The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1898. 5 “EAR THAT THE WORST W ILL. COME. DEPARTURE | OF VIZCAYA FOR HAVANA New York City No Longer Menaced ‘Warship. Before Steaming Cuban Capital Captain Eulate Reiterates His Expressions by the Away for the of Friendship. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—The Spanish | cruiser Vizecaya, which has been lying off Tompkinsville, Staten Island. since Sunday, sailed this afternoon for Havana. She passed Quarantine at 1:25 o'clock. Though Captain Eulate had expected to sail about 11 o’clock, with the tide, the departure of the Viz- caya was delayed until after 1 o’clock by two officers who were on shore. These men reached Tompkinsville on the 12:556 train, with important dis-| patches from the consul-general at New York, and hiring a rowboat start- | ed for the vessel. As soon as they were seen starting from the pier Captain Eulate ordered the crew to weigh anchor and a mo- nt later the chains began to rattle through the hawser holes. Before the officers In the small boat had reached her the side screws of the Vizcaya be. gan to turn and the big vessel moved | v down the stream. When the small boat reached the -of-war’s side the officers scram- ed up a rope and the Vizcaya began get under headway. As the vessel d down toward the Narrows at a Captain Bulate could out standing on the bridge distant buildings of New gradually faded from vessel passed through | Narrows the soldiers at forts sworth and Hamilton stood upon mparts watching her movements. No ceremony of any kind attended departure of the Spanish man-of- | She did not salute and the big s in the fort were silent as she si- | moved down stream and dis- | appeared in the distance toward Ha- na. The Vizecaya was just disappearing beyond the Narrows when a train from Staten Island ferry brought 200 persons Tompkinsville, who had come to | k at the cruiser. All they could see er was her stern and her flag still t half-mast aft. Preparations for salling were active- pushed all night. Shortly after idnight crates of cackling chickens | ind quacking ducks were brought ijown from New York and hoisted over ip's rail. A steer was also ught down on a lighter and hoisted Coaling was con- all night with feverish haste v this morning the last barge d awoy. Eulate recelved newspaper aboard about 10 o’clock this rning and bade them a hearty fare- “I have taken a great interest in newspapers,” the captain said, leave your beautiful harbor with If I could I would be glad to ou all away with me on the Viz- 3 | talking aboard with tackle. tinued While Captain Eulate was the men on deck went through theirlast I, and preparations were made to | gh anchor and move down the bay the high tide. aptain Eulate listened with interest to the following questions put to him | by reporters: “What precautions are taken to guard the magazines on your vessel?” “What do you think of our navy- vard?” “What is your opinion of the possi- | bility of complications arising between this country and Spain over the disas- ter to the Maine?” To these and all questions of a simi- | lar nature Captain Eulate replied with | a smile tha. it would be impossible for him, under the circumstances, to say a word. He reiterated the statement | made by him on Wednesday, however, | that he was delighted with the recep- | tion he had received in this port and expressed a feeling of great friendship for the people of this country. He kept the corps headquarters in con- stant connection with the headquarters of General Grant and General Meade. In 1881 Mr. Doren became president of the American Cable Construction Com- any and held that office until the two bies laid across the Atlantic Ocean by pe c that company had been leased to the Western Union Company. When the American Union and the antic and Pacific companies consoli- da with the Western Union Company fn 1851 Mr. Doren was made general su- perintendent of construction and repairs, and held the place until his death. LIVES OF NINE - LOSTIN FLAMES Tenement House in Charles- ton, S. C., Destroyed by a Conflagration. Families Living Upon the Top Floor Are Cut Off From Avenues of Escape. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHARLESTON, 8. C.. Feb. 26.—Nine lives were lost in a fire which raged for a short time in Church street this morning. At 2:10 a. m. a policeman on duty no- ticed big sparks flying from the tenement house at 160 Church street. The officer | found that a blaze was issuing from one | of the windows on the first floor. The doors were broken open and the family on that floor was rushed out without dam- age, Somebody velled that a family of Wwomen were sleeping on the third floor. The police rushed upstairs, and when they reached the top story the life saving work was stopped by the flames which building. Screams from the dying women were heard, and Officer Bagby rushed in and pulled out three charred bodies. The quick work of the fire department check- ed the fire, and it was soon under control, but not until nine lives