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The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
AN INTELLIGENT
VIEW OF HETCH HETCHY

Brother Guy Barham takes an intel
ligent view of the Hetch Hetchy con
troversy raised by the nature lovers
when he says editorially In the Lo
Angeles Herald:
Private interests. which so far
have been able to prevent the city
of San Francisco getting the right
from the government to provide a
water supply from the Hetch
Hetchy valley, have been flooding
the country with literature in
arguing against the alleged desc
Grafton of one of the great natural
wonders of the west.
From this literature it might be
supposed that San Francisco meant
to take the mountain gorge. blow
1t off the map with dynamite and
grind 1T up into concrete.
Now what San Francisco pur
poses doing in Hetch Hetchy is to
substitute for the rough floor Of
the canyon a lake. 1t is not going
to blow down any cliffs or shut off
any waterfalls or do anything else
that would destroy or even lessen
the beauty of this seldom visited,
remote mountain fastness.
1t is not the beauty OF the Hetch
Hetchy valley that the power COM
pany and the water company which
at present enjoy monopoly In San
Francisco are worried about but
any interference with the monopoly
of city's greatest necessity.
It is from this same selfish source
that proceeds the agitated torrent
of indi gnation at possible national
jurisdiction over a municipal util-
ity.
San Francisco simply seeks from
the federal government the same
consideration which Los Angeles
did. and ought TO have it as we
had it.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
a MISTAKEN
PTETY

People hesitate to criticise monu-
ments Of this character and quality
because of certain illogical confusion
statue with its illustrious original
They do not stop to consider that a
statue which is an eyesore is really
an offense against the patriot dead
Now Commissioner Lindley proposes to
put all these monuments in a sort
of secluded municipal cemetery which
might be known as fame's eternal
dumping ground, or if not that, state
of probation or purgatory for statues
pending their final elimination. even
as certain wits of the Bohemian club
some years ago pulled down and carted
Cogswell that once defaced lower
Market street 1t is a mistake to
imagine that Judge Lindley's measure
is propounded in any spirit of irrever-
cree or want of respect for the mighty
dead whose memory is so gistakenly
perpetuated and made a laughing stock
in clumsy marble or awkward bronze.
The fact is, and we are beginning to
realize it. that ii is quite impossible
to make work of art out Of the prod
ucts of the contemporary tailor A
tailor made statue reproducing in stone
or metal the frock coat and trousers
of commerce is a grotesque impossible
ity in an artistic sense and the same
thing is true of the clumsy draperies
known as the classic toga- No draping
that obscures the human form divine
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
HAS NO
FRIENDS

Like the domestic fly, the prevailing
rodent Of minor denomination has no
friends and deserves none. The ground
squirrel and the rat have been made
the subject of government crusade OF
elimination. In Contra Costa county a
staff of federal squirrel hunters is in
the field and over at Richmond on the
vented an ingenious scheme by which
he hopes to wipe out the unnecessary
and pestiferous rat. ! learn from the
Record Herald the details of Blake s
plan, to wit.
Several weeks ago he put out
hundreds of traps, but 1t seems that
the Richmond rat is a very intel
ligent animal and knows what
trap is made for. with the result
that the daily catches have been
remarkably low. although the most
tempting bait has been used. But
the doctor has hit upon most
unique idea. He purchased guam
tity of sponges and had them cut
up into small pieces. The bits OF
sponge are then saturated with
tallow and are put in small tin
cans which have been scattered
about the city, with the result that
wonders are expected to be accom-
plished by this new method of rat
determination.
The rat likes tallow and eats the
sponge: that is, he is expected to
swallow the small piece whole.
When the sponge arrives at the
proper place In the rats internal
mechanism the sponge absorbs the
moisture and swells up,S with the
result that Mr.. Rat gets the belly
ache. peritonitis or some other Sc
rious complaint and succumbs.
Doctor Blake says the scheme is
working nicely, for the rats are
eating all the sponges one man,
working eight hours a day. can
prepare, and he expects to see
high mortality rate in the rat pop
ulation in Richmond
In San Luis Obispo. on the other
hand, the county is paying bounties for
squirrel tails. and the other day a
country boy turned in 602 tails of legal
tender. for which he was paid $30.10.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
THE CLOTHES
HORSE STATUE

