The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1902, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, ‘MAY -1, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HARRIMAN AT MERCHA BESPEAKS GOOD WIL %1 R L SCORES The Guest of SLAIN IN | Honor Tells BATTLE, ,f Pians of Severe Engagement| Company. at Punta Opera, Colombia. Ambition Is to Be Able to — Meet All Insur Also Win| i (L Venezuela. Rebels Are Gaining Headway in San Domingo. Special Dispatch to The Call. ON, Colombia “ngagement at Punta Op: The e | April 30.—An impor-| | was fought on Sunday | | near iriqui Grande. all day. The Govern-{ numbering 500 men, under General Gomez, penetrated seven miles interior and attacked the insur- strong, who were intrenched. f the insurgents are esti- have been 100. The Government ki d and wounded. The General Ferrero and | ez, who were broght here. | r Velez has received from the ve presidential powers over the re- | ba ment fc losses « fA, April 30.—The report that| s have captured Rio Hacha ned General Foliaco, who was and of the garrison, made an| | erroneous move in order to attack the| | revol y forces, leaving the town| | unprotected tered Rio Meantime the insurgents en- Hacha. | the Governor of Pa- - s Rio Hacha had been practi- | v evacuated by the Government forces | | its unhealthy condition. Yel- | Jow fever and smallpox this year resulted in the death there of over 300 soldiers. | He attaches no importance to the capture ' Rio Hacha. T | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. | Salazar, because of bs. g ARRIMAN, the erganizer of CAPE HAYTI Hayti, April 30.—The | trauscontinental rallroad Dominiean revolutionists are at present | lines, the pramotér of vast in of Cotu and Santo Do- esterprises, the trustec Ps- mingo, which cities it is reported they sociate of the country's contemy tacking to-morrow. | greatest financiers, rubbed All the Cibao region, except Puerto|€IPOWS With the merchants of San Fran- jata on the north coast, is in the hands | CISCO last night at the banquet given him at the Palace ®Hotel by tne commercial of the revolutionists. Another uprising . roken out in the south of the Do. | Podies of San Francisco. To the pleasur- republic. The position of the |2Ple surprise of his hosts, for once he | Government appears to be | 4€Parted from his rule of-saying little and Telegraphic communica- | 3°IN8 much, and talked frankly of the d has been cut by +ae revolu. | PINS of himself and the men whom he difficult to obtain, | TEPFesents and bespoke the co-operation of | who was seat to re. | 1€ People of California. His words were ) was s < Pt ¥ | = weighty with the prophecy of a new era, | Government forces at Gua- | § " 3 will betw the" shi | oined the Dominican revolutionists, | & Y™ of €300 Wi’ between the vppers | d-marched on Monte Cristi, whereupon | 270 the rallroad, of mutual understand-: | ing, of liberal, progressive policy on the Navarro the nforce Governor Garcia abandoned the lace : : v one hand and on the other of the disap- and took with him the Dominican troops Y pearance of sandlotism in the treatment munitions of war to Puerto Plata/ P R G e ST A revolutionary outbreak has also oc- | T LA “For the first time,"” said Mr. Harriman, | you have got the Southern Pacific be- fore you,” and his words encouraged his hearers to hope that in the merging of | the California railroad into the greater | system the management had become real- his house with his fam- | 1y personal rather than more impersonal ke refuge on some rocks along | and further removed from the force of local Governor has sent | public sentiment. P | to Sosua e Vomque is ot thPbissn of | . FEARN- EURINESS 'TALE. Mr. Harriman is small in stature, una currec Sanchez, on the bay of Samana. AMERICANS ARE SUFFERERS. ttle was fought yesterday at Sosua there the United Fruit American concern, was iged to leave he rev | The Governor of Puerto Plata, San Do. | SUMing in manner and in speech. His ad- | mingo, prevented the departure from that | 47¢SS Was a plain business talk to business port for Samama of the Clyde Line| ™D free from any suggestion of self- steamer Cherokee (from New York. April | El0rification and bristling with: concrete'| 2, for ks Island, Santo Domingo City | €Xamples from which the coast may get a | “and other ports). Her commander pro- | lin€ on the policy that will obtain under tested. She wil le later for Santo Lo. | the Harriman control of the greatest| mingo direct. The Cherokee is an Amer. | 2Ft€ry of commerce. jcan vessel The banquet was held in the ladies’ grill- room. More than 400 of the most promi- nent business and professional men of San Francisco were present. The hosts were PANIC IN VENEZUELA. CARACAS, Venezuela, _.pril 30,-Gen- president of the district of 1 Gonzales, = the commercial bodies of San Francisco— mana, was made a prisoner during the | pe Chamber of Commerce, the Mer- fighting on April 2, near San Antono, | chants' Exchange, the Merchants’ Asso- the Government troops sustained a | ciation, t and General Castuio was mor the Manufacturers’ and Produc- ers’ Association:and the State Board of | wounded Trade. 