The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 15, 1901, Page 24

24 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1901. CITY MOURNS THE NATIONS LOSS JRAPINGS OF SABLE PROCLAIM SORROW OF SAN FRANCISCO Public Comes to! Full Realization of Calamity. AN FRANCISCO is mourning the | death of Presidenmz Willlam Mc- Kinley. The grief that came with the announcement of the Presi- dent’s death was shown in the faces and by the acts of the peo- ple. The commurity, however, not yet had time to dress itself in the ck garb of sorrow, but it is none the | »ss deep, sincere and hearffelt. | -day and to-morrow the decorators 1 be busy fastening on the sable signs | tell of the people’s respect to the| of their departed President. | inley sta for something more | he supreme executive in the hearts city’'s people. Just four months he headed a local procession that | age marched through the streets of this city. His kindly courtes his democratic sim- his genial affabiBity were then nown to the muititude that gath- i to greet him. All felt then as if they | he President personally. And so the grief over his loss is to San Francisco | Sorrow Is General. On the street corners and wherever men me together the nazion’s loss received | utterance. Every flag that was hoist- | half-mast, every bit of black that | hung from window or covered the en- ce to store or home told a sincere of the heart offerings of sorrow. whose personality left its indelible marks on child and adult had been torn | nd although far distant from the | f death the hearts of his fellow at for him and his wife in her| | One President McKinley is dividing the | nind just now. As the crowds | nd the bulletin boards yesterday, | for news of the disposition of the s body, curses were mingled regrets. The public has not yet s vengeful thoughts, and the s made at every gathering in the s full of somber grief on one tter oaths on the other. Theaters Are Closed. | urday, the matinee day, was devold eatrical performances. Early in the e managers of the various the- d decided to close their - the day. In the evening they on the day of the funeral the e to a halt in all the public de- partments and civic bodles met for the sole purpose of passing memorial resolu- Wherever respect to the dead Pres- could show itseif it recelved ready n | More than a day is necessary to drape is city in sable. Resolutions and orders | ve been enforced to decorate-the ar- orieg, the fire houses, the City Hall, the | of Justice and the Federal buildings e ho and the stores will be othed in biack. By to-morrow morning | the city will be garbed in its robes of death. | e il @ | Telegraphs to President Roosevelt. t a conference of members of the ex- ve committee of the Republican State | Central Committee the followipg telegram | was sent to President Roosevkit: SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 1901 | he President, Executive Mansion, Wash- D. C.—Coupled with the feelings of sorrow, which to-day siirs the heart | f every Ameriohn citizen, should be the con- soling thought that he who has succeeded our | yred President was also the people's choice. REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMIT- TEE OF CALIFORNIA ———— Dominican Jubilee Abandoned, The executive committee recently ap- pointed by Archbishop Riordan to arrange the golden jubilee of the Dominican Sis- ters yesterday decided to abandon the af- r indefinitely out of respect to the nemory of the murdered President of the United States. All donations and gifts 1 be accepted by the sisters and due acknowledgment will be made by them. . 3 In the churches to-day special sermons will be preached and the assassination of the President will be made a subject les- son to the people. In nearly all instances festivities and | entertainments have been postponed. So- cial organizations and clubs have either canceled their plans or put them over to a date when the national public sorrow has lost its sting and become a bitter memory. | | | PRODUCE EXCHANGE GONDOLES ‘WITH SORROWING NATION AND ONDEMNS CRIME’S INCITERS — —_— HE San Francisco Produce Ex- change paid its tribute of grief and respect to President McKin- ley yesterday forenoon and also severely censured sensational journalism, which was described