The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1901, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1901. c . 11 PLANS A TUNNEL INTD NEW YORK Pennsylvania Road Will Lay Rails Beneath East River. Herald Square to Be the Terminus of Its Pro- posed Line. Special Dispatch to The Call, NEW YORK, June 21.—The Pennsylva- nia Railroad not only planning the ex- penditure of midions of dollars for im- mense docks on the Atlantic shore of Long Island and others at Bay Ridge, in | New York harbor, but proposes to tunnel East River and New York City to the vicinity of Thirty-third street and Broad- way, otherwis wn as Herald Square. Herald Square i be the hub of the metropolis of the Western Hemisphere. So says William H. Baldwin Jr., pre: dent of the Long Island Rallroad Com- s pany, who summed up the motives which | actuated the officials of that company in deciding to have a tunnel under East River, with one terminus in Long Island City, the other to be in the very heart of the up-town center, The Pe ompany, as known, has acquired control of the Lon lsland Ralilroad. Further than thi t that the Pennsylv as negotiating for the ac- quisition of a charter for a tunnel under the Narrowz, from Fort Hamilton to Sta- | ten Island. Should the Company charter & obtain a tunnel under the Staten Island, and, by going over Arthur Kill bridge, establish direct with its Perth Amboy division. Plans for the Tunnel. _When President Baldwin was seen to- day after a meeting of the incorporators of the Extension Railroad Company he said: .. Our plans for a tunnel under East River, which will be filed early to-mor- row morning simultaneously with the County Ck B New York counties, . Our tunnel will pass un f the Rapid Transit at Fourth avenue and Thirty-third street. If & fair agreement can be made, the two subways may the same station. dy obtained the ground for erminal station. For months I have beern going over suitable sites in the of Herald Square. I can compre- wonderful transformation about Narrow: the to be efiected there in the immediate fu- ture. We are planning for the next fifty years ares of common stock of Railroad were sold to- prices in consequence - there was to be an in- stock holdings between the Union Pac St. Paul interests. The following bulle! was issued by the New York News Bureau early in the day: We learn this morning on absolute authority that the syndicate which sold a large amount Paul stock agrees 1o take a large amount k. We learn on to that of the Messrs. ves that this syndicate Is Rockefeller and John D. stock involved We have understood . Paul was ught it pract- e. It is stated nsaction is large enough rtance in establishing The price of Union Pacific common shares advanced from 111 _to 113%, a net St. Paul stock € fluctuated b closed at I The sales of and net ga Paul common aggregated 100 shares. PRESIDENT APPOINTS SECOND LIEUTENANTS Appointees Were Recently Exemined and All Found to Be Qualified for the Positions. WASHINGTON, June 21.—The Presi- dent to-day appointed sixty-eight enlisted men of the army to be second lieutenants, thus providing for all the enlisted men, regulars and voiunteers, found qualified for appointment at the recent examina- tion. Those who attained a percentage of 84 or over numbering 108 were appoint- ed to the army a short time ago, as there was immediate d of their services. To- day’s_appointme include all the re- mainder of those who qualified for ap- pointment. The following is a list of the successful competitors: t lieutenants of cavalry—Julien E. Gau- B. Mcintyre, H. B. Myers, chmond, George T. Bowman. of cavalry—Rodman But- Myron B. Bodish, Nat C. win Cox, Thomas H. Cunningham, Graham,' Peter J. Hennessey, J. P. Mearks, D. Maize, Ralph Marr O'Connor, H. Schroeter, Clar- er. s of artillery—F. H. Gallup, Michael McDonough, Jesse Schult, Second lieutenants, artillery corps—C. G. Burt, Behr, Marion §. Battle, J. M. B. Evan, William S. Bowen, Clarerce M. Con- don, Wesley J iton, Thomas Jones, John §. Jobnson, Kerrick, J Keesling, Harrison S. berg, S. Miller, M. Nichol, J. B. Page, Stanley . Charles L. Wil- Murphy, Grant Parker, s, Thomas L. Sherb cox, Alden Trotter, Willlam R. Taylor, E. S. Wheeler First lieutenants, infantry—Alvin G. Back- ette, R. T. Crawford, Rufus B. Clark, Wil- liam G. Doane, Thomas W. Dunn, H. M. Mor- s P Iman. Tow Second Archer, Shelton W. I . R. J. Bin- , Guy E. Bucker, e H. Breeston, ugene P. Crowne, ole, Beverly C. , Charles C. Fin liam E. Goolsby, George Sillis, Charles Herr, John E. hill, Wa Horatio 1 McClee: Alister, James W. B. Mannion, Ha Jone, Willis E. Mills, W. G. Murchison, O. C. Nicholls, Asa L. Singleton, Niele Shean, H. G Stahl, William R. Standford, George A. Welc- zork, Richard Wetherill, Elvin H. Wagner. foos i ritie LLOYDS IS HELD RESPONSIBLE. NMust Make Good the Gold Comman- deered by Boers. LONDON, June 21.