The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1899, Page 1

@b@ VOLUME LXXXV—-NO. 170. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PEACE CONFERENCE BEGINS ITS WORK S e O RS SRR SO S e = SO 2 * @ + e v e - be D e ° . . THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. e e e D e e e e e eied ® OeHHO0bei i et eiebeboie KIND WORDS :ARE SPOKEN - FOR THE CZAR e s Russia Takes the Lead and De Staal Is Chosen as President. w RSTDATS | SESSION 15| VERY SHORT. + ¢ + ¢ * SO+ >0 *-o-0--4 . On this itude th use ev fidence. e i e SR RS SRR S "o NICHOLAS OF RUSSIA. ¢ @+ eie hat od- ivilege and O . ) feasiaar t cee: its hu 1 2 fc d - | at lea your in- to accept its humble and profound grati- | &¢ lca Fusnios Shabes After making his address; M. de R ean or % ho | Staal in behalf of the cont 5 5 1 d to the Queen of The Nether- in formally of the ¥ was to ex his sincere gratitude terms in which he had his august Majesty, the r homage and grati- Majesty would lity you have gra- as well by the spon- to offer them. High Assembly ng of the message ik 1 ther@with. - Con- applauded. M. de Beau- appointed honorary president, ing Dutch delegate rnobeck, former Mini sident ppointment of nine sec- de Staal's proposal that s be secret was adopted. The ion will take place on Satur- the delegates will arrange a programme and appoint committees. | The conference then adjourned. | The sesslon to-day only occupied ve minutes, and the apparent - displayed was considered to well for the outcom politic Here fonal ugur historic peac Hague and —— dency o the| SMALLPOX ALONG e NORTHERN RAILROADS .v|uv§'|)'?<\flt;}j1?:.‘.‘;(‘].A Laborers at the é;scade Tunnel Af- flicted Through Germs Brought by Imported Japs. TACOMA, Wash.,, May 18.—Smallpox has broken out at Cascade Tunnel, on the Gi Northern Rallway, and at Stam- pede, on the Northern Pacific Rallroad. It {s supposed that the disease was car- ried from one tunnel to another by work- | sovereign | ? | men. The strangest thing about its ap- | + | pearance fs the difficulty of tracing its 4 | Bource. There has been no smallpox in | this State for a long time, and the only ¢ | plausible explanation yet ‘made is that & | smallpox germs were brought from Asia | by Japanese laborers arriving within the ¥ | last few weeks, who have since gone to | ® ork for the rallro named at and near | 4 | their tunnels through the Cascade Moun | tains. Several people at each tunnel have 4.l the disease and prompt measures + | bef n to stamp it out. Rallroad 1 are inating the railroad though some of the latter have 4 | refused to be vaccinated and started east- & | ward. A hired girl who waited at table at the Stampede section-house worked + | for a number of d after her face was & | broken out before it was learned she had | | smallpox. 1t is feared a large number | 4 | have caught the disease in this manner, & iSurrmnry Nelson of the State Board of Health is investigating the outbreak and | + }wm take rigorous action against railroad | 4 | employes bound tward from the two ¢ cade tunnels. ars since | ttle and Tacoma pidemic of | © | smallpox, and strenuous efforts will be 4 | made to prevent another. | “® T e = 2| + |EXPECT THE RELEASE & OF MRS. MAYBRICK | f’ Conference of Her Friends te Arrange | % the Details of the Final | 1 Petition. | 7 NEW YORK, May 18.—A, London cable | “ | to the Journal says: A cbnference was | ¢ |'held to-day by the friends of Mrs. Flor- | % | ence Maybrick for the purpose of arrang- | + | ing the details of a petition that shall be | | presented to the Home Secretary for her | ¢ | release from prison. Baroness de Roques, & | mother of Mrs. Maybrick, was present. The facts tending to establish the inno- 4 | cence of the prisoner and insufficiency of | @ | the evidence against her have been set | 4 | forth in a very complete manner by an | ! | eminent Bnglish barrister. = | @ o3 After to-day’s conference aroness de ? BARON DE STAAL. 7 | Rogues said she had now every hope of seeing her daughter a free woman within R 9o 00066669 9+04 00000000+ 0-+0+0+0+0+P | two months. | highest [+ 4444444444444+ 4440444444444 4444444 ALL ARE ANXIOUS TO HONOR DEWEY Suggestion to Erect a Statue in This City Comy- memorative of His Great Achievement Meets With Spontaneous Approval. ple. Professional men of all branch: public officials, merchants and business men without exception approve of it and declare it is entirely feasible. Substantial offers of money to aid the plan have already been made; and this without and a moment Jeration In fact there has never been a pub- movement set on foot in this city | solicitatior with scarcely that has met with such spontaneous and universal approval as has the pro- posed atue to Admiral Dewey. sterday men heard it broach for first time, and instantly gave it r strong indorsement. The after a brief reflection, would come the | query “Where shall we place it?” It was npot “Where would it be placed?’ but simply “Where shall we place it?” as though there could be no | possible doubt but that “we” shall have | the statue to place. In almost every in- | stance the question was instantly suc- ceeded by the answer from the ques- tioner himself: olden Gate Park.” San Francisco's great resort was al- most invariably selected as the’proper | location, although the suggestion was| made by one or two that the gore at the intersection of Market, Drumm and | California streets might be a proper | site, for there the statue would be seen by every person entering the city by land or by Another suggestion was that the statue be placed on the pinnacle on the peninsula, | where {t would be seen from all parts of the city and from the sea as well. | Those who named Golden Gate Park | as the site were divided in opinion as to what part of the big playground would be the best place for the statue. Some thought the entrance to the pan- handle when it is extended to Van Ness avenue and Market street would be the proper place for it, as it would be al- | most in the heart of the city and in view of the greatest number of people at all times; others would erect it on some high point overlooking the sea in plain sight of every ship passing through the Golden Gate, symbolic of the city, State and coast’s gratitude to the man who, at a blow, cleared the Pacific of a fleet that menaced these shores. The site of the three flag poles was also looked upon as an ideal spot to commemorate Dewey’s achievement. Of course, the site is really an after consideration, but its discussion, almost with the breath that gave the first in- dorsement of the statue itself, was a happy omen of success. The question of finances was not once raised; there was no thought given to the probable B e B e e e o 2 S S T8 S S o S o S SO Ao S o U e o ADMIRAL GEORGE DEW.EY, THE HERO OF MANILA Q000000000 CO0O0CO0O0000000000000R0D3TTIVOOOCCOCO000000000C] i;:;”:v;'rhflff. '\”',‘".'\:T;:.'am: o = . o s . s . s Ol will be rewa by the pro- o HE idea of erecting a statue to Admiral Dewey in San Francisco is ¢| [.i m Rich Stbkortis: o one that will be realized. San Francisco, the chief port on the Pacific, g‘ HonRg o e g looks to the sea, and Dewey has opened the sea to our commerce by ©| In Goden Gate Park woud be a o his marvelous achievement. Our ocean was his battlefield. Commercial g FIICU O Hes ‘o San Francisco is under exceptional obligations, therefore, to Dewey, and ¢ vislt this city at some future time : © will respond, imoved by the sentiment both oi gratitude and patriotism. . 9| ture commemor st o I will act on the suggestion to appoint a committee, to-morrow, and will | nila he would kno ppreciat- o 5 ©| ed. Letitbea credi muni- o Live the movement my hearty support. JAMES D. PHELAN. ol epality ana to T honored 0000000000000 000T00OO0000C000Q00C0000000000 700000000000 Garret W. McEnerney— AN FRANCISCO. will have a] figure—if there was more than one fig- | asm that greeted the first suggestion | 1 am heartily in f r of the p:(\fi\r(_ statue of Dewey that will be ire—must be of heroic size. Gallant | of the project. This enthusiasm is cer- It “'lllr be a :’Hl' g ute m",\ m at once the pride of the whole | George Dewey must stand out above | tain to grow until by erecting this 1?""”‘\- of which lwmy- gole of. L Pacific Cc ting monu- | and beyond all other fizures that might | tribute to his gallant services, San i-h"’_“"d‘ pr ment to his matchless vietory. | be included in the work. But should | Francisco has given substantial proof | o8 5 H The suggesgion, barely twenty-four | there be more than one figure? Some | of her patriotism and her gratitude to| oring of this &r hours old. has received the indorsement | thought not, though Mayor Phelan of- } the man who safeguarded her com-| this city are, as a rule, awak | of citizens in every walk of life with- | fered, merely as a suggestion, that be- | merce and her homes. | prompt action when proposi out exception, for not one Voice has| g o 646404040 4-060+04040+0+04+0+0+0+0+0+0400+0+0+0+0+0e0+0+@ been raised in objection, while every- 7 » body who has mentloned the matter | = has given it his unqualified approval. | b6 Mayor James D. Phelan has already | % taken hold of the patriotic plan with characteristic energy. He will appoint | ¢ a committee of ens to-day to take| ¥ charge of the project. The Mayor is| ¢ enthusiastic and says the committee| ¥ must be comy i of men who will werk with ur gging energy until the statue of the hero of Manila is uncov- ered to the admiring gaze of the peo- D e e e SR S S SR S on O o e g b-eded *0-- 006+ D e B e R SOS S ¥ @+ R @ B SCHD S A S S S W WY cost, whatever it might be; one and all accepted it as merely a matter of de- | sides that of Dewey, an allegorical| Following are expressions by some of | tpis nature are set on foot. Golden tail that would be no bar to the com- | group representing the soldiers and |the leading men who were seen yester- | Gate Park will be incomplete until graced with a monument erected ‘in day indersing the movement: Irving M. Scott— pletion of the project. There was one other matter that re- sailors California has given to the com- | mon defense of