. National union
on Friday evening of this week. when
the council will give ladies night"
In Moose hall, Park street, Alameda.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
OPERA vET0
COMES Up
TODAY
Will Be Formally Received by
Supervisors and Compro-
mise Will Be Presented

When Mayor Rolph's veto of the
fore the board of supervisors for the
first time today. Supervisor Paul Ban
croft will present the compromise
plan that has proved acceptable to
many subscribers
According to the tentative program
agreed upon by the supervisors, the
mayors veto will not be voted upon
at this afternoons meeting.
1t has therefore been decided to de-
lay final action until the mayor re-
turns from his announced Hetch
Hetchy mission to Washington. D. C.
Supervisor vogelsang will return with
him. so that the full IS members of
the board will be present.
WILL RECEIVE VETO
The first step in the opera house
proceedings this afternoon will be the
official return of the ordinance to the
board with the mayors veto and
message stating his reasons for the
action.
The second step this afternoon will
be the presentation OF Bancroft's com
promise resolution This will require
the board to decide on the policy of
future condemnation Of the opera
house by paying to the donors the
sS50.000 or more which they have
subscribed
LARGE CROWD EXPECTED
Discussion throughout the city con-
cerning the opera house controversy
has reached the point where this aft
ernoon's meeting will be the center of
the keenest interest Extra seats
have been placed in the supervisors
chambers to accommodate the large
crowd expected
OAKLAND MEN WRITE
Two letters were received by the
supervisors this morning from Oak
land, purporting to come from citi-
zens of that city. although no ad-
dresses were given. In one of these,
written by Chancellor Beck. the state
ment Is made that Oakland would not
think of refusing such a magnificent
gift as the opera house and that
referendum vote on the subject would
be practically unanimous The writer
of the other letter. J. /. Weston, states
that the mayors veto of the opera
house bill viii endanger the city's
chances of securing the state building
for the civic center.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
PRESIDENT MAKES MANY
DIPLOMATIC SELECTIONS

WASHINGTON. Nov. 25.-The presi-
dent today sent in the names of
large group Of diplomatic appoint
ments Among them IS Henry F. Ten
nant of New York to be secretary Of
the legation and consul general at
san Salvador
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
A[(1ATRAz
An ALIEN
DEPOT BY
JAN. 25

Alcatraz island is to be abandoned
as a military prison and converted
into an immigration station. Angel
island. as depot for aliens, will be
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Capt. A. C. SegeIhorst,
Retired Mariner, Buried

The funeral of Captain August G..
Segelhorst. retired mariner of Ala
media. who died while on a visit to
friends in Colfax. was held this aft
ernoon Rev N. A. Baker of the First
Unitarian church read the services.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
CONSUL INDoRsEs MSS CAMERON

'. Ia
THE Chinese declared that the girl
had the consent of her parents to
marry" said Miss Cameron. The
mission contends that they are not
the real parents of the girl and as
foster parents have no right to give
their consent. The principal point,
however, is the question of age ana
| did not feel that the little one-a
baby in years and so. ludicrously i'm ;
mature-should be sent to a place
where, I understand, there are no
other Chinese women"
Ow Yang Kee, consul general, and
his assistant DR.. Ng Poon Chew, called
at the mission and saw the girl. Dele
cations Of Wong men followed The
result was that the consul and his as
sistant~ assented to Miss Cameron's s
recommendation that the girl should
remain at the mission at least two
years before rejoining her husband.
The Wongs appealed to the Six Com
panies to condemn the attitude of the
consular officials 1T is significant
that the report is current In the quar-
ter that the consul and his assistant
are soon to make way for men to be
named at Peking by President Yuan
RESORT TO GUNMEN LIKELY
No offer for the return of the money
has been made by the Lyms, as the
girl in Chinese and American law
both, is now a wife and the husband
may not relinquish her without incur
ring the vengeance of the Lynn family
The prediction is made that the famil-
les are about to abandon their legal
battle and resort to their gunmen.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25

lily society for the Immediate return
of San Toy. who is now sheltered at
the mission, unconscious of the storm
brewins1 about her.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25
CHINESE TRADITIONS AT STAKE