—Considerable inter- est has been aroused by the success of the Dreifontein case in the Appeal Court, in_which Liloyds is held for the £500,000 which the Transvaal Government com- mandeered from train. Lioyds published a report October 3, 1599, to the effect that gold valued at £500,000 and in transit had been comman- deered, or seized, by the Tra therities. This was before the ricen war had broken out, for the Boers 4ia not enter Natal until October 11, 1899, thcugh the Orange Free State October 6 | of the same year had seized 500 tons of ccal in transit, belonging to the Govern- ment of Cape Colony. The report of the seizure of the £500,000 in gold was reiter- ated October 4, 1599, and it was further said that the amount was commandeered while on its way from Johannesburg to Cape Town, being the week’s shipment of id, insured at Lloyds' from the Rand. Fhe gold was subseqnently taken to Pre- toria. U. B. DAM A VISITOR IN THE WINDY CITY CHICAGO, June 21—A Californian re- joicing in the name of U. B. Dam arrived in Chicago to-day and registered at the Tremont. He signed his name “U. B. Dam, California,” in_large, bold letters across the register. The clerk glanced at the signature. “What is your name?" he asked. “U. B. Dam,” retorted the Californian. “Do you really mean it?" asked the clerk. “Well, I've said ‘U. B. Dam’ in answer to my name ever since I can remember, and it's too late to change it now. I want 2 room with a bath.” he added. U. B. Dam will take in the Derby to- morrow. connection George J. | Albert E. Wald- | PERISH BY FIRE N THEI HOMES All Avenues of Escape Are Cut Off by the Flames. An Explosion of Fireworks Causes Many Deaths at Paterson. SRR | NEW YORK, June 21.—Fourteen per- | sons are believed to have been killed and 2 number injured to-day as the result of |a fire following an explosion among a quantity of fireworks in the | ham Rittenburg at Pater: | store was on the ground floor of a tene- | ment building. The cause of the explo- | sion is not known. The property loss will | not exceed $35.000. The dead: MRS. LUCINDA ADAMSON. MRS. CHARLES WILLIAM while trying to rescue her husband. CHARLES WILLIAMS, a cripple. HAROLD RITTENBURG, old son of the keeper of the fireworks store. WILLIE ELSASSER, six weeks old. MRS. BERT BAMBER, whose husband is in the hospital. CHARLES BAMBER, child of above. MRS. ANDREW | found. MRS. ANN BURNS. | CLARENCE BURNS, six years old, | ound in his mother’s arms MRS. ANNIE LANNIG six-months-old ELVIN, head only Total number of bodies recovered, 12. | tore of Abra- | , N. J. The| | burned | 10-months- | MRS. MARY DUFFY. ] | | The missing: John Elvin, two weeks old; Mrs. Annie Fenteman, two nephews found; ‘Mrs. Mary Elsasser, who kept a child’s body found. The injured: J. Jessup, bruised about the head and body, also burned about the | head; Mrs. J. Jessup, bruised and burned | about body: I. Bamber, head and face | bruised; George Soder, head severely cut Nicholas Hillman, cut on head: Fireman Edward Slingand, injured by falling wal | Mr. and Mrs. John Glone, burned about face and body. Terrific Force of Explosion. The building in which the explosion oc- curred was a frame tenement, four stories high, with stores on the ground floor. The middle store was occupied by Rittenburg. Ten families occupied flats in the Quilding. So great was the forc: i of the explosion that a boy playing in the | street haif a block away was lifted from | bis feet and hurled a st an iron fence. | One of his le; was broken. A trolley car was directly in front of the building | When the explosion occuzied. The burs | of flame blown out into the street scorched the sides of the car and singedl | | the hair of the passengers. A number of those who were on the up- | per foors of the buili‘ng when the ex- | | Plosion took place were either stunned | 2nd then burned to death or found escape i of Mrs. Annie Lannigan, whose body was | | cut off and were suffocated. After the first explosion there was a succession of smaller ones, and then came a second his explosion which was muffled and dead- ened. It probably occurred in the cellar. | Svery window seemed to be emitting | flames within a minute after the first ex- | | plosion. A woman, her clothing on fire, | | feaped out of one of the windows ana feli to the yard below. Her dead body was | aragged out of reach of the flames. The flesh was roasted and dropped from the bones. She proved to be Mrs. Williams. | | Mrs. Williams’ husband was a cripple. | | | His wife is supposei to have remained longer than she could with safety in & | effort to save him. He was found burnsc to a cri€p on his bed. | Heroic Work of the Firemen. | Some of