The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1900, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1900. 5 ANOTHER UGLY WATER FRONT SCANDAL ~ CONFRONTS STATE HARBOR commissioN A GALLANT SOLDIER. |@*esore s s 0 0s0 e e : » Suffered from Fraud in Howard-|; Assistant Engineer o o Street Wharf Said|; Ruan Has E).(posed: et to Have Been Per-|: Rottenness in the| piousness. Work of the Con- tractors. L T mitted by Chief|: Cured by Engineer Holmes.| the - water ard of Ha was all. The board knows nothing of what has been going on.” Ryan gave as his reason for not noti- fying the board of what was going on that it should always receive its reports from Holmes. Inspector Duff said Engineer Holmes assumed control of the work. He ac- of The Call | ¢ y is the contracting firm mixed fair. the the charges the claim might be made | by the chie; igineer that their cyl had been shortened because it had SRR T o knowledged the shortages of the cylinders entirely igno- | ® to Mr. Ryan. Nothing can be found in . the specifications giving the chief engi- > neer authority to lessen the lengths of the cylinders. Modifications of contracts — i 4 : * rest entirely with the board and the board Agure in the sensstionsl | o has made no modification in this case. alfeasance that the The State should receive the benefit of all © investigate is one o . savings. loyes, Howard C. Holmes, le - Several cylinders are now being built er of the commission. Up to Al on the dock. They are built of knotty " - " . [, il lumber and the lengths are spliced. An time most of the blame for | & sy starel fs 19 inch stream of water was noticed pour- n at has been uncovered 1s VAl ng through knot hole in a cylinder that d st his door. b A . I ha‘dhbeen riven down and was being filled r. Holmes declares that he is perfectly | & P with concrete. nocent of any Wrongdoing and that he o i RN W. E. Dennison, secretary of the City & made the victim of unsuccessful ! IM”[”]","“(I(MMM Street Improvement Company, sald when on contracts and a jealous sub- g quesltlon‘ed.dno( kgov;lnf{ of acknhowledf- e i g . ments already made by Holmes, that only e's spite. He says he is re to 3 “ahips ‘planke"were Deing tiecd In_con” 2 == structing the cylinders, an that every there is a wicked contracting : i : . gne of them was the fuil length provide ated. Henry L. Ryan, a = :;hm?hgr.«g:&we pqrrfleflct::etr:gr)oém‘gg @ for in the specification. Jealous contract- ineer of the commission saving nearly $10,000 by all this, the story d 7 2 I ors wer‘e creating the trouble, he sg.u, 7 ser, and Hugh Duff, an in- | goes, and the State is getting an improper- i i ) i i | (Henry L. Ryan was formerly County construction, s an important | Iy_bulit pier. » R - L | , I | Surveyor of San Diego County, chief en- The City Street Improvement _ Some of the contractors who spoke of | ¢ oI (A gineer of the Owens Valley, Utah and ® L4 Salt Lake Railroad, assistant chief engi- neer of the Bear Valley Company, chief engineer of the Elsinore Irrigation Com- gineer Ryan makes found unnecessary to put them down as e that Chief Engineer Holmes pany and a member of the San Diego and cifications called for. In San Bernardino County Boundary Com- T M [ LIy g A T i wmmsuuwu;ww M T LT LTI it e 2 r n a fat 3 i . I QW (TARTHEIM, L | misston. — He is a brother of ex-District B35 Commanting i xossdn % $ N s T WL + | Ritorss wiinit B.R3an o sierament v ormec { 2 : Holmes' attention was m b ’m”wmm”’ ,L‘ ’llllllllll lillfllllm 'mll' 7] " H Engineer Ryan is Commissioner Har- to the frauc s bel"‘g 8 ) “j“lju TN 3% Ik iyl A' ney’'s brother-in-law. It had been ar- A ] b ITMTITATANTS 3| raneed fo sremote Bolmes In septcmber about him ® to give Ryan his place. The present trouble may bring about a change of pro- oo ag the right under the |t Some of the Principals in the Water-Front Scandal. gramme. »@+@4—¢—‘0H G i R S S S S S AR o S S SR SO SO Engineer Hines of the City Street Im- provement Company was for four years Mr. Holmes' assistant, and it is stated was connected with him in the business for a time. Between $300,000 and $400,000 worth of 'Regard tions call T lumh.avrm('@e S]m\lfl(‘l-:’ ® s R 5 o o o N R Rt S S S SR Y rate that he should be present when any | not,” replied Ryan. “Only two or three e then produced by . is subordinates were questioned. | were removed.' s it is aiso called, ship 3w has arisen over. portion Engineer Holmes was called and then “Look here,” exclaimed Holmes in an- | w. = v . ot js whil the b By wriee0 ove g ot the |1t Was that the row resulting in the | ger.” “You're making statements " thai | yon i SUOUC L0, be done on new docks COLONEL GEORGE A. ARMES, U. S. A. (Retired). i tories of !