The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 12, 1900, Page 1

» VOLUME LXXXVIII—NO. 134 SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS, MAY CAUSE VERY CRAVE | ONFLLYS Von Waldersee’s Act Augments | Discord. | Serious Consequences| Feared in Southern Provinces. America’s Reply to the Lat- | est Proposals Made by France. AR EARLY PEACE CHIEF DESIRE e As a Last Resort in Settling the In- | demnity in China International Arbitration Is Urged. W S h to The Call. Dispa: "ELLINGTON Ho- Oct. 11.—In direct wishes of the ersee, the China, has Fu, and his | ces in the| the authoritiés foreigners and their | protected by bring- : of peace, Sec- i the French and | s reply to the n which he states ‘would be pleased to | ne begufl immediately upon | t credentials.” | retary states that the other pow- rves we nave made . of nego- | es suggested, and he! found practicable to be- | . h pegotiations at an early day.” nst versial discus- orsed 8- eves tw g for by the the Chinese the claims for powers by coun- | to p " which | was not in There is it will dep on the part asserts there is € in Southern 1 Secretary Hay. owever, that un- ne to support i royvs who have so heir pe 1 check an out- r »osed by this the Viceroys 5 award for their 1S follows: THE States agrees ng as the ob- Government of iate reparation for the past and ces for the future t is glad to perceive in the basts put forward in the memorandum * October 4 the spirft that has animated the r = heretofore made by all the powers and would be pleased to see the € imediately upon the usual of credentials. venient to enumerate the morandum and to add son i ated by the attitude ited States in the present circumstances The punishment of the gulity parties who | may be designated by the representatives of the | wers at Peking. - ! he Chinese Government has already Indi- | its intention to punish & number of sonsible for the recent disorders. The resentatives of the powers at Peking may gEest additions to that list when negotia- | ered | contiruance of the interdiction against ation of arms. | undestood that this interdiction is nt, and the duration of it and | 1ts regulation a proper f discussion by the negotiators. table indemnities for the Governments, ations and private individuals « is an object desired by all the poiwers. Russian Government has suggested that ase of protracted divergence of views this ter might be commended to the considera- the International Court of Arbitration Hague. The President thinke this sug- worthy the attention of the powers, organization in Peking of & perma- guard for the legations. Government of the United States fs un- , make permanent engagement of this ure without the authorization of the legis- e branch, but in the present emergency we | med in Peking an adequate legation | of seem guard 6. The dismantling of the forts at Taku. The President reserves the expression of his © ettt BIG NEW BATTLESHIP WISCONSIN, A PRODUCT OF PACIFIC COAST LABOR, BREAKS THE WORLD'S RECORD IN A TRIAL After Run Off Santa Barbara, in Which She Shows Mar- velous Powers, a Test Is Made of Other Mechanism, mgjanapolis Is the Which Is Pronounced as Nearly Perfect as Possible. 3 The appended table gives the contract the American navy, built and accepted, in _Union Iron Works: OFFICIAL TRIAL PERFORMANCES OF UNCLE SAM’S BATTLESHIPS [ ] and trial data of the seven battleships of % [} 3 B I g : - S B | » | s | s a5 | NAME. £ - s H g} H B | 3 . ‘ addition to the latest achievement of the Trial. Indiana Massachusetts .. 15 16 Kearsarge 16 Kentucky 16 Alabama ... 16 WISCONSIN ..... 16 “Estimated horsepower. ANTA BARBARA, Oct. 11.—The new battleship Wisconsin, in her trial trip to-day, showed marvel- | ous speed, breaking all records | for vessels of her class. The| water was rough and a heavy fog hung over the channel. Hundreds of people | stood on shore to watch the maneuvers | of the vessel, but a few minutes after | she left her moorings she had disappeared in the white mist. With the break of dawn a strong south- | west breeze sprung up. The water was | choppy and there was a heavy swell Much speculation was indulged in and the | wise ones sald the trial must needs be postponed. The bullders, however, were | confident of the staying qualities of their handicraft and decided to make the run in spite of wind and weather. They made | it and now proudly point to the mountain | fron and steel as another monument to Pacific Coast skiil ard enterprise. | A few minutes before 8 o'clock this| morning the Wisconsin left her berth in this channel and proceeded to sea. She went far above the course and then ran | down almost as far as Ventura at @ | speed In excess of sixteen knots. On re- | turning she started on the course, pass- ing the lowa, which was the eastern bea- line, at 10:20 o'clock. d the first stake- passed the second she after turned t the Philadelphia, and re- ed to the starting line. The average stions of the propellers on the west- ern trip were 119.34 per minute and on the stern trip 119.15. This is k- able, as never before have av lutions b The average steam pressure was 180 and the exhausts blew off fre- quently, which showed that there was steam to spars. The maximum speed from the stakeboat Ranger to Gaviota wharf was 18.54. The aver- age speed for 32 knots on the west- ern course was 17.9, making an