Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 13

I 4 n- r-- i i i 1 a Is -i- A i onlyiocall' ownd Ibcycbir trolled daily pdper 1 IwTHISectiott Av CALIFORNIA NtWS A i DAILY FEATURE MAGAZINE I 7 VOL OAKLAND CALIFORNIAa-THURSDAY: EVENING NOVEMBER 18 1 i -r-! JL 13 NO 141 nV'Gtaft FeDor Artists 'TIie feafores of -the California are Imaoriilifajjw camera study and a terra cotta bust both-ihown in the centoof the accompanying picture STERLING' mthe pose the 'study Ith beside him wla nude" by the photographer' Adelaide Hanscom bad published by Dodge Puhli To'the riit'is the findful Bacchanalisn bust made by the sculptor Miss A 'Weller of die California SchooTof yrts and Crafts and beside Staling in which the aculptiire wis taken i 1 r-r- fpis shown pompany from Mien Who- Sponsored lOOOOjOOOfor Harbor Bonds Get Behind Plan for Port Commission George Sterling- Known iHave-Gsnried Vial of Poison for Ifalijr Years Motive Rehnini Mastery A city-wide campaign in behalf of two of the propoeod amendments to the OakUnd city' charter bo voted at this special election on December 21 today waa taking definite ahapo foUowing zneetings' beld yesterday at the Oakland Chamber of -Commerce by groups interested in-the permanent port eonunia son and the consolidation of city and county tax assessments and cbDections Headqaarters for the campaign will be in the Hotel Oakland on the ground floor at the Thirteen! hand Harriaon atreets cor npr of the bnilding with Crowley in charge ITha pn-manent port Stewart Hawley C' CapweU Rqbert A Last and Benjfendla-'-tan URGE PORT COMMISSION1 Of Georg ItirWi' Ui personal frlinl lIUriir'iHlati London made' book charactu-tha ipost lo- "Martin Eden!" friends nri Todsyaftsr being acclaimed on t' of A mar leads'' greatest I'poeta Sterling lr datda sulplds juf as Was tha post In "the1 novel' Starling's suicide In hla room at: tha Bohemian Club'et 'Bin shocked his adqnlrars hut! tha act did not '-surprise his close circle -of friends To some of- them he was kndwn- as a- melancholy man and-victim of seven moods They hid- kndwn' for "yeAfx that ho always-carried witk-hlnr a a mall vial oft the sen vial now-empty -'found yastardi hesldo his badwhaM-tha-body lay guTQU TO hSk iras Funeral plana are held -up-pend Ins arrangements -by1 hid sin- sisters two of whom-' ara' Mrs Rounthwalte -of campaign wilt ba dlractad by Field who aarva daa chairman In thadrlva for flOOOSOOO In harbor bonda a year ago Tho other earn paign will ba more -definitely or' ganiaod at a meeting to bo held Friday November IS when repre-aeiitatlvea of varloua aorvlea elulmi who -met for-a preliminary diecua-eion yesterday ara expected to have received authorisation and endorsements from thalr reepeotlvo groups FINISH THE JOB tho JdV Is to bo tho slogan of tho campaign for' tha pefoianent harbor board which will bo aimed-as a follow-up of tho approval of tho harbor bond Issue lari year On the eampalan ex-cutlve committee Fields will havo associated with him tho same men rho directed tha campaign for the mds They are: I Milligan BelllngaU-A- Carrington Albert Carter iy Goodrich Joeeph Lyon William May-W Wllleman Arthur- W' i Dr George Pardee Ray Harriaon 8 Robinson Mrs Ouy- UlUancrants of -Oakland The other-sisters are: Mrs Alice "These mqn hays devoted much time and thouaht to harbor prob- leiha since thev appointment bat' they hav! no legal standing -and ran- function only In nadvlspry capacity Tha port eommlaaloa to be aatabllahed under tha charter amendment-will have wider powers and will in foct become s- separate -public -body with Its members amr-- inf for alx years and responsible for-tho' development and management of our harbor harbor rpust not be qiada-the football of politics This amend ment la a constructive measure and should bo given a rousing na- Jority at tha December election Let's all get together and flnlab tha Job" Tho service dub representatives -who met to dlacuae the campaign for Amendment No I tho enabling: act which would permit tha dty of Oakland' to taka advantage -of tha now county charter's provisions -for assessment and collection of dty taxee by tho county wrero-tho same grefnp who urged qteporto-i ward equallaatlon add re-apprasal of-- property values- before 1 the -county charter waa drafted' Green