The revolt against the clothes horse
statue led by Commissioner Lindley
in this city is even more emphatic
in the national capital. where they
have an institution officially known as
the Hall of Fame but more generally
described for the enlightenment of the
curious tourist as the Chamber Of
Horrors" There are enshrined the eff
gies of the nations worthless. Some of
them look like fashion plates and
others seem to have slept in their
clothes. Some of the statues belong in
museum as freaks. while others
ought to go to the junk shop. Indeed,
Lieutenant Governor ingalls, of Kan
sas. whose fathers image appears in
the gathering, asks that it should be
taken down and put out of range OF
the derisive remarks OF visitors.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
A MUCH
ABUSED RIVER

The Reno Journal laments the fate
of an unhappy river:
The Truckee river must feel like
poor abused Cinderella of river
Just now it is so thin that Its
bones show. Mills and cities dump
refuse and sewage into 1T. The bed
is clogged with a wild mass of
weedy willows. The river is COM
PEELED to flow past places that are
good for neither eve, ear. nose or
soul. Some one ought to make this
river feel welcome The bed ought
to be cleaned out. turned over or
shaken down The weeds ought
to be rooted up. The walls ought
to be made fairly regular. An
other dishpanful of water ought
to be poured in The banks should
be more completely parked. II the
Truckee river could pack up and
move away ii is almost certain she
would have been gone long ago.
AS it is she has shrunk away al
most to the limit
The Truckee used to be the most
perfect trout stream in America, but
with the march of Improvement 1t has
been thoroughly commercialized. On
its banks are huge industrial concerns
that dump obnoxious chemicals into
the river and its flow is regulated by
water gates to fit the needs of the irri-
cation systems so that the astonished
fish are at times in danger of being
stranded and will. perhaps, in the
which to make excursions across lots
and over sandy bars. Doubtless all this
is a necessary industrial use OF a river
flowing through territory which other
wise would be desert, but the trout
fishermen will lament the injury to a
stream that used to provide them with
so much good sport
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
VICE PUT
ON EXHIBITION

In a way San Francisco has overdone
the thing. There is a whole lot Of
make believe about the prevalence of
vice. We have. like other cities. our
good. bad and Indifferent, but a GER
tain element has emphasized the bad
because they found it pay as a spec
tacle for the curious. When miladi
wants to feel real devilish she goes
summing and turkey trotting on the
primrose path She calls it doing
stunts. and just as like as not her
name gets in the papers. The world
and his wife often get sadly mixed In
a more or less public fashion with the
half world and the confusion creates
4 wrong impression. Then there are
the professional vice doctors. the mar
ket hunters. who go humping up and
down the country, cadging for sub
scriptions. and are skilled to convert a
notion into terms of salaries. They
paint the town black. and the blacker
they can make it the more dollars come
their way
We have become accustomed to this
pfeeu or cats ana nave ceased TO pay
much attention to their caterwauling.
unless it might be in the nature of a
missile bootjack flung that way. but
Mooney is of another sort. and so the
crusade prospers despite the desperate
efforts of his superior officers TO take
up his noise. The official mind is
like the oyster. and we all know that
noisy noise annoys an oyster. 1t is
the instructive official habit to cover
things up and put them in a convenient
pigeonhole. There is an apparent
shrinking from disclosures. Who. for
example, was "the man in the big
crib" who got the $4,000 subscribed
by the Chinese gamblers TO pay for the
removal OF Chief Seymour from office :?
So far-as ] have seen, the question was
not asked during the inquiry before
the police commission, and yet it migh
seem TO go TO the root of the matter
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
THE ANCIENTS
AND HORRIBLES

1 like Curtis Lndley's plan to put
most Of the statues and monuments in
the Golden Gate park on a reservation
like the bad Indians. The park is now
disfgured by a grotesque collection of
sncients and horribles with which a
mistaken piety has sought TO do honor
TO the eminent dead, with the unhappy
result of making them ridiculous
What, for example. had the martyred
Mckinley done that his memory should
he associated with the public offense
in potmetal that stands at the very
gate of the park?
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
NOTES