“"“,hkr marked on pian; 1 be con- | charges took place. would lead people to suppose something | yr. Holmes has been preparing to provide’ to be of of those eylind wrong was going on. ed of Mr. Ryan S | for the use of the stave cylinder, of which Major George Armes, U. S. A, retired, of Washington, D. C., has one of the Kiven him permis. | . .Yes. and there s rejoined Ryan in|he is the sole patentee, and upon which| most interesting and romantic histories, which, briefly stated, i3 as follows: A€ NE_ s €S enad glven him permis- | equal anger, “and you know it.”” he expects to obtain a royalty. Contrac-| the age of 17 he was wounded while guiding a Union rald. At IS he was con- Jumber ded Ryan. “Of the | left the room, Outaide he g Holmes | tofs save they will fight his royalty Prop- - gratulated publicly by Lincoln, and at 20 made brevet major for gallantry. | v I vas 1638 | cwrpat ¢ % p ey d At 2 s ded a hord jans. “/ brevetted lieutenant colonel. At [ FPW none was'losh| “That fellow Js & trsitor: ‘Hobaara | Xesterday, immedlately rupon leawning | 453:5e stampeded a hords'of Indians. ‘At 3§ wag Bryvétted Deatamust elionet A1 lemanded Holmes, | Xnife up his sleeve for me. My record is | that inquiry was being made concerning e age of 25 he became a victim of offictal p ation. ag ) he was demandec olmes. | straight and 1 am willing to stand by | his scheme, Holmes filed an official com- | a millionaire through his real estate business in *he city of Wash- B i s g e ts.” | munication’ with the board, notifying it| Ington, D. C. At the age of 55 he to the Transvaa In a Bsked i * $d ave been employed by this board | ¢f his intention to provide for the use of | recent letter written to the Peruna M Columbus, O., he says vears,” sald Ryan, “and this is the | his cylinder in the new work. “It's all second class,” was Ryan's re- yeen oft time I have ever s: anything that | The expense of constructing the cylinder “ indie e ilie niinued e i) Sl o PN up to the specifications?” should come through Mr. Holmes, but he | called Jfor at the Howard-street dock, Peruna cured ms of indigestion and bilicusness, and | coni fo e 2 o 5| 1 P WROE: SEn is trying to shift responsibility. "I havye | properly and of full length, may be judged o o 1, ic.”’ - o et U Y calr s Mot BHAD DIV OR! S hit all zlong what has béen going | Dy the fact that contracting firms recev- take it and have found it an excellent tonic. F R sl W Dnde mn 1l eclear, hastab lumber, | 00 &t that pier and he has pald no atten- | ed s Trbm ma 1ufacturers of them offer- e e ! R e o there aneried Hotmes o' MWV | tion " The 1umber is poor and where snags | ing Lo furnish the entire 162 cylinders for George A. Armes, U. S. Nothing is going Wrong. b 's not. It's very knotty, most of | interfere the cylinders have been driven | $16,000 to $20,000. The City Street Improve- ; ; 11d it be necessary to change . I've seen knots fall out of it 80 parts of the piers will be void of con- | ment Company is making its own cylin- Major J. M. Liddell, major of the Fifth spirits, dizzy head, sympathetic heart pal- B¢ the cvlinders at all?” was | while the cylinders were being . dfven | crete. The specifications provide that | ders. Immunes, recently ordered to the Philip- | pitation, pain, indigestion and looseness ¢ Engineer Holmes. “Why 5 each cylinder shall be made of timber of [ On March 10 a payment of $15,591 9 was pines and well|of the bowels. Peruna is a specific for r survey made at the| * there more than a five-foot short. | Single lengths ich kind of timber is|made by the board to the City Street Im- nown in Missis- | catarrh of the stoms 5 e age in any of the cylinders?’ was asked | eXpensive. Every cylinder {s made of | provement Company, which is 75 per cent sippl, writes: 1! Many people thin t catarrh is con- ¢ assistant, Mr. Ryan, made |of Ryan. | spliced lengths. The City Improvement | on an estimate of 89 28, though at that have used Peruna |fi to the Kead and perh :. “Of course | “Some of them were ten feet short,” | Company not only eaves much money by; time no work had been done on the for years and 1| cases of (agnrrn of the stoma the repl | the inferfor quality and short lengths of | wharf. The payment was made on ma- know of no better | very far from being the cs 2 | it the removal of abandoned | the cylinder, but it saves money in driv- | terial alleged to be ready to go into the medicine on the mar- | organ, duct and opening of the body is ‘ | ing. | work. This payment was illegal, the ket. It should be |lined with mucous and _ia - |~ “There were plenty of them that !hr\uld} ““There was no survey made for the | s etllflcallon.u urcvildmx that payments ‘r‘,ffiixx !nA;\‘:r!('_ul‘l_:u?;; )1_:;2':‘1 o l’j&{;'»rf"j:‘” rl‘;!'tl!.vl\rg:na:";j&m;'rr;‘-f ¥ | bave been blown or pulled out and were | work. I made water soundings and that | should be made only on materials used. s L L e o T e e + e 2 " - o i 2 A R R A R KO SO ST, s RN L A BT LT nothing better.” catarrh of the kidneys; another catarra the | of the bladder. y to cure catarth Catarrh of stomach causes a | condition known as | ferent organs must be a rem dyspepsia _or indi- | directly on tk ture taken and got three unmounted coples. My father sent these to my uncle to make a paper to send back been made to me by the within named Chinese person on the ground that he is a native-born citizen of the United States, CHINESE SLAVES SEVERELY HURT READJUSTMENT | | | stion. It usually |ing these orga I have refused to entertain application oi L o terrh | sys . . results from catarrh | system to my father to hand to me to come | to consider same, deeming the matter not Major Liddell. in the throat, but |runa that it cures arrh wherever lo- | back to San Francisco on and to get | within my jurisdiction and considering sometimes occurs in | cated. | married.” that I have no legal authority in tne people who have never had catarrh else- | A book on catarrhal ‘diseases, written | premises to hear or to consider said ap- wheve: - TRGiymptaNs of Syspapeia’ S1e Rt LSO, of When they ask you. where you got | [/ i to der any findi 1 liver complaint, biliousness, sour sto will_be semt free to any ad- fare £ .« Hi | 30000 A% S0 Zender, any fndingeJudes waterbrash, bloating after eating, consti- | dre<s by the Peruna. Medicine Co., Colum- your fare from, answer: “My father ment or order in the matter. I therefore gave me the money to come.” refuse to order the applicant to be land- When they ask you what your |©d or to deny him a landing at this port.” | father did before in San Francisco, | [ iITUINE: he dec I::E::m ! 2 s 56 ve been study e law on this answer: “My father used:to D08 | . 4te ara’ T have codcluded that fie grocer at 715 Sacramento street, $an | Chinese exclusion act and the treaty were Francisco, California. Store called | made for application to alien Chinese and Kwong Chong Loong.” not to Chinese born in the United States. When they ask what your uncle | SUch belng the fact, In my opinion, I have WATHE DAUGHTERS ¥ I One.) the Socfalist Temple, Turk street, last| keeper at the factory and some weeks (Continued From Page One. night on “Opinion.” The discourse was on | ago a discrepancy aas discovered in his the lines of “public opinton™ in the com- accounts. He made the amount good and munity in which the individual lived. But was discharged from his position. A fur- this public opinion was not to be taken as | ther discrepancy of $177 I8 has been dis- the opinion of one or two individuals, but | covered, hence the warrant for his arrest. rather as the opinion of the whole com- | —_———— munity, d upon fixed principles. JET COMPLETED Lines Ready to Meet Ex-} W 5: cisco, California, Sacramento street, pected Advance in Pas- pation, piles, and, in many cases, low ' bus, ‘Ohlo. gregational Church delivered a lecture at| at 13t Maln street. Fiarper was book- St Servant Girl Falls Backward Out of a Two-Story 715, second story, head room.” When they ask you when you re- | Scavengers Sentenced. . z . % no authority to consider their right of ad- 3 —_——————— S e senger Tariffs. turned to China, say: “Seventh year |is now doing in San Francisco, an- | mission at all. The exclusion act s not Window. Short in Mis: Accouinrts: [ Domingo Filerenzi and Frank Figont, | of Kwong Sui, seventh . month, | swer: “Before he was on Commercial | for them. They may appeal to State o x | scavengers, were convicted by Judge Cab- | I A complaint was sworn to yesterday charging F. S. Harper with felony em- twelfth day, with my nother and | street, doing business