The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1901, Page 1

The VOLUME LX XIX—NO. 123. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS TOWmEs THE CHIESE AND ALLIES Germany Sends War Vessel to Nankin and North. Celestial Emperor Makes Appeal to Czar as to Manchuria. PEA L3 five .months ss of the Yang- Bands Active. e Cologne Gazette from P rg, dated Ay says robber nor General Gre dokoff to L general revi t is expected in t rrison Tsit at ar has outside ow to ose who were r or who per- ese Emperor’s Appeal. Emperor, re regarding hu- is incon- ereignty P the Czar pre- . that he Ge- E to Chinese the Chinese ad~ in every ting prior n of Manchuria t under the pro- Chinese admin- e status quo “hinese soverelgnty st other powers will be ar to Rus- China be sty beseeches restored no e Short of Ultimatum. RG, April 1 “The new of the ment is demanded ex- dence that the in its u ken here, es are made, Information effcct that the ng seriously p in not sign- nent, by ntially largely the sev- stinct and it be na that e may ations be- a termina urse between n ultimatum ake the of her friendly conse- TREATY IS NOT SIGNED. Diplomacy Appears to Have Overreached Itself. Russia’s Morrison, wir- March 25, oys have carried the hang, who wired Tues- peror Kwang Su to recon- , received an answer that , in the presence of | e of the chief pro- , was irrevocable, and that rian convention could not be spite of her threats, Russia seems am the door. Negotia- Hung Chang and M. de oceeding yesterday d to several for- the text. Russla's macy appears for ched itself.” GONZALES HAS SURRENDERED Leaders of Insurgents Continue to Give Up the Struggle. April 1 recent siirren- | es, eleven offi- with forty-five Pablo, Tex- L—A dispatch r states that the ived at Manila Suey March 25. asterisks used at the bottom of ch indicate that it contained rmation, which the department did not care to make public. It is under- stood that the omitted portion related to | inaldo. { candescent > SAN JOSE AND HER SCORES OF GUESTS JOIN CELEBRATING THE PASSING OF THE FIRST | TRAINS OVER THE NEW COAST RAILROAD outhern Pacific Officials and Men of,.‘Prominence From All Sections of California Par- ticipate in a Banquet at the Vendome, Where Congratulations Are Extended e Dignity of a “Main Line” Town. E2 i 2 AN JOSE, April 1.—Because ,blended with the lighter tints of ferns and queting and the aftermath of speechifying | whose completion we are celebrating. It is two lines of glittering steel | Palms and lilles, and the surrounding bring to him mixed feelings of desire and dis- | the name of C. P. Huntington, late president | reach out from' the city, | orchards were robbed of thelr choicest tress—a little more distress than ‘mppetite, | Of the Southern Pacific Company, to whom | through orchards and fields and valleys, over mountains and plains and on into the East, San Jose has tossed its hat into the air and is hysterical in its rejolcing. From being a wayside town it has become a city on the main line, with future as bright as its own glorious sunshine. | blossoms to the Garden City on Its Promotion to th to add their fragrance and bgauty to the tables, the walls and mir- rors, around the windows and screens and everywhere taste suggested. The main table was set in the form of a horseshoe, | #nd in the inner bend a pyramid of flow- ers, studded with lights, bore an engine of red and white blossoms. The guests assembled in the lobby and & L TRAMNCE To 7rvE BanovET /AL o something like the experience of the small boy who cannot resist loading his stomach with plum pudding and icecream, knowing it wiil be followed by a dose of castor oil. To my mind it would be a just application of the law of compensation if all after-dinner speeches were dull and stupld, in order that the trembling, sweating speaker might have the satisfaction of knowing that his auditors were - suffering as much as he. Is it any wonder, then, Mr. Je O more than to any other human being we owe this occasion. It was Mr. In behalf of his associates, engaged with the citizens of Santa Barbara to close the coast line at a time when money was the credit of rallroad corporations bad, there was no market for railroad securitles. It | was he who kept steadily at work, under condi- tions that would have discouraged a man of | less dauntless energy, of less fidelity to his | word—continued even when, as he thought, it might prove to be that but one shovelful of earth could be thrown In a day, when his per- sonal credit and the credit of his assoclates were strained almost to the breaking point, | Huntington who, | gap | scarce, when | Y TRAE CONSPIRACY FRON COST Goods for Philippines Lost in Transit to Islands. |Great Consternation Caused by Reports of Frauds at Manila. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, April 1.—The Manila | reports of frauds in the commissary de- It was more than a “gap closed” for San Jose. It was the weld that made the rod a ring, the link that made the ckain a circle; it was the last thing need- ed to bind San Jose to the East with bands of iron, and to make of the flower garden—the Santa Clara Valley—a place with possibilities which no man can at- tempt to estimate. The first through train came in and cut of San Jose yesterday, and to-night around the banquet table railroad of- ficlals, guests from all over the State and the citizens of this jubilant city are still looking into the future through the bot- tom of their glasses and toasting the prosperity and the coming progress of the Garden City. The banquet was given by the citizens of Santa Clara County, through the Santa Clara Valley Improve- ment Club and the Farmers’ Club. It the most important affair of the vear, and as a soclal event It was un- equaled. auty of the Decorations. What the decorator’s art cowld do for the Hotel Vendome was done. Outside among the trees Chinese lanterns twin- kled in their brilliant colors, and around the porch of the building the pillars and eaves were outlined in the gleam of in- lamps. Lanterns hung over all the walks and driveways and in every shady nook and bower, and the moon scattered the clouds before her and lent the added glamour of her light to tne scene. Within palms, brakes and ferns and the feathery foliage of the bamboo hid cor- ners and stalrways and clung to the moldings and along the walls. In the banquet hall the dark green of the ivy | P the soclal hall of the hotel, where they renewed ‘old friendships and found new ones. - Then, after 9 o'clock, they were marshaled in twos and threes and groups of five and six and were escorted to the banquet hall, where they were recelved and seated by a committee composed of M. G. Alexander, Thomas A. Graham, S. F. Leib, R. W. Hersey, W. C. Andrews, J. D. Miner, C. M. Wooster, M. H. Hy- land, Joseph H. Rucker, Mitchell Phillips, | V. A. Scheller, J. D. Radford, F. K. Led- yard and Alfred Holman. President Hale’s Welcome. O. A. Hale, who presided, took his seat at the head of the table, faclng the pyramid cf flowers and the floral engine. At his right sat J. C. Stubbs, third vice- president of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, and at his left was Jullus Krutts- chnitt, general manager of the Southern Pacific. Then along on either hand sat the other railroad officials with members of the committee of arrangements, and on down both wings of the horseshoe sat the guests from the town and county. A band played all the evening, the ser- vice was excellent, no glass or plate was allowed to remain empty longer than it took to fill it again, and the banquet went smoothly as a wedding breakfast and just 2s sociably. Just at midnight Mr. Hale arose and claimed the attention of the guests. It was a momentous occasion for San Jose, he said, this closing of the gap, and uo :: b | | 8 I | | | | | | | | | 1 1 { } I e I i | | | | || 1 | | || | | | 1} | | | | [ ‘| | SCENE AT THE BANQUET TO SOUTHERN PACIFIC OFFICIALS IN HONOR OF THE COMPLETION OF THE | COAST RATLWAY LINE, AND SOME MEN OF PROMINENCE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FESTIVITIES | PROVIDED BY SAN JOSE'S LEADING CITIZENS. | | e amount of enthusiasm could overdo ths attention it demanded. He referred to the death of Collis P. Huntington and of the loss it was to the company he had guided %o long, and he complimented Charles M. Hays, the man chosen to succeed him. He referred briefly to the city of San Jose and its railroad history. The first toast Mr. Hale proposed was “Welcome,” and he asked Judge A. L. Rhodes to respond to it. Judge Rhodes spoke briefly, but there was no doubt of the genuineness of ths welcome which he extended. He present- ed bouquets of large preportions to the officers of the Southern Pacific Company and to the company itself. He referred to the remark that the railroad charged “all the traffic would bear,” and in that con- nection he said it was not a bad policy when run in a spirit of “enlightened sel- fishness and self-interest.”” He remem- bered the time when but twogtrains a day ran between San Francisco and San Jose, and the fare was $2, and he said he looked forward to the time when there would be a double track - between the two citles, and trains running on a one-hour scheduls