The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 3 SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, McKINLEY’S POLICY WILL SHAPE THE COURSE OF White House Arranges the Programme for the Short Session That Will Begin To-Day. Shipping Bill and Isthmian Canal M=asure Bid Fair to Provcke Lively Fights in Senate and House. - Special Dispatch to The Call. o AL EADQUARTERS ua and Costa Rica are of a purely A~ AUA . INGTON HOTE ry character and on the part of & 4 N, 1 8 American Governments guar- y i H e tates right to construct slation by Congress. fon respecting com- d emphatically re only to facllitate terway and insuring the ry construction ates upon the most and it st greemen w mpossible,” said a ussed the matter to- utive to make treaties sations that wil and Costa Rica, when 1 who disc Nicarag: ngress character shall be. spec concern of the diplomats from the fact that the report ing the signing of treatles assert- e conventions contained pro- which the Central agreed to renounce the treaties existing between them ere arose by and foreign gov- ernme which erfered with the ex- c rstruction of the canal by the Yy a ates. No such provision is con- Winkle sleeper whe in the agreements, but both Costa oo ned r Vicaragua have assyred the P iy, Jast-woek epartment that they will denounce ties ‘whiel conflict with the con- to this Government already denounced her h Great Britain and is preparing be made has flar action In the case of the conventione Secretary Hay has been en to understand that, notwithstanding provisions contained in the constitu- tions of Costa Rica and Nicaragua prohib- iting other is believed and.the Other e alienation of land, cession of suf- can be arranged so that al is authorized the work of ruction can begin without delay erritory be e American flag 897. which tea | To commence such a vast work many Ay e prepar: will have to be made, and 33278 003 while th are under way all matters . the estimates for | Feaulring diplomatic action can be settled. . ——— . - I S— h'“j CANAL COMMISSION’S REPORT. 1 oo | Unanimous Recommendation of the r. y a few things in this | Nicaraguan Route. s excite remark as Congress | NEW YORK, Dec. 2—The Sun has the . The plans ' following from Wast The report er £ Interoceanic Commission £ ng the w was handed the President on e wor »sday, will be transmitted to Con- & gress, with a special message concerning e ngress c legisiation, after the annual mess- Sena Hanna | age has been Gellvered. In its report the . e Sen- commission unanimously recommends the Nicaragu rot and will give in detail its reasons for believing that it is the . more practicable. The report treats with 1 interoceanic canal ex- basing its comments on volu- : B ts from its fleld parties. A i ment from M. Hutin, president of the Panama Canal Company, pointing out ages of the Panama route and re terms on which the company's and concessions may be the United States accompany Govern- the commission's » can determine what thelr | American | DECEMBER 3, 1900 | AY by day more names are|ojo—— —— added to the list of those who | perished in the tragedy at | the glass works on Thursday | afternoon. Yesterday while nine of the victims were be- ing laid in their last resting | places two more succumbed to their in-| es, making a total of twenty-one. Zilery Crandall died at 11:30 o'clock ye: terday morning at St. Luke's Hospital. He had suffered a compound fracture of | the thigh and a fracture of the arm, and O\ for a day before his death he was uncon- | scious. The shock received was probably the cause of death, though the other i » | | juries would almost certainly have proved | i boy was thirteen years old and the | son of Edward Crandall, who is engaged | In the real estate business in San Jose. He | lived with his mother at 1104 Market street. About four months ago he obtain- | ed a position with 8. N. Wood & Co: as a messenger boy. sent to St. L cident His employers had