had been lost. The dead are: Mrs. Rebecca Albert O il Caswell O'Neil. Josephine Knickme; Katie Knickmeyer, Knickmeyer. ver, 7 years old. 16 Mrs. Knickmeyer was the wife of Theo- dore E. Knickmeyer, a carpenter. s ‘MEN ARE DYING BY SCORES ON THE TRAIL. Travelers for the Klondike Succumb to an Epidemic of Spinal Meningitis. SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—The steamship Cleveland arrived in port a few minutes before midnight from Dyea. She had on board thirty-one passengers, two having come through from Dawson. The body of William Grant of Victoria, who died on the trail, was also brought down. Purser Whitbeck states that he heard nothing while north that indicated that the Canadians had planted the British fiag at Summit Lake. He does say, how- ever, that men are dying on the trail al- most by the score from an epidemic of spinal meningitis. At Skaguay and Dyea the thermometer has ranged for some days past at 14 degrees below zero. The Cleveland was seven and a half coming down and encountered heavy s and stormy weather generally. She passed forty-two steamers, sailing vesséls and tugs. - HAS INSPECTED THE NICARAGUA CANAL LINE. Copyrighted, 1893, by James Gordon Bennett. PANAMA, Feb. 2%.—I am informed by the Herald correspondent with the Nic- aragua Canal Commission, under date of Grevtown, that the commission has reached that city, thus finishing the trip on foot from Ochoa. The inspection of | the country and the canal line has been finished by the commission and it will go to Costa Rica and_Panama next week. Civil Engineer Menocal, who was or- dered back to the United States for court- martial _in _connection _with _defec- LOUISVILLE TOBACCO WAREHOUSES BURNED. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 25.—The pick- ng and steaming warehouses of ituated tional Tobacco Company, at Twenty-fourth and Main stree destroyed by fire this morning. The los will amount to $1,000,00, fully covered by | insurance. Three men were hemmed in by the flames, and were more or less injured be- | fore they could make their egress. They | were: George Tisshenderf,- foreman of | the picking department, whose back is in- | jured and who received severe hurts about the head and chest; Willlam Sem- ple, a picker, whose skull was fractured, | and John Packham, who had both legs | broken and was internally injured. The last-named two may die. ———— DENNIS DOREN IS CALLED TO REST. Death of the General Superintendent of Construction of the Western Union Telegraph Company. { NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Dennis Doren of | this city, general superintendent of con- struction of the Western Union Telegraph Company, dled suddenly to-day at Nor- walk, Ohlo. His death was due to apo- plexy. Mr, Doren was born in 1830. When Superintendent Eckert took charge of the military telegraph line of the Department of the Potomac he put Mr. Doren in charge of the construction corps and he later laid the cable from g?&e gg:srges to Fm'i(ress Monroe, and the g€ over it was the news that the monitor had destroyed the Merrimac. tive work on Drydock No. 3 at Brooklyn, s not yet been able to get away. He will probably sail for New York in a few days. Rock has been found in the river at Ochoa, the site of the proposed dam. — - But One Favorite Wins. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2.—Glenmoyne as the only winning favorite to-day. There was a light rain during the after- noon, but not enough to affect the speed of the track. The feature of the day was Terramie’s win at odds of 100 to 1. One mile, selling—Gioja second, Pert third. Time, 1:43%. Six ‘furlongs, selling—Terramie won, Bertha Nell second, Jim Flood third. Time, 1:16%. Mile and an eighth—Mitt Bovkin won, Arrezzo _second, John Sullivan third Time, 1:56. . Mile and twenty yards, handicap—El- kin won, Octave second, What Next third, Time, 1:44%. 3 One mile, selling—Glenmoyne won, Ev- ;;-‘53‘; second, Celtic Bard third. Time, Six furlongs—Gypceiver won, Vi second, Udah third. Time, Tarse tente Esvog o Confirmed by the Senate. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2%.—The Senate to-day confirmed these nominations: Colonel H. C. Corbin, to be Adjutant-Gen. eral, with the rank of Brigadier-General Postmasters: Arizona—R. H. Chandler: California—W. H. Peck, Lompoc. i ——————— An Early Morning Blaze. A defective flue caused a fire on the sec- ond floor of the building at Front and Merchant streets, occupied by Kummer & Alben, photo engrayers. An alarm was :x:ngg:nwt:om box 26, and in haif an hour s under co g is calculated at about wl s seemed to be playing all over the entire | " SENATOR PROCTOR OF VERMON AS TO BOATS FOR RESERVES fer With the Navy Department. Are Interested in the Twenty- Five Vessels Provided by the Barber Bill. They Also Desire Greater Appropria=- tions to Secure Uniforms and Camp Equipments. Spectal Dispatch to The Call Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, Feb. 25. A delegation from the Naval Militia Association of the United States was at the