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

@all VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 113. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS, HERRIN TO BE SHELVED AS POLITICAL MANAGER Story That E. O. McCormick Is to Head the Bureau. Admiration of the Law Department's Chief for the Drama—The Passenger Traf- fic Manager's Eastern Record as | a High-Class Politician. redit that he conducts political affairs the East advocating the election to ot invite to his home. That much can COURTAINE DEATI DURING 10 GO ON THE THE TUPHOON. STAGE ACAIN Bl } re Than a Thousand Veteran Actor Recovers Eyesight and Will Leave the Almshouse. Mo Bodies Found in Japan- ese Districts, S Spectal Dispatch to The Ca NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Just recovered two from temporary blindness s for hernia, Har barytone s d from on a for t aged the ncisco. Western cities, d in E: 1859 he play nd various other dramas. was a singer and She became paralyzed and died rs ago. E IN HAVANA GROWING SERIOUS | The Stevedores STRIK er ki 5 h w X ’DEMOCRATS REFUSE | RENOMINATIONS Men Who chdéd the State Ticket Last Year Do Not Care to Run Again This Time. and Cigar-Makers | Threaten to Go Out—This Will Make About 4000 Men Idle. HAV 3 It is now | are 12,000 striking , carpenters, cart men | sons, painte: of d laundry workers, and if, as is De , the hackmen, stevedores of Lawrence a: kers strike, within the Fan there will be another B e e e e S S PP @‘0 O ‘04 e cart men went out to-day, there- lyzing the wholesale . business The: as a reason for their | fair treatment they have ving at the hands of the po- ority of the cart men being Payne Jr. of to he: ble business men say that of the cart men is the only legit te strike. It is asserted that , endeavoring to | k., sQ as to have a p! to prison and to accuse them next day of insulting the police. FATAL EARTQUAKE 1 IN ASIA MINOR Line to Chile. | ¢ York Her- | James Gordon The same d that the Phil- rial government, bitants taking the Hundreds of Lives Lost at Aidin in | the Valley of Menderez. SMYRNA, Asia Minor, Sept. 20.—There was a disastrous earthquake this morn- ing at Aidin, a town on the Mende; eighty-one miles southeast of this plac, Hundreds_of persons were killed in the | valley of Menderez. t is said that y will es- ast. There is | i politics owing to\ ablish a service tc a lull in commer national festiv: Sy gressman Dead. Ex-Con CAMBRIDC Ohto, Sept. 20—Hon. Jo- Peace in San Salvador. B died at his home in| WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—The State Department to-day received a cable mes. sage from United States Consul Jenkins Mr. Tay- this cf s editor and propri- s for many year ctor of the Gue mes. and Served | at San Saivador, saying briefiy that the in the Forty-el Fiftieth, Fifty-first l state of slege has been removed, and that and Fifty-second Congresses. peace prevails In the land. BOTH A NEW BALLOON TO WASTE HIS BREATH ON. e O L B o o e ® 4 ® t R R o S o—«w-g D R s S S J 04040404040 - - - ) // &7 R R Ry . S L e i e e i et e ieiebeded BRITONS AND BOERS CONTINUE PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. ONDON, Sept. —Despite all] ++ 44+ ++++4+4+++++++ 4 tlon war is inevitable. The South Afri- | outward show of ecalm, Great |+ 4| can News supports the contention of | Britain is in practically the same l 4+ CAPE TOWN. Sept. 20.—Sir 4 |the TPransvaal that the convention of condition to-day as was the 4 Alfred Milner's dispatch to Pres- 4| 1884 abolished the suzerainty. h United States a few weeks before | 4 ident Steyn informs him that + According to other advices the burgh- the opening of the war with Spain. Be- | # the British and the Transvaal 4 |ers are rapidiy going into laager, while | cath the crust of diplomatic reserve |+ ire now' hopeful of 4 |the exodus from Johannesburg reached | e military officials are working night | + settlement. Should. 4 (1000 persons yesterday. The Stock Ex- v preparing for the signal to be- [+ disappointed, Sir Al- 4| change at Johannesburg has resolyed | ies, whether that comes or |+ to.the Orange + | to close the moment martial law is pro- +. Free State to present strict neu- + | claimed, but all current contracts will | nd is not going to be caught |+ trality and to prevent military 4 |be carried out until the proclamation | napping any more than the Transvaal. | ¥ int tion by its citizens. + | suspending all business. In the mean- While Lord Salisbury is quiet at | ¥ 4 | time the merchants are erecting barri- | home in Hatfleld House, Mr. Chamber- | +++++4+4+4++++r++++++|cadesin front of their shop windows. | lsin {a‘busied:in wark at the COISnlal | goy with 1100 troaps was witnessediDy | e ceiin o de e et (aseb {0 b £oRL ConIeoTecs e Roval|, jarge and enthusiastic crowd. s e b .