representing the Oakland Lions' Cliib predded and told -of the adlon of hla tlon at Its weqkly In voting a resolution- end or-: Ing the amendment- After 'a die- ciisalo -not -savings In time and money through tho proposed Durand tCklVeri Swan A Vangeventer Gregory of Watsonvllleand Mrs Marlon Cunha Hii Madeline Diamond and Mrs Avia' Spring all bfLoe Angeles' At hla blur whan rites are read will be I Mencken author editor and critic who Intensely admired' ths poet dourer neur MorrW! and Trank Norris tha novbUatajHe was to 'have dined Tuesday knight -with these and other Intimates' At the rery hour that they sat at-tte-tablo -In the Bohemian club dining- room the man they had gathered to honor was upstairs In tha room which soon became hla death chamber MOTIYB 18 LACKING Bo far as can be learned a motive for the act Is lacking According to -his close friend Xavier Martinos the Piedmont artist Sterling has long been melancholy HU personal publisher and confidante A XL Robertson of Ban-rranriseor-saldt- was at times the saddest man known though tho publle and even many of hU friends did not realise It" The secret of the death adt If secret there was may have ibeei? contained In a few burned frag-ments of paper olflclale fofltid be arlM A Ruasell 'erring to harbor bonds vie-last year Fields In IteuMng campaign for tha permanent commission said: 1 0 gave our promise that If pie would vote tho bonda for evelopment of tho harbor: we d'- see that a temporary port laolon waa named ahd wpUld enerxetleally -for the1 passage charter amendment making commission 'permanent The grave the bonds a big mt-Immed lately tha temporary mmlaslon waa named and issloners were appointed In of Roseoo Jones aoNdattonr Itwas- decided -tbseek the endorsements of tho organise--- -tlona re presented and also authorisation fro-mthem for participation of their spokesmen in a campaign organisation One of Unpublished Compositions 4-- side the bed where Sterling died whether thejm fragments com ced Into Auto 'Man' Loses $56 to 2 Holdups -4 Feu persona in the American literary taorld were better ec quainted with the late George Sterling his life end his Ospinr edit iioni ihSn HL Mencken magazine editor and social critic The CERTAIN of' George Sterling's recent poetical works' had not yet seen the light of day Among these unpublished compositions which elicited more than unusual attention and jiraise was a narrative poem Waters a of which the poet' presented Xavier Martinea his artist friend from which the following is a refrain: Let us dawn to the see my There is nothing more te fear Into an automobile -by bandits Gkorfa Frank ir 1X01' Thirtieth ave robbed of ll whllo 'be 1 blocks with' hla cap-ported to'poilae today Save: Rralklng at Seventh and following Mencken wrote as an estimate of his friend fallowing Sterlings suicide: By MENCKEN talnlng-tbraa mendrevaupte -the curb In an instant two of them -Jumped-out threatened hlmT-wltb- revol vers' and commanded him-to get-in They searched hla packete In tha bock' seat whllo the third man-drove aoveral' blocka -robbing hlms they shoved -him- out robbing him- they shoved him -1 out wde kel atreets about teat atf Eighth and Myrtle streets he ilng ne raid when a ear- con--declared 1 -A And anly ana word te hear for love and tbe'sea biller Another erfnteig-axwlha aetata of Leon Morrison eccentric Oakland clothing merchant la to ba fought in tho Alameda county courts This wna the effect of a decision rendered today by Superior Judge gfford In the probate -court by1 whldh ho granted "relief to alx heirs In Russia who have laid dalma to Yin estate In rendering hla decision which opens tM estate to another contest prevents Maud -Marlon Scott Ler'aa'gedewn The at Is the wild sea drawn And aur hearts- ha tan asunder Than Is nethlng mere te fear Nor maiic la my ear Clad as ths sari slaw thunder 1- tyWith Rifle Cartridges 'Wanders Hills SaysFatHer Lai us take heart of the sea my sister Let us take heart Tho it bear our breasts apart And wa clasp na mere forever There is nothing men te fear Nor need of a single tear Where grief end desire from realizing her hops of securing the money without further de Let ua go far an tha sea my sister Let ua go far Follow our ovening star Till tha fallen moonliglrt glitter