The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 122, = SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER ‘30, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CONFLAGRATION IN HEART OF STOCKTON LEAVES RECORD oCHEME | GARE BY | USTOMS OFFIGERS| Costly St;:gq Oplum‘ Are Hidden Aboard r b 0 Nippon Maru. , which 2 of days. d forward of of a dozen spection of ticles from top ed costly silks and and other rare articles are valued at between $20,00 and er investigation of the contents soxes revealed to the officials places of several chests of articles, ch the owners d free of duty, and which ate amount in value to a were I led to the offi- but there was no one give information to how it these d not been properly officers on the daru. o would t was some been awaiting a ble opy ¥ to bring the costly | lks and gowns and oplum ashore tiously is no doubt in the minds of the ectors, who are satis- | t they nipped a great smuggling | SHIPPING COMBINATION HOLDS A CONFERENCE Sept. A conference of indetified with the proposed shipping combine was held to-day at the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. Those pres- | give, ent inc Sir Ciinton Dawkins, Charles Steel and George W. Perkins of the Mor- gan firm; P. A. B. Widener, W. G. Pilerrie e latter of the Leyt es Beresford of the Wwas a party to the confer- erce for a brief time. One of Morgan's partners said there would be no statement about the shipping combination to-day. British navy | ¥oung girl was called to the attention of ZoHN T OF DEATH AND INJURY, AND T g ZAWRENCE— nE— wWHC mccvngq TFLE BROKEN PROMISE BRINGS DESPAR | 10 GIRL SUICIDE Norma Daley’s Sweet- heart Ready to Right | Wrong He Did. Had pretty Norma Daley, the 17-year- cld telephone girl, who kilied 1 1 with acid Friday afternoon, waited a | he would have been given an | to have wiped out the mis- her life and bcen united to the Instead she gave way to destruction } lekes of man t ersleeping had broken his ap: pointment with her, was on his way to | meet her and complete his arrangements | to marry her. As carly as last January the case of the Secretery Frank Kane of the Pacific Hu. mane Soclety by Mrs. Daley, who com- plained that her daughter had remained away from home for a week. She sald *he had located the girl at the Touraine lodging-house on Ellis street, where she occcupied apartments with another girl, | and ‘she was satisfied’ her daughter was nol leading a proper life. Sccretary Kane had the mother take the girl to his of- | fice, where he threatened her with con- finement in the Magcalene ‘Asylum until ske reached her majority unless she re- turned home and forsook her wild way The girl confessed association with | several men, among them a druggist, who suppl orma with expensive clothes, jew and considerabie sums of money. She also told of having visited a saloon which has a e entrance on Ellis street | w'th a man whose name she would not but who represented himself as a purser on one 0" the Australian steamers. GOES TO LIVE HOME. After her interview with Secretary Kane Norma went home and resumed her employment with the telephone company. Her mother says she had no further cause of complaint about her daughter until a of weeks when she stayed ay from home for a week. When she was taken to task for her absence she explained that she was working nights in the telephone office and had taken a room downtown to avoid the long walk home. Her mother made inquiries at the Continued on Page 3, Column 2, | ago, SECRETARY OF WAR ROOT 15 EXPECTED T0 LEAVE CABINET Successfully Completing Great Tasks, He In- tends to Retire. Speclal Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—That Sec- retary Root, having brought to a highly successful close the two great labors of reorganization of the army and estab- lishment of clvil government in Cuba and the Philippines, will soon retire from the Cabinet is expected in Washington. Root left a very lucrative law practice in New York to enter President McKinley’s Cab- inet. The act involved a great personal sacrifice, and it has many times been | 8iven out by Root himself that he ex- pected to return to the practice of law when he had concluded the work he set out to do. Thus far he has said nothing about the date of his retirement to members of | the Cabinet, but they are cognizant of his intention to retire to private life, although one expressed surprise to-day that May 1 should be named as the date. He thought that was too early. After Secretary Alger left the Cabinet Elihu Root was looked upon by Presi- to take the burden of the great questions of the Philippines on his shoulders, and President Roosevelt has frequently ex- pressed the opinion that Root was con- tending with greater responsibilities than other members of the Cabinet and the 1oad he carrying would be too much for any man less