The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1899, Page 1

S, This Paper not to be taken from the Library.++++ VOLUME LX SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENT CORNELIUS VANDERBILT 20000000000000000 8 Wifeand Daughter 8 S Were With Him. Head of the Famous Family of New York Milliortaires Stricken With Paralysis and Expires Before the Ar- rival of a Physician 00 nt a tel ] gram from Newport stating that he was on his way.” T'he news of the death of th road magnate Messages ag e d soon sprea over the city. we to all the relatives and nea sent nds of the deceased and the € M. Depew, 10 was a near friend and busi- associate of the deceased, ched the house at about 7: o'clock. He was visibly affected. He remained a short while, and en he came out auncey ness €. were his eyes. 1 K. Vanderbilt Jr. house Jr. Eaor YORK MANSION- OF VANDERBILT, e out the followir stat ent fternoon: le ; afternoon at nition o approaching . He reached this city abou yck last night, was driven to GAT 1 comg Ie called his wife t for a phy his arms and kissed him. They ilt died within | walked together arm in arm into before any |the house, shedding tears. | Mrs. W. D. Sloane and Mr. and Mrs. H. McK. Twombley 11and others called at the house { during the day. There were quite Because death was|a number of people in front of the | house all day watching the car- riages drive up and the people enter and depart. The funeral will be held in St. Mrs. Elliott Shepard, Presi holomew’s Church, probably | dent Calloway of the New York ‘riday, Bishop I'fltt(‘ri Central, Dr. Shepard, ahd many Rev. Dr. (;recr.|nfficial; of the New York Cen- There will be a|tral called during the day of the Vanderbilt lines| A Coroner’s physician Dr. Delafiel 1 been attending him, he arrived pronounce -ause of death to be cerebral 1 hen C sorrha ge. the Coroner was noti- 1d there will be a formal in- the rector, made wrsday to pass appro-|an inquest into the’ cause of priate resolutions of respect to| death and found that it was due Mr. Vanderbilt. All the mem-|to cerebral hemorrhage. The bers of the family have either|Coroner also viewed the body ed in person or sent telegrams | and indorsed this finding. * Per- vith the exception of his son Al-|mission for burial was given and 1, who is now traveling some- vhere in China. A telegram was sent to several points in China|were dispatched to the Vander- and Japan informing him of the | bilt house and the police are on death, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.|duty there now. the body was embalmed. A special detail of policemen | 0000C00000000000 2 Called for Help & © in the Night. § 0000000000 C00CO DIES VERY SUDDENLY \ % { ?'MM—VW+®+O+®+ | e e ae . +- - . OO0 D- 4 OO OO -5 and his v Payne Whitne) >d at the Vanderbilt mansion late in the afternoon. | Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. re- mained at Newport. To-night all of Mr. Vanderbilt’s children were in the city with the excep- tion of Alired, and he will un- doubtedly come home. | he home-coming of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. was an unusually sad one. he estrangement be- tween him and his father because of his marriage with Miss Wilson had never worn away. Of the re- and says: “They I think it a week ago to-day that I saw them together at Newport.” wife ar ons between father son Depew were on fair terms. ator n is | LWAY T0 THE BREAKERS NEWFORT | Mr. Depew stated to-night THE LATE CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. Deivsisgsioieioeiedeieieies Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. and| R i i S S Y . 83, after a long illness. He left a for- tune of abbut ninety millions. William H. Vanderbilt, son of the commodore, expired suddenly on De- 8, 1885, less than nine years at the age of 64, and his wealth d at about two hundred millions. Cornelius Vanderbilt, grand- son and nam ke of the commodore and oldest son of William H., was aged 56 years, and while the Vanderbilt for- | tune has possibly not doubled as it did | was doubtless from ness. | the bog | between the first and second genera- tions, it has certal=}s. ‘ncreased . tre- mendously. To call one who inhertied between eighty and eighty-five milllons a self-made man seems a misnomer, yet Vanderbilt's early history bears a almost friendless and without ad- antages of