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

VOLUME XC-—NO. ‘32. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1901 PRICE FIVE CENTS. CUP DEFENDER CONSTITUTION BEATEN BY THE COLUMBIA IN THE FIRST REAL TEST OF SPEED Contest Is Exciting From Start to Finish, but Through Misfortune the New Herreshoff Yacht Loses the Race by the Small Margin . of Forty-Eight Seconds, Each Boat Meeting With Mishap over on the port tack for a few minutes. Jib Sheet Carried Away. Sucdenly the luff of the Constitution’s big 3ib began to shake. The pennant, or the sheet itself, had evidently carried away. Down came the jib halyards by a run, while a dozen men climbed out on the bowsprit to gather in the slack at the foot of the sall so as to smother the flowing duck. For over ten minutes the Consti- tution, on that close-hauled stretch, was without the benefit of her jib. The Co- lumbia €11 that time was pointing higher and footing faster. & SIS RIS TURN GITES NTD DV Heat Brings Desolation and Death in Many Localities. Fifty-Eight Persons Perish During One Scorching Day in New York. AT Commerce and Industry Paralyzed and Ambulances Unable to Re- move All the Unfortunates. July 1—The s defeated by, the by the small in the first the new Her- ted. Although nish was close nof a Newport to- rough m of to-day’s and there which to be decided as to the rela- The mis- came about an hopur boats were on windward the o the . ’ of the new boat was car- - - for some ten minutes she et e of that sail. This ot & e Caopstitution back prac- t in spite of it she was es of the and cut this lead alf on the run home. however, was undoubt- due t ct that she came up in e better wind. The Columbia' aid not e without accident, for immediately crossing the fnish line in gybing the big mainsail her boom buckled 4 she had to be towed to the city. It be necessary to string a new spar be- fore the Columbia can race again, but it is expected it will be in place for a race Wednesday. Foots Faster Than Columbia. first of a se- two .m g The event to-day was the LIGHTNING’S ries of special races arranged by the New York Yacht Club for the purpose of bring- ing the two yachts together. The course was cleared for the racers when the time approached for the firing of the signal gun ard the breeze came up from the southwest just when.it was wanted. Fif- dead to windward and back again the course signaled by the flags hoisted on the ship Colonidl. The starting signal sent the, Columbia off at 11:40:3¢, well to windward and three sec- onds in advance. - The Constitution, with a rare burst of speed, came on with a rush and ran through the Columbia’s lee, pointing for a much higher position than was expegted of her. This did not last long, however. - Both wvachts, with big luff topsails set and small jib topsafls hunting for whatever wind there might be, were making the best of the breeze. The Constitution, footed faster than the Columbia. But while the new boat was going along swift as the wind she had not the grip on the water that the other craft had. Along the starboard tack the two yachts safled, both jogging at an eight-knot gait. The Constitution would not stand as well as her rival by at least three degrees. When the time came for tHe Constitution to tack it was a mootedl question whether she could or could not cross the Columbia’s bow. teen mil In the Jjudgment of the sharps, however, there was too large a gap to leeward to allow of this. But just at the moment when the Constitution’s helm was put down the Columbia also came about and both went BOLT FINDS THE OLD CUP DEFENDER WHICH OUTSAILED THE NEW CONSTITUTION. - 4 When the sall was in place again the Constitution rapidly forged ahead, mak- ing up much of her leeway. It was, how- ever, too big a gap to flll. The outward mark was now in sight, and the Colum- bia got hold of its true bearings and made a judicious hitch to starboard. The Con- stitution, a few seconds later, alsogtacked, bt what she did was a stretch too far. The time at the outer m: as: Co- lumbia, 1:24: Constitution, 1:26:55. Thus, on the beat to windward, the Co- lumbia defeated her opponent nearly two miles. Setting spinnakers, the Columbia was a trifle smarter than the Constitution, On the run before the wind the Constitu- tlon gained. With sheets eased off, she is faster than the Columbia. The time at the finish was: :38; Constitution, 2:33:29, Thus, over the course of over fifteen miles to windward and back, the elapsed time of the Columbia was 2:52:04, while that of the Constitution was 2;52:52. Columbia, 2: ELEVEN VICTIMS IN A CHICAGO SHANTY HICAGO, July 1L—Crowded together in a little zinc-lined shanty, under & northshore piler, ten boys and young men and one old man met in t death by lightning to-day. They had left their fishlines and sought shelter from the fierce