the occupants of the rooms | aropped from the windows and were | | bruised. Others hung from the windows | | until the firemen came. Twenty persons | were taken down through the fire and smoke by the firemen, while others | | aroppea into life nets. Daniel Docley, who was in the yard| when the explosion took place, saw ihe two Rittenburg children in the rear room and rushed into the flames for them. He | got one of them and carried it out and | he tried to go back for the other, but the | room was then one mass of fire and he was too late. He was badly scorched in | rescuing the first child. While the rescues were going on _the firemen were fighting the flames. Cap- tain Allen led with a hose line in an ef- fort to keep the fire from the upper floors, where it was said many were penned fin. The men had hardly taken their positions and begun on the sidewalk to throw water | into the upper floors when, without any | warning, the whole upper part of the | | building above them sagged outward and fell. The captain and two of his men | were buried under the blazing debris. One | of the men is badly hurt. The building in | | which the explosion occurred —was de-| | stroyed. | Rittenburg will probably be arrested pending an investigation. In the debris was found the head of a | man or woman. The hair was burned off and the features unrecognizable. The rc- mainder of the body has not been found. The bodies taken out thus far are almost unrecognizable and are burned and tora by the fire and the collapse of the build- ing. SOLDIERS CALLED OUT TO PROTECT A NEGRO Mob of Excited Citizens of Texas Are Intent on Lynching the 4 Prisoner. HOUSTON, Texas, June 21.—A special | train, bearing the Houston Cavalry com- 'pany and a portion of the Light Guard, has just left here for Trinity, Texas, where the remainder of the Light Guard are guarding a negro named Spencer, who was identified as a man who last week attempted an outrage. From a train which | was not allowed to stop at Trinity the negro could be seen tied to a tree, while around him were grouped the soldiers and Surrounding them was a mob of people. No news has come out of Trinity to-night. CHINA OFFERS INSULT TO JAPAN’S EMPEROR | Appoints as Minister to His Court a Reputed Leadcr of the Boxers. PEKING, June 2L.—The Emperor has | appointed Na Tung to be Chinese Min- jster to Japan. The appointee is a | Manchu, and formerly president of the | Tsung-1i-Yamen. He is reported to be a | Boxer and narrowly escaped being in- cluded in the list of Chinese officials who | were beheaded at the demands of the | powers. It is coubtful if Japan will ac- | cept Na Tung as Minister from China. Some Recent Casualties. MANILA, June 21.—General Calilles, the insurgent commander n Laguna Prov- ince, with 700 rifiemen and some bolomen, is now in the vicinity of Pagsjan, about a day’'s march from Santa Cruz, on La- | guna_ de Bay. Cailles wii der on Monday, after which he is expected to assist in bringing in Malvar, who, in real- ity, is his superior officer. General MacArthur at Manila anneunces some recent casualties among the troops in the Philippines as a result of the en- gagement at Lipa, Luzon. Private John J. Rogers, Company D, Twenty-first In- fantry, died from wounds received in that action. First Sergeant Frank S. Stearns, Company D. Twenty-first Infantry, was wounded, not severely, in the leg, and Rudolph Cork was slightly wounded in the thigh. LA S Child Reconcentrados. LONDON, Juge 21.—The War Secre- tary, Mr. Brodrick, informed a question- er in the House of Commons to-day that out of 63,000 persons in the concentration camps of South Africa 34,000 were chil- dren. P e 18 Admiral Hoskins. LONDON, June 21..—Admiral Sir An- thony Hiley Hoskins is dead. He was born in 1828, 3 SIX ASPIRING CITIZENS ARE GIVEN PERMISSION TO WEAR POLICE STARS Jive Named as Regular Patrolmen and One Is Made an ‘‘Acting” Guardian of Oakland’s Peace---Disappointed Applicants Now Hoping That the Council Will Increase Strength of the Force rete \ HEe recpe DOWT. L\KE §o8D LOOKING coPS¥LIKE JAs BRANNCN on THEIR BEAT KITCHEN Toaave . mswmsen! OUR oo | . * = \\\\\‘ \ HOW SOME NEW POLICEMEN _;'/\\‘\\- il MIGHT ACT IN MOMENTS OF AHII.I! FORGETFULNESS. WONT O o * ON His BEAT, employ of the Contra Costa Water Com- THyt WAY BY - pany as an inspector. He Is an East Oak- MISTAKE. lander. George W. Brown has been a conductor fordnl'rl)_e ye';\rscln the ernpig_lyi of the O:;(k~ - TN cAse OF SERIOVS land Transit Company. s namesake, Bert Bj . has b foreman in the TRouBLe BERT BROWN caninotn ge}?mn:é‘nfof:i? :e]e&l;o{ae o T company, and has a record as an athlete, \r;/v ALA_REN\EMBEK HE having been active in the old Acme Ath- S ONCE A LINE MAN.. letic Club gymnasium. ' He was a boxing instructor for some time. James H. Walters was In the employ of H. D. Cushing, the grocer. Brannan and Hundley have been serving —* in the department for several years. AKLAND, June 21.