and with but one stop on the way. “The Occasion We Celebrate.” Judge J. R. Lewis was then. introduced as toastmaster of the evening. He sald a few words upon the situation, which was a “through train from San Francisco to New York by way of San Jose.”” Then he introduced J. C. Stubbs, who was re< ceived with applause. Mr. Stubbs spoke as follows upon “The Occasion We Ceic- brate:” = To the unpracticed ‘person, Who must feast with an undelivered speech on his mind, ban- Chairman, that T should disclaim the posses- slon of the charm and facility of the post- prandial orator—that I should confess to you and warn this goodly company that I cannot make a speech after dinner? I have never tried to do it, except at a certain set of pri- vate functions, in the presence of one host, surrounded by his officlal family, his countenance adorned by the kindly eyve and genfal smile of warmest hospitality. Less than a year ago I stood in that presence, amidst such surroundings, making my latest attempt at speech-making. THe host was the first man. who had ever encouraged me to try it, and, with the exception of your honored toast- master, the only man I ever cared to please by trying. Tribufe to the Dead. ‘When, in August last, in the maturity of mind and experience which comes to few men upon earth, at the zenith gf power, having reached the highest pinnacle of success, own- ing no man his equal in the lofty and difficult path of his life's pursuit, having the prospect and promise of many years, because the high purpose of his will and energy could not ad- mit that there was an end to all earthly things—when under these circumstances he was suddenly called to another sphere, I felt that I could never again ralse my voice on the banquet floor without’ choking with the memories of that wondertul man, whose heart was as large as his brain, whose gentleness and forbearance with the weak and erring were as god-like as the work of his master mind, which is graven uponevery mountain, written in every valley of California. Mr. Chairman, I know that the speaker who opens his address with an apology or an allu- sion to self violates the canoms of good taste. I have done o to-night for the purpose of in- troducing & name that ought not to be and cannot be disassoclated from the undertaking ‘when railroad construction had ceased every- ‘where throughout the country—continued sim- ply because he had promised that the work should proceed uninterruptedly to a finish. Overcame Many Difficulties. The plans were made, the contracts for grad- ing and bridging, for tles and ralls, were ne- gotiated, the money was provided for, all be- fore his death, so that as a mater of fact we are to-night commemorating the last feat of railroad construction performed by the great- est rallroad buflder In the world, whether you measure the accomplishment by the number | of miles of rails 1ald, df by the physical and | financial difficultles overcome in their con- struetion. In life he led his eminent associates, for judged by thelr works which shall remain and ever. endure, measured by the courage which was required to take up the Central Pacific Railroad scheme, the ends obtained welghed by the difficulties and discourage- ments encountered, they were all of them— Huntington, Stanford, Crocker and Hopkins— great and strcng men, and the second and | third generation following them will build | monuments to thelr memory. He remained the last of these four remarkable men, the last to yleld his grasp upon material things. 1t was fitting that he, the first In life, should be the last in deatk; that he should be left to complete the sreat systems which they had together conceived and planned. The closing of the gap In the coast liie, the event which we are now celebrating, finished that work. I wish it to be understood that I have never seen and cannot mow see any evil resulting to me or to mine, to you or to yours, to | Californfa or to the country at large, from the works of Mr. Huntington, but everywhere and everything that has proceeded from his large Continued on Second Page. { | | | | mitted without his finding it out. | army regulations. | lost in transportation to the Philippines, partment of the Urited States army In the Philippines created considerable conster- nation to-day at the War Department. All knowledge of frauds was denied by Secretary Root T Brigadier General Weston, the commissary general, and hope was expressed that the thefts would not reach the magnituda described fn the dispatches. General MacArthur has been asked to report promptly on the facts. But the War Department is