The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVI—NO. 129, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER -~ ‘fl KILLARNEY SOON TO BE SOLD LAKES At Public Auction at Dublin Next| Month Beautiful Lands of the Muckross Estate Will Be Disposed Of, TW YORK, Oct. 8.—According 1 advertisement {n the Her- 1 the state of H ert Muckross, comprising portion of the mou forests surround! Jarney will be sold sday, November combined to i establish it nd it was also 1 ymas Lipton wou it now a ere inadequa purcha as nclud- ed the he de- mesne, i middle lake extent bour the serves, f islands. clus! ot W sand acres est portions be Killarney will s Toro Wat mies Moun- old - Weir the waters. , as it 'is some- Abbey, s bullt oss Lake. The close to the village. and of ESTIMATES FOR THE VARICUS NAVY YARDS Secretary Allen’s List Shows an In- ase in the Appropriations Asked of $24,537,187. WASHINGTON; Oct. 6.—A @ +Poetebededeoebede WILL ARRIWGE THE TERMS FOR PEACE| Senor Matos, Envoy From President Andrade, at Caracas to Confer With the Rebels. [ r Matos, drade to the in. RAC rgent der, ieral Clpriano | stro T tlate terms of peace, ar- rived tt morning at Puerto Cabello, coming m Valencia, to confer with i al ( Phis evening he will and will leave imme- port the result s to T ¥ ident e that the proposals submitted by the envoy were accepted by General o RAIN FALLS IN THE SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY In the Mountains the Precipitation Was Heavy and Indications Are That Showers Will Con- tinue. RIVERSIDE, Oct. 6—The first rain of the season fell here to-day at noon. The shower, which lasted but half an hour, was preceded by li mnmg and_strong winds, In the moun sectiona the raln- an en- | Muckross Abbey are celebrated for their red deer and the hall of the man- sion is decorated with gigantic antlers taken from stags shot in the vicinity. It was reported in 1897 that Queen Tict purposed to purchase the and estates and establish a nant royal residence there. When it was announced last June that the beautiful Lakes of Killarney were for ale Irish-American citizens r New York grew enthusias- a plan to purchase the prop- erty by popular subscription and main- tain it as a park. Many persons ex- pressed themselves strongly in favor of the movement, among them Richard Croker, James J. Coogin, John D. | Crimmins, John F. Carroll and Mau- | rice F. Holahan. | Tam Hall then assumed charge of the undertaking to bring about the establishment of Killarney Park. Twelve thousand dollars was sub- scribed and nearly every district lead- er of Tammany Hall bound himself to collect $2000 in his district for the pur- chase of the lakes. It was sald later that Howard Gould considered pur- chasing the property. Then it was an- nounced that the Duke of Westminster and others of the National Trust So- clety would have the lakes. The directors of the Standard Insur- | ance Company in-London recetved in S tember an offer from pton for the Lakes of Killarney. A meeting was call to consider the matter and officials said Sir Thomas I 1 was the only person who ev: negotiated for the purchase r Thomas for an hour or more. are for more rain. BERNARDINO, ( T storm is pre the e and to o 1 the heav PERMITTED TO ESCAPE! Developments in the Gambling Scan- dal in the Club de Harmelosen, Berlin. de special commis- ted to work up the 4 t for the task. worst gffen an the peated ious living on the part . press Commenting upon the tri dep lores the rottenness exi “MEETING OF THE WATERS.” Weir Bridge over Killarney, one of the beautiful places that is to be sold at auction on November 21. I S P é are required that the “What kind of | its time, substance mbling, he and 1g of its honor and x rward 1o become pillars of th > and religion.” The Cologne Volkszel s every- body in Berlin ga s and speculates and that betting on the races and taking chances in the universal | among the Annually, i r A ruined. ig, In its comments, attention to the almost entire di: ard on the part of the army of the | Emperor’s repeated anti-gambling de- cree. Eeree g FARMERS' CONGRESS. | National Body Received at Boston by | Governor Wolcott. BOSTON, Oct. 6.