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THE SAN. FRANCISCO EXAMINER FRIDAY. WRIT. 91 1011 III I Henry Morse Stephens GHYOF TRAfTOR BERKELEY CAMPAIG AMERICAN PEOPLE FINDS MARS CANALS Criticizes Schiller hfRS. MATTHEW SCOTT (small portrait) and Mrs.

William Cummings Story, rival candidates for presidency of Daughters of American Revolution, both of whom claim victory in yesterdays election. TO END TO-W HOW WANT VIRILE PAPERS EARTHQUAKECRAGK Julian Karski Answers Query hsd. in. ELEGTI 0 a -r- Professor of History Insists That Author of "Mary Stuart" Departed From Facts. Schiller, the author of "Mary Stuart," a spectacular historical drama, which the English Club of the University of California -in in ih.

The planet Mars mar be Inhabited, but Professor Robert D. Aitken, one of the astronomers at the Lfck Observa Electorate Will Choose Two Council Members and Two School Directors, Put by President Wheeler in His Lecture, tory at Mount Hamilton, Is inclined to doubt it, and he explained his reasons Impressed with the lecture which Hearst Greek Theater, at Berkeley, tomorrow evening 1. Mrs, lorbets Nomination of to an audience of 500 at California Hall In Berkeley last evening and substantiated his beliefs with negatives and picture. fessor Henry Morse Stephens of the President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California recently gave ja i uueiii oi msiory tor many alleged gross deoarturps from rtnai Ma. in California Hall on "The American He said that the markintra on th With polling booths already Installed Berkeley's now ready for Its final election of the municipal campaign, which will occur to-morrow.

There are two councllmen and two school directors to be chosen, and while the offices are not being contested for as keenly as the strife which characterized the primary election of three wetks ago, the result is Press," Julius Korskl, graduate student Mrs. Story Raises Sotrm in Scott Camp, BOTH CLAIM PRESIDENCY surface of the planet which have been taken for rnnalcx in him nlninn tory. Professor Stephens points out that Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, according to reenrri npvA, m.t at the State university, who received his master's degree last May, has writ merely earthquake fissures, and that ten to President Wheeler, giving his plaV the itrnnirpnt drnmfittn Hearst Greek Theatre, at Berkeley, to-in the whole action nronr in At rr opinion of American Journalism, Korski says: awaited with interest. iieiuier numan nor animal iif on the planet. "The latest photographs taken through our largest telescopes do not seem to indicate artifli-lal rnal" "In your lecture on the 12th instant you defined it as a stm unsolved psy Hawk-Like, 30 Extra Tellers Watch Vote Count That Lasts All Night, explained.

"They are apparently earth chological problem that 'an American The candidates for councilmen are: R. A. Berry. Incumben Fred F. Connor, E.

Q. Turner and John A. Wilson. Candidates for school directors are: Mrs. Elinor Carlisle, Incumbent; Mrs.

B. Hume, Elmer E. Nichols and quake fissures, anri ro nf nf-h a na when they meet and quarrel. W. H.

Catton and Ernest Clowe, University students, who have appeared in previous college dramatic productions, will be seen in "Mary Stuart" to-morrow evening. It is essentially an historical play, with all the action woven about the incidents during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, but the dramatist. ture that it WOUl.i Tint annual- that- taf-. constructed by humans for Irrigation Herman I. Stern.

purposes. They are too rough and too large. One of the mild sensations of the newspaper, to be a successful business proposition must necessarily be a fighting partisan with a pronounced prejudiced "With your kind permission 1 shall attempt to give in a few words my views regarding that problem, which I formed some time ago during my research work In the departments of campaign was sprung at a meeting held under the auspices of the Socialists in Hillside Club house, Wednesday vl.ic aoiiuuuuiria have for long considered these mark in constructing the play, in order to bring about more striking and dramatic situations, is said to have departed from the actual happenings. night, when Fred V. Connor, cHndidate for councilman, was called upon to de fend himself.

Mayor-elect Wilson, In the final speech of the evening, said that lie had Special by leased wire, the longest io Ae world.) WASHINGTON, 20. After a day of Intense political and social excitement in the D. A. R. congress, that interesting- body closed its active work to-night, when the congress cast its last ballots for the position of president general.