prepared for almost any develgpments. Tt is ad- mitted that for a long time supplies in considerable quantities have been lost in transportation to the Philippines. Every loss has been investigated, but it has been found impossible to fix the responsibllity or trace the property. No one would be surprised if the inquiry now on foot un- covered a conspiracy. beginning at the | point of shipment on the Pacific Coast and ending In the bakeshops and hotels of Manfla. No Extensive Frauds. General Weston refuses to belleve there have been extensive frauds, and sees no way in which they could have been com- He said | to-day: “Not a whisper of anything of the kind has reached me. I received some threas | days ago a disvatch from Colonel Wood- | ruft, chief commissary of the Philippines reporting the amount of stores on hand, and to-day similar messages reached me. Neltuer contales any reference to the al- leged frauds. It is not surprising that flour and bacon bearing the Government mark should be found outside of army posts and commissary stores, Thesa are two articles which especially contribute to a company’s savings. Under army reg- tlations certain articles of rations due and not used by a company can be sold by company officers and the money thus obtained deposited in the company’'s fund. Lost in Transportation. +“When not required for reissue, the reg- ulations say savings may be sold to any person. Of course, it would not be pos- sible to put thousands of bags of flour on the market, as reported this morning, by merely observing the privilege granted by Some things have been but so far as T am informed nothing has disappeared from the warehouse in Ma- nila.” General Weston added that he has the highest confidence in Colonel Woodruft, who was “a capable, energetic and thor- oughly honest officer.” Captain Frederick J. Barrows, Thirtleth Volunteer Infantry, one of the officers al- leged to be involved in the frauds, is not a commissary officer, although he may | have been appointed acting commissary. He was appointed from Minnesota, hav- ing the support of the entire Minnesota delegation, and especially that of the late Senator Davis. His father is a wealthy lumberman of Minneapol L DL e HOW THE TRICK IS DONE. Goods Stolen at Manila Reported as Lost in the Bay. OMAHMA, Nebr., April 1.—The Bee wiil print an interview to-morrow with an army officer just returned from the Philip- pines, who dercribes the method by which the Government has been robbed of hun- dreds of thousands of dollars in army stores. The officer’s name is not given, but the statement is authentic. He says in part: Somebody 13 making himself rich at the ex- pense of the Government in Manila, and it is being done in & way which will make it dif- ficult to bring the charges home, and for that reason those who are in a position to be mor- ally certaln of the facts are remaining quiet, as they do not want to be involved in a scan- dal, whers they may find it impossible to produce lega! evidence when cases against the | parties involved might come to trial. Aceord ing to officlal reports, there is more Unitsd States property at the bottom of Manila Bay than_ has ever been lost in the water, and if a close inspection were made I have no doubt | that much of this property could be found stored in the town of Manila. As far as I could learn, whils on the lsland, the*method of proceeding in cases whers an officer or other person in charge of stores desires to accumulate a little property of the Govern- ment 1s as follows: The harbor at Manila fs of such a nature that transports eannot ‘come to the plers to unicad and the merchandise consigned to the army is taken off in light- ers called cascos by the natives. A casco wiil hold about, 4000 pounds of freight. The stores are all marked and when passed over the sids of the vessel the bill of lading or list of stores is checked by a elerk in charge, and on deliv- ery at the pler it Is receipted for. While on the way from shore to the ship an empty casco is overturned. The next trip it makes to shore its load is ‘delivered, not to the officer in charge of the commiseary supplies but at an- other pler, and the officer or other person om the boat makes a report of the upsetting of the cadeo, with the stores on board. This re- port passes through official hands, and the commissary officer Is relieved of responsibility on account of the loss of property, which did not occur by the overturning of the casco. This method is followed In many instances, but it s not the only ome Where frregular work Is corrected by the sinking and over- turning of lghters.