NOTES
fa) line adopted By Lasker against Steinitz,
Tarrasch and others. Whites superior pawn
position and Blacks difficulty in bringing his
queens bishop into action are full make
weight for Blnck's possession of two bishops
ab) Much inferior to IA P-QB4. Black s
difficulties begin at this point.
tc) And this only makes them greater.
td1 Better would be 1915 P-QKt3.
lei White shows good Judgment In not win
ming pawn by IS kt-Kt6: KtxKt; 10 r.
QSch; RIB; 20 RxRch; kxR; q BxPch; K-B2;
% Bxkf.
tf1 Again White resists the temptation Of
winning 4 pawn By 20 KR-Q: Kt-B; 81 R.
QS: @RxR: p RxK:~ RxKt: % BxP: R-B2;
"a R-KtS: P-R3: % BxKt; RxB;' 70 RxB.
tg) AInch stronger IS II BIB. The prob
able reply is % BER4.
sh, The bishop is lost.-Notes By E. W.
Gruer.
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statement in the Willows Journal
Clam countv.

statement in the Willows Journal 0
Glenn county:
The Willows federal building, for
which $4,000 has been appropri-
ated. is held up for lack of funds to
pay the expenses of a site inspector
TO come here and pick out the
ground on which the structure will
sit. 1t is not likely that the cost
will be more than $3.50. But there
are no funds available and It may
be two or three years before there
will be any. unless something Is
done here. Postmaster West this
morning took the first step toward
doing something. He wrote to
Secretary McAdoo of the United
States treasury and told him that
if 1t is. proper, and Will be accept
ed. Willows will raise the cash to
have an inspector sent on at once.
In the meantime the contract for tn
building can not be let.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
EMBODIES
| AN IDEA

Another example of good sculpture
is the monument to the Spanish war
veterans at the junction of Van Ness
avenue and Market street. This group
is metaphorical in treatment. 1t con-
veys an Idea and tells a story in a way
impossible of attainment by the tailor
made statue. In Boston there Is a
statue of General Banks. the civil war
hero. and the sculptor. we'll skilled in
fashion plates. has put crease in his
trousers ground to a fine edge. To
be sure, the creased trousers had not
yet come into fashion during the civil
war period, but the artist was deter
mined and resolute to bring his hero
up to date
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
LATE FAD IN AUTO ROBES

Automobile robes, in the different uni
yersity colors and bearing either the
university seal or replica in felt OF
the university mascot, are novelty
much in demand this year. The Yale
bulldog on a blue blanket, and the
Princeton robe with the tigers head in
orange on a field of black, are repre-
sentative examples. The fad, however.
is not confined to college colors. There
are also robes for the B. P. o. E..
knights Templar. Shriners, Masons,
ZYoodmen and others.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10

Here is a game won by M. A. Wood
ward from Marshall at Los Angeles in
the latter's recent simultaneous exhibit
ton. The winner is member of the
executive committee of the Los Angeles
Chess club and the success of Mar
shafIs visit in the southern metropolis
was due in no small part to Mr.. Wood
wards energy in making the various
arrangements, securing publicity, etc.
Woodward believes he has discovered a
satisfactory variation in the Center
Counter opening. At all events. by 31s
Q-K4ch. instead of the customary GO
or Q-QR4, black avoids the harassing
attack Tin the latter variations) of 4
P-QKt4.
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to CHESS EDITOR. SAN FRANCISCO CALL,
game.
tb) 4 stronger move than the old fashioned
101a P-QB3.
tc) Blacks attack has come to nothing and
his development Is Inferior. 1t would. therefore.
be advisable to play Is PxP, PIP; 16 RxR,
BxR.
Id This forfeits the exchange but the posi-
tion Is untenabie anyway. A probable continua-
tIon was 20 R-B2. B-Kt5 ii Oh. Rxf;
p BOP. R-KR4: % Kt-R2. BxRP: "a KtxB
RxKt; 25 RIB. Q-R1ch; 26 KxQ. B-Kt6ch;
p K--Kt. RlKt5)-R5.
te) Though the game might be continued
white does we'll to resign. The probable con-
tinuation is: 20 BxP. BxRP: % Q-K2. B-Kts;
2S BxB, QxB: 20 Kt-B3. Ore. so XIX
Q-R7ch; 81 K-B2 RtRp-Kt4: 81 R-Kt
Q-Ktech; ss K--B. QxBP and wins easily
Notes by f.. w. Gruer.
GAME NO. 81
RCY LOPEZ
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
NEW PUSH BUTTON DEVICE
Gives Return signal when Person
Called Responds

