The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1897, Page 5

— e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1897. 5 cording to the law, buy any of the prison produst, but those who might naturally be our customers can buy directly from the prison in large quantities. If there were not between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 jute grain bags made at San Quentin every year the dealers would have that many more 10 sell. But, as a matter of fact, for the last three years since the duty was takenwff grain bags from @alcutta, there have been no grain bags manufactured or used in California, excapt those from San Quentin prison and those from Calentta, India, and b:tween 30,000,000 and 35,000,000 are annually im- ported and aresold at the same price as the convict-made bag—5 cents each. The Oakland Jutemills had to shut down because of the rezoval of the duty on jute bags. J. P. Ames of Ames & Harris, manufacturers and importers of bags and bagging materials—Convict-made goods injure us and tb - yhole community. If they do not come into competition with our particular line, ..ey hurt the business of some one else. [was Warden at San Quentin when the jutemill was established there. The manufacture of grain bags by the State priscn does not very materially hurt any one in the busjness, because only 10 per cent of the demand in this State is supplied, and the other 90 per cent comes from India free of duty. So it is simply limited convict production in competition with India-made jute bags. If there were a duty, it would be diffierent, as then home factories would ha chance to enter the field. But this manufacturing of jute twine is wrong. That is altogether a different matter. There is & heavy duty on twine. Congress three wears ago simply took the du:v off jute bags and burlap, and burlap does not by any means cover all jute goods. I was not before aware thatthe prison was making th twine, nor that the Examiner was the prin- cipai consumer. I think that if a letter is written to the Superintendent at the San Quentin jutemill, complaining of the sale of twine, there will be no more of it. I do not think that it is the purpose of the prison authorities to do trade an inju-tice. If the Examiner has a contract for so much twine to be supplied, I think that the Superintendent will a to be released from further compliance with the contract. Twine-making is a very convenient thing in all mills of the kind. It turnishes a sort of fill-in employment to put the men to at spare times. It 1s not right that the fac- ;I'Eeixtemfll Monarc‘h in Issue of May 15, 1896. There Was a “Hurry-Up” Order for Convict Goods From the “Examiner” Just Six Days Before This Bait Was Hung Out to the Workingmen, che ¢xaw MORNING, CO: FRIDA SAN FRANCIS THE CONVICT PEDESTAL COMES DOWN “The Examiner's’ Offer to P.iace the Bust of Grant Upon a Base Carved by Union *Hands Is Gladly Acceptad. The Action Applauded by the Building Trades Council and Labor Leaders—Mr. 0'Connor Promptly Orders All Work Upon the Monument Stopped. The prison-made pedestal upot which it was intended to place the dbronze bue of General Grant Is to be razed. Orders to that effect were given yesterday by Cornelius O'Connor, Chairman ot the Monument Executive Committee, and by this afternoon the work of dismantling will be well und In the place of this condemmed convict-cut base 18 to be 2 duplicate, but hewn by the hands of union labor, and after all no disrespect will plemish the memory of Amerita’s immort “The Examine: that which,was prodiced by the felons of Folsom has met THE GRANT BUST AND I'TS DOOMED CONVICT PEDESTAL AS IT APPEARS NOW. Chatrman Cornelius O'Connor of the Grant Monument Committes has sccepted “'The Exame 5 offer to replace at its own expense the felon-bewn pedestal now in Golden Gate Park, .with duplicate carved by the hands of unlon labor He has stopped the work on the objectionzble base, and it is to be immediately demolished. which Mr. O'Connar is the spokesman, and now mothing but a rew weeks of ear nest work remains to replace by am honest and patriotic carving, a plece of work which would have ever been a repulsive eyesore and a stain on the dead General’s mem- “The Examiner's” offer was to place at the dlsposal of the Monument Com- toe a granité pedestal—entirely in harmony with the designer’s Ideas—but carved snion cutters, and this offer was the outgrowth of the expressed opinfon of many citizens, particularly the union laboring mex, that It would be a dishonor to place a bust of General Grafit-upon a stand molded hv tha hands of gonvicted thieves and murderers. When Chairman O'Connor read “The Examiner's” offer yesterday, morning he 0t Into his carriage, drove to the Park and ordered all work on thé mionument stopped at once. Later in the day he dat down and wrote the following letter to “The Exa ditor of ““The Examiner”—Sir: Referring to the late comment on the eone the Grant monument in Golden Gats Park. I wish to inform you that I, as Chalre the G ument Executive Committee, have to-day ordered