The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1902, Page 29

| (G R TR | o Pages 20 to 40 YN STATE ++40 9 ages 010 40 [ 2asasaaiil ] AN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1902. NEW WHARVES ARE BEING FLIMSILY BUILT AT GREAT EXPENSE AND STATE OFFICIALS ALLOW WASTE OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS DESIRES TO SOLVE ENIGMA i — The Attorney General Sues McComb and Fredrick. Alleges That They Are Both Usurpers of Office. Action Intendedto Ob-| viate Delay of Appeal. for the office of Justices been carried on so long y by Powel Fredrick McComb at last appears 10 y of settlement. Attorney s taken a hand The contest which © the Attorney ople of this contestants in the section 805, which pro- When several pe im to be entitled to such persons, in order e rights to such office or Qu o proceedings is claimed to Le the most expeditious mode of settling the T When Judge Sloss de- two, McComb or Fred- his decision may be but_the appeal will not dings. The one whom the g= favor will be invested It Attorney General Fori @ the controversy and At- had appeaied to the Supreme the case would in all probability nzined in abeyance for a consid- during which the present conditions would the City Hall, to the is the substance of the General's complaint: at all times the office of Justices’ f Ca rois. h day of March, 1932, each dants has exercised and each of nts does Dow exercise the func- office of Justices’ clerk. y of March, 1902, has usurped, intruded and exercised said . intrude into and exercise said office of Jus- s of said defend- s clerk e respective b and Powel Fred. t Justices' clerk be tried that sald g the sum of —————— CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY OVER SOLDIER’'S ARREST Colonel Rawles Refuses to Hand Over Matthew F. Gano to the Police. A conflict of authority has arisen be- | Rawles of the Presidio and Mathew ¥. Gano, a mem- L the Coast Artillery, definite will be dome till the return of Chief Wittman from Sacramento. Gano was arrested last March on a charge of attempted burglary at the store of Henry Schneider, on Greenwich street. He was held to answer, and after spen ing forty-eight days in jail awaiting tri he was released on a writ of habeas co pus by Judge Hebbard. The case had been assigned to Judge Dunne’s court, and when it was called the defendant failed to answer to his name, and an Investi- gation showed that he had been released on the writ No one was present before Judge Hebbard to represent the prosecu- A warrant was ipsued for Gano's rear rest last Thursday, and when Policeman ckson went from the North End sta- n to serve it Colonel Rawies refuscd been released on the writ, o declined to enter the res- point Gano out alieged by three soldlers that cett and Rice, who original- rest, offered to get the case but this the policemen saying that the accusa- out of malice owing clations existing between the policemen stationed CHEMICAL ENGINE NO. 1 COLLIDES WITH IRON POLE While Responding to a Still Alarm Fire Laddies Have an Ex- citing Experience. Chemical engine No. 1, while responding to & still alarm from Bush and Harding sireets yesterday collided with a tele- ph pole while endeas ision with a Bush 1e engine, which wa. with Driver Harry box, was turning sireet into Bush to aveld (Lrolley-car. moving rapidly, MeKillick on the from Montgomery Just a¥ a Bush-street ar reached the corner. The driver dja all in his power to avert a collision ang succeeded 80 far ax meeting the o g concerned,” but Was unable to clear & slegraph pole, into which the horses ran 1l force. Both animals werc thrown fo the sidewalk, one receiving a severe cut on the shoulder, the other escaping > injured. The five firemen on (he ehemioni @t the time escaped Injury. They were unzble to proceed to the fire on acc of the horses’ condition . v ise one action may | Yo/ s and now is a public office within | { t for the purpose but nothing | him to make the arrest, as Gano | | the WOMAN’S IDENTITY | (1 | R AT LAST SETTLED {Mrs. Fannie Bagley Moore Proves to Be the Stock- ton Suicide. HE identity of Mrs. Hammond Moore, who took poison in the Imperial Hotel at Stockton on died the following day, and who was identified as Mrs. Lyle Dickey on February 5, has been a matter which has taken up much of the time of | W. P. Foster, proprietor of the Hotel Re- pelier, Sutter strect, where deceased had May of last vear until December. Foster made up his mind to fathom the mystery surrounding the much-traveled woman's history. During her st at the Repelier she had made herself beloved to all with whom she came in contact. Her | disposition was kindly and her tempera- | ment happy to all outward appearances. | There was never a sign