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> — VOLUME LXXIX._NO. 1: SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1895. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JUDGETHURMAN DEAD Close of the Career of the Noted Statesman of Ohio. PASSED AWAY IN PEACE. Universal Expressions of Sorrow Among the Residents of Columbus. W ADE A DISTINGUISHED RECORD Many Political Honors and Places of Trust Held by the “Old Roman.” COLUMBTUS, Ox1o, Dec. 12.—Ex-Senator Thurman died at his residence here at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon from the general debility of old age, ending in collapse. had been dangerously ill only since vester- day. Since his fall about a month ago, he had been apparently in his usual health, He | burg, Virginia, November 13, 1813. His | father was a Baptist minister who, through ‘canscientious vrinciples, liberated all his slaves. In 1818 the family and young Thurman removed to Ohio. The entire family etfects were transported in a huge six-horse wagon, which was dragged over the mountains by the united efforts of negroes and horses. He was a nephew of Hon. William Allen. who for many years represented Ohio in the United States Senate and later was elected Governor over General Noves. Under his mother’s superv n he soon became a thorough mathematician and also an excellent | French scholar. At the age of 21 he was offered the private secretaryship of the Governor of Ohio, which he filled with | great satisfaction. At the same time he studied law under the direction of Judge Swayne. He was admitted to | the bar in 1835, and went at once | to Chillicothe. Being admitted into | partnership with _his uncle, William | Allen, he soon found himself in possession | of one of the best practices in the State. | In 1839 he visited Washington, and while | there was introduced to the distinguished | Senator Calnoun. He was again in Wash- | ington in 1842, | In 1844 he was nominated for Congress, y‘nnd elected over John J. Van Meter. In | 1851 he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and was Chief Justice from 1854 to 18 In 1867 he was the Demo- | cratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, but was defeated. In 1868 he was chosen a Senator in Congress from that State for the term commencing in 1869 and ending serving on the committees on the judiciary and postoffices and postroads. He was re-elected in 1 his second term ex- | piring in 1880. In 1876 he was prominently THE LATE E) SENATO R ALL G. THURMAN. but to the experién¢ed eye of his physi- cian it was plain that his powers were rap- idly failing. Until yesterday morning he was able to sit up the greater part of the time and at times showed keen interest in public affairs. On his eighty-sécond birthday, November 13. he wasable to dictate a letter to the Thurman Club of this city in Teply to resolutions of sympathy with his suffer- ings resulting from the fall. Yesterday morning he was sitting in his library read- ing, when he began to complain of feeling ill and shortly grew so much worse mat[ s called. g of the Dr. Whittaker, his physician, He saw that it was the beginni end and so informed the family. In the afternoon Judge Thurman lost consciousness, and never fully recovered it again. When Dr. Whittaker called in the afternoon he found the patient appar- ently sinking, and gave it as his opinion that he could not survive more than a few hours. Last night, however, he was better, but with the morning hours he began to | sink, and when Dr. Whittaker called at 10 o’clock this morning he stated to Allen W. Thurman that death was a question of | but a few hours. Death came peacefully and painlessly. It seemed that he passed from sleep into death. At the bedside were Mrs. Governor Mac- Cormack of New York and Allen W. Thur- man and members of his fami His other child, Mary Thurman, is in Cali fornia. Outside of the immediate family it was not known that Judge Thurman was dangerously ill until the announce- ment of his death came like a shock. There was universal expression of sorrow, for Judge Thurman had been looked upon for years as the foremast citizen of Colum- bus, and soon the flags were at half staff upon all the city and State buildings. Mrs. Thurman died a little over two years ago. e OHIW»’'S GEEAT LOSS. Tribute Paid by Governor McKinley in a Proclamation. COLUMBUS, Oxo, Dec. 12.