The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1897, Page 3

i S TR ————— { THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1897. FEARFUL SUFFERING ¢ IN STRICKEN INDIA Ravages of the Famine and Plague Described by Missionaries. | Oane-Third of the Population of| Bombay Fiee for Their | tafety. Children of Afflicted Natives Rescued by Christian Workers From This Country. BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 24.—The American of letters from in board has received a group its sionaries and correspondents India reiating to the plague and famine. Rev. E. 8. Hume of Bombay, who weat to | en going from bad to | ¢ st grave the pop- ave flad and One of the t on six extra trains a day crowd about the municipal | opportunity to get | » plague was confined to | e city, but it bas spread | ace to place until no section is free | the disease. Iso, all classes of from it. The reports have greatly under-esti- mated the number of deaths, which is not | less than 200 and 300 a ds “Tne native Christians bave been mar- velously protected. Not one so far as I »w has suffered from the plague. The | op of Bombay has appointed aday | yer to be observed by all | tions waiting Bis or special pr: of the Chur England congregations, and has invited all other Christians to join with them. This has been done none too soon. Hindus, Mobammedans and ve in theirown way own that e the hand of God in the 1 know that deliverance must a higher than human power.” 1e of the secretaries of the lunteer movement, mingles t of the effects of the famine | of the efliciency and demands work. The letter is dated | from Calcutta, but refers to previous ex- ces in Bombay. He says: e steamer we step into a boat Bombay, a town of nearly a 16 streets are thronged | nned natives, whose differ- ans ana dress indicate their re- | d caste. Here we pass a groupof | aring their breasts to a dirge; | | | | ary perie 1as another victim. From the | et we enter the acre of mission- d with its low buildings. | welcome we ever received akfast, just such a one as we at home. As we leave break- ce a native woman working | o the corner of the hall. The few she is earning keep her from 1 these times when her only | been cold water. We puss a| i swarthy men from the famine | waiting to ask the missionary for | After helping them he crosses the | 1d to the schoolhouse. About 200 | ightest faces one ever saw are be- he boys with bright eyes, the tly dressed in white. le we are singing we are noting of the more striking faces. That wistful child was rescued from un- ce those few black faces, an, among the lighter In- e girls were captured The missionary rescued them & second time from the Mohamme- ere, who almost had them in their | lutches. Tk ir Indian girl, the | beauty of whose character is writien on | her face, was br t bere one day by her | work. compo; heart-brok r “ ¢Madar id, 'my wife has just died and o uires that Iturn my little girl of from under my own | roof. A ma y bas offered me 200 I cannot mean her death. | my door, de- | manding my the degrading ser- | vice of the temple. They shall not have | ber, for I love her. All of these years I have watched your school girls pass my doc d 1 have never seen an unhappy face. Some one must love them. Oh, will you love my little girl? It will cost | me caste and everything, but I give her to | you.' “If you could see the peaceful face of | this little girl and the filthy temple priests | at the temple waiting for their prey like | vultures at the Parsee burymg»ground,} vou would never ask again if missions | paid in sustaining giris in this Christian rding-school, rescued from fith and | ine and vice for $35 a year. We next visit a low caste school for vs. Last week the best scholar died. | He had fallen from a tree,and the parents | called their heathen doctor, who said that | a spirit pushed him from the tree and it | must be driven out of him. He is seized by the hair and beaten with a stick. From the fear and pain fever sets in and the | little boy dies. This is civilized Bombay. | In the last famine, haif of the chiidren in | this school ate salt so they couid fill up | with water and not require food. Oune | little boy was discovered wearing a big | knot tied against his stomach ‘to tie down the pain so that he could study.””’ Rev. Mr. Barton, D.D., secretary of the American board, says that while the pop- | tion of Bombay are leaving it, the | missionaries remain, in order to render assistance to the stricken people, and, by their presence, even to restore confidence nd impart knowledge to those who can- ot get away. The plague has reached | ery near to their premises. ——— BOMBAY AND THE PLAGUE. for her this morning. to him for it wi e waiting at ) Squalid Quarters of Natives Where the | Disease Breeds. The European quarters of Bombay are said 1o be as healthy as are to be found ywhere, but the Indian quarters, or lacktown,”” as the Europeans call it, ds most excellent facilities for nursing spreading an epidemic. The main horoughfares are wide and comparatively lean, but the side lanes, unpaved and without sidewales or gutters, are always in a most filthy condition. These quarters are densely populated by people. who live in low, small and dark nouses seldom reached by sunlight, in utter disregard of all governmental or municipal sanitary regulations, and with {he most violent and fanatical prejudices, engendered by custom and religion, against { B ACOK ChurcEGaEE [N W TN v ) eria Defof h] S\ e\ i {0 I 1 Seale ofMiles Map of Bombay, Where the Bubonic Plague Is Raging. L. BAX 1 n W L] S s LONDON, x6., Jan. 24.—In the House of Commona Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for Indis, stated that Lord Sandhurst, Governor-General of Bom- bay, had informed the India Office by telegraph that alarmist telograms, greatly exaggerating the plague situation as regards the spread of the contagion to Europeans, wera being sent from Bombay to Europe by press representatives and others. cluding a physician and a nurse. Thus far, Lord Sandhurst wired, only four Europeans Liad died from the plague, in- any attempts to interfere with their sui- cidal way of living. Having once gained a foothold in sucha quarter and among such people nothing but the most drast.c measures can ever stamp out any epidemic, let alone such a terrible scourge as the present visitation. The city of Bombay,or rather the aggre- gation of densely populated districts which are called by that rame, is situated near the lower part of.an isiand of the same name, which isone of an archipelago of seven 1slands near the mouth of the Ulas River, on the west coast of India. Bom- bay Island is about tweive miles long and in the upper part three wide, with a long peninsula (Kalaba) narrowing off to the south on the land side, and a shorter one, Malabar Poinf, on *he vea side. A range of hills extends from the latter up the west side as far as Mahim, and another on the east side from Mazagon up an equal dislance. low plain, with an eminence of thirty to fifty feet at the southern extremity. On the upper part of this peninsula is the original European town founded by the Portuguese. This is the commercial and administrative quarter and goes by the name of “The Kort.” Below it is the town of Kalaba and various hospitals and Sunita ruins, observatory, barracks, etc. North and west of “The Fort’’ comes the espianade, which formerly was en- tirely open, but of later years has been devoted to railroad and other industrial and business purposes. On thbe east side from the Government dockyard, on up to Mazagon, is the port of Bombay, with its large basins, spacious docks and vast warehouses, said to be as «xtensive as any in the worid. In ““Tbe Fort,” along this quarter of the city, the business of the Europcans mainly lies. As is the custom in the Far East, the hours of business are short—irom 10 A. M. to 3. M.—at which hour the offices and stores are deseried and the place is quiet and, as it were, deud till the next aay. The Portuguese and the wealthy Parsees repair to Maza- gon Heights, while the other Europeans betake themselves to Malabar Hill, Khumbala Bluff and Mahim, while many cross over the hills about Tannah on Sal- cette Island, or on by rail to the moun- tains of Abunath, Matheran and Panwel, on the road to Madras, where at an altitude of over 2000 feet more comfort can be had than on the island. The impetus given to the trade of Bom- bay in cotton during the American war, the completion of the Suez canal and the grand trunk lines of railroad to Calcutta and Madras, with branches to other parts of the great empire, has more than doubled the business and the population of the city during the last forty years, the latter now being estimated at about 900,000. Seventy ver cent of these are Hindoos. The Europeans number about 13,000, and the rest of the population is made up of every nationality and race under the sum, Parsees, Arabs, Chinese and Malays being the most numerous. From the first the other races left “The Fort'’ to the Europeans and settled them- selves in the part of the island just to the north and between Mazagon and Malabar hills—each nationality a race togetner. The rapid influx of people caused more indifference than usual in the location of these habitations, and streets were not laid off, but just extended themselves, haphazard, ss it were, in the direction of travel. Soon all the higher paris of the olain were taken up with dwelliogs and huts, and when the railroads were built, with their great causeways over o Balcette and the mainland, much land was reclaimed and used to raise them | above the tide water. Over this the town The long peninscla is 4 sort of | was rapidly extended. The streets, or rather roads, being kept nearly to a level, the hotises were left some feet below, and in many instances whole districts were cut | off from proper drainage—sufficient cause | to breed disease and epidemic at any time. The first outbreak in Bombay in this in- stance is said to have been In the quarter called Umarkhadi, south of Mazagon and | just west of the Prince’s dock. Thence it spread to Bycullah on the north, Bhu- lesvar on the west and so on over *‘Black- town.” Bycullab, the district in which the plague now rages with the greatest vira- lence, is situatad on a low, marshy plain of great extent, formerly covered by the sea. Itisabout the most unhealthy quar- ter of the many to be found in black Bombay. The inhabitants are chiefly the poorer classes of Parsees and half-castes and some minor European employes, who have set up native establishments. In this quarter is the notorious Duncan road, the “blood town” of Bombay, asort of Alsatia. It 18 a place of resortand refuge for every person of bad repute on the whole island—in fact, of all the west coast. Numerous thieves, deserting sailors, beach-combers of every nationality and other abandoned characters, throng the low taverns and grogshops and swarm in the pestilent hovels. Adjoining Bycullah on the northeast is another large and populous city, Maza- gon, but of a different character, though | also a very unhealthy place, except on the summits and slopes of the hills. The soil about Mazagon is very fertile and the vegetation very rank, from which poison- ous exhalations constantly arise. Maza- gon is largely inhabited by descendanis of the old Portuguese colonists—a very much mixed and degenerated race, who have entirely adopted the Indian mode of living. CORBETT TALKS AGAIN. Tells of His Training and Says He Would e 1o Have the Battle in the Sagebrush State. CHICAGO, ILL., Jan. 24.—James J. Cor- bett arrived here to-day from St. Louis. He will comimence actual training in about two weeks. His theatrical com- pany will play in Chicago this week and next week in Kansas City, and then his trainer will take him to tha battle-ground. Corbett is not accompanied by his wife. “I am keeping in training,” said Cor- bett; “work hard for an hour and a half or two hours every day. I do my train- ing with McVey, although I find some- body in every town to meet me in a few rounds of spurring. Hanaball is the best kind of exercise for me and I can say with- out boasting that I play a great game. I bhave met all the best players in the United States anda Canada, and the man who wins from me has some trouble.” Asked about the location of the ap- proaching fight with Fitzsimmons, the champior. said : Y ou know as much about that subject Ido. It will bea weight off mf mind when I learn_the truth. Ishould like to have it in Nevada, out toward my old home, butas Dan Stuart is spending so much time in the Bouth, I suppose the battle will be down there. I shall have more work to get acclimated if the South is the place. “Fitzeimmons is talking a good deal and with very poor excuse. It would be much more gracelui if he would put up his money first. I bave §7500 and he but $2500. Of course 1 do not doubt but that he will make the rest of the forfeit, but he is ratuer slow, to say theleast.” After another inierview the question was put as to Corbett's plans after the figh g“I shall go on the road again at once,” he said. don’t know whether 1 shall ever fight again or not.” VON HAHARE KW B THE SHING It Means a New Turn in the Policies of the Kaiser. “teps to Be Taken Toward the Repression of All Liberal Ideas. Gag Laws to Be Put in Operation Worse Thzn Those in Vogue Dur. ing the Bismarck Regime. [Copyright, 1897, by the United Associated Presses) BERLIN, GERMANY, Jan. 24.