The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1900, Page 23

srene TORONOESXONG ROW - - = - = « B . - « | Pages 23 10 32 ; | i | Soreronerers The MINISTER WEEPS OVER THE BODY OF A SUICIDE Tragic Death of Elmore E. Ewing, Who Became a Thief in His 0ld Age,and in the Wreck of His Fortunes Dared Not Face Dishonor. | ‘s LS LT e As Agentof Welshach Company He Was a Defaulter. e Asks His Accuser to Pay Expenses of His Funeral. SEEA himself rather than face his accusers and disgrace. His letter was as follows: Dear Daisy: If I should not be here for breakfast you may not expect to see me again among the living. Let my remains be interred without unnecessary delay. I wish the G. H. Thomas Post to furnish me a resting piace, but not to incur any expense, only temporarily. we have desired to trace And t place talic of beacons on the ses, t wreckage has not ceased to ba k of iife lines being cast perched upon the mast. be as is a dream; &5 & stream d o shall be man who wrote those lines, rday morning—dead; s own life. The come for him to look i the dividing of the ways d not look upon a vision of nor. his old age he had become a He had wrecked his name and his e and his only vision was of death. ne years he had end then he com- ~8 rest friend in San Hutsinpiller, pas- Methodist Episcopal Pacific endent Coast of the ters and office When ago he 1 been & man young collegian army ng brave- t Ohio Regiment Vo ca on many k omotion and when s a captain celebrated in a he came tc of wide exy verse the 2 when he was welcomed d comrade. ness of integrity had was welcomed and ulous oceedings of the es of the times 1y & man of strong reli- 3 T attested {t and his ac He became a member of Methodist Epis- copal Church and was soon chosen a.dea- con and & member of the board of trus- in the Sunday- school until ago, when dis- ease of mind and bod ed him to re- gign. It was mainly through his urging and recommendation that the present pas- tor, Rev. Dr. 8. D. Hutsinpiller, was - duced to come to San Francisco. A year ago Ewing published a little vol- ume of prose and verse. The book, ,which he called “Bugles and Bells,” represented terary efforts, occasionally made to recall army scenes to tell the story of his E. Ewing, was found in | h he paid for with his | dead body yesterday | Fran headquar- | 1 | PUBLIC, DEACON AND TRUSTE! ELMORE E. EWING, MEMBER OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE RE- COPAL CHURCH, KILLED HIMSELF WHEN PROVED A THIEF. E OF CENTRAL METHODIST EPIS- | regiment and to inspire a renewal of pa- | triotic thoughts In his old comrades. | Shortly after the publication of this vol- ak mentally and s at home and in took exaggerated forms. His wife and daughter became ill and he was forced to send them to their former home His niece, Mrs. Daisy Chapman rem with him (o care for his house- hold at 43¢ Ellis street. The unfortunate | man never. possessed much money and | new competition in business reduced hi income. At the same time his necessities | | increased and in his old age, after a | | career which had won him respect and | honor, he was forced for the sake of his family and himself to become a thief. As superintendent of the “‘Msbachl Company on the Pacific Coast he had | complete control of considerable money. | He took part of this money and falsified | the books in a vain effort to hide his | | crime. Ten days ago he saw that the end | had come. Robert J. Thompson, acting | manager of the Welsbach Company, ar- | rived from Philadelphia and instructed | "2 | the old man to prepare for an examina- | | tion of his books and accounts. Ewing | | saw that detection was inevitable. He had | | no money with which to ray back what | he had stolen. It was absolutely impos- | sible for him to deceive his superior and | in his old age he could not endure the | dishonor that was to come upon him. | Manager Thompson very quickly dis- covered gross irregularities in the books and proofs of dishonesty in the accounts. | He at once demanded the old man's res- | ignatfon. And the old man gave it and | then went home to write a note asking Manager Thompson to bury his dead boay decently. The resignation was sent to tha head office of the company in Philadel- Phia and on Friday Ewing received Its acceptance. It meant death to him. He returned to his home Friday night and wrote a farewell note, pathetic, hope- less and still pleading even in its despair, to his niece. He had determined to kill | custom, and