The two candidates were Mrs. William CummiiiKs Story of New York and the incumbent, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott Of Illinois. At 8 p.

m. the last ballot had been deposited, and the ballot-boxes were taken In charge by thirty-tellers and removed to the banquet-room of Continental Hall, where the process, of counting will be continued until the early hours of to-morrow moVning. Induced Connor to remain, as he psychology and ethnology of this university. "Thus the attitude of the American public towards Its newspapers is an unavoidable result of the specific American competitive social atmosphere. "The journalistic expectations of the American public are based primarily upon its fighting propensities, the average American being either a daring, ings as Irrigation canals.

If they are correct, it would appear that Mars was inhabited. If the markings are merely earthquake fissures they do not indicate life of any order. I doubt if all the water on Mars would make one of the Great Lakes. "It may be that the planets attending the other suns are inhabited, but we do not know of them. Mercury is uninhabited, because human beings could not live on it.

One side is turned to the sun, which would render it too hot for animal life, and the other aMa i. wished to ask him a question. Wilson referred to the alleged statement of certain members of the Good Govern ment faction that the council Vould be packed with four men hostile to xjie r.ngiisn uiub is sparing no expense In staging the piece, and it is expected that it will prove one of the most elaborate dramas presented in the Hearst Greek Theatre. The advance seat sale is reported to be heavy. SOT DATE FOR CLASS DAY Class day at the University of California will this year be held during commencement week, on Monday, May 15th.

Members of the senior class are preparing for the annual pilgrimage through the campus. Robert H. Moul-ton, president of the class, will be the principal speaker. his, Wilson's, policies. to "Now," said Wilson, "Mr.

Connor, yoii too cold. are one of the four men that the "Good Government Advocates" meant would pack the council against mo. Do you "Venus mav be inhabited Tkr. or. evidences of air and vitar Th.

or do you not Indorse this declaration?" Connor declared that the threat re surface is covered with dense clouds of vapor. There is evidence of rarefied nir on Mars." ferred to was published without his authority, and he utterly repudiated it. y.r ft A -ry He said that If he was elected he would support the Mayor in his municipal programme. The final mass meeting of the cam paign will be held to-night in the uditorium of the Berkeley High School, Alston way, under the auspices of the Socialist party. adventurous, determined and self-reliant Immigrant, or an offspring of the lighting pioneer.

"A community consisting of such trail-blazers, who have still more to win than to lose, prefers on the whole browbeating and Intimidation to a Judicial, logical argument, and a stralght-froin-the-shoulder to a bench verdict. "Under such rule everybody must be a partisan, must he either pro or con everything and everybody, and must be betting his life and his bottom dollar on something or somebody. 'A newspaper, being a reflector of public opinion first and last, must as a matter of course acquire the same fighting attitude, and either go with its subscribers or lose them. "In a country whose political organization is based upon the primordial rule that to the victor belongs the spoils, and where the Insane money-making competition developed a peculiar social hysteria with all its restlessness, fickleness and absent-mindedness in such a society there is no place for Judicial editorials so beloved by the Greeley generation. "Therefore a newspaper, to get circulation and to bo a successful business enterprise, must be a fighting partisan with a pronounced prejudiced attitude." The following prtclnct captains havo THE.

LACE HOUCil been appointed by the Good Government faction for to-morrow's election- Constant charges which have been afloat of unfair counting and sharp practice at the polls last year induced the congress to throw new safeguards round the sanctity of the ballot-boxes. Count Watched Closely. The faction of Mrs. Scott appointed fifteen tellers and a like number was appointed by the faction headed by Mrs. Story.

In addition to this, there were appointed two inspectors to circulate in the room which contained the boxes. At midnight each of Uie candidates eln lined the victory. The nomination of Mrs. Story as opposed to Mrs. Scott was made by Mrs.

Lewis O. Torbet. Mrs. Torbet is the "Story Regent" of the Chicago chapter, but it instructed her to vote for Mrs. Scott, which she did.

exhibiting her ticket to the entire congress in dramatic style-As Mrs. Torbet made her nomination speech, cries of "Traitor!" and repeated hisses came from the Illinois delegation, all of which did not disturb Mrs. Torbet's serenity nor the fluency of her speech. Mrs. John W.

Ames, State regent of Illinois, gained recognition and "de I'recinrt No. Seil C. White- No. o. 7n.

4, Hum ton war: 3, John Wefcti; No. fl, ('linn. BrftuiAj-il: No. H. It.

Irwin: Nr. S. H. J. lm-in it IhifEhm; No.

10, .7. T. Kam: No, jr' F. oruitfli: In, 1, S. S.

MeCahUI; No. Ill, 0. 'laidalt and Fred Hoer1p: No. 14 PrW i' aii. jii.

An iiiir Ar id No. 17, h. Forth; No. 18, J. F.

