The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1897, Page 1

\ VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 142. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, @all 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GEORGE M. PULLMAN | STRICKEN WITH DEATH YESTERDAY MORNING Hurrying to Help Him, the Members of His? Household Find That He Is Beyond | GEORGE MORTIMER PULLMAN. CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—George M. Pull- man, the palace-car magznate, died at his residence, Eighteenth and Prairie avenue, this city, at 5 o’clock this morning. Mr. Pullman, who was in his sixty-sixth year, had not had his usual health this summer. The extreme heat of last week | generally aggravated his disease, known to medical cience as angina pectoris, but no serious trouble was anticipated. Mr. | others in all the minor details of puteing | Pullman was in his office 1n the Pullman | building daily ana dined yesterday with | hisiriends at his club. Later in the even- ing he remarked having a slight pain in the back. He retired at his usual early | hour. i Atdo'clock his household were awak- B\ rned by a disturbance in Mr. Pallman's chamber, and upon entering found him standing in the corner of the room, dazed and apparently suffering excruciating pain in the region of the heart, Rev. H. M. Eaion, who was visiting Mr. Pullman, cailed Dr. Frank Billings, the family physician. Restoratives were applied, but to no vurvose, and at 5 o’clock the millionaire and vhilanthrepist vassed away without speaking and with ecarcely a struggle, Mrs. Pullman, who with her two sons, George and Sanger, have been on an Easi- ern tour, was wired at once, and no funeral arrangements will be made uniil she ar- | rives. Mr. Pullman came to Chicago in 1859, He at once took a prominent place in busi- ness circles. In 1880, owing to the grow- ing demands of his manufacturing in- ¢, he put into execution a pet theory | for the establishment of a “model town’” | 4¢3 home for his carworks and the thou- | sandsof employes. A site was selected on the shores of Lake Calumet, twelve miles south of Chicago. Mr. Pullman de- voted his personal attention to the erec- tion of the liitle city, and Pullman now Las a population of 11,000. Mr. Puliman’s wealth is variously esti- mated at from $12,000,000 to $30,000,000. Hi« financial interests were contined 1o a few corjorations, 1he bulk of the holdings being stock in the Puliman Palace Car Jompany, of which he owned about one- ftn. Bome stock was also held in Di aond Match and New York Biscuit. ‘hese securities were somewhat affected ¥ the news of Mr. Pullman’s death, but qickly recovered. 1 seorge Mortimer Pullman was born in Cautauqua County, N. Y., March 3, 1831. A 14 he began life as a clerk in a country stve, later associating himself with an oler brother in the cabinet-making busi- net at Albion. He came to Chicago in 184 and at first engaged in the business 'ol 1zing buildings and elevating blocks & nutber of feet to bring them up to new stret grades, While riding in an old- fashoned sleeping-car from Buffalo to Wesfield, N. Y., it occurred to him that ther was a field for building comfortable eleegng coaches. Frm 1859 10 1863 he ma tere series of | | tion of a stick of dynamije. Human Aid. |experiments on the Chicago and Alton | teacher, Miss Mack, was close by and baa | and Gulena roads. From these experi- | ner skirts torn into shreds, but she was ments he worked out detaile! plans. A workshop was rented, skilled mechanics | employed, and Mr. Puliman threw him- | self into the task with the ardor of a man | who moves from settled convictions. Al- thoug: with.ut mechanical training him- self, he personatly atrected the work of the ideas he had originatea into material form. The fir-t car, the “‘Pioreer,” com- pleted early i1n 1865, immediatety took rank as the most perfect railway vehicle the world had ever seen. This was tne beginning of the Pullman systen: which has grown 1o the present enormous pro- portions, Mr. Pullman was married in 1867 Miss Hattie Sanger of Chicago. children are living—George, Sanger, Har- riet and Florence. The latter was mar- ried to Frank O. Lowden of this city two years ago. DYNAMITE IN A SCHOOL. to Disastrous Explosion Caused by a Lad #ho Carried a Stick of the Deadiy Compound in His Pocket. EPRINGFIELD, Mo., Oct. 19.