The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 116. SAN FRANCISCO, FR1 DAY MORNIN TO OFFSET THE GREEDY JAPANESE Precautionary Measures Are Taken to Protect Inter- ests in Hawaii. GUNBOAT - WHEELING SENT IN GREAT HASTE. Carries Dispatches Instructing Admiral Miller . to Land Forces and Raise the Ameri- can Flag at Honolulu If Necessaty. Japan must not interfere with the Hawaiian Islands. That such is the ultima- tum of the Washington Government is proven by the haste manifested in the past twenty-four irs to strengthen the United States naval force in Honolulu harbor. Yesterday orders were received from the Navy Department to dispatch the new gun- boat Wheeling to the islands at the earliest possible moment. Stores were rushed on board, her bunkers filled with coal, and members of the crew who were ashore on leave o e rounded up and hustled back to the ship. So qu 1e Wheeling prepared for her voyage that at 10:30 o’clock last | night she dropped down the stream and would have gone to sea, but owing to the fog her commander deemed it advisable to wait till morning. Accordingly, she ed off the Presidio, but will proceed on her voyage at daylight this morning. The extraordinary haste in getting the Wheeling to sea will be better under- ed that her official trial has not vet taken place. The contrac- some weeks ago, was eminently satisfactory, but the final test, pervision of the Navy Department, remains to be held. This was to have taken place next week, and, after a short cruise down the coast as far as San | Diego, the Wt g was to have joined the Bering Sea fleet. | The placing of the gunboat in commission and dispatching her on a cfuise before her final trial is unprecedented, but the Government finds it necessary to get dis- es to Minister Sewall in advance of the regular mailboat, and the Wheeling is the only warship in port available for the purpose. Herorders are said to be to make all haste to the islands, and she is expected to arrive at Honolulu by the 3oth. At Mare Island Navy-yard the greatest activity prevails, more than 1100 men being em- ployed in the various departments. The cruiser Baltimoré has nearly completed her repairs, work being prosecuted day and night, and as soon as sheis placed in anc stood when it is st i commission she will relieve the Philadelphia. Rear Admiral Miller is expected to transfer his flag to the Baltimore early next month. WASHINGTO! D. C., Eept. 23. us- picious of Japan's reported colonization | of Hawaii, the administration hag taken | additional precantionary measures to off- | set apy attempt on the part of Japanese residents of the islands to place nmu~‘ seives in power. That the administration has been in- formed of the continued immigration of | the Japanese there is no douot, and the precautions which have been iaken to prevent the subjects of the Mikado from obtaining possession of the islands seem 10 be proof positive that such information | is at hand. M ter Sewall has tela- graphed to the State Depariment of the | condition of affairs in Hawaii, and no doubt exists that he has mentioned the recent addition to the Japaunese residents. Telegraphic orders were sent to-day to Commander Uriel Sebree, commanding the gunboat W neeling, now at Mare Isiand, directing him to proceed without delay to Honolulu. Ten days aiter the Wheeling reaches there the gunboat | Yorktown, which, in accordance with de- parimental orders, is now en route to Honoiulu from Cnina, ought to drop her anchor 1n the port. The news was exclusively printed in Ine Cary of the 14th insi. that the Balti- | more would be Admiral Miller’s Hag-hip at Honolulu instead of the Philadelphia. This is now the programme. It was orig- inally intended by the Navy Department 10 send the orders directing the return of the Philadelphia by mail steamer, but it is now proposed to forward them in charze of Commander Sebree ot the Wheeling. The important feature of the instructions | to Rear-Admiral Miller is that the Phila- | delphia shall not leave Hawaiian waters until the Naniwa leaves. The l'mladel-‘ phia is the superior of the Naniwa In dis- | placement, being 4324 tons to the Nani- wa's 3700, as well as speed, but the Japan- ‘ ese cruiser has heavier guns, carrying two 10-inch, six 6-inch, two six-pounder quick- | firers, ten machine guns and four 1.4: inch Gatlings, while the Philadelphia is supplied with twelve 6 nch, four six- pounders, two one-pounder, three one- pounder Tevolving cannons