the work at the Park the respopsibllity of saying that the committee wouid prefer a pedestal bor. In addition I wish to state that I will with ploasurs agcopt The "animous offer to replace the Folsom psdestal with one In the progu:iaia skilled cutters have had a hand. Every facility will be afforded by sur tee for furthering the project, and for getting the monument ready for unveiing. Yours very truly, CORNELIUS 0'CONNaN May 14 1886 teries in this State should be deprived of this work. And they would have io be at the rate the prison-made twine is sold. Factories simply could not sell jute twine or e for less than about 7 cents a pound, and Icsee the Examiner o has been zetting twine from San Quentin for 534 cents a pound. If the Examiner had not been able to get that twine at the prison, it could iave got something very like it from factories or dealers. Henry Doyle of Henry Doyle & Co., dealers in twines, rope, yarns, etc.—I am opposed to -made goods everywhere. 1 believe, though, that the State’s pris- oners should be, as far as possible, seli-supporting. They should be taught trades, but in the teaching should be permitted to produce as little as would be necessary to supply their own needs without entering into competition with the outside world, The making of jute goods fits the convicts for that particular employment alone, ana when they are released they have special knowledge only of work that they must go East.to find. Now, if the State, instead of making grain bags and twine, should begin the construction of large, substantial stone buildings and walls at-the prisons and keep the convicts employed upon them the men would learn stone-cutting, masonry, piastering and so on; the State wou!d be getting fine, permanent buildings for noth- ing, and useful trades would be offercd the men, so that after years at the work a man given bis liberty would have a trade to seek employment at rather than for want of training be tempted again 10 enter upon a criminal career. Alfred 8. Tubbs, treasurer of the Tubbs Cordage Company—The manufacture at Ean Quentine of jute twine does not directly affect us, as we us> and deal in manills and sisal hemp only. Butas a matter of principle we are opvosed to convict-made v oposal to take the Initiative in a movement to substitutea | | THE CALIFORNIA COTTON MILLS, Out of Which 350 People Pour at the Close of Each Day’s Work. If the Examiner's Policy of Patronizing Convict Labor Prevails They Will Be : | as Quiet as the Oakland Jutemills. goods. Whoisnot? Those that deal in that kind of twine are of course injured to the extent of unfair competition. Double Dealing and Hypocrisy ‘ Characteristic of Hearst’s Local Paper. County Clerk C. F. Curry said: “That method of double-dealing nown by THE CALL's expose is characteristic of the Ezam iner. Nobody expects sincerity or decency from that paper. There are some good men connected with the Eraminer, but they are handicapped by the policy of the paper. Of course they will say that I am biased because the Ezaminer has attacked me, but that doesn’t count in a case like this. The FEraminer's attacks have never hurt me, and they never can, because 1 always do my duty, and I shall continue to do 80, irrespective of what any paper may say or do. That was a very clever piece of newspaper work THE CALL gave to its readers to-day. All the brag of the Eraminer in regard to objecting to convict labor in making the base for the Grant monumert was shown to be mere wind. The first ooportunity it had to use convict-made goods in its business it did it. To be sure it is a small thing, but small things show how the wind blows. If the Examiner could get hold of a big | thing in the same way, there is no doubt it would be only too glad to do it. Look at how quick the Ezaminer took in the type-setting machines. While pretending to be the friend of the laboring men, it did all in its power to cut down the amount of work that was to be given out. It hurt the working-printers and that was about all, for I am told that it doesn’t do the Eraminer much good. By the time the machines are worn out and new ones put in their place about all the profit will go to the makers of | the machines. THE CALL has got the laugh on the Ezaminer, and everybody is enjoy- | ing the joke, serious as it is.” Captain Lees—I knew of the Ezaminer’s contract with the San Quentin officials over a year ago. Tom Williams had told me of it as a good stroke of business, saying CRRILC e The Convict-Made Twine as It Is Used in the Examiner | Mailing-Rooms. | that the twine he had been purchasing was made by convict labor in the East, and he could buy it at San Quentin much cheaper. C. H. Davies, chairman of the relie! committee of the organized unemployed, and himself a graduate of Pacific University of Oregon, sai | “If the Examiner’s policy were to be pursued to an ultimate conclusion 1t would | become advantageons to many of our free workingmen to-day to become convicts in order to have an opportunity to work and reap some of the many benefits. “The premium offered by the Examiner for labor's sake is: Become a convict and get a job. But will that solve the problem ?”’ | |How Oakland Business Men Received the True Picture of Wanton Willie. . OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FrANcISCO CALL,; 908 Broadway, March 10, | When the wage-earners and merchants read THE CALL this morning they were notsurprised. Surprise is a mila word to use in expressing their state of feelings. | | They were absolutely dumfounded. | For 20 many years and on so many occasions has the Examiner pratea about its | | devotion to the cause of the workin:man and its horror of convict labor threatening | the bread and butter of honest wage-earners that, as Superintendent Rutherford of the cotton-mills stated to-day, “a flash of lightning from a clear sky could not have caused greater surprise.” The matter was discussed by union men and by manufacturers, but most earnestly of all by the 750 people who make their living by the looms of East Oakland. Of the number 400 have been out of work for three years by the closing down of the California Jutemills, because of the competition at San Quentin, and 350 are daily employed at the California Cotton-mills. These see the Examiner setting an exampie to the State that threatens them and their little ones with starvation, and they were desperate. A delegation from the mills at once went into Oakland and tried to see Prison Di- rector Fitzgerald. They were prepared to make a very forcible argument in defense of their livelihood, but Mr. Fitzgerald was out of town and could not be seen all day. Superintendent Rutherford of the California Cotton-milis, upon returning from San Francisco, said: “The merchants dealing in twine on both sides of the bay are great!y excited over the expose in THE CALL to-day. I saw Mr. Beauer, the president of our concern, in San Francisco this atiernoon and he was denouncing the rascality of such an effort to de- ceive the public as that practiced for several months past by the Examiner. “‘He feels that THE CALL has begun a big fight, but a good one, on behalf of the workingman which is sure to receive the hearty approval of the toilers of every con- dition. Deceit will never do to practice with them. The Examiuer practiced the greatest deceit that it could have ever done and the working classes will not soon for- got it.” The Prison Transport Steamer Caroline. % When it {s not & “hurry-up” order the Ezaminer twine is shipped to this City by steamer. In any event the State pays the freight, as all jutemill goods are landed f. o. b. in this City fo a purchaser. Upon the arrival of the goods here they are taken charge of by a spe- l cial Ezaminer teamster. HER BUNKERS FOUND ON FIRE Cruiser New York’s Nar- row Escape From Total Destruction. Flames Next a Magazine of Guncotton and Powder ¥ Smothered. So Heavily Flooded With Water That the Cruiser Sank Three Feet in Draught. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 10.—Fire in- vaded the forward magazine of the cruiser New York at noon yesterday. The vessel was lying off Tompkinsville, but was about to proceed to the Brooklyn Navy- yard. “The forward magazine is surrounded by coal bunkers. In it were 2000 pounds of guncotton and 6000 pounas of powder. Smoke poured from the magazine, and an alarm was given. For the first time in the history of the ship the automatic electric fire alarm failed to do its duty. Water was let into the coal-bunkers about the magazine, and there was no stint in the quantity, so that before the cruiser had passed Governor’s Icland she had taken into the hold such a weight of water that she sank three feet in draught and had to be handled with grest caution. Arriving at the navy-yard the New York was pumped out. Early this morning an examination was made into the cause of the fire. It wasfound that the fire had not originated in the magazine, but in the coal-bunkers adjsining the forward wall. Had there been a failure of discipline cn board, or had Captain Schley lost for an instant the coolness which bas always characterized him when faced by great dangers, the new navy would have been minus its finest cruiser. Sl MONIIOE PURITiN DISABLED. Engines Broke Down and She Was Nearly Blown on Shore. NORFOLK, Va., March 10.—The United States monitor Puritan, which left Charles- ton last Friday and encountered heavy weather all the way up the coast, is now in Raleigh Bay, near Durants life-saving * station in a disabled condition, and the cruiser Columbia has gone to her assist ance. The Puritan after leaving Charleston was obliged to anchor in Saturday’s storm, and shortly afterward 1t was dis- covered that one of her engines was disa- bled and that she could make but little headway against the heavy sea. After an exceptionally siow trip, how- ever, she arrived off Hatteras late Tues- day evening, when it was discovered that the other engine was working badly. The Puritan steamed back and forth in front of the life-saving station, signaling her condition to the life-savers, who patroied the beach all night so as to give immedi- ate aid should it be required. Captain Bartlett managed to keep off shore all night, however, and early this morning he wired the Navy Department that one engine was disabled and the other could not be depended on. PLUCKY KING GEORGE SCORES THE POWERS [ Continued from First Page.