An electric push button so devised
that 1t will give return signal has
been invented by Norwegian cleo
trician. The contrivance is simple and
may be attached to any push button
connected with an electric bell. An
electromagnet, directly behind the push
button. gives dull, buzxing sound
when the person called responds. Be-
sides assuring the person pushing the
button that he has been heard. the de-
vice saves the person called from the
ringings
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
MATRIMONY AND CAUTION
Four Times welded, Old Man Picked
Each Bride ON Days Notice

Speaking of matrimony, there's Leslie
Fraser Duncan, 90 years old, of Lon
don, who has been married four times
and who says that in each case he
courted and married in just one day.
In no case did he make any extended
inquiries or any palpitating protesta-
tions of undying affection. In each in
stance he lived happily, peacefully, un-
til bereaved, never resorting to divorce.
From his experience Mr.. Duncan con
cludes that love and caution and such
things are needless. But let's pause
to wonder il his argument isn't a bit
faulty? May be he's the exception
that proves the rule. eh? And in any
event let's wait for more evidence be-
fore throwing caution to the winds.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
NOTES

fa} The usual move. Pos is sound The
early advance does not benefit black.
tb} venturcsome plan, which forces both
PLAYERS into regions of combination.
.tc) But here, by all means, Pos should be
played. The rook may be useful the kB
file. II P-kB4 follows. Now black obtains
tremendous advance in development.
tdl Excellent The white X position can not
render resistance against the concentrated fire
of SO many pieces.
tel White conducts his defense coolly. But
the attack Of black is irresistible.
~ Alas. Black, who has hitherto advanced
intrepid1y. is suddenly taken by fear and throws
more troops forward than needed. White
IS thus given time to prepare defense. P-B6
at once would have won. If. then, Is BxP. KB-
kt5! 10 QxB, ktxBch: 20 PxKt. QxP and wins
ga Now the terrible center of white advances
rapidly and cuts the position OF black in two
The attack OF black comes too late.
t1l PxB would have won still more quickly
n. Y. Evening Post.
GAME NO ~
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SOME GOOD
SCULPTURE

BY way of example let Us consider
some OF the really good statuary to be
found in the streets of this city. There
is. for instance. the Donohue monument
in lower Market street The figures
are almost nude. but nobody finds them
objectionable on that score. There
is again the baseball pitcher in the
park, instinct with appropriate action
and indicating In vivid outline the ath-
lete's figure. It tells the whole story.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
GAME DEPARTMENT

Appended are the two games men
toned last week. which Prof. A. W.
Ryder won from Rev. e. b. Adams in
the northern California VS.. southern
California correspondence match. The
Ruy Lopez especially will be found
most instructive and is worth careful
study Game No. 81 was played In the
recent Budapest tourney won by. Ru-
dolph Spielmann. Game No. 80 is one
of match between DIR. Dudley and
Mr.. Krake OF San Rafael.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
DEAD RAT REsUscITATED
Electric Current Revives Heart That
Was stilI $50 Seconds

LYNN, Mass, Aug. 9.-Dr. G. Warren
Eastman and John Van Solver. a medi-
cal student. in experimenting to solve
the problem of life brought a rat back
to life with high frequency current of
$4,000 volts after its heart had been
still for $50 seconds.
The rat had remained immersed in a
pail of water five minutes when itssbody
was removed and medical tests showed
no spark of life.
Returning life was noticed after its
body had been in contact with the cleo
trio current just so seconds. 1t lived for
40 hours, death finally being due to lack
Of proper nourishment.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
MINE MULES ARE SENSITIVE

Realizing that mules have feelings.
the superintendent of a coal mine at
Brazil Ind, has issued orders that all
the drivers in the employ of the COM
pany shall do away with the use of
whips. Drivers who are unable to get
desired results without the use of the
"blacksnake" have been replaced by
men who can persuade the mules to
work without beating them. Some of
the mules also had to be discharged,
but as a whole, it is said that much
better service is obtained
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10

