| Show ARTHURW EWENS LETTER THE DISMISSAL OF it gave the papers a great chance to storm THE SWEARING PROFESSOR PROFESS ORt I 1 john P youngs volume on silver reception shows changed conditions quits in ill california recalling Ee callins sonic some local names since ramous famous signs ot of expansion in a Lit literary errity and educational way correspondence tribune 1 sail fl alcisco an cisco july 3 5 science and ilicia lure have been to the rote lit in this his t metropolis during the past nock that Is to say professor george davidson has been removed from his place at tile the head or of tit the geodetic SL suney irey after a service or of forty years john P young has published it a book on oil the silver question charles warner stoddard has returned to call forkla torn li it Is announced that william grear harrison Is writing a nol anti and beatrice blui radons remittance tance man after bedniz advertised on oil the bill boards like it a circus was pilli ted in sundays examiner ill proving to be as is milli mild and crude a little tale as ever canic came 1 a I boarding school and went into tho the wastebasket waste basket of the magazine editor clifton professor davidson must feel immensely lit nattered flattered at the row his removal has raised it Is right that there should be 1 a I row the government made no complaint about the old gen clemans tl emans other men speak highly of its ills knowledge anoa ledge and abilities and though 70 years of ago age lie he Is still active lot but the professor nver knew how low popular lie ho was until th 1 press bess got a n chance to bilte its ills official obituary had lie he been darwin HUK it 1 ley tyndall st thomas aquinas and himself rolled into one the shock to the journalists at its ills firing rould could not have been more so were severe or their fury ilici eat more fiercely tier cely ex expressed presed pro dividen Di vidon will go down to an ail honored grave believing that all the ln lit dignat lun has been on ills his account awl ami it would bo be cru cruet to him film tit tile the pleasing illusion As a matter of lit lat fat kits hlf misfortune was a godsend tu bi the editorial Nil filters v liters of r Q san ail francl francisco q co when brother hiither took hold of the call ho he inaugurated an era eid ei d or of peare peace and good will N M ts As it gained him subscribers u 1 bers fill all tile the other papers hae hac of r course followed its his load iad I ad and the ell ed pares have been argelle for half a year nobody has been permitted to roast anybody under this quaker polley policy ot of making m no enemies by saying true it als things the writers have it if not physically become as pale and languid as massachusetts consumptives ives in ill pull pul inan coaches journeying westward for climate iut the davidson incident supplied lit ideal opportunity tot for strong writing washington ls Is three thousand I miles away and denouncing carlisle an and tile the president in its his behalf could nl possibly offend a soul whose resentment could hurt it was a fight with nobody on oil the other bide and when a san francisco newspaper can c lit find a fight of that kind it punches the die bag with a ferocity beyond corbetts it has cheered tile the editors up immensely they feel like themselves again and though not ore one of them I 1 dare barosay da rosay say knowla know a geodetic survey surat y front from a quadrant it the ey y have con com themselves ilian to a a man that nobody in the country has half protessor professor davidsons geodetic knowledge they are his friends and admirers for life perhaps some ot of thern them are pe personally acquainted with filhe professor if so they felt fc lt all the more justified in using strong language an for that is the kind he prefers himsel filon all occasions he lias has not his superior til lit profane sweating on oil the pacific coast oaths loll 1011 to front from its his vene venerable lable tongue as easily as figures do flum his hi able pencil ile ho always swears this Is not because lie Is at always in a rage for his temper is even but for the reason that early lit in life lie he decided it that 1 qt lie needed profanity to lound out his chat character acter therefore lie ho curses conscientiously not in tile the unwitting liitt ing manner or of tile the unlearned but thoughtfully purposely lit in order to demonstrate that although a he Is still a man yet it the professor uninterruptedly damns the wonders wonder of nature while he studies them he oven even lias has had time to spare for making himself agreeable to the politically and financially powerful of 0 the earth when the battles hane raged here over evolution and other points on oil which men of oc faith and men of science sc lence cannot agree professor davidson Dav ldson lias ills always been too busy with his professional duties to take a hand general duffield Dudi eld head of the department says the removal was on account aLCo of age but as davidsons successor Is about as ancient as himself that explanation will hardly do there is probably a story behind but it Is strange that one who has walked bo circumspectly and so sedulously avoided tile the creation 01 of enmities as pi lofessor davidson Dav ldson has done should have tramped on