and four Gat- Jing machine guns. It would be comparatively easy for the Naniwa to dispose of 1Wo gunboas such as the Bennington and the Yorktown, which are unprovided with thick armeor, but administration officials confidently believe tbat she would be defeated by the Philadelpuia or by the gunboate. They Lave studied the chances, therefore, as is | <hown by their determination to keep the | Philadelphia in Hawaiian waters until the | departure of the Japanese cruiser. I The presence of three gunboats in Ha- | waiian waters, it is believed, will be snffi- | cient to prevent any uprising against l‘he Hawaiian Government. Under the in- structions given to him Reflf‘Adffl.lra[ Miller, in the eventof such as uprising, would land the officers and men from the vesseis and hoist the American flag over the island. The totai force that could be Janded in case of emergency would num- ber 41 officers and 494 men. Itis hoped by the officials, of course, that this emer- gency will not arise, but they have mada preparations for it and confidently velieve that the steps taken will be sufficient to prevent any injury being done to Ameri- can interests. The authorities are also determined not to permit Hawail to be | Philedelphia reaches port and the tra without a cruiser more than two weeks at a time, Orders were issued to the commandant of the Mare Islind Navy-yard to-day, di- recting bim to place all tne stores aboard the Baitimore, and have her in readiness to leave the harbor just as soon as the er of officers and men could be effected. Under the insiructions which have been | sent to Rear-Admiral Miller and by that officer given to the commanding officer of the Philadeiphia, the officers and men of the cruiser are to be ready to go aboard the Baltimore immediately upon their ar- rival at Mare Island. The Pbilalelphia will be taken in cbarge by Rear-Admiral Kirklana, the commandant of the Mare 1-land Navy-yard, and towed to the dock, | where she will undergo immediate repairs. Tbe orders which the Navy Department issued to-day were a subject of consider- able speculation among the few who be- came acquainted with their tenor. The general opinion seems to be that the ad- minisiration is apprehensive otan attempt on the part of the Japanese in the islands, supporied secretly by Japan, to over- throw the Dole Government, and thus | give the Mikado’s Government a better foundation for a claim to the islands. The administration, however, is not to be caught napping, and the various precau- tions which have been taken are all with |8 view to preventing the success of any plan which the Goverament may have mapped out looking to securing control of the islands beiore the Senate of the United Stafes can act on the annexation treaty. It was stated at the Navy Department to-day that there is nointention of send- ing the Oregon to Honoluln. BLGWN UP AT THE WHARF. An Explosion of Kaphtha Will Pre- vent the Schooner deering From Lailing for Alaska. LYNN, Mass., Sept. 23.—The schooner Atbbie M. Dcering, which has been lying at Green’s wharf here fitting out for an expedition around the Horn to the Yukon gold fields, will never sail for the land of nuggets, and the argonauts who proposed | going aboard her must seek other means | of transportation. This afternoon a quan- tity of naphtha, which formed part of her stores, exploded—or rather the gas gener- ated by the naphtha did—from the fira in the galley-stove. The violence of the ex- p.o-ion ripped up the deck from bow to stern, smasned bulkhead and bulwark- and nearly liited the masts from their sockets, Several of the crew were biown into the dock vy the force of the shock, but were rescued. Michael Kenneay was thrown a duozen feet and was severely cut on the | head, besides receiving internal injuries that will probably prove fatal. A couple of riggers were shaken down from aloft and nearly soffocated by smoke and naphtha fumes, besides receiving dis- abiing bruises. The cargo of the Deering is totally ruined and the vessel so badly damagod as to make it scarcely worth while to repair her. The expedition was composed uf Gloucester men, who had been assessed $200 each to pay for the trip. They lose everything, and most of them have no more money.: s gt e SEPTEMBER 24, 189%. