The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1897, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY THE COAST | GREECE Such Action Decided Upon’ by Turkey’s Combined Friends. BRAVE GREEKS REMAIN UNDAUNTED. Under the Guns of Foreign War- ships Insurgents Kill ’, Their Foes. SALISBURY AND HANOTAUX IN CONFERENCE. While Pow-rs Hoid the Brave Chris- ti ns in Check Moslems Pilage at Their Pleasure. LONDON, Exc., March 26.—The Tele- graph will to-morrow publish a dispateh | from Vienna stating that all the powers | bave now accepted the project to blockade | theentire Greek coast, beginning with the ports of the Pirzus, Volo, Corinth and | o | The Government announces that the | international forces in Crete bave occu- pied the town of Malaxa, the scene of the | fighting between the Turkish garrison | and the Cretan insurgents yesterday. The | as for this sction are t1at the ad-| s commanding the joint fleer of the | powers regarded that the occupation of the town by either the Turks or Greeks as menacing to the European powers oce| z Canea. nea correspondent of the Times | telegraphs that ma complaints are | heard of the ality shown by the pow-i' He adds that Moham- | ed part of the village of Animals bdelonging to the | eeding upon the vines of Chris- rehi of St. Jobn has just| by a crowd of Moslems. s are being done under the representatives of the powers, who make no effort to stay them. The | Mohammedsns think that now they have opean backing they can do what tbey. ans have ut ovoha. Tve dispatch adds that the fleets at 2 o'clock this afternoon resumed their sheil- ing of the Christian insurgents in the v The Chris- here causticaliy com- the action of the powers in ion of the town ot Malaxa t the foreign admirals tion by either Ch ians or Turks is asn ro- peans in this city. The fact of the dan- geronsness of the position, it is pointed d the admirals «fter n compelled the Turkish 5 toevacuate and had captured the place. Solongas the Tarks held posses- sion no danger was apparent to the ad- | but once the Christians com- | manded the position the foreign naval otficers wakened to a vary lively sense of the risk that was being run by their sea- men and marines and the international | ore. Malaxa 1s one of the| places that command the iandward ap- | sto Canea and would furnisha MORNING, MARCH 27, 1S97T. E FIVE CENTS. — HONTINGTON THROWS /// '\ R @‘/n ) 5 3 S b o COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON, President of the Southern Pacific Railroad Cornpany. DOWA Here and “T Will Be the N the Southern I will be the next president of the Southern Pacific, come what may I have been doing business with my asso- ciates for thirty-five years. I mads the men who onpose me. I. have no p:r- sonal quarrel with Mr. Crocker. I am not looking for trouble. 1 have come here for health, but I am not too old yet to strike back at the man who opposes G This is the bold challenge that Collis P. Huntington uttered last night as he sat comfortably ensconced in a chair in the library in the Colton mansion on the northeast corner of California and Taylor streets, which he will hereafter call and in reality make Lis home. “¢1 like the people of California. Tam getting old, and I am coming bome.”” He was speaking of not having been to this City since a year ago last November, and, in the touching language quoted, signified his intention of making San Francisco his future home. It has not been forgotten that at the election for officers, held by the directors of the Southern Pacific Company a year ago, Opposition to the re-election of Hunt- ington as president was manifested by Mrs. Stanford in a most positive manner. She had instructed her two representa- tives—Russell J. Wilson and Charles strong strategic position in’ the event of an attack being made upon the town, but it is not generally believed, extept by che | more timorous Turks, and perhaps the foreign admirals, that the insur meditate an attack upon this city. Turks had. been able to hold there would have been no action taken by the admirals to seize it. The practical wiping out of the Malaxa garrison on its reireat toward the coast nts towns has caused a feeling of uneasiness | among the garrisons stationed in other forts. The insurgents pursued and de- stroyed t e Turks under the firé of the | warships, and tnis fuct is weakening the feeling of security that was afforded 'the Tarks by the interference of the foreign tleets in their favor. PARIE, Fraxce, March 26 —Lord Salis- bury, here on his way to Cimiez to attend | Queen Victoria, ad a conlerence with M. Hanotaux, Minister of Foreizn Affairs, to- day. Itis understood thatthe two Minis- ter< agreed that the proposed biockade of Athens shouid be enforcad if Greece re fused to assent to the establishment of a If the | the place | neutral zone extending one mile either. side of the Greek-Turkish frontier. M. Hanotaux later returned Lord Salis- | bury’s visit, cailing upon him at the Brit- | ish Embassy. They were closeted to- gether for an hour. Lord Salisbury left Paris at 8:30 o’clock to-night and pro- ceeded for Nice. | _Efforts were made after the departure of Lora Salisbury to learn from M. Hanotaux the topics that had been discussed by the two statesmen. When questioned on the subject M. Hauotaux smilingly gave a diplomatic an<w:r, saying that the Brit. ish Prime Minister was a good French | scholar and had expressed his views in the clearest manner., M. Hanotaux, how- ever, declined to state. what these views were. There is no doubt in the public mind that the question of the action to be taken by France and'Great Britain in the | Cretan imbroglio was thoroughly dis- cussed, and that some definite under- standing was arrived at. ATHENS, GreEce, March 26.