books, hews his fortune with his own hand. He was the oldest son William H. and Maria Louisa Vanderbilt, and was born Staten Island, Novembe 1843. His mother had been Mi Maria Louisa Kissam, daughter of Rev. Willlam Kis- sam of the Dutch Reform church. It his mother that Cornelius Vanderbilt inherited those traits which made his life stand for in- tegrity, piety and public-spirited kind- William H. Vanderbilt, during hood of his oldest son, was a farmer, and he had the usual hard lot of a farmer. The old commodore was still engaged in planting seeds for that great fortune of the future. Himself a self-made man, he left his children and his children’s children to shift for themselves, so that they might show what was in them. Cornelius had a common school edu- Newdorp, | cation, and when he was 16 years old he presented himself to John M. Crane, then the president of the Shoe and Leather Bank, and asked for employ- ment, promising to do his best plea Mr. Crane read the letter the boy presented are a Van- derbilt,” he said. "“Are you a relative of the commodore “He is my grandfather,’ ply. “Why don't you ask him to recom- see you | mend you?" suggested Mr. Crane. | | | ask him ob- “Because I don’t want to for anything.” The young man tained a place. When the grandfather heard of the incident he was much pleased. He asked his grandson why he had not applied to him and received the same reply. Early and late the new clerk toiled in the Shoe and Leather Bank, that the funeral would take place | boarding in the city and going home on 0 o'clock Friday morning from St. Bartholomew’s Church. A special boat will carry the body, family and friends from the foot of West Forty-second street to Staten Island. burial will be in the Vanderbilt is, mausoleum i | aturday night to spend Sunday. Then and there he formed those habits of method and punctuality that became such a ruling characteristic in after life. He was thrifty, saved his money and was not dependent on any one. His | grandfather had been watching the and where lie several members of | the family, including Commo- | the great fortune. puEh o f i |STERLING CAREER OF | CORNELIUS VANDERBILT Refused All Aid From Relatives and Boldly Made His Way in the ‘World. NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Death has cut down the head of the Vanderbilt house and the Vanderbilt fortune three times in a little more than a score of years. Corneltus Vanderbiit, who died to-day, was the oldest of the third generation |and it was the wearing care of the Vanderbilt millions that brought him to a comparatively early grave. Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, “old commo- dore,” as he was called, and first of Athe Vanderbilts to achieve prominence, | | | | dore Vanderbilt, the founder of | The | course of his namesake, and one day Newdorp, where | h e offered to take him to Europe. Cor- nelius had never taken a vacation. He wanted one. The trip to Europe would have necessitated the loss of two months’ salary at $60 a month. “I can’t afford to lose the wages,” said Cornelius, and he rose still higher in the estimation of his grandfather. In everything but years the boy was a man. There had been established in Wall street by this time the banking house of Kissam Bros., and to this firm early in the sixties Cornelius was transferred when he was 20 vears old. Here he worked as diligently as ever. He scarcely ever knew an idle hour. Commodore Vanderbiit had gone into the railroads and made one of those brilliant strokes that mark the Van- derbilt genius. He bought Harlem stock in Wall street at 6, and soon thereafter astonished the world by paying an 8 per cent dividend and sending the stock Kiting above par. Cornelius was transferred from the banking house to the office of the Har- lem Railroad. Here, with economy his Continued on Second Page, \ resemblance to that of the boy | was the re- | | Several months ago the Examiner, with SAMUEL BRAUNHART S CHARGED WITH PERJURY Accused of Having Sworn Falsely Against Ex- Senator W. J. Dunn in a Damage Suit. 