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THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: MONDAY. AUGUST 27, 1923 3 Russ Singer Finds U. S. Strange TRIANGLE OF BIG TOP GIRLS' scum 5 WOM HORSE rami Masons in Trust Company Initiate Fifty-eight employes of the Anglo California Trust Company, all members of the Masonic fraternity, gavs the third derea to McSwegan, a fellow employe, at a icssion of Seaport Masonic Lodg at tha Masonic Temple. Following the degree work there were speeches and a feast.

Tollce Fergeant John Alperg, master of Seaport Lodge, was Optometrists Talk Over New State Law The Board of I'irpctorg of the California Association of Optcnie-trists held a special meeting hra night, with Dr. Itupseil 10. Simpson of Pasadena, president of the organization, In the chidr. The new course In optometry, just established st the UnlvsrsHy of California, was nd the provisions the new optome'ry 1-iw. recently signed by (jovrnor Richardson, were discussri.

Americans Seen As Happy Lot tv Unhappiness Grips Home Land By ANNIE LAURIE OWNER DIES IN HOSPITAL He sat by the flickering fire in Italian, German, English I my- 7 the drowsy room the Russian. Outside the fog rolled In from the sea and the wind sang In the trees and now nnd again shook the windows as if some one were Miss Sarah Hamlin, Instructress to Thousands in San Fran ZD cisco, III Only Short Time trying to look In and see at least a little of i self. "Oh, I would Ilka to sing you a Russian song or so; here's on that the gypsies sing nt night when they sit around their fires and wait for the snow to begin to fall." And all at once the quiet room was stirred with wbd musio deep-throated melody that made the average singer ana the average song seem like the whimper of a new born infant, or the bleat of a shivering lamb. Tromoted!" That In a word tslls the story of the fine dappled gray who. having pulled a 'lead" In many a team hitched to many a red wagon from the Penobscot to the Pacific.

Is at last taken from the working ranks and made a performer. With the mammoth Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey showa the chances are not great. There are more than 600 working horses, but it is pot often that a "resin-back" is recruited from them. Yet opportunity knocks now and then. And when It does Tom Lynch, boss of Bll the baggage stock, will tell you that expectancy actually seems to be In the air as Jim Dial of the ring stork stable walks among the veterans bent upon picking one from their number.

When the selection Is made the recruit is led awsy to his new quarters. For the first few days he is mereiy allowed to stand "behind the scenes" that he may grow used to the color, the romp ard the blare of the band. the quiet com- MIs Sarah Dix Hamlin, friend and neaceful ehel- and Instructress of thousands of ter within. Ban Francisco girls, and principal Mo! of Miss Hamlin's School for Girls, Pacific street, died Saturday night at the Dante Hospital after s4 And tha Russian told us about Russiaa little No, it was not about Russia ho told us: it wfa a I a short Illness. She had lived In Pan Francisco for about fifty years Play Safe! and since 1898 had been the owner and principal of the school bearing her namo.

Miss Hamlin was born In Mass. She was graduated Then hla education begins In the rings but always between shows with hieh honors from tho Unlvnr This training wiil go on Tor a ity of Michigan. She taught In the Detroit high school and later at the month, perhaps. He will be "gait Cherry Creek Mine, Isevada. ed," taught the "stops" and the "starts" everything that a fine rider's mount must know.

Then i From Nevada she came to San Francisco and had been here since, except for fifteen months when she was called to the I'undita Kamabl School for Child Widows In India. Twenty-seven years ago Miss Hamlin purchased the Van Ness Seminary and gave it Its present name. The school will continue to finally, there comes the day when he is to make his first appearance before an audience. Always his muster or mistress rheers him on with a smile. And it's a tradition thut just before entering the "big top" the tyro must have a pat and Know the law Next Friday the new California Motor Vehicle Act becomes effective.

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Briefly be conducted by her corps of twen- that Is the way the riding horses ty-threi InHtructors. are "kept up." Miss Hamlin was a member and Splendid equestrianism Is a marked feature of the Greatest ene of the organizers of the Century Club and was prominent in Grace Cathedral. She is survived Show on Earth this season. Fully 70 riders will be seen when the by a sister, Kate, of this city; and circus exhibits here for three days beginning next Friday afternoon at the Twelfth and Market streets by two nieces, in ths East. Services "Oh, grass why do you fade? Oh, leaf why do you wither?" So ran the gypsy song and In It there was the mystery and the aching qurstlon of all humanity.

"A faded rose, a crumpled letter who wept here all night?" So ran the Russian song, and through it best the agony of every heart that has been broken In disillusion and by treachery sines the world began. What a voice, what songs! Beaten out, that music, upon the anvil of angulfh with the hammer of despair and yet through It all a kind of childlike hope and an almost pathetic faith. "Russia will never die, no matter what the prophets say," breathed one who sat and listened. "No country that can make music like that and breed suih a voice as this can periBh from the face of the earth." And in tha deep eyes of the Russian singer blnzed suddenly a deep fire that was almost terrifying. "Are you going to sing In public here in the city?" we asked tha Russian.