—The Gov- | ernment has handed to the representa- | tives here of ‘the several powers a note NN RO A LA RN Rz > 7, 2, J %, o'} e “nr»“’\\‘c; N 'rr«rlfa\.n“‘ S S e MY Sz P st S e e Zrontier as arranged in 1878 e~ Roads$ % Hi wayS . AT~ R e % & = g Sty Lo Qg Iy, 75 Ifl i i ?’1 f.””mm N “ M Wi e ) S N Jj \‘i‘ i \ il W B \“:\\\\\\m\ S W Map of the Frontier of Greece and European Turkey, Where the Armies of King. “George and Sultan Abdul Hamid Are Expected to Clash at Any Moment. have been brought on here from W: protesting against the. blockade of Crete. The note declares ‘that in view of the bonds uniting the Greeks and the Chris- tians of Crete, the biockade which is depriving the island of the means of pro- visioning itself is contrary to the senti- ments of humanity inspiring the powers. The president of the Boule, in behaif of that body. has sent to Mr. Gladstone a message of gratitude for the stand he has taken in behalf of Greece and the Cretan Christians. The message says in part: “All your glorious life has been full of combats for justice and liberty. Now that the Hellenic nation ‘has risen to fight in favor of Crete which is bedewed with blood, you come to uphold anew the rights of an oppressed race.” For some as yet unexplained reason Crown Prince Coustantine, who it was an- nounced last night would leave Athens at 4 o'clock this morning to assume com- mand of th: Greek forces in Thessaly, has not yet left this city. 1: is now reported that he wiil go to the Pirsus, whence he will sail for Volo, in Thessaly, to-morrow evening. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 26.—One hundred and ‘filty sturdy young Greeks, after bidding an, affectionate farewell to friends and countrymen, at 11 o’clock to- night marched aboard the French Line steamer La Champagne, and at5 o'ciock to-morrow morning will start for Greece, where they will offer their services to King George. - With porhiaps a dozen ex- ceptions all have served in the Greek army, & score or more having been ofti- cers. Nearly ail are naturalized Ameri- can citizens. McKINLEY WILL NOT SPEAK. Refusal of the President to Take Any Part in the Red-Hot Municipal Cam- paign at Ch.cago. CHICAGO, I March 26, —The influ- ence of “tie National administration will not be brought to bear in any public man- ner upon the present municipal cam- paign, although President McKinley has been importuned by Republican leaders to make a speech in Chicago bafore the elegtion or to write a letter incorsing the tepublican candidates, candilates the campaign is one of the most remarkable on record. - The Repub- lican nominee for Mayor is Judge Sears of the Circuit bench, who owes his prom- inence entirely to the machine leaders. The choice of the Free Silver Demecrats and Populists is Carter H. Harrison, son and namesake of Chicago's murdered Mayor. ' The Go6ld Democrats have no nominee, but there is an Independent Republican candidate in the person of Alderman John N. Harlan, son of Justice' Harlan of the Supreme - Court, und . an - Independent Democratic condidate in the person of Postmaster Washington Hesing, whose whiskers alone have made him Nationally femous. Harlan’s campaign is directed entirely azainst the boodlers, who have overwhelming control of the City Council, and ignores alt other 1ssues. Harrison is against tne continuance of civil service, and in favor of wide-open saloons, gam- biing-houses and poolrooms; or, as he himself puts it, “in favor of throwing Chicago wide open.” Postmaster Hesing is also opposed to énerous restrictions on the saloons. The Repablicans. bave endeavored to inject the tariff and- gold-standard issues into the campaign, and-members of Congress ing- In the matter of | ton to urge the election of Judge Sears, on jhe ground that his defeat in a city which gave so overwhelming a Republican ma jority last November would mean the re- | puaiation of the Dingley tariff bill, and incidertally indicate that Chicago had gone back on her stand for ‘‘sound money.” These arguments, however, have had but littie weight, and the announcement that President McKinley will neither { come here to speak during the campaign nor write a letter of indorsement is re- gardea as an indication that the chief executive takes no stock in the effort to give a National significance to a local election, especially when that significance affects his own administration. s Ree. Horace L. Edgar Pratt Dead. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 26.—The Rey. Horace L. Edgar Pratt died at his residence in this city yesterday from heart disease, after a short illness. He was one of the est Presbyter<of the diocese of New York and was born in Middletown, Conn,, August 24, 1822. . For many years he rector oi Grace Church, Sacra- mento, Cal. While there be acied as chap- lain of the State’ Senate. —_———— A Nail Wowke Closed. CLEVELAND, Omuro, March 26.