The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 124, SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER .2, 1902. IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC WELFARE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CALLS CONFERENCE OF COAL BARONS AND THE STRIKE LEADER MORGAN'S WP TRUST LAUNCHED Capital Is Nearly Two Hundred Millions. Directors Are Ameri- can and English Capitalists. Organization of the Giant Combine Is Perfected in New York. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Oct, L—J. Pierpont Mor- gan's trans-Atlantic steamship combina- tion, the formation of which stirred the alists of Europe, was successfully tarted today, and its organization has be« ally perfected. Its mame is the International Mercantile Marine Com- and its capital, Including its au- rized bond issue, is $195,000,000. Out of thirteen directors, which com- the board, eight are American cap- and the others English represen- ves of companies now controlled by steamship trust. The board of di- tors is as follows: Clement A. Gris- P. A. B. Widener, of Philadel- N. Baker, of Baltimore; John L George W. Perkins, E. J. James H. Hyde and Charles f New York; the Rt. Hon. W. J. J. Bruce Osmay, Sir Hen Wilding and P. Torrey, of Engiand. The is Clement A. Griscom, for- ¢ Internationai Nav- the secretary B sident of t and is P. Parvin LINES IN THE TRUST. nes he combination, as ced, are the American Transportation These com- aving a ton- already v to a state- e, in his ority of the ion were Lo of J. P. Mor- etails of the - If ar correctly in would Gomi.- discussing Balfour evi- com- would be but that 1 a majority le, “that an entered into between the B: C rament and the new wh rolves a full under- methods and future of various British lines. ment has given our surances that It ated against in the ter of subsidies and bus- be 4 e in the m s. We will the mails and sup- ply the British Government with boats exactly as the combination had mnot been formed “The working out of the details of the combination leaves the British ¥nes in exactly the same position as they were. Old contracts with the Government will be continued, and we have an ample and sufficient guarantee that there will be no antagonistic policies adopted against the ¢ wational Company.” The opinion was expressed in several quarters to-day that the formation of the Morgan combination dealt & heavy blow to the ship subsidy bill, which was con- sidered at the last session of Congress, but the friends of the new organization sald that &5 a matter of fact the new company would show the benefits of ship subsidies. WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ACROSS THE ATLANTIC Report That a Message Is Sent From Cornwall to Cape Breton R Station. YORK, Oct. 1.—A Journal special y, N. 8., says: Wireless com- ation has perhaps been at last es- tablished between Europe and America. A report has been circulated to-day that te message has been received at Head, Cape Breton, station ation at Cornwall, England. engineer in charge of cor- struction of the Table Head station, was y asked this afternoon to deny or affirm the report. He emphatically declined to say anything beyond the statement that noth- ing would be given out from the Table Head station. The distance between the two stations is about 2200 m! DEMOCRACY OF NEW YORK PUTS COLER AT THE HEAD OF TICKET . AND THROWS OUT DEVERY GANG r, president r his | ke | DISTINGUISHED YOUNG DEMOCR AT OF NEW YORK WHO H48 BEEN D AT THE HEAD OF THE STATE TICKET ,THROUGH HILL'S INFLUENCE AT THE SARATOGA CONVENTION. | PLAC Governor—Bird S. Coler, Brooklyn. - Lieutenant Governor—Charles N. Seeretary of State—Frank M. Ott of Chautaugua. Comptroller—Charles M. Preston of Ulster. Attorney General—John Cuncen of Erfe. State Engineer and Surveyor—Richard W. Sherman, Oncit... State Treasurer—~George R. Finch of Warren. Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals—John C. Gray of New York. NEW YORK’S DEMOCRATIC TICKE o T Bugler, Oswezo. » ARATOGA, N. Y., Oct. 1.—The Democrzatic State Convention was so strenuous in its final hours as to bring almost per- eonal conflict, and yet termi- nated in such perfect harmony as to allow completion of the State ticket with less than a hundred delegates out of 450 in the hall. The cofivention began the early morning with a prepared slate of candi- dates. The slate was not broken in any particular. Naturally a great deal of interest in the convention centered in the attitude it would take toward the scating of W. 8. Deévery, formerly head of the Police Department of New York, who held a reg- ular certificate of election from the Ninth District. So thoroughly had Devery made up his mind that the conveption would have none of him that he did not attend the meeting of the committee on credentials, but was present in the earli- est hours of the morning in the rear of the convention hall announcing his atti- tude. When