in resolutions as ‘‘the pernicious nfluerice of a press that has pandered to — EAD G B YT e AR prymimn Jo % N 727 ompoy 7L ATLBv e EIENE SUPERVISORS MEET AND PRE PARE FOR " PUBLIC MOURNING In Responseto Gall From the Mayor - Officials Come Together and Pass Resolutions. HE Board of Supervisors met yes-) terday afternoon pursuant to the call of Mayor Phelan for the pur- pose of passing appropriate reso- lutions in respect to the memory of the late President. p In calling the meeting to order | i his Honor said: In v w. of the President’s death I thought | o f X PERSONS AND SCENES LINKED WITH THE TRAGEDY THAT HAS SHOCKED THE WHOLE WORLD. | next has been /postponed. | chairman of the committee to receive the | officer, notified Mayor Phelan t | later through MAYOR APPOINTS A COMMITTEE TO ARRANGE FITTING EXERCISES T the specially convened meeting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday afternoon Mayor Phelan was empowered to appoint a committee of 100 to arrange for memorial day of the President’s funeral, the expenses thereof to be defrayed out of the urgent necessity fund. The committee as named by the Mayor is as follows: | Hon. George C. Perkins, | Hon. E. F. Lound, Gemeral S. M. B. Young, U. Admiral Silas Casey, U. §. General J. H. Dickinson, N. G. C. General R. H. Warfield, A Colonel George Stone, Colonel W. R. Smedberg, W. H. Jordan, Henry T. Scott, C. M. Hayw, A. H. Payson, J. W. Byrne, Simon Newman, Frank Deering. Claus Spreckels, Leon Sloss, S. G. Murphy, W. H. Crocker, | Horace Davis, Henry Lunstedt, Walter Van Dyke, Irving M. Scott, P. H. MeCarthy, Henry S. Martin, William Goff, J. M. Gleaves, F. W. Dohrmann, A. A. Watkins, A. Sbarboro, | George A. Newhall, | Hon. Asa R, Wells, Hon. Washington Dodge, Hon. W. H. Beatty, Hon. Frank H. Dunne, Paris Kilburn, in the Mayor's office. W. H. L. Barnes, Henry F. Wynne, Patrick Crowley. C. R. Allen, J. F. Sullivan, P. J. Tomalty. J. C. Carrier, A. Alfred Meyerstein, Wnakefield Baker, Dr. Julius Rosenstirn, Dr. C. A. Clinton, Dr. Hugh Lagan, Dr. Max Magnus, Rolla V. Watt, ® James Coughlan, Charles Bundschu, F. J. Symmes, A. O. Linstrom, William Greer Harrison, Raphael Weill, Colomel J. R. Howeli, Truxton Beale, John Fitzpatrick, P. C. Rossi, D. J. O’Leary, A. P, Giannin Alfred Borel, Hon. William Alvord, P. N. Lilienthal, Dr. Louis Bazet, Colonel Thomas F. Barry, Hon. E. B. Pond, E. J. Banning, H. J. Crocker, F. H. Wheelan, J. J. Sweeney, Hon. W. W. Morrow, Hon. Frederick Stratton, Hon. W. W. Montague, Hon. Joseph F. Spear, George E. Morse, Colonel J. C. 0’Connor, Schilling, i Sydney M. Smith, William Sproule, Frank Leach, Colonel William McDonald, L. E. Stover, J. P. Young, Dent H. Robert, J. D. Spreckels, Fremont Older, Hugh Hume, James P, Booth, Charles Boxton, S. Braunhart, " A. Comte Jr., John Cennor, Peter J. Curtis, A. A. ’Ancona, L. J. Dwyer, M. J. Fontana, R. M. Hotaling, William N. McCarthy, Thomas Jennings, Charles W. George R. Sanderson, H. J. Stafford, Joseph S. Tobin and Horace Wilson. A meeting of the committee has been called for Tuesday morning, September 19, = exercises upon the §. Rosenbaum, U. Brandenstein, Reed, at 11 o’cloek, all that is worst in humanity.” Citizens of ‘the United States were also invited to ‘“‘unite in a strong endeavor to check the further spread of pernteious doctrines and to apprehend and punish all who have been instrumental by deed or speech or written word in bringing to pass the per- petfation of this awful crime.” President George W. McNear presided and addressed the members of the ex- ¢hange, denouncing the causes, direct and indirect, that led to the heinous crime. The speech will be found elsewhere. LS = SPIRITUALIST PROPHESIES MANY DEATHS 4 R. L. SIMPS D 1206 Market street, states that early this year Mme. Young, a spiritualist, predicted the assassination of Presi- dent McKinley at one of her sennces. In an interview last even- ing he said: “Last January I attended a seance of Mme. Young at her house on McAllister street. She said that she would make prophecies for the coming year. She first said that Queen Victoria of England would die shortly. She also said that President McKinley would be as inated, Mrs. McKinley would die and tha King Edward of England would also be assassinated this year. I