Bariw: No. ASHLAND AVENUE BIDS DR. BREWSTER MARRIED -1. lUyy Deuiitcr; Nx 22, AL U. Announcement of Wedding to Mian Work on Important Ilichniond Tlinr- ENJOY SILVER WEDDING oughl'nre' Within Ten Bays.

Kimna Joiipk la Surprise. Friends of the Rev. Sanford Taylor to "The Brewster, formerly of the Episcopal RICHMOND, April 20. Division En church of Corning, California, were surprised to receive notices yesterday BOYS ORGANIZE A BAND gineer Bradley of the Santa Fe visited this city to-day and received the last two bids for the work of building up and macadamizing Ashland avenue, of his marriage to Miss Emma Brew ster Jones In San Francisco last clared that Mrs. Torbet a action was uoh ihat she must make an explana from Macdonald to Richmond avenues.

He said the work would probably be The ceremony was performed at St. tion. Illinois had been said to be Luke's Church by the rector, the Rev. gin within the next ten days. Edward Morgan, and the bridal couple The Rev.

and Mrs. Frank S. Brush celebrated their silver wedding anniversary last night at the First Presbyterian ChuTch, of which Mix Brush has been' pastor for seventeen iarg, coming to the church when it was housed in a small building. The majority of his congregation were present at the church parlors where the anniversary was celebrated. E.

F. Burrell acted as master of ceremonies, Miss Flizabeth Westgate presided at the organ and the Rev. V. L. Nash, who was pastor of the church forty-four years ago, presented a purse of $143 to Mr.

Brush, after a few words of congratulation. solidly for. Mrs. Scott and evidently II llnois, not counting on what Mrs. Tor Musical Tonngstrrs of Alameda Form Washington Tark Clob, The Washington park boys' band was organized in Alameda last night at the rooms of the Alameda Improvement Club, when sixteen boys signed the roster.

The instruments, purchased by the Improvement club, were given to tha boys by the Rev. H. Felix, returned to Corning, where the Rev. bet may have tip hre sleeve, had be Mr. Brewster will make his home.

He has retired from active service. The building up of this big street will cost nearly $50,000. It will bring both sidis of the city together and make possible some other important improvements, including a municipal wharf with a tunnel connection and a car line direct to the western water lieved it was telling the truth. Ignored Her Own Chapter. He is a descendant of Elder Brew ster, the leader of the Pilgrims, and That there might be no question of eracity, Mrs.

made the state his wife Is the compiler of Brewster's genealogy, a work Including 33,000 The band committee consists of Sam Skelly, P. Jorgenson and Professor Al ment that every chapter in Illinois had front. names. sndorsed Mrs. Scott and that Mrs.

bert, principal Longfellow school. Torbet's action was contrary to the The Santa Fe will move Its station to the new avenue. It received a strip of land from the city for building the Instructions of her own chapter. Mrs. Laverne Noyes, vice-president general from Illinois, made the norat new thoroughfare.

natintr sneech for Mrs. Scot amid OAKDALE AWAITS GUESTS rounds of applause. S9 Nominations continued until 2 o'clock Mnny IVovel Features Planned for it one when a recess until 4 15 was taken CMOOL SPECIALS Carnival to Be Held There To-Day. Immediately after recess there was a (Special Dispatch lo "Hie Examiner." discussion over the naming of tellers MODKSTO, April 20. Oakdale, a sub Mrs.

Story waited for the hubbub to nhslde and in a graceful manner urb of thi3 city, is ready to. receive thousands of visitors to-morrow In at thanked Mrs. Scott for the courtesy accorded her in allowing her to name her tendance on the rose carnival, for which that community has been pre wn tellers. FOR Rough and Tumble School Life, Your Boy Wants Good Suits He Wants a "Roos" Suit, and He Won't Be Happy Till He Gets It. paring for two months.

The balloting then continued till 8 and soon after the long count Tho programme for the festivities GREAT 60c SILK SALE ON THE THIRD FLOOR TO-DAY A great clean-up of our Silk Department, which means a feast of bargains for the buyers who come to our Special Sales Floor. $1.50, $1.75 AND $2.00 IMPORTED SILKS AT 60c Monday, April 3d, we advertised a sale for two days of $1.50 and $2.00 corded silks at $1.00 a yard. There were 1,200 yards, comprising one-half dozen different styles in all colorings. Over 600 yards were sold. Nearly every style is represented in what remained.