before day had dawned left | | part of it around his neck, so that when My life ipsurance policles are In a tin box which Dick can easily find, and Miss Burns an find the pa which contains them. | legraph Mrs. Ewing, and please remain | here until she can arrive. My purse contains | all the money I have. I ask Mr. Thompson, acting manager of the Welsbach Company, to defray all expenses of | my burfal. My wrongdoing s so unlike my | real self that I can nelther account for it nor apologize for it. 1 did not intend to do a Wrong to any one. To you I desire agaln to express my thanks for your unselfish service and I only regret that | I am to bring so much sorrow to my family, whom I dearly love, and to you and your fam- who think so well of me. God bless all of ou and 1 trust that he will deal gently with me. Farewell. E. And then the old man went to sleep. He determined to die in the morning. He arose early yesterday, contrary to his his home and went to his office in the | bullding of the Young Men's Christlan Assoclation at Ellis and Mason streets | He locked the outer door and went into | his inner and private office. | At 7:30 o'clock the office boy, Leo | Barker, arrived at the office, opened the | door and prepared for the business of the | day. He went to the door of Ewing's | private office, looked in and found the old | man sitting in his chair—dead. The sul- cide had attached one end of a rubber | tube to the chandelier and after winding unconsciousness overcame him it would not be disturbed, had placed the other end into his mouth. ‘When the office boy raised the alarm and sought” assistance the old man was dead. The physiclans who came could do nothing; the minister could give no other tribute than tears. George H. Thomas | Post will honor the last wish of its old comrade and bury him with its services and think perhaps what the old man wrote a few months ago: At times we rise above the tide; Our vision reaches far and wide, And not a sail is spread to view That does not seem for me or you. A night may come and intervene Between us and th' enchanted scene; The ships are turned toward the sea. And Hope has changed Despair to be. ATTORNEY WHITTAKER GRANTED SMALL IOAN Accuses Frank Thomas of Sacramento of Obtaining Money by False Pretenses. Attorney George E. Whittaker swore to & complaint in Judge Mogan's court yes- terday charging Frank Thomas with ob- taining money by false pretnses. Thomas, the attorney said, called upon him on August 4, representing that he owned property on Second street, between K and L, Burment;}, amlt uk;;i Wh{{'[:nk"km tate lor_ L Lt Pevecd to 8o 80 and Thomas ‘‘touched him for 320 on the plea that he urgently needed it for slight repairs on one of his houses. Whittaker, while trying to ne- ate the loan, discovered that Thomas 54 not own the property. Thomés had & meteoric career in Bacra- mento, Whittaker says. September 27 he was held there to answer before the Su- perior Court by Justice Anderson on a charge of forgery preferred against him by & Mrs. Fisher. He was rel on bonds and is now in this city. Whittaker alieges that Thomas “touched” a number of people in Bacramento, one being Jus- tice Anderson, who gave up $100. Mr. Dana Corrects an Error. Harvey H. Dana says that the state- ment that he has received any mony from the proprietors of Smith’s Cash Store in repayment of wmoney loaned them last February to satisfy creditors is an error. “I Joaned no money last Feb: 10 any firm to satisfy creditors,” say; Dang $o & written communication. ]KYS’X‘EBY OF A SHOT | BEING INVESTIGATED It Was Fired Through the Window of Mrs. Della Harkins’ House on Sutter Street. Peter Harkins, a billposter and ex-door- keeper at the Alhambra Theater, has been under bonds for some months to keep the peace, he had threatened to kill his wife. They separated at the time of the trouble and since then the wife, Della Harkins, has been living at 823C Sutter street. He has been arrested two or three times for failing to provide for his child. | , Friday night Mrs. Harkins reported to the police that a shot had been fired through the window of the house where she lives. Detective McMahon and Of- ficer McMurray of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children were detailed on the case and suspecting Har- kins, they arrested him at an early hour yesterday morning. With the object of detaining hg? a charge of failure to O] rovide was booked against him. He was ken before Judge Conlan yesterday