--Ray- moud, the 12-year-old son of A. D. Alien, stenographer in the Circuit Courr, went to school this morning, carrying a por- The explosive which the boy bad found in a stonequarry was in_his pocket with a kni‘e, top, mai- bles and a qnantiry of other thing< com- mon to boys’ pockets. Ingetting into his seat the boy banged his dangerous ¢o- lection of his old junk against the aesk, | causing an explosion which wiil probabiy | cost his life, and whicl was heard for sev- | eral blocks. The chiid’s right hand was | blown off, and in his right eroin a terri- ble wouni was inflicted, from which the surgeons say the boy cannot recover. The Foar | | not -hurt. The explosion caused a panic among the other scholars, and several ‘wer(- bur: in trying to get out of the building. S | WRECK OF A BRITISH STEAMER. — | The Clangerdon tost Between Natal and | Delagoa Bay, but Passengers and Crew Are Saved. CAPE TOWN, SourH Arrica. Oct. 19.— | | The “British steamer Clanverdon of 1375 | tons, has been wrecked off Umiasr, be- | iween Natal and Delugoa Bay. The pas- sengers and cr:w were all saved. Zurorns DID IT KEVFAL a4 LOMANCE?R | Strange Meeting of William J. Bryan | Rith a Nwun, LOUISVILLE, Oct. 19. — Is there a romance in the lite of William J. Brysn wlicn be kept sacredly guarded from the world? This is what is being asked by members of the party who accompanied Mr. Bryan on' his tour in Kentucky last week. At Loretto there is a schoq) for ziris in charge of the Nazarene Sisters. When the Bryan special reached Loretto | the schoolgirls gathered to greet the silver leader. Then the sisters in charge pressod | forward. One by one they clasped his hand and passed on. The sixth s opped, raised her cowl, and looking up said: “Mr. Brvan, I knew you in the long ago.” Mr. Bryan was start!ed. He leaned | ear. He still cla~ped the hand of the nun | whose cow! bad :ailen back and revealed a face which showed traces of great beauty. There was a whispered conversa- tion, but not until the train moved slowiy its way did they breax their hand clasp. “1 knew her long ago,” was all the ex- forward and a name was whispered in s | ' planation Mr. Bryan gave to his party. | LEADING ASTRONOMERS ASSEBLE Learned Star - Gazers Rally at the Yerkes Observatory. THE DEDICATION COMMENCED. IS Professors From the Most Noted Colieges in the World Participate. INTERESTING PAPERS ARE PRESENTED. Exercises That WIll Conclude With a View of the Heavens Through the Big Telesc pa. Special Dispateh to THE CALL. WILLIAMS BAY, Wis,, Oct. 19.—The leading colleges and universities of the world were represented in the little group of learned men who gathered in this vil- lage to-day to participate in the dedicatory services of the Yerkes Observatory ana its marvelous 40-inch refracting telescope. Papers and impromptu addresses on the subjects connected with the science of astrophysics occupied the greater portion of che morning, while the aitrrnoon and evening were given over to affording the eminent star-gazers present an opportun- ity to look at the heavens through the largest lens in the world. This is realiy the first day of two days of important conferences of astronomers at the Yerkes Observatory. To-morrow in- vestizations will continue. Then after every phase of the subject sugpested by the new and wonderful instrument has been taken up, and after g minds who havesearched stars as far as the human eye can search them have told of their ob- | servations, the ceremonies prop-r of the dedication will take place. Everv one connected with the observatory faculty is busy preparing the beantiiul piace, a mile southwest f this summer resort, for the dav on which President Harper shall for- mally receive the large telescope from its donor. Itis in every way ap uncommon gath- ering of extraordinary men thatis here now. To-day several more arrived and now there are abont thirty professors present, inciuding representatives from Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Leland Stanford and other seats of learning in this country and in Europe. After the formal cxercises, which close Friday, regular investigations will be taken up by the resident facuity under Professor George E. Hale and Professor Barnard. T en the general public will have an opportunity from time (o time to Jook tnrough the telescope. It is ex- pected that two nights a month will be set aside on which visitors will be ad- mitted to the observatory building and to the tower. The rest of thé time the place will be occupied by students of astronomy and astrophysics, who will engage in re- search work. At theopeningol this morning’s session of the conference of scientists Dr. Henry | Crew, professor.of physics at the North- western University, had the first place on the programme. He spoke without notes, and his subject was: ‘‘Source of the Char- acteristic Specirum of the Metallic Arc.”” Dr. W. J. Humphreys of the University of Virginia followed Dr. Crew and spoke on “Effect of Pressure on Wave Length, ’ Professor James