The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1898, Page 3

.THOUSANDS O STARVATION STALKS THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1898. 'CUBANS DI SLEEK INSURGENTS INDIFFERENT CUBAN SOLDIERS FEAST IN MATANZAS STREETS WHILE NATIVES PERISH special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1598, by James Gordon Benmzmett. * * * * * * latert * « cates, from starvation and nothing else: * sleep in the streets. * ST 1 v ofak an-t * * * » * night » DI * S EEHERR * ¥ ¥ MATANZAS, Cuba, Sept. 28.—Matanzas, once rich and. prosperous, to-day presents a sad: pictuire’ of con- tradiction. Here one sees the streets filled with starving wretches who die almost too fast to find men to.bury them. Twenty-five thousand reconcentrados began congregating in the city in January of last year. A month hey began to die from hunger, and have continued doing so ever since. -Between January, 1897, and -Sep- tember, 1808, 10,066 persons died in the city of Matanzas, 80 per cent of them,according to the doctors’ certifi- Fully half the reconcentrados have no shelter at night.- They live and It is almost impossible to walk a block in the heart of the city without seeing some wreck eifig, too weak to go farther, lying on the sidewalk, gasping and moaning. Mothers, half - skeletons themselves, crouch with sad-faced children under the shadow of the arches-at the'palace, begging centavos of the soldiers, who drive them away. Five or six drop dead in the streets every day. The first duty“of the “Guardia Civ- iles” in making their rounds in the streets each morning is to-look for the bodies of persons who died during the B L R kL T T T lpeei-’l‘ Cable. to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. MATANZAS, Cuba, Sept. 28.—Abotit four miles from the city is the camp of General Betancourt, the in- - surgent commander of Matanzas province. : I visited it to-day with General Betancourt. There are about 700 ‘men, all well clothed and well fed. General Betancourt led me himself into the hut used for commissary stores. It was piled high with barrels of beans, cornmeal and. jerked beef. General Betancourt told me his men were regularly supplied .with all thefood they wanted by systematic contributions from rich Cuban sympathizers. Ma- tanzas thus has plenty of food for able-bodied men, but ‘hardly a loaf of bread for the women and children dying like dogs in the streets. - In the course of an interview I had with General Betancourt, he said: “We began this revolution against Spain for our independence, nothing else.” The thought of annexation never entered our minds. We will never lay down-our arms until Cuba is absolutely independent. It is all non- sense for the United States-to send any soldiers or officers here. We are abundantly able to take care of that part of it ourselves.” i 00000000000 000000 Ko o % X % X X e W KKK KK NN W NOTED JURIST D DIPLONAT PASSES AWAY Thomas F. Bayard Dies at His Daughter's Residence, DISSOLUTION YERY GRADUAL Career of the Statesman Who| Served as Secretary of State and Embassador, | 7 \ l Spectal Dispatch to The Call, DEDHAM, Mass.. Sept F. Bayerd died at half-past 4 o'clock this afternoon at Karlste! the mer residence of his daughter, Mrs. Samuel D. Warren, after an illness of six weeks. His death was without pain. His wife, ghters, Mrs. Warren \ce Bay- ard, and his sor Jr., saw him draw his last breath. and his Countess Lauen- to Dedham. third daughter, the haupt, was on her wav The r will be conveyed to Delaware and the formal services will be held Saturday in the old Swedish church at Wilmington. Karlstein lies off the Needham road. Here about the middle of August came Mr. Bayard, to. be the: guest of hi daughter and his son-in-law. He was given out sick, but it w that . his ill- ness was merely due to declining years." He steadily grew worse, however, and had spells of ness and of delirfum. A consultation of physiclans was held Au 1d they agreed that Mr. Ba ring . from artoris coloro neral break- ing down incident He suf- fered no pain to any noticeable degree, and the chief tendency was to sleep. During the few weeks of his ill- | ness Mr. Bayard was able to sit up,| bat as the days passed he became graduallv weaker, and three weeks ago he iaid himself on his bed and never again