—Here are the men who were lucky enough to meet the favorable consideration of the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners when that body settled to-day upon the new ap- pointees to the Police Department: James T. Drew, James D. Mulgrey, Bert Brown, George W. Brown, James T. Brannan, C. T. Hundley. The first five men were named as regu- lar members of the Police Department. All of them except Brannan are new hands at star-wearing. Brannan has been | on the substitute list for two years, wait- for the lightning that should hurl him Hundley has ing into the permanent ranks. YPLISION OF POWDER LS THRE WORKMEN Disaster Attends Operations of Employes of a Railroad. KALAMA, Wash., June 21L—A prema- ture explosion occurred at 10 o’clock this morning on the new Washington and Oregon Rallroad, killing three men and injuring six others. The scene of the accident is half a mile south of Kalama. The exact cause of the explosion will perhaps never be known, as the men who were working at the drill hole were instantly killed. About twenty-five men were working in a cut, and from the survivors it is learned that Thomas Graham and Hugh Jamison, both of Portland, were loading a twelve- foot @rill hole with giant powder and had put in about one hundred sticks. It is supposed that they had just begun tamp- | ing the powder with an iron bar, as they had sometimes done before, when the explosion occurred. Jpamlsfm‘s head. was blown off. Graham was blown to fragments and “Scotty” Heeney was blown up on top of the cut, a distance of fifteen feet. His injuries are fatal. His chin was blown off, skull frac- turcd. arms and legs broken and holes blown through his body. His wounds were dressed and he was sent to a Portland hospital by the steamer Lurline. His h is at Vancouver, B. C. oJT;es York of Carrollton, Wash., had his skull fractured and was injured in his back. John Bard of Seattle had his right arm and right leg broken. Lee Mont- gomery of Seattle was injured about the head and body. Arthur Hockett of Ka- lama had his right leg badly bruised. Charles Reiley’s head and left leg were injured. 4 Car Shop Hands Strike. READING, Pa., June 2L—At 11:30 to- day over 600 men employed in the car shops of the Reading Railroad Company struck for shorter hour. and increased pay. Immediately thereafter the boiler- makers in the company’s locomotive shops struck. Their action, though expected, caused the greatest excitement in view of the present strike of 2000 iron workers fa the Heading Iron Company's work, with whom they are apparently in sym- pathy. —_— World’s Output of Gold. NEW YORK, June 21.—The Engineering and Mining Journal will to-morrow pub- lish complete estimates of the gold output in the United States and in the world at large last year. The figures—$118,435 562 for the United States and $255,9465¢ for the World at large (compared with $99,518,718 and $311,506,948 in 1899)—do mnot differ ma- terially from the estimates of several months ago. Ruhlin Signs to Wrestle. NEW YORK, June 2L.—Bob Fitzsimmons and Gus Ruhlin were matched to-day to meet in_a wrestling match at Madison Square Garden on the night of July 2, Graeco-Roman style, the winner of two falls out of three to be declared the victor. Charley White will be referee. [ a i Report of Sale Confirmed. NEW YORK, June 21.—Official confirma- tion has been given to the report of the purchase of the British Thompson-Hous- ton Company, Limited, of London, by the General Electric Company of New York. (g A Contribution From Astor. LONDON, June 22—Willlam Waldorf Astor has contributed £5000 to the Queen Victoria jubilee nurses fund. Will TLecture on the Boers. An entertaining lecture on “South Africa and the Boer Life” will be deliv- ered by Mrs. S. H. Dewet, niece of Gen- eral Dewet, next Sunday evening at Golden' Gate Hall. Mrs, Dewet is an elo- quent speaker and_is thoroughly con- versant with the Boers, their life and thelr present struggle against the en- croachment of the British. Sannie Kru- ger, a relative of the great Boer leader, will render several vocal selections. —_—ee——————— Royal Arcanum Day. To-night the anniversary of the institu- tion of the Royal Arcanum will be cele- brated in Odd Fellows' Hall by the local councils of the order. The membership of those on the other side of the bay has been asked to take part in the celebration. There will be an interesting programme and a dance. The hero of to-day has no title deed for to-morrow. been a special policeman and is now made an acting regular patrolman, to take the place of Henry McClay, retired. The Com- missioners appointed