The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII—-NO. 76. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, AUGUST . 15, .1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHARLES I.. FAIR AND HIS WIFE MEET MOST TERRIBLE DEATH WHILE DRIVING PRIZED MERCEDES AUTOMOBILE AT HIGH SPEED ALONG COUNTRY ROAD ON JOURNEY FROM TROUVILLE TO PARIS CASTRO | IN SORE | STRAITS Rebels of Venezuela Close In on the President. Uncie Sam’s War- ships to Prevent Plundering. News of a Decisive Battle Is Soon Expected. The Navy e following ers of the date of Wednesday, the 13th r Bowen of Caracas reports | epartment that the situa- | At the time oth- very critical he had heard le property t a cablegram of CABLE IS r Bowen NOT CUT. dispatch, te Department | the 0 are in con- ngs." Department closed m Command- eka, at Puerto Ca- e revolutionists were ol and that there was no danger of an attempt to retake the town by the forces. Commander Nickels acknowledged the receipt of instructions | ting bim to land a force in case of | ssity, but d that the necessity | for such a step had not arisen, [ In official circles the control of Puerto abelio by the revolutionists is considered a signal victory for that party, as it is | & place of strategic importance. It has | about 10,000 people, and is situated in g | large, deep and safe harbor, by means of | which, if necessary, troops and supplies | be landed or dispatched to other | es in the country. Puerto Cabello fs | but a short sall from La Guiara, which | is pot far from the Venezuelan caupital. ; BATTLE TO BE FOUGHT. i insurgents have been gather- | h, has existed for some time, | s news from Commander Nick. | irms the prediction that a battle | soon be fought there. The Topeka the Interests of Americans at section of the country, and Com.- | der Nickels was given full directions | d a force If necessary, and also to | ent a bombardment without due no- | This action was authorized at the | suggestion of Minister Bowen, and close- | 1y followed a notice from the Germans that they intend to take similar steps for the protection of German Interests. official information that tice. j THE - | SAN FRANCISCO COUPLE, KILLED NEAR PARIS, FRANCE, AND DEATH-DEALING MACHINE n emairs at Pucrto caneno, | Peasants Cover Their|* Bodies With Flowers. From the Special Correspondent of The Call and th h York Herald. Copyright, 1802, by the ROUVILLE, August 14.—The terrible news reached here about half past 1 o’clock to-day that Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Fair, on the road to Parls in their automobile, had both been killed. The automobile, a Mercedes mmander Nickels’ dispatch is the first ; of forty-five horsepower, was being driven has reached | at a speed of more than sixty miles an Washington that the revolutionists have secured control of Puerto Cabello, Continued on Page Two. York Herald Publishing Company. FORTUNE WILL GO TO SISTERS CHARLES L. FAIR prepared a will a year ago, making his wife. his sole heir and her as executor. Charles J. Heggerty and Joseph Harvey were witnesses.: Mrs. Fair made a will about the same time; to which Charles J. Heggerty and . John E..Cashin, a his office, were witnesses. Both wills are-in custody in San Francisco, in some - one- of deposit vaults used by the deceased. The cabled accounts of the tragedy agree that death came in- stantly to both. In consequence, under the law of California, the estate - of the husband, worth somewhere between §5,000,000 and $10,000,000, will be divided between his sisters, Mrs. Her- mann Oelrichs and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Jr. Had Mrs. Fair's death been subsequent to baqd’s, even by the fraction of a minute, the fortune wouldrh_a'ue become hers for that moment and wltimately would have passed to her heirs—her mother and brothers and sisters in New Jersey. 5 naming clerk in the safe her hus- ——— —_— Friends Are Plunged Into Deepest drief. HE news of the tragic death of Charles L. Fair and his wife came with a terrible sud- denness to their friends in San Francisco. who knew them Men and women intimately and loved them for their simplicity and warm-hearted, generous impulses have received a shock that leaves them still dazed and unwilling to give up hope quite that some mistake has been made, that Continued on Page Two. SCHWAB WILL BE RETIRED Morgan to Select a | New Steel Trust ; President. | Change Not to Affect | the Billion Dollar Corporation. James Gayley Slated | for the Important Position. Spectal Dispatch to The Cail. NEW YORK, Aug. 14—The Press pub- | lishes the following this morning: With | the home-coming of J. Plerpont Morgan | next week the retirement of Charles M. | Schwab, president of the United States | Steel Corporation, and the election of | James Gayley, the present vice president, | a8 his successor, will be taken into Im~ | mediate consideration. The bewildering | array of projects which demand the at- | tention of Morgan and his assoctates may | delay action for a few weeks, but just | as soon as they can get around to it the change will be made. | Bchwab’s {ll health is one of the rea- sons that have brought the management | of the billlon dollar trust to the view that a change should be made. His present illness has been more prolonged and more | serious apparently than any previous at- | tack, not even excepting the seizure he had while abroad, but there are othe# | reasons more potent than his physical condition which suggest that his success sor be named. PASSING OF SCHWAB. ‘The passing of Schwab cannot have any Jeftéet on the conduct of the business of the corporation, or upon the price of the stock in the market. He has not exerted | a pound of influence in any direction since he has been in office, and 1t is not likely he will exert a pound when he goes out. ‘When preliminary steps were taken | three years ago for the absorption of the principal corporations covering the steel industry in the United States the plant | most sought after and which was to form | the keystone of the arch was Carnegle's | of Homestead. The man most sought | atter to stand at ‘the head of the com- | bination as its chief executive officer was Henry C. Frick, noted for exceptional ability as an organizer and wide grasp | of every detail connected with the man- | ufacture of iron and steel. The projectors let it be known that they favored Frick for president, and the, mo- ment they did that Carnegie put down his | foot and refused to sell. He had quarreled | with Frick over the price of coke, and not one finger would he turn to forward the interests of the man who had defled him. | If he could, he would dispose of his hold- ings and so transfer control. There was no alternative and his terms were accept- ed. He named Schwab. NOT IN SYMPATHY. From the beginning it was patent that the president was not in sympathy with his associates. He was not an old man, but he was too old to take up a line of thought entirely new and adapt himself to a condition with which he was wholly unfamiliar. When it came to discussing mechanical details he was at home. When it came to originating or directing com= mercial operations he was at sea, and so it came about that the executive and ad~ ministrative work of the aggregated in- dustries fell on other shoulders. So far as known, there was no specifie agreement entered into with Carnegle as to how long Schwab was to remain as president. If there was the time limit has expired. SOCIAL QUARANTINE FOR VICIOUS WOMEN President of Nebraska University Suggests Novel Plan for Exiling Them. CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—The isolation of vicious women on an artificial Island to be built by the city in the lake beyond Four Mile crib was the novel plan sug- gested by Dr. Benjamin Andrews, Presi- dent of Nebraska University, in a lecture | at the Chicago University to-day for erad- icating the social evil. Andrews declared that conditions could not be changed unt!l all signs of the traffic were obliterated. Sweeping the levees clean of all question- able’ characters, he said, only tends to bring contamination to other and more respectable sections of the city. This means of coping with the problem he de- clared to be both futile and harmful and far from showing an improved moral tone. Segregation was the name he gave to his novel plan. He advocated social quar- antine, saying that immoral traffickers shotld be isolated as smallpox patients are and kept In permanent exile. To make the lot of the exiles more easy to bear, he suggested that their surround- ings be made luxurious. “The prison on the lake,” he said, “should be elegantly appointgd.” As soon as one of the hap- less mortals would run afoul of the po- lce, said the speaker, she could then be jphcod on & tug and hurried out of the city.