rose from it. -At times he would rally to some extent, but the relapse | carried him always nearer the end: His wonderful constitution resisted ravages of disease for a surprising period. Much of the time he was in a semi-conscious condition, seldom rec- ognizing any of the family and at in- tervals huving sinking spells, accom- panied by choking. These left him al- ways weaker. Yesterday it became| evident that his death was a matter of | only a few hours. Still he lingered. | having a slight rally during the night| and during the forenoon his condition | ghowed little change. At 4 o'clock he| he~an to sink rapiciy, and half an| hour later he gently passed away. Tn-‘ morrow the body wiil be sent to Dela- | ware, being due to arrive at Wilming- ton late Fricay afternoon. . . JURIST AND DIPLOMAT. Career of Thomas Francis Bayard in Which He Gained Distinction. Thomas Francis Bavard was a distin- guished member of an eminent family. Since long before the revolutionary war times the Bayards have been conspicuous in the country’s history as patriots and statesmen, and many. acquired natfonal fame as jurists. ur members of the Bayard family have had Senatorial hon- ors bestowed upon them by the/ little State of Delaware—Thomas Francis Bay- ard, his father, James Asheton Bayard; his grandfather, of the same name, the negotiator of the treaty of Ghent, and his uncie, Richard Henry Bayard. H# grand- mother's father, Governor Bassett of Del- aware, was also the recipient of Senator- ial_honors. 5 Thomas Francis Bayard was born in Wilmington, Del., October 29, 1828, and was a younger son. In his thirteenth year he entered school at Flushing, L. Here he remained’ two years. At the expira- tion of that period, being intended by his father for mercantile pursuits, a clerkship was obtained for him in the establishment | of Mr. Bayard's brother-in-law, August Van Cortlandt Schermerhorn. Here he re- celved an excellent business training. In 1848 his elder brother died, whereupon, at the request of his parents, he returned to Wilmington. Hav] ni a llking for his father's professfon, that of law, he be- came a student with that end in view, 28.—Thomas | iy THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD. Ch Was Know COPENHAGEN, of Denmark died a Denmark May 26, _ast August the that she had lost suddenly collapse dotage. Her ‘illness was nd was admitted to the bar In 1851 He immedtately began the practice of his pro- fession with hjs father, and success- | ful from the local fame spreading_raup! : he was ap- pointed United States ict Attorney for Delaware, but resigned the following. | vear. When the war of the rebellfon began | Mr. Bayard was pursuing his prufession. With the first mut war _the people of Wilming about estab- | lishing means of .self- . A mili- rganized and Thomas cted its first” lleuten- | ¢ company was . ‘Bayard was el In June, 18€0, the famous _peace | meeting of citizen 1d at Dover, | and Lieutenant Bayard was one of the | prificipal speakers. He denounced the war, and his remarks on that occasion | have been quoted in later years as an rument against his availability as a !dential candidate. 1 anwhile Mr. Bayard's popularity in apidly, acceed ates Senate. day he was nit. It is noteworthy that on th elected to the Senate, for th s father, who had resigned, lected 'a Senator from Delaware serve for the unexpired part of his orig- inal term. This is the © of father and son beln sted for by same Legislature to the $Senatorial offices. In October, 1856, Senator -Bayard was married_to Iouisa, daughter of Joseph g fill Lee, a Baltimore banker. Twelve chil- dren were the result of the union. In Senator Bayard received the hon- orary degree of LL,D. from Harvard College. As soon as the result of the national election of 1884 was positively known Mr. | Bayard was the first Democratic states- | man invited to consult with President- elect Cleveland, and it was generally un- derstood that he was the first man of- fered a place In the new Cabinet—and the leading place at that. This he finally ac- cepted, although it was sald that he was strongly atvised by leading Democrats not_to enter thie Cabinet at all parture from -the Senate. would weaken the strength of the pprty in’that body At the close of Mr. Cleveland's admin- istration Mr. Bay .d returned to private life anr{]tn his legal profession. In March, 1892, mr. Bayard was appoint- | ed Embassador to the Court of St. James and served during Mr. Cleveland’s second term. 3 Mr. Bayard's first wife dled In the first term as Secretary, of State. 