—The H. P.'Nail Company’s works closed to-day, 400 men, including all the nailworkers and their helpers, having struck. The men de- mand an increase of 15 per cent, and the company offers to grant a 10 per cent raise, Laibrop—to vote against him, and they did so. Will . Crocksr showed his opposition in a less marked but not less significant way; he refused to vote at all. desirous of seeing succeed to the honor years was General Thomas H. Hubbard, oneof the representatives of the Searles estate. Since this event it has apparently come to the knowledge of Huntington that Colonel Charles F. Crocker has aspira- tions that would lead him, in all proba- bility, to enter the fight fo- the presidency of the road at the coming election, which is to be held on April 7. And this it was that induced him to give vent to the de- fiant utterance which opens this article. His boast that he will succeed himself, “come what may,” is probably made on good grounds. Thereare ten directors to be chosen at the coming election, and these in turn elect the officers. All of the present directors are almost certain to be elected. Since tha last election, A. L. Tnbbs, a stanch Huntington supporter, has passed away, but tie Tubbs estate will be represented on the new board of directors, it is admitted, by a gentleman who continues as loyal to Huntington as was Tubbs himself. This will give him his own vote, that of his nephew, the two votes of the Searles representatives—Gen- eral Thomas H. Hubbard and Thomas Stillman—tbie vote of the Tubbs’ repre- sentative and in all probability also that LUIS OBISPO " SAN LUIS 0BISPe The man whom Mrs. Stanford was then | which her husband had held for so many | THE GAUNTLET The Railroad Magnate Is May Soon “Strike Back.” HAS NOT COME “HOME” FOR TROUBLE. ext President of Pagcific,” Says He, “Come What May.” of N. T. Smith. Against him may be th four votes of Charles F. Crocker, Will H. | Crocker, Russell J. Wilson and Charles | Lathrop. The Huntington party, which had crossed the continent in a special train, arrived on this side of the bay at1:15 P. M. The magnate ignored all thoughts of business, and at once proceeded to his home on Nob Hill, where he remained most of the afternoon and evening, sur- rounded by his business associates and old-time iriends. Ho appeared to be in his usual robust health, despite the intimation which he threw out that he bad come to California for his health, and showed all his old-time vigor of mind and body. After he had relieved himself of the sentiments that weighed most heavily on his mind he turfied to other matters. “Of course,” he remarked, ‘‘in timing my coming I had some regard for the fact that by making the trip now Icould be present at the annual meeting.”” At the time of the meeting last year, when Mrs, Stanford’s unexpected opposition mani- fested itse!f, President Huntington was absent in the East. The meeting this year will probably prove one of the most excit- ing in the history of the great corporation. Referring to the recent decision of the Supreme Court declaring illegal all rail- road associations which had for their obe ject the maintenance of rates and the ape portioning of traffic, he said: “I see that the decision has provoked & good deal of talk and much conjecture as to what will be its effects upon the vari- | ous traffic associations and the business of the roads generally. 1 don’t think, though, that there is any cause for exci ment or alarm over the matter. It is not my belief that the decision necessarily means the disruption of all the associae tions, even though the trans-Missouri has been declared illegal. In any case, be- cause a certain method of accomplishing desired and necessary results 1s found to be improper, it does not follow that the same thiugs cannot be otherwise brought about. “Wtat I mean is that it is absurd to say that because of this decision all proper concertofaction among the various lines of road must necessarily be at once done away with and a reign of ruinous compe- tition ensue. Some way, some proper and legal way, will certainly be found to prevent anything of the kind and to en= | able the roads to do business on business principles, in default of which, not they alone, but, clumately, at least, the travel- ing and shipping public would be the suf- ferers. It has always been my experience that troubles such as these right them- gelves, the necessary solution in dus time suggesting itself. “I certainly feel very positive on the voint that the ‘ruinous competition’ which has beon spoken of is not going to come to pass, for -there certainly is one very good reason why all the companies intercsted should do nothing tending to such an end. This is that none of them have any money to throw away on this or any other loolish propositior. We have not, and I fancy we are better off than the others, since our company, as you know, is just about the only one which has not failed once or twice. 4 ©:At present I look forward to the future of the Bouthern Pacific with a good deal of confidence. In other words, I think we may claim to be reasonably prosperous, all things considered, and I hope that conditions may continue to improve from now on for the general public as well as for ourselves. The prosperity of carrying conipanies, as any one should be able to see, depends on that of the communities with which they are identified in busi. ness.” Speaking of the completion of the coast line from this City to Los Angeles, which to be eventually made the main line for the Southern Pacific Railroad trains, he The Gap on the Coast Division Railroad Which Mr. Huntington Says Will Be Bridged This Year, ‘ i