strong. Root was ap- pointed Secretary of War in 1899. He im- mediately put under way plans for the transferring of the control of Cuba to the Cuban people, and the establishment of civil government in the Philippines and reorganization of the army. His views on these subjects were bitterly antagon- ized in many quarters. The war in China was a distinct embarrassment, coming at a time when the War Department was already busy with vital questions. The army organization bill was passed by Congress, but an additional bill pro- viding for the establishment of a general staff was defeated at the last session of Congress. It will be pressed again at the short session, and if passed will be the capstone of Root’s official work. | e SRR ERTAE DEVASTATION OF WIDE AREA OITAS VYALSHL. %5%9; DEED % Ury’ TOWARS HINOWILIEY — WRO WIll PRODABLY DIE— e STOCKTON FIRE SCENES AND FIRE-FIGHTERS, AND MAN ‘WHO PERISHED. Thos. Walish Dies From Burns. S Clmas i e Speclal Dispatch to The Call. TOCKTON, Sept. 20.—One life and . probably another lost, nearly one-half millién ‘dollars’ worth of fine business build- ings and handsome’ residences lald waste and seventeen persons in- 0 |jured is the dread harvest of the con- dent McKinley as the best gvallable man | flagration that occurred here last evening. The residents are plunged into mourning and horror over the devastation that was wrought in the heart of the city by the devouring elements. Charred and smoldering rulns, twisted water and gas pipes and a few brick-chimneys are the scle relics that matrk an area of almost six square blocks where yesterday stood many substantial buildings and happy homes. The excitement and confusion that at- tended the biggest fire that has ever been visted upon any section of the San Joa- quin Valley have died away and the resi- dents are beginning to realize the extent of the calamity. WALSH’S MAD DRIVE. The aftermath is replete with tales of heroism, but the mad and fatal dash of Hose Cart Driver Thomas J. Walsh be- tween two columns of seething flames and suffocating smoke in an effort to lay a line of hose was perhaps the most herolc. deed attempted by anybody, as the flames THE HOSHINS RECIDENCE WHERE THE FIRE ————— b WAS CHECKED Firq Costs One Life and Seventeen Per- sons Receive Injuries. leapéd from the big Agricultural Pavilion and_started to envelop the bufldings on the south.side of Lafayette street, be- tween Hunter and San Joaquin. Wailsh, poor: fellow,’ died from hi3 injuries and burns this-morning in-St. Joseph's. Hos- pital. His memory will be cherished in the Mill City for many a day. “You can’t make it, Tom,” shouted Fire CLief “Jim” Carroll, as he saw the dare- devil hose cart driver and his companion, EQ Knowles, driving madly through La fayette stréet, between the burning pavil- ion and a row.of flame-enveloped resi- dences on the south side of the street. ‘Walsh - neither. heard nor. heeded the | warning of the Chief. “For God's sake, man, come back shouted Carroll,, but the daring fireman 2nd his companion‘drove headlong to cer- tain destruction. XKnowles stood on the back of the hose cart'playing out the hose line that charred and withered as soon as it struck the furnace-like roadway. A RACE WITH DEATH. About a hundred -yards from Hunter street the horse stumbled and fell, just then a big sectlon of the pavilion caved in and a withering blast of heat burst upon'the two unfortunates on the hose cart. ‘Walsh fell staggering to ‘the street and commenced another game race with death. the road that was :blistering his feet to- ward San’ Joaquin street and Knowles made a similar dash for safety in the di- rection of Hunter street. Knowles was scon out of the range of the death-dealing | blast, but poor Walsh staggered blindly along a cruel route to .supposed safety. His clothing took fire breathéd in the hot blasts. At the corner he dropped unconsclous and brave regcu- | ers were soon lifting his burned form into an ambulance. senses. Knowles was removed to the home of his brother and at a late hour to-night it was announced that he had little chance for recovery. Walsh was the driver of the Eureka Truck Company and was a popular and effielent member of the Fire Department. He 'never recovered his Knowles was not.a member of ‘the Fire | Department, but his two brothers, Rob- | ert and Ansel, both of Whom were also | AUenCDing badly burned about the hands and.face, have been connected with the fire-fighting force-of the city for several:'years. The hose cart and horse were burned to ashes, During the height of the conflagration the City Receiving Hospital was crowded and | He tried to stumble along | and his ‘lungs | | the flames were spreading with such rap- by the victims of the flames. City Physi-| clan Henry Southworth and Dr. Fitzger- ald, who kindly volunteered his services, dld commendable work in dressing inju- e s of the victims and relieving their suf- | ferings. ORIGIN A MYSTERY. | The Fire Department rendered heroic and efficient service In fighting the flames. Handicapped as they were with the lim- | ited apparatus, Chief Carroll and his men | performed yeoman deeds. The fire did not burn itself out, and had | not Chief Carroll *displayed keen judg- ment it’ would have swept out every ves- tige of property in its way clear down to | Mormon Channel. When he realized that idity that his men were unable to cope | with them, Carroll moved his engines and | streams: down - to’ Church - street and | fought the flames from in front. 