The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1901, Page 1

T’ VOLUME XC-—NO. 33. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GREAT STRIKE ORDERED AND THE BATTLE IS ON AGAINST THE STEEL TRUST Probability That Nearly Two Hundred Thou- sand Men Will Leave the Several Plants Owned by the Billion-Dollar Corporation ITTSBURG, July 2.—Aside from the faith that is being pinned to 3 Plerpont Morgan's probable of mind when he steps from land to-morrow, there of the United States oration will be avoided. The has begun was until to-day v no strike at all not working for two rea- many mills at this time shut for repairs; secor the rk owing to the failure of the ves of the union and of the but no the the formal- will remain idle until a notice an sign hase will be dev t time, when are completed and the men ¥ r rest, th scale be not the great conflict. ief that the s of the United States with the exception « the Carn 1 be tie between le Causes of the Big Strike. ew w be taken were it f two men. One of el Compa of Andrew Carne- labor in ‘he the country unions retara L at Prescott were their allejo street Prescott place, building eet was ted by M. Scheelin. 1d that the ered. How the 1own, but as soon n rm was | the frightened inmates into the streets, utter- As the flames rapidly | the central structure to olice and the firemen to CALL BURI 1406 N. W., WASHINGTON, Jul Jock on two important G STREET, v 2.—The dead- points of the in- demnity question is the result of almost | four months’ discussion by the powers of this feature of the Chinese negotiations. These two points are: The method of payment China shall adopt and the means China shall adopt for ra the indem- nity demanded. The powers are divided on both of these points. Regarding the method of pay- ment, the United States has insisted from the start that China shall give to each power bonds to the amount of its claims and that a power receiving them shall dispose of them as it sees fit The United States was willing that these bonds should bear 3 per cent inter- est, but finding itself alone on this point agreed as a compromise to accept 4 per cent. Great PBritain and, it is believed, Germany were willing to accept the bond proposal. Russia, Japan and France at first de- sired an international loan, but jt is clear NEW YORK, July 2—A tornado struck the sghores of the Hudson River near Os- sining, N. Y., this afternoon, cutting a path two miles or more long 2and several hundred feet wab, president of ration. Tke | ad of the | Schwab, | of the most | Quarter on Telegraph Hill. With All Their wought to have occu- fam- | The | a three- | quickly followed | third call for the | dings the pandemonium in- women, shrieking hysteri- ted t dash back into the | g=, crying out that some of or their kin were peri s, and it took the unite 5 % i e e ) EADLOCK OF PCWERS ON POINTS OF CHINESE INDEMNITY QUESTION + ‘i"‘H‘i‘l—H;lfl-l—H—H—lfi—l-l-H—ifl-l—H—:-i—l—l—]-H-. TORNADO CAUSES GREAT TERROR IN THE SING SING PENITENTIARY progress. He sald before the Industrial Commission at Washington on May 11 that labor organizations were not fair to bright workmen because they put them on the same plane with poorer ones, and he thought such organizations were a great mistake and a great injury to labor. ing to the seriousness of the situaticn, has been in frequent conferehces lately with officials of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Iron Workers who refused ¢n Sunday to sign the sheet iron scale. Smith, it is generally believed, is seeking a labor conflict regardless of conse- quences. He represents a branch of the trade that is a part of the business of the United States Steel Corporation. That corporation controls his company. Conditions of Machinists’ Strike. WASHINGTON, July 2 — President O'Connell of the International Associa- tion of Machinists, sald to-day that he regarded the machinists’ strike as practi- ! cally won. “Even if an order should be issued at this time directing all men out to return | to work on the old basis,” he said, “the nine-hour day would be won. The movement has been attended with every success and in many respects is the most remarkable struggle on record. | There are now only 8000 men out and agreements are being signed every day, | reducing this number. It has not been a | strike. It simply has been a cessation of | | work. A strike, to the mind of the puh- | tie, means riot and bloodshed. The ma- | chinists have had none of these. It is | true, there have'becn one or two cases of sault, but these are liable to occur at time and cannot be chargeable to the machinists.” The first financial aid to be received by | the machinists sinee their was accepted to-day by President O'Con- nell in the form of a check for $000 from | the American Federation of Labor. Smith, the other man who is contribut- | strike began | | ieieieieiniedeiniek @ WOMEN MAY HAVE | PERISHED IN THE FLAMES Morning Fire Destroy | s Three Tenement Houses, | Contents, in the Latin creatures from [Festrain these frantic sacrificing thelr lives. The firemen got