am not a spirit- ualist myself, but the prophe- cies at the time made a great impression on me.” = + President McNear then called for the te?ort of the committee that had been ap- pointed to draft suitable resolutions. The committee, consisting of Horace Davis, . H. Wheelan and A. Gerberding, sub- mitted the following, which was unani- mously adopted: The San Francisco Produce Exchange, in 2= 1 the hand of an a AT e T He said: — it wise to convene al meeting of the Supervisors, in ¢ er and appro- priat 1 it an official exalted ing off. Supervisor Tobin then lowing resolution of was adopted: Whereas, Wi the United rtal lite, ssassination Whereas, Ti s found and no words can press either their griet or th and ‘Whereas, The exalted cha lic services and the person late President have so en public and private capacity city that some specia v this board, speaking in ¥, President passed ary " period 12 that the Board of Public Works be directed and authorized to drape the entrances of the City Hall and Hall ol Justice, and that the flags on public build- ings be lowered to half mast for a period of- thirty days: and Be it further resolved, That his Honor, the Mayor, be authorized and directed to appoint a citizens' committee of one h dred to make arrangements for a the day of lved, That the ex t further re: necessary for these purposes out of the urgent necessity Board of POSTPONE FUNCTIONS OUT OF DEEP RESPECT Citizens Pay a Tribute to Departed President by Giving Up Pleasure. \ Out of respect to the memory ot the late Pr nt the cltizens of this eity have postponed the various functions that were scheduled for the coming week. The reception to General Smith whiel was to be tendered on the arrival of the distinguished Californian on Tuesday Dr. MeCarthy, sor: t a meet- ing of the committee would be held at the California Hotel to-morrow. The committee will go out in a tug to greet the general, but the reception will be held later. The lectures of the Catholic Univer- sity extension course which were to be delivered by Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, D. D., on next Monday and Tuesday even- ings have béen postponed on account of the death of President McKinley. Th new dates will be announced later. tickets will hold good. In consequence of the death of the Pres- ident the annual memorial service to be held by James A. Garfield Post next Tues- day evening in commemoration of its de- ceased comrades has been postponed until some time after the final repose of the President’s remains. A. de la Torre Jr., secretary of the Mexican celebration committee, nounced yesterday that the celebration in honor of the ninety-first anniversary of the independence of Mexico which was to be held on Monday will be postponed. The ball and banquet which was to be given at Native Sons’ Hall to-morrow evening has also been postponed. The date of the celebration will be announced the press. To-day at 10 a. m, appropriate services will be held at the Spanish church on Broadway. The Mexican celebration committes will at- tend the services in a body. The fete that was to have taken place at the Carolan place at Burlingame yes- terday for the bemefit of the Armitage Orphanage was indefinitely pestponed owing to the passing away of the PY‘E," dent. The banquet to have been given last evening by San Francisco Lodge No. 3, Benevolent Order of Elks, was postponed. —_————— Engine Houses to Be Draped. The Fire Commissioners adjourned their meeting yesterday out of respect to the memory of President McKinley. Previous to its adjournment, however, the commis- sion passed a resolution instructing Sec- retary MecCarth: to provide sufficient cloth” with which all of the department houses are to be draped in mourning. The resolution was obeyed, and the several houges were supplied during the day. Ala. all in vain. Willi The nation has passed a week of intense anxlety, of fer- The best medical and surgieal skill of the coun- A mighty nation mourns his death, President McKinley had no reason to fear death from ssin. His kindly, sympathetic fature made him the friend of all his people. should have had no ememy, either political or social. “Why, then, this murderous assault? Did it emanate from the morbid brain of a weak lunatie, inflamed