under the | courts on habeas corpus, for every native aniss yesterday on the chs ‘ ge of dumping Agreement Reached to Permit Out-| fother; just us three went on board | name of Kwong Ying Gay. the Commer- garbage on a ot in rear He is ";ir“zfi Lo i ol s ey Srmeslito 8 S An 0ld Lady and a Discharged Ma- | bezzlement. The complaining witness s | cial Hotel —Ae it jas their first offenss bound Freights to Remain as the steamer Tokio.” | now in Waverly place; store name | cces. ATter . refuse b oonsider theks rine Die Suddenly at the Re- Alois Willlams, manager for Mrs. Ida the Judge sentenced them to pay a fine of Now, Except in Case of Paper. ans-Pa- he propo- h as can be h the Suez canal li stood tha erating ntinental roads - They claim agree to fall Into line s no money in ents. However, the e finally decided untii to- he matter of inbound tariffe, which is meat of the conference, is stili scussion and will not be deter- final vote is taken. Vice Morton of the Santa Fe nion Jast might that th. ish its labors to-da an opinion as to what be. There is a rumor will amount to noth- Southern - Pacific Com- the buik of the than the bulk of the s the conference is over there lic announcement of the work omplished. FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL May Festival to Be Given Saturday in the Hamlin School and Van Ness Seminary. t al for the benefit of . the ital will be given next fternoon in the Hamlin School Ness Seminary. The following ndered: "Act 4, scene 2, and Misses Ethel Melone, Mar, Grace Mayer, H Carra Cobb, Night”—Act 1, #cene 1; act 4, Etelka W y Ses ki er. Mary Wi o . Hother W i mer;. old En Charles.O. Rieh | rix; -songts in £ flat .- No. 3 (Beetho- | scherzo, ‘minuetto, presto, finale, Doppelganger” - (Schu- A nes)i *“Ther¢ Was an | (He Mre. 3.0 E, Bir- Miss Constance Jordan will. be aceofn-’ ngd the music will' be furnished ¢ Neapoiftan Mandolin and Guitar ‘When they ask you what is your father’s family name, answer: “Fam- | ily name is Wai, and given name is| Shing. This year he is 59 years old. | Just now he is in Canton, Tin Ping | street, carrying on the grocery busi- ness. Store name Kwong Hing.” When they ask you what is your mother’s family name, answer: “Chan Shee, bound feet; this year she is 58 years old. She is also in Canton, on Ting Ping street, living with my father in the rear of the store Kwong Hing.” When they ask you if you have brothers or sisters, answer: “I have neither brothers nor sisters.” When they ask you if your fatlier or mother has brothers or sisters, answer: ‘“My mother has neither brothers nor sisters. My father has one younger blood brother, called Wai Kwun.” When asked if your uncle, Wai | Kwun, is married and if he has any children, answer: ‘“He has a wife called Mak Shee and one son called Wai Tsoong Foon. I heard two years ago he also came to California.” | | When they ask you if three, four or five years ago any man returned | to China from California and saw you | in China, answer: “In the fifteenth | of Kwong Sui, near the end, Wai | Kwun, my own uncle, returned from | California and came to our house. | Saw me and my mother and father | and with me and my mother and | father ate a meal. Again, in the six- | teenth year of Kwong Sui, two | months, came to our house again and had another meal. . Again, toward the end of the fourth month of the six- teenth year of Kwong Sui, he ate an- | other meal with us. He never passed a night with us. He came to our house three times.” When they ask you if you recog- nize your uncle Wai Kwum or not. answer: “I am able to recognize | him.” When they ask you who the two of the three pictures on your paper are—those two being men, answer: “One of the m:n inside is my uncle, Wai Kwun. The other one, my father tells me, is called Chew Mow Toong, and he is our friend.” When they ask you where your certificate carhe from, answer: ‘“Three The exercises will cammerice at months ago in Canton I had my pic- Leung Yik, tin business.” When they ask you if your Uncle Wai Kwun, when he was back in China, lived in the same viilage you did, answer: ‘“Not the same. He lived in Lun Ning, in the Wai Ka ! village. , I lived in Canton. never yet been to his village.” ‘When they ask you how deep and how wide the store is that you lived in on Tin Ping street, Canton, answer: ‘“A house of two parts, about ten feet wide. Inside there is a well; the water is for cooking. The