—The Em- peror’s allusion to a recent report of the existence of a court cabal, and his state- ment that he knew nothing of any such | clique as has been alleged to exist, do not alter the fact' that besides his Majesty’s public ministerial council, he has his all- potent private advisers. The influence of von Hahnke appears now in the ascendant with the Kaiser, who has on several occasions dined his charge of military cabinet alone, a dis- tinguished mark of imperial favor and confidence. General von Hahnke's as- cendency implies much. It means the active prosecution of the plans for increased armaments and in the sphere of internal politics, for Hahnke is no mere professional soldier. It means a return 10 a policy of repression of liberal ideas and especially of Socialism. It means that the Kaiser has for some time past regretted the line he took in 1889, in endesvoring to reconcile the workingmen. He finds that they will not be placated on any terms but their own, and that his endeavors at conciliation have been taken as a proof of weakness on his part. In going back to a policy of restriction, of which the Umsturz bill in the Reichstag was an instance, the Kaiser will have. the heartiest support from the Hahnke circle. There is good reason for expecting a Gov- ernment measure in thé Landtag propos- ing such amendments to the existing common laws as will supply the Prussian authorities with ample means to counter- act the stil! growing Socialist propaganda. The law touching political organiza- tions, rights of meeting and press criti- cisms of public or private events is to be amended” and the severest repression resorted to, as in the worst period ot the Bismarck regime. The composition of the Landtag renders these proposals more likely of acceptance by the Landtag than was accorded by the Reichstag to the Umsturz bill. Apropos of the spread of Socialism, a Socialisi re- view, Die Neue Zeit of Stuttgart, pub- lishes a statisticul table on the influence exercised by religion on the development of Socialism. The figures as given show that in every case where Catholicism is ) dominant Socialism has the smallest rela- tive number of adherents. In Hamburg, for instance, where the numerical ma- jority is Protestant, the Socialists hold 59.3 per cent of the suffrage. In districts, as in Hesse, where the Catholics form an important majority, the Socialist vote de- scends to 24 per cent, and in districts such as Posen, a Catholic province, there are only 2 per cent of Socialist votes. Centerist papers draw the inference that the Catholic religion affords a resisting force to the growth of anarchism and argue that the Government in cornbating socialism ought to recognize its best ally in the party of the Center. On Wednesday last Embassador Uhl and his wite, Miss Alice Ukl, Mrs. Guy Thompson, nee Uhl, J. B. Jackson, first Secretary of the United States Embassy, and Mrs. Jackson, H. G. Squires, second Secretary of Embassy, and Mrs. Squires, Lieutenant Niblach, naval attache to the American embassy, and Miss Rutter at- tended a grand defiling court given by the Emperor and Empress at the royal schloss. The Americans who wers presented to their majesties included Mr. Jones and wife of = Cincinnati, Miss Ullman of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Profsesor Guy Thompson of Yale University who re- cently became the husband of Miss Lucy UhL The ladies of the Embassa- dor’s party wore court dresses of unusual splendor. Mrs. Squires was attired in & PLENTY OF TIMBER FOR THE CABINET Every Available Man in the Country Suggested for a Place. Nearly All the Portfolios Have Been Tendered, But There May Be a Readjustment Cold Comfort Given a Nebraskan Who Urged the Claims of His Own State. CANTON, Omio, Jan. 24.—There is a growing impression that the Cabinet will be finally completed within three weeks, with the possible exception of one place. Though Major McKinley may decide within the next ten days upon the eight men who are to form his official family, it does not fotlow that the fina: appointment of places and portfolios will be made within that time, Mostof the men who are selected for the Cabinet will doubt- less be shifted about from time to time and the final complexion of the Cabinet may not be arranged before March 1. The Secretary of State is, of course, decided on and the Secretary of tne Treasury will be as definitely known as will that of the In- terior Department, but the portfolios of war, of the navy, of agriculture, of justice and the Postoffice Department will be a good deal shifted about. The