E. Keeler, direcior of the YERKES - QBSERVATORY, Where the Great Lens: Is:Locxted. THE LAST STAND OF THE HAWAIIANS *‘**t‘ififit"ii**i"ii*htii"ititfiiit*i**fiiti*‘k: * 2 20 220 20 0 2 2 23 2 2 220 22 224 2 2 2 2 2 23 20 2 3 2 2 2 02 0 20 0 2 26 2 0 3 24 0 26 26 36 226 36 2 2 20 2 2 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 0 22 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 26 3 2 04 3 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 30 2 22 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 2 32 2 2 0 00 20 2 22 0 20 2 2 2 o 0 22 2 2 FOR THEIR MEMPBIAL. To the President, the Congress and the People of the United States of America. This memorial respectfully represents as follows: 1. That your memorialists are residents of the Hawaiian Islands; that the majority of them are aboriginal Hawaiians, and that all of them possess the qualifications provided for electors of representatives in the Hawaiian Legislature by the constitution and laws prevailing in the Hawaiian Islands at the date of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Constitutional Government, January 17, 1893. 2. That the supporters of the Hawaiian constitution of 1887 have beefi, thence to the present time, in the year 1897, held in subj=ction by the armed forces of the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands and of its successor, the Republic of Hawaii, and have never vielded, and do not acknowledge a spontaneous or willing allegiance or support to said Provisional Government, or to said Republic of Hawaii. 3. That the Government of the Republic of Hawaii has no warrant for its existence in the support of the people of these islands; that it was proclaimed and instituted and has hitherto existed and now exists without considering the rights and wishes of a great majority of the residents, native and foreign born, of the Hawaiian Islands, and especially that said Government exists and maintainsitself solely bv force of arms, against the rights and wishes of almost the entire aboriginal population of these islands. 4. That said republic is not and never has been founded or conducted upon a basis of popular government or republican principles ; that its constitution was adopted by a convention, a majority of whose members were self-appointed, and the balance of whose members were elected by a numerically insignificant minority of the white and aboriginal male citizens and residents of these islands; that a majority of the persons so voting for delegates to such Constitutional Convention was composed of aliens, and that a majoritv of said aliens so voting were of then very recent residence, without financial interests or social ties in these islands. 5. That the constitution so adopted by said convention has never been submitt-d to a vote of the people of these islands, but was promul- gated and established over the said islands, and has ever since been main- tained, only by force of arms, and with indifference to the will of prac- tically the entire aboriginal population, and a vast majority of the whole population of these islands. 6. That the said Government, so existing under the title of the Re- public of Hawaii, assumes and asserts the right to extinguish the Ha- waiian nationality, heretofore existing, and to cede and convey all rights of sovereignty in and over the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies to a foreign power, namelv, to the United States of America. 7. That your memorialists have learned with grief and dismay that the President of the United States has entered into and submitted for ratification, by the United States Senate a treaty with the Government of the Republic of Hawaii, whereby it is proposed to extinguish our ex- istence as a nation and to ann=x our territory to the United States. 8. That the Hawaiian people, during more than half a century prior to tive-events hereinabove recited, had been accustomed to partici- pate In the constitutional forms of government, in the election of Legis- latures, in the administration of justice through regularly constituted magistrates, courts and juries, and in the representative administration of oublic aff irs, in which the principle of government by majorities has been acknowledged and firmly established. 9. That your memorialists humbly but fervently protest against the consummation of this invasion of their political rights; and they earnestly appeal to the President, the Congress and the people of the United States to refrain from further participating in the wrong so pro- posed; and they invoke in support of this m=morial the spirit of that im= mortal instrument, the Declaration of American Independence ; and espe- cially the truth therein expressed, that Governments derive their just pow- ers from the consent of the governed—and here repeat, that the consent of the people of the Hawaiian Islands to the forms of government imposed by the so-called Republic of Hawaii, and to said proposed treaty of annexa- tion, has never been asked by and is not accorded, either to said Gov- eroment or to said project of annexation. 