in her disposition and demeanor that would have suggested self-destruction, and when Mr. and Mrs. Fosger identified the body at Stockton as that of Mrs. Hammond Moore they ex- pressed at the time their great astonish- ment. From_circumstances that have since arisen Foster has been enabled to estab- lissh the fact that deceased was Mrs. Fan- nie Bagley Moore, the widow of W. Bag- ley Moore, who died fifteen years ago, | 1eaving Bis wife $30.000. | Since that time she has tr: ed exten- sively untll, it is thought, she had got to the end of the comfortable sum left her by her late husband. WAS EKNOWN IN PARIS. With a view to tracing Mrs. Moore's reiatives and learning more about the un- fortunate woman, Foster wrote a letter o H. Bruhn. proprietor of the Hotel Pen- slon, Parls, being led to do this by the finding of a card among the effects of de- | ceased. In reply to the letter came the | tollowing answer VILLA MARCEAU, Pension de Familie, Avenue Marceay PARIS, April 7, 1902. | MR._W. P. FOSTER, 781 Euiter street. San Francisco, Cal. Dear sir—1 have received your favored lstter of March 21, and thank you very much for the sad Information it held. Mrs. ¥. Bagley Moors stayed in this pension during twelve months rom August, ‘99, 1o August, 1900). Ehe never any address and we are therefors unable ive you any trace to fipd out the where- yuts of her family relations Thers was & nephew of Mrs. Moore (Mr. Chanzy Moore) stopping in Paris. I have been out to inquire where he might be mow, but the person who will be in the position to give me the Informetion is out of town. If in a week or two I'shall have any useful address 1 shail send it to Thanking you once more for the eommuni- | cation which you were good enough to convey to us, 1 remain, dear sir. st truly yours, H. BRU It you should sec Mrs. Lastreto, please give her my wife's and my conipliments. H. B. Mrs. Moore recelved often letters from New York, but we 4o not belleve she was from that place—also she bad no home: she was travel- ing and boardine. CLAIMS TO BE RELATIVE. The following letter was also received a few days ago by Mr. Foster. It was writ- ten by R. B. Moore of Cambridge, Ohlo, who. clalms to be a relative of deceased. It Is us follow: Mr. W. P, Foster, S8an Francisco, Cal.--Dear Bir. Through my son, who fs in Parls, we have just received letter to the propristor of hotel (venelon), Paris, written by you, the night of January 30 and | I e § registered and lived for elght months from | e WOMAN WHO POISONED HER- SELF IN STOCKTON HOTEL POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED. Local Lodging-House Keeper Traces the Dead Woman’s Relatives. anncuncing the death of Mrs, Fannle Bagley Moore, who stopped at your hotel some time ago. and who you say ®ed in Stockton recent- ly. In this Jetter you ask the hotel proprietor for some information regarding Mrs. Moore. Ehe was the widow of my brother, who died about fifteen years ago, leaving his wife In very good circumstances, worth about $30,000, Sinc, his death she has been all over the world, and we have heard but very little of her, excepting about three years ago my son met her in Paris and had a short conversation with her at her home. Since that time we have had no information from her, or of her, until the receipt of your letter. Her sister, nephews and nieces live near my home, and I don't pre- sume they have heard anything of her death. he was a very brilllant woman, and & very , pure woman. but at times her actions were singularly strangs. Will you kindly let me hear from you In regard to the cause and manner of her death, what disposition wi of her remains, where, and when was buried; also any Information as to her financial circumstances? Her reticence in re- to herself I am not rised at, as, ex- cepting as above stated, it n years aince any of her friends have heard anything of her. Hoping to hear from you moom, 1 am, with very kind regards, yours truly, R. B. MOORE. LEFT BUT LITTLE MONEY. The following dispatch was recelve from Stocktoh fin night: % ““The remains of the woman who com- mitted suicide at the Imperial Hotel and whom a Coroner's jury declared to be those of Mrs. Hammond Moore, are in- terred in Rural Cemetery. After the in- quest Deputy Coroner Thuster, who is a member of the Btockton Undertakin, Company, caused the body to be placed in a receiving vault at the cemetery, in hopes that it would be claimed. After a wait of several weeks and nothing further = being heard, the body was in- terred. “She left a few cents over Imperial Hotel and the pro rl?t‘or!; Sl‘l.l called for more than this, gomc of: the pe; al effects, which came into the Gor- oner's hands, were sold and a portion kept enses, no e i against the county.” P ———— Newman Case Continued. Judge Hebbard granted a continuance of the sult of Herbert Choynski against Charles Newman for an accountin, injunction yesterday, heard Tuesday, el Leo Newman ceiver Joseph Dimand {n Richelieu saloon. * ———— Blanchard Dismisses Suit. Miiton E. Blanchard, who sued for a writ of prohibition restraining School Dj- rector Roncovierl from rticipating in his trial on arge of beatin, filed a dismissal of his suit ye.