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE GUNBOAT WHEELING, ORDERED TO PROCEED AT ONCE TO HONOLULU. = == = == Ee == [15 RESCUE | the time for the establishment of s church, | | and we only await the man. Dark Picture Drawn of the San Joaquin | Valley. ! UNITARIAN AID NOW | ASKED. Sarah Pratt Carr Writes of the Need of Religious Training. PLEADS FOR MORE LIBERAL TEACHING. The Christian Reglster Indorses the Communication In Pointed Editorial Comments. BOSTON, Mass,, Bept. 23.—The Christian Register to-day publishes as its leading article and indorses editorially a remark- able appeal for the rescue of the people of the San -Joaauin Valley from what is vividly pictured asa slough of immorality and church negiect. It s signed by Sarah Pratt Carr and follows in substance: ““At this time of the annual meeting of the national conference, we who live so far away that we cannot attend beg that, with other deliberations. some considera- tion will be given to the field in the far West. Restraints which check license and curb material ambitions in older States do not ex/st here. The refinements and in- tellectual vleasures of older towns are almostunknown. Inmany of the towns of this great San Joaquin Valley there is absolutely nothing in wbe way of amuse- ment between the all-night ball and the religious revival. The class wkich attends balls ‘takes in’ the revival as the next best thing for fun. The class which takes the revival seriously believes all ball-goers eternally lost, and there is a continual feud between them with occational back- sliders from each side. be orthodox churches, which are very strict and old-fazhioned, work bard among the young people. But for those who will not subscribe to their doctrines there is nothinz. For them the saloons are open seven days and seven nights in the week. They a-e told regularly once a week in every church that they are ever- lastingly doomed. There is no man or woman enough interested or fitted to lead them to better 1hought. There are no reading-rooms—or very few—no lecture courses or taste for lectures, no art asso- ciations, no musical organizations, except brass bands and tbe class of an occasional hard-working music-teacher, no natural history c.ub to interest the young in study- | ing nature at first hand, no dramatic so- cieties—no intellectual life whatever. *“Is not this a field for the liberal church? Is not the work of saving bright young American citizens to a better in- tellectuality; and especiallv to a higher morality, as worthy as the attempt to teach the Zulu to eat with a fork, or the effort of explaining to the South Bea Islander the doctrine of the trinity? Is not tne real problem of the hour for both ministers and layvmen this—how to at- tract to a better life those who now have neither religious nor refining life of any sori? Will not those who have the juxury of going to large, beautiful churches receive tenfold more benefit if they also undertake to help some rough frontier town 1o a small reflection of their religious life? 1f each prosperous Uni- tarian church in the populous East woula only mother a missionary child :o that there could be a personal, a living link between the old and the young, would not the lile of every such church be Idanblev:l in earnestness and true religious spirit? “There are a dozen towns in this valley where such missions could be established. It is useless to wait until people call for such enterprises, as useless as to expecta Zulu to know what he ought to eat with a fork. There are towns with a thousand people where there may not be a singie soul who knows what the Unitarian ! church means, end some quite large com- munities where no one ever heard of the | Unitarian ehurch. The two or three little | churches already established here are lan- guishing for the want of workers. Fresno, | the metropolis of the vulley, is asking ail Noone in | the East can know what it is to stand | alone in this vast, new field and face | 1ignorance, calumny and ind:fferencs | | whiie slowly building up a little church | to a place in the respect of the people of ’\ the county. But this has been done. Lots | bave been purchased in Hanford, and al- } most paia for, and we only wait the com- ing of the leaaer and a little temporary help to become a perrianent institution. “We need these'/zral churches because | they alone of all the churckes begin their | refining influences in all directions. In arousing patriotic interest in the town it- self, which is sadly lackimg, and, after or through this, a desire for clean and orderly streets and street life, plessant parks,well- kept home premises, clean and artistically decorated