'our years later he was married to Miss Mary W. CI of Washingron, who survives him. Seven of the children’ are living, as follow ren of Boston, Miss Annie Bayard, Miss Florence Bayard, the Countess Lauen- | haupt, formerly - Miss Nellle Bayard; James A. Bayard, Thomas F. Bayard Jr. | and Philip Bayard. i STRONG TESTIMONY | AGAINST W'INTYRE The Prosecution Announces That It ‘Will Close Its Case To-Moxrow Morning. | DENVER, Sept. 28.—The court-martial’| of Chaplain Joseph P. MeIntyre of the battleship Oregon was resumed this morning. Several witnesses testified that the chaplain's rémarks had been correctly reported In the newspapers. The sub- stance of thelr testimony was that Chap- | lain MclIntyre charged Admiral Sampson | with reporting himself within four miles | of the Spanish ship Colon when she sur- rendered, when In reality he was at least eight miles away: that he charged Cap- | (n.qn Evans of the Jowa with running away from the fight, referring to him contemptuously as “Fighting Bob,” and that he charged that Eastern shipbuild- ers obtained contracts from the Govern- ment by means of political pulls, and | that the Oregon was the only battleship | that was honestly built. | ‘After these witnesses had testified | Judge Advocate Lauchefmer gave notice | that the prosecution would rest its case | to-morrow morning and would probably | introduce no more witnesses. | | proceedings and asked whether it would | tives of the néwspapers to be present. | To this General Blanco positively re- Mrs. Samuel D War- | for she was knov IMNDALS ROBBED COLUMBUS' TONB Portion of the Remains Old World. She the late Emperor his personal coun: " |QUEEN LOUISE OF DENMARK: IS Death of the Aged Wife of King and the Counselor of Crowned Queen Louise was born September 7, | vite son-in-law to do anything toward | 1017, and was the daughter of Land- | providing his empire with & more lib- grave Wilhelm of Hesse-Cassel. was ‘married to King Christlan IX of physical, and it was a great grief to| Queen Loufse’s family: and entourage, | Czatina on her arrival at Copenhagen, one of the most clever women jin the | the. “Mother-in-law of Europe,” and it | is certain that throughout the reign of she.was his sourée.of inspiration and as the chief adviser of her favorite son, | who reigns as King Géorge of Greece. | WILL CONDUCT INVESTIGATION CALLED TO REST AT SANTIAGO Commission Will Call Upon Gen- ; erals Miles and Shafter to Testify. ristian IX Early This Morning. n as the Mother-in-Law of Europe Commander in Chief of the Army May Decline, Preferring to Trust His Case Heads. to Congress. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—The Wash- | dlately after breakfast, and was soon ington correspondent of the Herald tel- | besieged by a number of persons who egraphs: After completing their labors | had been waiting.for his return. in Washington the commissioners who Later he made a verbal report to the are investigating the conduct of the | President on the inspection of the army war will go to Santiago. This will be | camps, which he has just concluded. the last thing done. They expect to | During the interview Secretary Long spend a week In 'the Cuban port. An |came over from the Navy Department examination will be made of the point | and joined the party in the Cabinet of landing.of the army and of the facil- | room. ities for landing supplies. Every point| On leaving the White House Secre- bearing upon the work before the com- | tary Alger said he was much gratified She has always been averse to cofl- stitutionalism, and by many she Is blarned for the refusal of her Musco- Sept. 20.—The Queen t 5:40 this morning. She | eral. form of government than that by | means of which he rules. 