—The delegates to the Farmers' National Congress were received by Governor Roger Wolcott at the State House to-day. The CONEress on resuming its business session heard a report of tha committee on resolutions recommending new legislation on various subjects, Hon. H. C. Adams, Food Commissioner of Wisconsin, delivered an address on the "Necessnly of Pure Food Legislation,” H. P. Hoard of Fort Atkinson, Wis, was elected president and John M. Stahi of Chicago secretary. | _At the evening session a paper on “The | Western Tenant and His Eastern Land- |lord,”" by H. S. Hilton of Topeka, Kans., was read by F. P. Coburn. Ll 2 it Degree for Dewey. BURLINGTON, Vt., Oct. 6.—The trus- tees of the University of Vermont to-day voted to confer the degree of doctor of lawa on Dewey, o g T i e e BOERS CONTINUE TO PLAY A WAITING GAME However, General Cronje Is Ready to Cross the Border at the First Shot - Fired In Natal. O S o fe o e -0 most a complete dearth m South Africa to-day lispatches ary moven to confirm the ger will restrain a by the Boers un of news | The few eived recording mili- | rious points all tend | that President Kru- | forward movement | they are fired ugon | declared. Tt is now | that Parllament will Reserves will be sum- ent number 10| re | bring up to a war strength the reziments | warfied to hold themselves in readiness gervic outh Africa. or about one- | for sixteenth ¢ " The Daily the total News asser t an ibilized to-morrow. from Mafeking annonces iant Cronje the Boer been premoted to the rank of | and is massing 6000 Boers with :ry near Ramathalabam, north of Mafeking. The dispatch adds that Gen- | | serve. army | forces has R R SRCEY SEOR SRS S ORE SO SORS SeCES SCRS SRCER 3 G- toeoeteieieg eral Cronjo has sent a message to the camp of the imperial troops that he will cross the border at the first shot fired in Nutal. It is stated that the Right Hon. Harry Escombe, former Premier of Natal, is BO- ing to P in the interest of peace, | H. M. mel suddenly left Durban for Delag Rome correspond- sh Government has Marconi with a view of | employing his_system of wircless teleg- raphy in the Transvaal campaign. The Cape Town correspondent of the Dally Mail s A sensation has peen caused here by the report that the Or ange Free State Government 'has com- mandered 800 tons of coal belonging to | the Cape Government which was travers. ing the Free State. Such a seizure would | naturally be regarded as an act of war, | 3. W. Sauer, the Commissioner of Public Works, when questioned In the Assembly regarding the matter, professed ignorance. but I learn that the report was tele. graphed to the Cape Ministry early in the day. | “I learn that the Transvaal's threat to | put British subjects over the border | would necessitate the withdrawal of Con- yngham Greene. Some surprise is mani. fested over the report that a large num. | ber of British troops are to be landed here instead of at Durban. This is taken to signify that the Transvaal will be in. vaded from the west and not from Natal.” HalarZlorind i THOUSANDS OF NATIVES INVADE JOHANNESBURG | to come to terms JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 6.—Thousands Tunnel at Crocodile Poort on the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay Railroad, Near the Junction of the Crocodile and Pongolo Rivers, Re- ported to Have Been Occupied by the Boers. A S S S e e e S SCEY SR SR IR SRS S S S P Ll»N\"O.‘\'. Oct. 6.—There has been al-| of natives have invaded the town and to- | dinarily engaged in the foreign carrying | day the authorfties decided to march them under escort out of the country. Last night two natives entered a cloth- ing store kept by a Jew and stabbed the proprietor in the neck, =revering h windpipe. Two Jewish storekeepers in the Iast Rand have been murdered by natives, and the Kaffirs are ralding ail the places where they think lquor is stored. The War Commission, “eting under the| Government's sue notice: instruetions, will to-day is- to shopkeepers to remove ti barricades they have created, on the ground that the Government guarantee of protection ought to be sufficient. JOHN MORLEY USES SOME VERY PLAIN WORDS LONDON, Oct. 6.