aver- age speed for the entire run of 17.25. All the evolutions of the ship in turn- ing, backing, full speed ahead, full spezd astern, turning by hand steer- ing gear and raising the anchor with 103 fathoms of chain were performed satisfactorily. All the auxiliaries performed their work as perfectly as mechanism can be made to do. Irving M. Scott said: “Without doubt she is the most perfect ship in all appurtenances that the Union Iron Works has ever turned out. | Approximately the horsepower was | 11,800. The Alabama was the only | other ship that approached the speed | and her average speed was 17.03. Her maximum was 18.03.” Chief Engineer Forsyth kept a record of the wind as well as the waves, and on the return course there was & whitecap sea for about one-quarter of the thirty- con At 11:01 a at m. s and akebos last boat, reve one rem rage re ciose. | 1ength of time | Horse- [Aver, Date. [ power. ; Speed. Oct. 18, 1895 | 9,738 | 15.547 Apl. 25, 1896 | 10,403 | 16.21 May 14, 1896 | 11,111 | 16.79 Apl. 7, 1897 | 12,105 | 17.087 Sept. 25, 1899 l 11,674 | 16.816 Nov. 24, 1899 | *11,600 | 16.878 Aug. 28, 1900 | *11,500 | 17.013 Oct. 11, 1900 | *11,800 | 17.25 . — NEW UN WEATHER. o< ITED STATES BATTLESHIP WISCONSIN, WHICH DURING HER TRIAL TRIP IN SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL YESTERDAY BROKE THE | WORLD'S RECORD FOR VESSELS OF HER CLASS, ALTHOUGH THE VOYAGE WAS MADE AGAINST THE TIDE AND IN RATHER HEAVY — e far from being completed owing to the same causes that have delayed the other two ships. The builders are, of course, de- sirous of gettings ships off their hands and closing up transactions involving, as does the Wisconsin, $2,674,90, which Is $547,860 less than the contract for the Oregon, indicating that the Government is beginning to get its money's worth, the | earller high prices paid being necessary to foster the development of the highest kind of warship building. The principal dimensions and data con- cerning the battleships in commission and those In course of construction to be com- — o two krots. A great deal of the success of | of the men below decks and could not say Kentucky, Alabama and Wisconsin ex- | pleted this year are given in the following the trip Is due to Mr. Forsyth, John Mur- | enough in favor of the work they accom, | ceeded their contract speed as much as| table, in order to enable the reader to . who had charge of the boilers, and | plished. He is feeling in the best of spir- | the vessels tried prior to the Kearsarge. | make comparisons. In the classes grouped Quartermaster Ancerson. Mr. Eckert, | jts and is justly proud of the Wisconsin, | It is not alone that American battle- | the Indiana stands for the Massachusetts consulting engineer of the Union Iron Works, kept a record of the revolutions. The specd of the engines was o regular that 930 revolutions therc was not a difference of twenty revoluticns between | the port and starboard propellers as the figures stood. It was a most remarkable trip. The tidal corrections when com- puted will add to the speed recorded be- calse the tide was against for a greater than with the direction of | the ship. After the course was run she a1d not slack her speed, but kept, right cn. | The naval board then took charge of her, testing the cvolutions that are rnquired‘ by the Government, consisting of turning | the ordinary | Time was noted at each turn, | also with one propeller bearing ahead and | to port and starboard in manner. the other astern, turning to port and star- board with hand steering gear and de- scribing a circle. She accomplished so small a circle that the radius was within one and a half lengths of the boat. Irving M. Scott was loud in his praise the boat that has heaten the world's ree- ord for her class. There is no doubt of the fact that if the ‘conditions of the past week had continued until to-day an aver- age speed of 17% krots would have been made. One of the officers aboard jocu- larly stated that “Scott had Cramps!” Tt is just about five years since the In- | dlana, the first battleship of the American had her trial, and every succeeding predecessor. There has not been a single hitch in the progress and it was antic- ipated that just as the Alabama had ex- ceeded the performance of the Indlana the Wisconsin would excel the Alabama. Up till three years ago speed premiums gave the builders an additional incentive to turn out better and faster ships than the contracts demanded and every ship earned a large premium; but the with- drawal of the bonus does not seem to | have slacked the efforts of the bullders, and the performances of the Kearsarge, ship has been an improvement upon its | ships make better speed on their, trials than those of foreign navies, but the rec- ord of the Oregon showed that with proper handling and care of the machin- ery American war vessels improve under service conditions over their trial per- formance, while in foreign navies the re- verse is the case, indicating that the ships are “jockeyed” in order to show great paper speed. The table herewith shows that, leading all the vessels of the American navy, the latest achievement of the Union Iron ‘Works is greater than all others. The Wisconsin was contracted for on September y 19, 159, to be completed In three ybars. Her keel was laid on February 9,'1897 and the launch took place