The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1899, Page 1

The VOLUM I LXXXVI—-NO. 82, % SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1899. PRICE FIVE CEN PARIS ANARCHISTS IN BATTLES WITH POLICE Rioters Sack a Church in the French Capital and Attack Priests With Knives. Sanguinary Encounters Between the Authorit ies and Armed Mobs of Socialists Continue Throughout the Sabbath and Far Into the Night. ARIS, Aug. 20.—Paric was| @+H++++++ 4444444 44444440 | e + = to-day the scene of most || ANARCHY'S VICTIMS. + sertous disturbances, recall- | + ' = ; e “ommune. |+ PARIS, Aug. 21.—The Prefec- + | ing some aspect of the Oy |+ ture of Police gives the following In response to an appeal of the Jour- 4 gtatistics of yesteraay™s riots: + D, a Petit Re-|+ Three hundred and eighty per- + | nal = u Peuple az{d La _]‘ “" |4 sons were injured. Three hun- + | publique groups of anarchists and 4 area and sixty were taken to the + | socialists gathered at about 3|+ hospitals. Fifty-nine police +| e >, ~ |4 agents were wounded, besides + | ©’clock in the afternoon in the Place |4 commissaires Coutier and Dols- + | fe la R i “he police had |+ mine. One hundred and fifty + i I\r_f‘ubhqw. e pore Tl + persons were arrested, of whom + faken precautions and there seemed |4 eighty are detained in custody. + + > o 90 danger of disorders ebastian Fawre and Faberol, | known revolutionary anarch- ts, were the ringleaders. Faure, standing on the pedestal of the | which rises in the center of the Place de la Republique, ad- dressed th 4 e crowd. things he said the anarc G4+444444 444444 4444+44440 traced their course to the Place de la Republique, smashing the win- dows of religious edifices on the I Statue Suddenly, either at the word of command or in obedience to the im- pulse, the colwmn made a loop and curved toward the Church of St. [ | Among other | sts should | be masters of the streets. The po- | e then interfered and dislodged | Ambroise, where the rioters Faure and Faberol, making three | smashed the windows. Proceeding | The crowd at this point | thence toward the Faubourg du d, but a column of demon-| Temple, at the corner of Rue d’Ar- by Faure and Henri | boy and the Rue St. Mauri-Popin- Il CAME oo+ 1tors head Eas M @ @+ e e e ebed - o006 5000 @ - . . - . bl s 3 &Afifi o, 2 2 ‘.4 e e S SRCRE SRROSS SRR S DA SOU S S, 04@»—0»9—0—@»—0—. “ME. FIRST; DICKINSON NEXT.” ! ® d’Horr made for the Place de la| court, they formed up into a com- fact boc y. Hatchets were suddenly > broke through the col-| produced, with long knives, stolen.| ruggle for the mastery | from the counters of shops, and (tj ts were fired, and M. | concerted rush was made upon the | ary of Police, | Church of St. Joseph. The aged twice stabbed with a knife. | sacristan, seeing the mob, hastily ] rew the police into mo- | closed the outer gates, but these :u‘r’e\ The mob re-|soon forced with hatchets and bars | sembled and ran toward the Place | of iron.” The massive oaken doors la Nation. The police, rein-|were then attacked. According to | forced by a squad that had been | the first account the wild horde burst | held in reserve, made another at-|into the chirch, which instantly be- wipt to stem the current, and | came a scene of pillage and sacri- 1 fighting occurred, three|lege. Altars and statues tvere Comm mentary confusion. de i fresi, 1 gh constables being wounded. M. | hurled to the floor and .wm:/xe'd;’ aure and I)’Horr jumped into a | pictures were rent, candlesticks, or- assing street car that was -going | naments and hosts from high altars | to the Place de la Republique, and | were thrown down and trampled 4 e car driver on arriving there |under foot. The crucifix above was e a signal to the police, who im- | made the target for missiles, and mediately arrested them both, to-| the figure of the Savior was frac- gether with two other anarchis: | tured in several places. | Joseph Ferrier and Jean Perrin.| Then, while rancorous z'oite‘.r} All were conveyed to the Chateau|sang the “Carmagnole,” the chairs | d'Eau barracks. Only D’Horr was | were carried outside, piled up and | found in the possession of firearms. | set on fire in the center of the In the meantime anarchists re-|square fronting the church. | and D e R S W hen this stage was reached the crucifix was pulled down and thrown into the flames. Suddenly the cry was raised that the statue of the virgin had been forgotten, and the crowd returned and tore this down also. Meanwhile the sacristan, who had been captured by the anarch- ists, escaped and called the police republican guards, who| promptly answered with many con- stables. They were compelled to| fall back in order to form up into line of defense, attacked thenr with knives. At length the officers began gain the mastery. archists took refuge in an adjacent hous Others intrenched them- | selves in the belfry and fiercely de- | fended themselves by showering | missiles on the republican guards, tni but finally these were dixludged.