J. H. Walters a substitute to serve in the place of C. H. Cole, retired. In the shake-up A. P. Rine- hart, who has been serving as a regular, was ‘transferred to the list of special offi- cers, now to take his chances on employ- ment, James T. Drew, the first on the list of new men,.is a millman, employed at the California_Sash and Door Company's works at West Oakland. Drew has some local repute at that end of the city as a referee at the West Oakland Athletic Club’s exhibitions. James D. Mulgrew was formerly in the oo oot . YOUNG MEN’S INSTITUTE TO GIVE A BIG OUTING Councils of This City and Vicinity to Unite in a Big Cele- bration. All the local councils of the Young Men's Institute will join in . celebrating July 4th at Fernbrook, Niles Canyon. This movement, inaugurated by the board of management of the San Francisco councils, now gives promise of becoming a fixed celebration not alone of the local counoils but also of the councils within a reasonable distance of the metropolis. This year communications have been rc- ceived from the councils at Oakland, Ala- meda, Livermore, San Jose, San Rafael, Petaluma and Santa Rosa assuring the board of management that in each case the councils would take definite action looking to a large attendance of mem- bers and friends of the organization from these ‘several points. In some instances arrangements have already been perfect- ed for specfal transportation. It is the intention of those in charge to thus in- augurate an annual celebration by all of the councils within easy distance of a central point to be each yvear determined upon by representatives of the councils interested. The officers of the board of manage- ment are: Robert Tobin, Pioneer Council No. 1, presi- dent; D. Hayden, Golden Gate Council No. 34, secretar: B. Thomas, Ignatian Council No, 35, treasurer. The committee of arrange- ments is as follows: John F. Comyns, Mission Council No. 3, chalrman; D. E. Hayden, Golden Gate Council No. 34; P. Hagan, Pioneer Council No. 1. The programme of exercises will in- clude an oration, - the reading of the Declaration of Independence and literary and musical exercises of a patriotic na- ture. A brass band will provide choice music for the dancers, and games will be conducted for those xv 0 find pleasure in competitive contests. Trains will leave this city at 9 a. m. and a special train at 1 p. m. Trains return- ing will leave the picnic grounds at 4:15 p. m. and at 7 p. m., thus enabling those attending to spend an entire day in the country and yet admitting of return to this city at a reasonable hour, as the trip is made in about an hour and a half. With the certainty of a large attendance of the members now assured, July 4 at Fernbrook insures a pleasant outing for aul friends of the Y. M. L ‘Washington Council No. 4, Y. M. T., will hold a picnic on Wednesday next at Fernbrook Park, Niles Canyon. It will be in the nature of a reunion and outing, and the following committee is working hard to make the affair a success: Francts B. Kane, chalrman; Willlam Davls, Hugh Hunter, William Gillesple, Charles Cain, Michael Carr and James M, Ross, ————————————— ARBITRATION RECOMMENDED. Iroquois Club Adopts Resolutions in Favor Peaceful Settlement of - Strike. At the meeting of the Iroquois Club, held last night, the following resolution, prepared by a committee consisting of R. P. Troy, W. McMann, John Barnett and A. D. Lennon was adopted: Whereas, Certain ifferences have arisen be- tween labor and capital in this and in other communities in the United States, involving the rights and privileges of employes and of employers, which have culminated in a vio- lent rupture of the amicable relations pre- viously existing between these essential factors in our affairs, plunging both elements into the horrors of an unfortunate and disastrous strike; and whereas, the local effect of these conditions is damaging not only to the inter- ests of those directly Involved, but imperils also the welfare of the entire community and operates with soeclal harshness upon the re- sources of the skilled and the unskilled laborer and the small trader, be it therefore Resgolved, That the Iroquois Club requests the respective acdredited representatives of capital and of labor to stipulate that the dif- ferences which separate them may be sub- mitted to arbitration and to agree upon some fixed number of gentlemen to be selected as arbitrators, who may be invested with the power to adjust the disputed questions and thus conclude a situation fraught with most unhappy results, which both sides deplore, and which must necessarily retard the industrial and commercial development of our State. B — MAJOR MacBRIDE WILL LECTUB_BVTHIS EVENING The Irish Nationalists of this city will give Major