The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1899, Page 1

This Paper not to be taken from the Library. +e e+ The VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 167. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS. CUBANS ALMOST READY Tp FIGHT L i A O O S e S O e a3 EIEPRE T OBJECT T0 | THE PRESENT COVERNMENT : ——— Americans More Favored| Than Men Who Fought for Freedom. NATIVES VERY SORE Refuse to Surrender Their Arms | and Threaten to Rebel Against the United States. New York | ames Gor- | H “he situation here has hc—i come most alarming. To | all appearances Cubans are about | armed manifestations | against the United States and its mode of governing the island, al- h the conservative element hopes for peaceful arrang make This state of affairs, which was brought abruptly to a head last Saturday by a partial quarrel be- | tween General Gomez and Gov- ernor General Brooke, has been forming for the last two months. I'he first move has been made b the army. It will probably be | supported by many Cubans. Cu- bans in general argue that they | being browbeaten by the Americans, who daily tighten their grip upon them. To a cér- tain extent this is true. Ameri- | are more favored here by Government officials daily \\'hi'ltl each move of the Government, | such as the construction of a new Postoffice, with its signs written in English, tends to carry out the | assertion of Cubans that the Americans are here to remain. The army, which is really rep- resented, although many dispute his authority, by General Gomez, | is particularly bitter against Gov- ernor Brooke and his policy. The soldiers declare they have been miserably fooled and trapped by the Americans. They look upon | the exchange of a gun for $75 as | an ignominious transaction for | them, as they have not been de- | feated by the Americans and con- | EoROEsRONONCEOROH pe o are | cans CHCECEOROECHOEORORE KENSINGTON PAL GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC e e . O a2 bebe e . > e s . GENERAL MA sequently refuse to change. they ex- | All the army is willing to surrender | arms to Cuban officials, but under no circumstances, as declared in the meet- ng of generals yesterday, to the Amer- icans. Cuban officers do not wish a war, as this would, in their estimation, only hasten annexation. They are willing | to listen to any honorable proposition. Some persons say the determination of the army not to surrender the arms is an outsome of General Brooke’s re- fusal to sanction General Gomez's plan | for a Cuban militia. At Cuban head- | quarters the statement is indiginantly denied, in marticular by Gomez. who, however, refused to discuss the present | situation. One of Gomez's most promi- nent officers said: “General Gomez was brought to this city through the influence of Mr. Por- ter. He was told at the time he was wanted in Havana to help General Brooke establish a goveriment for the Cubans which would have no other | basis than freedom and independence. He was miserably fooled. He has been ridiculed for the manner In which he | has been treated by Brooké. He has. on account of his intlmacy with the American general, lost popularity with the Cubans, who say he has been a traitor to their cause. This was a part | of Brooke's scheme. He wished to ren- der Gomez useless in order that he | might with further ease follow out his | orders from Washington. “Gomez and his men are disliked and | unpopular to-day. He has no influence. | A recommendation from him does more D S S ) AGUINALDO FLEES FROM AMERICANS SR AMERICA +, % Retreats From Balinag and Has Not Been Heard From ‘ in Two Weeks. el pis gt Deserted by the Filipino Govern- ment, the General Now Desires “Honorable” Surrender. hiw g o o o, g e 2 Y don Bennett. T the Front With Lawton’s Column, San Miguel, Sunday (via Manila, May* 15).—The insurgent General Gregorio del Pilar believes that he has been deserted by | the Filipino Government, and desires ¢ |to surrender, if he can secure what he regards as honorable terms from the Americans. It is now said that Aguin- aldo has fled into the prov- ince of Nueva Ecija. On April 29 he retreated by carriage from Balinag through San Isi- dro, and nothing has been heard from him in the two weeks since. The 5000 Spanish prisoners who are reported to be held by the insur- gents have been carried into a north- + | ern province and scattered among the | small garrisons. They are beyond American succor this season unless the Filipino surrender takes place within three weeks. The insurgent hospital near San Isidro is reported to be overwhelmed with the wounded. General Pilar’s main subsistence depot is five miles in front of Lawton. The indignation of the natives has D I o o S RS WA+ 444044 44H EH 4444444440 g XIMO GOMEZ. Bttt eieieiebsdeiesedes ed D O . harm than