Influent iti toes at last it Is not at all likely that he will be damaged lit in pocket by lit his removal tor for lie he lias has plenty of licit lich patrons patroni and lie will be kept professionally employs I 1 that the government should have dismissed ao 0 O eminent EL a matt man anti and so old a servant curtly by note instead or of giving him film an ail opportunity to save ills his bilde by regi resigning gning Is bo remarkable indeed that curiosity to know v tile tho reason Is naturally excited the fact that john job W P young manager manage ot of the chronicle could publish a 9 book in ills his paper on tile the silver or any adv other question without being scoffed at by his brethren of tile the press shows that the old california Is gone and the new california is liere time was when a local writer hall had but to raise ills his pre sumptuous head an ail inch above the common level in order to get it t racked that was when san sail francisco was a in spirit spir lt when cv knew everybody else personally and it seemed ludicrous to tile the ordinary man that the neighbor whom ile ho saw AW every day on oil tile street should bo be regarded i by tile outside world as a more or less famous personage it tonk nearly twenty ve years if for san canil francl act to forgive lot give dartt harte anti and and nearly its is engfor for his old home to accept henry george as more than a crank tile the habitual tone lone ot of tile the press here toward these nien men used to be d de c lating and insulting that was ta the le prasit li 3 way of 0 letting tile the world understand 5 on oil what familiar lIllar fa terms it hall had been with in i downed now ned I 1 dare say tile the old almers in galena adopt the tha same name method of impressing the stran berwith their churn chum like intimacy with grant in fit his hir tanning tannin days happily the city and irve have become hi big enough riot ot to be start startled lea at product producing un an author or two books by callior ats pour out these days and nobody thinks the worse of the writers ot of them or makes a specialty of koloff about it in a friendly arl way avay beilin r I 1 little stories to prove what a despie despicable t atle character the tha rellow fellow Is who Is being talked of with erpf fucet by the outside world mr S VS moffatt mon att of the Wit editorial orial start staff of the examiner has published two books one on the and another on oil tile the science ell tit of government both of which have been well received it in th the r east basl t and as a in ill the case ot of nir yo I 1 0 of th the chronicle in he haa not been ti tied to the 1 fil I lit ibn ain 4 pl enri formerly a journalist hits has wilt ten tell several hiRt historical orical volumes vol Ms his latest rt being n torrid indictment of 0 tile th papacy yet iw lv ba liaa not been over to the he secular new to yf b dealt il alt with us its inerd tully fully ns its pou cible mid without tho the shedding bh edding ot of ills blood tin the of mr kli tot or i long time professor of 0 ile liellei 1 ills jett fell idt ut tile catholic university in washington carries the ahr back to tile the tic oc tile cal rally ly seventies kret was making ills his reputation on oil the overland anti joaquin lillav li llev jj in I 1 red P 1 shirt and t top 0 p bouts into the hearts a is of ol 01 the ile lon ri n r ril then it 11 as it 1 stoddard would hoth ot of them lie ile had written charming verse and more inore charming prose lor for the 11 and andt was vas known ns an a alian ili I 1 letters heroic hirte lie t miller lifto imd bean been heard tit lint denly lie in quit wil ills delf delicate ell cale cate daina dainty I 1 work ork was 1 in n request but he d dropped led his it pen lie tills has never told 1 why and aid nobody has attempted to do it for him A tour lour of 0 europi seemed to take all 1110 kemt xe t out ot of life and those who walled waited for mot more a krucli graceful things as mv south sea waited lit in vain baki ile ho burled buried himself in ill the th club then in a catholic 0 college in ill indiana where he produced it il pamphlet ortho and finally disappeared in ill tile the rec ginisea tse of oc the W washington il s hington thead bolit tit of miller I 1 leme niber oppressed oppi c essed allm lle ho seemed it to think that a greater I 1 than 11 himself hinl had aris cit un tin opinion more creditable to ins modest than to his judgment for 0 our r friend joaquin though gifted with a marvelous marv clous oar ear tor for soon bound ilia haa really never had anything vezy veil important to say while stoddards studdards dards 11 poetry halt had thought and fancy as well as music in it a conviction of sin silenced stoddard lie ile was a 1 I convert to catholicism which seized upon ills imagination convinced of the beauty of holiness but prone to tile ilic pleasures pleas of the flesh tile hapless poet found life a sp conflict instead of an ail inspiration to sons song anyway literature lost him and california the most dellette delicate and finished writer she has ever had if the literary lines are more pleasant than they weri for the professional the they SIP alp still hard enough for the amateur william breor harrlson harrison Is to be applauded for ills his courage in announcing