him »'s Hospital after the ac- | all expenses. They held the lad in high esteem and frequently in- | | trusted him with large sums of mone Mr. Wood has agreed to bear all expens: of the funeral, which will probably be held in Los Gatos. The boy’s father, from whom his mother is separated, arrived two hours after his son's death. | Eben Pearson Tice died at 3:10 p. m. at his home, 164 Alabama street. He was a employed by the Haslett Ware- house Company, and was'39 years old. He leaves a wife and two children, the eldest | of whom is but two years old. | Tice lived but a block away from the | glass works and when he saw the crowd gathering on the roof he joined it and in | the accident which followed he received injuries which rendered him unconsclous until his death His spine was fra(‘!urwl‘ and he received internal injuries, His | body was removed to the Morgue and af- | ter being viewed by the Coroner's jury | t to an undertaker’s parlors at 2425 | sion street. 1 Eight more victims, mostly boys, are| still hovering between life and death, and | laborer, W NUMBER OF DEAD OF THANKSGIVING DAY TRAGEDY IS INCREASED BY TWO Death of Ellery Crandall and Eben Pearson Tice Raises the Total to Twenty-One. Eight Boys and Men Are Still in Precarious Condition, and Four of Them at Least Will Probably Not Recover. PRICE FIVE CENTS ++ schoolmates and by teachers in the Pea- | classmates of the deceased acted as pall- body School and hundreds of boys and | bearers. girls, pupils In the Peabody and Marshall Primary schools, were present at the ser- | churches of D vices. Interment was in Mount Olivet | the B Cemetery. > LAST RITES IN DIXON. Funeral of Virgil Newby Hzld at the Baptist Church Yesterday. DIXON, Dec. 2.—The tragedy enacted in San Francisco on Thanksgiving d. A union meeting of the Protestant ixon had been planned for our for which the obsequies were set. It was postponed uniil this evening and | each of the pastors sat In the pulpit of f the Baptist Church to assist in the sad ceremonies. A choir composed of the members of the Junior Baptist Young People's Society. of which Virgil was once 1 member, rendered three songs. Rev. A. of that number four wiil probably aie["' within the next two or three days. The total of the dead will almost certainly reach twenty-five, and it may even exceed that number. | | Fred F. Lilly, Thomas C. Pedler and | seven came from the shops, where he was formerly employed. Many emploves from Nathan, Dohr- mann & Co.’s assembled at the undertak- 1 iny arlo at 97 Mission street | Charies Fulton at the City and County | " _Parlors 5 o Hospital will Bty g gt jat 10:30 a m. to pay thelr last e o DIOBROLY 1ot T ey Ao | tribute of respect to their late Sokh there seems to_he s hanie IR bk, anions noRere KON b yearsolt Fulton's case. All of them are uncon- scious, and Pedler and Lilly are very low. | There remain fourteen patients at this | | hospital who took the terrible plunge with | | the collapsing roof of the glass works. | boy who was one of the victims. Young Miller had been taken by Mrs. Milton Campbell of 23 Glerr Park avenue from the Protestant Orphan Asylum three years : and reared as one of % Edward Duggan is still at the Recelving | “5° 2Nd rear N B At P i | After securing a position with Nathan, Hospital, his condition being too serious ; A | Dohrmann & Co. he still resided with the to permit of his being taken home. He | Thi; has lost even semi-consciousness and yes- famhy, S FoSIpany astiayed funeral expe terday he was delirious. : b S, " ", the casl 0y associates of the decease Peter Carroll, brother of 3 Y R O S M R . ford mascot, Jimmie Carroll, is quite low | Zo%. DF. Smith o S it at St. Mary’s Hospital, although he is 3 terred in Laurel Hill Cemetery. holding his own fairly well. . Dante Monaco's funeral services were Willie Connolly, James Qu . . nolly. James Quinn and Hame |5l o Qe oo chapel of the ilton Woods are all likely to succumb to : % 1 2425 