5 1842, : : Queen Loulse was in -her 8lst year, report was received | and has never been quite the same her mind and had | since her serious illness a year ago. d into a state "of | The-loss of hér mental faculties, how- | mission will. be covered. -This will in- | With the conditions of the camps gen- 1 ever, Is reported to have been. very sud- | volve evidence from both General Miles | erally. In a general way the camps mental rather than |den and correspondingly sad. and General Shafter. | were kept satisfactorily, but there were, he conceded, points which might have been improved upon, citing par- ticularly the unsatisfactory condition of the sinks at some places. “The main trouble found,” said Sec- retary Alger, “was, perhaps, the lack of care the troops took of themselves.” Secretary Alger says the report of a scene in General Breckinridge’s head- quarters at Lexington when he was inspecting that camp was absolutely without foundation. There was no scene, no high words and no excited language. * The Secretary says the story was made out of whole cloth. Secre- Both General Miles and General | Shafter will be asked to go upon the | stand. They may refuse, it is thought | by: some members of the commission, | but this is not considered probable. The | commission, however, will spare no ef- | fort to get a hearing from them. No doubt would have been entertained as to the willingness of these generals fo | testify but for one fact. General M{es recently called upon Chairman Dodge | of the commission and requested that | he be not called befere it." General It was first observed by the widowed wn until recently as|and she lost no time in summoning her brothers and sisters. who each hasten- ed to Copenhagen a fortnight ahead of the time originally set for the meeting. The Princess 6f Wales, it may be add- ed, was so much alarmed by the tele- gram of her sister, the Empress, that she insisted »~on taking her family physician, . Sir Francis Laking, with her In the hope that his advice might he of some use. E has beéen nicknamed | Alexander of Russia selor, besides acting Dodge gave no satisfactory answer, |tary Alger and Generals Ludington and Missing. e = e / SHAFTER HAS Officials Observe Great Secrecy in the | % Farcical Ceremony of Remov- ing the Explorer’s Boxjes. Camp Wiko v Two Spectal Dispateh to The Call. HAVANA, Sept. 28 (via Key West, Fla., Sept. 25.)—Mystery and secrecy surround all the Spanish Government. ing the last two d Especially was | little better. His il this the case in exhuming the remains | hasten his departure. of Columbus, and this fact has caused | g much unfavorable. comment-and given | JNITED ST rise to grave rumors, which, though un- 7 confirmed, appcir to have some found- | ation, as there has been no attempt at | S denial from any source. The removal | Movement That of the remains, which should have | been-a nublic ceremony, was' veiled in | the deepest’ mystery and was effected | behind closed doors of the: cathedral, | which was guarded by an armed force."| Few of the authorities were present, the names of those who were to attend being handed.to the Chief of Police the night before in General Blanco's own handwriting. The Chief of Policetsug- RIK Lasters’ Protective by this mo:rning- . ATTACK OF FEVER \Hu‘Been Confined to His Co’.age at | NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—General Shafter | has had another attack of Santiago fever, and has been confined to his cottage dur- 3 Last night he had a hard chill and to-day officlal - acts of the has had a high fever. To-night he is a I THE SHOE LASTERS Commander Book and Others Trans- Extended All Over the ‘Country. : BROCKTON, Mass., Sept. 28.—In pur- suance of an ultimatum issued by the | that if the lasting machine companies agents which they had put Into facto- Sternberg each have letters from Gen- eral Wiley, who was reported as hav- ing made accusations against them, ex- pressing his regret that any such report was clirculated. SANTRY AND DIXON TO FIGHT IN THIS CITY CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—Eddle Santry of this city has been matched to fight George Dixon. The bout will take place on No- vember 21 at San Francisco. Twenty rounds will be contested for 0 per cent of the gate receipt: ADVERTISEMENTS. but the understanding of the commis- sion is that General Mlles had made up | his mind to be satisfied with nothirg | less than a Congressional investigation. From another ‘source I learn that | General Miles has his version of the | Santiago campaign fully formulaced and when