the fire under control at 3:30 o'clock, though at that hour the | 0ld buildings were still blazing fiercely. | Between seventy-five and eighty people | were rendered homeless, losing all their | worldly effects. There were many rumors of loss of life, some placing the number of victims as | high as five, but closer inquiry brought | the number down to two. One of these | victims is supposed to be Mrs. Taran- | tini, an aged cripple. who resided in the tenement at 317 Vallejo street. Several | | persons stated that they saw her trying | to get out, but that she fell back into the flames. Other persons also stated that another | 0ld woman in the same building had per- | ished in the flames. | At 3:30 it had been impgssible to verify | | these rumors of deaths. and it may be | possible that the women may have becn by friends and found shelter in scme of the nearby houses. | The burned tenements were situated on | l the sida of Telegraph Hill, and the flames | | i | | rescued were therefore clearly visible throughout the city, leading to the general impression that the conflagration was greater than it really was While the financial loss is not heavy, | the destruction of the chattels in the old buildings is a serious loss to the | rtatians inhabiting the place. poor that this proposal would not be adopted, | and then in order that the bonds they | would reserve might be floated at par the suggestiou was made that the rates of | interest be advanced either to 5 per cent or that in order that they might receive {in full the moneys claimed for expendi- | tures or damages an additional amount of { bonds be issued in their favor. Both of | these suggestions were unacceptable to | the United States. Regarding the means China shall adopt | for raising funds with which to meet the | indemnity there is a division betwedn ex- | porting nations and nations not so deeply | Interested in export trade. The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and it is thought Germany, are in favor of an in- | crease in the customs duty of China to 5 per cent effective. This would require that the other revenues of China be drawn |upon to assist in the settlement of the indemnity. Russia and France support | the customs tax of 10 per cent effective, believing that the indemnity can be settled more promptly by such an fncrease in customs. ,Up by the wind, was drfven through the | prison in every. direction. | The prisoners had just been locked in | their cells for the night when the blast | o+ NLEY, England, July 2—Owing to the large number of entries for the Thames challenge cup at the Henley regatta, which commences to-morrow, three heats in the contest for that trophy were rowed this afternoon. The results were as follows: First heat—Trinity Hall, Cambridge, beat the Vesta Rowing Club. The Cam- bridge men led throughout and paddled home six lengths ahead in 7 Second heat—The School of Mines won by a length and three-quarters. Time, 7:33. Third heat—Kingston beat the Thames Rowing Club by two lengths. Time, 7:57. The heats were rowed under depressing conditions, with heavy clouds and occa- sional rain. The weather prospects’ for the formal opening of the regatta to-mor- row are not promising. Americans Are Confident. The oarsmen of the Pennsylvania Uni- versity did only routine work this morn- ing The Belgian crew’s rowing was the feature of the mmorning’s work. They cre- ated such a favorable impression that many of the spectators thought it quite possible that they would beat Leander in the trial heat, in which case the Amerl- cans and Belgians would in all probability meet in the Grand Challenge cup final. The American crew will have its first race over the Henley course to-morrow. The members of the crew themselves aze very confident, not only of the result of the race with the London Club, but they are also confident of winning the final on Friday. The general opinion of rowing men here to-night, however, is that Le- ander is sure to win in the final, and from more than one quarter the correspondent hears the opinion expressed that at least two of the Pennsylvanians are over- trained. There was little evidence of this when the American oarsmen came in from their paddle this afternoon. They all looked fit. Coach Ward, who stood by and noted his men with approving glances as they carried their boat to the boat- house, sald: Coach Ward Satisfied. “I am perfectly satisfied with their work and their condition. In every respect the boys are as good as ever they fvere in their lives. I have great hopes. Of course ride. All along its course | hit the place. They set up an awful howl- | it 15 alwavs difficult to predict the result trees were uprooted, bufldings unroofed |ing and screaming. Thelr terror was n. | Of any boat race, but all I ask is that all and windows blown in. No houses were | tensified when a moment after the win- | the men be in as good condition Friday as biown down as were there any be learned. The tornado embraced practically the whole village, and the Sing Sing Prison was in_the very center of the