‘ Twenty anarchists twere arrested, taken to the police station, searched, and found to be carrying revolvers, | loaded sticks and knives. When the police entered the church the anarchists had just set| fire to the pulpit. The interior of the edifice was a complete wreck. | Several valuable old pictures that can never be replaced were ruined. | After the mob had been driven | away, Aobe Lacour, the incumbent, | collected the fragments of the sac- rament and replaced them n the| ciborium. As he did so he was heard bitterly lamenting. The peo- ple living in the houses near by ex- tinguished the bonfire. From 8 o’clock until midnight the | demonstraiors. so far as Gare de I'Est, were repeatedly driven back by police charges, the crowd crying, “Vive I Armee” and “Vive la Re- publique.” Ay b\ \ \§ R i _ BE Proposes to Run Things or Quit. SUDDENLY WAKES —— At the Eleventh Hour He Shows a Disposition to Usurp Citizens’ Com- mittee’s Power. T RACELESS GOVERNOR GAGE, alded and abetted by his asinine mouthpiece, Ad- jutant General once. more given the people of California incontrovertible, if not un- necessary, proof of his piggish nature and brutal disregard for the rights of others. At the same time he has ex- hibited a wealth of ignorance of the duties, powers and privileges of his exalted position, as remarkable as it is lamentable. That the unspeakable Seamans would clutch every oppor- tunity to display his asinine proclivi- would be permitted by his official creator to disturb the peace of the com- monwealth by wigwagging his ears A score of am-|ana emitting his discordant bray upon |Leake, representing Mr. Spreckels, to | a great public occasion like the recep- | whom he made a demand similar in | | tion to the California volunteers, was | every respect to that beyond the ken of any citizen. With would shame th intelligent an insulting effrontery that e most shameless ward ‘hw‘ler on the staff of his political artner and master, Burns, Governor Gage yesterday dispatched his creature | mittee with a peremptory demand to | turn over to him the direction of the on to the brave sons of Califor- recepti nia. He demanded in effect that the | citizens’ committee, which . has accu- | mulated a fund of over $50,000 and per- fected plans for a magnificént reception | to the country’s defenders, should step aside and allow him to pose, in the full glare of public admiration, as the “Great 1 Am,” the man to whom all credit for the assured success of the great manifestation of joy and honor was sclely due. And this is the man who has hereto- fore hald a'o0f w'th cort wrptdous-ins difference to all that has been done; who has refused to proclaim the day set apart for the celebration in honor of the returning soldier boys a legal | holiday. He steps in at the last moment and seeks to cast a cloud over the fes- tivities unless he is recognized and bowed down to as the great mogul whose word is law and must be obeyed. ‘When Seamans obtruded his offensi personality upon the citizens' execu- tive committee yesterday afternoon, and presented Gage's demands, the members of that body were stupefied | with astonishment and sat in their chairs mute and dazed, while the adju- | tant general of the State swelled and | strutted and voiced the dictum of his master. When they finally recovered - Seamans, has | Seamans to the citizens’ executive com- | i ‘:-h-hhhhhmh-.-HIHI!-HHRHHI. | GENERAL SHAFTER’S PLAIN STATEMENT. HEN the Caiifornia Voluteers return from Manila and are landed in San Francisco,” said General Shafter, last night, “they will be under but one jurisdiction—that of the United States military laws. Until they are mustered out the general laws pre- scribed for all United States soldiers will apply to them as well as to the regulars. When they became United States soldiers they lost their identity as members of the National Guard of this State. Un- less the California boys re-enter the National Guard they will never come under the military power of the Governor of the State. After two or three weeks in this city they will then be mustered out. The moment this happens they are no longer soldiers, but “private citi- zens. “In the strict letter ot the law the return of the California Volunteers is no different from that of any other volunteer regi- ment, other than the fact that this is their home. I realize that the few weeks which they will pass in camp are only for the purpose of shaping affairs toward the final mustering out. As they are not to remain in the service when this is accomplished they will be ac- corded every possible liberty and freedom. Their camp duties will be of the most meager kind and no binding restrictions will be placed upon their movements.” %k ok ok ok sk ok ke ko ok sk ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok | ¥ | % e ek e ok ke gk e ke sk ke e e ok ok ok ok ek st ok ok ok ok ok ok A | x * | @ T P M P MmN P MmN P R R MR P P e P Jon Em m P MmO Pm @ either of the big naval parade on the | bay or of the military parade on shore; | that he would, in fact, have no voice | whatever in the arrangements for the celebration, although he would at the same time be shown every courtesy dus him as Governor of the State. of California, should confer with Colo- | nel Duboce at the earliest