The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1901, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, DELIVER MESSAGE New Chief of Na- tion Found in Mountains. —— Makes a Hard Cross- Country Trip on Bad Roads. Special Trains in Waiting | to Speed Him On to Buffalo. ORTH CREEK, N. Y., Sept. 14.— President Roosevelt arrived at Ajden Lair at 3:15 2. m. The six- teen miles between that the quickest possible time. relay of horses has been provid reach North Creek, his special train awaits him. s are in a.very poor condition | of the heavy and but = is now within reach of mmunication, but ed of President > will not be until he cKinley Danger Attends the Ride. to be traveled from Aiden e is th 3 > trip will be attended by r. The roads are very with deep ravines Zht deviation would _road s pl - ot on the top of | v, where he had gone on a pedition, by guides who had to deliver Buffalo an- «ncing a change for the worse in the | President’s condition. Reaches Albany T):us Morning. intendent Hudson, ith President ln to lnlnz \1(( telegraphed the Alba atcher lh 00! possibly reach Norin Creek 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning. Hammond also wired to Superin- | |the business partner of A\bner}thc assembled officials. Harrington of this division of the York Central H saying reach Albany 10-mOrTow rning. The Del: judson o who knew me id that the V rd ride befc ould not ssibly lock e him to reach U e ) ABIDES BY WILL OF GOD. Continued From Page Two. him at all times and until death | came. The other doctors were in the room at times and they re~ paired to the front room, where the consultation had been held. About 2 o’clock Dr. Rixey noticed unmistakable signs of dis- % solution and the members of the 8 family were summoned to the §bedside. Mrs. McKinley was asleep and it was desirable not to §awaken her for the last moments g8 of anguish. STAND BY BEDSIDE. Silently and sadly the mem- bers of the family stole into the room. They stood about the foot § and sides of the bed where the great man’s life was ebbing away. | B Those in the circle were: McKinley, the President’s broth- er; Mrs. Abner McKinley, Miss Helen, the President’s sister; Mrs. Sarah Duncan, another sis- ter; Miss Mary Barber, a nicce; has not | o SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1901. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER OF THE SUPREME COURT WILL PROBABLY ADMINISTER OATH OF OFFICE OF PRESIDENT TO VICE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. THE PICTURE REPRESENTS THE SCENE AS PLANNED. | Miss Sarah Duncan, Lieutenant J. F. McKinley, a nephew; Wil- ;liam M. Duncan, a | nephew; | passed away,” he said. For a | moment not a word came in re- ply. | Charles Dawes, the' Comptrcller |been expected the actual an- 1of the Currency; F. M. Osborne, ia cousin; Colonel Webb C. Hayes, John A. Barber, inephew; Secretary George B.| \Cortc you; Colonel W. C. Brown, n River | McKinley; Dr. P. M. Rixey, the |cried like children. |and attendants. | In 2n adjoining room sat the| physicians, -including Drs. Mec- | Burney, Wasdin, Park, Stockton |and Mynter. | DEATH IS ANNOUNCED. ' It was now 2:05 o’clock and the minutes were slipping awa | Only the sobs of those in the cir- | cle about the President’s bedside | | broke the awelike silence. Five | minutes passed, then six, seven, | eight—. Now Dr. Rixey bent forward and then one of his hands was raised as if in warning. The flut- | tering heart was just going to A moment more and Dr. | | rest. Rixey straightened up and with | choking voice said: | “The President is dead.” | Secretary Cortelyou was the | first to turn from the stricken | ‘Cl\'de He stepped from the |chamber to the outer hall and | [then down the stairway to the | large rcom where the members | Abner w‘of the Cabinet, Senators and dis- | |tinguished officials were assem- |bled. As his tense white face ap- peared at the doorway a hush fell upon the assemblage. “Gentlemen, the President has |nouncement that Mr. McKin- ley was dead fairly stunned these a|men who had been his closet con- |fidants and advisers. Then a \gl oan of anguish went up from They All the pent T oo 8 family physician, and six ml"%Swup emotions of the last few days ‘\' ere let loose. They turned from the room and came from | the lmuse with stre'mling e\'€= - EHUWDS HUSH 10 PRISO, Continued From Page Two. | | | the papers ticipation, but made it understood that there was no hope. It seemed | but an instant when crowds formed at ev corner and swarmed toward the newspaper buildings, and when thoy | found that the rumors were confirmed somebody shouted, “Let's find the as- | sassin!” refrained from any an- Starts for the Jail. With one impulse the crowd started for | the station-house where Colzgosz is con- | fined. Telephones were utilized and the police notified, and when the crowd ar- rived they found the police out in front. Superintendent Bull, anticipating trouble, called out the entire force, and in addi- | tion asked the Fourth Brigade