3 The revolutionists are marching on the | Gegrge A. Newhall, as president of the ity of Cumana. A panic prevalls at senior organization, the Chamber of Com- merce, presided. The banquet began at - 6:30 o'clock. At 8:45 Mr. Newhall arose RUSSIAN ASSASSIN and in a few words bade the guest wel- WILL DIE ON GALLOWS | come to San Francisco and introduced him to the banqueters. | GUEST OF HONOR SPEAKS. ; Mr. Harriman was greeted with pro- | celona. pano and F Elayer of the Minister of the Interior Is Sentenced After Court- Martial. PETERSBURG, April 20.—Balscha- the man who assassinated Sipiguane, an Minister of the Interior, April need to death. He will longed cheers as he arose to reply. Fol- lowing is his speech in full: Mr. President and Gentlemen: "I thank you for your greeting, not only for myself but for | all the officers and directors of the Southern | Pacific. T, like your chairman, left this matter until about 5 o'clock this afternoon, as 1 Md; | not the time for the preparation of any re- | | marks which I might have to make. I heve | what I Gesire to say merely in headings in a small memorandum here, and you will excuse | me for looking at it occasionally. It contains | some things which, I think, may be, you would like to hear, and some, perhaps—well, that I would like you to hear. (Laughter.) ff was tried by court-martial rved great secrecy The assassin has fl, but his jdéntity It is now believed t a student, but an officer. ore tried court-martial re an ordinary court. - arn revealed by Wholesale Jewelers Fail. It is not on the memorandum, but it oceurs CHICAGO. April 30.—The wholesale | 4o me that may be for the first time you have jewelry firm of Moore & E one of | got the Southern Pacific before you (laughter), . m:};»" ® ‘a_;]ed in | png T do not think the advantage is altogether 1 Tor 4 recelver was made mron?” | with you, because you have got to listento/st. ors, one of whom had (‘M;:; I have got, perhaps, a little advantage of the amounting to $15.000. It has been rumoreq | Situation, but not the situation of the preacher, for some time that the firm was in byd | beckuse you are EOIng to have a chance to talk y and creditors began to nurry in | back. claims the voluntary company decided to go| What I would-like to call your attention to bankruptey. Liabllities | is, 'not what the Southern Pacific or the com- | panies affiliated with it are going to do, or into are 37,000. Assets, $100,000. < 2 GAVIM MTHNAS ” TABmE- HEHUNTINGTON PRESIDENT 2 E HARSIMAN IN WHOSE . HOMOE YHE- TS BANQUET ‘OF THE PUBLIC BAHQUET WAS TABER PHOTO. SCETIE- OF THE BANQUET RIVER™ PROMINENT PEOPLE WHO WERE PRESENT AT HARRIMAN BANQUET. | \ | Railway Magnate Departs From Usual Custom and Talks Frankly | of Local Conditions and the New Industrial Era. EA have done, but what we are doing to deserve your good will. It is not necessary for me to call to your mind the indomitable courage which inspires the people of this great city, but I tell you, gentlemen, there are very few men now living who would have taken the chances which they did to extend the rails across the deserts that existed at that time be- tween this point and the then fertile valleys of the Middle West, which were then only begin- ing to be populated. You know more about that than I do. Of course, there were other cour- ageous men in California than merely the rail- road builders. I do not mean that they were | all. THE RAILROAD DISTANCED. Now, the rallroads are built. You have de- veloped a great country here on the western borders of the United States. The first thing was to get the rafiroad built. That enabled you to do vyour work. At first the railroads were ahead of you. Afterward, by your industry and courage, you developed the resources of this territory, so that the railroad had become inadequate. I do not mean in the number of miles of railroad, but fn the character of the rafiroad iteelf. I mean the physical condition of the property. It was like any other indus- try. If you have a mine or a manufacture or an agriculture developed you go_on and prove its extent and then improve the character of the product. First, perhaps, it would be well for me. to tell to' you what som2 of you perhaps already know as to what we bave done on the TWnion" Pacific. About three years ago—well four years ago, when the Union Pacific emerged from bankruptcy, and the present manage- ment took possession, we found a rallroad fn- capable of doing: business which was tribu- tary to it. We went to work and in the first year we increased the capacity of the equip- ment. We added, In the first year, abont 81 per cent to the total capacity of the frefsht cauipment alone, and incidentally, of course, we had to add’motive power fo carry that in- creased capacity. Perhaps some'of you 'whd have ridden over the Union Pacific within the last six months have noticed the work that has been done ‘on what we ‘call our ‘“‘Rocky Mount- ain Division.” ‘The problem. was, how to im- preve that line fo as to serve the territory tributary ‘to It in_the best manner and in the most economieal way. We commenced: our surveys, and from one step to another, i about two years and a half from the