Misslon street their inju Each of the boys is being | UPdertaking parlors at oL eHe cared for at home. oI SORROWFULLY LAID TO REST. Funerals of Nine Victims of Thanks- giving Day Tragedy. Nine of the victims of the glass works | | tragedy were buried yesterday. Six of | ies. the body to its final resting place were Thomas E. Gardiner, Herman M. Hoad- ley, Julian Godell, Leo McKinnon, Wil- panions of deceased. of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Brough, was bu- Bouthern Pacifie | the | es and the pallbearers were | at 9 o'clock. The pallbearers who carried | liam Potts and G. Gluckbard, all boy com- | John Brough, the eighteen-year-old son | them were small boys, two had not yet reached manhoud and the ninth was but 24 years old. ONCE SENTENCED TO DEATH. ried from the undertaking parlors at 2425 | Mission street at 10 o'clock. Long before | the hour appointed for the service the | | | | | | | ! + J. C. Chester, J. H. Long, John Murray, | W. Hustin and B. J. Leonard. The funeral services over the body of little Charles Henry Cummings were held |in the afternoon at ihe residence of his | parents, 1012 Page street. The former home of the 1lad was crowded | with sorrowing friends at the home | named for the service. The casket was | burfed in floral offerings and the entire room was filled with fragrant tokens of remembrance. One large floral plece of pink and white roses was sent by the em- { ployes of the Southern Pacific office in | | Thomas of the Howard Presbyterian Church conducted the service. | Schoolmates and playmates of Law- the | rence Miel, the youngest victim of glass works tragedy, gathered by hun- dreds at his funeral in the afternoon at £ which young Cummings worked. Rev. Dr. | Lramatic Episode in the Life of Con- gressman Richardson. ASHINGTON, Dec 2—Of the seven P new Representatives who will take the g of office before Speaker Henderson . orrow one is 4 man who was once o £ this g eficed to be hanged. He is the suc- e golde ra is ar sor of General Joseph Wheeler. His F e is William Richardson! and a'though Far E: s | or ve old he was one of the cen- ' » 52 t dram episode of the hapes) Se ady § i civil was then little t the Confederacy rd that the Fed is | e roc rder General Crittenden, who ownership. If were at Murfreesboro, Tenn., forty-seve a Able cost to the Gov- | miles had captured a valuable Con- ernn e ab 0,004 ear for fed e ey He moved quickly, and w ~ 1100 me mpletely surprised Crittenden’s rce in ihe early morning, killing many ng more than 3% prisoners. For- time to release the man he - Army Virginia } rorEIGN DIPLOMATS ALARMED. Erroneous Report of Canal Treaties With Isthmian Republics. ASHINGTON. 2. Sec kno Mr Paul and his } gotiation of preliminary pro boy e« nion had been told only a few th Niceraghs and Rica was a | hours before that they were to be hanged L 1 in diplomatic | "€Xt morning. Richardson was no spy, 3 Cohgmession: day but was captured in Paul's company. Wing 1o the inabiiity of certain news- | poygp FACES BUSY SESSION. ers 1o comprehend the difference be- ween “protocols” and “treati Army Reorganization to Be Given ¥ that Secretary Early Cqusideration. with representatives of WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—The leaders of e American Governments.” Dip- the House are preparing to press with ¢ whose Governments have Interests | great vigor the important business of and Costa the short session, which convenes to-mor- | row. Already considerable preliminary | committee work been done on the bill Rica are and made prompt in- were assured that no for- very ted They for the: reduction of the war revenue = had been entered into 3 i sl v dren; s thus far made with | Continued on Second Page. N SULTAN BUYS CRUISER AND SETTLES WITH UNCLE SAM STANTINOPLE, Dec, 3—Hassin Pasha, Ottoman Minister of Marine, | eral Willlams reoresenting the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Phil- | have xigned a contract