headquar- ters to be in readiness to assist. Colonel Welch, in charge, answered by ordering | two companies each from the Nixiy-fifth | and Seventy-fourth regiments to their armories to a t immediate call. Around the tion house at § o'clock | it was estimated that at least 4000 peopie werc gathered. They were not particu- larly u; and were quite quiet, and then | the police proceeded to drive them back. At 9 o'clock they had been sent- back | twe blocks on each ‘side of the station | and before 10 o'clock, weary with waiting ‘mr definite news, they had dispersed or | Bone to the newspaper bulletin boards. Solemnity of the Occasion. Up about the corners near the Milburn hcuse was a picturesque but rather grue- | some scene, when it is remembered that the crowds gzthered there were waiting the President’s death. The half dozen tents and the two big election booths made it look like the Mld- ‘way of a fair, but the ropes stretched from corner to corner, the solemn looking police " guard, the pacing soldiers, and, | above all, the quietness of the assembled Even though the end had | tile demonstration. at each armory. quarters. crowded. MILITIA REGIMENTS ARE PREPARED TO ACT EUFFALO, Sept. 18. —The Sixty-fifth and Sixty-fourth regiments of the National Guard have been assembled in their barracks to be in readiness should the large crowd ass=m- bled about police headquarters make any hos- There has bzen no indica- tion of a disposition on the part ¢f the crowd to6 riot, and the assembling of the National Guard is simply a precautionary measure. Only two companies have been assembled They will not leave- their The authorities believe it advisable to summon a portion of each regiment to act as a guard over the rifles and ammunition in the armories. The crowd is quiet and orderly. At 10 p. m. there were very few people in the vicinity of the police station. the vicinity of the newspaper offices was Main street in TORRANGE WING COMMANDERSHIP CLEVELAND, Sept. 13.—Judge EII Tor- rance of Minneapolls was unanimously electéd commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at to-day’s session of the annual convention. General Daniel E. Sickles of New York withdrew from the fight, leaving the field to Stewart and Torrance. The balloting stood 230 to 476 in favor of Torrance, when Comrade Wagner, who had the Stewart interests in hand, moved to make Torrance's election unanimous. Other national officers elected were; Senior vice commander, John McElry, ed- itor of the National Tribune; junior vice commander, James O'Donnell, Custer Post, Chicago; surgeon general, W. R. "Thrall, Cincinnati; chaplain in chief, the Rev. L. M. Boyle of Pennsylvania. The election of officers was the only business before the convention to-day. The installation was conducted in secret, after which the convention immediately adjourned. The naming of the place for holding the next encampment was reférred to the ad- ministration council. Mrs. Calista R. Jones of Bradford, Vt., was unanimously elected national com- mander of the Woman's Relief Corps Auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Re- public. L e e e e e o ] multitude, bore witness to the solemnity of the occasion. At intervals a carriage would drive up and then the newspaper men would move toward it. The Milburn house was hardly discernible among the trees, the lights in the house having besn dimmed, but,at minute intervals there would come out some person Who had information to bear, and then the eager crowd would surround him. But from the time that Secretary Cortelyou told that the President was very weak there was nothing to encourage any belief that there could be recovery. GERMANS HONDR THE GHINESE BERLIN, Sept. 13.—Prince Chun, head of the Chinese mission of expiation, vis- ited Hamburg to-day and was entertatned at dinner by Herr Albert Ballin, president of the Hamburg-American line. Lu Hai Houan, the retiring Chinese Minister to Germany, has not yet pre- sented his letter of recall. King Chang, his successor, is mastering the German language. He interpreted Prince Chun’s acddress to Emperor William, WASHINGTON, Sept. .13.—Dispatches received by the State Department from Peking announce the creation of the new Chinese Office of Foreign Affairs, the Wai Wu Pu. The decree creating the office is in conformity with the requests of the foreign representatives. Prince Ching, one of the peace plenipo- tentiaries, is president of the Foreign Of- fice. The two Ministers who, with Prince Ching, are to be responsible heads of the office are Wang Wen Shao, member of the Grand Council of ~State, and_ Chu | Hung Chi, former president of the Board of Ceremonies. PEKING, Sept. 13.—The Government has posthumously restored the honors of | Chang Ijin Huan, the former Chinese Minister to the United States and special | representative of China at Queen Victo- ria's jubilee, who was exiled and expired in Turkestan. Demand Nourse’s Resignation. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 13— At a meeting of the executive committee of the Associated Students of Stanford thls afterncon a communication from Treasurer Nourse was read. Nourse of- fered to resign on condition that several bills be allowed. The committee rejected the proposition and requested Nourse to resign from the office of treasurer at once. STEALS A CHEAP WATCH.—W. H. Bynon was arrested yesterday for stealing a cheap watch from Willlam O’'Leary, who was slum- bering in a doorway on Mission street. — 5 NOVED | 10 TEARG Bl NEWS Bryan Weeps as He Reads Sad Tidings. \Gives Way to Grief Over Late Rival's Fate. — Democratic League Puts Off Banquet at Which He Was to Speak. rowful tidings from the Presi- dent’s bedside, Colonel Bryan said to-night: “I cannot believe the Presi- | dent’s life is to end this way. It | seems tmpossible. w bullet until I hear that he has breathed his 1a§t ‘While there is life hope.” Mr. Bryan arrived here from Lincoln, Neb., at 8:30 o’clock and was driven at once to the Sherman House. ‘While Mr. Bryan was talking his head was bowed and he appeared to be greatly dejected. Over and over again he re- peated the words: “I cannot believe his life is to end this way.” “I have already spoken o. the horror in which I regard the assassin’s crime,” added, “I have already spoken of the high personal esteem in which I held Mr. McKinley. In this moment of sorrow I can add nothing to eithe: No Time for Partisanship. Later, when the committee of the Car- | ter H. Harrison League, at whose picaie Mr. Bryan was to have spoken to-mor- | row, announced that the demonstration had’ been abandoned, Mr. Bryan, | voice that shook with emotio: following: | stration. We are .all oppressed by the grief which has fallen upon the natio: We have no spirit for a partisan meet at this time, for partisamship Is swallowed up in universal sorro Political contro- versies and the prizes and _disappoint- ments which attend them, dwindle into ence of the tragedy which seems likely to rob the nation of its chief executive. We all feel the humiliation that our couniry has suffered and our hearts are with the lovely woman from whom foul and brutal assassination is taking one of the mo: faithful and tender of husbands. Wheth restoration to health, you have wisely."” Sheds Sympathetic Tears. ‘When Mr. Bryan ceased reading his face was _exceedingly grave. the latest bulletins, which he read care- fully with downcast head, and when he looked up tears stood/in his eves. In a ‘olce that broke he indicated the bulletin wheleln the dying President was said‘to be murmuring, Nearer, My God, Thee,” and sai Mt that pitiful—it's too pitiful.” ‘God’s will be done,” he read in another acted was deeply moved. He made no com- ment, but again tears came stre: from his eyes, He stood like one looking on the bier of a loved one and the room was hushed in funereal silench. | "It was with an effort that the Demo- cratic leader threw off the evidence of grief and shook hands with the commi tee, the members of which had been sym- pathetic spectators. Mr. Bryan was accompanied by Mayor Harrison to the Burlington station, and at 11:30 p. m. departed for Lincoln. To-Day’s News Letter. | This week’s News Letter is a splendidly featured 28-page edition. Concerning the present national calamity it leads with a fearless full page editorial entitled “From | Strikes to Anarchy,” followed by edito- rials on_‘“Liberty versus Anarchy,” “As to the Nation's™ Vice President,” “Fhe President’s Last Speech” and a stirring ‘pflem by Wallace Irwin attacking the false doctrines that led to_the cowardly slaying of our President. W. O. McGee- | han has touched on the labor unions in a | laughably sarcastic skit entitled “The | Strike on Olympus.” Betsy Bird has | touched on the various methods adopted | by our grande dames to destroy that arch foe to beauty—fat. ‘‘Well Knit Sweaters for Well Knit Girls” is the curious title of Mrs. Chauncey de Wit's department. ries in his best style and the Town Crier has jabbed his pen into some new victims. The edition contains a frontispiece por- trait of Letson Balllet and a beautlful | supplement of Belvedere views. ———— Degrees for Stanford Students. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 13— | At a meeting of the university ecouncil this afternoon the following students were granted the degree of bachelor of arts: Jn history—Jennie Elizabeth Wier, Helen Lucy Matthews. In physiology and history—Harry Leslle Longnecker, Adelaide Lowry Pollock, Gifford Lyne Sobey, Theodora Waters Stubbs. In English—Larry MacFarlane Bowman. w. I § R I simply will not be-.§ | lieve that he can die from an assassin’s there is § in a§ read the 1 most cordially commend your action in abandoning the contemplated demon- g insignificance when we stand in the pres- 8 the heroic struggle ends fatally or in his ¢ to @ bulletin, giving the President’s last words § to Mrs. McKinley, and again Mr. Bryan § The Looker-On tells fifteen jolly good sto- § | HICAGO, Sept. 13.—Of the sor- he i He was shown §