by the tirades and damnable caricatures of yellow journalism, or is it the deed of an anar- chist prompted and guided by a deep comspiracy for the overthrow of law and order and the leveling of our country to a state of misrule and destruction? “In either case we. see but one end, and both should be suppressed and banished from our land and the face of the earth. “Is it not time that American citizens should rise In their might and by wise counell and prompt action endeavor to suppress those disturbances that prosperous people? How much longer shall these things be permitted? Surely the time has come for our own people, the true and patriotic Americans to act, preach anarchy and rebel against constituted authority and good government and all disturbers of our peace and prosperity. May this awful and tragic death of our President, this dread catastrophe | to our nation, be the means of uniting s .one man our own people and arousing us to the dangers | that threaten and to the remedies that must be used. “The grief of the nation cannot be expressed in words, only in silent tears.” re paralyzinz the best interests of a to banish from our country those who —b URGES BANISHMENT OF YELLOW ' JOURNALISTS FROM OUR LAND T the meeting of the San Francisco Produce Exchange yesterday George W. Me sion to veice his sentiments on the direct and indirect incitements to the erime that deprived the nation of a President. “Just one week ago yesterday our country was shocked by the attempted our beloved and honored President. vent and earnest prayer to God for his restoration try has been at the bedside of the President. loved, good and true man, the wise ruler of our country, is dead. and with one volce our people deplore and weep that such a life should be brouzht the fanatical hand of an anarchistic assassin. ar took oecea- ssassination of am MecKinley, the honored, be- to a close by He unison with all America and with the peo- ple of the civilized world, desires to ex- press its grief for the noble, true heart that has been forever stilled by the cruel hand of an anarchist; desires to express- its sym- pathy for the loving wife who has borne her great loss with so much courage and devotion; desires to express its utmost de- testation for the lawlessness fostered by the pernicious influence of a press that has pandered to all that is worst in hu- manity. It seems but yesterday that our beioved chief magistrate was in our midst. It seems but yesterday -that we gathered eagerly to welcome and to cheer him. He stood among us a kind, courteous, noble, unassuming man, welcoming all. ried the dignity of office with grace and sweetness that endeared him his people. He carried the dignities of manhood with a nobleness that en- deared him every man. His char- acter and his office shone about him and rendered him safe from all attack. He left us but to die. The death blow has come from one who never felt a wrong at the hand of our beloved President: one who had no injury, real or fancied, to avenge. The deed gains a new infamy from its causelessness, 4 mew horror from Its ‘wantonness, & new agony from the great- ness and nobleness of its_victim The hour calls for the éxpres row old as Cain, for a ever new and sweet, detestation of the lawlessness been led by a sensational press. ‘We bow our heads in humble submission to the will of the Almighty God. Our country mourns the loss of a true, high- minded leader, a good and well-loved man. Resolved, That we tender the®suffering wife of our beloved and martyred Presi- dent our sincere and heartfelt sympathies. that has That we deplore a spirit, foreign and un- American, which has appeared among our people, of lawlessness and unrest, of op- position to constituted government and good order. That we earnestly fmolore all good zens of our country to unite in a st endeavor to check the further sorea their pernicious doctrines and to hend and punish all who have been | mental by deed or speech or written in bringing to pass the perpetration of awful crime. A cablegram was received from the Liv- erpocl Corn Association expres: pathy with the American people nouncing that the axchange in Liverpool had been clesed for the day. Venice has a cafe which has been open day and night for 150 years. eitt- g