Navy Department to-day. The visit of the members, however, was not in response to any requests sent by the department, as has been represented, but was simply preliminary to a visit to the Capitol, where they are to be given a hearing by the Naval Commit- tee on the Barber bill to further in- crease the naval establishment of the United States by the construction of twenty torpedo boats, designed princi- pally for the use of the militia. While at the Navy Department the delegation had a pleasant interview with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, who has general supervision of the naval militia of the country, and with whom the provisions of the bill were briefly discussed. The measure, how- ever, had not been formally referred to the Navy Department by Congress, and the officials consequently have not given their opinion regarding Its pro- visions. The boats provided for in the bill are to be of about 150 tons dis- placement, to have a speed of not less than twenty-five knots, and are to cost, including armament, not exceeding $2,500,000. Two of the boats, the bill provides, are to be built on the Pacific coast. When completed they are to be sta- tioned at the principal ports at which naval militia organizations exist and are to be manned by skeleton crews from the United States naval estab- lishment, ready for the full complement of officers and men to be filled out. from the militia when drill or other oc- casion arises. The association also desires to urge upon Congress greater liberality jn the appropriations for the naval militia so that they may be fur- nished their uniforms, camp equip- ments, etc. Commander E. G. Buckland of the Connecticut militia, who was with the party, in a brief conversation just after leaving Assistant Secretary Roose- velt's room, asked that a denial be made of the published statement that he had been summoned here for confer- ence with the officials of the Navy De- partment, and added that his visit here was simply for the purpose of appear- ing before the Naval Committee of Congress for the purpose stated. At the Spanish legation a dispatch was received from General Blanco re- ferring to commerclal questions, and mentioning incidentally that no change of ‘any kind has occurred in affairs in Naval Militia Men Con- T T | Havana. General Blanco's latter state- | ment is believed at the legation to refer | to the lack of definite and trustworthy | | news pending the private inquiries | now being prosecuted by the Americit authorities. In view of this attituds those whose official position gives them the best opportunity for full inform tion, Senor Dubos his assoc te Taine disaster. tiations hav nding to establish The of during T eXciting events, but the authorities ana are hopcful | that these may xpedited at an early day. The on- who has been named to treat on the | matter probably will « | ton before long, altr of necessity will occ more pressing ques: come up of late. me to W ugh some del | to the | have | | i | which UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT. The Advertising Carnival at the First Christian Church Draws a Crowd. The most original and unique enter- tainment that been given by any church in this city for a number of years was that given by the members of ()\-*1 First Christian Church for the benefit nf} the Christian Endeavor Society of that edifice, The The evening was most enjoyable. me programme st interesting Vocal solo, “Winter's Lullaby,” M Adele Presley; living picture, “Japan tableau, “The First Stroke"; piano duet “Danse d'un Hanneton,” polka rondo (Edward Holst), Sophie and Lucie | Czarneski, puplls of Mme. M. Lada; liv- ing picture, “Flower Girl”; living picture, “A Study In Fruit"; vocal solo, selected, | A Mme. Alice_ Waltz; living picture, “A Study in_ Vegetable living picture, | “Vanity Fair'’, recitation, “The Violin | Fantasy,” Miss Alice Wardell Boardman: | living pleture, “California™; voeal solo. | selected, Miss Flora May Bristol: living | icture, “News"”; vocal solo, Professor 8 | Sandy; 1iv) picture, “Nature's | Crown™; vocal duet, s, | : iected, Mme. Ali Waltz and Professor S, J S“nd){ne Alice | —_———— The Wasp This Week. This week’s issue of the Wasp is a particularly interesting one. As usual, | the editorial features are vigorous and ably written, while the “X Ray” col- umn fairly bristles with exposes of fa- kers and hard raps at frauds. The mu- sical criticisms of Lucchesi abound with clever things, and many a make-believe impresario will Wish the Wasp's critic had never seen or heard him. The | same might be said of the bright theat- rical review, and as for the society gos- | sip—it will interest all, and the “Social | Side Lights,” by Paul Pry, will be read with pleasure by every one who enjoys a good story on another. In the “Plain Talks to Public Characters” Rey. Rob- ert J. Coyle is addressed, and every clergyman and layman as well should read what is said to the ministerial gentleman. Long Green Lawrence is pictured in a cartoon as-a “Modern Pharisee,” and