‘(:qpr:xum and transport | and especlally in the ordnance depart- | vendi that would save the situation. | ape. ment, where Ma> s rodite . = n will do nothing to pre- | voirs, wagons for limelight apparatus, RS SN R N ella i ate matters, and the Colonlal | water carts. ambulanc: g ok | there of a large number of members of | sie fis e AR tha b Sthe water carts, ambulan rmy wagons the Raad, adding that the result of to- t 5 St S and other paraphernalia of modern | 2 g | morrow’s sitting is already agreed on,| he revort that Great Britain had ded the dismantle t of the fort at Johannesburg, together with a T erial reduction in the armament of the burghers, the Colonial Office to-day would neither confirm nor deny, al- though it is much doubted. warfare are being hurried forward. While rumors of the reassembling of | Parliament are current, the fact is re. | called that in the Afghan war in 187 Great Britain declared war first and | then assembled Parliament. This evening the Marquis of Lans- | as the Orange Free State will throw in its lot with the Transvaal, all the Free State burghers being fully armed and ready to start at a moment’s notice. | A special dispatch from Johannes- burg says that 450 persons left by one train to-day. & { Right Hon. Sir William Vernon Har- | M 5 he M g i downe issued a strict order to the staff Meanwhile the Marquis of Lans-|of the War Office warning all subordi- | i downe, Secretary of State for War | nates to refrain from giving the press ifi;”%i‘s‘?e@n’flfi'flffihlffi ;:;r"r:y:;:;i who returned this morning from Dub- | any {nformation whatever without the | 1o s ' o2 the Liberal opposition i the | . has held long conferences with|authority of their superiors, and call- | jogee of Commons. {n the Course of an neral Lord Garnet Wolseley, fleld | ing attention to previous breaches of | g3 ieg to his constituents this evening marshal, and General Sir Evelyn |duty in this respect, which, the order | oo cos 5 & in New Tredgar, said he coald not read | the persistent attempts of the war | press to aggravate the Trunsvaal situ- ation without indignation. | “Great Britain,” said the speake Wood, adjutant general of the forces, | says, “will be no longer tolerated.” and the activity at headquarters is re- | Advices from Cape Town are to the d in the contract, supply and |effect that the Afrikanders declare that the Transvaal will not Yyleld further and that if the imperial Government | does not recede from its present posi- transport departments. The departure of the British trans- port Jelfunge for the Mediterranean to- Continued on Second Page. | | % ® t % R S R R o R SECS SEUSY SIS S SO o ) on Trains Across the Mountains From Delagoa Bay. From a Sketch by J. Harrington.' Boers Escorting Ammuniti : $ ® 3 + @ + B3 )¢ 3 : i ASSESSOR DODGE IN A VERY BAD LIGHT Fails to Account for Taxes on Nine Millions of Property. Auditor Wells' Demand Upon Him for the Mongy Is Ignored—Matter in the Hands of the District Attorney. SSESSOR DODGE may soon be forced, if the law takes its course, to prove that all the nice things he has been saying about himself are not the veriest .cheap political claptrap. There is now in the hands of District Attorney Murphy for legal action the City Auditor's demand upon the Assessor for the sum of $122,982 04, which Dr. Dodge in his official capacity is in uty bound. to cover into the city treasury. He has been requested so to do uditor Wells, but has made no respon Dr. Dodge has allowed the impression to gain ground that he is “the whole thing” In the line of Assessors. Like Katisha's tooth, he stands alone. Before he was elected he did a juggling act with a piece of chalk and an assorted lot of figures that would have made Herrma be- gan then to say nice things about himself. He al frier political sponsor, Mayor Phelan, to say nice things about h have continued un- interruptedly to say lots of nice thin about the doctor and to allow the Mayor's personal and partial organ to repeat them. even threw In a few figures by way of corroborative detail, on th s won't le and that figures were such prosalc things that r the trouble to verify them. But, with all the figures, with the demand of the Auditor for that $122,982 04, Assessor Dodge has not tu ity treasury, ned that sum