thunderstorm that deluged the north part of the city about 1 o'clock. Ten minutes later their bodies lay, with twisted and tangled limbs, “like as the men who found a nest of snakes,” them said. There were twelve who sought shelter and just one escaped. Twelve-year-old Willie Anderson was uninjured, but he lay many long minutes before he could be drawn out from under the heap of dead bodies. The dead are all from the familles of comparatively poor people. They were fishing and seeking relief from the heat of the day, or had come to wade or swim. Victims of the Bolt. The dead: GEORGE BRABINET, 11 years. MEYER JACOBS, 4 years. GEORGE PRIEBS, 12 years. FRANK COOSEY, 11 years. CARL KRUZE, 18 years. EDWARD BLOCH, 28 years. UNKNOWN MAN, supposed to be named Broderick. UNKNOWN MAN. THREE UNKNOWN BOYS. Houses and Trees Struck. The scene of the tragedy was a pler Just south of Marquette terrace and a few | hundred feet from the waterworks pump- ing station, at the foot of Montrose boule- | vard. The storm was as violent a visita- tion as has ever been experienced in Chi- cago. The skies were filled with the flash- |ing glare of the lightning and the air rumbled steadily with thunder. Half a dozen houses, outbulldings and trees in the vicinity were struck, and almost all of the telephone wires burned out. There were | thirtcen men and boys on the pler at the | time. They rushed for the only available shelter and crowded themselves in through the little trap door in the top of \| the cabin till they were packed almost to a suffocating point. Then came the thunderbolt. It was the worst of the storm. Watchers in the pumping station saw the zigzag lightning strike the water, as they thought. . There was one small boy, however, who saw the bolt and whose senses were all alert despite his excitement. But for him the dead might have lain where they were for hours, and little Willie Anderson might have been suffocated under their bodles. Percy Keane, clad in bathing trunks, and watching from the water station, thought he heard g scream as the bolt struck. Mindless of the storm he rushed across the beach. At the pler he heard a cry, ‘““Help—get me out!” He looked into the cabin and in dismay saw the twisted bodies. Young Percy, crying, pulled at the dead men's arms and legs to met them away. He saw Willle Anderson’s head and a part of his body, but he could not pull him out, nor could :le pull the heavy bodies from on top of m. Then young Keane telephoned to the police, who succeeded, after a great deal of difficulty, in reviving young Anderson and recovering the dead bodies of the others. N Hurricanes Paralyze Shipping. MELBOURNE, July 1.—Disastrous hur- ricarfes on the coast of New South Wales have paralyzed shipping. Two vessels have been wrecked and ten persons drowned. || HOT WAVE’S RECORD | WASHINGTON, July 1.—By | | to-morrow reliet’is promisea | 16 the middle Mississippi Val- | ley, the lower Missouri Valley, the upper lake region, and by ‘Wednesday in the Ohio Valley | | amnda possibly the western part | of the lower lake region. For the mnext forty-eight hours along the northeastern coast the prospects favor more hot weather. In New York City the probabilities seem to fa- i vor a continuation of existing | | conaitions. with no tmmediate | | prospect of rellef. In the Iat- | | ter eity the temperature to- | | day was again 98, the highest | | previous record for that eity in July for thirty years being #99. In Philadelphia the heat broke all records for the past thirty years for July, reach- | | ing a maximum of 102. Some ! | of the high temperatures re- corded during the day by the Weather Bureau were: Atlanta, Ga., 90; Atlantié City, N. J., 90; Boston, 92; Chicago, 92; Cincinnati, 96; Davenport, Towa, 96: Des Moines, Iowa, 92; Indianapolis, 92; Jacksonville, Fla., 94: Kansas City, 100; Lit- tle Roeck, Ark., 90; Memphis, 92; New Orleans, 90; New York, 98; Omaha, 94; Pittsburg, Pa., 98;: Salt Lake, Utah, 92; st Louis, Mo., 100; St. Paul, Minn., 901 Springfield, 96; Vicksburg, 00. e - Spectal Dispatch to The Call, TR S YORK, July 1.—New - York was like a vast oven to-day. A brazen sun poured scorching rays upon the great city, brought death and desolation and almost succeeded in paralyzing commerce and in- dustry. Occasional puffs of wind seemed to bring new waves of torrid alr and af- forded no relief to suffering humanity. The network of steel and iron tracks and structures were transformed into radja- tors' to disseminate the heat; brick and stone became fuel and asphalt pavements blistered and felt like sticky mud, in which every footstep left an imprint. It was a record-breaking day for heat, far hotter than any of its predecessors of last week. Never before in the thirty-one years that the United States Government has kept a record here did the official thermometer go so high. The Govern- ment observatory, on top of one of the highest buildings in the city, with noth- ing to obstruct any breath of air that stirs, sweltered In the afternoon with the thermometer at 98 degrees. This record from the clouds does not adequately rep- resent the feelings of perspiring pedestri- ans in the street below. 