The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCL—-NO. 90, x Sl i Lo s S T G S s e i ' véomp&z/ta- SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1902. Call, PRICE FIVE CENTS. PLACES WREATHS ON TOMB OF WASHINGTON AND HEARS HAY'S /) ‘l" ! i ——— — EULOGY OF M’KINLEY ROOSEVELT |GNORES THE DICOURTESY But Hs Decides Not to Vist the Gharleston | Exposition. President Not Anxious to Mix in Local Growls of the South Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. e HURRICANE GAUGES RUIN I FLORIDA Scores of Houses Are Demolished at Martin. There Is Also a Cloudburst at Tampa and Town Is Flooded. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 27.—The South- eastern Gulf States were drenched by L4 i ‘qumr‘ ! 1 LEGAL WAR 10 BE MADE ON MERGERS Attorney General Orders Action Taken in This State. Alleged Violation of Anti- Trust Law Will Be Probed. Postal Telegraph Company Is Re- ported to Be the Complainant Against Several of the Big Corporations Here. Special Dispatch to The Call. . LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27.—According t8 the best information obtainable the Pos- tal Telegraph Company is complainant in 2 ‘suit that is under preparation in Los Angeles and soon will be filed in San Francisco. against the Southern Paclfic Railroad Company, the Central Pacific Rallroad Company, the Oregon and Cali- fornia Railroad Company, the Santa and the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany. Suit will be brought by the Attorney General of the United States under the Sherman anti-trust act, seeking to dis- solve an alleged monopoly existing in the telegraph service along these lines, Joseph H. Call, an attorney, whose of« fices are in the Currier building on West Third street, acting under instructions | from Attorney General Knox, Is prepar- Ing the suits. Call admitted to-day that he is at work collecting evidence and pre- paring his statements that will be filed in the Federal court at San Francisco. But 1 | | | | i | | Prince Ilenr/;s Pilgrimage to Mount Vernon to Honor First President’'s Memory. o wreaths on the tomb of He approached the grave of ent with bared head, and t be nothing irreverent in sked the holders of a o €tood around to re- hing him. The royal y were taken to special train over the » and Mount Ver- The Prince at the memorial e directly to the special e observation cars were hem the Prince saw he headlands of toric to Americans It was 2:30 o'clock when the specl Jdount ¥Vernon occupied fifty-five 'minutes. Prince Henry walked to the Washing- ton home and was driven from there down over the siope of the hill to the tomb. When the iron gate of the tomb was open- service at | departed, and the run to | | departure, and his course through his- 2—Prince | ed he removed his cap and entered. Two ASHINGTON, Feb. nry of Prussia journeyed to | Vernon this afternoon |aw | Association, headed by Mrs. Justice Van SCENE IN THE HALL OF REPRESENTATIVES WHEN SECRETARY HAY DELIVERED MEMORIAL ORATION. large wreaths made at Washington by | his order already had been sent to the tomb, and, taking them up, he formally set them in place. A group of over a hundred men stood in the approach to the grave uncovered and their silence | added to the spirit of solemnity. Fifty feet down the sward. that falls | from the tomb Prince Henry plant- ed z linden tree. The tree had been set in | place prior to his arrival, and, taking a pade, the Prince filled the edrth in around it. The Prince was taken to the old Washington house, and there met a delegation of the Mount Vernon Ladles’ Rensslaer Townsend of New York. He spent a few minutes looKing at the Wash- ington relics and then departed for Wash- ington. Large crowds watched his arrival and toric old Alexandria was lihed with people who cheered him cordially. Many of the Continued on Page Four. l Nation's Guest Among Those at Memorial Service to Martyred President. ASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb, 21.— At noon to-day in the hall of Representatives, in the pres- ence of President Roosevelt, Prince Henry of Prussia, the members of the Cabinet, the Justices of the Supreme Court, the general of the army and officers of the army and navy who have received the | thanks of Congress, the Embassadors, and other diplomatic representatives of foreign’ countries, the Senators and Rep- resentatives in Congress, and a large number of distinguished guests, the Hon. John Hay, McKinley’s Premier, pro- rounced a eulogy upon his dead chief. Four times before, national memorial services for Presidents who have dled in office have been held in this hall, two of them—like this—in commemoration of Chief Magistrates who have fallen by the hand of assassins. By a strange coinci- dence, to-day was the twentieth anniver- sary of that on which the peerless Blaine in the same hall delivered his eulogy upon the martyred Garfield, and, stranger still, the subject ‘of to-day's memorial servics was the chairman of the committee that _a year ago. had charge of the arrangements on that occasion. v Only one vear ago, less five days, at the head of an imposing civic and military procession, McKinley passed triumphant- 1y along Pennsylvania avenue for his second inaugural. Six months later the tragedy occurred at Buffalo, and another, but different sort of procession, tenderly bore his body through the streets to the rotunda of the Capitol, where the brief funeral oration was delivered over his coffin and the tributes of the nations of the earth about his bier bespoke the uni- versal sorrow. To-day, once more, with uncovéred head, the nation paid its last tribute of ‘respect and publicly expressed its/loving grief. Again, the broad avenue was filled with vast crowds as they were Then the streets were a sea of glinting bayonets and waving plumes, and the air wa® filled with the music of hundred-tongued resplendent bands. To- /day all was changed. The procession was uhorgariized. No martial music lightened Continued on Page Four. ¥ <3 " W.. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—It can be regarded as practically assured that Pres- ident Rodsevelt will find it impossible to make his proposed and already once post- poned visit to the Charleston Exposition. The telegram he received from Lieuten- ant Governor Tillman of South Carolina withdrawing the invitation to present a sword to Major Micah Jenkins of the Rough Riders op the occasion of his visit practically caused the cancellation of all engagements to visit Charleston. Lieu- tenant Governor Tillman's telegram was meant as a retort discourteous for the President’s withdrawal of the invitation to Senator Tillman to the official dinner at the White House in honor of Prince Henry last Monday night. The President does not feel called upon to notice the telegram and he does not hold the people of Charleston or South Carolina responsible for this action of the Eleutenant Governor, nor does he resent it in any way. He will not answer the tele- gram nor take any notice of it whatever. He will not formally cancel the engage- ment to visit Charleston, but as no date has been fixed he will make none. He does not care to visit any section of the coun- try where he will be mixed up in local growls, and the people of South Carolina are much divided regarding the Tillman- Continued on Page Two.: rain last night and to-night. At Tampa, Fla., hurricane signals are out, and the wind is blowing thirty-four miles. an hour, with increasing speed. All boats are close in port and a severe storm is raging in the Gulf. Martin, Fla., was struck by a hurricane and scores of houses demolished or dam- aged. There was,a cloudburst in Tampa and the town was flooded. The precipitation was very heavy at Co- lumbus, Ga., where a bridge was swept away this evening. The rainfall was al- most a cloudburst, the Chattahoochie River rising at the rate of two feet an hour. Several washowts were reported on a number of roads and trains out of Co- lumbus were stopped. There has been no loss of life. There were several washouts on the Seaboard Air Line, between here and Albany, which stopped traffic on that line. Several. washouts are reported on the Southern between here and Shiloh. After an intermittent rain of two days Birmingham was deluged this afternoon. Flooded . tracks are interfering seriously with street railway. traffic, and to-night the rainfall had not ceased. All streams ‘are swollen and rapidly rising. In parts of Georgia the merchants were busy to-night removing stocks from stores to places of safety. At Atlanta the rain fell in torrents all day. The precipitation at 6 p. m. was 3:36 inches. The barometer was the low- est ever recorded. In the southwestern section of the State the rain and wind storm almost attained the proportions of a tornado, and it is feared much damage will result. At Savannah a terrific surf is running to-night and ‘the wind is blowing ffty miles an hour. Se=——————— American Jockeys Licensed. LONDON, Feb. 27.—The preliminary Hst of jockeys licensed for 1903 includes the names of Danny Maher, Patsy MeDer- mott and W. Buchanan, Americans. he would make no further statement or tell who was the instigator or complain- ant in the suit. Leases Will Be Attacked. The action will involve the heaviest capitalized concerns of the Pacific Coast, taking in all of the Southern Pacific Rail- road system, the coast divisions of the Santa Fe and the thousands of miles of telegraph lines of the Western Union Company. The attempt will be made to set aside leases entered Into between the raillroad companies and the telegraph company. Under these leases the Western Unifon Company has the exclusive right to main- tain telegraph’lines along the lines of the railroads. In return for this concession the telegraph company transmits free of cost to the railroads certain of their mes- sages and allows the use of the wires for dispatching trains. In addition to the alleged monopoly cre- ated by the telegraph lease -the agree- ment to divide the coast traffic that ex- ists between the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe rallroads, it is said, will be made a basis of the sutt. It 1 known that there Is an agreement in ex- istence. whereby the two railroad compa- nies divide not only the freight, but the passenger business to and from Califor- nia. The proceedings will be of a similar char- acter to those Instituted recently, by or- der of President Roosevelt, against the Hill-Morgan merger of the Northern Pa~ cific and the Great Northern roads. The point at issue will be the right of large | corporations to merge their properties, thus forming a monopoly. Silent About the Suits. Call refused to discuss the questions in- volved in the suits or even to make known positively what - individuals or corpora- tions are the complainants. When it was suggested that the Postal Telegraph Com- Continued on Page Two, _ ~—