'Bart Burke and John F. McGovern Swear That the Port Warden Deliberately Misrepresented Them on the Witness-Stand. Other Prosecutions Will Follow. AMUEL BRAUNHART, Port War- den, politician, agitator and , re- former, elf-styled, has been ac- cused of the serlous charge of per- jury. Braunhart's predicament is the outcome of his own enthusiastic | desire to turn a political trick and to | throw discredit upon an opponent who was once a friend and adviser in Demo- | cratic politics south of Market street. The | accuser of Braunhart is ex-Senator Wil- liam J. Dunn, whose reputation, it will be remembered, was recently a matter for | Jjudicial determination before Judge Hunt. Braunhart tell what-a bad man he is. It was a blow from an old friend. Braun- | hart left nothing to be desired in his tes- timony. He was eager, emphatic, preju- | diced. He was positive and uncompro- | mising. There was no question about it; | Dunn was bad all over. Braunhart swore | | | | that Dunn’s general reputation in the smmunity for truth, honesty and integ- rity is bad. He knew so him swore that he was unfriendly w The witness declared that he had heard Dunn's reputation generally discussed and all said it was bad. In particular, and here Braunhart over- stepped the bounds of prudence, he said that he had heard ex-Senator Bart Burke and John F. McGovern give Dunn a bad reputation. Both of these men have taken {an oath before the Superior Court that | they aid nothing of the sort. They swear that they never spoke to Braunhart in its customary fréedom with facts, pub- | lished something which was not true in reference to Du The Examiner de- clared in one of its news items that Dunn had acted as referee of a particularly dis- gusting prize-fight. Dunn s very frank to admit that he will attend prize-fights whenever the inclina- | reference to Dunn and never mentioned tion to do so seizes him. He will even | punn's reputation, good or bad, to Braun- | admit that he bets on prize-fights, but e | hare, Upon these affidavits, which make insists that he has conscientious scruples | yno affair an extremely serious one for | prize-fights to which the Examiner made | It was here that Braunhart laid the foun- | & | reputation of Dunn for truth, honesty and on January 4, 1877, at the age of | | | | | | to | against acting as referee for the best two pluguglies that ever battered one another in the ring. And when the matter came | before Judge Hunt ex-Senator Dunn swore that he had nat even attended the | | Brauahart, the complaint of perjury has been based by Dunn. Braunhart gave his testimony the lat- ter part of last month and Dunn imme- diately began an investigation. He found { that Braunhart had used the names of at least two men without authority and |in dc ad not only trifled with the false reference. Dunn was awarded $500 as a scothing balm to his reputation. During the trfal Samuet Braunhart was | Superior but had made himself a witness against Dunn. The Port Warden | jabn g0 poriur’ took the stand as an expert on reputations | The first man whom Dunn saw was ex- in general and that of-Dunn in particular. | T BaT CHNThe Whaewore (th the g affidavit to prove that he had in ‘s reputation with dation for his undoing. He swore that the He sald he knew so | : { In the Superior Court of the Ci i County of San Francisco, Stat fornia. integrity was bad. himself and others had told him that they knew 0. When pressed to glve the names of his Informants he mentioned among | wiiliam J. Dunn, plaintiff, vs. William others ex-Senator Bart Burke of Santa | R. Hearst, defendant, Cruz, and now of this city, and John F. | City and County of San Francisco, State McGovern. It would have been wiser for of California, ss. @i eI et et et eT + 0 eb e e i s eieieieiete@ ity and of Cali- * . ¥ £ . P . ® ® ® . ? PS 3 . . P & 1| . . & . . . @ S . . <o ps . . o @ . . ® ° L3 . & b & ® . + ® ¢ . ‘ . * & 2 { * @ ¢ *| * [ /? 4 e © * b © @+ 0400000000000 >t eberetededei et e® SAMUEL BRAUNHART, ACCUSED OF PERJURY. Comes now Bart Burke and being first duly sworn depoc:s and says that he never at any stated to Samuel Braunhart or to any other person what- ever that the reputation of William J. | Dunn, plaintiff in the above entitled ac- | tion, for truth, honesty and integrity, or for other of said traits, was or is bad. | BART BURKE. Subscribed and sworn to before me this | 6th day of August, 1899. J. L. JACOBL | Notary Public for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, Chronicle building, rooms 41 and 42. Braunhart if he had forgot the names. Dunn was shocked, or pretended to be, | at the testimony of Braunhart. The