111 Degrees Fahrenheit. Men who: had hitherto scouted the no- | tion of shirtwaists discarded their coats | for the nonce, and holding their hats in their hards to protect their faces from the sun crowded about the big Herald ther- mometer in Herald square to watch the mercury. They found that it had climbed to 111 degrees Fahrenheit a few minutes before 4 o'clock. The minimum that it reached during the day was 84 degrees. Fifty-eight persons died from the effects of the Leat, and the ambulance service proved inadequate to remove all who were prostrated in the streets. The deaths re- ported do not really represent all the lives sacrificed by the sun, as very many deaths are attrihuted to other causes, though heat is really responsible. Of the persons prostrated many are beyond hope of recovery, while others will suffer from the effects for years. At.2 o'clock this (Tuesday) morning the death record for the twenty-four hours ending at that time in Greater New York was eighty-seven; the prostrations 183. For the last five days, covering the heated term, the total deaths in the same terri- tory were 136. Hot Weather in Washington. WASHINGTON, July 1—The hot weather continued here to-day with no abating in fierceness. The climax came this afternoon, when the record for thus early In the summer was broken, the ‘Weather Bureau thermometer registering a temperature of 102. Fortunately there was not much humidity in the atmos- phere. Twenty cases of heat prostration were reported, two of which resulted fa- tally, Lewis Ashton, a negro laborer, 46 years of age, dying mot long after he reached the hospital. John Farrell, a* laborer, was the other victim. At 8 o'clock to-night the ther- mometer had fallen to 90 degrees, with every probability that it would not fall greatly below that during the night and that to-morrow would be a scorcher. There seems to be no prospect for any relief for the next forty-eight hours for this vicinity. Beyond that length of time the Weather Bureau officlals make no pre- dictions. The present hot wave started in the West June 20, and to-day the Weather Bureau officlals. report that high tem- Continued on Page Two. |'TAFT BECOMES CIVIL GOVERNOR - AND MILITARY WILL RETIRE FROM THE OLD WALLED CITY AT MANILA Glorious Fourth of July Is to Be Inauguration Day in the Philip- pines, General MacArthur Transferring His Staff and Office to Former Spanish Headquarters and Evacuating Malacanan Palace — — inauguration of civil government in the islands July 4, that he would be appointed civil Governor. While the appointment of the civil Governor is credited to the War Department, this does not mean neces- sarily that the President is proceeding en- tirely under his war power in setting up civil government in the Philippines. He is not differentiating the source of his authority. He is acting. so it is univer- sally stated, under all the powers he has in the premises. Inauguration on the Fourth. MANILA, July 1.—Thursday next, July 4, will be inauguration day, for civil gov- ernment and moving day for the military headquarters, which will be transferred to the former Spanish headquarters outside the Wwalled city. The palace will be occu- pled exclusively by the civil government. General Chaffee, who assumes command Thursday, will occupy Judge Taft's resi- dence, and Judge Taft will remove to the Malacanan Palace. ¢ General Chaffee is preparing to pursue AN JOSE, July 1.—For the second time George Suesser, who mur- dered Sheriff Henry R. Farley of Monterey County in September, 1899, has escaped the fury of a mob and found shelter in the Santa Clara County Jail. He was not safe even on the train, for Thomas Farley, a brother of the dead official, followed Sheriff Keefe and his prisoner and between this city and Salinas attempted to carry out his oft-repeated threat that he would avenge the Sheriff’s death. But for the action of a passenger and the courageous conduct of Sheriff Keefe, who disarmed Farley, Stuesser would probably now be occupying a slab in the Morgue. Yesterday Suesser was taken from San Quentin, where he had been under sen- tence of death for the brutal murder of the Sheriff, to Salinas, having been grant- ed a new trial by the Supreme Court on the ground that he had been refused a change of venue. At Gonzales, the home of the Farleys, when it became known the murderer was in Salinas, a band of some twenty-five men met and decided to lead Malvar, the insurgent chief, in Southern Luzon. He has ordered