storm’s path. There was great excitement and much Aamage. Almost every window on the water side of the prison was blown in, ané the rain and yellow mud, scooped fatalities as far as can ‘and roaring sound caused by the wind | tearing off the roof of the administration buflding. The roof of a shop was also | torn away. Through the village trees were torn up by the roots. Some of these were large and some were hurled into houses, crush- ing in the sides and carrying away porches and eaves. far as reported, neither | dows were blown in there was a ripping | they are to-night.” Coach Ward is undisturbed by the fact that during Leander’s trial over the full course the latter made several seconds better time than the Pennsylvanians. “The conditions were entirely different,’” sald Ward, “and I am well satisfled with the outlook.” The Pennsylvanians concluded their CAMBRIDGE'S TRINITY HALL CREW WINS THE PRELIMINARY HEAT IN THAMES CHALLENGE CUP CONTEST Champion Oarsmen From Noted Colleges and Amateur Rowing Clubs Are in Fine Form for the Sensational Events at the Henley- on-Thames Regatta---Pennsylvanians Are Confident of Victory |* AND RED LION BOTEL ualty List and in Is No Immediate HOT WAVE STILL CLAIMS HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS IN CITIES OF THE EAST { Torrid Rays of Old Sol Cause a Heavy Cas- Several States There Prospect of Relief | throughout the entire area 1] affected by the intense heat | | show a continuation of very hizh temper | atures, save in a few favored localities, | | where more moderate weather resulted | in consequence of thunder-storms or other | I local atmospheric disturbances. No im-! | mediate relief of a substantial character is in sight. The rainfall reports show | that there has been precipitation through- ‘1 out the affected area varying from less | than a hundredth of an fnch in many | places to almost an inch. Generally speak- ing, the thunder-storms which have come | have been what Is known as “dry torms.” =0 tWht very little rain has ac- | comnanied them. | The indications for the next twenty-four | hours for a large portion of the heated | area point to cloudy weather, with show- | ers. which, however, because of their local | character, will bring only partial I'F‘]Dl; from the heat. The prediction ofsthe offi- | clals here is that the temperatures for/| | the next forty-eight hours will show a | | fall of probably four or five degrees. but that they will still climb above the %-de- | gree mark in most places. The Atlantic | coast will get some relief from a West i | Indlan disturbance which is now moving | northward. Phoenix the Hottest Place. Phoenix. Ariz. had the highest tem- perature to-dav. the thermometer regis- | tering 106, while at Philadelphia it was again 102, at Atlantic City 9. Boston 9: | | Chicago, where over half an inch of rajn | fell. 86; Cineinnati. 9. Davenport. Towa | | 92, Des Moines 8. Indianapolis 4. Kansns! | City 100, Little Rock. Ark.. %. Fitchburg | | o7, Pittsburg 84, Salt Lake %. Springfield, | 11, %. St. Louis 9% Vicksburg %. i | At Washington the maximum was 109, | | but during a gust in the afternoon the ! | thermometer feil 15 degrees in as many | minutes. Numerous prostrations and | deaths are reported from the heat. and in | | many places incustrial plants were forced 1 to spend operations. The Weather Bureau to-night issued the | following: Low Pressure Over Wide Area. “The hot wave which has prevatied dur- ing the ten or twelve days over New Eng- |land, the Middle Atiantic States, the | 1ake region. the Ohio Valley and tne Cen- | tral West and Northwest. continued dur- | ing Tuescay. nitkough temporary relief | | was fforded Guring the afternoon by | humerous thunder-storms in New Englagd | | and the Middle Atlantlc States and at| Chicago and St. Lovis. As yet this warm | wave has not equaled in duration those of 1881 and 1309, except in New York City. | where during the present hot wave the | maximum temperatures have ranged from 9 to 98 during the past seven days, exceeding the greatest previous record by | two degrces. Neither have the extreme | temperatures of the present wave vet ex- eeded the previous highest records, | although they very nearly equaled them. THE BRIDGE CHURH FINTSHING POINT OF THE FPACES ks BARGE CREWS PRACTICING ON THE THAMES FOR THE HENLEY RE- GATTA AND THE POINTS OF STARTING AND FINISHING IN THE i CONTESTS FOR THE VARIOUS PRIZES. “The eastward movement of another | low pressure area in the extreme West renders it Improbable that there will be | any long continued relief from the high temperatures over districts now affected, training this evening by a final pull over the course, finishing with three minutes’ brisk stroke, at a splendid gait, which elicited the applause of the spectators. HISTORY OF THE REGATTA. Events at Henie?