schoolbouses, better amuse- ments and more moral living all around, will not New England and other rich Un tarian territory hear this cry from the ‘Sunset State’ and send us their religious life and“people for our moral betterment?" Commenting on the communication the Christian Register gays: “We have seldom had described so clearly the conditions of life in communi- ties like those of which our correspondent writes. Forces misdirected and wasted, only waiting to be turned intc'the proper | channels to become helpful men and women, in antagonism to religion or in- aifferent 1o it, because thus far religion has come to them as a separate unsympa- thetic form of life, apart by itself, instead of an interpreter of life into its strongest and finest; it 18 to belp in these commu- nities that we are called upon and wher- ever else, in greater or less degree, the same or smmilar conditions hold. Two suggestions in this San Joaquin letter cali for special comment. “Ftrst, that the men needed for the min- stry in these communities are tho-e who come prepared to begin their life work, just as the young lawyer or physician begins “his, determined to succeed, and able to live cheaply at first and will- ing to do whatever the hand and the heart find to do, which will be much. Second, that strong churches eisewhere, especially in the East, should mother a missionary child, selecting their own missionary and helping him at the ouatset of his work in whatever way should open. We know the objections to individual work of this kind, but there are also diffi- culties to be met under a system of closer organization and it has often seemed to us that a combination of the two meth- ods—of individual interest effort and of co-operation in general work—might meet the difficuities which either brings when followed to the exclu-ion of the other.” BRITI.H VeNGEANCE. King of Benin Will Be Sent Into Exile and Two of His Chiefs Were Shot. LAGOS, Wrst CoAsT OF AFRICA, Sept. 23.—Drunami, tue King ot Benin, who has been on trial at Benin Cuy since August last, with a number of his leading chiets, charged with being concerned with the massacre of the unarmed expedition un- der British Consul Phillips, has been con- demned to be transported to Calabar, a slave settlement of British West Africa. Three of the Kings of Benin's chiefs were previously sentenced. Two of them were shot and their bodies displaved hanging in the streets for twenty-four bours. The-third of these c:iefs escaped a similar fate by committing suicide. LONDON, ExG, Sept. 2 correspondent of the Daily Mail says the disaster that belell the torpedo-boat 26, which capsized and sunk near the first lightship of Cuxhaven, with Commanaer Duke Frederick William of Mecklenuurg- Schwerin and eizht of her crew, was due to her veing swamped by a heavy sea. As she was sinking the Duke called out to bis men, telling them to save themselves. The survivors praise his great courage and coolness. He was a popular and promis- ing-officer. o 5 e l | s IF IR | INCREASE No Improvement Shown in the Stricken. South. FOUR DEATHSIN NEW | ORLEANS. Nine New Cases Discovered in | the Crescent City During the Day. SPREAD OF THE DISEASE AT MOBILE. Physicians Contlnue the Battie to Check the Ravages of the Yellow Plague. NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 23.—The local fever situation did not show any im- provement to-day when results were summed up. There were fewer cases than were reported yeste:day, but there was one more death than in the previous twenty-four hours, and at least four of the patients were reported at 6 o’'clock to be in a dangerous condition, so that, while there is no reason to justify the statement that there is aanger of an epidemic here, conditions are muitiplying to prove what most of the eminent physicians here have said that yellow fever exists. Nine new cases were reported during day and the following deaths: Marie Dubois, three years old, St. Charles street, between Cherokee and Hillary. C. 8. Secreto, 8118 Birch street, Carroll- ‘Olr;i'r.