To-day, on the third floor, we will close out at 60 a yard all that were put back on the shelves'of these $1.50 to $2.00 foreign silks. 75c AND 85c NEW FOULARD SILKS AT 60c YARD To-day, on the third floor, the choice of our entire collection of 75c and 85c new Foulard Silks. All colorings and designs, without any exception, at 60 yard. $1.00 MESS ALINE SILKS AT 60c YARD We made a little purchase of 20 of the best colorings of Messaline Silks which the manufacturer closed out because they were only y2 and i regulation piece lengths last 25 and 30 yard lengths of the loom), but for retail purposes they are perfect. Pinks, Creams, White, Light Blues, Grays, Nile, etc.

To-day, on the third floor, the entire purchase at G0 yard. The best values will be sold early in the morning. SPRING SHIRT WAISTS AT 1-3 LESS THAN MARKED PRICES We have gone carefully through our Shirt Waist Stock and selected all waists that show any signs of handling from window display waists that have been tried on waists returned from approbation, comprising the most approved of this season's styles. Lingerie Waists, Lace and Net Waists, Tailored Waists, Embroidered Marquisette Waists all at ONE-THIRD OFF marked prices to-day. FIVE-STRAND MARABOUT BOAS, $1 .50 $1.50 for a line of 5-strand, full length Marabout Boas, in both natural and dark brown.

We purchased these for this sale floor because they were so remarkablv cheap less than their wholesale cost in Europe, The "quality is not really up to D. Samuels standards, but the skillful woman will know how to put two of them together and has been prepared with great care. An aviation meet will be a feature of the carnival, Aviator Young in a Curtiss biplane making two flights during the HALES BUY OAKLAND SITE Tr.hne. Ftrst M. Church Property Sale of afternoon.

A parade, motorcycle races, maypole for (275,000. dance and concert will be other num Thrnnirli the resale 'of the First bers on the day's programme. SWINDLED BY SOLICITOR Berkeley Woman Given Up Dollar to Smooth Yonng Stranger. Mrs. H.

P. Johnson, 410 Murray street, West eBrkeley, reported to the The "Gibraltar" The Suit of Suits ABSOLUTELY without a peer for school wear, and lor dress wear, too, for the matter of that In addition to being built oat of tested beart-of-oak twtds, with two pairs of reinforced, doable stitched knickerbockers, they are built with a vast amount of good style they ha-re to be built that way, for they MUST satisfy ROOS high class Methodist Church property at Fourteenth and Clay streets, in Oakland, by the original purchasers to Hale Brothers for Clay street will have another large business building, as Hale Brothers intend to erect a large retail store at a cost of not less than J225.000. The deal was made yesterday by George M. Flint and E. U-Fitzgerald, who also handled the Presbyterian Church, the Scottish Rite Cathedral and the Athenian Club transactions.

The lot is 100 by TOO feet, fronting on both Fourteenth and Clay streets. The former purchaser of the church police eysterday that she had been Norfolk Suits THIS IS a wonderful opportunity to secure an extra good Norfolk suit for the boy at about half th? regular price, and Norfolks are very popular with school boys, and these should be popular with parents, too, for they are "ROOS" quality and values of $5, $6 and $7, in wear resisting tweeds and serges, sizes 8 to 17, SPECIALLY REDUCED for swindled by a fake solicitor, who called at hor home and secured one dollar from her on an order for Butterlck patterns. The stranger gave the name of Henry Newhardf, and represented himself to be an agent for the San Francisco Subscription Company, in the among Phelan luilding. Fhe received no re oroperty was a syndicate, Mrs. W.

whom are J. F. Carlson and ceipt for her depOFit. The police are invetls-ating. palmanteer.

The price paid by tha retail firm for a 100-foot frontage on Clay street, FRIDAY and SATURDAY to the $276,000, Is the same paid by the syn- I vn-atA for a frontage of 125 feet on. 5 trade. Sizes from 7 to 17 always the same price" remarkably low price of $3.85 the same street, and the original pur-Chasers still retain a 25-foot frontage Clay street, which Is held at a high figure. RATES WATER TO ADJUST WASH SUITS WASH REEFERS NEW AMVALS WASH SUITS ltlerkeley Council to Take Action In V-J Matter Next "Week. TBTBJS13 ARX) nw nmsh ult.

tut onr-octaxL catty- tT9T AJEURXVKD, soma vi mnai-t Wafl Bsden, In hhrh grade (raj, wtiit. or tan. wtth bin or red oollara. an extra good roods and extra, Ing- all the -vim anfl style of Ne-ar York's tern, In -vrtiKK pruiatf a. of a aupertor grada, with smart reafera.