—Addressing a peace “arnarvon this evening John the country to, realize the nt to which it had been brought »py diplomacy and the Bedlamite of war press and the war said Mr. Morley, “President a Kru- accepte e franchise proposal of September S, th reliance upon the convention of 1884, he would have been planted behind diplomatic intrenchments, | which by fair and reasonable means | s couid not have been forced. en after that refusal there was still room for a friendly séttlement, but just as the | Tr al made a mi ke our Govern- ment capped it by withdrawing the fran- of the recent speech vonshire, which proved Britain did not desire to In- that Great terfe ith the T vaal's independ- he speaker 1 he had alway ssed the urgency of the meeting Great Britain half way. gretted the withdrawal of the fran but condemned the Gry franch ted upon the post like the Cape a disaf- sopulation heid down by force of id said he failed to see why the al and Great Britain were unable Mr. Morley spoke deri- vely of the talk of a pan-Afrikander conspiracy in South Africa. DUTY OF HOLLAND “ TOWARD THE DUTCH BRUSSELS, Oct. 6.—Some sensation has been caused in the Netherlands by the publication of a pamphiet entitled “The Daty of Holland Toward the Dutch.” This pamphlet, which is written by a promi- nent leader of the Liberal party, Mr. Van Houten, rts that it is the strict duty of the Dutch Government to interfere diplomatically in favor of the South Af- rican Dutch republic. He goes to show that if Queen Wilhelmina's Ministers do not address forelgn powers in order to | bring about their peaceful mediation, in pursuance of the decisions of The Hague Peace Conference, they will be committing a real crime against the Dutch fatherland itself; for what threatens the Boers to- day may threaten the Netherlands to- morrow. It is rumored that Queen Wilhelmina, who is on the point of starting for Ger- many to be present at the christening of the child of the Prince of Wied, has been urged by some of her counselors to men- tlon the subject of the Boers to Emperor William. FAVORS A REVISION OF MARITIME LAWS Testimony of a Ship Broker Before the Industrial Commission in ‘Washington. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Frank L. Neall of the firm of Peter Wright & Sons of Philadelphia and N. B. Kelley, secretary of the Trades League of Philadelphia, were the witnesses before the Industrial Commission to-day. Mr. Neall is a shipbroker, and his testi- mony dealt with the subject of marine transportation almost exclusively. He stated that since the Transvaal question had become acute Great Britain had taken at least seventy-five vessels that were or- { the | t the back of | *+He-e>eQ R e R O S SeCSN SO S @O e 0> o - | trade of the United States, naturally had been vance in freight ra The T marked Neall a v , and Mr. clared that the tonnage of American v sels avallable for ocean traffic did not ex- ceed 300,000, whereas the total tonnage of the vessels of the world was 2 favored sfon of the m: of this ,000.000. He | | chase itime laws | ¢ 0 as to_permit the pu foreign-built frefght Steamer | for miscellaneou ceanic_ busine | commonly known These ve sele” coull " be bu cheaper of t one-fourth abroad than in this country, and wher- ‘ever owned they had proved' very profit- able. Within the past two years the pra tice of leasi 1ch v s by Americans, he said, had increased fourfold, and after paying 'a profit to the lessees they were netting their_ own 20 and 25 per cent per annum. Mr. Neall announced himself as opposed to a discriminating duty for | the t of American ships built, for on that he believed that such a would precipitate retaliatory es on the part of the other na- In reply to a question he said there not a sitgle line of steame. ing : composed entirely of ined the purpose of the s League to be to pro- of that city against rail- \tion of the discrim- W h Ré leagu most | trouble_ was found in the misdescription of goods. He announced himself favor- | able to pooling by railroads, and assented to a proposition by Commissioner Far- quhar that (-um%\rli‘n\nn is the parent of discrimination. He would give the Inter- 5 ce Commission authority to and otherwise enlarge = its HELEN GOULD'S VOICE RAISED AGAINST ROBERTS | Causes Vigorous Resolutions to be Adopted by the Guardian Society. . NEW YORK. Oct. At the meeting v of the American Female ardian the following resolutions were v Miss Helen M. Gould and unani- n | adopted: as who has been elected s from Utah to the Fifty Is a polygamist and : | s v of hom | Resolved, That we, the women m- | bled at the 1 of the American Female “Resolved, That we urge that all men and women use thelr influence with their respective Congressmen