MacBride of the Boer-Irish Brigade a reception in Metropolitan Tem- ple to-night. The exercises will consist of a few national melodies of Erin and a lecture by Major MacBride on the Irish Brigade in the Boer war. This will also be the anniversary cele- bration of the birth of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Irish patriot and leader of the rebeliion of '98. The Rev. Father Yorke will deliver an address on Wolfe Tone's life. This will be the mofit im bration held by the Irish socleties in this eity. Reserved seat tickeis can be ob- tained at the box office of the Metropoli- tan Temple. rtant cele- ¢ There are not less than forty applica- tions before the board for positions. rests with the City Council to say whether another ten men shall be added to the force. If that action shall be ordered, some of the faithful who were over- looked in to-day’s distribution of patron- age might have an opportunity to join the procession. But the Councilmen have not intimated yet what they propose to do _about an increase in the force. The board was served with a notice this morning from Willlam Kingsbury de- manding that deposed policemen be re- stored to duty, otherwise a suit to compel reinstatement would be commenced. Edward E. La Pearl was appointed sub- engineer in the Fire Department. D e S e e e e el FALLS TWO HUNDRED FEET FAOM BALLOON Aeronaut’s Car Acts as a Parachute and He Is Not Injured. Special Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, June 21.—George R. Law- rence, an adventurous photographer, who had gone up In a balloon, fell two hun- dred feet to-day with his car as a para- chute, struck upon his feet and escaped without a scratch. When Lawrence was about two hundred feet up he heard a snapping sound above him. The ropes of the netting were giv- ing way. He swiftly thought out a plan of action. In a few seconds the ropes had broken half way around the balloon, and #he globe, full of gas, slipped out through the netting and floated away. “I had my camera in my hand and put it down at the first sign of danger,” sald Lawrence. “I grasped the two sidebars above the platform and held them fast, | managing to keep my balance, so that the platform acted like a parachute and broke the force of the fall. “I was afraid that if my legs were stiff my bones would be telescoped, so I bent all my joints slightly, keeping my muscles perfectly stiff. ground I raised myself on my toes and I Was in that position when I Struck. The platform hit the ground, tilted just a lit- tle, but almost as flat ag when I started to fall. “] fell down like a rag, of course, when I struck, but got up at once and found I had not a bruise except a slight one on my right knee. “On the way down I was not troubled about the outcome. I thought of a lot of things, though, and don’t want to do it again, but I believe from my experience that & man could fall a great deal farther than that without harming himself if he knew how to do it.” Mr. Lawrence landed on a brick ~pave- ment and workingmen and his assistants rushed up, expecting to find the life crushed out of him. APOLLO LODGE HONORS ITS DEGREE TEAM Is Tendered a Banquet for the Good Work It Has Done. During the session of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows recently held in this city the degree team of Apollo Lodge under command of Cap- tain H. D. Saville, conferred the third de- gree of the order before the grand body in a manner that won for it the highest praise from the grand officers and repre- sentatives. The lodge felt so proud of its team that it decided to show its apprecia- tion of its work by tendering it a banquet last night in the Odd Fellows’ building. There were present about two hundred member's and Grand Master Nicholls, Past Grand Master Watson and Grand as- urer Harris. J. J. Applegate was toast- master, and after the excelient supper had been disposed of there were responses by the grand officers named; H. D. Saville, Who on behalf of the lodge was presente: with a beautifully engrossed set of reso- lutions thanking him for the proficiency to which he had brought his team; W. F. Noreross, G. G. Burnett, John Thompson and a number of others, —_— ee———— EDWIN WILDMAN' TO OFFER ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS Edwin Wildman, brother of the late Consul Wildman, who arrived here short- 1y after the wreck of the Rio de Janiero and has been staying here ever since in the hope that the bodies of his relatives would be recovered, will shortly offer a reward payable to the person who lo- cates the wreck. He made the statement last evening in the Palace Hotel that he would shortly place $1000 in_the hands of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company with instructions that the amount