{n ‘Which Crack Oarsmen Participate. BY ARTHUR INKERSLEY. The regatta at Henley on-the-Thames, England, was instituted in 1839 and began with only one prize—the Grand Challenge Cup which is still the blue ribbon of ama- teur oarsmanship. The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge used to compete at Henley, but have long ago ceased to do so, as it is found Impossible to get the eight best men at each university to- gether twice in a year. So the two great English universities reserve their best ef- forts for the annual race from Putney to Mortlake. Good college eights go to Hen- ley each year from Oxford and Cambridge and though these crews are picked from colleges comprising only 150 to 250 men, they have hitherto been fouind quite able to dispose of crews from all other parts of the world. Henley regatta is managed by a board of stewards, most of whom are old Ox- ford or Cambridge oarsmen. The Grand Challenge Cup is for eight oars with cock- swains, and the contestants must be mem- bers of a university or public school (such as Eton, Harrow, Winchester, etc.), officers of the army or navy, or members of an amateur club established at least one year before the day of e L othe! principal prizes Zre thr;tryhd'}'eh!g Challenge Plate and the Thames Challenga Cup, both for eight oars, the Stewards’, Visitors’. and Wyfold Challenge Cups for four oars, the Silver Goblets for pair oars and the Diamond Sculls. The eight-oared crew of Eton schoolboys has several times * The only American colleges which have sent crews to Henley regattas are Colum- bia, in 1895, Cornell and Yale. This year the crew of the University of Pennsyl- vania is at Henley. In 1897 E. H. Ten Eyck won the Diamond Sculls, but was not allowed to compete in 1898 because he was suspected of professionalism, being the son of a professional and an intimate of professionals. He shortly afterward justified the suspicion by openly entering the professional ranks. The Henley course was somewhat changed in 189 with the intention of ren- dering matters more equal for the con- testants on the Bucks and Berks stations. | The famous Leander Rowing Club, which is made up of old Oxford and Cambridge ‘‘blues,” has won the Grand Challenge Cup eight times and holds it now. Henley is distant about:forty miles from London, or one hour's ride by rail. Its hotels and cottages are crowded during regatta week. Ordinarily the station near the Berkshire bank of the river Is the more advantage- ous, but, when a strong westerly or south- westerly wind is blowing, the shelter af- forded by the bushes on the Buckingham- shire bank Is worth a good deal. As the race is a short one it has to be rowed at top speed, and here the narrow blades and the tremendous reach and body swing, combined with a hard catch at the begin- ning of the stroke, give English crews a great advantage. Then there are no con- flicting theories of rowing among good English oarsmen, the style in vogue at Eton, Radley and the forty-odd colleges of Oxford and Cambridge belng precisely the same. A considerable proportion of the best oarsmen in England comes from Eton, where every ‘“house” has its eight oar, and the headmaster of which was in his day one of the best oarsmen in the country. The Oxford University eight usually = visits Eton for some days in ieml:h year tg get the benefit of his coach- ng. but it ‘s not protable they will reach the previous extreme in the Atlantic States, because of the influence of a moderate | West Indian disturbance, which appearsi | to be moving northward over the Lesser Antilles. H. E. WILLIAMS, “Acting Chief U. S. Weather Bureau.” R e SUFFERING IS UNPRECEDENTED Vehicles Kept Busy Gathering In Un- fortunates at New York. NEW YORK, July 2—The heat which has worked such havoc in this city since last Sunday was somewhat mitigated late this afternoon by a succession of thun- der-storms, which cleared the atmosphere and sent the mercury tumbling down 10 degrees between the hours of 4:30 and § p. m. Never did a downpour of rain re- ceive such an enthusiastic reception as did this one. The thunder and lightning were heavy, and many houses were struck, causing fires, but so far as known no person was killed or injured. During the last downpour hail fell in quantities. It was after the hottest July 2 in the history of the local Weather Bureau, and a day that almost reached the city’s rec- ord of September 7, 1581, that this scant rellef came. The morning opened with the temperature at 83 at 6 o'clock. In an hour it had gone to §7. and in another hour had climbed a point higher, jumping all the way to 93 by 9 o'clock. The wind was scarcely perceptible, and the humid- ity, which was 59 per cent, aggravated the conditions. = Then the mercury kept on climbing, registering 9 at 10 »'clock and going up a point an hour until it reached 98 in the hour between 12 and ‘1, and stayed there until after 3 o'clock. The humidity, however, had fallen to 41 per cent. The suffering caused by the heat ml unprecedented. All the ambulances in the | lee ' < ONE DAY’S RECORD OF INTENSE HEAT. ] B e e e won the Ladies’ Challenge Plate, beating 1 1 [ college eights from Oxford and Cam- CITIES. i S i e s bridge. | i The course at Henley is one mile 530 | 1 yards, from Regatta Island to the Red| New York.. 210 | 148 Licn Hotel, which is near the bridge ;the Brooklyn : 150 | e crews row against the stream, but this is | ’ 3 Phil 1 B 200 25 made as little of a hindrance as possible B s i by closing the locks above and below on St. Louis . 