10. That the consummation of the project of annexation dealt with in said treaty would be subversive of the personal and political rights of these memorialists, and of the Hawaiian people and nation, and would be a negation of the rights and principles proclaimed in the Declaration of American Independence, in the constitution of the United States and in the schemes of government of all other civilized and repre- sentative Governments. 11. Wherefore your memorialists respectfully submit that they, no less than the citizens of any American commonwealth, are entitled to select, ordain and establish for themselves, such forms of government as 1o them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness ; and that questions of such moment to the Hawaiian people as are proposed to be settled by said treaty, are questions upon which said people have the right, in the forum of conscience, to be heard; and that said Hawaiian people have thus far been denied th= privilege of being heard upon said qu=stions. 12. And your memorialists humbly pray the President. Congress and the peopls of the United States, that no further steps be taken toward the Tatification of said treaty, or toward the exiinzuishment of the Hawaiian nationality, or toward the absorption of the Hawaiian people and terri- tory into the body politic and territory of the United States of America, at least until the Hawaiian people, as represented by those citizens and residents of the Hawaiian Islands, who, under the provisions of the Ha. wailan constitution, promulgated July 7, 1887, would be qualified to vote for representatives in the Legislature, shall have had the opportunity to express at the ballot-box their wishes as to whether such project of an- nexation shall be accepted or rejected. 13. And your memorialists, for themselves, and in behalf of the Ha- waiian people and of the residents of the Hawaiian Islands, pledge their faith that if they shall be accorded the privilege of voting upon said ques- tions, at a free and fair election to be held for that purpose ; and if a fair count of the votes that shall be cast at such election shall show a ma- jority in favor of such annexation, these memorialists and the Hawaiian people will yield a ready and cheer.ul acquiesence in said project. HONOLULU, H. I, Oct. 8, 1897. J. KALUA KAHOOKANO, SAMUEL K. Pua, F. J. TESTA, C. B. MAILE, SAMUEL K. KAMAKAIA, Citizens’ Comnmittee. JAMES KEAUILUNA KAULIA, President of the Hawaiian Patriotic League. DAVID KALAUOKALANI, President of the Hawaiian Political Association. : i 3 : i % i i 030 220 22 50 28 2 0 2 2 2 20 20 2 2 230 2 000 20 0 2 2 2 2 220 3 20 200 302 2 2 22 05 X 022 20 22 0 0 5 26 2 0 1 2 2 2 222 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 200 2 3 5 2222 T X 2 2 02 2 X020 0 T2 0 0 2 0 2 2200 2 5 0 20 2 220 0 204 2 2 2 02 0 2 Allegheny Observatory and one of the foremost onomers of the country, dis- cussed “Specira of Stars of Secchi’s Third Type.” Other addresses were made by Professor H. C. Lord, director of Emerson McMillin Observatory at ihe Ohio State University; Professor Carl Runge, the eminent German astronomer and director of the Spectroscopic Laboratory of Tech- nische Hochschule of Hanover; and Pro- lessor Ormond Stoue, director of the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia. Professor Lord’s subject was: “Researches in Spectrogra- phy.”” Professor Runge spoke on *‘Oxy- zen in the Sun,” and Professer Stone on ‘Great Nebula of Orion.” At the afternoon exhibition Probuorl] Hale and Eilermann showed various solar phenomena with the Yerkes telescope. Then experimental demonstrations were given in the observatory and in the in- strument shop, where the twenty-four inch h liostat and coelostat, equitorial mounting for the twenty-four inch re- flectors, the spectroheliograph for the tele- scope and other instruments were shown. Dr. Henri Deslandres, professor of vhysics in tbe Paris Observatory, who was ex- p:cted to be present, was unable to attend the conference to-aay. For to-morrow. which will be the last aay of the astronomical confereace, a large programme of scientific papers have been Continued on Third Page, COUNTRY THEY SEND A MEMORIAL 10 CONGRESS Call Upon America to Spare Their Native Land. GIVEN NO VOICE GOVERNMENT. IN And Yst Their Birthright Is Being Bartered Aw:y by Strangers. GREAT MASS-MEETING AT HONOLULU. Natives and Thelr Friends Offer te Leave the Prcposed Ann:xa= tion to a Pleb scite. Epecial Correspondence of THE CALL. HONOLULTU, H. L, Oct. 12.