good. Cubans imagine he has been working for annexation. He will prove the contr; this week, when he publishes letters which have been exchanged between him, General Brooke | compelled the insurgent generals to and President McKinley. After he has | countermand their orders to burn done this the general will probably |towns as they retreated. l(‘a\'\? the island. He has not a penny. The American policy of not de- He lives on ('huri!y‘. In fact, we are all | stroying property is creating a re- doing the same. Gomez was forced to vulsion in our favor. Five American dismiss his staff as he did not even 37 have food for i They are looking for | prisoners were carried through this work. One colonel has been made a | toWn last week. Their names are un- | policeman with a salary of $62 a month. | known. All of Gomez's enemies have splendid Natives are returning through the positions, while his officers and men American lines to their own homes. starve.” ey I was told by another officer that AGUINALDO’S SKILL should an outbreak take place it would occur in Santiago, where Rabi and Cebreco have large armed forces. Both of the officers T have quoted are promi- : nent and reliable. They pleaded xham!ml‘l:i‘:?ng;'g their names be withheld, s Gomez and Brooke held a 1 was told | that General Gomez | promised to continue to try to disband the army peacefully. He will publish a proclamation to-morrow which will be approved by General Brooke. Its conte e not yet known. American officers laugh at the re- AS A PREVARICATOR May 15.—The Filipino Jun- received the following mes- sage from Aguinaldo, cabled from Hongkong under date of May 12: The Filipino Government, in accordance with the general feeling of the country, has decided to continue the war at all costs until independence is secured. The | cans’ peace overtures based on restricted autonomy coupled with promises of a subsequent self-government. The Fili- pinos demand a strict fulfillment of the articles of the American constitution and ports of trouble. The papers here, how- | o¢ (he treaties contracted by the Ameri- evar. say the meeting was very hot, and | can representatives when imploring a they fear trouble. Filipino alliance in combating the Span- - - iards. All the Filipino generals support Aguin- aido. General Luna's reported overtures for peace are untrue. Our army is near Manila, simultaneously attacking the whole American line. The heat and rains are causing many casualties in the American army. All the hospitals are crowded with sick and wounded. Four hundred of the Cincinnat: regiment have been imprisoned by Gen- eral Otis for insubordination in refusing to fight. The regular troops quartered in Manila and other towns are qulet. volunteers are abused and always at the front with scanty rations. The discontent between the Americans and Europeans is | general. = ADMINISTRATION WORRIED OVER CUBAN PROBLEMS NEW YORK, May 1 Herald's Continued on Second Page. oBRcEcE The - |WKINLEY WILL MEET RETURNING VOLUNTEERS HOT SPRINGS, Va., May 15.—It is the intention of President McKinley to | be in the Western States at the time of D R SRR SO ! ) B s ) b . * @G e i eoet ONDON, May 15.—Queen Victoria arrived in London to-day from ‘Windsor, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of York and her suite, and drove to Kensing- ton palace, the party occupying a num- ber of open four-horse landaus, with postilions in blue and white and red- coated outrilers and escorted Ly a de- tachment of the Horse Guards. Thou- sands of enthusiastic people gathered on the route to the palace, where.her ,,‘%‘ ¢ | the return of the volunteers who have { % done neroic service in the Philippines. | return of the volunteers in the island of Luzon will not exist much their native States for muster out Mr. McKinley hopes to be there to greet alrea#ly planned should not occur when the volunteers are returning another Journey will be made to carry out this purpose. I3 g y TORTURE FOUR LITTLE § f £F | CHlLDR_EN ‘WITH FIRE g — | Horriblo Crime a. Which a Mulatto ‘Woman and Her Husband Are Detected. ATLANTA, Ga., May 15—Winnie Roach, a mulatto woman, and her hus- band, are charged with having brutally burned their four little children nearly R e O e S SO SO Majesty visited the old apartments which she occupled as a young girl, which have been. renovated prepara- tory to opening. the palace to the pub- lic. Kensington became a royal residence in 1690, when Willlam III bought it from Lord Nottingham. William spent £30,000 f-- +he purchase of the place, but “he set Sir Christopher Wren to add a storey to it, so that while the house seemed some- what patched” Evelfin. considered it a ; “very sweete villa.” Queen Anne began the long- serles of additions. which &ive - to death by igniting paper, saturated with kerosene, with