the other cartoons and illustrations are notably good. —_——— May Bury Until July 1. The Western Addition Funeral Directors, who have the contract for burying the in. digent dead, secured an extension of time from the Health and Police Committee of the Board of Supervisors to utilize the City Cemetery until July 1. The man- ager of the concern argued that when the contract was made the proprietors be- lieved that they would be permitted to carry on their contract to its conclusion. and that it would be unjust to force them to procure a new burying ground at their own expense. —_—— e Storn’s Horses Attached. The stable of Mat Storn, the horseman, at Ingleside track, was attached yester. day by Scott & :McCord, the hay and ain dealers, for $204 for feed torn's horses. ool Snishod 1 CROWNINSHIELD HAS RETURNED Important Mission of the Navigation Chief to West Indies. His Mission to San Domingo More Significant Than the Captain Admits. Three Vessels Left South of Cuba to Cope With Spanish Ships in Those Waters. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. —A Washing- ton special to the Herald says: There is reason to believe that the trip which Captain A. S. Crowninshield, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, made to the West Indi was more significant than now appears on the surface. Tanned by his exposure to the sun, Captain Crowninshield resumed to-day his work at the Navy Department. When 1 saw him during the afternoon he said that he and his son had joined the Brooklyn in New Ygrk and on board that vessel as the guests of Captain A. C. Cook, commanding, he had gone to San Domingo, where his son owned banana plantations. It was with a view to benefiting his physical condi- tion as well as to give his son an opportunity of disposing of his plantations that the trip had been made. He learned of the destruction of the Maine while in San Domingo, and this hastened his departure from that place earlier than had been ar-' ranged. The Montgomery fortunately arrived at San Domingo and pickad him up, and on board that vessel e PROCTOR IS GOING TO HAVANA He Admits That He Will Meet Consul=-General Lee There. Fears That the Spanish Women of Havana Will Goad the People Into an Uprising Against Americans. KEY WEST, Feb. 25.—Notwith-| battery of artillery, to be called the standing Senator Proctor's denial of Oregon Brigade.” having any Cuban mission, and that Gallant South Carolina Militia. he was simply South for a fishing and < i % picasure trip, the ex-Secretary of War | COLUMBIA, & . Tep, e L sailed from here this forenoon for Ha- | Military companies ' South CHrd W& Lee in Tampa, but he laughed the| gy iraorginary precautions are being _sm_r) off and said there was nothing | taken to keep outsiders from forts and in it, and when asked about his change | fortifications in Charleston _harbor, of plans in taking this Cuban trip now, passes from the Secretary of War be- he turned it off lightly, saying that be- ing required. s ing so near the scene of operations he | Steel Turret for the Porter. aRCCHTE to | Dallevaithat] thet. Faporfy | o oL pueisteel Bine fon the ipedo. from there were worse than the a]clual [bostiborten now Iy e disabled ap Mo 5 | bile, ‘Ala., was started on its way to Lacts: that city to-day, accompanied by two ‘When asked if he were going to see | steel workers from the Herreshoff Lee he denied the story of being a | works, who will put it in position on special envoy. but admitted after |thevessel. some questioning that he would be | Wrecking Tug Off for Havana. ;f;‘:"iyo;"hf;e fee—in fact, would de-| BOSTON, Feb. 2%5.—The wrecking tug S Bt & him aceur- | ypgerwriter left for New York and i on, as he deemed Lee & | ggyana to-night. Diver Michael Sulli- very level headed and conservative of- | van left on the tug. ficial, one who would not get excited | and lose his head in the midst of all this red-hot discussion. = From an authentic source it is known | CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—The general pas- that the news sent by your correspond- | Senger agents of the Western roads ent as to the Tampa meeting was cor- | Were in session to-day, considering the rect, but the facts getting to the pub- | best methods of carrying on the war lic So quickly, it was decided that if against the Canadian Pacific road. Lee left, even for a day, it would cre- | They did not reach any conclusion and HAVE DONE NOTHING, YET. ate too much excitement, and the plan | was changed and Proctor’s plaasure | trip was extended to Key West and | Havana. | The special trains prepared by the | Plant System and other details all bear | this out. | Much comment’ is made here over the | fact that Dr. W. F. Bruner, United | States Sanitary Officer, who succeeded | Dr. Willilams at Havana, has sent his family here for safety. Dr. Bruner is a yellow fever expert from Savannah, | Ga., and enjoys the confidence of the | Government and the medical frater- | nity to a great extent. He has antag- | onized the Spanish officials and the | medical men