Stanchly Miss Cameron and Judge
Murasky have stood their ground in
the face of threats against the mis-
sion and cf habeas corpus proceedings
in the court. The mission folk declare
the child to be ] 3 years old; the Chi
nese say she is H.
Not this time is ii a mere row be-
tween highbinder tongs over a mere
slave girl The trouble lies deeper
and involves some of the cherished
traditions of the Chinese. Should the
fighting once start, it would be car
ried 10 every Chinatown in America
where the Wong and Lynn families
are powerful
The Wong people say that they
have paid s1.100 as expenses of the
wedding banquet and the bridal dot
TO the parents of the girl The mar
riage has been performed: three
generations" Of the Wong and Lynn
families had signed the marriage pact
and the husband was about to return
with the girl to his ranch at Calexico
when the little one was taken from
him.
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the rule even IN Metropolitan Manhattan
they were. In this city and in this coun-
try, tho natural cOrrollary 10 the Ameri-
can plan OF most hotels. such as now
maintains in summer resorts and towns
Of less than twenty-five thousand. But
with the advent Of the European plan
hotel the table d'hote langulshed until
about four or five years ago II had quite
passed from the menus Of the more pre-
tentious places and had been succeeded
by a la carte service in many quiet
little place which once was the haven Of
the impecunious and the economical
The table d'hote became the almost
exclusive possession OF the Italian and
French restaurants on side streets ana
though many Of these AourIshed and still
do flourish, table d'hote" was contempt
dOusly dismissed by the connoiseurs as a
mere method Of feeding for the thrifty
and not at all part Of the art Of dining.
But within the last year or so there
has been a resurgence Of the table d'hOte,
and now there are dozen or more Of the
big restaurants which serve their food
In that manner. To the enormous relief
OF about Is per cent Of their patrons, who
never had ceased 10 be troubled by the
terrifying array Of yiands lsted-with
terrifying prices opposite-On the huge
folio edition Of the menu.
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who was afterward for several years in
Congress. He had been local magis-
trate and was called judge. Generally he
and were friendly. but occasionally l
did something that iriJtated him. lie
was always willing to vote for any other
member bill himself. and he regarded It
az narrow minded FOR any one 10 oppose
one OF his bills, especially il the opposi-
ton was upon the ground that IL was un-
ccnstitutional-fOr his views OF the con-
st,tuton were so excessively liberal as TO
make even me feel as II I belonged to the
straftest sect OF strict constructonlsts.
on one occasion he had bin to appro-
pirate money, with obvious impropriety
for the relief OF some miscreant whom
no STYLED zone Of the honest yeomanry
OF the state" When ] explained TO him
that It Was clearly unconstitutional he
answered. Me friend the constitution
don't touch little things like that and
then added. with an iugratiating smile:
Anyhow. I'd never allow the constltu-
ton to come between friends At the
time 1 was looking over the proofs Of Mr..
Bryce's American Commonwealth and
told him the incident lie put IL into the
first edition OF the Commonwealth
whether 1t is In the last edition or not ]
cannot say.
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S OR Wall, "AAC! THE TABLE DFOTE COMING BAC

der extras. which are not hard 10 hgure.
There is your tip 10 be considered-and
nothing else. You choose your soup from
one OF two sorts offered, you have an al
tentative or two on entrees and roasts,
perhaps chance To decide on your des-
sert Otherwise all you need 10 do IS TO
eat slowly pleasureably. with contented
glances about the room. with ears alert
for gayety and chatter about you, with
palate conscious of fair quality and
stomach conscious Of goodly quantity.
And so you arise eventually and depart
I'm a mood OF benedcence and tolerance
toward all the world.
So peaceful 80 happy. so sensible a
method OF obtaining nourishment as that
could not so forever into dsuse. and
therefore we have again with MS the de-
sirable table dhote from the s. " din
ner uptown, where most Of Us would not
dare to tip the seryitor less than 20
cents, to the 2j-cent affair on 18th street,
where the tip is a nickel II YOU have II
and nothing at all If you don't dine too
often at the same place These 2J-cent
table hotes In New York are a great
convenience for the man I'm temporary
straits. but heaven help the poor devil
who tries TO live on them! He dies OF
lj-cent Bowery stew for sustenance-lt
may be rank. but 1t hath more body and
greater bulk.
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conquer Canada. The expedition. how
ever. got so drunk before reaching Al
bany that IL was there incarCerated in
ian. whereupon It's leader abandoned 1t
and went into New York politics instead.
He was a man OF influence. and later
occupied i'm the Police Department the
same position as commissioner which l
myself az one time occupied. He felt that
his rival had gained too much glory at
my expense. and. walking over with cere-
monious solemnity TO where the said rival
was sitting close beside me, he said TO
him: 81 would like YOU TO know. Mr.
Cameron cameron. of course. was not
the real namcl.. that Mr. Roosevelt knows
more law In a wake than you do I'm d
month: and. more than that Michael
Cameron. what do you name by quoting
Latin on the floor OF this House when
you don't know the alpha and omayga Of
the language"
There was in the Legislature during
the deadlock above mentioned. man
whom / will call Brogan. He looked like
a serious elderly frog. ! never heard him
speak more than once. IL was before the
Legislature was organized or had adopt
ed any rules, and each day the only busi-
ness was for the clerk 10 call the roll.
one day Brogan suddenly rose, and the
following dialogue occurred:
Brogan- Misther Clu-r-r-k,
The C1erk-The gentleman from New
York.
Brogan-I rise 10 point OF ordher
under the rules.
IT.. f.lorL There aVa M t.ttfpe
Brogan-Thin ! object to them,
The Clerk-There are no rules 70 OBJ
ject To.
Brogan--Oh, lnonplussed; but immedi-
ately recovering himselfl Thin / move
that they be amended until there ar-r-re,
The deadlock was tedious. and We
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TWENTY.FIVE.cENT PLACES.