morning and as no complaint had been sworn to against him he was discharged. Harkins claims that he can prove satis- factorily that he could not have fired the shot. m"‘;hfie p,o':(ce 1:l'e ltlul'l ‘working on the case ay hav Sourt of proving his atipt, CTrCron in —_———————e Lecture at the Temple. Dr. Morro F. Underwood will deliver a lecture in the Temple, 117 Turk street, to- night .at 8 o'chock. “What the Eominin Becple G Dol e pubite 1o JAMES TAYLOR ROGERS SEEKS TO EVADE FINE He Asks Judge Dunne to Recall At- tachment Levied Against His Property. James Taylor Rogers, assisted by At- torney J. T. Houx, launched yesterday in Judge Dunne’s court his effort to secure & recall of the execution on his property to secure the payment of a fine of $500 im- posed upon him for contempt of court. Rogers, though he has not as yet an- nounced his determination to end his fight for “vindication,” is centering all his ef- forts on the attempt to prevent the col- lection of the fine. When the case was called for hearing Attorney Houx intimated that a continu- ance would be welcome, as Barclay Hen- ley, who represented Rogers throughout the ordeal preceding the pronouncing of judgment against him, could be present at any future date. The continuance was | for wind. SX HONTES JOURNEY 0 SHP ARTAN Becalmed, as Was Ancient Mariner, for Weeks. Then Came Furious Storm, Sweeping Two Seamen 0 Their Death, . SIXTEEN DAYS ROUND THE HORN | —— | Crew Declare a Hoodoo Controlled the | Cruise Which Cost Two Com- rades’ Lives. —_— What the name of the ship was in which | Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner” took pas- sage is not known, but if he had cared to repeat his experience he might have | | bought a ticket on the American ship | Aryan, which, storm-beaten and weed- | grown, dropped anchor off Goat Island | last nigpt, six months out from New York. The vessel has gone through as tpugh | an experience as ever falls to the lot of her kind. In latitude 48° 40’ south and longitude 79° 10’ west the Aryan poked her nose into a hurricane that narrowly missed whipping the sticks out of her, and cost two of the seamen—John Larsen | and George Ruf, both of New York—thelr | | lives. As she lay off Goat Island last night there was little about the trim craft to | indicate what she had gone through. Only | at the peak the colors flew half-mast, and a gloom lay on the crew. Liberal coats | of paint and plenty of elbow grease have | made the Aryan outwardly as trim as when she left her home port, but forward in the forecastle the men’'s talk of nights is of noodoos and the heavy hand of a hoodoo holding the Aryan becalmed sweeping off two of their comrades to‘an ccean grave. In the after house these tales are of course ridiculed, but like Banquo's irrepressible ghost they will not down, and Captain Whittfer himself ad- mits that never had he seen the like of ill luck which befell the Aryan. On April 28 the Aryan cleared from New York for San Francisco. Her cargo was of mixed hardware—a layer of iron rails, a layer of barreled horseshoes and so on until she rode with lttle freeboard to spiare. It was Captain Whittier's second voyage in the.ship. She had proved her- self a good, manageable craft. But one drawback to the prospect of suceessful and speedy termination of the voyage pre- sented itself. Out of the crew of fifteen men but six had ever been to sea. Despitel this disadvantage, however, 00od time was made till the equator had een crossed. Then the Aryan's troubles commenced. Day after day Captain ‘Whittier's command lay ‘Idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocearn,” till her seams opened in the sun and the crew lay about the deck too weary of walting to even whistle for the longed- Those days were but the beginning of a long succession of calms. Once in a while a breeze would spring u and.send the Aryan staggering along wit every stitch of canvas spread to catch it: then down again would settle the dead!y calm to blister the paint and make the tar boll in the cracks between the deck planks, All things have an end, however—even calms—and about the middle of July the sun-dried Aryan rolled into real Cape Horn weather. It took the crew sixteen days to work her round into the Paclfic, with a great loss of canvas and expendi- ture of ofl. Once fairly around, however, and the Aryan's luck seemed to have changed. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free. It seemed that after all the Aryan would manage to get to San Francisco be- fore September, but on the night of Au- gust 10 the hopes of her captain and crew were rudely dispelled. During the day blown so fairly, increased till it assumed the proportions of a gale. Severe storms are rare in the region .n which the Ary- an now was and her master did not an- “ticipate the hurricane that was brewing. At about 9 o'clock that night it broke in all its fury and, double reefed and under short canvas as she was the ship keeled over on her beam ends. Just when or how John Larsen was lost none on board knows, but as the last seen of him was shortly before this furious squall he must have been swept overboard by one of tha huge combers which swept the decks, One of the quarter boats was whipped clean out of the davits and carried to sea, doors were smashed in, windows splin- tered, and to add to the general confusion the pigs and chickens broke out of the long boat and ran, stricken with fright. about the wave-washed decks. They wers nearly all carried overboard. George Ruf, the second man to lose his life on that night, was lashing a _boat more se- curely to the roof of the afterhouse when the squall came. A wave picked him up and carried him clear over to the mizzen shrouds, against which he was dashed with fearful force. Capiain Whittier him- self carried him below, where he died in great agony a few hours later, Much canvas had to be sacrificed, but the Aryan weathered the storm and con- tinued her voyage of alternate stops and starts until she crawled into port last night with only the half-masted bit of bunting and the gloom in the forecastle to bear witness to what she had seen on the ocean highway. The Aryan is the last built of the fa- mous Bath (Me.) fleet of wooden clipper- ;’s‘é«“ ships, she having been Isuncheg in The American ship Shenandoah also got in last night after cruising about outside the heads all day. sShe made an excep- tionally good run of seventy-four days from Sydney, N. 8. W. WILL BE THERE WHEN “BROWN COMES TO TOWN” Nearly a Thousand of the Emporium Employes. A very large theater party will attend the performance at the Alhambra . next Monday evening, when the big Market- street department store will entertain its the wind, which had | Call, | Pages 23 10 32 PRPHP RPXPEPHPRDE S H GHOXOHPRO RO RO, * L * - * - SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1900. Nolan Treadwell Sags 'Tis Hard, but That It Must Be Borne. Unhappy Unionof Joe Nolan May Be the Reason of It. P i VAN TREADWELL, the prospective heir to some hundred thousands of the Treadwell millions, and the lady of his choice, Miss Genevieve Nolan, will have to wait two years before they join hands and hearts—that Is if they wart the maternal blessing of Mrs. Nolan, and they both say they do. As announced in yesterday morning’s Be Each Other’s " EX l: | 1 e -+ MUST WAIT TWO YEARS, DECREES FIRM PARENT Then, and Not Till Then, Says Maternal Edict, May Ivan Treadwell and Miss Genevieve Own. o IVAN TREADWELL AND MIS8 GENEVIVE NOLAN, THINK THAT TWO YEARS OF WAITING AT MAMMA'S REQUE WHO DON'T CAN DAMPEN THEIR YOUNG DREAM OF LOVE. Call, the young people have plighted their troth and say that no amount of waifing can alter their affection for each other. Another Treadwell-Nolan pair who were enmeshed in Cupld's net show every de- sire to break out, and doubtless Mrs. Nolan Sr. thinks it better not to risk a second rupture in the families by reason of the engaged couples marrying in haste and repenting at leisure “Two years seems a long time to walt,” sald young Treadwell la gu it won't make a love for Genevieve.” {If Copied It May ECRETARY OF STATE CURRY notified Registrar Walsh yester- day that an error had been made in_ the sample ballots sent by him to election officlals through- | out the State. If the erfor is not cor- rected many citizens are liable to lose their votes. The explanation of the error is_contained in Secretary Curry's letter, which is as follows: SACRAMENTO, Oct. 18, 1900. Thomas J. Walsh Esq., Registrar of Voters, San Francisco, Cal.