Bohemian club but hla mind clear and wo had a bref add friendly palaver I came -Sway convinced that he waa desperately ill Ho showed evbry sign of complete exhaustion That waa on Monday' On Tuesday -morning-1 want to ara plm agafn but -'found him sleeping Tuesday night hla doer was locked and tho transom showed darkneaa within I assumed that ha waa atlll asleep and went away No hrjna already dead 1 Such charming fellows qiore bearable among us' 'They stand against tha idiotic strivings of a vain and prepoatfcrOlis ago The things they admire' In tha arts as Ui Ufe itself ara genuinely -admirable They- know tho high value Of simplicity They oris without guile The world would he happier If there were more Of them Twelve-yiar-old John Berg -MM Outlook javinue la wondering the eeuntiyride today armed with a email' rqla rand nine boxes: -qf (krtrldgeA- Hs father- GeorgeBerg (d Vlor slice today Johnraq lay Judga Ko'ford said realise there close Question here but wpuld rather err than does up away foam- home two days ago-and hat not been found He is described as '41 inches tall weighing' ft pounds and jjrlth -dark ayes and hair- -Ha waa wearing a 'gray suit and chfokafod bapr tha estate In tha fact of auch strong have Intimations 0 perjury as been midi In the case1' Sterling Will Be in Group of Lasting Fame iA ok- Notice of "appeal from -tha was immediately giyen OriM 5250 Pblice Asked jtdGetlt if- prised personal letters poetic Jot tings or a farewell message which ha decided to destroy when tile death agony came upon blip will never be ONE OF CARMKXi FOUNDERS Sterling: while assoolated with tho late Frauds Havens was one of tho founders of ths Carmel art colony which was started as a realty venture but 'largely through Sterling's artlstlo appreciation became a famM art and literary colony Carmel inspired much of Sterling's earlier verse which some critics hav acclaimed as hie best but which hs refused to havo Included In a complete volume of hU works because he deemed the maiden efforts unworthy In 1101 A Robertson the San Francisco publisher saw some of the Sterling verse and recognised them as gems of poetic genius He brought out tho first volume and others followed Robertson 'remaining hU principal publisher The -fog tho surf and melancholy charm of the -sea pervaded many Sterling stances Ho wad tho son of sea-faring folk Tho poet was horn -at Sag -Harbor -N 1 years ago He married Miss Carrie Rand of Oakland at an East bay Social wedding In 1H and In lll'B she received a divorce decree claiming Incompatibility Three years later his divorced- wife -committed suicide at her homo In Piedmont VOICES PROPHECY NOTE -On tho fragments of paper fouhd beside the deathbed of Sterling- authorities made out the phrases: "Deeper tnto- the darkness can 'peer 'than 'most' yet find' the darkness- still And "Until -all friendship ehds In death the friend of'- friends la friends sald'-a ppta of prophecy might haye-been voiced In these The poet- lived- In -the East bay before hls CatmeJ days-He was a founder 'of -the Rusk hr clubwhleh existed' here fora' number of years and at member of thp Athenian club- Several times In hla career he fprsook the hay- -region' for brief-stats '-In New York And re-centlyspent-a-period In Hollywood whllo titling Douglas Fairbanks film departures from tha career which-la written In- the pages of hla volumes of -verse Of recent years Starling made hla'-home'-at the Bohemian dub and he' never 'rermsrrled -1 Dlsplaylnt q- dlamend ring to No artist ever kept hla peculiar faith mora resolutely than George Starling It was a shear Impossibility to dlsaimda him from the course he had marked out for himself Through all tha heat and fury of tho Jaxx ago ho remained faithful to tha classical tradition in poetry and I am Inclined to think tho best of hla work will long outlast tha experiments ha disdained I say disdained but 'tha word la not quits accurate Ha was- extraordinarily hospitable to tho work of all other poets however much It dfttered In aim and manner from his own He read It Studied It and In many coiles liked It But he was never tempted to Imitate It Hla own Work was always magnificently pure In form Thera waa often a voluptuous mu slo In It but there were never any metrical or Ideational