'rrua{ action ‘on the part of the department | saved a large area of handsome struc- | tures directly in the course of:the fire. St. Mary's Church, across the street from the Washington street end of the pavilion, was badly damaged inside from | the heat. The costly altar and organ will | have to be replaced, and if the church | was not a bric | structure it would have | been burned to the ground. The exact cause of the fire is still a mat- | ter of mystery, though the generally ac- cepted theory is that a defective electric | wire set fire to the bunting draped around Hale Bros.” booth on the second floor in the south wing of the Pavilion. FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY. Watchman John J. Lawrence and Frank Valerga, a member of Cassasa’s band, were the only persons in the big fair building when the fire broke out. They noticed the fames and ran upstairs, but by the time they got there the entire south wing of the wooden structure was on fire. Lawrence ran to the telephome | and called up the Eureka engine house | and Chief Carroll sent his department out on a still alarm. Later the alarm was | turned in and by the time the entire de- | partment arrived on the scene the cupola | of the pavilion was a mass of flames. | From that time the fire spread with mar- velous rapidity. The report that engines | were sent from Sacramento to aid in| the fire proved unfounded. | Chief Carroll denied this rumor to-day. The extent of the burned. area proved greater than was estimated last night. The two square blocks bounded by San Joaquin, Washington, Hunter and Lafay- ette -streets (the Pavilion) and by San Joaquin, Lafayette, Hunter and Sonora —_— streets, were. burned in their entirety. The east half of the block bounded by San Joaquin, Sonora, Hunter and Church streets, was ‘burned. On the east side of San Joaquin street st one-third of the block bounded Washington, San Joaquin, Lafayette Sutter streets and the west three- and fifths of the block bounded by Lafayette, San Joaquin, Sonora and Sutter streets were swept n. LIST OF BURNED BUILDINGS. The names of the owners and the loca- tion of the destroyed buildings, together with their assessed valuations as they ap- pear on the books of the Assessor of San Joaquin County, are as follows: Block No. 30 (the Pavilion), owned by the State, $40,000. Block No. 39, bounded by San Joaquin, La~ tayette, Hunter and Sonora—Margaret Cavage naro, $4000; Ralph P, Morrell, $1000; W. T. Hewitt, $1500; San Francisco Lumber Com- pany, $1200; R, W. Russell, $4500; A. Bonai, $6000; Mrs. Hugh Tye, $750; Annle Skhin, $750; J. Briones, $800; Mary J. Fisher, $3000; Au~ gusta Tripp, $500; H. W. Leeker, $1000. Block 43, bounded by San Josquin, Somors, Hunter and Church—Helen Marye (six flats), $18,000; Joseph Capurra, $300; Lillle E. Higgin. botham, $1200; Mrs. Bee Hoult, $3500; A. F% Weber, $500. Block 31, bounded by Washington, San Jos= quin, Lafayette and Sutter—A, Albert! (thres houses and two stores and his stock), $12,000; G. Porcella, $300; Alexander Eymard, $1500; Morrell & Mitscher (wood factory), $7000. Block 40, bounded by Lafayette, San Jome quin, Sonora and Sutter—Dlognessia Laogler, M. Zignego, $500; Stefano Solari, $4503 Mollle E. Ladd and C. Grattan (a shed), $100; | Louis Briedenbach, $1000; Mary A, Wiedman (The Wilma), $5400; J. H. Hoskins, $6640; L. | M. Endicott, $2800; Adolph Brown, $1500. ock 49, bounded by Somora, San Joaquin, Sutter—Madelina Lertora, $30003 : D. L. Lawrence, $ $1250; Harry and George Hornage, $2000; George Mosher, $5800. In this block the homes of Messrs. Richardsom and Conklin and a few others were damaged by heat. THE DEAD AND INJURED. Following is a complete list of the cas- | nalities. THE DEAD. THOMAS J., WALSH, hose wagon driver for Engine Company No. THE INJURED. Edward Knowles, hands and face badly burm. ed and injured by inbaling flames; will proba~ Bly die. Frank P. Kendall, riously burned. Ansel Knowles, fireman, had an arm burned. Frank Steinbacher, hands and face burned and leg injured by falling from a burning roof. Sydney .Woodburn, nearly suffocated by flames and injured by a fall from a building. Continued on Page 3, Column 3. extraman, left hand