into the c and the fact remains that until he does he is not the lily whi would have the public believe. Last week Assessor Dodge said some more nice things concerning himself. They were contained in a supplement to his regular report and filed in the Clerk’s office. In it is the following passage, which, one familiar with the work- ings of the office would think, would have refreshed his memory about that $122,982 04, although he carefully avoids all mention of it: The total assessment roll for the year 1583, after m tions authorized by your honorabie amounts to $40 the year 1895, or an increase of § 54’ over the as: assessment of real estate is $3 year than the the vear 1893 it follows t th r ase in the asses: through the Increased a: ¢ persomal property. “Personal property Assessor he nd deduc- 44,061 for As the total real estate for essment That's just where the rub comes in on Assessor Dodge. He s. “It follows that the marked increase in the assessment roll has been obtained through the increased assessment of personal property That is the first statement that proves, in connection with Auditor Wells' demand on Agses- sor Dodge for $122, , that the Assessor is all right on a blackboard and all wrong in the office. It opens the way to show that, while Dodge has been all along patting himself on the back for the good thing he he is, he is far and away behind his predecessors in the diligent conduct of his office. In other words, it makes plain that, while he is the very deuce when it comes to assessing, he 1s only a two-spot on collections. The sum of $122,982 04 in question represents the tax on personal property of the value of $9,330,959 which Dodge assessed all right, but which, it seems. he has failed to collect. It will be noticed in p: ng that it i ~d assess- ment of personal property that the phenomenal Ass elf. When one stops to consider that, notwithstanding this herculean effort the city treasury is shy just $122,982 04, it Is plain og the face of it that figures won’t lle even for “Juggler'" Dodge and $122,98204 is facing him for cxplanation. {38 The law that demands this explanation is very plain and under it Auditor Wells has acted. It reads: Within fitteen days after the first Monday In August of each year the Auditor of the county, or city and county,.must make a careful examination of the assessment book or books of the county, or city and county. and ascertain therefrom the amount or amounts St all taxes that should have been collected by the Assessor in pursuance of this oh ter, and which have not been coliected. He must then state an account to the Asse and demand from him that the amount or amounts so remaining uncollected shall be paid into the county treasury within fifteen days from the date of demand. If at the expiration of said time the Assessor has not settled for and paid said amount or amounts into the treasury as aforesaid the District Attorney must com sgor and. his bondsmen for the recov ; and upon the trial of sald ac assessments are {1l tic egal, invalid « That law has been on the statute books for many a day and some of Dodge's predecessors have failed to account for sums demanded to be acco under it, but none of them have been so lax, have left such a large s covered into the tre: vy as the modei Dodge. Hereis t record of taken from the books in the Auditor's office—and Dodge says figures lie: won't In 1897 Assessor Siebe failed to account for the taxes, amounting to $3652 63, on personal property at $586,321. In 1x9 or Siebe failed to account for the taxes, amounting to $3210 83, on personal Property nssensed at I In 1899 Assessor Dodge has failed to account for $122,982 04 taxes on personal property amounting tc $9,330,959. How does he explain these figures? Will he the people that he was so busy putting into his own pocket the 15 per cent of all the poll tax collected that he didn’t have time to look after the city’s taxes on unsecured personal property? Will he explain to the 44,913 voters in San Francisco, many of them poor men, that both his hands were so deep in their pockets for the 30 cents he got every time he gave one of them a poll-tax receipt that he had to let the city's busi- ness slide? Come to think of it, he will not have to tell them. He is authorit statement that figures won't lie, and there they are for t 30 will represent the amount of cents ne has taken this vear from the pocket of every man in San Francisco he has hounded for poll tax, while he let slide in his greed for gain a sum twenty thousand dollars