two | had long been close political and social | friends. They moved and had their being | upon the same political plane. They fought on the same side together and | what one received the other shared. But that was long ago when Braunhart was| familiarly and affectionately known as | “Buggy-robe Sammy” in token of a touching tribute which he had made to Buckley. But while politics makes strange bed- fellows it also makes strange enemies and | Braunhart and Dunn became foes. “‘Bug- John F. McGovern was next seen and swore to the following affdavit. | v In the Superior Ci o City ! gy-robe Sammy” became a sobriquet of (10 (e Superior Court of the City and; contempt, and Dunn became one of the Callfornia. | push. This lasted for a while and then | William J. Dunn, plaintiff, vs. Willlam R another turn of the political wheel sent Hearst, defendant. 7, Depart | Dunn and Braunhart flying into the same bed together. Both were in the State Senate when James H. Budd was elected Governor. Budd was a reform Governor and Sammy was a reformer. The sad epi- sode of the buggy-robe had been buried among the forgotten mistakes of politi- cal history. Braunhart wanted to be Registrar of Voters for San Francisco. He considered that a long and profitable experience with southside ballot boxes qualified him for the position, but in his own distinguished self he did not possess the necessary in- fluence to obtain it. He sought, therefore, and obtained the support of Senators Dunn, Mitchell, Toner, Biggy and Hen- derson. They pleaded with Budd, showed how thoroughly and persistently Brauu-| hart had worked in the cause of reform | and gave every assurance in the world | that the buggy robe was only an ordinary affair after all. ment 5. State of California. City and County, of | San Francisco, ss. John F. McGovern, being duly sworn, ! deposes and says: That he is informed | that one Sam Braunhart testified in the | trial of the above entitled action that | affiant stated to said Braunhart that plaintiff’s reputation for truth, honesty and integrity was or is bad, or that afflant had questioned plaintiff's ‘reputation. That affiant never stated to said Sam Braunhart or any other person that said laintiff’s reputation for truth, honesty or ntegrity was or is bad; that he has no recollection of ever talking to said Braun- hart about the subject before the trial of this action; that since the trial of this action affiant censured said Braunhart for USINE NS name i such connection (having learned through the newspapers tnat Braunhart used his name), whereupon said Braunhart did not claim that the conversation ever occurred, but simply said, “Well, T put you in good company, anyhow.” meaning thereby that he had | used his (aflant’s) name with the names of reputable citizens. ‘That afflant has known plaintiff for Pleading was in vain. Budd had chosen | great number of vears; that he Knows the some one else for the place and Dunn and ganera} reputation of plaintiff in this com- Braunhart's other champions were told | MUNIty, for truth, honesty and Integrit that the position of Port Warden would | gpat, PESTEOCS reputation In these re- JOHN F. McGOVERN. be given to Braunhart if he would retire Subscribed and sworn to before me this from the fight for Registrar. He refused Hinton was appointed, | 12th day of September, 1889. to do sd until gt the City and Then congratulating himself that he had defeated Andy Clunie he said he wou'd San Francisco, State of Cali- accept the pesition of Port Warden. Dunn and the others again importuned Budd and Braunhart got the place. There was a look of sadness therefore on the face of Dunn when he heard 4 J. Notary Public in_and for County of fornia. These affidavits left- no doubt of the matter, and Dunn determined to have Braunhart arrested for his offense. Dunn went befcre Police Judge Thomas F. Gra- | Port Wagden and they also will be rested and pr | those k ham yesterday afternoon and swore to the following compiaint: In the Police Court of the City and Cy y of San Francisco, State of Cal- ifor People of the State : . plain- tiff, vs. Samuel Brau Qefend- ant. State of California, City and County of San Frap s me this 12t 2 liam J. Dunn ymplaint Personally aj day of Septemt who on oath m poses and s %th day of county of S: ancisco, fornia, the crime of felony, to wit: per- was