to prevent said Roberts taking his seat.” the seating of Mr. Roberts were made. Miss Gould did not speak, but at the con- clusfon of the meeting she handed the re- porters a statement signed H. M. Gould. The statement follows: “lI am glad to have an opportunity to protest against the seating in Congress of a man who advomites and practices polygamy. Our country has been noted in the past for the beauty of its home life and the chivalry and respect shown by man to woman. It would be sad indeed to see a man who stands for the oriental harem seated among our lawmaker: I earnestly hope that men will feel will- ing to write their Congressmen urging them to rise in protest against Mr. Rob- erts being seated when Congress opens.” - {DROVE A HATPIN INTO HER STOMACH Polish Woman at Olympia Makes a Desperate Attempt at Sui- cide. SEATTLE, Oct. 6—A speclal to the Post-Intelligencer from Olympia says: A most deliberate and barbarous attempt at suicide occurred at Bucoda yesterday. Mrs. Leo Prabuski, a Polish woman, be- came angered at some little domestic oc- currence and determined to do away with her life. She procured an ordinary hat- pin_six inches long and drove it into her stomach through the navel. Pressing hard against the pin she drove it until it could go no further, as it had lodged in the spine. Then with the inten- tion of forcing the pin out at the back she procurcd a rusty darning needle and drove this into what she thought was the hole made by the hatpin. Not untll 12 o’clock last night did she tell any one what she had done. To-day Mrs. Prabuski repented of her act and accompanied the Bucoda physi- clan to this city, when Dr. Redpath re- moved the pin and needle. Dr. Redpath thinks she will live. She is 48 years old and has had nineteen children, five of whom are living. Be o oty Harrison in Berlin. BERLIN, Oct. 6.—General Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Harrison arrived in Berlin this evening from Paris, Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless, do earnestly protest against | the ating_of Mr. Roberts, and A number of addresses in opposition to | NOW COMES Resume the o & RNV N conditions that governed day make a third attempt and Thursday the Columbia and Shamrock wiil to- THIRD ATTEMPT TO RACE Cup Challenger Shamrock and Cup Defender Columbia Ready to Contest for Supremacy. NN RRUBARVRBBRINK 9900 ® NEW YORK, Oct. 7—4:30 A. M.—Under the same the failures of Tuesday to complete the course of |ss fifteen miles to windward or leeward and return. # The wind is now north-northwest with a heavy sea g “ running. The indications are that there willbea | &8 e | fresh wind at the commencement of the race; also a ; 1; heavy sea, but that the sec will go down as the race @ | ® proceeds. : [ @ iso L P42 : 8 2 %3 % %2 %O | EW YORK, Oct. 6.—This has been a | 4444444444444+ 4+4444 444 | day of re on board the interna-| 4 | N tional racers. The Columbia was EW YORK, Oct. 6.—Afloat | towed from Sandy Hook to Ba and ashore to-day little else Ridge to get her out of any danger from | the northeaster. The Shamrock remained at her anchorage at the Hook, her people | seeming willing to take the chances. The wind blew up pretty fresh about 6§ o’clock, but there was nothing to threaten harm vacht so well protected by tenders and tugs, to say nothing of the powerful n. The feeling on both sides is one of con- fidence. Mr. Iselin thinks he will win. | Sir Thomas Lipton has a nice little corner in the Erin all ready for the cup. T public is in doubt, and it must be that there is a feeling of Indeci the expert yachtsmen. drifting have furnished on wh to base opinions. T however, that the Shamrock is a thoroughly s proposition. This is now. : grounded opinion, and if the two d light airs have done anything they shaken that confident feeling that railed among the backers of the Co- Those who have watched most movement of the two vachts hav eemed to strengthen the belief dan- are firm in the belief that there is little to choose between them in a drift, .and | as it is remembered that the Shamrock ve never asserted that she was understood that there K people h |a drifter it can be is reason for a rise in the Shamroc Twice in the two days of rac | have been times when both boats were sailing under exactly similar conditions for an hour after the start on Tuesday and for a like