an investigation is had he wishes to have it rigorous, acute and final. There is no concealment of the fact that there are many differences betwe:n General Miles and General Shafter, and General Miles prefers to trust his case to Congress. In spite of this he will be asked to appear before the commis- | sion. Secretary Alger also will certainly be asked to appear, WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Only four members of the commission appointed to investigate the conduct of.the war were present at the forenoon session to-day, and in the absence of replies to | the interrogatories sent to the Secre- tary of War and his subordinates very little business was transacted. Colonel Denby was . elected vice-chairman of | the commission, and in the absence of | Chairman Dodge ' présided over the session to-day. . | The only important matter brought | to the attention of the commission was | .a report by General Wilson of the en- | gineer department of the army. of ries heré to take the place of strikers all the lasters in‘this section would be ordered out, the strike of ‘the shoe- makers was cXtended to-day in all di- rections, men abandoning .lasting ma- chines in shops all over Southeastern Massachusetts. 2 This is the most general and united strike of shoelasters that has been known in many vears, and the union men claim that should this not win the day against the machine companies the strike iwill be extended to every shop in the State and possibly to every shop in the country operating machines con- trolled by the consolidated companies. : G il " OFFICERS FOR THE ADAMS. ANOTHER | ff fo - the Past. Days. ays at Camp Wikoff. Inéss will undoubtedly E OF 7 Now-a-days nearly (% cvers woman rides a bicycle. The majority of these who do not, have failed to compass its diffi- culties because of nervousness. Many women af- \ter taking innum- rable lessons, and trying vainly o conquor the wheel for weeks, have finally given it up as a hope- ferred From the Mohican. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Commander G. M. Book has becn detached from the command of the Mohican and ordered to the command ‘of the Adams at San Fran- cisco immediately. Lieutenant Com- mander T. Porter of the Mohican has been transferred to the Adams as exec- utive officer. Most of.the other officers of the Mohican have -also been ordered to duty on the Adams. The orders of Com- mander B. F. Tilley to the command of the Adams have been revoked. - May Finally Be e Unlon at Brockton did " not withdraw gested that comments would be made which he is the chief. No statement by the press upon -the secrecy of the not be advisable to allow representa- fused to accede, telling the Chief of Po- lice to limit himself exclusively to the list of guests’ which had been handed to him. A No official account of the ceremony or statement regarding the condition of the remaing has been made public, but it has leaked out from an almost | authoritative source that they are not | in exactly the same condition as when they were placed in the niche. When the remains were placed in the maiso- leum a small casket was enélosed, con- taining coins, gold and silver medals, KEYNOTE IS STRUCK AS TO ANNEXATION !Rebublicc_ns Deem It Necessary to ~ Secure the Next House of less task for this one reason. In nearly every in- stance severe mervous- ness in women may be traced tc weakness and Z disease of the delicate and important organs distinctly feminine. was called for from him because there were no chargés against this depart- ment, but General Wilson, being a| member of the commission, concluded | that to furnish one would be an appro- priate proceeding, The document was held for disposition. by the full com- mission, and, consequently, was mnot - given o the press. It is a’ detailed | No ofherclass of disorders so tarture a wo- statement showing the condition of the = Taf 8 TEres o Dieal them down so department on the 1st of last April | quickly and effectually. Dr. Pierce’s Fa- vorite Prescription is a sure, speedy and permanent cure for all troubles of this de- scription. It acts directly on the sensitive organs concerned, making them strong, healthy, vigorous and elastic. It allays inflammation, heals ulceration, soothes pain and tones and builds up the