the convention decided to adopt the report of the committee by a vote of 322 to 21, Devery waiked out of the convertion, affer being allowed to de- clare himself a good Democrat, and pro- ceeded to hold a mass meeting on the steps of the United States Iotel. Then be started for home and threatened all sorts of disasters for the ticket, but halt- ed long enough In his denunciations of the ‘eaders to assert that he was a good Democrat. When Coler’s name had been placed in nomination and the nominations closed, Nathan Strauss of New York appeared and offered objections to Coler. He was allowed to go to the platform to present them, and he requested in an cminently. fair manner thé privilege of talking. He had-hardly begun to state his objections, however, when he was roundly hissed and — finally he was ruled out of order. He started to leave the platform, putting the notes from which he was reading into his pocket, and when he reached the 'steps leading to the auditorium ‘he was sur- rounded by a number of newspaper men who desired copies of his remarks. He was attempting to determine whom to give them to when a'number of Tammany dele- gates surrounded him and, pressing him against the wall, took the notes from him and tore them up. Lucikly he had pre- served a copy in his pocket, and this copy he managed, finally, after recovering his hat and glasses, to hand to the newspaper men. The Strauss incident ended objec- tlons to the ticket, and the rest of it was nominated without any question or objec- tion whatever. —_— DEVERY IS TURNED DOWN. Big Chief of the Ninth and Followers Create Uproar in Convention. SBARATOGA, N. Y., Oct. 1.—Interest centered in the meetings this morning of the committees on platform and con- tested scaté of the Democratic State Con- vention. It was conceded that if Willlam 8. Devery and his delegates from the Ninth New York District were not seated there would be troublous times, Devery baving delared he would make an appeal or the floor of the convention. Devery held more than 500 spectators’ seats for the convention hall, which were given him by sympathizing delegations from all over the State, quite a large number com- irg from Tammany delegates. When ap- proached with the suggestion that the wisest way out of the difficulty would be to leave the representation of the Ninth District vacant, Devery replied: “I' would make no_ such agreement. I Column 1. | Continued on Page 5, e R MOAD FOATS ME TKEN BY TROOPS Score of Names Killed by th Americans, Series Ffirfighes Culminates in a Baftle. Mohammedan Strong! Stormed and Three of Them Captured. § MANILA, Oct. 1.—The Maciu Moros in Mindanao have offered but slght resist- ance to the c¢olumn under Captain Persh- ing of the Fifteenth Cavalry. After a series of skirmishes on Monday und Tuesday of this week the Moros re- treated into six forts on the shores of the jake. When a courier left Macin yester- day for Camp Vicars Captain Pershing was preparing to assault the last Moro stronghold. : The American column reached the for- mer camp at Maciu Sunday night. On Monday thesMoros opened fire on them with a brass cannon and rifles from a se- ries of new forts which had been erected since Captain Pershing’s first vigit to the place. The battery, under Captain Willlam S. McNair, scaled a ridge commaring the position of the Moros and shelledy them cut. The engineers, under Captain J. J. Morrow, had constructed a trail over the swamp flanking the Moros' position. The men - of Captain Pershing's’ column crossed the swamp by the. trail &nd cap- .| tured- and ‘destroyed three of the Moro forts. The Moros stood but a shert while | and ran as soon as the artillery ‘gpened on them. e 2 Caplain Pershing had orders to' destroy the forts” unless the Moros made peace. Twenty Moros were killed, There were ne casualties among the Americans. The letter of General Sumner, in com- mand. of Mindando, to the Maciu Sultans has been delivered. WATER AND FLAMES IMPERIL HER LIFE ‘Woman Rescued From a Flume Is Burned While Drying Her Dress at a Fire. MARYSVILLE, Oct. 1—Miss Lillian Weldin and her brother, James Weldin, of West Branch, had an experience on Monday that nearly cost both their lives. Desiring to photograph scenes in West Branch Canyon, a raft was launched in the great flume and the trip down com- menced. At the first stop Weldin stepped to a rafter and as he did so the raft shot suddenly ahead, throwing his sister in‘o the swift current. At this point the flume is thirty feet above ground. The fright- ened woman attempted to check her downward course by grasping the flume sidez. but they were wet and slippery and she was carried several hundred yards before a stop was made. Meanwhile her brother, careless of his own life, was jumping from one cross- plece to another in a wild pursuit, a single misstep meaning dcatn. As he reached his sister she was about to relax her hold and she was with great difficulty raised to the side planking. Her arms were terri- bly wrenched and her hands had great splinters driven far into the flesh. Her body, too, was terribly bruised, and she suffered frc¥n exposure. The hillside was finally reached and a fire started. While Weldin was search- ing for more wood his sister's skirt caught fire, painfully burning her. Miss Weldin is from the Hast on a visit and ‘says she is now willing to return home and risk the severe winter back there. # SRR EXPLANATION FOR OFFICIALS. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. — Postmaster General Payne to-day addressed a ecircu- lar letter to the officers and employes of the Postoffice Department and otheérs con- cerned regarding the extent of the prohi- bition put by the department on political acitvity on the part of postoffice employes. The letter says: v Postmasters or others having unclassified positions are mercly prohibited - from using their offices to control political movements, from neglecting their duties or causing public scandal by political activity, -~ A person In the classified service has an entire right to vote as he pleases and to ex- press privately his opinlons on all political subjects, but he should take no. active part in political management or in political cam- paigns. Fiftesn-Thousand-Dollar Nugget, BAKER CITY, Or.,, Oct. 1.—A Chinese who has leased the Salmon Creck placer mines has ‘found a gold nugget worth §15,000. This is by far the largest nugget ever discovered In this State and as far as known the largest one ever found in the United States. The mine from which the nugget was taken has been worked for years by white men and for some years it has been leased to Chinese, — e President Is Improving. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The Presi- dent’s injured leg continues to improve and his condition is satisfactory, accord. ing to the report given out at the tem- porary White House to-night. He xeeps in good spirits, and enjoyed the bright spring-like weather which prevailea dur- ing the day. Government, Failing in Power to Settle Dispute, Attempts Moral Suasion. I * 3 'ASHINGTON, Oct.. 1L— 7 President Roosevelt will make an effort to bring the anthracite coal operators and the striking employes to- gether in the interest of public good. The conclusion ;was reached after. a series of conferences with his ' Cabinet advisers vesterday and to-day. The decision was arrived at when the lawyers of the Cabi- net informed the President that there was no way, under the Constitution and the form of Government of the United States, for Federal intervention to end the strike.” Every phase of the situation was canvassed, and the determination to have the mine operaters and “President Mitchell meet the President ‘was reached when it was found that no other method was open. ‘At the conciusion of the con- terence to-day, which: was attended . by Secretaries Root, Shaw and Moody, At- torney. General Knex and Postmaster Gereral Payne at the temporary White House, a ‘statement ‘was issued telling of the telegraphic invitations to coal presi- dents and John Mitehell to attend a con- ference at Washington Friday. APPEAL BY THE PRESIDENT., At the meeting Friday the line of ap- proach toward the settlement of the strike will be an appeal 'by President Roosevelt 10 both sides to come together 23 men, and not to allow false pride or a feeling of obstinacy to stand in the way of the termination of the great strike, which is fraught with such threat of mis- ery to thousands of people. It is stated by one of the Presideni’s advisers that beyond this, the President cannot go; he has no powers of compulsion to bring into play against either side, and he must rely upon his persuasive abilities or his appeals to thefr sense of humanity if any- thing tangible is to be accomplished. - The President intends to lay before his hearers the situation as it appears . to him, with ail the prospective horrors that will follbw a fuel famine, and will urge them, in the interests of humanity, to open the mines and supply the demand for coal. The President has taken thls action because he feels it to be his duty to do so as the executive head of a nation threatened with great peril. The Presi- dent has, in a sense, taken upon himself the burdens of an arbitrator in this great dispute between capital and labor, and, though the arbitration is not compulsory, | is not even known under the name of ar- bitration in any of the invitations issued | to-day, it is the hope of the President and his advisers that it will be effective. Just how, no one can say, though there is the suggestion of a temporary arrange- ment which-will tide over the cold wea- ther, NO POLITICAL PURPOSE. It is stated by a member of the Cabinet that there is mo political purpose in this effort, but that the President intends to exert hid influence' solely in the imterest of the people. v ) e In the other attempts, it is said, the | | COAL MAGNATES AND STRIKE LEADERS, WHO AR® CALLED TO CONFERENCE. % fo— 5 “4¢ INVITATIONS TO ATTEND A CONFERENCE S EN WHITE HOUSE. WASHING- TON, Oct. 1, 1902.