President- elect desires to fill the more important places in his Cabinet as soon as possible, in order that some thought may be given as to the work of choosing assistant secre- taries and the organization of the depart- ments. A good deal of progress in the work of Cabinet-making will probably be made this week. Major McKinley has prac- tically finished the sifting process, and he has listened to as many suggestions on one hand and protests on the other as he has time for. The whole situation has been thoroughly canvassed, every avail- able man in the country has been sug- gested for appointment to the Cabinet and a legion of almost unknown guantities have caused the President-elect to be convinced that if he so desired he would be told where he might discover some hatherto unexpected timber for his Cab- iaet. The New York problem of Cabinet rep- resentation will probably be solved this week. The current gossip is that General Stewart L. Woodford will be the New York member of the Cabinet. He is bighly esteemed by the President, and personally is on most agreeable terms with him. Major McKinley is more intimately ac- quainted with General Woodford than with any of the other New York men who are talked of as Cabinet possibilities. The President-elect has a high opinion of Woodford’s ability, and if political condi- tions continue to be as favorable as they now seem to be, he is pretty certain to be the next Secretary of War or the Navy. General Alger's appointment to the Cabinet is not regarded as certain, but the belief that he will be in it grows, and this notion 1s strengthened by the knowledge that ex-Governor Merriam of Minnesota and Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin seem almost to have dropped, for the time at least, from the list of those who are being seriously considered. There will be in all probability a Cubinet officer from Wiscon- sin, Michigan or Minnesota, and if Mr. Payne or Mr. Merriam is notchosen it is al- most certain General Alzer will be, unless Lyman J. Gage should be made Secretary of the Treasurv, in which event his ap- pointment would be deemed sufficient recognition for all that general section of the country. The doubts about Mr. Gage’s volitical faith and economic creeds having been re- moved within the last twenty-four hours by the visit of a Chicago gentleman to Canton, it may be safely assumed that his appointment is being more seriously con- sidered than ever, though it is by no means certain that he will be selected, and indeed the impression still prevails hera that Charles Emory Smith of Philadelphia is the strongest possibility. Information received here to-day and during the last ten days make it certain that the Senate of the United States will be favorable to the enactment of protec- tive tariff legislation. Major McKinley is more interested in restoring confidence and prosperity than the mere filling of offices and a good deal of his time which the public thinks is oc- cupied with questions relating to pat- ronage is really consumed in thought and discussions bearing on policies. Major McKinley attended church and spent the day quietly. L R NEBRASKA NOT ON THE LIST. Delegate Jansen Went to Canton on a Fruitless Mission. LINCOLN, NEBR., Jan. 24.—Peter Jan- sen, one of the delegates-at-large from Ne- braska to the Republican National Con- vention, is in the city direct from a visit to Major McKinley. He tellsof an extended interview with the President-elect on Cabinet possibilities, and says: “The conversation turned on the matter of Secretary of Agriculture. I impressed on him that the agricultural interests of the country wanted a man from the Mid- dle West, not from the Far West, as Cali- fornia, for a man from there would not understand the problems that confront the farmers of the great plains region. Major McKinley replied that he wes satisfied a man from the corn belt was needed. The major then turned and said: ‘Do you know Senator Wilson of Iowa?’ I replied that I did and that he wasa fine man. ‘But we have some good timber in Nebraska,’ I interposed, anxious to stand up for the State. ‘That is so; I tully reahze 1t said the major. Then after a pause he said significantiy, ‘It is really too bad that Nebraska went back on us. The State should bave gone Re- publican.’” I took this to mean that Ne- braska could not expect to get a Cabinet position under the circumstances, and I believe Senator Wilson will be Secretary of Agriculture. As for the Treasury, L believe either Lyman J. Gage of Chicago or Senator Culiom will be the choice.” Mr. Jansen says Major McKinley is strongly in favor of international bimete allism. FALL OF A TOPMAST. It Killed the Captain’s Son and Cause the Sorrowtul Mate to Attempt Suicide. TALLAHASSEE, Fra., Jan. 24.