| possible to secure a unanimous vote of the powers in favor of coercion. This, of course, means more delay, more uncertainty and continued impotence, if not the dissolution of the concert of Europe. It means also new dangers and greater ones which already have alarmed the Government, but not the people of this country. Orders were received at the Portsmouth navy-yard yesterday that the entire force be employed through to four hours over- time daily and solely upon vessels which are nearly ready for sea. Several more warships have been ordered from the coasts of Africa and other points to the Mediterranean and to the channel fleet that has been kept at Gibraltar. The First Army Corps received secret or- ders to hold itself in readiness for foreign service. So, although the outiook has im- proved from the standpoint of Greece and Crete, it has become somewhat dangerous in other directions, and Great Britain is preparing for all eventualities. g el by SELINO IN DANGER. Cretan Insurgents Meditating an Attack Upon the Town. LONDON, Exg, March 10.—In the House of Commons to-day George N. Cur- zon, Parliamentary Secretary to the For- eign Office, said in answer to s question by Sir William Hoarcourt, leader of the op- position, that the Government had not heard that Greece had made or was in- tending to make a raply supplementary to her answer to the identical note of the powers in regard to the Greek occupation of Crete, a cessation of which the powers demanded. Mr. Curzon read s telegram from the British Consul at Can 8ir Abilotti, an- nouncing the fact of the relief from a po- sition of great perii 0f523 men,1407 women and children, 430 soldiers and 1000 Mus- sulman refugees who had been besieged at Kandamos by Christian insurgents. The dispatch added that the rescued persons were embarking on board of warships at Selino, which place, the Consul said, was in danger of being attacked by Christians after the departure of the warships for the purpose of landing the refugees and others on board at places of safety. I B Nebraskane Praise King George. LINCOLN, Nesr, March 10.—In the Senate to-day Ransom of Dougias offered the following resolutiou, which was unan- imously adopted: WHEREAS, The kingdom of Greece is en- gaged in a struggle with all the great powers of Europe to emancipate the istand of Crete from the rule of the Turkish empire, therefore be it Resolved, That we express our sympathy with Crete in its aspirations for freedom and we applaud the herolc endeavors of King George of Greece in opposing the powers to maintain Cretan libert gt L France Farors Cretean Autonoing. PARIS, FRANCE, March 10.—The Temps publishes the announcement that active negotiations have been opened with a view to the organization of a mew regime in Crete, and intimates that the French Gov- ernment is especially concerned in the giving of a satisfactory reality to the scheme for an autonomous administration of the affairs of the island. — Going Home to Fight. BALTIMORE, Mp., March 10. —The Greek colony of Bultimése will have a George, provided the war against Turkey is not quickly ended. Six of the enthu- siasts left here to-day for Athens, and fifty-five are booked to leave in a few days. i Fusesia Offers Arms to Servia. BELGRADE, Servia, March 10.—It is announced fthat the Russian Government has offered Servia 120,000 magazine rifles on credit. It has not been decided yet whether the offer will be accepted or re- | fused. ——— Censorship of Telegrams. CANEA, CzeTe, March 10.—The Gover- | nor here will hereafter exercise a censor- ship of all telegrams. The aamirals of the foreign warships, it 1s said, approve of this plan. e il WILL FIGHT FOR GREECE. Many Americans Willing to Join King George’s Forces. Auguste Goustiaux, Acting Greek Con- sul at this port, is in receipt of many let- ters from Americans in this City and throughout the State offering their ser- vices should they be needed. In neariy every case the writer has seen service and holds honorable discharge. In one instance R. C. Hooker of Berke- ley, who was quite well known here some years ago asa broker, writes: Iserved sixteen yvears as a commissioned of- ficer in the United States navy, when I volun- tarily resigned to go into a business venture. Iam agraduate of the United States Naval | members of the Jesuit order a: | the priesthood. MOURNIKG AT LOS GATOS. Death of Rev. John Pinasco, S.J., Formerly President of Santa Clara College. LOS GATOS, Car, March 10.