length of time after ihe | start on Thursday. ~Both were suling dead before a light wind, -aith the same pread of canvas. On Tuesday the Sham- | rock drew away from the Columbia. On Thursday the Columbia drew away from the Shamrock. No one can draw lines on the racers from th said that the only change that has place in the opinion of yachtsmen is one that tends to increase the doubt. With her great mainsail snugly stowed on the boom under a waterproof cover the yacht Columbia lay at anchor off the Sea Beach pier at Bay Ridge to-day. rid- ing out the easterly storm under the e of the land. All her other sails were un- bent and stowed below, where they will be kept dry until nee ded. Should there | be rain and a strong breeze, however, (.Ihw Is will not be spared to-morrow, for ra shin barring accidents, the achts will start in their race and make | a thirda attempt to complete the course of fifteen miles to windward or leeward | and back. | When interviewed on hoard the tender St. Michaels to-day, C. Oliver Iselin, the | Columbia’s managing owner, sald: | | ““We know practically nothing more of | | the merits of the boats than we did on | Tuesday. If anything, we know less, for | we did not turn the outer mark this time, | but T have every confidence in the Colum- | bia’s ability to outsail the Shamrock on | all points when we-get a steady breeze. | That's what we want—some wind. | " Of vesterday's race Mr. Iselin added: | “When we made that last turn we were not able to cross the § mrock’s bow, but in all the windward wo was very little difference ir the . We were in tl the time, and the Sham- few vyards ahead when the race was called off. | “Mr. Iselin said the same guests would be on board the (‘(\llxmlriz\.in to-morrow’s | race as were there on previous days. | ‘At sundown the wind jumped around to the westward of north and blew great | | guns for awhile. Captain Barr housed the | | Columbia’s topmast at once, gave the| vacht fifteen fathoms more cable and | made preparations for letting go the sec- | lond anchor. The weather looked decid edly dirty from the saflor man’s stand- | point, so enough of the crew were kept‘ on board to take care of her in any emer- gency. As she is lying In a berth, with a shore under her lee, if she should part her cable in the night or drag her anchor dur- | ing the night some quick work would béi necessary to save her from going on the | beach or smashing against the Sea Beach 3 3. | ‘)lfl“iie early rising sailor men of the Co | lumbia heard the whimpering of the wind | at the Hook to-day and they saw in ll‘fei rainstorm the prospect of a real‘ day’s | rest. They needed it, too, for while the easy lolling excursion crowds who watch: od the race figured that the saflors must | be working easier than any men they ever saw, the fact was that the crew, to a man, worked three times as hard as if a genuine race had been sailed Eight times the spinnaker was set and taken in, while the stowing of balloone: casion. day they found that their spell of rest vo he very near a reality. W Ueelin Gecided, for one thing, that it would be good to move up to Bay Ridge. There was a look in the sky which hined that some other anchorage might be better, so the consort was call ed ahead and a little after 9 o'clock the tow began. The Columbia was jogged along easily, like a racer down from the line. Two coastwise steamers passed her and the little clusters of storm-clad passengers gave her a cheer. A little under two hours from the time she left her anchorage inside the Horseshoe, the Columbia was anchored off Bay Ridge. The wind seemed to have an extra jam in it then and so after making fast to the buoy, the anchor was got over as well. Snugged down at last, the only work of the day for the white jacketed crew was done. This was the Inspection of the racer. Aloft and below the Deer Island men climbed and worked. Every part had to stand inspection. Small chance there was, indeed, of any strain having | D R e R O O R S S R e SR SR S | as 1t wa | cut short, in order, as lked about than the of the Coiumbia and mrock to have wind enough for a race on Thurs- day, and the success of the Mar- coni system of eless teleg- raphy. Only for teleg- raphy news of s con- test between the yachts would have been lacking until the return of the excursion boats. Of this every one is convinced. D