which their bodfes had been wrapped. The man, Lawrence Roach, ran away during the afternoon when he heard that his treatment of his children had been reported to the police. The woman was in the act of applyin fire to one of the children when a crowd broke {b. The police were summoned, as a lynching was feared. The woman and the children were taken to the station. One of the children had all the flesh burned from her legs in several places and probably will die. The other three are all badly burned. i - SRR Jewish Confirmation Rites. STOCKTON, May 15—The Jewish peo- ple of this city celebrated the “Feast of L S I S AP U AP MDA SN S AP SO D the house its heterogeneous appearance. George 1 added e cupola room and the famous great staircase. George II built the west wing as a nursery and died there in 1760. The Duke of ‘Sussex, the son of George III, lived and-died at the alace, where he collected his splendid li- rary. ¥ Many notable deaths occurred there, {)ul lX’Aev(--l' ah birth until thrat hof Victoria, n the northwest corner of the structure ST there is & room with three windows over- | the Weeks™ thismorning at thesynagogue looking ' the gardens toward the' Round | with an elaborate programme. The fea- PILAR DISHEARTENED Filipinos energetically refuse the Ameri- | # | It is expected that the necessity for the | longer, and when the volunteers reach | and honor them. If the trip to the West | g EX-MATOR HEWITTS | SENTIMENT R e R e e i e o 2 EDUCATORS DIFFER FROM HUNTINGTON B i o O ®+®+©+®+Q‘ | st PRESIDENT LITTLE ALSO SPEAKS OUT ® | B S e R I S S SRR e 2 | e — (e ag | | : Says Collis Bases His Ideas ¢ Declares the Views of the | Upon His Own Ex- RS Railroad Magnate Are 5 . | 1 perience. RS Erroneous. | le [ | pE bR | # ¢ | Sl I ® ‘ EW YORK, May 15.—Widespread | © ¢ | graduates, answered the advertisement interest was created to-day by | ¢ © | for the tant bookkeeper and only | the remarkable arraignment of | © ¢ | six applied for the other position. | modern education made by Col-| ¢ ® Mr. Hl;mtlnutfln. ;1 :1;: not hn—hm}-e. i : Al ever been in a schoplroom since he teht op P. Huntington last Saturday| o ABRAM S. HEWITT. ?|leit it. From what I Know of schools night at a banquet in San Francisco. | o I 15 vailois i tetor ileEGoantey Bie Mr. Huntington had said that the @+ ¢ & ¢ ©® ¢ © e 5 4 & +5e@ | convinced that his criticism of modern | masses were being overeducated. and| oo e sy education is extreme. Schools of the that the young were spending too many | 1 Pelieve that most American boys now | p; are_constantly becoming vears in school. He spoke of fifteen | no “‘gangs” of dissohite and idle more prac LN uazits are (ANAnG vears as the limit of educational activ- | fellows if all had an opportunity fo| g OPSeIve, to think for themselves. ity. Among those who read Mr. Hunt- | learn a trade. The trade unions have Fe His & ther | ington’s speech was Abram S. Hewitt, | | also an exceedingly successful man, but | been try right for workingmen to seek to r g to keep them out. It is all ual training which is preparing them to go into useful trades. Teachers are be- ing prepared to instruct their | of a different school. . Mr.. Hewitt is a | tHelT Wages as against their emplov- | in ‘manual arts. The system of educa- | college graduate. He is the secretary | have no right to keep others out. That| oD hes greatly jmproved and devel- | of the Cooper Union, founded by Peter | is a wrong of the worst character. Mr. | “bed since Mr. Huntington went to | Cooper for the education of the work- | Huntington would have succeeded, edu- | SChool. - There is a tendency among | “Mr. Huntington” sald Mr. Hewitw |indomitable enerey and consploutus| iai this tendency will be corrected. to-day, “bases his ideas upon his ow n | | experience. He thinks that because he | got along with little schooling others | can do the same. What he did learn certainly did him no harm. not complain that boys did not leave | school early enough. Most of them in this city are out of school by the time | they are fifteen years old. “We take them into Cooper Union at | the age of 15 years. That is on the supposition that they no longer have any chance to attend the day schools. | T do not believe that there is any dan- | ger of overeducating the ma S, Any- thing which elevates the people can do them no harm. The world progresses | by the dissemination of knowledge. If knowledge is not a benefit we might as well go back to the Middle Ages. | Anything which makes the world bet- | ter should be encouraged. T am afraid that Mr. Huntington has come in con- tact with ipersons who have tried to impose upon him. The world is full of | | the shiftless and the indolent: vet in | not follow that because he was ful without much schooling that others s with no education. It happened