—The fol- lowing proclamation on the death of Allen G. Thurman was made to-night by Governor McKinley: Ohio has lost one of its noblest citizens. Allen G. Thurman died at 1 o'clock to-day at his home in the city of Columbus, at the ripe sge of 82. He was a statesman whose sturdy integrity and exalted abilities were recog- nized not only in his own State, bu in every part of the United States. As a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State he was & learned and incorruptible interpreter of the law. As United States Senator he faithfully and with exceptional honor revresented the State in the United States Senate. He was a distinguished perty leader and stood in the front rank with the great men who were his contemporaries. After being the recipient of many honors at the hands of his party and his countrymen, he retired to pri- vate life with the universa) respect and esteem | of the citizens of the Republic and the love of all who had the honor of knowing him. His iliustrious cereer is a conspicuous example of the possibilities of American eitizenship, and isworthy the study of the youth of our State. The people of Ohio, regardiess of party, will be mourners at his bier. Out of respect to his memory it is hereby ordered that the flag be displayed at balfmast over the Siste Capitol until after the obsequies. e CAREER OF THE STATESMAN. Allen G. Thurman Was Honored With Important Trus Allen G. Thurman was born at Lynch- mentioned as a candidate for President, but the Tilden wave ‘engulfed him with tue others. In the Democratic National conventions of 1876, 1320 and 1884 he re- | ceived votes for the Presidency, and in | 1888 was nominated for the Vice-Presi- | dency, but defeated. Since that time he | had little to do with politics. | Such, in brief, is a sketch of the career of Allen G. Thurman. Of his home-life. | however, some very pretty things have | been written. From Columbus, Ohio, re- | cently a correspondent wrote: In the roomy library of an unostentatious stone house on one of the handsomer residence streets of this city an old Roman sits and with | dim eyes watches the boys who gather at play |on the lawn near by.” At times his grand- | daughter reads to him, and together they talk | of the past. The members of his own family | cheer him with their company and watch over | his feeble steps with loving care. They assist him to his feet when he wishesto pass from | room to room, and support him again when he | destres to sit down. The sunset of Allen G. Thurman's life is | Pleasant though lonely. The lost rays of sun- light find the same sturdy spirit there that | won a nation’s admiration &t noonday. Hels almost the last of his generation. The faithful and beloved wife has preceded him. Only three or four of the men he met in his vigor and in whose friendship he rejoiced remain with him in his old age. The oihers have all gone. His greatest amusement in the hours when there is no one to talk with or read to him is watching the boys playing on the lawn | that lies before his library windows. Manly sports were always a delight to him, and to- ! day, broken in health and old, he finds no dis- comfort in the noise and happy shoutings of his grandsons and their boy friends, playing ball or tennis hard by. The room:in which he loves to sit is nearly square, large and rather old-fashioned. Book- | cases line its walls. Inthe place of honor, | Where the old statesman’s eye often falls upon |it, is & large photograph of the late Judge Rufus P. Ranney, his associate on the Supreme bench ot Ohlo in the fifties, and ore of his closest friends. In the early days of the pres- ent constitution, these two eminent jurists established precedents that have proved of in- incalculable value to the State for more than forty years. Those were the days to which the lawyers of the State still refer with pride, when a decision of the Ohio Supreme Court had & high standing in all the North. The admiration these two men entertained for each other was one that only death could | end. Both were old school Democrats and were in sympanthy in many of their views of public questions. Itis doubtful if any public man stood quite as high in the esteem of the “0ld Roman” through all the years of their friendship as the able lawyer who served with him on the State Supreme bench. To-day Judge Thurman refers to Judge Ranney with the tenderest feeling, and takes pleasure in pronouncing his one of the finest judicial minds he has ever known. Other pictures and | photographs hang about the room, the last to | be given a place of honor there being that of Grover Cleveland. Judge Thurman’s character is admirable as much for the downright integrity that marked his intercourse with his fellow-men as for the ability that made lLim conspicuous on the pbench and in tbe Senate. His highest enco- mium upon any man was the terse judgment, “He is an honest man.” In all his public ca- reer and private life honesty was the first title to his esteem. The highest compliment that could be paid him was to believe in his thor- ough honesty of purpose and action. Looking back upon his long life, he said, 1n tones that broken heaith made tremulous, to one of his lifelong friends the other day: “I never inteationally wronged a human being Continued on Second Page: WEDDED INSPLENDOR Emma Rockefeller Became the Bride of Dr. McAlpin. MILLIONS WERE UNITED. Beautiful Services Held at the Country Palace at Tarrytown, on the Hudson, THIRD MARRIAGE IN A MONTH. But the Present Affair Surpassed the Two Preceding Events in the Family. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 12.—In the music-room of her father’s country palace, | Rockwood Hall, Tarrytown-oysthe-Hud- | son, Miss Emma Rockefeller was wedded | at noon to-day to Dr. D. H. Hunter McAl pin Jr., son of D. Hunter McAipin of New York City. It was the third nuntial celebration in the Rockefeller family | within a month, and in part of brilliancy | surpassed the two preceding events. | Rockwood Hall, a beautiful country | mansion situatea directly on the banks of | the picturesque Hudson, was chosen for | the scene of to-day’s wedding because of | its advantages for a grand hymeneal cere- | mony. It was in the floral decorations | and sumptuous surroundings that the wedding excelled. There were many | charming novelties in the decorative art | which added to the effect of the occasion | and delighted the assembled throng. The | bridal room was a dream of floral beauty. The most conspicuous piece of horticul- tural work was the Gothic canopy, made of asparagus vine, bridesmaids roses and hlies of the valley. | The breakiast-room was also profusely decorated. The gown worn by the bride— a rich ivory satin—was made in princess | fashion, and was resplendent with ex- quisite Venetian lace. The veil was long, almost covering the train, and was fastened with a tiara of diamonds. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Armitage of St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York, as- sisted by the Rev. Dr. Harris of Yonkers, performed the ceremony. At the conclusion of the service Mendels- sohn’s wedding march from “Midsummer | Night's Dream” was rendered by the choir | and orchesira. A buffet breakfast was | served in the main dining-room, over 400 people participating. Miss Emma Rockefeller is the eldest | daughter of William Rockefeller, who is | reputed to be worth $65,000,000. She is 24 years of age, highly accomplished and considered one of America’s greatest young heiresses. ’ Dr. McAlpin is 33 years of age, a son of | D. H. McAlpin, the millionaire tobacco | manufacturer. He is a practicing pysi- | cian of New York City, a professor of Bellevue College and an ’85 Princeton graduate. The young couple received hun- dreds of beautiful.-and costly presents. —_—— MARRIED AT HIGH NOON., Nichols Becomes the Wife of the Marguis de Chambrun. CINCINNATI, Ouro, Dec. 12.—The mar- riage of Miss Margaret Rives Nichols, daughter of Mrs.BellamyStorer,to the Mar- quis de Chambrun of the FrenchLegation at ‘Washington was solemnized at high noon to-day at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Angels in the presence of a large and fashionable congrégation. There were no bridesmaids, Miss Clara Longworth acting as her attendant, while H. de Schonen, a cousin of the groom, was the best man. The motker and cousin of the groom were also present. The ushers were: Frederick Coudert of New York, Nicholas Longworth and Jos- eph Nichols of this city, Horace Wiley of Washington and Horace Binney of Phila- delphja. Aiter the ceremony the recep- tion, lasting two hours, was held at the Storer mansion on Grandin road. The bride is one of the heirs of the Longworth estate, the richest landed property in Cin- cinnati. CLEVELAND'S DUCK HUNT. Bad Weather Makes It Impossible to Do Any Shootiug. NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 12.—The Presiden- tial party occupied their blinds to-day for the third time on the present trip, rain and high winds having made it impossible to shoot the ducks in the early part of the week. The report to-day indicates that the day’s sport was fairly successful. To- norrow the Violet will leave Hatteras on the homeward trip. It is possible that the vessel will have a stormy passage up the sound, as high winds are reported to- night. EXPEOITION ASSOCHTION, Plans to Introduce Wares Every Country on the Globe. Miss in Ships to Be Built and Loaded With Products for the Enlightenment of the World. CINCINNATI, Omio, Dec. 12.—Mayor | Caldwell received & letter this morning | wn as the American Ex- pedition Association, with headquarters in New York City. The communication is a personal one from E. A. Keeling, secre- tary of the association, and states that the object of the expedition is to introduce the wares and goods of the United States in every country on the globe. A number of what are to be known as the “‘expedition ships’ are being built in New York City. Assoon as a ship is com- pleted, it will be fitted up with products of the ited States only. When the fleet is ready, it will be headed by a palatial vacht called “TlLe Palace of Neptune,” and which will carry as passengers all governors, mayors and presidénts of com- mercial or social bodies who can go. Thus fittea out and equipped, the fleet, which is intended to be an exposition on water, like those of Philadelphia, Chicago and At- lanta, as near as possible, will steam to all the countries of the globe, including South America, Asia and Africa, as well as Eu- rope. The gigantic scheme is to introduce the products of the United States in every nation of the earth. i | | hour and a half duration. CIVIL SERVICE EVILS, Annual Meeting of the League for National Reform. CARL SCHURZ TALKED. Necessity of Functions of the Gov- ernment Being Adminis- tered With Honesty. ABUSE OF PUBLIC PATRONAGE. Corrupting Influences Brought to Bear in the Pursuit of Office. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 12.—There was an important gathering in this city of prominent men from various parts of the country to-day, the occasion being the annual meeting of the National Civil S8er- vice Reform League, which will last through until to-morrow evening. Many pleasant social features will be combined with the business meeting of the organiza- tion. The meeting to-day was called to order by John Joy Edson, president of the Dis- trict League. Many distinguished dele- gates are present, including Carl Schurz, who heads the New York delegation. The special business session will be held to- morrow, when the president and vice- president will be elected and much other routine business transacted. At the executive meeting of the league this morning George McAneny was elected secretary and J. F. Schiefflin was elected treasurer. Two new organizations were admitted to membership in the league, the Civil Service Reform associations of St. Paul and Princeton College. The dele- gate from the former is C. P. Noyes, and from the Iatter Professor William M. Sloane. All the members of the executive committee were re-elected. At the evening session the principal event of the proceedings was an able speech by Hon. Carl Schurz, president of the league, who, upon being introduced by John Joy Edson, made an address of an Schurz, who was listened to with great attention, and who received a most courteous welcome from many old frierids prominent in Wash- ington circles, said in part: “Tt is with a feeling of peculiar satisfac- tion that I greet the fifteenth annual meet- .ing of the National Civil Service League at the seat of the National Government— the place where the necessity for the re- form we advocate has been most conspicu- ously demonstrated and where also its most conspicuous and fruitful successes have been achieved.” He traced the history of the country, which, in a century, from a thin string of agricultural settlements on the Atlantic Coast, had expanded into a vast empire, spanning a continent and excelling in MURILLO’S “ ST. FR AXCIS OF ASSIS ,” THE PATRON SAINT OF OUR CITY, SAN FRANCISCO. [This rare and valuable painting, the property of Collis P. Huntington, is now on exhibition at Hopkinsidrt Institute.] wealth and material power every other nation on the globe. “We cannot close our eyes to the fact that in some important respects we are ap- oproaching the social conditions of the 0ld World and that in the near future the greater part of our population will be gath- ered in the large towns. “As functions of government grow in extent, importance and complexity the necessity grows of their being adminis- tered not only with honesty but also with trained ability and knowledge. While every sane man accepts this proposition as self-evident in theory, it may be said that every opponent of civil service reform desires it in practice. The danger is not in a sudden, grand and startling collapse, but the gradual decay of those elements essential to vitality.” He extolled .democratic government 2s defined by Lincoln: “Of the people, by the people and for the people,” but as the offices are used to serve ends other than the public benefit, or are entrusted to per- sons not apt to give to the peovle the best attainable service, in that measure demo- cratic government fails, He said he had no particular objection to the doctrine that democratic government is a govern- ment through political parties. “But,” he added, “whenever they seek to divert the public offices instituted solely for the service and benefit of people from their true purpose in order to use them for their own service and benefit, to this ex- tent turning the Government through po- litical parties into a government for politi- cal parties, they strike at one of the vital principles of democratic government.” Mr. Schurz alluded to the fact that well- known men and women have lately fallen in love with the splendor of monarchial courts, but he was convinced that the chief danger did not spring from this source so much as the possibility of the uitimate appearance of a strong man, the chief of an organization looking for plun- der. He declared that there had actually been such a mionarchy on a small scale among us, and detailed the career of “Tweed, who was not called a king, but its equivalent, a boss.” From this he argued that there were other “‘bosses,” State ‘‘bosses,” who protected and fostered one another, and