—Charles F. Baer, president of the Reading system, Philadelphin; Presi- dent Truesdale, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway, New York; H. D. Thomas, chairman of the | | poara, Erie Rallway, New York; Thomas P. Fowler, pres- ident New York, Onmtario an Western Railroad Company, New York: R. M. Oilphant, pres- | ident Delaware and Hudsonm, Néw York; John Markle, 527 ‘West Thirty-fourth street, New York: I should greatly like to see you on Friday next, Dcto- her 3, at 11 o’¢lock a. m., here in Washington, in regard to the failure of the coal supply, which has become n matter of vital coneern te the whole na~ tion. Ihave sent n similar dis- patch to Mr. John 'Mitehell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, . THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Johm Mitchell, president 1 United Mine Workers of Amer- iea, Wilkesbarre, Pa.: I should greatly like to see you on Friday next, October 3, at 11 o’clock a. m., here in Wash- ington, regard to the fail- ure of the coal supply which has become a matter of vital concern to the whole natio: I have sent a similar dispateh to the presidents of the an- thracite conl companies. operators felt that polities was the most |pelled to make further: concessions. The. prominent motive. In this’ stery is revived of the strike of 1900. The operators when that strike was settied, of a political exigency, the paved for the present strike. 17 say that the strikers have hoped poiitical influcnce would again be exerted _the | efforts of Senators Quay and Penrose of n _of the | Pennsylvania, and Platt of ~New York that |and Governor Stone have been pointed | the gentlemen to whom invitatlons were out as verification of the allegations of | ser:t. During the afternoon and evening operators. All this, they have as- is due to the settlement which in their behalf and the.operators com-|few days, together with the legal situa- tion and the power of the Federal admin- istration in the premises, and the cogy- clusion was reached that the President could do more by bringing the interested parties together than In any other way. ONLY PRINCIPALS PRESENT. There will be no one present at Fri- dey's ‘meeting at the temporary Whité House but ‘the principals. It is true that Friday is Cabinet day and that 11 o’clock, the hour appointed in the invitations for the meeting of the magnates, is the usual ucur of assembling the Cabinet, but ac- cording to the present understanding the Cabinet meeting will be postponed. The | purpose of the postponement is plainly to | relieve the invited guests from the feel- ing of reserve that might naturally be created if they should appear before the entire Cabinet, including some exceed- tugly clever lawyers whom the coal ped— | ple might not care to meet in a business {way in the absence of their own legal advisers. So the absence of the Cabinet will give the President an opportunity to do just what he wants, namely, tg have a heart-to-heart talk with the oper- ators and Mr. Mitchell, to Induce them to talk to each other freely and to reopem quietly and secretly, and finally, if pos- sible, to make concessions on each side which will terminate the strike. And at least, if this last object cannot be direct- ly attained, it is hoped that the founda- tions may be laid for an agreement in the near future, perhaps an agreement between the principals, to have further meetings and perhaps:to refer open issues between them to third parties. “'It is stated positively that the Presi- dent has no assurances from either side which formed the basis of his call for this meeting. But when Secretary Root was. in New York yesterday and last night he saw one at least of the coal presidents whose name appears In to- day’s list of invitations. It was stated that the meeting was a casual ome, but no statement could be extracted touchir e the personality of the other great forces that are operating in the strike whe | might have been seen by the War Secre- tary in his peace mission. Other great forces than Mr. Morgan competent to exercise a tremendously powerful but se- | cret pressure upon corporations exist in | New York, and it is surmised that with some of these the Secretary, not un- |acquainted in a business way in that | circle, may have had an interview during his visit. i it INVITATIONS ARE ACCEPTED. Baer and Mitchell Send Prompt Re- plies to the President. WASHINGTON, Oet. 1. — President Rocsevelt's preparation ‘for a sgathering bere Friday of representatives of the coal companies and coal operators and miners miet a prompt response from a number of the President received replies to his In- vitations from President John Mitchell of the, United Mine Workers, President Continued on Page 3, Column &