&ra‘.?-f""' b assist Re- conducting the ACTIVITY IN BOTH PARTIES San Jose Bids for the Republican State Meeting. Democrats Will Meet in June to Adjust Affairs. Campaign for Con- gress Opens in Fourth District. The Republican State Central Commit- tee will meet in this city next Saturday afternoon to receive the report of the ex- ecutive committee relative to the time and place of holding -the State conven- tion. The sub-committee which was re- cently appointed to apportion the dele- gates by Assembly districts on the basis of the vote cast for the Republican party in 140 met yesterday at the Palace Hoter, General George Stone, chairman; W. M. Cutter, secretary; Jacob Stepracher, as- sistant_secretary; Charles Bundschu and W. 8. Wood were present. The sub-com- mittee will be prepared to submit a full report to the executive committee next Friday. In making calculatfons of rep- resentation official election figures were taken, and the allotment of delegates Is made to Assembly districts as now con- stituted and not as they existed in 1900, It is the common lmpression that the executive commitiee wiil recommend the plan providing for a convention of 29 Gelegates, or one delegate for every 200 votes, and one for every major fraction of 200. On this basls San Francisco is en- titled to 178 delegates. It is by no means settled that the con- vention will be held In Sacramento. San Jese has offered a good round sum of money for the priviiege of entertaining | the delegates, and as the State Committee is in debt, propositions from leading citles of the State will be entertained. The sen- timent of the committee seems to favor the last week in August as the time for holding the convention. MEETING IN THE FOURTH. Joseph 8. lpe;-nefinl From Con- gressional Committee. The Republican Congressional Commit- tee of the Fourth District met at 1104 Market street Jast evenlnsg. On motion of Albert Houston a committee of eleven ‘was appointed to file a petition in accord- ance with the primary election law for a convention. to nominate a candidate for Congress and cahdidates for State Sena- to’s and Assemblymen. P. A. Kearney was -lect?d the committee to succeed ph 8. Spear Jr. In retiring from the chfi::nmhlb Mr. Spear thanked the members for the courtesies extended him during his term of service as presiding ofticer. In closing his remarks he presented his resignation as a member of the committee, saying that he construed a recent order of the President to mean that political activity on the part of Federal office-holders was not desirable. 'As he held the office of Surveyor of Customs he deemed it ‘his duty to reégye from the committee. The resignation was accepted with regret. The death of J. Fallon was announced. Martin Kelly, who was appointed to flll the vacancy, was subsequently elected secretary of .the committee. Charles Mayers was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Surveyor of Customs. The following resolutions introduced by Martin Kelly were adopts ‘Whereas, The Fourth Congressional District of the State of California contains within its boundaries a great and trusty population, whose life work Is devoted to the creative and mechunical arts and crafts and whose families are supported by the wages of skilled industry. Whereas, These incomes are mainly derived from the employment oftered: and payrolix maintafned by the great plants established and fostered by the protective policy of the Re- publican party, which enables them to em- ploy. more men as wage-earners than are em- ployed In any other Congressional district upon the Pacific Coast, Whereas, This great array of our constitu- long to the aggy of home-builders as wage-carners wning property, bufld- dwellings, purchasing foodstuffs and all the necessities, together with many of the Jux- urles, of lite within the district, thus immeas- urably adding to the volume of business, the in circulation, the nrosperity, well- being and happiness of the district and, those who dwell therein and have invested their capital therein, be that investment great or small and ‘Whereas, Within our district more men who labor with their hands sit at their own fire- sides and live in homes from wiich no land- lord save him who rules the universe can eyict the tenant and who look