~ AN FRANCISCO repents in sack
cloth and ashes, obedient to the
prompting OF the prophet Mooney.
Learned divines have thundered
from the pulpit and no man needed.
They were as voice crying in the
---:-arness, but when Mooney, the po-
liceman. spoke grand juries pricked up
their ears and able editors began to
take notice. Even the police commits
sion seemed to develop symptoms of
Justification, where heretofore it had
been little more than rubber band iiv-
ing in a pigeonhole.
Tis well. God is good to the Irish
ard the MONEYS are wonderful peo-
pie There are cynics who say that
the Mooney conducted crusade is but
momentary spasm OF virtue, just a
periodical as they call it, sort of pious
debauch that runs its obstreperous
course and wears itself out as they
would like TO believe l am not say
ing as to that. but l put my trust in
Mooney. who has fine flow of Ian
guage.
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can be handled by the sculptor, with
his imperfectlv plastic and stubborn
materials. so as to produce a graceful
and seemly effect.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10

pawus. Here is clever study by q. Geiser,
taken from '.Halpern's Symposium:
PROBLEM No. 65-Bf X. f.. l. WINDLE
(Composed for The San Francisco Call
Rlack-9 Pieces.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
GAME NO. 50


RYDER (whfte} VS.. Adams (black).
North vs.. South Correspondence Match. J
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White Pieces.
White to play and mate in two moves
PROBLEM No. G6-gY A. FINK
tComposed for The San Francisco Cali.)
RIarE-f Places
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GAME NO. 80
tENIEk Col y IER-
Marshall fwhite) VS. Woodward fhlaek

NOTES BY NJ. A. w.
fal Very poor. K-R is best
(b1 Oversight. RxKtP seems best.
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r.. Halle. city-Problem' received. Thanks
E. s. B.. Niles-Glad TO have you as solver.
Yes, the Stelnitz game was daisy.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
GAME NO. go
NC aa<rnr-r

AffAms (white} VS.. Ryder fblackA.
North vs.. South Correspondence Match. ]
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NOTES
ca Questionable Dolicy in correspondence
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GAME NO. %

RIiY LOPEZ.
Doctor Dudley twbite) VS.. Mr.. Krake black
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
GAME NO. 81
Run LOPEZ

Doctor Asztalos fwhitel rs sterk CIlackl
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Correspondeuce

.'Ignoramus,' Solution to problem by B.
G. Laws: / R-R4.
Douglas Island news., 1913-06-11
The NorthIand The Latest News. from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed. Information for Everybody.

A shortage of laborers is feared in Juneau.
 Dynamite was used to clear the Tan qua river of ice this spring.
 The Standard Oil Co. is erecting large storage tanks at Ketchikan.
 Thomas Manifee, ball player out at Seward, was found to be insane.
 Whitehorse girls play good baseball, which is more than can be said for the boys.
 The United States marshal recently seized fifteen tons of diseased pork at Fairbanks.
 Seward business men have sub scribed sl3250 per month for pub licity fund.
 A. F. Demidof has been. appointed postmaster at Kodiak to succeed H. F. Cope, deceased.
 President F.W Bradley, of the Alaska Treadwell and associated companies, is on his way north.
 It is said that T. R. Needham, editor of the Wrangell Sentinel, is after the commissioner job at that place.
 Democratic National Committeeman Cheney is the latest object of Delegate Wickersham's wrath, or jealousy.
 By the terms of the new Yukon mail contract, Dawson is to have mail of all classes delivered both winter and sum- mer.
 Senator Pullman has introduced a bill in the senate to allow Juneau to issue bonds for s4o,Ooo to builda school house.
 Premier Mcbride has publicly an- nounced that a railroad line is being projected into the Atlin country from the south.
 Because of the discovery of case of smallpox at Uyak cannery, all the in habitants of Kodiak island must be vaccinated,
 The steamship Georgia, of the Juneau Steamship Company, is laid off for re- pairs. The tug Carita is temporarily on the run.
 Black bears are crowding toward the Capital City, demanding protection. One recently chased the wireless oper- ator up hill.
 The Whitehorse Star says that the Yankees came across the line on cele-- bration day and lifted everything but their mortgages.
 Down at Loring cannery near Ketch- ikan they are making up the cans for the 150,OO0 cases of fish which they ex- pect to catch and can.
 The Temple Copper Company have some very promising claims on Land lock bay and expect to soon place the property in position to ship.