The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1897, Page 1

LXXXIL—N VO.UME O. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MOR SEPTEMBER NING, 19, 1897—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE- FIVE CENTS. WHAT JOHN L. SULLIVAN WOULD DO Writes for “The Call” Upon His Race for Mayor of Boston. HONESTY THE MOTTO OF THE EX-CHAMPION. Reforms in City Government Will Be Made it the Big Fellow Is Elected, but His Chiet Aim Is to Down Mr. Quincy. and beans, may have a prize-fighter for Mayor, and prospect. John L. Sullivan, ex-champion he: ed his intention of running on nomination the big fellow is by long odds the most int is certainly the idol of of view. He 1ation of su h a man as a candidate for the' chisf-ex- possibility of his election. to be elected, and does not run with that are oh his part, a cass of personal revenge, A few weeks ago there was a monster demon- rning, there i not expact etting his is how it happened: toric old lls of hi euil Hall—the reception to Ten Eyck, the the distinguished at on the platform were the or of Boston, and John L. himself. t greeted several of the people on the nd to the Mayor. Mr. Quincy did in whose veins flows darkly blue the blood men who pion. Josiah Quincy, When he tform, and stepping fo! This haughty arriv his I nd. old colonial famili would not sha estral tree traces his noble lineage way ges, stated that this is the first time that any man ever refused to ist. Monarchs and millionaires had bzen honored by the privi- or of Boston spurned. v that it is over, Bostorrmarvels that Quincy lives to tell'the tale. Why elled to the earth then and there is a mystery which none vouchsafe to »hn L. had never before bzen known to brook such an affront, but Sulli- ani bided his Vengeance now promises to be far nds supposad. B:tier than a blow will be his retort for Mayor Qu candidate for re-election. It is ad- politicians of bsth parties that, while the ““biz ’un” will prob- t but that he will so cut into the vote of his ond peradventure. owever, is the prospect of what would happen Where would the prize-fighter CALL gives exclusively to its readers to-da ining fully what he will do if elected Mayor tims. 1ze r than any of his f 15al to sl t yis a ittle dou 1 municipality. HE —a Boston. Iy e of us will be cremated, some of us ¢ for every | will be putin elaborate mausoleums, and man being rth, and 1| some of us in plain boxes, but when we're will work on 1k am elected | all planted, in the end we are all equal, > 1as 5ot a pair of better than the other fellow. od s the man in | I'd go on tais principleif I were Mayor and treat everybody right and do the square thing by ’em all, whether they had any stuff or not. ““I don’tL believe in monopolies or trusts or corporations. I believe in equal treat- nent for the man of $18,000,000 and the man of §18, and you bes your life I'd give d¢ I will treat them , use for the ano-her e i y hmself 1l be buried some way some ' GOVERNOR A. J. McLAURIN OF MISSISSIPPI, Who Is Quarantined in the Country and Cannot Reaca the Caoital. nd in fact of all the so-callsd common people, | with the king of modern gladiators. | | it to ’em, too. 1'll be a marked exception and won't say a word about the silver guestion, and 1I'm mighty ceriain the people will thank me for that. But if any stiver dollars come my way I'm not the man to tarn them down. 1 ain’t got no race prejudice about doilars, neither. “I want to lick this Quincy. He's a narrow-minded, no-accounisort of a chap. I’m out to lick him and ['m goinx to do | A prominent politician whois s particular friend of his came to me only to-day and caid to me, ‘Jonn, Quincy is wil bake bands with you now.’ D> vou iow what I eaid to him? Why, I told [ bim, says [, ‘Why, he counldn’t shake hands with me, not on your life; he ain’t the man that can take hold of my He’s not in my class. 1'm on the square, frank and above board, and-I say just what I mean ana back 1t up, too. : And that’s more than he do He thinks he’s too good to live.” “If I was M 1'd try to do something for the poor women that have to work for a living. stance, and and. vanted permission to build a street raiiroad in the city I was Mayor of I'd say to him: *Wili you give free rides to the poor washerwomen and cashgirls and sweatshop-workers, | thatare honest and live by the sweat of their trows?" It he'd consent to this he | coutd *build his old road, and I'd like to see him make a barrel of money out of it, too, butif he did notI'd turn him down so quick that he would mever try to buiid another road—not while I was Mayor. *1'd licenseall the boxing matches they wanted to have. No, you mustn’t cail them prize-fights. That won’tdo. It you say that word they'd holler ten thousand murders;- but boxing matches with gloves is all right. I'd license boxing matches just as' much as football games. I never saw a boxing maich on the stageina twenty-four oot ring that was anywhere near as brutal as a football eame. Why, in that game ‘twenty-two fellows come together and have a free fight,and the chap that gets knocked down and is walked over and they kill and murder him and nobody says much about it, be- cause it’s nothing but a football