to the Repub- lcan party and to us its representatives to continue them in their present enjoyment of their property, their business, their income and their livelthood, an ‘Whereas, This committes for itself and for ita conatituents bas noted with disspprobation the proposition of thé Representative in Con- gress from the Third Congressional District that Government contracts shall hereafter be performed at Government establishments by ing Government labor, and ‘Whereas, We are unalterably opj to this proposition, believing as we do that the pro- codure of withdrawing Government work from the competition of citizens, taxpayers and em- loyers of labor would substitute paternalism for_ indlvidual effort and political - favoritism for competericy and thus destroy the best dis- tribution of wealth between capital and labor to the disadvantage and detrimentt of all classes, all business, all property and all in- dividuals within our district; now, therefore, be it esolved, That the Republican Fourth Con- greesional District. Committee of the Republi- can party of the United States of the Fourth Congressional District of the State of Cali- fornia, for themselves and for’ their constitu- ents, do hereby pjedge themselves to support by volce, action and vote at the convention and at the polls only auch candidate for Rep- resentative in Congress from said district as shal] publicly declare and unreservedly pledge himselt at all times during the incumbeney of his office, 1t elected, to oppose by every hon- orable means the proposition of the Represen- tative in the Third District as hereinabove set forth, which we have ded every interest of our Resolved, That we held by us upon our pre: the end that he ma d wishes, of does in emn the shrin] of ruption of business and destruction of earning within the Fourth Congressional trict; and further be It 'l\uollm mh °: u;wymof‘ ’:‘hh.“ntnglhmm, properly suthen! 3 imediate! DiarAed to the Hon: Jultus. Kann, the Remes: sentative of this district in the ot the United Stat ll\’ algo to the entire dele- atfon from California at Washi both. n the Senate and_the H tives, and to the Re) Committee of the Bta sty Eight Chinese in Luck. Customs Collector Stratton has allowed eight Chinese laborers to proceed to their Represe: may, in conformity with our alming as it valus ntative to dls- wage 1 Dis- destinations—four for Havana, tw the t;:uy of Mexico, one for uwmuo 35 one for 'hey were of the batch of ninety-eight heretofore held up. The eight produced satisfactory evidence that they were actingin fs They will g 1 good falth, proceed to their destinations by sca. CONTRACTOR WAKEFIELD IGNORES SPECIFICAT Dumps Concrete Into Cylinders That Are Full of Water. Experts Say Faulty Work May Cause Columns to Break. Old Material Is Used- and Full Quan- tity Is Not Given. NDER the very eyes of some of the officlals who owe their positions on the water front to Governor Gage, hundredll of thousands of dollars of the people’s money is belng ex- pended on “improvements’” for new wharves in a manner that calis for an immediate and thorough investi- gation by the Harbor Commissioners. The pernicious political system that al- lows the Governor to place men into sine- cures and folst them upon the Harbor Commissioners . is responsible for the squandering of the public funds. The Harbor Commissioners are not ex- pected to watch every detail of work on, the water front. For that purpose the board has engineers and other men, some of whom possess more political pull than ability. A sample of the manner in which the State's money is being squandered can be found in the work now being carried on in the buflding of new wharves at the foot of Union, Filbert and Greenwich streets. Flagrant violations of contracts and specificatioris on the part of the con- tractors can be seen any day, and why this should be so will be difficult for the Harbor Commission and its officlals to ex- plain away. The flimsy work of the construction of the wharves Is being done in an open manner, and Chief Engineer L. D. Norton of the Harbor Commission has even' ad- mitted that the specifications are not be- ing carried out. LARGE CONTRACT AWARDED. For the construction of car ferry slips Nos. 1 and 3, north of pler 27; pler No. 19 ‘Union street wharf No. 2 Filbert street wharf), pler wich street whart No. 1) and pler No. 25 gnenwlch street whart No. 2) the Har- r Commissioners. some time award- ed a contract for about $350, to Con- tractor Wakefleld of Portiand, Or. The contract called for the furnishing. of the ma 1 and the .construction of the wha the bullding of sheds being a separate contraet. & order that the wharves might be made strong enough to last for an indefi- nite period, the