shall be handed over to the person who is fortunate enough to locate the wreck of the ill-fated vessel. — e A Worthy Benefit. A number of friends of Harry Ankel have arranged a monster benefit at the Alhambra Theater for next Sunday even- ing, June 23. The Columbia Minstrel Company and many of the best profes- sional performers have volunteered their services for this occasion. A full house is assured, as many tickets have already been di; ed of. The Alhambra box- office will be open all day to-day and to- morrow. As I approached the | RENEWS HIS BID TOR FRANCHISES Wanamaker Offers Mil-| lions to the City of Philadelphia. Will Pay the Quay Syndicate 8$500,000 to Relinquish Its Bargain. Speclal Dispatch to The Call, | PHILADELPHIA, June 21.—Another bid | was made to-day for the valuable street | railway charters and franchises in Phila- delphia recently presented to a syndicate | | of friends of Senator Quay by the State | Legislature and Governor Stone and the City Council and Mayor Ashbridge. In a letter to Representative Robert H. Foerderer, of the syndicate which holds the franchises, JoL-Wanarraker renewed | his offer made 20 the May: last week to | pay to the «ty of Phsadelphia $2,500,000 and $500,000 70 Mr. “oerderer and his as- | sociates for conv of the grants| and corporate privileges which _they re- | ceived without cost from the State and | city. It was stipulated that of the| $2,500,000 offered to the city $1,500,000 shouid | be used to.deepen the Delaware River | channel, and $1,000,000 to build public | schools and for education. | The offer carried an agreement to build and operate railways on which 3-cent fares only shall be charged between 5 and 8 o'clock a. m. and 5 and 7 o'clock p. m. | 1t also stipulated that at any time within | ten years the city may resume the fran- | chises upon payment of the actual money | expended and invested in thz various en- terprises covered by the charters and ordinances. CONTRACTOR WASS | RELEASED ON BAIL Four Counts Against Him in ths| Complaint on Which He Was Arrested. | D. D. Wass appeared before United States Court Commissioner Heacock yes- terday to surrender himself into custody, he having read in The Call that a war- rant was out for his arrest. The Commis- stoner summoned Deputy United States Marshal Burnham, who served the war- rant and placed Mr. Wass formally under arrest. The complaint was then read by request of Assistant United States Attorney Ban- ning. It was sworn to by Edward Smith and contained four counts. The first alle- gation was that Wass had violated sec- ticn 5438, Revised Statutes of the United Stetes, by presenting to Oscar F. Long, Quartermaster United States Volunteers, a claim against the Government for $850 50 for 1701 hours of labor at fifty cents per hour, purporting to have been performed upon the United States army transport City of Peking, which claim was false, fictitious and fraudulent. The second count charges an offense in presenting the same claim to Captain Jchn Barneson, Marine Superintendent of the United States Army Transport Ser- vice, for approval. The third count charges an offense in presenting to Quartermaster Long a claim for 3355 for 710 hours of labor alleged to have been performed upon the Govern- ruent transport Senator from October 24 to November 3, 1899. The fourth count charges the presenta- ticn of the same claim to Captain John Farneson for approval. The bail of the accused was fixed at $500 on motion of Mr. Banning. Adrian Merle, manufacturer, residence Alameda County, and Charles Stallman, merchant, of this city, qualified as sureties, and Mr. Wass was ordered to appear for examination on July 10. ———— PETER McGLADE AGAIN IN HANDS OF JURY Trial Ends Quietly and Twelve Men Retire to Consider the Evi- dence Adduced. The fifth trial of Peter W. McGlade on a charge of forgery was concluded before Judge Burnett vesterday afternoon. T! jury retired at ten minutes to 5 o'clock. Just before the jury retired a motion was made by defendant’s attorney that the Judge instruct the jury to acquit on the ground that the District Attorney had failed to adduce proof to bear out the | allegations made in the complaint. The motion was denied. The jury failed to agree on a verdict up to midnight, when Forman Johnstone | asked the court for instructions on the evidence. It was sald that Johnstone stated at that time that the jury stood eleven to one for conviction, Juror W. Lowenberg, it was said, was holding out for acquittal. —_— ee————— Petition in Insolvency. Petitions in insolvency were filed yes- terday in the United States District Court as follows: Andro 'Rustan, farmer, San Joaquin County, liabilities $i2,353 75, assets ; John Sachau, liquor dealer, San Francisco, liabilities $1732 80, no