—Rev. Joun Pinasco, 8.J., formerly president of Santa Clara College, died yesieraay at the ny of | Jesuit Novitiate from an attack of pneu- representation in the service of King | monia. The dread disease had been slowly but too surcly making its inroads for ihe past week, forzing the reverend gentleman to keep 10.his bed. The funeral took place from St. Claire’s Church at Sunta Clara this afternoon. In Father Pinasco the Jesuit order has lost an eminent member—one who did it good service in whatever position he was employed, whether as superior or inferior, Born in Chiavari, vear Genoa, June 11, 1837, he received his early education at the archiepiscopal seminary of his native place, where he attended classes until De- cember 19, 1853, when he joined the Jesuits. For the term of his novice life the provincial fatuer, Alexander Ponza, sent’ him to Bonascola, near Carra where he spent two vears under a welle skilled master in the ways of perfection and staid unti! 1858, devoting consider- able time to a review of the Latin classics and a thorough course of rhetoric. At the end cf the vear 1858 he went to the famous | English colleze at Stonyhurst, where he took up the study of pailosophy under the able tutorship of Rev. Joseph Bayma, J., then one of the most prominent pro- iessors of the order in Europe. In 1860, owing to the pressing need of subjects for the California mission, Father Pinasco was ordered to leave for Santa Clara College, where he took an act:ve | part in school work as professor und | prefect, devoting himself unremittingly to his charge until 1365, wben he went to Georgetown, Washington, to join the thep- | loginal course then in progress there for iring 10 Ordained in 1870, he re- turned to Santa Clara College, where on account of the great profici ney he had made in the study of the En:lish lan- Academy and have my commission asan of- | ficer, and other papers relating to my naval | career. 1 beg to refer you to Rear-Admiral Beardslee, | commanding the United waters. Ihave cruised about n Grecian waters a great deal and am familiar with them. There is no doubt that Greece will win and I want to beinit. Very truly yours, R. C. HOOKER. Care of M. P. Hall, Berkeley. The writer has addressed similar letters to P. T. Vrettes and to the Hellenic So- ciety. Consul Goustiaux has as yet received no formal reply to his recent telegram ad- dressed to the Consul-General of Greece in New York, 1n which he stated that there were 150 Greeks in this City ready to re- turn home immediately if their country needed them; hence he is unable to do more at the present time than to file all communications for future consideration. The local Greek colony is in the mean- time brimming over with enthusiasm. With very few exceptions—men who are too advanced in years or who are held here by strong family ties that cannot in justice be neglected—nearly every Greek in this City is ready and anxious to take up arms in behalf of his home and coun- try. ates fleet in these They have engaged a hall on the south- | west corner of Bast and Mission streets, where most of their leisure time is spent | the Prehistorian Debatin | | | guage, he was deemed competent to teach rhetoric, at the same time acting as chap- lain and fiilivg the position of director of Society. The superiors, well aware by this time of his special talent for government, transferred him to St. Ignatius College, an Francisco, where he was appointed president, remaining in office, to the great, satisfaction of professors and pupils, until when he was placed at the bhead of >lara College to guide its destinisy when he was succesded by Rev. R. E. Kenna. Having finished his term of presiding at Sante Clara Coliege, be was vlaced in charge of the class of rhetoric at St Ignatius Coilege, San Francisco, and di rected the gentlemen’s sodali'y until the end of the scholastic year, 1884, when he was placed over the novices atSanta Clara es instructor. Again in 1888 he was at the head of af- fairs at Santa Clara College, governing with that jatherly kindness and affability that ever characterized him and made for him hosts of friends. At the end of his second term of presideney at Santa Clara College he acted as vice-president of St Ignatius Coilege up to the summer of 189 when, on account of feeble health, physi- cians'ordered a change to Los Giatos, where he resided until the iime of his aemise. e Drowsinessis dispelied by BEECHAM'S PILLS ——— Fight Will Be Pnotographed. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 10.—The Kinetoscope photograph outfit for the Cor- bett-Fitzsimmons fight, which r cently attached by the Sheriff, was released in arilling. They expect to be uniformed | this evening and shipped west on the mid- { night train. this coming week. When you see the Roses in her Cheeks you may well know she takes Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilia. o OUE T OF THAE TIES - OV CGLHSLLECOATE TALLES AU L AR 7P = o PL SRS, Blood Purifier. California. PREPARED ONLY BY CEEXMISTS, A Foxrurars ConmmaTioN OF TS Tiue st PNy Sty StomachReguiator and Vegetable Laxative In existence. A compound of the juices of Vegetable Alteratives indigenous %o THS EDWIN W. J0¥ OOMPANY, ." - None genuine witheut this signatures e R When you see the Roses in her Cheeks you may well know she takes Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. S —