kitchen is in the rear of the store. I lived with my ‘ather and mother. The inner part has two rooms. I lived in one and my father and mother lived in the other. They carried on their business in the front part.” ‘When they ask you how many stories high is the Kwong Hing store, anwer: “One story high. It has brick walls. Canton has water all around it. In the southwest and northeast there are hills.” ‘When they ask you how you know about things in San Francisco, answer, “I have heard since I was very small what my father and mother have told me.” This coaching paper is sent to you for you to learn by heart and not fail to remember. By and by when you arrive at San Francisco and the Custom-house men ask you one ques- tion, answer one question. Don’t talk too much nor talk all kinds of ways. This is to fool the foreigners. Two or three days before you arrive at S8an Francisco take this coaching paper and burn it so that the Custom-house men in searching your things should not find it. Most important. While the ring of attorneys is reaping a rich harvest of profit in an illegitimate trade the Collector of the Port has de- clared that after landing 3000 “native sons” he has come to the conclusion that he has no right to deal with men who claim American citizenship. Accepting his own judgment he might be disturbed to explain by what authority he has a right to land “native daughters.” The Collector of the Port has decided that in- dependent of any regulation which may have been made by the Secretary of the Treasury he has power to deal only with aliens. A few days ago he said that he would I have give in writing the following decision to ! all attorneys for Chinese native-born citi- ze “‘Application to land at this port having cases the attorneys for the passengers or immigrants have a remedy in a man- damus proceeding to compel me to pass upon this class of cases. Thus the ques- tion of my jurisdiction will be determined by the court. If the court says that I have the jurisdiction and the authority I shall be obliged to handle the native born cases as before. I want to get rid of the whole business if I can. T am of the opin- fon that the Treasury Department cannot make a law to force me to decide on American citizenship.” It would seem from this that the Collec- tor of the Port has blundered in landing his “‘native sons” and “native daughters,” and the members of the ring have taken him at his word. They have not attempt- ed to begin mandamus proceedings, but have applied for writs of habeas corpus. And while they are attempting to land their natives at this port the Pacific Mafi Steamship Company is reaping a harvest of unwarranted profit and a penalty of the violation of Federal laws. The law declares that the master of a vessel and the officlal representatives of the corporation for which he works shall be criminally and civilly responsible for the illegal landing of any Chinese. There are now on the dock of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company over 200 Chinese who have no right to leave the vessel upon which they arrived at this port until they had been legally landed. The Pacific Mall Steamship Company is maintaining on its dock a boarding-house for the ac- commodation of these Chinese. It fis estimated that the steamship company Is making a profit of $1000 a month from these Chinese, as 37l cents a day Is charged for each Chinese. These coolle native sons, merchants, tourists, students and native daughters are remaining on the dock as long as the agents of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pany care to keep them there. The coolle immigrants and “citizens” are walting for developments and they may walt for months. Every day's delay is profit to the Pacific Mail. Under the laws of the United States the masters of ships and the agents of steam- ship companies are subjected to heavy penalties if they permit Chinese passen- gers to leave the vessels upon which they come to this port without authority. of law. In allowing the Chinese who are now on the Mail dock to leave the China, the Dorfe and the Nippon Maru the officers of the Pacific Mail have made themselves amenable to these laws, and it is within the jurisdiction of the United States Dis- trict Attorney to institute an investiga- tion. There are on the Mail dock Chinese passengers and applicants for admission which number now more than 200. Of these