opportunity in order to arrange for the landing of the volunteers and for the street pa- rade.” The prepondering idea of the ad- jutant general, and the one he was ap- Previous to his disastrous assault on | parently most anxious in his ignorant | the committee Seamans sought an in- | egotism to make prominent, was that as the anarchists|ties was predicted by The Call at the | terview with John D. Spreckels, com- | the California volunteers are still a | time of his appointment, but that he | modore of the fleet, and in charge of the | bra anch of the militia organization of the State, and as such subject to the author of Governor Gage as com- |arrangements of the bay parade. With | this object in view he called at the San Francisco Club and there met W. §. landed in San Francisco. o hich later he | That has already been provided for | Presented: to, the executive committee, | 07, the citlzens' committee, said Mr. [blit” necessarily more limited in its|°2ke: “and neither you nor the Gover- L o | nor ¥ill have anything to do with it. [i8eopss | Moreover, if the Governor participates [in the naval parade he must take the | position assigned to him and retain it, |and I do not think he will be allowed to run alongside the transport. His tug | has been assigned to tow a yacht, as has every other tug that will appear in | the parade, a matter that has been | rendered necessary on account of the | great number who desire to witness the | spectacle and join in the first welcome to the volur _eers.” | “As the representative of the Gav- | ernor of California,” began this choice specimen of what a military official should not be, “I demand to know what position has been assigned him in the naval parade. 1 see by the papers that the State tug Governor Markham has been assigned to a certain position in the line. I see also, by the press re- ports, that the Governor’s tug is to tow a yacht. “The programme must be changed. The Governor has been invited by Sen- ator Perkins to meet the transport as his guest on the steamer Santa Rosa, on which will be Federal officers and | members of the Legislature. This in- vitation the Governor declined, stating that he had already made arrange- e nts ta entertainc e party: of friends on the State tugs Governor Markham and Governor Irwin.” “But the State tugs have been placed at the disposal of the citizens’ commit- tee by the Board of Harbor Commis- sioners,” said Mr. Leake. “The Governor has ordered the tugs for his personal use,” declared Seamans pompously, “and the citizens’ commit- tee has nothing to do with them. “Now the Governor, while not com- plaining of the position assigned him in | the line, asks that the Santa Rosa, on which will be the members of the Leg- | islature, be placed in line following his tug.” | mot + ke a tow. “Very well,” replied Mr. Leake, “if the Governor objects to his towing a vacht and if he objects to the place as- signed to him in the parade, I suggest | that he had better remain on shore or | take a cruise by himself. If he goes in the paraie he will go as a guest of | the committee and must conform to the rules laid down.” Seamans continued to expostulate | and was sharply informed that Gover- nor Gage was hcrdly in a position to appear at this late day and dictate as to the arrangements for the reception Of the volunteers. “The committee has addressed sev- eral communications to the Governor,” said Mr. Leake, “and he has not deigned to answer them. He has re- fused to ~roclaim a holiday on the oc- casion of the celebration and he has studiously avoided extending the cus- tomary courtesies to the Governors of “That will be impossible,” replied Mr. | other States who have visited San Leake, “as no large steamers will be al- | Francisco to welcome their troops dur- lowed to get in line or approach close to ! ing the past few weeks. Instead of re- L R T S S R e = SCSSSAPErS 0--04-0-0-0-+6-+-0+04+0-00g - / J i, 2o 77110210 A \\ \“"“ \ AN L | /6/&’ \t:\l Il L B S //o, i ‘; !l/ i R e e e e e o o 0+0—04\—0—®—0—@—¢—@—0—H—®—0—@—0—0+9—0». Citizens’ Executive Committee Calls Down Governor Gage’s Mouthpiece. The police also dispersed a crowd of gamins who were burning bun- dles of newspapers. At about 10, o'clock disorders occured on Boule- vard de Magent and Boulevard de Strasbourg. Several revolver shots were fired, but wnobody was | wounded. The negwspaper kiosks were burned and several arrests were made in connection therewith. There is no change in the situation at the Continued on Third Page. their power of speech they advanced to the attack with a vehemence that caused the ass's ears on the puppet before them to droop and his chest to collapse like a punctured toy balloon. He entered the room with the bearing of a dime novel conqueror and opened his campaign of words with a pompous bluster that seemed to his self-esteem to permit of no denial of his‘demands. He retired discomfited and demoralized and in a condition bordering closely upon physical and mental collapse. The committee informed him that if Governor Gage participated in the fes- tivities he would do so as the guest of the people of San