specifications called for the construction of the same on what is known as the ‘‘cylinder concrete” pro- | cess. The ravages of the teredo have cost the pedple of California an enormous sum of money, and Howard C. Holmes, late chief engineer of the Harbor Commissioners, evolved a plan by which the teredo might be rendered harmless, in so far as the city front wharves are concerned. olmes’ patent consists of driving large wooden cylinders into the mud, piles be- ing driven deeply below the bottom of the bay ‘as foundations. These cylinders, after being pumped out, are filled with concrete. en the wooden cylinders in the course of time are destroyed by the teredo the superstructure of the wharves will consist of solld plers of concrete, ‘which the téredo cannot attack. ‘SPECIFICATIONS IGNORED. At the Greenwich street wharf, now in | course of construction, Contractor Wake- fleld 18 not making any attempt to comply with \the specifications, and -t| T enall be done. as Ber cantast. . o wo! 0! 0 i st few. vveenw o d's work- 1n the I mc'-\ have dumped w. mm co & Bhu s Tt masen e s n_ ne In 1‘::& rhv ‘weeks has der mped out, and the ..-38!.:3! :! the Fidets, instead ot forming & soiid eel:% of concrete, are really & series of stra of rack, and N?lni. 'm!h‘h\mdnfl of tons weight of mer- chandise to be plled in the near future on | 6 wharves, it 18 not unltkely . when the teredos eat through the outer ‘casinhk "IONS GOVERNING WORK ) 2% GENERAL YIEW OF WHARF e ——m—-m—m—m—-m—m——— SCENES ON THE WHARF UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT THE FOOT OF GREENWICH STREET, WHERE STATE OFFICIALS ARE ALLOWING THE CONTRACTOR TO OPENLY VIOLATE SPECIFICATIONS. fr—— of the wooden cylinders the contents of rock, sand and cement will rapidly dmfl out and the welght on the wharves wil cause the structures te collapse. ECONOMY OF ' CONTRACTOR. Although Congractor Wakefleld has con- tracts for more -than ,000, economy seems to be his watchword, thus increas- ing his profits. Old lumber has been used wkere the specifications call for fresh lumber; instead of furnishing porous: bur- lap in “‘which to~lom‘ concrete to the bottom of. the cylt to form a foundation the contractor has used the almost water-tight sacks in which the cement. is brought to the dock; where wire spikes of 7, 8 and 9 inches in len should be driven into the wharf planking spike heads fit only for the scrap heap have in Instances been used by the eco- nomical contractor. In fact, experts say that they would not be surprised it some d? the wharves now being constructed slip into the bay, caus- "x“x ‘?n enormous damage and a large loss o e, 17 the Harbor Commi: high-salaried officials need any informa- tion as to the manner in which Contractor Wakefield is allowed to violate specifica- tions with the positive knowledge of Chief Engineer Norton, the following points may be mentioned, the specifications be- ing quoted and followed by the results of an investigation. Cylinders must be made perfectly water- tight and must be painted on the outside with twol coats of asphaltum paint, approved by the Chief Engineer. . During the last few weeks cylinders have been put down with but one coat of paint, and water has poured.in from holes and cracks when an attempt was made to pump them out. The inspector of the work has admitted that as some of the linders broke under pressure of water, e matter of pumping them out was abandoned. This is also set forth: OLD LUMBER IS USED. Materials to be used in this structure con- st of the requisite quantities of rnx‘ .ik:‘“d Douglas yellow fir plles and lumber, ©Old lumber has been used by the tractor in hullalfi the fenders : p i:to th’:p‘l:&km in pla h.t:‘ m‘p‘h;h: ice of sou e _The mdfla&mt Zontlnuv: 3 Mt cylinder ‘must have no loners and thelr d three than fourteen inches n"b'ft' .::21 L. of the . marked 3, t o Bk, o, B, e o | T | i i 2 1] H 1 H i Bz £ L 2 L i egln cement must be first the water in tha cylinders (they hav- out to a depth of two feet and the mud In the bottom having been hydra below that on the outside). be the cylfnders and used during the ulicked out to a depth of two feet This cement must thoroughly mixed with the water left in additional cement must be process of flling with sacks, Chief Engineer. sufh- as dirscted by the A clent quantities to assure flling of the voids be\ween the sacks. ks T m) tions is not pon-mwnhneflbo?«:l&:~ being carried out by the con- tractor on the work now under way, The use of thoblm‘ riecessary, ye Chilef Engine ment lap sacks is_absolutely Cont: r W and eer: Norts w to be used. allow the water to mix with ti in bei call 11 and form are almost wats a solld linder. it. 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