sing this the situation to-day the Post made these editorial attempt again : report at yacht- a failure, but the of it were a In fact, the appeared in a haze, but observers on shore had to report something, and so t proceeded to dr: on their imagina- tion. result was the most preposterous bulletins conceiv. Up to 3 o'clock we had the only five m ish, with a suddenly nouncement that never even stakeboat. the reached It was not much, con- sidered as racing, but as reporting yachts had the outer it was truly wonderful. Simply because the Herald saw fit to make use of Signor Marconi’s invention the press of the city generally has sulked, refusing to give the new departure that credit which will in a short time be forced.” The Tribune and Times, however, have been exceptions. The former had this ) this morning: ‘ or Mar proved the efficiency icability of wireless tel v by dispatching from the vessel upward of 1000 words concerning the yacht race, besides a number of private mes- and r iving stock quota tions and dispatches to individuals on board without a hitch.” Somew fatigued by the labor and worry of the last fortnight, Signor Marconi rested to-day, see- in; his most intimate friends. To-morrow he will again be on the Ponce and the Herald and The Call will be kept Informed of the race to the minute. here can be no failure. Communication will prac- tically be direct with the Herald office, there being only one rel. that of Navesink Highlands, which consumes an average of less than sages, ten seconds. From the Grande e W. J. Clarke will also send wireless bulletins, working with the station on the Mackay- Bennett cable ship. AR AR R S R R R e R R O e R R R S e e e e e S S e e S o R R R e e R e e e e taken place in the lady fingers' breeze called on board the St. Michaels. Back to tender the men turned for the noonday meal. The remainder of the afterncon s spent by all in their quarters. Mr n above, the men be- low, each with one rvent wish for a strong wind. The t few glances at their bo CT lay astern. But they she was ther The Shamrock lay all day tossed on the whitecapped waves off the Horseshoe, walched an v from the deck of the Erin by Sir Thomas Lipton and his guests. The only sign of life upon the deck was a sturdy sailor clad in oilskins, pacing back and forth, keeping watch. When Sir Thomas was told the Columbia had departed for a more sheltered an- chorage he asked laughingly if the Amer- ican beauty could not stand the wind and weather as well as the Shamrock. Nothing whatever has been done to che Shamrock since yesterday’s race, as the light airs which floated across the water could not have broken a linen thread, and the overhauling of the rigging and the halyards was dispensed with. Everything that ingenuity could contrive or skill ef- ect has already been done upon the chal- lenger. and she is now ready to abide the ue. She is in perfect condition for io- morrow's race, and the last move to in- sure a victory was taken this morning, when the entire crew, including both skippers of the challenger, had their hair r Charles Rus seli, a guest of Sir Thomas, remarked, that there would be no extra weight on board. The third set of spreaders, which were put in position about five minutes before Thur s race, have been moved, and in all probability will not be ed at all, as they are deemed unneces- ary and were not even tried in the last re- | race. Sir Thomas Lipton expressly stated, when questioned on the subject, that Cap- tain Ben Parker, skipper of the German Emperor's yacht Meteor, was on board the Shamrock simply as a guest and friend of Skippers Hogarth and Wringe, and that, notwithstanding all reports to the | contrary, he took no part at all in sailing the Shamrock in yesterday's race, Sir Thomas stated that the Shamrock had proved herself to be an exceilent drifter and t he was very much pleased with her performances in light alrs. He said the challenger was at some- what of a disadvantage and that she could not command the services of Mr. Fife, who designed her, and who is still confined within doors by his rheumatism, while Mr. Herreshoff was always on hand to give advice and oversee any alter- ations or changes on the Columbia, no matter how trivial, which might be con- templated or carried out. Mr. Russell was asked whether, if the Shamrock should succeed in her efforts