Somehow there is a lack of good vital
co~r and avoirdupos in the food at one
Of these Decent places. The meat
is gray and thin, the coffee is yell
low and thin, the milk is blue and thin
the pickles are green and thin. the but
ter is white and thin and the potatoes are
drab and discouraged looking. Nothing
has any real vigorous reds or browns IN
1t. Usually the waiter Is sad and thin,
and the table cloth is patched and thin,
the walls soiled and thin, and the only
spot Of color the ruddy face OF the pro-
pretor-who seems To thrive Yet for all
that you wonder how they can do it for
% cents, because what you eat does
hypnotic you into the belief that you
have absorbed meal
Let rs now move up into the 5O-cent
class-and here the French and the Ital-
ians predominant as propretors. You
can find one of these places In almost
any side block off Broadway or Sixth
avenue, and they all. Italian or French,
look alike. Most of them are In ancient
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THE FAMILIAR SCENE.
ayen-t we aII been up against h?

Haven't we all been up against il?
Scene-any large restaurant. Dramatis
persona. You. the Waiter. the Menu.
Waiter blending over you)-The frontage
and the pommes de terre are very nice,
sir.
Youth, emo, | don't think I'll try
any to-day / had them for lunch yester-
day Nou scan the menu hurriedly for
familiar dish. but find 1t not)
The Waiter (deferentially)-W have
some delicious bnuf la Martingale, sir.
and the Sans Culottes are very recherche
You (beaming)-Oh. are they? Well
! never eat 'em, they-they're too sort OF
- you know, waiter. Er - haven't you
an English menu?
The walter smiles In superior and pity
Ing manner and goes 10 fetch an English
menu. You study it owIishly for ten min
utes straight, while the waiter, though
silent and patient gives you the subtle
impression OF saying. "Oh hurry up, you
big boob. haven't you ever eaten In a
restaurant before
During that ten minutes you read over
and over the name OF everything on the
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proper manner. The effect of the shibbU-
leth in question is usually merely to put
a premium on hypocrisy. and therefore
10 favor the creature who is willing %
rise by hypocrisy.
When ! ran for Speaker the whole body
of machine politicians was against me
and my only chance lay in arousing the
people in the different districts To DO
this ! had TO visit the districts. put the
case fairly before the men whom ] saw.
and make them understand that / was
really making fight and would stay IN
the fight to the end. Yet there were re-
formers who shook their heads and de-
plored my activity" in the canvass. OF
course, the one thing which corrupt ma
chino politicians most desire Is TO have
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decent men frown on tie activiiy-thGt
is. on the cnicicncy-of the honest man
who genuinely wishes to reform politics.
II efficiency is left solely to bad men.
and If virtue is confined solely 10 ineih-
cient men the result cannot be happy
When / entered politics there were. az
there always had been-aud as there al
WAYS viii bc-any number of bad men IN
politics who were thoroughly efficient. ana
any number OF good men who would like
to have done lofty things in politics but
who were thoroughly inefficient II !
wished to accomplish anything for the
country. my business was 10 combine de-
cency and efiiciency-to be a thoroughly
practical man Of high ideals who did his
best 10 reduce those ideals 10 actual prac-
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Recalls Incidents, Interesting and Entertaining
Of His Career as a State Legislator-A
Memorable Campaign for the Speak
ership and Some Animadver-
sions on the Bosses.