nerves. It stops exhausting drains. It banishes the just before the declaration of war. as | compared with its condition on the 31st | of August last, after the cessation of | hostilities, and it deals especially with | torpedoes and fortifications. Included in it is a letter written by General Wil- | son to his subordinates throughout the | country just before the beginning of | o . indispositi that if ; * Aol £ th positions precede maternity and et sl aa o et - - Representatives. fhe e, sdviang Shem ot e Bromhet | R Pt T o Slon of a burial. It appears that this ! . | course they should pursue as mem- | Jest It lnsures the little mew-comers casket had been tampered with and ! bers of the engineer department. j Deaith sng éu ample supplyyil nghifish rifled of its contents, and further ru- / : ¢ : A-few letters were recelved from | ment Mt transforms weak nervous inya mors say that only portions of the re- ; £ - persons offering ‘to come before the | lids into strong, healthy, nerve-steady wo- mains are left. [ NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—A Washington speclal to the Herald says: © | commission. These were replied to | men. Thousands have testified to its mar- Gossip of scandal and speculation gre| © New York Republicans have struck a keynote on the subject of Phil-. @ [ with a circular letter, of which the fol- zg,‘e"r“: i tA“ bonest dealer will not rife, the truthflo‘ft :\'hicflt; the authori- | @ ippine annexation, which will prebably be taken up by their party © lowing is a copy: oy wife m‘s‘ ::wbkd i el ek s s T OF contra- |, @ throughout the country, and by the time the Congressional campaign © | Dear Sir: Referring to v our COMMUNL | mess’ for several years,” writes James Caswell, however, is to the effect that secrecy. © is fairly under way the party will be thoroughly committed to an- © ffin on recelpt of this you will forward | ESQ. of Ocheltree, Johnson Co., Kans., ( was given to the ceremony because ,’,' © nexation. At the Republican Congressional headquarters the greatest © | a written statement, giving in as specific m?n)‘bn dfhengg b;;;'sngvfr?;’mw‘: -h‘: cable_ dispatch received here reported| O importanceis attached to the necessity of electing a Republican @ |and complete a form as may be practic: | Foiihave fainting speiis, the best doctors did that General Toral had been murdered | © House of Representatives -this fall, on account of the effect it will © ;:x‘;nnnl experience and knowledge, that | Der mo : € time my wife had faken in Madrid the day before, and fears| © have upon European nations, by showing them that the President has © | will aid the pending investigation.' This | four bottles:of the ‘Favorite Prescription” she were entertained that disorders might | @ the support of the country.In his policy in dealing with the territory @ |statement will be for the Information of | oLy D exiols are regular, she 15 stout and :’g;‘e‘{hé me gpx‘-lea(cn.:xmbers ary came| @ . nouered from Spain. Representative Hull of Iowa, chairman of the @ | the commission only, =~ strong. When she commenced taking your Some of the more radical Spaniards| © Republican Executive Committee, sild to-day: ‘Europe would regard @ CRETARY OF WAR - :“h:d':‘e‘i‘;’h;‘;‘;‘;fi:fi,?m‘ HE QTR £o to the length of saying that the| © the election of a Democratic House of Representatives as a vote of © SE 1 Send t stamps, to cover cost of Whole ceremony was a farce, the Gov-| @ lack of confidence In the administration and its poilcy, and would take © COMPLETES HIS T o e e Werlda Dl ernment at Washington having object-| @ advantage of the situation to attempt to keep this country from shar- © OUR ehics Ahdttion: Bufialo, N. V., for & f&;%;&;:emmexugfiigm&r?m;’u ':‘: © ing in the benefits that are to follow as a result of the opening up of © aper-covered copy of Dr. Pierce’s Common Thime i order to make the public be.| © the Orfent to-commerce.” 3 © | WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—Secretary | Sense Mcdical Adviser;—Cloth binding ten lleve the remains, which are really left| © - C : g © | Alger has returned to Washington. He | cents extra. A wiole medical library in here, were shipped to Spain.- OO°09000QO°0-0OOOOOOOOGQOOOOOOOQOOOO came to the War Department imme- | o8¢ 1000-page volume.