for the construction of a cruiser for the Otto- X, | The price to be paiv is £350.000, which includes £23,000 inaemnity to States for losses sustairned by Americans during the Armenian mas- n C. M. Chester of the United Btates battleship Kentucky, with a officers of the battleship, is expected here. He will probably remain chapel and sl friends of the family and school compan- ions of the little fellow. The boy pall- bearers were his late Sabbath School com- panions from the First Baptist Church on Ady street. They were Willlam Fisher, Harry Abbott, Cliffora G. Sheehan, Charles Swears, Charles Turner and Clar- ence Bidder. The remains were interred Laurel Hill Cemetery The bell of the church of 8t. Charles From 9 o'clock in the morning until 4 in | the afternoon there was no time at which | the funeral procession of some one of the | victims of the catastrophe might | not be seen making its way toward the cemetery. Men and women and children saw the sad pageants and spoke sorrow- | fully of the tragedy, and sympathy for | the bereaved was in every heart. Church of St. Bonjface on Golden venue crowded to the doors at clock in the afterncon by friends of William Valencia, a vietih of Thurs- | day's accl nt. Long before the arrival of the funeral cortege the streets became fllled with pecple. As the hearse ap- ched the crowd divided and the re- mains were driven through a long line of P all of om stood with bowed or une ed head. Covered with flowers, the young he in sate was pro e & tokens of athy from shopmates andg boy friends, the casket was carried Into the church, where the Rev. Father Au- gustine read the beautiful and touching service for the dead. He referred to the | untimely ending of the young life and to the awful blow to his parents and rela- tives. The raflroad shops, where deceased | was well known, were rcpresented by four | young men who served as honorary pall- | bearers. They were H. A. Hermann, N. | Inuasen, H. Hoffman and R. Hare. The body bearers were all from the shop where young Valencla worked. Their names are: George Haas, Oscar Kreutz, Ed O’Brien, Louis Crantz, Herman Schert and Joseph Feoster, The funeral of Thomas J. Rippon was conducted at Sacred Heart Church in the morning, after which the body was In- terred In Holy Cross Cemete A solemn high mass was sald for the repose of the young machinist's soul and afterward the last sad rites for the dead were read. The | mass was celebrated by the Rev, Father Cullen, and he had for his assistants twe | lifelong companions of the deceased, Will o EBEN PEARSON TICE, TWEN- TY-FERST VICTIM OF THE TRAGEDY. - Borromeo on Eighteenth and Shotwell o3 + Sultivan and Georse Monaghan. As the | yreets announced the arrival of the sga body -was - carried - inta. ‘the -chungh | corfegs with i Bodyef. Hagar Y. Pha: Chopin’s “Funeral March” was played. | navan at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon. After the mass had been said the funeral The church was crowded by friends and acquaintances of the famiiy. The choir rendered sacred- music at the be- ginning of the sorvice. Father McDon- ald, the pastor, approached the sanctuary preceded by acolytes, and conducted a short and fmpressive service. The pall- bearers were Fred Coolk, John Dougherty, service was read by Rev. Father Lagan, and a touching sermon was preacheds The palibearers were J. J. Dowling, C. Keenan, J. F. Tracy, A. J. Brennan, E. J. Morgan, F. BE. McCormack, T. J. Crawford end E. A. Leary. Of the many handsome floral pleces offered by friends of the deceased, | itwalk were crowded by | o'clock. Boys and girls filled the street in front of the family residence at Twenty-third street, where the servicca were held, waiting patiently during the simple service in the little parlor standing in reverential silence while the casket was carried out and placed In th= Lawrence Miel, who was but 9 | years old, was the only son of Mrs. | Marion Miel, a substitute