a no novel el some months ago aeo he produced runnymede runny mede a ruy play in fit blank verse and was property properly stated slated fur for his daileg it was not shakespearean e ex antly of course but it was a good deal better than most of the plays play written by acthen s hero here who inake their livings by their pens lions mr ll IIan arilson lson Is a busy man inan ot of business but lie takes time to observe read think anil and amuse hm himself I 1 sol I 1 with composition that Is a creditable sort ut of man mail for or a city to grow and ills his kind will be I etter ietter treat ell cl presently that a business mail ann should be at alii to to write poetry and tion and not lind hint himself ie gardell as it doubtful character sri in the commercial district saya ays 1 a I good deal tot tor the tha advance that has been made the truth is that till tile strictly material old timer Is 1 giving place to ill a younger or of men many ot of whom are educated it li 14 quite the lahlon fashion for our young millionaires millionaire to lo interest themselves lit in literature and alt ait many are ambitious to be known tor for besides their money lit in a a quiet way they in many generous things thing no lad art or girl with notable talent need wither bete I 1 now there nrc alen plenta ut pockets ready to open to a friendly appeal to give the the chance ot of at a european education we hae of nt such men who regard it Us a a pleasure plea surf sune aa a I 1 Ivi lege to olo do this aoi soil t or 0 thing in developing such 1 I i class we develop also i broader hatire jibe liberal ral spirit ili hi the whole community already we ive have come to expect that our young men lv who to inherit money shall lie bo gentlemen tho the expectation is frequently disappointed F hinted to t be sure but it 11 is well to na nave ve the standard l reco another sign or expansion is the decay or of the four If hundred undred the little set of nt merely I 1 lich ell people who were wont to bestride the town and prove their so caal superiority by doing nothing but i dance and fet feast they were a vulgar I 1 lot most ot of them have died fell oft off and the I 1 rest have fallen int neglect young men and women given tile the education of college and travel have declined to recognize the supremacy of oc some old fellow who because he was born lit in the south or hall had made a foit toi tuno unc set himself up commonly at his cifes instigation sti gation as a social arbiter whom not to know was to be rather disreputable and hopelessly obscure the new four hundred Is not a compact body there are now sets equal it ID glory which are polite to one another but dont mingle not because ane one regards regard the other as interior but as different young men of means and d unquestionable standing decline to climb nob hill and yawn amid its faded funereal splendor they preter prefer their horses guns gulls country clubs and the society of people with better intelligence and manners ail and larger aber notions of life than the old nobility wo we are evolving from tho the new rich state and the outward sign ot of social eminence Is nu no longar dullness and a disposition to trample I 1 asked ask p d a local I 1 mcallister McAll lster the other day clay ab about out society in fit san francisco and lie answered mournfully that there was no society that the best Ile people ciple seemed to havo have soured on dancing and the old ways b somehow orne how I 1 also asked hini him what effect would be produced in yin san co by the withdrawal of the ilan ban from the bloomer by new yolks swells at newport none he replied shaking its hia bald lead head we e dont rule things any more here to any extent of 0 course theres a set th that it waits tor for new i york to show the pace in customs but I 1 there are lots of nice girls who a few I 1 years ago have dared to be independent who dont care a damn for eastern dic dictums turns still and put on oil bluhm eric er or oi do anything else it they take it 11 into their heads and will sall sail Francis cos four fou hundred wear bloomers freely now jt it cant san cos died Is a phantom and a phantom cant wear breeches you know said aid tile the relic cackling feebly at ills his lattio joke joice certainly the young women ot of san sail francisco entirely rely respectable young women such as school teachers aal I the daughters of good homes bomes have not been affected by the hie eastern fashionable horror of the bloomer the par park and the well weli paved streets are alive with them on their wheels very every c fine afternoon and evening or ening the san sail franciscan eye has grown accustomed to the sight bight land it has bas grou grown n used too to seeing litt little IC girls going about in bloomers W without wheels the most sensible or of all castu costumes meic tot for active child houd too and it Is extremely pretty however it may ile be on oil the atlantic side the die bloomer la is ts becoming dross dress here wo no one Is particularly graceful on a bicycle but a well made loung aung woman walking beside her aher I in loose tiou sers sars to the knee leg gilled jacketed and capped Is is as jaunty anti and retching fetching a figure us as the pleased eye of mau man ca can it behold ARTHUR biljon LN |