time we began we reduced. the grades on the Unfon Pa- cific from a maximum of about 90 per. cent to & maximum of 43 3-10 per cént. That fs our mountain grade, gentlemen, on the Union Pa- cific. (Applause.) I think you all understand what that means. -We have all had somethirig to do with mountain work. We also eliminated | curvature and reduced it from a maximum of 10 rer. cent to 4 per cent, having only in’ one instance & curvature of 6 per cent for a hort curve. That resulted in-a reduction of dis- tance ‘of ‘thirty miles. ' In other words, wé bullt 158 mites of railroad and threw awdy 1 miles—we abandoned 188 miles of road. that was already in existence and which You' e tlemen thought was a 'very good road, sor fifteen or twenty years ago. Everybody df Those are the necessities of the present con- dition. It took some merve to throw dway) $5,000,000 0 $6,000,000 worth of railroads and to put $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 more new ones in to do the same business. I only use that) as an illustration of what was done on. Union Pacifie. Now, then, we meeét the problem in-.t] State. Since I have been charged with. the management of the Southern Pacific and ail’! 2 Lo TN I A RS A i X [all know we are not only located in Californa, | | Pacific, we bave placed the improvements be- ‘effect this year or the results of it to you than an other, ‘| which we are now carrying on on the eastern o | the lines included in that, system (and you but that they extend from here to the south- ern part of the State, and through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana apd Nevada, and up‘ to Oregon.and to the East); and by the perseverance of the officers of the Southern fore the committee and have succeeded In get- | ting authority to expend this vear, or o begin Smprovements this vear, which will amount to | abcut $20,000,000, most of which wili go into That | means the fmprovement of the coast lines soutH. | erly from ‘herc to Los Angeles, the finishing of the tunnel through Simi Pass (excuse me if 1 do mot remember the names, as I have seen 50, much that it s a wonder I remember any- thing), the improvement of the lines from Los Angeles east to El Paso; the elimination of curvature, the improvement of bridges, the lay- ing of new rails (the rails we had in that track Welghed only fitty pounds to the yard, while we are replacing them with-rails which welgh cighty pounds). and you know that means con- HOAD TO BE STRAIGHTENED. But the most striking [Mmprovement will be, ‘and the one which I think more interesting is the improvements end ‘of the Central Pacific. It Is practically carrying out' the policy which I have just ex-’ ‘plained to you we adopted on the Union Pacifle. We have the division from Ogden to Rero, @ distance of about 580 miles, the same corditions. which existed on the Union Pacifie, only, a little exaggerated, a little greater. We | Those are the physical | oil at convenient points on the line—of course ‘putting up and hope to finish before July a | ot1. ve' grades on that. line amounting ta about rifhety-soven féet to the mile. We have mary curyatures amounting to ten degrees, but we ‘have adopted: a line which will reduce those — ||FIGHTING CLAUS SPRECKELS TABE®R BusamELL PHOTO. |l =LiTE 8 NAYTOR= PHOTO, EUGENE E-. “SCHMITZ | | | = Welcome Is Extended? to Visitor. ‘ = -+ grades from ninety-seven and four-tenths to twenty-one feet. Practically none at all. We | reduce the curvature the same. From ten de- | grees to a maximum of four degrees and not very much of that. The elimination of curva- ture on that line will amount to something like sixty complete circults. That is, the train that formerly went round sixty times in mak- | ing that 580 miles will now go scarcely twenty. improvements which we hope very soon to put into effect on the | track itself. Between November last and next July we will have delivered to us, and are now having de- livered to us. additions to the freight equip- ments amounting to some eight:thousand cars, | adding to the tonnage capacity in this six or | eight months about 20 to 22 per cent of the tonnage capacity existing over the whole line. Of course, being properly proportioned to the | whole_line, and the whole equipment as my recollection_is, an addition of something like 400 per cent in that time. I have heard that a great many complaints have been made because there has not been enough oll freight capacity. *But, gentlemen, the' additioral equipments which have been orderéd for the Southern Pacific without much being “said about- it will give us an additiopal capacity of 12,000,000 gallons. In addition to that we have commenced a system for storing for gJr own use—we are nui going to compete with the merchants or manufacturers or any one else, but when we improved by the adop- tion of oil as a fuel we thought that to be | safe we should have at least six months' con- sumption on hand. That means that we are capacity for storing about 4,250,000 barrels of That means a good deal. That makes us safe. It will enable us to serve you gentle- men, and it scems- to me that all your inter- | Jsts depend upon our doing.our