Francisco and not as their master; that he wounld not be Ipermitted to dictate in the management, the transport on account of the dangcr[ maining here and attending to these of a collision.” matters he has been down at Catalina “Well,” continued Seamans, waxing |Island or some other place doing poli- wroth, “the Governor does not propose | tics with Dan Burns and a lot of touts. to remain in line and he does not pro-| ‘“He has contributed nothing to the pose to tow a yacht. The arrange- ments will have to be changed.” The adjutant general was quietly in- formed that Commodore Spreckels had | rangements of those who have made completed his arrangements and would | success possible and project himself to not be likely to change them to suit the | the front in order that he may be the whim of the Governor. | central figure in the festivities. This “But the Governor intends to run | celebration is a celebration by the peo- | either by word or deed, but now, at the greeting to the volunteers,” puffed the | for by them. now thoroughly exasperated Seamans. “He cannot remain in line, and, sir, it is absolutely essential—absolutely es- sential, sir, that I, as adjutant general The Governor has not to him by the committee to participate in the land and naval parade, and I mander-in-chief, from the moment they | “But I tell you, sir, the Governor will | - | success of the proposed celebration, | last minute, he seeks to upset all ar- | alongside the Sherman and extend a|ple of San Francisco, and is being paid | even accepted the invitation extended | would like to know by what right he | GOVERNOR GAGE WANTED TO THE WHOLE CELEBRATION General Seamans Acts as His Spokesman. STIRS UP TROUBLE Members of the Committee Rebuke the Chief Execu- tive’s Mouthpiece for Interference. —_— presumes to interfere at this late day?" Seamans almost choked with wrath while he listened to the merciless scor- ing of his master, but he finally man- aged to stammer: “Governor Gage is commander in chief of the military forces of the State |and has a right to a voice in the direc- tion of celebrations in which the militia of the State is to take part.” He then said the Governor, with kis valuable assistance, had prepared a programme which he desired followed, but Mr. Leake declined to look at it and Mr. Martin, who was present, invited him to appear before the committee. After his warm reception by that body Seamans did not venture to offer his “programme.” He was asked to do so just before leaving the room in which the committee met, but the starch had been taken out of him, and he hesitatingly said he had no pro- gramme, but had simply jotted down a few lines for reference. He did have a programme and it con- sisted of a complete outline of the land celebration, line of march, officers in charge of the various divisions and all other details, and he came before the committee with the firmly expressed determination of demanding its subst | tution for that prepared by the commit- | tee. That he did not do se proved he feared the eruption he knew would fol- low. 2 As an illustration of the utter incom- | petence of the adjutant general of the | State, as well as his insufferable arro- gance, he informed the citizens’ execu- | tive committee that Major General Dickinson had no authority to order out the militia of San Francisco with- out his (Seamans’) consent. In answer ! to a query put by Mayor Phelan as to whether General Dickinson, who with General Shafter, has charge of the military parade, did not command the militia in this section, he swelled out his chest and replied: “Next to me, sir! Next to me.” | Adjutant General Seamans will bump | up against a tough proposition if he attempts to interfere with that parade. General Shafter has informed Grand Marshal Pistolesi that he proposes to run the military parade and will brook inn interference. The California volun- | teers are under the jurisdiction of Gen- | eral Shafter, representing the Federal | authorities, the moment they set foot on the soil of California, and not as Seamans vaingloriously announcedsub- | ject to the orders of Governor Gage or | his disgusting puppet. Gage may real- ize the false position his asinine mouthpiece has placed him in and re- pudiate his utterances as the easiest way out of the dilemma, but he will have no official voice in the celebration in honor of the returning California volunteers. Commodore Snreckels said last night that the Governo~ and his party had | | | been given a place in the line of the naval parade and that Gage must abide by that arrangement if he desired to participate in the pageant. eha HOW THE AFFAIR 0CCURRED Stenographic Report of the Tilt Between Seamans and the Committee. Adjutant General Seamans of the Gov- ernor’s staff intimated to the citizens' executive committee yesterday that Mr. Gage, who has evinced a spirit of indif- ference and antipathy to the reception to the California Volunteers, had sudden- 1y concluded that he wanted to be the whole show and that if he was not al- Fy VW ENT: i e SO S e e S ] >0 I% R R S SRy SCR S R e e e R S I SRCRR SCS e e S ™) “] TALKED TOO MUCH.”