Yet-1 that. I can reach succ | It all depends upon work. He need | that I not stop to think about what work came to my hand, whether I liked it or not.” Mr. Huntington is not her his views in more detail. tion he means a study of clas: the laboring people he m: wrong. I however, on the whole erroneou it is a deplorable fact that it to find men who a was well educated. think that his The work was to explain If by educa- cs for not be far views are, Yet hard re good mechanics. It was only recently that I had occa- sion to advertise for an assi: keeper. position wi tant book- light and the s not worth more than $10 | or $15 a week. At the same time I ad- | vertised for a man to take charge of | -a mechanical department, the wages of which were four times more than that | public schools it will be found that the of the assistant bookkeeper. About st in doir as Mr. Hunt be exceedingly | Manual training will a: and just such discussion: ington has raised will | helpful. Mr. Huntington is a man of Wiq | ebility. He is a man of affairs, and I Qid | 4o not believe for a moment that he would have our workingmen ignorant. As I understand it, he does not believe S i ent of the|in S0 much classical education. He Bomrd ot Fusation. said that Je had | Would not, in other words, have brick- read the address of Mr. Huntington | layers read Greek and Latin; but, after fih. rinch infonest: | ali, T do not know that would do the It is to be regretted,” he said, “that | bricklayers any harm. Profes: an Amringe, dean and acting president of Columbia Univer- sity, said Mr. Huntingten's success without any college education did not prove that a classical training was not good for the major of men. “It is the purpose of the university he continued, “to prepare men T every field of usefulness. Students’ faculties are trained and stimulated so that they may be ready to c complex problems of the pres Mr. Huntington is a man of geni would have attained success under any circumstances. As to the question of education of the masses, that is a very grave matter and I do not care to dis- | boys are bright, eager and ambitious. | sixty young men, many of them college | cuss it at present.” BRI ECECECECEC RO ECEO RO RO ECECRAEOROECECES BORORC noR { e ] STEPPACHER APPOINTED | I B B G e e e e e R S SO S N S O IO SO SR SO SRR =Y. OVERNOR GAGE yesterday pointed Jacob Steppacher Regis- trar of Voters for the city and county of San Francisco, to suc- ceed W. J. Biggy. :The appoint- ment was no surprise to the public, as The Call of Sunday last contained the information that Gage had made up his mind to recognize the claims of Major Frank McLaughlin by appointing Step- pacher to the office of Registrar. There is no doubt that McLaughlin de- Pond, in which is a brass plate bearing hure of the event was the confirmation of tha legend' “Instnis room Queen Victoria | fifteen children, .all belonging to promi- was born, May 24th, 1819." ~ - nent Hebrew families. e A e but the fact is-well known to the small | | Paris BExposition. | Rucker. mind and decide to ~give coveted commission. eoterie. of politictans n the- confidence of | however, the chief executive said his pur- M e e o s S e R SR e g JAKE BREAKS IN. ‘+ S dan o B e T I S D N SR ap- | the major most desired to control | that of Democratic_Commissioner to the McLaughlin earnestly | desires that his prospective son-in-law, Samuel Rucker of San Jose, should have a place on the Parls Commission. Politiclans on the inner circle | coterie assert that the Governor positive- {1y announced that he would not appoint | It is_understood that the ap- pointment of Steppacher was made soften the expected wrath of the major | over the turning down of Rucker. ‘thl;gzh happen in publiclife nc pul e D wolld, cansist ;of 4 {and the Governor may again change his | Truman of Los Angeles, W. sired his friend Steppacher to succeed, | the | Ban Francisco and Mark accounts, | Santa_Rosa. life nowa Rucker At last was | Francisco was unchanged. of the | REGISTRAR OF VOTERS +o+0+00 B O B R i B e e S R R R R s T S S S = % SO Y ) The place was offered to E. B. Pond. but declined. talk that W. W. Foote will be Among Democrats the name of Raphael Weill is frequently mentioned. | He is a man of means and a Democrat of prominence who visits Paris annually and | speaks French as the Parisians speak it. W. H. Mills of the Southern Pacific | declined to serve on the commission, but | the fact now comes to light that Governor | Gage did not tender him an appointment. to ueer | At one time it was understood that the ays, | i Ben C. Mills of McDonald of Subsequently a Republican from Northern California was suggested, commission would consist of the Governor that the appointment which | pose to appoint a big Democrat from Sanland the suggestion must have caught ths