committed by Samuel Braun- > who then and there at the city and county of San ate of Cali- fornia, on or abo of Au- gust, 1899, having ath_before the Superior Court in said city and coun- ty, Hon. Judge Hunt presiding, that he ourt truly 1 f San Francisco, inistered said aforesaid d feloniously 2 t i that he had_heard ator Bart Burke and John F. Mc- say that the reputation of W. J. for truth, honesty and integrity bad, all of which timony was se. and said Samuel Braunhart know- such statements to be false. All of which is contrary to the form, force and effect of the statute in such cases mads and provided and against the peace and dignity of the people of the State of Cali- fornia. And th inant upon oath accuses the Braunhart of said crime, and atters may be brought before a magistrate and dealt with ac- cording to law. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of September, 1899, TH( AS F. GRA t of the C State of Cali- Judge of the Police C County of San Francisco, fornia. TUpon the foregoing complaint, charg- ing Braunhart with perjury, a warrant was issued and placed in the hands of Captain Spillane for service. Bail was fixed at $1000 bonds or $509 in cash. Dunn does not intend to rest with the p ou- tion of Braunhart. The ex-Senator de- clares that others were as guilty as the ar- ecuted. PLEASURE YACHT ON A ROUND-THE-WORLD CRUISE Norma of the Atlantic Yacht Club is Now at Honolulu and Will Come to This Port. HONOLULL 5—The vacht Norma, one « ack vessels of the Atlantic Yacht Club of New York, ar- terday after having cov- ered nearly miles on a pleasure cruise under Commodore W. J. Weaver of the club. - T rma_ touched at Niihau and Waime will visit the other islands of the group before con- tinuing _her crui She will be over- hauled here and will probably be in port ch will go to yIng out the all over the globe. The New York four years ago. d at Trieste War, and during the S \\"fls held the: the pani; re fi ery severe storms. e ingapore, Hongkong and_Yokohama, leaving the latter port for Honolulu on August 5. NO SECRET TREATIES WITH FOREIGN POWERS Secretary Hay Denies That a Secret Alliance Has Been Entered Into With England. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 12—In a let- ter to Chairman Dick of the Republican State Executive Committee, Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, s this em- phatic statement regarding the alleged secret alliance between England and the United States “There is no alliance with England nor with any power under the heaven except n and publ ed to the orld, the treaties of ordinary international friendship for the purpose of business and commerce. No treaty other n those exists; none has been suggested on the other side; none is in contemplation. | It has never entered into the mind of the President nor any of the Government to forsake, under any inducement, the w precept and example of the fathers, w forbade entangling alliances with Euro- pean powers -— RESULTS OF A TRIP INTO THE ARCTIC REGIONS #Professor Nathorst Secures Valuable Ethnological Collection Relat- ing to Esquimaux. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 12.—Professor A. C. Nathorst’'s expedition on the steamer Antaretic, which was spoken off the Skaw vesterday on her return from her search along the coast of Greenland for the miss- arrived ing_aeronaut. Profe r Andree, to-day at Malmo, weden. Nathorst reports that he Josef Fjord on the east c i~ land and discovered a ries of new in- lets. He succeeded in securing a valuabie ethnographical collection relating to the extince _ Esquimaux population and reached 67.22 north latitude, where he was stopped by ice. As already cabled, no trace of Andree was tound. L Terrill’s Trial Begins. SAN JOSE, Sept. 12—The trial of At- torney Samuel B. Terrill, who is alleged to have defrauded residents of this coun. ty out of sums aggregating 315,000, on the charge of embezzling 3300 from Mrs. Clara A. Fread, is in progress before Judge Lor- igan and a jury. Attorneys Hatch and Partridge represent Terrill, and District Attorney Campbell is prosecuting. e s Fell Under a Wagon. PLACERVILLE, Sept. 12—James de Bernardi, 2 well known citzen of this place, fell to-day under a loaded logging truck at Beach's sawmills. One of his legs was mashed to a pulp. He Is still alive, but his recovery is despaired of.