of Havana by his truth- ful reports regarding the filthy condi- tion of Havana and the prevalence of | yellow fever and other diseases there. It is known here that he regards the situation as being very grave, and that | if the report of the inquiry board is un- favorable Americans in Havana will likely have unpleasant if not dangerous experiences. Hence he sent his family here to be out of harm’s way. Mrs. Bruner prefers not to say any- thing about her husband's ideas or plans, but she admits that Americans in Havana are greatly worried for fear of violence from the volunteers and the mob element, and many are leaving on every trip. The Spanish women make life un- pleasant for the wives and daughters of Americans there by their illy con- cealed jibes and taunts, and by reason of their influence there are fears of an uprising, as their sharp and bitter words lash the volunteers into frenzy. DR, Offers an Oregon Brigade. PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 25.—General H. B. Compson, late brigadier-general of the Oregon National Guard, to-day sent the following message to the Ore- gon delegation in Congress: “In the event of war with Spain I request you to tender my services to the President. I agree to furnish two regiments of in- fantry, one regiment of cavalry and a will resume their deliberations to-mor- row. A strong feeling developed in fa- vor of putting in the cut rates through the Missouri River gateway as well as through the St. Paul. The probabili- ties are that it will go in through both gateways. Having secured the suspen- sion of the long and short haul clause of the interstate commerce act, the American roads think they can con- serve intermediate rates without eon- fining the cut to any particular routes. They propose to do this by seHing tickets on the rebate plan, charging the passenger an amount sufficient to pre- vent him using through tickets to in- termediate territory and refunding him the difference when he arrives at his destination. This is the plan rec- ommended by the committee. The First Cut Here. To-day the Canadian Pacific makes the first open move to localize the rate war by selling through tickets from this city to New York, via steamer to Vic- | toria, for $40 first class and $30 second class. This is a reduction of $39 first class and $37 50 second class on the rates in operation before the northern lines started quarreling among them- selves Vice-President Stubbsof the Southern Pacific, when seen yesterday, seemed disinclined to think that his confpany would take any part whatever in the war. “If this move of the Canadian Pacific is a bluff it is a mighty good one,” he said. “The Canadian Pacific is in the position of a man shooting at a barn door, while we, if we attempted retaliation, would only be shooting at a mark the size of a 3-cent piece. The travel that we would get by the same sort of a move in their territory that they have started in ours would not come anywhere near making up to us the loss we would sustain.” —_— e————— Durrant’s Damage Suit. Judge Hunt yesterday sustained a de- murrer of Horace Smyth to the complaint of William A. Durrant against him to re- cover $50,000 damages for slander. The demurrer was made on the point that the complaint was not clear as to whether the plaintiff alleged that the slandet committed in the year 189 or 1897. The plaintiff confessed to the demurrer and Judge Hunt sustained it, but granted the plaintiff ten days in which to amend Hhis pleadings. A AN AAAAA AN AR 1 Make and his son had gone to Port Tampa., where they took a train for Washing- ton. Captain Crowninshield emphatically denied the report that he had inspect- ed any Cuban harbors or made any arrangements for a coaling station in San Domingo. He did not take with him, he added, any plans of Cuban harbors with which it is said the de- partment had been furnished. 1t is the general impression in naval = Wil Takes the Robs Him circles that Captain Crowninshield's vigit to San Domingo was more impor- tant than he will admit. In some quar- ters it is suggested that while on the Brooklyn he discussed with Captain Cook the plan of campaign to be pur- sued by the division of the North At- ‘lantic Squadren south of Cuba in case of a difficulty with Spain. Some color is lent this impression by reason of the fact that the Brooklyn upon leav- ing St. Thomas, where Captain Crown- inshield disembarked, went to St. Ku- cia, where she will join the cruiser Cin- cinnati and the gunboat Castine. These three vessels, it is understood, will join the gunboats Wilmington, Annapolis and Vicksburg, probably at La Guayr. It is proposed by the administration to keep three vessels south of Cuba for the present. There will probably be no addition to this force, as it is felt that they can cope with any Spanish ves- sels in Southern Cuban waters, leaving the northern division of the North At- lantic Squadron, which is at Key West, to deal with any vessels in northern watera, cocele. 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