—Dear Sir: Some time since we forwarded to you a sample ballot. We de- sire to call your attention to a correction that ghould be made in sald sample. At the right of the words *‘For Electors’” you will find a voting space. This should be left out, and the inner line to each column should commence at the line below the words “For Electors,” as I have indicated in the sample herewith inclosed. Re- specttully yours, & C. F. CURRY, Secretary of State. By J. HOESCH, Deputy, The danger ‘lies in the fact that the voter is liable to put a mark In the square opposite “For Electors,” and so on down the list until he has voted ten times, whereas he can vote for only nine Elect- ors. The mistake lies in the line having been extended opposite “For Electors, thus forming a square. ERROR IN SAMPLE BALLOTS IS DISCOVERED Ivalidate the Vote for Presidential Electors. e S Re L i ( 4 | . e tutats o st o ca | @il el @ | - ! | The Republican ticket as printed ifi on the sample ballot, all other tick- ¥ | ets being simflarly printed, is as 3 follows: For Electors... Samuel M. Shortriage.. x :2. i William J. Barrett ] x| ; | k = i L4 3 John Walter Ryan Jx l +| o+ Harold T. Power x| | % Willlam R. Davis. x| *3 ¥ ‘Christian B. Rode.... X :1: Frank MCGOWaMN. .c..icvuieaieiiannns x| “* Warren R. Porter.. x| i % James McFadden 4 fl £ Oimirinbeiiinle oot il @ Registrar Walsh states that the ticket | printed for this city does not contain the error, but he fears that the sample ballot may have been followed by election officers in other cities. | | PRESIDIO GOLFERS l PLAY IN TOURN’A]IEN‘Il Severance Beats Half a Dozen Com- | petitors by a Good Margin. There was a handicap tournament over eighteen holes, medal play, for the golfers in class B at the Presidio links yesterday. | Of the ten golfers to whom handicaps had | been allotted seven handed in cards, the | lowest score being that of J. 8. Severance, | who. took first place with a gross of 103 less 4—99. Warren Gregory, who won the tournament on the previous Saturday with H a score of 193 and handed in quite a high | The full details are given in the score. table: i:?‘xf g;w g FEIE R COMPETITORS. e gt J. 8. Severance. 48 C. Christensen 6L Captain Bum [ W. Gregory. [ L. B Ed 88 | w. 67 | | A “driving contest for best ave with | five balls was won by Lansing O, Kellogg. "The men's foursomes, with handicap, over elghteen holes, that were to have taken place on the Oakland links yester- day, did not come off, owing to the ab- sence of some of the contestants. A four- some, however, was played between W. R. Johnson and Harry Rawlins on one side and F. S. Stratton and Horace Raw- lins on the other, the latter couple win- numerous employes. The entire first floor not granted and Houx was forced to cite a few authorities in support of his motion to recall. The case was then continued. Honest Business Principle. ‘When appointed assignee of the Boston Shoe Co., 775 Market street, I stated to the public that the whole stock of shoes would be sold for 40 cents on the dollar, I have kept my word and will continue to do so while assignee. To-morrow will has been secured, and the largest thea- ter party ever assembled in a San e cisco theater will enjoy the many good things in that ~laughable comedy “Brown's in Town.” ltal e e s, e undre e e of the mpne::ament of the Empofllll:.‘u i e Caught in San Jose. Chief of Police Sullivan last night re- celved word that Frank Contreras, alias sell ladies’ 32 50 shoes for 95 cents; men's [ Frgnk Willlams, who is wanted in this 's hand made gran + 18 under arrest t‘oruuwani"tl%a igmee shoe sale of mi’.‘{'}” &- o%%gm a 5 P. C. KELLY, Assignee. * |of a watch and and gold bracelet.. | the whereabouts of Mamie Corrigan, the ning seven up. Horace and Harry Raw- lins are the professionals at the Adams Point links. - e Mamie Corrigan Still Missing. The police have been unable to discover young girl, who disappeared from her home, 207 Steiner street, last Thursday morning. Joseph Weinholz, the girl's lover, has satis the police that he does not know where she is w MAKES EARLY MORNING CALL ARMED WITH AX Mrs. Shafter Calls on the Polics| and J. M. Wilson Is Sent to | an Asylum. Early yesterday morning Mrs. E. Shaf- | ter of 219 Sanchez street was aroused | from her slumbers by a fearful racket. | John M. Wilson, a crazy man, was knock- | ing at her door with an ax gpnd he seemed determined to gain an entrace. Mrs. Shafter telephoned to the Seven- | teenth-street station and Policemen Tay- | lor, Smith, Murran and Farren responded. After a tremendous struggle they over- powered the maniac. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital and placed in a padded cell. Wilson returned recently from Hono- | lulu, where he had heen under detention | by the authorities because of his queer | actions. On arriving in this city he was | allowed to land and go to his father's | house on Laguna street. Yesterday afterncon Wilson was com- | mitted to the asylum at Ukiah, where he was once before confined for harassing | Mrs. Phebe Hears | puatinma TRIRHATEET Shuts Out the Light. Commissioner A. B. Maguire of the Board of Public Works pald a visit to| Property Clerk Esola’s office yesterday in | the Hall of Justice, as complaints hag | been made that the wooden monstrosity | erected at the request of the Coroner in the rear of the hall was shutting out the light from the property clerk’s office. The so-called building has’a private office for the Coroner and an autopsy room which | looks into Judge Cz2kaniss’ courtroom. It is erected across the alley in the rear of the hall. Commissioner Maguire was satis- | fied that the building should not be lowed to stand and said he would report the facts to the other Commissioners, —_——— Sudden Death of Robert Fretich. Robert Fretich, ~who kept a saloon at Harbor View, fell dead" yesterday after- noon on the sidewalk In front of 4 Third street. He had been under the care of a mfld‘n for a long time. Mr. Fretich ded at 286 Stevenson street. He was a native of Germany. 56 years old. e Tk $3 50 men's shoes to-morrow for $1 65. shoe sale Boston Shoe Co., 715 street. . l | pointed hour. | he performed the ceremon: BRIDE CARRIED: K REVOLVER John Boscus Becomes Un- willing Husband of Minnie Kosta. SRR 2 John A. Boscus and Minnie A. Kosta | were married Friday afternoon by Justice of the Peace Kerrigan, the bride firmly clutching with her right hand a 45-caliber Colt’s revolver hidden from view under her sealskin cape while she promised to love, honor and obey John. The bride- groom was an unwilling one and so frightened that he scarcely knew whether his name was Boscus or “Bosco.” Miss Kosta herself applied to “Cupid’” Danforth for the marriage license shortly after noon on Friday. When asked if Boscus w. willing she replied that he had sent her to get the document. “He doesn’t want any publicit. she . nervously, “and that is why he sent license was duly issued. Miss Kosta went to Justice of the Peace Ker- rigan and asked him to officlate at the ceremony. She gave her address as 1022 Mission street and requested him to be there promptly at 8 o'clock, as the groom was to leave the city immediately after the wedding. Judge Kerrigan was there at the ap- ‘As the couple stood up for the ceremony the Republican candidate for the unexpired term as Superior Judge saw the handle of a Colt's revoiver pro- jecting from under the woman's sacqua and he thought he was elected sure. Re- covering his self-possession, he turned to | Boscus and asked If he had given his con- sent to the marriage. “I am willing to marry her,” Boscus re- plied, his face blanched and his legs trembling. “Go on with the ceremony. No sooner had the Judge pronounced them husband and wife than Mrs. Boscus ordered Boscus to seek other quarters. “We can’t live together,” the bride said. I forced you to marry me and now I am g - - scus, after thinking the matter over, visited the office of Capiain of Detectives Seymour yesterday morning and com- plained that he had to marry the woman or take a chance on being made a sub- ject for the Coroner. He detailed how she ad inveigled him to her house and forced | him to marry her. “If' I had refused to become her hus- band,” he said, “she would have shot me with the revolver she had under her sacque.” Justice Kerrigan savs he -thought the woman was “bluffing,” and as Boscus seemed to regard the matter as a joks 1035 said that Boscus lived with the woman until a short iime ago, when he deserted her for another. On learning of his duplicity she swoce to be revenged. Knowing that Boscus feared that she would kill him she concocted tne scheme to have him visit her house and, with a Justice of the Peace waiting to officiate, | ask him to make her his wife. ~Boscus claims that he will commen: proceedings to-day to have the marriage annulled. Stole a Valuable Watch. Yesterday afternoon a well-dressed young man, who claimed to be an artist, visited the residence of Mrs. E. Debow at 707 Geary street and sald he wanted to rent a room. While the landlady was showing him the rooms he to enter her bedroom and steal a valuable watch. It was not until he left the house that Mrs. Debow discovered her loss. at once notified the police. —— s Bargains in Pictures. 200 more odd framed pictures and pan- els, trom %5 c;m-l:;, to be enm.«:!N out to for goods. erythi; T TR LT Vail & Co., 74l Market street.