in excess of the sum total of oll tax. A According to the Auditor's books, to date Dodge has collected poll tax from 44,913 persons, representing a total of $89.5826. His commission, dug out of the pockets of the poor, was $1347380. Since that entry he has collected other poll tax, but not to exceed $100,000 in all The amount he has failed to collect on personal propert That is the Dodge idea of assessing.,but it is not the la into Dodge's pocket, but it leaves bare boards Jr the city sort of assessing that points to a “‘dummy assessment roll,’ while poor school teachers have to live on bread and water for la the kind of assessing that has swelled the assessment roll to § says: “My predecessors ain’t in it.” And it is also the kind of ass says immediately after: “There is $31,000,000 on which I car’t collect taxes. on the assessment roll, though, thanks to W. Dodge.” He forgot to count in the more than nine millions to which the District At- torney is in duty bound to call his attention. Take these millions off the roll, and where is Dodge? It is now the duty of the District Attorney to find out. Under the law he should file suit immediately against the goody-goody Assessor and compel him to give an account of his stewardship of nine millions that strayed while Dr. Dodge was diving Into the pockets of the citizens for his poll-tax perquisite. It is up to the District Attorney. ron will follow and behind them will CHACES 1 Governor Roosevelt will be at the head of the Natfonal Guard of New York. Gov- ernors of other States who come here Over 32,000 Will Be is $122,982 04. puts money That's the “I done it,” miral will ride with Mayor Van Wyck in an open carriage drawn by four bay horses.. Behind him will come Sousa and his band of cne hundred pieces and offi- cers, sailors and marines from the Olym- The officers and men from the squad. piace of honor. Other States will follow in the order of their admission to the | Union. | , Those States that have so far signifled | their intention of sending troops are: Ne with troops are to ride at the head of | their men. Governors who come alone | will be in carriages in line. Vermont, as rme admiral’s home State, will have the g | dersey, Maryland, ~ Pennesiv: onnecticut, Georgia, X In Line. | South Carolina, New Ham | Istand, Missouti and Mise Altos gether General Roe estima: now that there will be 32,000 men In line. By start- Ing at 11 o’clock in the morning the head of the column ought to reach Dewey arch at Twenty-third street and Fifth avenue at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The last man in the line should reach Washington Square before 7 o'clock at night. verybody wants tc the recep- tion to Admiral Dewey. Hotels will ba put to tremendous strain. Housing thevis- iting public is becoming a serious ques- tion. In more than two-thirds of the ho- tels in the borough of Manhattan all the accommodations have already been en- gaged for the week commencing Satur- day next. Many will not occupy thefr rooms until the commencement of next week, but in order to be sure of having Grand Army Men Are Offended and Decide Not to Parade. i s B Speclal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Determined and | concerted action by the members of. the | land parade and the reception commit tees, backed up by protests from every quarter, resulted in steps being taken to eliminate the breakfast to Admiral Dewey at Claremont from Saturday’'s pro- |2 Place to sicep they have, in 608 gramme and to rearrange the schedule of | FASCES, BLER COMPA 0 (0 PAY for at events for that day so that the land | gstance of the rush of applications for parade can start from One Hundred and Twenty-second. street and Riverside Drive not later than 11 o’clock in the morning. | A letter was received from General | Miles asking New York to keep Admiral | Dewey as its guest until noon of October 2,» when the Washington committee will | take charge of him. General Ros will| probably command the land parade, and | atter him will follow Admiral Dewey, es- | corted by Zroop B of Brooklyn. The ad- rooms it may be sald that many hotels have been compelled to refuse each day from a hundred to two hundred appli- cations for rooms. In nearly all of the hotels cots will be put up in the halls and other places for the use of many who it Is expected will be glad of an opportunity to avail themselves of even such poor food to vis- acommodations. {s much more In the matter of supplyin iting thousands the outlook favorable. The many restaurants of New