The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-31
7+s E3 n F F 977''.3 EDITORIAL NOTES

{, i Francisco Bay were members of the
 expedition of Porto1a, a Spanish ad-
 venturer, who became the first gover-
 nor of California. PortoIa. himself
 was not member of the party which,
 IA years ago today, gazed down upon
 a bay and the surrounding shores l which, were later to become the sites
 of the popuIous cities of San Francis
 co and Oakland. The names of the
 men who fpst beheld the Bay of San Fra ucisco are not recorded, but the Ihonor of discovery probably belongs to Father Juan Crespi and Sergeant Ortega. On the morning of October 31, 1769,- they ascended a hill, and, says CreSp1: AS soon as we had arrived 1 on the summit we came in sight of a
 large bay, formed by a prom entory of land which extends into the seq and
 resembles an 1sland.'' The priest adds that the soldiers in the party saw beautiful plains, studded with
 groves,'' and e'the smoke coming up i in all parts left no doubt that this To- calfty was thickly inhabited Gas
 par de Portola, captain of dragons
 and Governor of the California; prob
 ably never saw the bay, but his name | is perpetuated as the discoverer by the annual Porto1a festivals in San l Francisco. Sir Francis Drake came
 near discovering the bay in 1879. when l he landed at a point thirty miles to i the northwest
 This is the last day of October, and | tonight the graves will give up their 1 dead, the imps and devils of the un- 1 derwor1d will be granted a furlough
 and the witches will ride a1oft on
 their broomsticks. Yes, tonight will
 be Halloween, the holiday sacred to
 ghosts and spooks and ha'nts and ap-
 partitions and spectors and evil spirits ] and black cats and witches and wiz ards and goblins and phantoHns and all 1 sorts of workers of black magic and | supernatural visitors. It makes one 1 shiver to think of tonight, when all the powers of darkness will be un- | Ioosed to play their pranks upon the inhabitants of earth.
 Still it must be confessed that Hal 1 lowe'en isn't what it used to be. The ghosts and Spooks seem to have lost ] that quality which baseball fans call | pep well as much of their imp l ish ingenuity and originality. The | owner of cottage may go to bed to- l night reasonably confident that he won't find his gate missing in the morning. "Swiping' gates used to be l the most popular pastime of the Hal 1owe'en goblins, but that was the most fnocent of their antics. Doubt1Sss you remember the time when Old Pop Jen- kins found his carriage on the roof of his barn-and that joyous occasion when the Widow Jones awoke to find her. COW installed in the kftchen-aad when you and-that is, the ghosts l nearly scared the Thompson kids into conniption fits with a tick-tack and a jack-o'-1antern? Yes, the spooks in these good old days were a gingery bunch of visitors.
 Another evidence of the decadenee of the Halloween festival is to be found in the diEninution in the de- mand for pumpkfns-pronounce pun kins'-to be used in the manufacture of jack-o' lanterns. Dealers report "a f iS nd er yellow vegetables for that purpose Kids nowadays are satisfied with ready-made store jack-o'-lanternss made of papier mache in imitation of all ready to light. Out upon such a commercial contraption! Small won der the ghosts are sulky, and refuse to tfact up,'' when welcomed by such a poor imitation of a real jack-o'-1an- tern.
 Halloween, although 1t marks the eve of the Christian festival of All Saints Day, is pagan in origin and observance. The ancient Romans and Druids had similar festival, but the modern Halloween developed in Scot land. Of course, everybody knows that a maiden may learn the identity of her future husband tonight, if she observes the prescribed rites. These are of various kinds, and all doubtless equally eff1cacious. One method is
 
 midnight, and she may see the face of her future spouse if she holds candle in one hand and recftes these lines: Round and round, ye stars so fair,
 Ye travel and search out everywhere; I pray tonight to show to me
 The one whose bride I'll surely be.
 If this faf1s-as possibly 1t may!- the maiden should place by her bed 8 glass of water with a stick of wood iy, 7ic II fn drn0 of falling into a river, and of being rescued by man whose face she will see plainly in her vision. The res- cuer of course, is the man she will wed. Or, to make assurance doubly sure, the girl may take a Halloween pill, made of coeoanut, cheese and English walnut, just before retiring, which will cause her to dream of her future husband.
 Uncle. Sam's cash box has able guardian in the person of William Gibbs McAdoo, famous as a lawyer, hnancier, and digger of tunnels. MT. Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury will celebrate his semi-centenary to- day, having been born near Marietta Ga., in the Confederate States of America, Oct. 31. 1863. His youth was spent in Tennessee, and he was edu- cated in the university of that State, and later practieeds law in Knoxville. He rose to the presidency of the street railway company of that city, and be- came leading citizen and rising young man. In 1892 he decided to transfer his activities to a larger field,
 and hung out his legal shing1e in New York.
 Almost from the day of his arrival in New York, by ferry from Jersey City MT. McAdoo was obsessed with an idea That idea was that a tunnel should be built under the Hudson riv- CT. so that passengers bound to and