he com- pared them with the Electors of Germany and the rulers of Europe generally, who stood side by side with one another. This was all due to the existence of the spoils system, which allows that which belongs to the public, especially the public of- fices, to be diverted from public to private use. Without that system bossism would not be possible. Civil service reform twenty years ago, struggling apparently in vain, has mar- velously risen in popular interest because the popular intellect, disgusted with ex- isting abuses ana apprehensive of worse things to come, saw in civil service reform the only effective method to destroy the spoils system. And every day the popular demand grows more general and more energetic for its extension over wider fields. ‘The merit system has stood the test of practical experience so triumphant- ly that the vociferous objections and re- vilings of it in which the spoils politicians used to delight have sunk to a mournful murtter. The problem remains how to secure what we have won by further conquest, for the result will not be entirely safe un- til the spoils system is totally abolished. He appealed for legislative reform in this matter. Executives were generally safe, but the opponents of civil service invaria- bly went to Congresses and Legislatures to thwart the will of the people. The speaker detailed at great length the perplexities, embarrassments and debase- ments of the newly elected Congressman which the spoils system imposes upon him, and as a eegislator himself told how he had been almost forced to recommend for office men he knew to be unfit and others of whom he knew nothing whatever. *‘The use of patronage by members of Congress,” he continued, ‘‘is essentially corrupt and corrupting. It is not the gross form of corruption which consists in passing bribe money from hand to hand, but it is that more dangerous and demoral- izing because more insinuating corruption which wraps itself in the garbof party zeal, of gratitude, of generous sympathy, and in this disguise is received and coun- tenanced among respectable people.” Mr. Schurz complimented the President and heads of departments for their recent recommendations for the extension of the civil service reform rules to all the depart- ments of the Government. Schurz closed by hoping for the repeal of the four-year term of office and compli- mented the State of New York in particu- lar upon the reform system as having made the most progress. “1With such successes as these,” he said, “‘we may indeed hope to see the day when our party warfare will be contests of opinion free from the demoralizing and repulsive interference of the plunder chase; when a change of party in the National administration will no longer present the barbarous spectacle of a spoils debauch, torturing the nostrils of our own people and:disgracing the Republic in the eyes of civilized mankind.” RECTOR AHLWARDT TALKED. Eggs Wers Thrown and There Was a Great Uproar. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 12.—Rector Ahlwarde, the anti-Semite, spoke at Cooper Union this evening on “The Es- sence of the Modern Judaism.” Only a handful of people gathered to hear the famous “Jew baiter.”” There were just about as many policemen in uniform in the hall as there were spectators. There were a few Jews present. A young man directly in front of Ahl- wardt rose in Lis seat and threw two mis- siles at him. They both missed, but as they struck the stage it was evident that they were eggs. In a minute the place was m an uproar, a dozen policemen swooped down on the offender and he was hustled out. —_————— TWO CARS JUMPED THE RAILS. Passengers on the Williamsport Express Narrowly Escaped Death. NORRISTOWN, Pa., Dec. 12.—The Wil- liamsport express. on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, was wrecked to- night just after entering the borough. Two cars jumped the tracks and toppled over and were dragged a considerable dis- tance. About thirty passengers who were in the cars had a narrow escape from death, many of them reaching safety by crawling through the car windows. The "injured: Colonel James Boyd of Norristown, a director of the Reading Rail- road, believed to be seriously hurt; Miss Anna Keely of Pheenixyille, spine injured ; Jacob 8. C*mer of Philadelphia, hurt in- ternally; W. F. Jacoby of Philadelphia, cut by broken glass. STARTEDBY MR, GROW First Gun in the Tariff Fight Fired by the Ex- Speaker. SCORED THE PRESIDENT. Better Ways of Increasing the Revenues Than Retiring the Greenbacks. LESSONS FROM THE ELECTIONS. Cleveland Failed to Give Congress Ine formation on the System of Revenues. WASHINGTON, D. C.,Dec. 12 gun in the tariff fight in the Fifty-fourth Congress was fired to-day in the House by the venerable ex-Speake: Grow, Repres sentative-at-large from the State of Penn« sylvania. At his request the House went into com= mittee of the whole on the state of the Union, and for