assets. | madman and FOUGHT MADMAN - AT MIDNIGHT Two Men Overpowered by Uncanny Assail- ant on Street. Police Furnished With Good Description of Belligerent Prowler. s Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, June 21 Julius Steen, a medical student residing at 760 Thirteenth street, and Mervyn Samuels, of 1307 West street, have re- ported to the police a desperate struggle with a man, evidently insane, who at- tacked them shortly after midnight this morning at Eighth and Market streets as they were on their way home from San Francisco. Both young men were badly battered in the fight with their uncanny ilant, whom tZ~y describe as of pow- rful physique. During the scuffle in the dark he muttered incoherently, at times giving vent to maniacal cries. Steen and Samuels came home together from the city and alighted from the loeal train at the Market-street station a little after 12 o'clock. They had gone about a block up Market when they saw a man running about a vacant inclosure which they were approaching. As they neared the place the man vaulted the fence and rushed toward them shouting “I've been looking for you.” Before either of the young men had time to offer any defense he had seized both in a crushing embrace and hustled them along the walk in the direction from which they came. The lunatic’s strength seemed for & time irresistible, but atter being dragged half a block Steen wrenched himself free. Lifting Samuels bodily from the ground the mysterious stranger held him_above his head and started to run down Market street, Samuels calling loudly for help. Steen had no cifficulty in catching the uck him several blows, which caused him to relinquish his hold on Samuels. Then the two friends took to their heels and escaped. They were able to give the police a good description of their assailant. UNSATISFACTORY FIGHTS AT THE RELIANCE CLUB Tommy Cox Makes a Bad Showing Against Tom Herman in the Main Event. OAKLAND, June 21.—All bets were de- clared off on the main contest of to- night’s boxing exhibition at the Reliance Club, that between Tom Herman and Tommy Cox of San Francisco. After the seventh round Referee Smith repeatedly warned Cox, as he was not trying. In the tenth round the ecrowd yelled “fake’ as Cox dropped to the floor from a right- hand swing by Herman. The fight was given to Herman by the referee without the formality of a count. George Baker, who was scheduled to fight Herman, was said to be too ill to enter the ring and Cox was substituted. In the opening bout Louis Long out- classed Georgé Murphy. The fight was stopped in the first round. The bout be- tween Jack Capeless and George Curran was easy for the former. Curran's sec- nndsdthrew up the sponge in the fourtn round. MILK-DEALERS NEARLY LOSE THEIR LICENSES Health Board, After a Trial, Notifles Two Not to Sell Impure Fluid. The Health Board last night tried the cases of Milk Dealers L. de Santi and L. Anthien, who were accused of having had in their possession impure milk. The twé men were cited to show cause why their licenses to sell milk should not be revoked. Judge Bahrs appeared for An- thenien and stated that his client had skimmed milk on his wagon, which he sold to bakeries. Secretary Emery read an ordinance which prohibits the sale of skimmed milk. Drs. Buckley and Lewitt wanted Athen- fen’s license revoked for sixty days, but Chief of Police Sullivan pleaded that ieniency be shown Anthien, who had already paid a fine in the Police Court. The motion to revoke Anthien's license was lost, Drs. Lewitt and Buckley voting aye and Drs. Willlamson, Baum and Chief Sullivan no. Anthien was then reprimanded by Dr. Willlamson, who tol1 the offender that if he sold skimmed milk again he will lose his license. De Santi was adjudged guilty of put- ting borax in his milk, and a motion te revoke his license for thirty days re- ceived only three votes in favor, a unaa- imous vote being necessary. De Santl was also severely reprimanded and told to reform his ways. The board will hold an examination for internes of the City and County Hospital next Thursday evening. William H. Jordan's appointment as Market Inspector was confirmed. e The two principal German fortresses on the Baltic Sea are at Konigsberg and Danzig; on the French frontier, Metz and Strasburg, and on the Belgian frontier, Cologne and Coblenz. A PAIR OF PERFECT SHOULDERS. Tustrated by photos of | some of San Francis- co’s society women. THE HOUSE ‘works as FAVOR AGAIN. THE SUNDAY CALL JUNE TWENTY-THREE, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE BECAUSE OF LOVE A ncphew of Sir Mi- chael HicKs - Beach shiffer in a Bakers- ficld thealer. his pathetic slory in next Sunday’s Cali BY KATE GREENLEAF LOCKE. 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