86 7 | 4 the days of the regatta. Pittsburs 7 924 FPP T = Cineinnati .....ooviiininnnaann! 26 ! 16 | 2 Washington ........cccoeeeeimen. 100 1 12 ] 5 il e SR R T ERTETTE) S . S SRPPPPRPI S g Cleveland ......covvvinannnncannna! 92 : 18 1 5 | Baltimore «..ccoeeecnescecnnnaenns [ 103 f 49 I =3 | % S— ‘SHINGTON. July 2—Re- . as well as -the patrol wagons and ports-recelved at the Weather other vehicles. were kept busy Bureau in this city from | answering calls. At the rate of about one a minute the calls came in over the po- ice wires throughout the day. breaking all records of demands upon the ambu- lance service, and providing patients enough to crowd all the hospitals of the city as they kave never been before crowded. While the official temperature in the lofty tower of the Weather Bureau re= mained at 95. the temperatures 6n the street level ranged all the way from 100 to 106. The terribly fatal nature of the heat was shown in the large percentage of deaths among those prostrated. Of the 210 cases of prestration reported up to 11:30 o'clock to-night, 143 resulted fatally. Among the more prominent victims were Rev. Dr. Newland Maynard, an Episcopal clergyman and lecturer; Jacob S. Rogers. the former locomotive builder. and L. E. Adams of Chicago, editor of Eauity. Between the hours of 2 a. m. yesterday (Tuesday) and 12:45 a. m. to-day (Wednes- | day). there were in the boroughs of Man- hattan and the Bronx 158 deaths and 178 | prostrations. The same weather conditions which pre- vailed in this city were experienced in Brooklyn. Tt was estimated by the po- at midnight that during Tuesday there had been sixty deaths and 150 pros- trations by heat in Brooklvn. In Greater New York. The total number of deaths in_the bor- bughs of Manhattan and the Bronx be- tween the hours of 2 a. m. yesterday (Tuesday) and 2 a. m. Wednesday morn- ing were 165. The prostrations during the same period were 175. The total for Greater New York was: Deaths, 225; prostrations, sxlle R0 FIFTY DEATHS AT PITTSBURG. Prostrations Too Numerous for an Accurate Record. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 2—While the maximum temperaturs to-day did not reach vesterday's figures. the effects of the long continued torrid weather wera more disastr than on any day since the hot spell began. Tp te 11 p. m. fifty deaths had been reported in Pittsburg, Allegheny and suburbs, with many pros- trations. The only out of town death vic- tim was Charles Henney of Lexington, Ky. He was a preminent Elk, and was here on business. He was found uncon- sclous in a closet in the Pittsburg Bank of Savings and died shortiy after reacking the hospital. ANl of the fatalitles are probably known to the authorities, but the prestrations have been so numerous that it is hardly possible to keep track of them. Beginning at 8 o’clock this morn- ing the thermometer registered 83 degrees and at no time during the day did it go below that point. At 4:30 p. m. It steod at 94, the maximum, and gradually reced- ed until 11 p. m., when it registered $5. These are the Government figures and hardly approach the marks on reliable in- struments on the street level. In one mill at the Homestead plant fifty-two men ‘were prostrated and finishing mills No. 28 and 32 and open hearth mill No. 3 had to close down. The workmen were as busy carrying out and caring for theilr com- rades who were prostrated as they wers in performing their legitimate labors. In-~ numerable children throughout the city are heat victims, and the mortality among them is unprecedented. So many horses have succumbed to the heat that deliveries of all kinds are badly crippled. Particularly is this the case with the de- | liverles of ice, and for a time almost an ice famine was threatened, even though the ice companles had an abundance at their plants. One ice company lost ffty- | six horses, while other companies suffered in proportion. HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDED Deaths Reported in Various Eastern Cities. WASHINGTON, July 2—Thunder- storms in this vicinity closed 4 decidedly hot spell late in the afternoon. The ther- mometer, which had reached almost a hundred degrees at noonm, fell steadily throughout the afternoon and evening, so that at 9 o'clock to-night the record at the Weather Bureau showed only 76 de- grees. No promises are held out of a con- tinuance of the comfortable weather. There were a dozen heat prostrations and five deaths up to 6 o'clock to-night. CLEVELAND, O., July 2—The highest temperature reached here to-day was 92 To-night a good breeze is blowing. Flve deaths and eighteen prostrations were re- ported to-day. TOLEDO, 0., July 2—Three deaths oc- curred here to-day from theé excessive heat. All were laborers. The official fig- ures show that the maximum temperature in Toledo was 93 degrees. DETROIT, Mich., July 2.—Four deaths Continued on Page Two.