the transfer of the Fifth Infantry from Northern Luzon to Batangas province. The general has been informed that Malvar's principal head- quarters are in a mpunfgin town in North- ern Tayabas, whére the inhabitants are contributing to his support. General Chaffee has not formulated plans for the occupation of the island of Mindoro. General Hughes, at his request, will be permitted to eontinue in command of the Vasayas Islands until the Samar campaign is completed. Subsequently Gen- eral Davis will continue temporarily to be provost marshal at Manila. General Chaffee’s staff appointees are as follows: Adjutant general, Colonel Will P. Hall; quartermaster, Brigadier General Charles F. ,Humphrcy: inspector general, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph P. Sanger; mil- itary secretary, Captain Grote Hutcheson, Sixth Cavalry. Four American prisoners who escaped from Calapan, Mindoro, June 25 in a sail B e e Special Dispatch to The Call. sledgehammers and saws were procured and ‘to-night was set as the time for breaking open the Salinas jail and lynch- ing Suesser. This little band expected ald from the citizens of Salinas, with whom Farley was very popular. There is little doubt that they would have been successful, as the people of Monterey County in general be- lieve that Murderer Suesser will never get his just deserts at the hafds of the law. So thorqughly was the band organ- ized and equipped that no jail could have withstood its attack. Early this forenoon Sheriff Keefe learn- ed of these plans and this afternoon, with Suesser In charge, stole away from the "jail, up a back street and boarded a train for this city. He thought they had not been observed. When half way between: Salinas and this city Thomas Farley came into the car in which the Sheriff had his prisoner. He halted back of Suesser and asked: .‘George, :2' are you afrald of me?"” at the same e drawing a revolver from his pocket. boat have been recaptured. Six others ars reported to be in Southern Mindoro. Es - - = ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, ! N. W.,, WASHINGTON, July 1L— President McKinley to-day signed the commission of Willlam H. Taft of Ohio as civil.Governor of the Philippine Islands. The appointment i is credited to the War Department. Judge | Taft was notified some time ago, when ! | instructions were sent him relative to the ; | e o | | | | | | | i | | | » | | | | |\l | A 1L | { ] i | | s | | | | | + -+ l NEW CIVIL GOVERNOR OF THE { PHILIPPINES AND THE MILI- l TARY COMMANDER. A * i -+ Health Board Is Created. Bills have been passed establishing a Board of Health for the Philippines and providing for lzboratories in connection therewith. The salary of the Health Com- missioner will be $6000. The United States cruiser Albany salled to-day for the Mediterranean Several insurgent officers and 350 bolo- men have voluntarily taken the oath of allegiance at Culano, province of Bataan. Captain Adams, with ten men, scouting in ‘Albay province has killed ten insur- gents and captured a Filipino captain and ten men. - A detachment of the Fourth Infantry scouting on a volcano island in Lake Taal has captured Gonzales, an insurgent lead- er, ‘his adjutant and several others. Another detachment of the same regi- ment has .had a running engagement a‘ Baneas and destroyed a Filipino strong- hold. Sergeant Brown and Privates Rigs- by and Gatfleld of the coast artillery were wounded. MURDERER OF SHERIFF FARLEY , : IS SAVED FROM GONZALES MOB ecitement prevalled In the car and it was necessary to keep a close watch on Far- ley during the rest of the trip. Farley has threatened to kill® Svesser, and those who know the disposition ef the young man are satisfled that he will keep his word, Once before he attempted to kill Suesser while the latter was being taken to orison. + When brought to the County Jail Sues- ser was almost in a state of collapse. He realizes that unless the law places him beyond the reach of the people of Mon- terey County he will surely be killed. At the time of the murder In 1399 Sues- ser was brought here to escape a lynch- ing. After the excitement had subsided he was taken back, tried, conmvicted and sentenced to be hanged. Prejudice was strong against him, but when he asked for a chdnge of venue it was denied, Upon this point the Supreme Court has granted him a new trial. " Suesser will be tried in this county. Sheriff Keefe, accompanied by Thomas Farley, returned to Salinas on the late train to-night, It is not likely that Sues- ser will ever be taken to Salinas again, for it is believed his escape was a narrow one and that the people of Genzales will A passenger grabbed Farley’s hand and | always be willing to head a mob to a mob to lynch Suesser. Shotguns, rifles, | Sheriff Keefe ‘disarmed him. Great ex-| avenge Sheriff Farley's death.