November 26, 1598. The ship will be nearly one year overdue on her contract, owing to the customary delay in furnishing the armor, contracts for which were not made until June, 1898. The Illinols, a sister ship to the Alabama and Wisconsin, now in course of construction at Cramps’, is still and Oregon; the Iowa is the sole vessel of its type, and the Kearsarge, Kentucky, Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin are sis- ter ships: DIMENSIONS AND DATA. “wuwpur | atavsavey | Breadth, fee Mean draught, Tons dizplacement o Main battery Main battery Torpedo tubes. Three other battleships—the Maine, Mis- sour{ and Ohio—of 12,500 tons and eighteen knots speed are in course of construction, | but will not be eompleted within another year, as the contracts for armor are still held up on account of the inability of Congress and the armor manufacturers to agree on prices to be paid. ROCKEFELLER WILL PROBABLY NOT BE HALED INTO TEXAS Requisition for Ex radition on Like Grounds Once Before Refused by Courts. PRRRERE. a2 NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—There was a good deal of a mix-up here to-da¥ over an at- tempt to straighten out the position of the requisition of Governor Sayers of Texas for the persons of Willlam Rockefeller and other members of the board of direc- tors of the Standard Ofl Company. Sev- eral statements were given out seriously alleging that Governor Roosevelt or Act- ing Governor Woodruff had taken final action in the matter, but to-night it is definitely ascertained that the only action that was taken in the case was by Judge Joyce, the Governor's pardon clerk, who merely gave to Governor Sayers' coynsel an opinion that unless his papers of requi- sition could state that the persons wanted had been In the State of Texas and had committed a crime there they would not be taken from this State. As far as Governor Roosevelt is con- cerned, he has mot acted in the matter because of absence from the State, WAS NOT OFFERED PRESIDENCY OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC g gy Edwin Hawley Declares That the Committee Has Not Selected the Man. NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Referring to a dispatch from San Francisco saying that he had refused the presidency of the Southern Pacific Raillway Company at $40,000 a year, Edwin Hawley said to-day: “I would not take $40,00 a year and leave New York. It is not true that the place has been offered to me, anyway. I would not accept the presidency of the Southern Pacific. I would rather stay here. The matter of the presidency is in the hands of the monetary committee, of which C. H. Tweed is chairman. The committee has not selected any one for the office yet; when it does, it will report to the governing board. I have no idea who will get the presidency.” Mr. Hawley is now fourth vice presi- dent of the Southern Pacific Company and president of the Minneapolis and St. Louis and of the lowa Central rallroads, as well as director in numerous other roads. LAWYER SPRINGS A NEW SENSATION IN THE RICE CASE s Sl Declares That the Alieged Second Will Makes No Mention of Any Trust. NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—The only de- velopment in the Rice case to-day was the attempt to bail Albert T. Patrick, the old milifonaire’s lawyer. The bondsman, ‘Willlam S. Long, a real estate broker, was not accepted, as a judgment of $1800 against him had not been satisfled. Mr. Long offered as security for the $10,000 four buildings, valued at $10,000; four bulldings, valued at $340,000, with two mortgages on them for $271,000, James W. Gerard, counsel for Captain James A. Baker, one of the executors of Millionaire Willlam Marsh Rice's first will, sprang a new sensation this after- noon by making the following statement: “I have seen a copy of Mr. Rice's ai- leged second will. Patrick's statement that this {nstrument left the residuary estate to him In trust is untrue, The whole residuary estate Is given to Patrick in fee and there is no mention of any trast in the instrument. % CZAR PREPARES T0 WAGE WAR AGAINST EMPEROR WILLIAM Significant Spzech to His Men Made by the Russian Gen- eral. = LONDON, Oct. 12—The Moscow corre- spondent of the Standard attaches signifi- cance to a speech made by the Russian general in command at Wilna to some troops whe had been ordered to China, but were recalled to Odessa on the very eve of sailing. He says that the general in addressing the men made this explana- tion: “The Czar decided it was necessary to bring you back to Wilna so you might be ready here to join us against a foe we shall be ordered to meet.” The correspondent adds that the foe hinted at can only be Germany. CRET e Anti-Goebelites Disagree. FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 11.—The Dem- ocratic and Republican anti-Goebel fac- tions of the conference committee appoint- ed by the Kentucky Legislature to adjust the disagreement over an election bill to take the place of the Goebel law failed to agree, and to-night the leaders on both sides express the opinion that a new law will not be passed. s TWO ADDITIONAL SEATS ARE GAINED BY MINISTERIALISTS SR List of ke-elecied Includes the Nephew of the Late Earl of Bz2a- consfield. LONDON, Oct. 12.