the country might be | celved some attention by the enthusi- | shown, together with the prow of lhe} I am heartily in favor of the move- | astic citizens besides the location, and | Olympia. | ment to erect a monument to Admiral that was the statue itself. The central All this shows the marked enthusi- | Dewey. He deserves all the honors the Pacific Coast can bestow on him, as his action in destroying the Span- - + + | ish fleet saved this coast from attack. | * }ii vk ate flipvetare e deep obliga- | + 4 | tions to him, and I hope the efforts + 4 | of The Call in that direction will be & 4| crowned with success. I believe an B + | appropriate monument should be | erected at the most conspicuous point | + 6.5 | in the proposed extension of the park | + _—— + | panhandle. It should be placed on a | summit, so that we all could see it, it AKLAND, May 18.—United States Semator Georze C. Perkins : [+ Cnia @o i hnt fHid pa KeredidiN R NG 5. | sald to-night: “The suggestion that an adequate commemno- 1 Tog A it ai e 1t | L of ration of California’s gratitude to the great naval achieve- 4 | G | 54 ment of the Hero of Manila would be the erection of a statwe 4 | E. A. Denicke— + in Golden Gate Park, I regard ax mosxt commendable and one ot What Admiral Dewey has done was well worth considering seriously. It would indeed be clearly and done for posterity more than for the | ! distinctiy Western, and would represent the gratitude and pa- * | precent generation. So the acknowl. | 4+ triotism of this section most properly. I do mot believe n greai + | edgment should be for posterity. It 4+ denl in building a home for Admiral Dewey in Washington. In 4 | should take the shape of & monument | + fact, 1 don’t think he would accept it. You see the Government ’t which ought to be a grand work of | 4 pays him a liberal salary of nearly $20,000 per annum, and be- + | art. Inmy opinfon, it is more in keep- | wuides this, he will receive a g0od sum in prize money. So really 1 ing than the scheme to purchase him | 4+ 1do not think he would accept a home in Was.imgton. At any | o home A monument is the only | + rate, the Pacific Coast, and San Francisco in particular, owes Ad- 4 | [roper recognition, and we should 4 omiral Dewey u greater debt of gratitude than any other section 4 | crect them to those who are alive as | 4 of the country—more, indeed, than it can ever hope to repay. But | an encouragement to others, because | for the blow struck at Manila our coast would hnve heen at tha it excites emulation. I think it is a | + mercy of the Spanish and our commerce might have suffered al- + s . ¥ much nobler way of showing a peo 4 most irreparably. So I think that the etion of » statue in 4| pioe gratitude than by subseribing 4 honor af thisx zreat maval hero is by far the most approprinte +| capital for the purchase of a hou 4+ method of expressing California’s gratitude, and The Call's sug- o | ;4 jot. I therefore would like to seo | gestion strikes me very favorably. L R oRren et ATcth bt S AdRAYaL ] + “If 1 were going to bulld a home to commemorate the vietory + | T, Jo0RSETE PN B0 DI + at Manila it would be for the sailors; or the man behind the gun + | i A heartily indorse the move to bring it + and the fellow who packed the ammunition: but for the Admiral, 4 | o000 4 whose steady hand guided the honts to victory a monument should & stand In everlasting memory to his patriotism.” Rev. Father Otis— | + + Admiral Dewey is entitled to reward TP 4444444444944 44444444444+ 44444 | and recognition for the gallant serv- | honor of Geo Dewe. Judge J. H. Seawell— It is a ‘grand idea. No honor is too great for this man. Dewey is_entitled to all the respect and honor which this community can bestow upon him. If a monument was erected in his honot in Golden Gate Park it would be one of the features of the park, besides be- ing a just tribute to Admiral Dewey's greatness. His victory over the Span- ish fleet in the Bay of Manila is the greatest n: evement in the world's histor The people of this coast are keenly interested in his wel- fare, and I feel that this suggestion has touched a cord in their nature that will bring a prompt response. Let us build a monument for Dewey. Supervisor E. L. Perrault— Build a monument by all means that I stand for all time as a token of the esteem. in which we Western peo- ple hold Admiral Dewey. He has done his work wel and now that he has decided to take a much-needed rest let our labors in his behalf begin. He has spent his years in the service of our Governme reer with perhaps the most achievement ever noted in civilized warfare, and now we should show him that every heart in this great State holds a warm spot for him. A Dewey monument in Golden Gate Park would be a fitting tribute to this great hero. Judge Frank H. Dunne— The erection of a Dewey monument in Golden Gate Park is a project that should, and 1 think undoubtedly will, meet with the approbation and hearty co-operation of every public-spirited citizen on the Pacific Coas! No honor is too great for George Dewey. Of all