aberrations LAST OF' FREE ARTISTS Sterling was one of the last of tha free artists Beethoven once said that they were the only happy men In tha world Certainly Starling waa- hippy Ha had reduetd hla wants to a minimum and could always meat them Ha worked when the urge came upon- him- He re fused' to do' anything that ha didn't want to do Surrounded by "pleasant friends and living comfortably In tha moat beautiful of American cities ba let tbe years slide by with scarcely a care I think ha enjoyed -hla celebrity for it brought him agreeable 'contacts But he never did anything to further Jt He would not write to meet the current fashions Ha waa Indifferent to orltielsm In end with ago and Illness upon him ha put an end to hla Ufa quietly almply and decently It waa I think a good life and a good death POET EXHAUSTED I am glad lxraa here to era him bqfora he died He was in great pain when I called upon him at the Judge Koford'alao continued until next Wednesday tha demand of Miaa Scott's attorneys that the court order 1' partial distribution It waa suggested that a bond dbuld ba put up to protect thb court and tha heirs In case today's ruling la- upheld a new contest is started and Mias -Scott eventually loses A new- feature was Injected Into the case today whan a- petition for partial' distribution was filed- on behalf- pf Georga -L of Ha alleges -that lllaa Scott assigned to' Attorney I ring and raked to seelt Ho pot-It on his own finger and then told" her' Ipiwas' so he could sot-get It off she rays-The ring ban not bora returned according to 1U oweerMisa Thomas has not ewern oof warrant for the- arrest -but appealed to police for-help In appealed to police for -help 1i her escorr te a rare proved costly for Miss Roals Thomas 114 Linden street who -e sorted loos of the MM ring tot police "today Mloa' Thomas raid ah and a glr friend met twa'mealat cafe at Eighth and -BroadwaJ about-a month ago rad that one of yim admired her By rTTTAUTtTB xrrjEP Fellow-Poet and- Friend of George Sterling -Whan time has eliminated the mediocre and -the paeaahlfc few are' left In any ctntufr to wear the enduring -crown of poetry -It la my belief that George Sterling will be in that Uttla group of poeta of lasting worth Hq has-been -above tba' epbemfreal manner Is ma of tho day a 'Sincere artist He has loved bbauty ahd- has -followed It without extenuation or-apology With-creative Imagination' of a high order with a aureness of the aesthetic fitness of hla words and a freshness In hla fancies: Sterling's work had ths authoritative finality of master With a comparatively restricted use of metrical forma ho nevertheless had- a spontaneous ease in the forme Which her used that left a senacof' surety 'end is In-wlu whatever he wrote Hagen who With Milton Uren rep-tO half Interest resented Mice Scott Bavaria the gem MMedTicketSidlenlL Cm HcdiBiidik-MudCaslv (side in the estate then assigned a' half of hla assignment to Uren who In turn assigned it--to CfabL-ee thb petition -aays Ha oaks 'that tha il 001 now oq hand the amount of a of altllll-ba given' him rather than In tha form in -which It was cast In nearly all hla versa there waa the Indefinable magic of true poetry Hla lines thrill wlthr their Intense feeling and vivid Imagery Ohe-thlnks often of Keats' In -tha aesthetic attitude of mind which Is characteristic of -Sterling Indeed many of hla poemg seam-to havo bean written In tha spirit of-music for tha aesthetic value rather thain to convey- specific thought ASSOCIATED WITH BOHEMIA George 8tarlng'a literary life baa been ao Interwoven with the Bohemian club that one Instinctively associates him with 'the aaplripg cpliimni of-lhe Ved woods tha about tha campfire the friendly group of artists and writ era-in- tha- camps of Bohemia From 'tha day when ha first merged as a poet under the tutelage and with tha' endorsement of- that caustic critic Ambrose Bierce until hla grovs play of tho past summer -81001100 has been like a forest faun- playing hla wood notes wild according to hie own caprice' Untamed but half human yet withal kindly and sympathetic ha lived In a world of phantasy car-lag little- for worldly affaire In hla passing this' Ufa of ours ao largely measured in terms of force and 'money la poorer by the does of on more of