He smiled sadly, "I think not." he said. "I sang for a manager the other night and he said 1 lisped; you know that Is part of our language, that lisp. He did not tare to hear mo in Fnglish." Then he sang for us again an old time-worn, shop-worn song. "The hours 1 spent with thee, desr heart." Why, there's nothing sentimental about it at all, not mawkish, either it's love, faith denied, loyalty betrayed. "To kiss the cross" ah, so sing those who have learned at last "to kiss the cross" out (if suffering and anguish and despair made the great artist.

Are we too shallow and too lightly happy here in America to share in tha making do you suppose? Development Body Names Mine Chief Lloyd L. Root, State mineralogist, has accepted the appointment of director of mines nnd minerals of the California Development Association. will be held at Grace Cathedral to George Hartzell, famous clown, and Doris Smith, eques show grounds. morrow morning. Dean Gresham will make the eulogy.

Cremation trienne, with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey about himself and his friends and his family. He had a letter in his hand nnd he translated It for us, a worn letter travel-stained and blotted with something that looked like tears. He said: "The letter Is from a friend of mine. He Is a great artist a composer, too. ard a teacher of note but now he sings no longer.

"le is too weak to sing and he has no time to write music or even to think of It. "He says, "lou must, not expect me to write to you, dear friend; I hsve almost forgotten how to write, or to do anything except to look for food and hunt for shelter. "We live, all of us you knew when you were here, like dogs in the morning when 1 waken I begin to think eagerly. Yesterday, 1 beard where 1 might get a crust of bread. It will last me all day.

1 hope no one will get It before I ran find the place and at night when I lie down to sleep my last 1 bought is where shall 1 find food tomorrow. 1 am like a dog who buries a bone I hida a scrap of food as a dog hides it. I have no longer a mind or a soul; 1 am an animal, thinking only of food and a pretense of shelter, are all so. Lo not expect letters from "No, be Is not insane, It Is the plain truth he writes It was so with me but I hid in the Japanese quarter nnd in the night I escaped In a Tumt. There Is a price on my head.

Sometimes I waken here in this free Sn Francisco and find myself listening for stealthy footsteps on the staircase and wondering how soon they who seek will find me, and in what manner they will kill me. "It Is so strange here in America you are all so happy, 1 hear always people laughing, I beard myself lamrh the other night and my voica Wus strange in my ears. "Yes, I will sing to you, a little. What would you like? French, State Spelling Bee circus, both claim a new performer as their own special pet. and Interment will follow at Cy press Lawn and will be Planned by Wood SERVICE 3J At the request of State Superin SAN FRANCISCO I6MVANNTS5 AVTL mtx-mu co tendent of Schools ill C.

Wood, en plans nre being formed by the HURT; EH Oakland Board of Education for THEY SAY the participation of local pupils hi a state-wide spelling contest. Wood's desire for this match is be lleved to have hern the outcome of DIVES (I FEE' HMD II pz the recent convention of the Na tional Kducatlon Association, where there was a great deal of discussion about the old school spellers and their superiority over those of CONGRESSMAN LEONIDAS C. DYER of Missouri, author of the anti-lynching bill "Tho failure to this generation. Those who will compete with the representatives of the various other punish mob violence, especially In cases of negro lynchings, is a blot on the nation's character. It Is a failure to sive the equal protection Two men were Injured, one seriously, when the automobile in which they were riding went over a 60-foot embankment on the San Bruno road yesterday.

The machine turned turtle three times. The accident happened in an attempt to avoid collision with another machine. THE INJURED. Cohen, James, Sunnyvale avenue; fractured skull, internal injuries, ruts and bruises. Sullivan, John, 084 Page street; cuts and bruises.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 26. (By Universal Service.) Prosecution of George S. Ward, millionaire baker, on grounds of conspiracy to defeat Justice, tonight was declared a possible new outgrowth of the case against Walter S. Ward, his son, Hfvused of the murder of Clarence M.

Fetors, former marine. The possibility was revealed in further publication of minutes of the grend jury -that Indicted Walter S. Ward. Frederick Week, former district attorney, now mayor of White Plains, S.Y., was re-sworn before the Jury, It was disclosed in the matter of the people "against urn guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States tion. There would be convictions if cases of mob violence were tried in the Federal courts, and the results of these convictions would be that lynchings in the I'nited States would soon cense.

Statistics George S. Ward and others" charg ing a conspiracy to defeat tho ends of justice. George S. Ward Is now out of the Factoiy Cost Infrodiicf jurisdiction of the court. Tht 1 minutes will be reviewed when the Ward grand jury is re-convened September 5 and Indictments may be sought at that time.

New versions of certain phases of the Ward case came to light for the Grands Of Pianos, Player Pi alios an first time with the publication of the testimony or Weeks who was (he first public officer to investigate L. Dyer. show that 3,824 lynchings have been recorded during the last thirty-five years. Think of it! And in all these cases there has scarcely been a conviction. No wonder tho mobs get.

high-handed. No wonder they take the law into their own hands mid make of it a joke. It is time we catne to our senses and stopped this orgy of murder and cowardice." the story told by Walter S. Ward A NEW PIANO as regards the killing of Peters. George S.

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