\ Gasparo Leszsemes, 524 St. Phillip street. Paul Tom of 8t. Andrews street, be- tween Camp and Chestnut. The ninth new case reported to-day was that of Mrs. Lessemes, whose death is mentioned. The woman had been sick for several days, but she had apparently no friends, or if she did they were afraid to go near her. It was only this morning that a doctor was summoned, and when he went to the house he diagnosed the case as yellow fever. The woman died of inattention as much as of the disease. Marie Dubois was taken on the 16th and her case was immediately diagnosed as yellow fever. BSecreto was an ltalian, and a physican was only called in when there was no hope of saving his life. To-night four cases at least were re- ported to be in an ex.remely dangerous condition. The other cases, however, were reported as presenting favorable signs, and there was a marked improvement in the St. Claude neighborhood. Another death occurred to-night and | fourth to-day. Three were Italians. The | neighborhoods in which the poor Sicilians live are thickly settled and very dirty, | and the Board of Health recognizes the necessity of removing and isolating these | people so as to take away so much food for infection. The camp of detention was established at Oukland Park, but the Italians refused to go there, deeming it a plot to do them narm, even learing pois- onous food. Lead ing citizens of their own race went | among them and argued that their going | to the place was one of self-preservation, and some fifiy were taken out. MOBILE, Ara., Sept. 23.—The official report to-day 1is that so far there have been thirty-eight cases of proncunced yellow fever; three havedied, sixteen hava been discharged and nineteen remain under :reatment. Two of the cases were reported to-day and ten were discharged to-day. Up to noon there had been no i deaths since Saturday last, and all me] sick but one or two were reported doing | well. To-night another death was added | to the list, being that of Joun J. Bourne, | chief clerk of the Louisville and Nashvilte | shops, who lived on Elmira street, beiween | Jeffersonand Bayou. He was taken | sick September 14, The surgeon- general has ordered all mail from Mobile ' fumigated. Heretotore only the mail for southern districts that have quarantined | Mobile have been fumigated. | ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 23 —The Board | of Health of Atlantaannounced that Car- | rie Fleming, a 14-year-old girl, a refugee from Mobile with her father and mother and who is stopping at a boarding-house | at 119 Auburn avenue, is suffering with yellow fever. | The Board of Health met to-night and issued a statement, in which it says: *The | case ssems to be very miid and the inaica- | tions point to recovery. Tne paiient, bher father and mother, and other individuais from Mobile, who were in the house, have been placed under strict quarantine. The | Board of Health does mot consider that | there is the least danger of any Atlanta | | individuals not exposed in infecied cities | | catching the disease, nor is it surprised at | the development of the case, having anti- cipated that such sporadic cases would oceur. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 23.—John Mec- Dougall, the young machinist from Mo- bile, Ala., who has been sick with yellow fever, died this morninz at the Detention Hospital. McDougall’s parents live in Torontc, Ontario. ANDREW W. JOsDAN'S SUICIDE. Once a Wel!-Known Photographer, but | 4fter Retiring From Business His Fortune Owindled Away. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. Andrew W. Jordan, who was a well-known pho- | tographer twenty years ago, committed suicide to-day in Miss Kingslana’s board- ing-house, 57 West Thirty-ssventh street, Jordan was 63 years of age. He was con- sidered a man of wealth, having retired | from business with a fortune. He be-an to specuiate in Wall street, and his for- tune dwindled away. Then his wife opened a dressmaking establishment. After that the couple did not live to- gether, Jordan going to board. The adjoining room was occupied by | Charles E. Mahoney, a lawyer. Thinking his neighbor might be iil Mahoney knocked at the duo-, and, receiving no reply, opened it. Jordan was seated on a chlair near the window, with his head rest- ing on a writing table. A pistol lay on the dead man’s lap, while in his left hand wasapen. On a sheet of paper were these words: **All is over. The end is near.” In a letter addressed to Miss Kinesland, Jordan apologized for what he was ruing todo. The second letter was addressed to his niece, an actress now playing at the Alcazar Theater, San Francisco. —_—— HENRY GEORGE A CANDIDATE. Bryan Demacrats Will Offer Him the Mayor Candidacy of Greater hew York. NEW YORK, N. Y. Sept. 23.