—In the pollings in the Parilamentary general election yesterday the Ministerialists gained two seats, mak- ing their total gains thirty, against twen- ty-nine for the opposition. In Sutherlandshre, S. Levinson-Gower, Liberal-Uniorist, defeated John MecLeod, Liberal, who held the seat in the late Parliament, and in the Southport division of Southwest Lancashire E. Marshall Hall, Conservative, wrested the seat from Sir George Augustus Pilkington, who se- cured it in the bye-election last year. The constitution of the new house thus far is as follows: Ministerialist, 374; op- position, 225. As yet there has been no Ministerfalist gain in Wales and no Liberal gain in Scotland. The list of the re-elected in- cludes the nephew and heir of the late Earl of Beaconsfield, Coningsby Ralph Disraell, who has represented the Al- tringham division of Chesh! e in the Con- servative Interest since 189z ROOSEVELY CRYS CREAT RECEPPON Scene of Warm Welcome. Never Had a Political Candidate Received Such Honors. Enthusiastically Cheered by an Immense Audi- ence. MAKES A TELLING ADDRESS | Ry | Bryan's Own Book Quoted to Show | the Change in Sentiment of Democratic Candidate. | —_— INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1l.—Indianapolls, | which is now holding its first fall festival gave Governor Roosevelt to-night one of the greatest receptions ever extended in this city to a candidate for political hon- ors. From the crossing at Southeastern avenue up East Washington street, three- quarters of a mile distant to the court- | house, where he spoke to an immense audience, he was enthusiastically cheered. The sidewalks and thoroughfares were crowded with a mass of enthusiastic hu- manity, through which the triumphal pro- cession marched with difficulty. | The candidate for Vice President bowed continually to the multitude and shook hands with men and women who gathered around his carriage. The courthouse grounds and the streets surrounding it were ' congested with a throng which greeted the Governor's ar- rival with a storm of cheers, and as he alighted at the courthouse entrance can- non boomed salutes. The evening was devoted to a parade, which was more than two hours passing she-reviewing stand in front of the court- house. The lne of march ws led and decorated profusely. At the conclu- sion of the parade the Governor was es- corted to the Dennison Hotel, where he will remain until 9 o'clock to-morrow when the special train will start on third day's itinerary of the Indiana tour. In his speech at the courthouse Governor Roosevelt said: “I feel in thisfcampaign less as if it were an ordinary partisan contest than as if it were a crusade for all that we hold dear in the institutions of the land we love so well. I feel that we have a.right to appeal to all good Americans, no mat- ter what their party affiliations have been | in the past, to stand with er us, for we stand for the honor and interest of the indeed, to whole country, and I am glad be introduced by Chairman Democrat who believes in what w the old Democratic of money, expansion and the honmor of the flag. That is what Jackson—Andrew Jackson—tought for and lived for, and he would turn in his grave If some of thede modern Bryanized Democrats walked over it. I appeal to you first from the stand- point of the material interests of the country. I appeal to you to keep the good things we have got and not throw them away In mere folly. I want no better campaign argument than be made out of the specches of Mr. Bryan himseif four years ago. If you read the Old Tes- tament you will find that false prophets had a bad time in those days. but nowa- days they nominate them for President on the Democratic ticket. This is an In- | teresting book (taking up a book). It is | the best campaign book for the Republi- | doctrines can party I ever saw. It is called ‘The First Battle,’ and it was written by Mr. Bryan, and if you will turn to page 52 you will see the speeches he made here in In- dianapolis four years ago. As generally happens, he could not resist prophesying, and he said, ‘Gold is arrogant and tyran- nical, and it deserts any nation iy time of war.” | ‘e have had the Spanish war and goid | stayed with us. Well, we went on—and this I should commend to the few goid Democrats who now want to come back and join us—he sald: ‘We have begun war on the gold standard and we shall | not let up on it until there is not a singic friend of gold left in the country.” Th war has gone on for four years and so far from the desired result having happenel as Mr. Bryan wished, he himself now, when he gets Into certain communities, cooes as mildly as a sucking dove on the currency issue. We are forcunate in has- ing an issue which does not gear thin in any part of the country. v’e are for the gold standard here, in New York and in Denver—everywhere."” A voice—In Vietor? Mr. Roosevelt—Yes, in Vietor. Once more we are for the cause of law and order—of orderly liberty under the law— everywhere. “This you will find on page 332 of Mr. Bryan's book: ‘Only a few of our people will be able to wear shoes under the standard.’ And then he goes on: ‘As it is with shoes, so it is with clothing. (Great laughter.) “That is actually what Mr. Bryan said four years ago. And, gentlemen, he ran pretty .close yesterday when he stated that he wanted a change in the party that had control of the Government so as to allow everybody to go to the seasidc. Continued on Second Page.