The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVI-NO NGERSOLL, THE AGNOSTIC, JEPW R ELIHU ROOT OF NEW YORK DIES JUST AS HE DESIRED LEAGUERS TO BE SECRETARY OF WAR Recent Hope That He Would Pass Away AHEEUM N[}An Able Afi:omey Chosen by the President Painlessly and Without Warning “'oemi™ as the Successor of Russell A. cisco for Session lanpcly e et 103 AYGELES 18 BEATEN Ai%?f.,.%%@ S s PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE GAUSE OF : HIS DEMISE : Stricken Suddenly While ? Conversing With His |? Devoted Wife. )¢ . THE HOTED MAN : 5 Career He Be- as an 2 e < by ‘ > + » ‘ 1S + > 4 4 kd One Votc for Denver, but on QENAT@R PLATT ¢ CONSENTS T0 THE APPOINTNEN oo Second Ballot Cppo- sition Ceased. ES (< . . P . '\'"I ANAPOLIS, July for—| B The executive committee of the EAithough He Urged Gen- eral F. V. Greene for the Pcrtfolio. Mew Member of the Cabinet Calied Upon to Conduct the Nriter and . Most Important Branch ator 7 of the Government . 6 The President, it ic said, has deter- mined to have a legal rather than a military Secretary of War, and o0 that end will tender the place in the Cabinet made vacant by Secretary Alger’s resignation to Mr. Elihu Root of New York rather than to Colonel Rooseveit. HON. ELIHU ROOT. + | The President, without uoubt, is the best judge of his own necessities. He has succeeded in demonstrating pret- after whic Minnear eral John B, 1 1in > Boeieisieieieieieieiededsieieieistedte@® THE LATE COLONEL ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. : S Dr. J. M. | jecan Relations. | day and will practically conclude the |ty well to the satisfaction of the PRPADEPUPY DU NIDED SO DU SRR SN SO e Sy SN S S SRES SRS SHS Amer. To-morrow is scheduled as the big | convention. Bt country that a soldier Secretary can- R < 1 %—C te New York. August 11, 2583 = % " | A Rush of Travel Promised for | ?}ot w:;gg wan v marke.t‘i Facceat S0 ‘ =i e Eibes 5 i a = : T & 3 July, 1901 | the administration. It will be hoped 2 i tow i v i t borie g‘ \‘{\ _1.“! E / SR i 2 that a lawyer Secretary will better i\ 5 Ok I\ A ‘ ] / | f._Goodmas S°r | succeed in unraveling the constitu- : venth 1 : H'E 1A I I ; i recelved tional tangle into which the admin- s sease fr §77 1 £ Min- ik K Which: iil B S5 s ;.‘ istration is plunged. N of hus in this It EW YORK. July 21.—Elihu B. : 3 | came from Yeneral F e Root of New York, to ‘be Secre- BRILLIANT MIND OF : THE GREAT ORATOR - ,—-\.-I X\H (Hf %» | where the general meeti | worth League de | held, to decide on where to hold t ho is now aine ‘] the infor- rts of the vention, which will time in July, 1901, had been secured for this means that Francisco will receive i heod of 000 itor have never bhefc been miles of Pacific tide w Mr. Horsburgh left of whom with hdiana ng of the was convention, for the purpose of as to secure the xt one fi cisco. Yesterday a straw vote w taken and the most unanimous predeliction for the city by the Golden Gate. Professor Springer, who is one of the committee having the detall matter in charge, and who is now here with the sturns showed an a ordinary clreumstanc War, vice Russell A. Al- d. Formal announcement of this ment will be made to-morrow. tor Platt’s hour and a half confer- with the President ight re- sulted in the New York Senator giving his approval of the decision previously ched by the President, after a con- sultation with 1 nembers of -h Cabinet, to plac Root at the h of the War Department. Senator P to Washington by President for the purpose of ascertain- ing wh Mr. Root's would irely eeable to-him. courte to. the New and retain f relations ¥ the appointment would have b nounced to-day. Senator Platt made it known to the President that General F. V. Greene was his first choice for the war portfolio, and he presented some strong reasons sumr “It has been understood here that : X why a soldier rather than a lawyer Inee ¥ tional Educationists, said vesterday | should be at that branch 1 that the final vote v Le taken | of the Gove aaten - 9 Wednesday next and would of a surety | (hat before he axtadiTo In 1 result in confirming the straw vote of | president's ~reference for a lawyer he 5 - ? the meeting in Indianapolis yesterday. | gecured the pror o e > xa that has | 3 The Southern Paclfic offered as an in- | ment of less importance than a Cabi- red the of ten- | ducement, through Mr. Horsburgh. a net office, but which the Senator par- ’ ~5ie) round-trip rate of $50 from all Missour! | ¢jeylarly desir ning ihe Head e B River points. This is just one-half the | The Senator would not intimate to- ne : . regular rate and $10 less than one-half | night what concessions he had ob- M sol - ; i > the regular sixty-day stop-over round- | tained, but he said, after leaving the hey i 7 o ol (o Aol (4 trip fare. Through arrangements with | White House, that he and the President r « promised he would | 4 the roads east of the Missouri a like | were thoroughly in accord as to the 1 ¢ r not ‘ d and loving br 25 AR il bairia A whichTwi ,‘1_‘ result reached. Platt declined to say th hig s > father, friend died where L low. the tourist to attend the conven. | Who had been agreed upon: | “You will have to see the Pres] nt g almost touches noon, ‘and | o tion from any part of the United States | i you want to know