Its Immortal poets 1 SAN FRANCISCO Nov After 'a thrilling automobile' phase tor the police covering ddxcn Mocks In tho western addition two alleged mbtor cpr" bandits both youths were arreated at an- 'ea hour today after Ttwo holdups' They were ideatiflrd hy' opev their victims edch booked orf RTbat fine 'do- to gt a big jjoqia miscreant signed Jim's LtriB yniftj's whit Jim IMMA'itA rarad Isl i I Thkt'g 'what Jim lhame -to game get a registered lette la halfback 'on -Call-l Whlcb hla ticket wad mailed And Dixon famous half back team text year Wants- to l-now every pasteboard Is gone from-J ow today i- 'the stadium office -i Judge Jfoford Indicated-that ha would giqdt'h motion' of Mias Scott's attorneys te place the In a eavtogaHMnk-aceount This la to be done 'to coneetsuf-fldent lute rest to offaet tha praant tax- and other chargee'-which are cutting down the value of the-estate three felony charges Thlelr names 11 and tbs accusatlont against 1 them Tn 1 IOYAL TO TRADITION -wherl there waa so many temp tatlona to attract attention wltjj tho blaarro and meretricious It was to tho everlasting honor of Georga Starting that ho remained loyal to tho best traditions of prosody and showed hiacreattva Originality and hla Inventiveness In what ha wrote are: Fred-! Schenk alias Richard Bldke 21 141 State street two chargee of robbery! one chargeof violating tha state nivalvar 1 law John Crowder ll- tlTI street two charges of-robbery one JDri Frank Mctloy Wide Open Spaces Call- As Driveis Turn Comers charge of stealing an automobile-The pair "were raptnred fohow- 1 lK Ing the Complaint of their eeooad victim Unlllaa 'Henderson1' lll Ellia'etreet Henderson was walking Ellle street near Steihar etroat whan two teen drove Up In' siqUU machine Traffic Officer Is-Injured inCrcuh FamouslHetdth They out-and one of them held a hand They ALAMEDAJ' 'Nov' II Traffic Officer Lk-31- Wendlan dls nursing his left leg and-Wayne Dalamoi ptayn-1114 Fernalde r-i forebd him te hand -over Harry 8hLagpro-lMI Fell atroet derinred 'theA-hs -had 6eeq held pp by -two men in aTsteal) machine qt aad Broderick streets and- rcllevedof glfi te charged with violation of CONGRESSMAN ALBERT CAR-TtR weald rather walk-! then aaV especially if a walk aftar a 'deer In 'the mandates wbereapea aattag af leader steaks Joins 'hfa'oihbg hobbiss' -Bat hobby -lo'bQoBa has -to bo agarclssd amrs freQacntly than an aaUy So bsteresn timas'I hlks traffic ordinances aS a result of- a oaiUsidh tarty last evening In wmch EON HAAS 'traffic officer at Fourteenth and Webita iindithatthe new -tracks oji the Southern Pacific-electric traina Ion vWebfier street have added nevj roublei to hii mrnefvlHit nose compare with the iverws driver' tans at 'the intersection watch-the average driver turn it" an faiences-ib" Baas mid wonld imagine ba was raised ra the pvariesr'eat in lbs greet wide epen spaces He wants per- cent' el tha entire Intersection te get I in end insists upon blocking traffic irregard-' of driven "The law is vary explicit ra the mestira at inter-ectira turn 1 it prevides that ra right hand tarn Irlver ehrald 'follow the curb line rad not approach 1 I he intersection cantor while wa a left taro tho driver I dtaald- approach tha crater batten ra the-intersect ion Ira IT Has' parallel te' and close to the center sites af the street possible end tarn directly ys the bat-tea- Inthtewby there is net Interference-with traffic! front behind Ahead" vi a 1 -a 1 -X 1 LurgeMtStmiM Wend land's motorcycle' waa damaged to tho extent of fil -DePd-tend wops shoeing a speeder and' arcordtfo-to hla testimony os 'he neared -BJtana Vista avenue and Mulberry) 1 street Delamonteyne tijraed Ijrto hla path ChdrgedinArreMt Iperoxttamf ptece-- Flesaanteo Aral ones a Mk 'V 3 iLa a MIpG IkUi these hUls around there i trim by long laWMhtegtab I keep in trim OROVILLe ttaet James Terrell waa arreated by Sheriff NAtadereo nr yesterday on agrand wry Iddlctmeat charging the 00b-duct ofa TerreUlaU! Ifged to- ha VS operated one of tho tyrgeet" atllla -Over found in Butte epuntyA--He was released -on-11 IBS ITI8H COAL CUT- One mult of the coabdispute Is lw rodupe 'the amount of laidrup tonnage In Great Britain by Cl per cent- Aintonnpgo ie required to carry coot front the -United' Btatey kobby1 i.