game. Suppose they did that in a prize-fight. There'd be a big bulla balloo and a great cry against the brutality of the pugilisia, “If I was Mayor, dges anybody think that there could be any bribery zoing on if 1 knew about it? The man don't live and never did who could bribe old John L., and the city government officials who tried to do any funny busiress when I was in office would be city hospital pa- tients in mighty short order in spite of any defense of their dude lawyers, and don’t you forget it. “Jt's a mighty poor law which says you can’t sell liquor witiiin 400 feet of a school- bouse. I widn’t have no children stand- ing around in front of my place when I was running a hotel, and L don’t see what harm it does to have a hotel near a school- nouse any more than it does to have 1t anywhere else. It’san outrage not to pro- vide room enough in the schools tor the children of poor parents. They’d get in there 1f 1 was Mayor if some of the chil- dren of the rich people had 1o get out. And I’d put ’em out, too, What are schools for, anyway? Aren’t they for the children of the poor just as much and even more than for the children of the rich? “Do vou think I'd allowany such mon- key business, if I was Mayor, as that which happened bere in Boston a few days ago, when the management of one of the nice, big rich bugs notified the au- thorities of a charitable institute for poor children that there wasn’t any room 'in the school for their inmates—that all the places were filled by tne children of the rcrer folks who live in the vicinity? Well, I guess not. ©1'd put the best men in office I could tonttnued on Third Paye. If any one came to me, for in- | and all ‘others | JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN, Ex-Champion Pugilist, Who, in an Exclusive Atticle to “ The Call,” Tells What He Would Do if Elected Mayor of the City of Boston. HGATNG 0 DREAD SCOTRGE Southern Cities Try Vain to Check the Yellow Fever. |[DEATHS AND SOME NEW CASES. { Troops Aid | Most Rigid Quarantine Regulations. | TROCHA DRAWN NORTH OF | MOBILE. | Lo B Many Persons Who Attempt to | Leave That Way Are Turned Back by the Guards. W ORLEANS, LA, Sept. 19, — A trifiing improvement in the fever situa- tion marked the close of the day’s work of the Board of Health. There were two deaths to-day, as against one yesterday, but there were fewer new cases. At 6 o’clock this evening there were still two cases under investigaticn by the experts. Of these cases investigated io-day five were declared by the experts to be yellow fever, and as usual they were widely scat- tered. This is the record: Deaths—E. Harmon and Sunta Graffato. New cases—Marie Dubois, Rafael Four- tien, C. H. Gormon, — Melchier. The fatal cuse of E. Harmon, a mulatto, | was reported in last night’s dispatches as | one of the new cases, and was said to be a genuine typé of the disease. It has not been found possible to trace the origin of liis case, but it is not improbable that he came ip contact with the summer sojourn- | ers at Ocean Sprivgs or Biloxi. He died this afternoon. He lived in a nest of the negro quarter, and ever since his case was reposted theneighborhood has been under the most rigid surveillance. The woman Graffato was an 1talian, and as soon as her case was pronounced steps were taken to have her removed to the hospital, where arracgements had been made to isolate her. Rafaei Fourtien is also an Italian, living in an apartment- house in a neighborhood in which the Italian population is very larg The Italian colony in New Orleans is an espe- cially large one, and its members hudadle together in houses poorly ventilaied and calculated to incubate fever germs.. Special efforts nave been directed toward the sani- tation of the neighborhood. The Melchior case is that of a boy in the St. Claude-street Square, where the first six cases in New Orleans were reported. Other members of his family have been ill i with yellow fever and there was no sur- in Enforcilng the| vrise this evening when it was learned that he had succumbed to the disease. As a general rule the patients who are suffering with yeilow fever are reported to-night to be improving, with the ex- ception of Dr. Lovell, wiose condition is not considered Satisfactory. There have been » total of thirty-five cases here, and the death rate has not yet reached tan per cent, thus showing the mildness of the type of the fever now prevailing. Marion Dowden, a member of the Ouachita Guards, who are guarding the city, was accidentallv shot this morning at Monroe, about 6:30 o’clock, by Henry McCormick, a fellow member, and it is not thought that he can recover. MOBILE, Ara., Sept. 18 —There has been an sccumulation of cases to-aay. ‘'he president of the Board of Health stated that had the physicians recognized and reported prompuy the suspicious cases many of these cases would hrve been announced several days ago. Bat two of them have been discovered in tue past twenty-four hours. The number announced to-day is eleven, makingeignteen in all so far announced, of which number three have died, two of which were previous'y reported and one was to-day discharzed. Three suspicious cases are under surveillance. Frank Donaldson, one