—The Herald this morning announces in a double leaded article: The proffer of the Bryan Democratic nomination for Mayor of Greater New York will be made to Henry George to- day. This action was decided upon yes- terday at a secret meeting of the leaders in the recent Holland House conference. These men, who insist that the Chicago platform must be reaflirmed and a loval supporter of Bryan placed in the Mayor- alty contest, have decided to ask Mr. George to make the race, after carefully canvassing the situation. Those present took the ground that if Tammany nominated an unsatisfactory candiaate, Mr. George would stand a good chance of winning against S8eth Low and the candidate of tbe Platt machine. It will be known within a day or two, probably, whether Mr. George will con- sent to make the race on the Bryan ticket. The nominating convention will pe held Monday evening. ARTILLEKY +N KILLED, Explosion of an ammunition Wagon Cawses a Frightful Disaster. LONDON, ExG, Sept. 23 —A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Bucharest says that while a battery of artillery was pass- g through the town of Pilisti, Rou- mania, sixty-fiva miles northwest of Bucharest, an ammunition wagon ex- ploded. Four men were blown to pieces and eleven in&'urfd 80 seriously thai they have since died. Eight horses were kille NATIVES ENTER A PROTEST Hawaiians Declare That They Are Opposed to Annexation. SENTIMENT TOLD IN SPEECHES. | Friendship for the United States Is Candidly Admitted. AFRAID OF GOING FROM ! BAD TO WORSE. | In Mass-Meseting Islanders Protest | Against Being Swallowed Up | by the White Race. | | HONOLULU, Hawarm, Sept. 16.—We | have had a Hawaiian mass-meeting | against annexation, and it has passed off | much more orderly and quietly than an | ordinary ward chub meeting in an Ameri- | can city. i | There was quite a difference of opinion | among the leaders of the anti-annexation | party as to the advisability of holding a | mass-meeling after the numerous untrue assertiona foisted upon the American press by irresponsible persons, but it was eventually decided by the cfficers of the | two important Hawaiian patriotic so- cieties that as the statemen had been falsely sent abroad that the Hawaiians | were aimost unanimously in favor of an- nexation it wouid be at least advisable to present a formal protest from them to the Government, so that the Senate of Hawaii might be notified of their opposi- tion to the ratification of the treaty of annexation, if only to have it inserted in the journal as a formal record, it being an assured fact that it would have no vital effect. Accordingly, a few handbills were printed and circulated among the mem- bers of the leagues and their friends, call- | ing a meeting in Union square for 5 olclock on the afternoon of September 6, the Sen- | ate having been convened for the 8ih. A solid, earnest body of Hawaiian men and women of the respectable mechanic and laboriug class, well bebaved, deeply interested, good tempered and enthusi- astic; and the proceedings throughout were in Hawaiian and uninterpreted, and only oscupied thirty minutes. The Ha- waiians were curious to learn how it is that the love of country which among other nationalities is known as *‘patriot- ism’’ in their instance should only be re- garded as “sentiment.”” They cannot understand why conditions of climate should change conditions of heart- phraseology. A noteworthy phase of the speeches was the cordial respect and esteem displayed toward the American people and Government, to whom they feel they are so deeply indebted for their progress in c.vilization. The speeches were eloquent, practical and moderate in tone, as a f-w brief exiracts will show. Hon. J. K. Kaulia, a pure-blooded Ha- waiian, a lawver and for a brief ime in the Foreign Office during Hon. J. A. Cum- min’s administration, and now tne presi- dent of the Aloba Aina Society, said: Let us stand as & unit ageinst any such measure s is now being considered. America hos done us no wroug, but it is this Govern- ment in power to-day that has divested us of our rights and our heritage. They are trying to coax the United States 1o take us. We must notailow such a thing as long as our protesis will do any good. 1f we are exed to-day the morrow will bring us no good. Not so with the rich peopie —the men in power to-day. They wild reap the harvest. Our profit will be where? Our gain will be from what source? We meet here to- day as & peaceably inclined and law-abiding class of people, but our opinions, freely exe pressed, we wish all to hear. We come not