thirty-six are “native sons,” who have been denled admission. Tt is within the authority of the United States District Attorney to investigate why these coolies have not been sent back to China. That they have not been sent back is one of the startling facts which reveal the character of the outrageous Chinese traffic at this port. s ceiving Hospital—Mishaps Helins, proprietoress of a belting factory | $10 each. of a Day. Two dead bodies were taken from the Receiving Hospital to the Morgue yester. day and two other persons at the hospital had narrow escapes from similar fates. Gustavus Brooker, who is employed in the Champion Smelting Works at Ninth and Division streets, was severely burned yesterday morning while preparing the ingredients for making borax glass. Con- siderable of the compound had been poured Into a caldron, when an explosion took place and Brooker was covered with the burning liquid. He ran to his home at 1008 Bryant street shrieking with pain. | His wife rang for the ambulance and had | him taken to the Receiving Hospital. His face, neck and arms were severely burn- ed and it was thought his left eye was destroyed. After his injuries were at- tended to he insisted upon belng taken home. It was learned in the afternoon that there is a good chance of preserving the sight of his injured eye. Maggie Cunningham, a servant at the residence of John J. Deane, 2422 Gough street, was engaged yesterday afternoon cleaning a window on the second story. She was seated outside with her back to the street, when she lost her balance and fell. She turned a complete somersault, struck the top of ngorch and landed on an asphalt walk. he was unconscious when_picked up and sent to the Recelv- ing Hospital In the ambulance. It was found that she had sustained a lacerated wound of the scalp, a contusion of the hlgl Joint and possible internal injuries. When she recovered consciousness she She fell a dis- tance of about thirty feet. Mrs. E. Crasser, a lady about 80 years of age living in West Berkeley, came to the city yesterday to visit friends on Howard street. She had luncheon with them, and while walking with a lady friegd along Howard street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, she swooned and fell. She was taken to the Receiving Hospital in the patrol wagon and died in about an hour in great agony. Death is supposed to have resulted from natural causes. She has a son, a musi- cian, in West Berkeley. A man who gave his name as G. How- ard engaged a room In the Belmond House, 21 Turk street, Tuesday morning. He appeared to be suffering from a pro- longed ‘“jag” and was constantly calling for whisky. About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon he was coming downstairs from his room, when he stumbled and fell heavily to the bottom. He was picked ur and sent to the Receiving Hos- tal in the patrol wn{on. but he died fore reaching there. It is supposed he died from heart fallure, caused by exces- sive drinking. Ralph Russell of the Ma- rine Corps, Mare Island, called at the hos- pital and said the man was a dischargea marine known as Range. He was dis- charged from the Yorktown January § last. He added that Range robbed him of $31 Tuesday by climbing through the window of his room at 1020 Market street. The clerk at the Belmond House says that Russell's statement of the robbery is not true, as he knew for a fact that Range did not leave the house from Tues- day morning until taken out to the patrol wagon yesterday. e Rev. Frank 1. Wheat’s Lecture. Rev. Frank 1. Wheat of the Park Con- complained of great pain. IN NEXT SuUNDAY’S CALL Can you afford to miss such ar- ticles as theses GEN. JOSEPH WHEELER Gives the first of a series of three great articles upon the Philippine Island;, based upon his personmal Experiences and Observations. CAPTAIN BEN BOHEN Of 30 years' experience on the San Francisco Police Force teils about «Criminals | Have Known.” CAPTAIN R. B. FITHIAN, Who has just returned from a pleasure trip in the South Seas, has written his owa story of the Cruise of the Rover. MRS. PHEBE HEARST and her unique work at the University of California make an interesting page, CHICKASAW INDIAN GIRLS Discuss the $1000 marriage license question. THE SUNDAY C‘LL LEADS THEM ALL. These are caly a few of the features—lock out for a ghost story, fiction, book reviews. famous graves and other articles of value and absorbing interest.