of the day’s new cases, died to-night. C. L. Swaysee, the Associated Press operator at t. e Register office, was taken sick at 6:20 o’clock to-night. There bas been a qoarantine Iine drawn from Chicasabogue Creek, mouth of Mo- bile, some five miles northwesterly to the Mississippi line,'so'as to provide an ab« - lute embargo against Mobilians penetrat- ing by land into the interior of Alabama. This trocha is guarded continuously. Some 200 people from this city started out into the country this morning, intend- ing to take refuge at the farmers living from ten to tifteen miles out. They encountered the guards at the trocha and were stopped there. At 6 o'clcck most of the immigrants are still there in t .e open air, fearing to return to the city, and pot able to go further. The P ovle bere are still in great panicand all urd [e ‘ving who can. VICKSBURG, Miss., Sept. 18.—The to- tal number ot cases at Edwards and vi- cinity of true yellow fever is forty-seven. The latest report to-night makes the total new cases of the day ten. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Sept. 18.—Secre- tary Egan of the State Board of Heaith, telegraphed the board from the Cairo yei- low fever ‘quarantine to-night that the two cases at :he Marine Hospital at Cairo have ben pronounced suspicious by the State Board of Heaith physicians. The Sheriff of Alexander Ccunty has quaran- tined the gronniis. OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss, Sept. 18.— Sitice last rejoris three deaths have oc- curred here, Walter F. Bransford and Miss Mamie Goodrich, both of yellow fever, and'Oscar Elder, formerly from Michigan, who has been sick about tweive days. His ailment was not pronounced yellow fever. e 5 TROOPS ORDERED OUT. Will Protect Railroad Property and Enforce the Quarantine Regu- la ions In Mississtppi. JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 18.—Governor McLaurin has oruered out the Capital Light Guards of this city to protect the property of the railroads in this county. Governor McLaurin, at the outbreak of the yeilew fever wave, was in the interior of Simpson County, from which place be proceeded to his old home in Brandon. Being anxious to return to the Srate capi- tal he made application to the City Board of Health for permission to enter the city, whch was promptly refused. Thereisa general quarantine rule agains. persons entering the city. 1t was learned this morning that in aa- dition to tearing up the tracks of the Alabama and Vicksburg Raiiroad, a short distance west of the city, reported at mid- night, the crowd also burned a trestle on the same rosd a few miles west of the city. l{eridinn having consented to allow trains to pass throuzh that city the Ala- bama and Vicksburg regular train passed here at 6 p M. yesterday going to Meridian, The speed of the train was not greater Continued on Third Page. AN OPEN DEFIANCE OF THE LAW The “Solid Eight” Ousted Supervisors Take Forcible Possession. DECLARE THEMSELVES TO BE THE ONLY LEGAL BODY. The Committee of Persistent Pruning, Dollar Tax All was not smooth sailing for the new Board of Supervisors vesterday. When they returnea to their chambers aiter partaking of lunch, they found that if they desired to hold another meeting they must either oust the old board literally | or find another room. | They took the latter horn of thedilemma and met in the committee-room of the board, while the solid eight, who are sup- posed to be private citizens now by court decree, occupied the easy chairs in the sssembly room and went through the semblanceof transacting business for the city. Ex-Supervisor Britt started the ball roll- ing by taking forcible possession of the | poll-list in the clerk’s office. Armed wit | this document he proceeded to the assem- bly chamber, followed by ex-Supervisors Devany, Haskins, Sheeban, Morton, Smith and Rivers. Thesegentlemen took formal possession of the chember, and John A. Scoft was appointed bailiff. Shortly afterward ex-Supervisor Delany entered and plumped down in his old seat. For a while it looked as1f there would be a semblance of the old game of ‘pussy wants a corper,” as it was supposed by the old board that their seats would be in demand by the members who had re- placed them. If any member desired to | speak to a colleague be moved cautiously from his seat ana kept an eye on the | chair, ready to make a ran for itif neces- sary. There was every indication of fizht showing in their set faces and it was the expressed determinatien of every one of them to hold his seat against all comers, | policemen with clubs excepted. They had | been advised by their attorneys to hola to their seats, as they were the legal aad only Supervisors of the city of San Fran- cisco, and they said they would not get out for anybody. But with all the assump‘ion of dignity and indifference there was an air of nerv- ousness which showed plainly in all tne actions of the men who had been custed by law. After sitting quietly for an bour waiting for an attempt to eject them, Devany moved that ex-Supervisor Britt should occupy the chair, and as there wasno objection the motion was carried out without being put. The gavel zave a double rap on the desk