silk stocking" reformer type, as Abra-
ham Lincoln called 1.-THE gentlemen
who were very nice, very refined. VINO
shook their heads over political corrup-
ton and discussed IT in drawing rooms
and parlors but who were wholly I'M
able to grapple with real men I'm real life
These paror reformers made up for IN
efficiency i'm action by zeal in criticsng'
and they delighted In crticisinG the men
who really were doing the things which
they said ought to be done. but which
they lacked the sinewy power TO do.
They often Upheld ,-cdls which were not
merely impossible out highly ugdeslr-
able and thereby played into the hands
Of the very politicians to whom they pro-
fessed to be most hostile Moreover, if
they believed that their own interests,
individually or as a class, we're jeoparded
they were apt TO show no higher stand
ards than did the men they usually de-
nounced.
One of their shibboleths was that the
Office should seek the man and not ;he
mar the office. This is entirely true of
certain Offices at certain times. II is en-
tirely untrue when the circumstances are
different IT would have been unneces-
sary and undesirable FOR Washington to
have sought the Presidency. But If
Abraham Lincoln had not sought the
Presidency he never would have been
nominated. The objection in such case
as this lies not to seeking the office, but
to seeking it I'm any but an honorable and
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sylvauia or Ohio or Indiana or Michigan,
dear insular New Yorker-but the Mon
tana and Idaho and Washington sort Of
the Vest they still call the table d'hote
meal an American plan" meal, meaning,
doubtless, that 1t is the good old Ameri-
can plan to pay fair price for food and
get everything In the house. But New
York stopped using that expression TWEEN
ty-1ve years ago-maybe more. but
twenty-five Will do for the purpose
and with its usual avidity for things
exotic, seized upon table dhote" and
tackled il on TO the II should worry" meal.
which is served at Hat rate and not at
so much per word.
Time was that table d'hote meals Yere
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ticc This was my ideal and To- the best
Of my ability j stroye tn live up 10 IL.
To a Young man life In the New York
LEGISLATURE was always interesting and
often entertaining. There was always a
struggle OF some kind on hand. Some
times. 10 was on q naked question Of right
and WRONG Sometimes IL was on ques-
ton of real constructive craftsmanship.
Moreover there were all kinds Of humor-
Gus Incidents, the humor being usually Of
the unconscious kind In one session Of
the Legislature the New York City Demo
cratic representatives were split into two
CAMPS and there were two rivals for
leadership. one Of these was a thorough
~ eood-heartcd, happy go-lucky person
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brownstone mansions with high steps
built out beyond the building line, with
funeral halls and with high ceilings
done In that rosetted and arabesqued
plaster style OF the seventies. The tables
are sometimes single-legged and practi-
caliy part Of the floor, or they are
spindle-legged and unsubstantial. The
chairs are always the same, light. bent
wood, with cane seats. Smoke overhangs
everything smoke composed three
parts OF tobacco and one OF grease which
has drifted in from the kitchen The
only difference between a French and an
Italian place Is in the name of the pro-
prietor and the nationality of the walters
and not always do they apply.
1t is pretty nearly useless to look for
an individual restaurant of this class.
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ISN Berion BraIeN.

"HIS is not a Guide TO New York
Eating Places" nor a dissertation
II on How to BE Economical, Though
Single" II will name you no names and
contain practically no useful information
whatever for l sing Of the renascence dn
some cases / might well say "recrudes-
cence'0 Of the table d'hote. and ! mean TO
sing as does the troubadour, in no cold
spirit of criticism and concrete fact, but
with the untrammelled abandon Of fancy
and poesy.
Let some bards FIJI the air
With songs Of strife and battle,
OF cannonades that flare
And men moved down like cattle;
Let others pipe the prattle
OF baby's little throat
or carol OF his rattle.
sing the table d 'hote.
While poets sing Of wine
In accents tense and tender,
or lit Of eyes that shine
And beauty sweet and slender"
! envy them the splendOr
OF lines I'd love 10 quote,
Yet still this lay / render
! sing the table d'hOte.
Providence and progress be praised. the
table d'hote IS coming back 60 its own
again-and its own is coming back to the
table dhote. Out in the West mot Penn