nearly an hour he com- pared the working of the protective tariff as it existed from 1861 to 1804 with the re-' sults achieved by the present law, assert- ing that the latter had not proved much of a success. He proposed instead of the retirement of the greenbacks in exchange for bonds, as recommended by the Presi- dent, that National banks be permitted to deposit them and the silver certificatesas well in exchange for circulating notes, re- ceiving $110 for every $100 so deposited, the greenbacksand certificates when de- posited to be canceled. The gold reserve, he contended, would always prove a source of weakness when« ever and as long as the Government was compelled to borrow money to meet its expenditures. Heread the following para- graph from the President’s message as a text for his speech: By command of the people a customs revenue system, designed for the protection and benefit of favored classes at the expense of the great mass of our countrymen, and which, while in- efficient for the purpose of revenue, curtailed our trade relations and impeded our entrance to the markets of the world, has been super- seded by a tariff policy which in principle is based upon a denial of the right of the Govern- ment to obstruct the avenues to our people’s cheap living, or lessen their comfort and con- tengment, for the sake of acco. ling especial advantages to favorites, and which, while en- couraging our intercourseand trade with other nations, recognizes the fact that American seli- reliance, thrift end ingenuity can build up our country’s industries and develop its resources more surely than enervating paternalism. The President, Grow said, had failed to give Ccngress any information as to the working and results of the new customs revenue system, which he extolled. He had disregarded the custom of presenting the receipts and expenditures of the treas- ury, leaving Congress to leara of the finan- cial condition of the Government as best it might, Figures furnished by the Treasury Department, Grow said, showed that from July 1, 1894—the date at which the new bill went into effect—to December 10, 1895, the deficit in the revenues of the Govern= ment amounted to $131,354,204, besides the amounts which may be inciuded in defi- ciency bills covering the part of the fiscal year prior to December 10. In the same time the bonded indebtedness had been in- creased $162,315,4000. The new system of customs revenue did not seem to have been a suscess. The speaker reviewed the operations of the old system denounced by the Presi- dent and compared it with those of the present. The tariff had been changed in 1867, in 1883 and in 1890, but throughout, he said, it had heen a continuance of the system inaugurated by the Morrell act of February, 1861. Mr. Buchanan had closed his administration having experienced & deficit in every year of it, the total amount being $75,000,000. This was met by the issue of bonds. That was the last Demo- cratic administration until the present, and this one seemed to have begun where that one leit off, by the sale of bonds. [Laughter and applause.] He asserted that no markets were of any consequence to any people unless they could put articles in them at a less labor cost than they could be there produced. The United States sold agricultural prod- ucts abroad because its vast area pro- duced a surplus over home consumption, Other articles, he said, could not ge abroad unless the laborers of America were willing to reduce their wages to a point at which they would compete with those of the countries into which their productions were to be sent. There would be, he said, no advantage in going intoa market that does not pay the producer living wages. . “And the President thinks the old sys- tem blocks the way to cheap living,™ con- tinued Grow. ‘‘According to his theury the poorhouse would be the ideal place of existence. People live cheaper there than anywhere else.” [Laughter.] Grow then reverted to the financial por- tion of the message, saying that the only recommendation the Presideut made was to change five or six hundred millions of non-interest bearing debt into interest- bearing obligations in the shape of long time loans. In lieu of the President’s proposition, Grow presented a plan to authorize the issue of National bank-notes, in the ratio of $110 for every $100 deposited, in exchange for treasury notes and silver certificates, the latter to be canceled as fast asthey were so deposited. This, he said, would give elasticity to'the volume of currency without restricting it in_any degree, and without increasing by a dollar the inter- est-bearing obligations of the Government- This wonlfi wind up the “endless chain,” of which so much has been said, and pro- tect the gold reserve. . g “After two years of experience with this e e i "Do you have your letter pa- per and envelopes stamped ? Beautiful when well done. 227 Bush street 215 Poststreet. B S CRoCgER Co