and then rattled to the floor from the nervous hand of Briit, | who recovered his composure under cover of a joke at the expense of the new board. Devany, who seemed to be master of ceremonies, then moved to =ppoint Robert Barton, an ex-janitor of the City Hall, as clerk. The board was now ready for business and set to work to make | a tax levy. Secretary Godchaux of the Board of Health was called upon to give the board an estimate of the reauire- ments of his department for the ensuing year, and it then developed that in order to be on the safe side the estimates were given to both boards. Godchaux asked for $135,000, but he made a grave error. He referred to the body sitting before him as *the old board.” Then arose Devany, in all his statuesque dignity, and demanded that he explain what and whom he meant by ‘‘the old board.” The trembling secretary had scarcely extricated himselt from this dilemma when he made another faux pas by incidentally saying that he “had pre- sented his estimates tothe Board of Super- visors last nignt.” Now Britt maintained the dignity of the eight by demanding, in tones that sent a cnill through the frame of the secretary, what he meant by speaking of any other | body as being the “Board of Supervisors.” In tne excitement followiug this demand Godchaux cleared himseif of contempt and then proceeded with his details. | After an hour of this the solid eight, on motion of the master of ceremopies, “took it under advisement.” | Devany now asked if any one was pres- | ent representing the Board of Education, | and was told by Chairman Briit that | Director Waller would be there in a short | time. Asnothing further anpeared a re- | cess was taken, during which none of the eight left their seats, unul the school board could be heard from. Waller kept the august’body waiting | about fifteen minutes and then s'arted a | flow of oratory, reciting the needs and re- quirements of the «chool system, that bid fair toemulate the brook famed in verse as going on forever. As he expressed it, he “dilated” freely. In the course of his remarks Waller said to Britt: “The gentleman that sat in the seat that you now occupy agreed witd g2 “Whom do you mean?” hastily asked Britt. “I mean,” said Waller, **Mr. Denman.” the New Board, by Gets Within the Limit on the Levy. heard of him. He is a'ways looking for office. Pass on.” “Well,” continued Waller, “he was in your seat yesterday.” “Well, I am in my seat to-day; on,”’ pass was the response and the incident | closed. At times during the meeting of the afternoon solicitous inquiries were made regarding the heaith of the missing four. It was feared that they must be very ill, as they did not appear at the meeting. Afier Waller had finished his oration and given his fizures his plea met the fate of the Board of Health’s request and it was ‘“taken un‘er advisement.” Thera being no further business appar- entanotber recess was taken, but the ef- fort to appear at ease was a failure. De- vany kept eying the reporters’ table, Morton calmly stroked his beard, Sheehan watched the door, while Britt busied him- self with papers that seemea to need a vast amount of consideration. An incident broke the monotony of the recess when two locksmiths appeared and began preparations to tamper with the locks. They were stopped by two police officers and tne last hope of the eight to bold possession except by personal occu- pancy was gone. If they wanted to keep the room they must remain in it and at once preparations for a siege were made. There was a suspicious bulging absut the pockeis of Bailiff Scott when he re- turned from a visit to the out:r air, and a gleam of satisfaction in the eyes of the members as he passed along and gave them comforting words. One by one the eight went out and dined, and nothing further occurred to relieve the strain until word was broughtin that the new board had adjourned. Immediately ex-Super- visors Devany and Haskins hurried 1o the committee-room and installed themselves, apparently very busy signing committee reports. This occupation kept them until the new board returned, and it Icoked at last as if the troubie hoped for by the Solid Eight would begin, but again they were aisaipointed. When Mayor P elan reached the scens he called the uwembers of tuhe new board around him ana toid them that the only place for them was in the upper chamber, and to prevent the intrusion of outsiders he stationed 1wo stalwart policemen at the foot of the stairs, with instructions to per- mit no one but the new board and news- paper men to g0 up. As the memuvers of the board were assemblin - in the room- a dinner —— KEW TO-DATY. Pimples, blotches, blackheads, red, rough, oily, mothy skin, itching, scaly calp, dry, thin, and falling hair, and baby blemishes prevented by CUTICURA S0AP, the most effective skin purify- ing and beautifying soap in the world, as well as purestand sweetest for toilet, bath, aud nursery. (uticur Is sold throughout the world. PorTer D. AND C. CORP., o Bole Props., Bowon. @g~How to Beautify the Skin, "fre BLOOD HUMORS cumeswiaiiet REMEDI COPPER RIVETED OVERALLS SPRING BOTTOM PANTS SAN FRANCISCO. Every Garment Guaranteed. “Qh, yes,” responded Britt. “I have