Bites 9 to 8 raara Mofibara cnoioe or Rcnsttin or eallor t-ji. tha $2.75 should certainly look taasa nor reefers or at. to II years. SPECIAL FRIDAY AM $1.25 Prices start at SATTRJBAT, it Reduction of the existing rate charged by the People's Water Company in Berkeley was the subject countered by tha City Council yesterday. Councilman R.

A. Berry advanced the suggestion that the rate be reduced to a minimum of one dollar per month, and that the sprinkling rate of 15 cents a mcith, which the city receives from the company, below the cost of Are You a Bachelor? Then you should hare (rood plajer-piano or the freouins Antoi)iaa? in your bachelor quarters. It will life and Best to your surround injrs and a source of Twer-ending joy to your friends. It's my now. We're eUinr 72 odd f.ylea of plsyeTB, all DULtax.

inrludm Auto-gra-ida. Inrjer-rwayers. Iianulv, Arureius. CHILDREN'S HAT SPECIALS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY wtfshaU make a bis; clean op in oar Children's Hat Department, second floor; to make oertjin of a speedy sale we Lav massed a fuia lot of new straw Hats (BOYS' AND GIRLS') together, from our hlgber priced lines, and marked them CT actual production or water, ba raised AdoIIo. (Vnlian and other.

at grpauy ro- durwi nrffaa Members of the council concurred in the opinion that the rates should be adjusted, and It is probable that action will be taken on the question next For $2i5 you can now Ret. a pood yUv-rr, a better on for 3ttf0. and to $1,030 stylos for $4T0 to $750. Kjy payment, too. MCO week.

have a very handsome boa at a traction of their value $1.50 each. TO-DAY $5.00 SHOES AT $3.93 Satin Pumps for street wear; welt sole, high Cuban heel, broad, high toe and extra short vamp; regular $5.00. Velvet Pumps, welt sole, high Cuban heel, short vamp, tailor bow; very dressy; sold elsewhere at $5.00. Velvet high shoe, with satin top: the newest combination extremely neat and dressy regular $5.00 shoe. SPECIAL FRIDAY ONLY $3.98 MISS MIKKELSEN IN LEAD NEW WMSHMGS IFOR.

CHIUMra 973 Market Street. NEW BLOUSES NEW PYJAMAS BOYS' WOOL SWEATERS BOYS' SHIRTS COAT STYLE NEW Summer Py-m Mercerised latnas. ladras. self colors and Ma SOME BOYS prefer Blouses. We don't wonder after unpacking these fine, new Blouses, in Madras at 50c; In Meroeriaed Madras.

in Smart Silk at $2. THESE SHIRTS for boys are just In from New York. They are the OF COURSE HE wants a Sweates, and he sfioald have a wool sweater it will wear longer and be pretty strfpe. for boys or girls, stses 6 to 18 $1.50 $2 to-dav is merelv an introdurrnrv inducement. Positively none sold under $5.00 after to-day, Friday.

SOME of the screws inaWalthamWatch are so small that 12,000 of them will not fill a lady's thimble. Yet the smallest are perfectly made. Perfection In detail makes the Waltham a close time-keeper. "lt't TTtm Ton Chentd a Waltham." Send for descriptive booklet JVatlve Daughter Heads Lint in Content for Festival Queen. Miss Sophia Mlkkelsn, popular member of Berkeley Parlor Native Daughters of the Golden West, leads in the ontest for queen of tha Berkeley Flower Festival by nearly 600 votes.

Miss MIkkelsen has a total of votes. There are twenty-two aspirants In the race. Richmond Woman Asks a DIvore. lSrrtl Diprfi to "Tti Eraminer." RICHMOND, April 20. Suit for divorce was filed to-day at Martlnex, the county seat, by Mrs.

Christine Begerow against F. M. Begerow. The parties are prominent here and the action has ed surprise. Begerow Is a pros- -1 foundryman and wagonmaker.

Jus wife charges intemperance and cruelty and demands a division of the community property and alimony. The couple have no children. popular coat style in pleated and plain bosoms, dark and light patterns, neok sizes 12 to 14. Jost right for school and dress wear, and the price is more bealtfcy. Tbeee are new wwUm wish tha popular roO-faff ooTbtrs, afl the best color sises 26 to X.

WALTHAM WATCH Wiltftini. Mass. just right, too MARKET AND STOCKTON SAX FRA.XC19CO nl tew WALTHAM WATCH THE LAC HOUSE, STOCKTON AND O'FARKKT.