—The larg- est ant most enthusiastic mass-meeting 1n Honolulu for many years was ueld on Friday evening, ths 8th inst., in Palace Square. It was attended by neariy 3000 Hawsiians and foreigners, including a large number of Portugnese. The intense but great enthusiasm which prevailed, together with the names of the “‘white’” men who joined in the call for the meet- ing, staggered the annexationists, who haye to re.ort 10 abuse of ‘‘the hen- pecked brigade,’’ as lbey term their op- ponents, and to vain efforts to neutralize the force of the arguments in the speech of J. O. Carter. The Hawaiian call was signel by J. K. Kahookauo and Samuel K. Pua, ex- members of the Hawaiian L-gislature, ¥. J. Testa, proprietor of the Independent and Ka Makuainaua and other publica- tions, C. B. Maite, ex-member of the House of Nobles. and Samuel K. Kama- kaia, a .prominent Hawaiian, and was to ‘‘pass a memorial protesting again-t the consummation of the annexation project.’” The call was indorsed by James Keaui- luna Kaulia, president of the Hawaiian Patriotic League, and David Kaiauokalani, president of the Hawalian Political League. The object of the meeting was further indorsed by James Campbell, one of the wealthiest men in Honoiuiu, the owner of the lands upon which the Ewa and Kahuku plantations are located and also of a large section of territory around Pearl Harbor; Joseph O. Carter, ex-member of the Legisiaiure, a trustee of the E. P. Bishop estate, brother of the late Ha- waiian Minister at Washington, Henry A. P. Carter, and uncle of Judge Alfred W. Carter and the late Charles L. Carter, one of the annexationist commissioners to Washington; Samuel C. Allen, another of the very weaithy merchants and prop- erty-owners, and Hugh E. Mclniyre, a merchant of position and irreproachable standing. Patriotic and enthusiastic speeches were wade by Kabookauo aid Kaul a, but the event of the evening was ile speech of Joseph O. Carter, who spoke as toilows am'd prolonged and almost continuovus cheering: Fellow-citizens and countrymen: Aloha oukou. Ithad notbeen my purpose to speak here to-night, but because of the requests of the geatlemen who have charge of this meets ing I am here to make a few remarks, which I shall present to you to the best of my ability, Iwish tosay in prefacing my remarks that we are facing the gravest question that has ever come before the Hawaiian peopte. I have come before you velieving that if I have a talent it is my duty to let you know it and not wrap it up in a napkio and bury it 1want to say 1o you who are Hawailans that we are a feeble folk, but the people of the Untied States appreciate the loyalty with which we have stood by our sovereign and our country. The very men who have brought the present movement to its present position themselves admire the firmness with which you have stood as you didin 1593—agaiust annexation. Whether annexation is desirable or not is a question which may be ably argued upon both sidas, but I am able to say upen good author- ity, 10 the words of the gentleman frow Ala- bama, that bad he been Hawatian born he too would oppose annexation: I fear that those who {ayor anuexatior have not considered all sides of the question. An alliance with the | United States meaus grave responsibilities for the Hawailan people. The Unit=a States of America iorm oue of the leading nations ot the world—a great countiry pressiug to the fore for trade and commerce and striving to dictate terms (o the maritime powers. So long #»s Hawail remains independent she will be free from the entangiements that beset the rest of the world. Imagine, If you can, that the United States may some day be involved in war, and thai in the event of annexation we, as an unprotected and far-off portion of United States territory, will aiso be involved 14 open to all the m sery and suffering that war entaiis. It would be far belter that Ha. waii remain independent and b sbie to en- joy the advantages of neutrality. Iwish it understood thatIhave great re- spect for some annexetionists; that I have less respect for others. Ibelieve that annexa- tion would be & mistake. I am told by an- uexation sis that, withcut annexation, there will be no reciprocity treaty. Iknow the aa- vantazes of reciprocily, as we have enjoyed | them, they cannot be whistled down the wind. Ido not bahieve it follows that if annexation fails we shall lose the aavantages of reciprocal trade. We have no assurances that, in the |