—The schooner Norman, Captain E. B. Gray, of Castine, Me., from Barbadoes, West Indies, arrived at Carrabelle yesterday. When off Santo Domingo January 11 the mate, J. J. Leighton, with two men, was aloft on the mizzenmast to repair some damage that had been done to the topmast, and from some cause unexplained the lashings hold- ing it broke, letting it fall to the deck. The captain’s son, Walter, a youth about 18 years of age, was standing on the poop- deck, and was struck and instantly killed by the falling spar. He was buried at sea | January 12. The mate, Leighton, was so overcome by the accident that he at- tempted to commit suicide by shooting himself with a revolver, but was prevented by one of the crew throwing a marlin spike at him, striking him on the head, causing the bullet to glance off and in- flicting only & painful flesh wound on the nead. He was pat in irons, and was handed to Deputy Sheriff Mattair, who took him to Apalachota before the Com- missioner, who, finaing him rational, and as he was in no way to blame for the acci- dent in which young Gray was killed, dis- charged him from custody A Imitating Bryan's Book. CHICAGO, IiL., Jan. 24. —Judge Horton yesterday granted an injunction sgainst Philadelphia publishing house to pre- vent imitation of W. J. Bryan’s new book. Of late another Bryan book has appeared. While the title page does not say it was written by Mr. Bryan, the dispiay of words in large and small type is such, it is said, as to convey that impression. he title ‘The Great Battle”. The injunc- tion was served last night. Attorney Newman s¢aid that similar injunctions would be asked for in every city where an attempt is made to sell the boo! BEGINNIN white satin gown embroidered with silver arabasques. Her corsage was embroidered with gold flowers, each glittering with diamond dewdrops. The movement for a common German national fete day, which was started in 1893 by some wel'-meaning folks and con- siderably discussed at the time, but with- out practical issue, has been revived. An executive committee has come to the front with a proposal that the first celebration be fixed for 1900, that being the earliest year when the gigantic arrangements con- templated can be carried out. There are opponents to any national fete of this kind, who say that 1900 will find particu- larism in Germany stronger than in 1897. The economic differences between north and south, west and northeast, the old ~=o-OF L] in the United States. cost. jealousies between Sudbraus, Bavarians and Prussians, continue wide and deep. The Kaiser is understood to have con- sulted Minister Miquel on_the question of the Turkish finances, and especially in the light of the recent report of Sir Edgar Vincent, president of the Imperial Otto- man Bank. The result has confirmed the | Kaiser in his determination o support the Suln in bis project of & council of finance composed of Turks and Europeans appointed by the Sultan himself and not, as suggested by Lord Salisbury, under Eu- ropean control. The conclusion of the Vincent report that Turkey will soon be financially sound and prosperous under even moderately good administration is now the official German conclusion. The Kaiser appears still to rely on the Sultan as being de- sirous to obtain_an honest and effective sdministration. Immediate developments in the East will tend to disproye the gen- erally accepted notion that German in- terest in and influence upon Turkish matters are only of a minor character. Upon all this all-important and initial question of financial reforms the Sultan, with the support of Germany, wiil have his way. German policy, adroitly passive recarding Armenia, has been equally adroit on the leading question beiore the embassadorial conferences. One result of this agreement between the Kaiser and the Sultan will be seen in increased con- cessions to German subjects, who now hold the concessions for the leading Ana- tolian railways, supply the officials that work them and get the principal contracts for arms and ammunitions. The Under Secretary to the Turkish Finance Ministry, Bertran Effendi, who recently resigned rather than countenance the bogus budget, is likely to withdraw his resigration. 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