teacher in the public schools. Frank Starratt, Harry Fex, | Downs, Willie Stafford, George and Harry Staffprd, all playmates of de- ceased, were pallbearers. Rev. B. J. Lion of St. James Mission read the Epi The boy | chums of deceased sent a large fioral pleca | and several smaller picces were sent by O+++4 4444444444444+ 0 REVISED LIST OF THE DEAD TALLEYRAND BARNWELL, 15. JOHN BROUGH, 19. ELLERY CRANDALL, 13, CHARLES H. CUMMINGS, 15, WILLIAM H. ECKFELDT, 12, EDGAR FLAHAVAN, 13. LEON GIRARD, 17. ROBERT HARRISON, 15. CHARLES MONAHAN, 32, HECTOR MeNEILL, 15. ROBERT MILLER, 15. J. A. MULRONEY, 38. LAWRENCE MIEL, 9. DANTE MONACO, 16. CORNELIUS MeMAHON, 12, VIRGIL NEWRBY, 15, MOSES ROTHENSTEIN, 15, THOMAS RIPPON, 24, EBEN P. TICE, 39, MEKKE VAN DYK, 46, 4+ WILLIAM VALENCIA, 18, ‘+¢4+¢MHH¢HMM¢. !lndlvldualm Interment was in Laurel Hiil | Cemetery. William Henry Eckfeldt's funeral was held at 1:30 o'clock in ‘he afternoon at the home of .his parents, 1920 Howard street. The Rev. Dr. Rader conducted the ser- vices, Freddie Pelly, Henry Phillips, Luke Bolger, Albert Je Campcs, George Hill, George Knochner, Fritz Lutz, Josepi: | | hearse. Thomas P44+t rtttrrr ittt ittt et I E LI PP AP bbb b b4t were pallbearers for their deceased chum. Floral pieces and bouquets were sent by an | Moran | .\'_X_ Kearny, Eddie Moffatt and Herbert Stark . IMPRESSIV - AL SERVICE AT ST. BONIFACE'S CHURCH YES- | TERDAY AFTERNOON FOR WILLIAM VALENCIA, WHO LOST HIS LIFE IN THE GLASS WORKS CATASTROPHE. | clothed Dixon to-day in deepest mourn- ing. The body of Virgil L. Newby, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Newby, < this morning consigned to the grave after being viewed by the largest throu that ever ‘gathered in this quiet villag ch an occ on s on. The body arrived from San Francisco 4 - CEIVED AT GLASS WORKS. <+ o+ | last night, accompanied by Mr. and Mre Newby and a number «f friends. The rel- atives and a large crowd of sorrowinz friends were at the denot to meet | grief-stricken parents. The body was removed to the home of the decease boy's grandmother. M-s. A. Mannig. The Baptist Church. one of the most commedisus buildings in D'xon, was taxed to its utmest with the assemblage for the funeral at 11 o'clock this morning. Twelve the | | ville ban: i | M. Petty, pastor of the Baptist Chureh, preached an eloquent sermon. At the conclusion of the service the re- mains were taken to the I. 0. O. F. Cem- etery, preceded by the Dixon and Davis- with muffled drums. Tn the procession were compunies of the Kn' ghts of Pythias and Foresiers of Americ a, of which B. F. Newby, the father, is a mem- ber. The pallbearers were Scott and Carrol Rice, Harry Foster, Jakie McElwaine, Jakie Misfeldt, Fred Kumle, Wyman Morse, Julian Pritchard, Wallace Petty, Bee Sweaney, James Monahan and James Donoho. A large number of fioral pieces were sent and a mass of flowers covered the casket during the services and later were spread above the grave. INQUEST DAY SETTLED. Jury Will Sit in Hall of Justice Wednesday Night. The time for the inquest on the bodies of the victims of the glass works disaster has been finally set for Wednesday even- ing. at 7:3 o'clock, in Judge Cabaniss’ courtroom. This arrangement Is the result of a con- sultation yesterday between Coroner Cole and Captain Seymour, The cramped state of the only quarters available at the Morgue was instrumental in bringing about the authorities’ decision to hold the Inquest in one of the courtrooms. SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC. Two Hundred Cases Reported in the City of Winona. WINONA, Minn., Dec. 2—There are 400 cases of smalipox In the city and to pre- vent its spread the Board af Health has closed two public schools and ordered the street car company to stop its cars at | the boundary of the infected district. Destroyed by Fire. ; ATLANTA. Ga.,, Dec. 2—The plant of the Chattahootchle Brick Company was destroyed by fire to-day. Loss 360,000,