to-night who the ® at one-half or . less than one-half of | next Secretary of War will be said . what he would be forced to pay under | Platt. st the end of eac Four trains con g thirty-four | officers and 978 men of the Nineteenth Infantry will arrive in the city this evening from Fort Meade are expected to arrive this evening it is possible they will not be disembarked before Monday nex Yesterday morning the Passenger Traffic Agents’ Association had its reg- ular weekly meeting. Agent Stern of the Canadian Pacific announced his in- tention of resigning, as he had been in- formed that the ociation had been | you were not unfriendly tc e. The troops | are en route for Manila. Though they | the appoint- rved. Root,” 1 obs > was my stated. mvl»rqnm] here that the nt a ment of M ly appointment be New York man would ba me. No cannot j\ml who has been d d upon, that I can sa e Pres and I are enti 1y cord in matter.” this organized in violation of the interstate | The selection of Mr. Root commerce law. He has as yet, how- | tirely to the Presid is due en- e to have 1@ b ever, taken mno official st to sever | at the head of the artment a Thos i b ki g | e oD e ot bbb DG DeDIOeD GO e SO et edes e eds@® his connection With the association. | broad legal mind capable of dealing gL / : A Phelan building there is now | With the many important que grave TARTLING news may be exp held a conference between the | arising cut of the adminis R ’ nt as he had recently t should. He often. ished to dle slow- consciousness, 80 he »se about him how it felt. he experienced a change of die painlessly and without | - LIFE AND WORKS OF COL. INGERSOLL Robert Green IngersoH, known as the | “ereat agnostic,” was born in Dresden, | of life shine he was the friend the heights below. wh | golden dawning o loved the b form. and 1 sided W hand gave with the purest ha charged all public trusts. only worshiper, humanity the only re- | | liglop, and love the priest | “He added to the sum of human joy, | by the r ic souls. He ciimbed | lulu e on with color, He : a willing | 1 heart and |able ¢ i h the weak Honolulu the ship Ims; 1 have h or justice 2rd | days, and a heavy from the direction of the volcano. says: ‘Continued on Second Pages t steamer from Hono- Officers of the Australia say it would not surprise them to hear that there had been a fearful ex- plosion at the volcano, and that Mauna Loa is no more. After leaving | an into a remark- sea which the crew could ac- dis- | cc.nt for in no way save by a subma- as a wor- | rine disturbance of unusual force. shiper of liberty and a friend of the op- | blulsh vapor hung over the water for | pressed. A thousand time him quote the words place a temple and all seas He believed that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the | In his report on the disturbance Chief | Officer R. T. Lawless of the Australia | | the nature of short cross swells, the most | pronounced of which ran counter to each | other, viz., northwest and southeast. cloud shaped ltke an umbrella came, borne on the winds| Left Honolulu Friday, July 14, at 4 p. m." Noticed unusual surface disturbances in made by a Call T @+O+0+0+0 +0+ 04040+ A !g The picture is drawn from a sketch of the summit of Mauna Log, leaving and f winds would in no spondent at the Volcano ‘House, and from a de- scription of the great column of fire seen com- ing from the peak after the explosicn which heralded the eruption. 4040404040404 O+0+0404040@ | | the empl¢ of Mauna L 2 nautical mil Wo . and | the last se! same time blowing | the wind being at the | from the direction of the crater of Ma- | Tnves I suppose this smoke to have | Jution was pi as the south- | on Military | be come from there: east wind lasted, | mosphere was charged with a thin, vapor resembling produced off the coast in summer by for: the Northwest; FOHO40404 0 +O+ 04O 40404 Continued on Second Page, the Pres Root’s reputation officials of the Southern Pacific and | colonies. From what enting a large number | knows of M The conference has for | lawyer he b that he is ju ration of a schedule | man_for the pl He consider: 12 hours which will | the War Department will for the n eptable both to the employers and | two or (hrmw years be the most ant br: Governme Captain Carter Has Friends. | poli W YORK, July 2L.—A special to the | the office and ~urco~rru'1» ad rid from Washington says: During | it. Naturally, the President p ion of Congr a resdiution | to continue as commander-in-chief to was Introduced by Amos Cummings to | 8ive close attention to the conduct of e the Carter case, but the reso- | the war in the Philippines. but in all eonholed by the Committes | Matters of policy Mr. Root's advice airs and nothing has since | Will, of course, be very acceptable to n heard of it. The a rtion i him. that a fund of more than $25.000 w In the administration of military af- pended by the lobby for Captain Carier | fairs Mr. Root will be assisted by M | And his friends to prevent a favorabie re- | Jor General Miles and Adjutant Gen- ort on this res : ull of xJfia,r?fi;';‘r‘,l{,':n oR¢presentative | o) Corbin, and the President is look- tee on Military Affairs, is a warm per- | ing for complete harmony of action be- sonal friend of the convicted captain. J tween these officials.