share toward | ft. ;1 do not mean that wé should absorb it all. All we ask Is a fair fleld and we will | do the rést. | RAILROAD AND THE PEOPLE. | Now what I want to impress upon you is | that 1 do not think we are entitled to all the credit of doing this. I think that you gentle- men, and the interests which you represent, | and the inhabitants of this section of the coun. | try have made it necessary. You have im- | proved the methods of mining and of agricul- | tural development. You are still improving the character of your fruits and I may say f you have improved the method of boat building, |e | iIn Washington. e TRUST IN THE WEST |Bill to Offset the Cattle Grazing Monopoly. Knox Resents Second Attempt to Hold Conference. Beef Barons Striving to Check Federal Action. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, sentative Lacey of Iowa to-day intro= duced a hill to grant grazing privileges to homestead settlers and holders of small farms in arid and semi-arid land regions in order to offset the monopoly of the beéf trust and its connections in the West. Lacey thinks that the grazing bills now- pending are altogether too much in favor of the cattle trust. The purpose of his April 30.—Repre= | measure is to give homestead settlers and holders of small farms an opportunity to improve and protect the grass which grows in the vicinity of their holdings so as to prevent further deterforation and monopolization of the ranges by large owners of livestock. It provides that arid public lands not capable of irrigation may | be leased for stock-grazing purposes, sub- ject to the right of homestead, mineral and other entry under existing laws. All leases shall run for a period not exceed- ing five years and shall' be limited -to an area not exceeding 3200 acres to any one person, and such lease shall not be transferable. They shall only be made to actual homestead settlers or to freehoid- ers, whose lands are in the vicinity of 1ands to be leased by them, No corpors- tion shall be entitled to any lease. The lands to be leased shall be classified and graded by the Secretary of the In- terfor into six classes, and the annual rentals shall be ope, two, three, four, five and six cents an acre, ATTEMPTS CONCILIATION. Indications that the beef trust is at- tempting to conciliate the Government is found in the statement made public to- day by Commissary General Weston of the army, who says that beef is being offered at rates lower than those of last year. Republicans of the Ways gnd Means Committee have practically agreed to take no steps in the agitation against the beef trust. Bills placing meats and poul try on the free list have been introduced and referred to the committee, but these bills will never reach the House# The Richa resolution providing for an investigation of the present rise in prices will probably be tabled. Chairman Payne of the Ways and Means Committee is of the opinion that nothing should be dome by the House while the investigation begun under the direction of the Attorney General is under way. In this he is said to have unani- mous support of the majority membe¥s the committee. Having received a letter from the presi- dent of the Republican Club of New on | York, stating that he had arranged for a conference between Attorney General | Knox and representatives of the packicg ccmpanies, the Attorney General to-day replied as follows: “Your action _requesting representatives of packing companies to meet is unwar- ranted by my letter of the 28th of April, and was without my knowledge or any intimation to me that you proposed do- ing so until receipt of your letter of 28th. * * * ]regret that you have assumed to arrange conferences which misrepre~ sent the Government's position.” EATING MORE FISH. CHICAGO, April 30.—While the butcher is complaining he is up against hard times and forced to cringe under the lash of the beef trust, which wants all the profits of the meat trade, the fish man is selling more fish than ‘ever before in the history of the trade. ‘This is the condition of af- fairs in that section of the northern coun- try between Portland, Me., and Salt Lake City. The prices of fish were never so low. The great demand is attributed to the advance in the price of meat. Said a prominent dealer to-day: “I have just returned from the East, and never was flsh so cheap as to-day. All the dealers and every branch house we have report the sales surpass all rec- ords ir the history of the trade. Every- where in the northern country there is an immense demand for fish, and we can only attpibute it to the fact that the pub- Lic has switched from meat to fish. There are no indications that there will be any | increase in the prices of fish, so it may be that butchers will have to turn fish dealers.” Rumors about the proceedings in the beef trust case were thick to-day in the Monadnock building. One report was to the effect that the Federal authorities had | been called off in Chicago, owing to the pressure the packers had brought to bear This rumor gained s strength on a statement attributed * United States Attorney Bethea, which Continued on Page Two. Continued on Page Two.