The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 17 1902. 3 IPERATORS MAKE REPLY T0 MINERS Lehigh Company’s Case Is Submitted to the Public. e — Denies That Its "Emgloyes Are Paid Insufficisnt Weges Claims That the Actual Working Hours of the Men Have Been Less Than Nine a Day. e PHILADELPHIA, nt of the Lehigh ¢ ov. 16.— state- oal and Navigation to the on now swer to t anthracite in session in demands of here to-day. es the development of the the dat charter to the of opera- « the comparat! small profits and declares the Gemand of the employes for cent is unjus pport of , was made puniic from fers e of its expens to vely incre ifiable, the reasons given in demand not being founded Accompanying the statement are exhib One shows the earnings « t mployes of the company for one d on the time worked during umber of the several classes of d the rates paid for the first half of Ma catalogue of overt striking employes of the recent contes! and alsturbances of numbered at upward of 1w 1 2 the arious s and Navigation ion engaged in the mining of It was chartered 14,000 acres of 1kill_counties, ver 500,000,000 ne when its rtant c the cou lands h acquired at me s upon its capital stock to 02 per cent el ned by the € and up to December 11.09 cents per tom, after es on coal lands and de- not including any charge for represents the value of the coal Nor were the rates of freight , @s is shown by operated = railroad rather than by AS TO WAGES PAID. the claim of the miners es are paid in the bitumi- ibstantially similar work, coal mines of this other mining region throughout ment ten hours, of contract veraged as follows: unskilled labor, $1 28; boys, average annual earnings of adults s made of the claim of the min- heir earnings are insufficient to American standard of liv the employes of the Navigation Company given: Out of 3063 fami- own their own homes; pianos will n 1% and house organs in 337; owns and rents to its em- an average rental of e character of the: the average in any those of ¥ to sell surface rights to mployes who desire to put and for many years ady demand on this its t 3000, and almost the the dwellings, is now nd occupied by employes of the fund expended in the region is de- from paid by this company Regarding the employment of boys the statement says: king is a ver: th the work do; and many of th ke care of the v & boy upon a oys are needed to ine mules and other lig! way the wages of the hous d _legitimately increased villages in - the ools and colieg become mining neers, attorney ts, dentists, architects, ministers and 80T, me of the forelgners prefer to live in a niggardly and squalid manner, o that may accumulate the larger part of their and return to Europe to live in idle- t those who have thelr permanent e region have at least $1,000,000 de- the banks and savings funds in the saved from their earnings in th, £ The annual milies and agencies in the regl nounted to 50,000 or m . established a beneficial fu contributed s $154,768. the strik company declined to participate, in acknowledgment of their lo In nd, of o them have if* bound to ordered last addressed to Sl May this company since the grievance alleged, and no request for higher wages made; but without e the men left work in a body, against r own will and judgment, because required o 0 by the vote of the miners employed in complaint was The claim for a reduction of 20 per cent in the h of labor, without any reduction in for all employes paid by the hour, a k, would be peculiarly absurd if en- forced against this company. WORK ONLY NINE HOURS. It is & point of fact that the breakers of the my are able to run only nine hours a nd not ten. The miners only work from to seven hours a day, and the real difficul- iy in the region is that contract labor prices are too high, as the men get an amount suffi- cient for their wants by working less than ee-quarters of & day. The men employed the day work, as & maximum, only nine hours, and as many of them consume from a half hour to an hour in going to and from their work to the foot of the shaft, they do mnot work even nine hours. As illustrating the in- fluence of the excessive rates paid for contract work, it may be seid that during normal condi- tions in April of this year the men working by contract earned only an average of §3 02 a day, but when it became probable that a strike would be ordered the same men earned an av- trage of §4 46 e day. The company aeserts that payment by weight is impracticable at its mines, ss each mine five se of twenty per | accurding' Company is | r of the Lehigh | “ompany, which was orcanized iu | 1793. It also acquired certain s Lehigh River, whicn were granted company have gone | of 1900, in which the em- | Joined | | | GRAVE CERETIONY WILL INAUGURATE ~ WORK UPON GREATER UNIVERSITY ONCY EIT OF CREW AE SHED Steamship Picks Up Sur- vivors of Wrecked Elang mite, —— Sixteen Persons Have | 1wo Apples for Food in Five Days, i bus Succumb, bne by Cne, Until Only One-Half of Their Number Remain on the Life Raft. TS | LONDON, Nov. 17.—The Daily Mail's | correspondent at Wellington cables that the survivors of the wrecked steamer Eilangimite, who were rescued from a raft by the British steamer Penguin, went through a dreadful experience. The raft ! | from -which they were taken measured only seven feet iong by twelve feet wide, and had sixteen persons on it when it | | left the wreck. The only food on board | were two apples. The first apple was | consumed on Tuesday and the second on Wednesday, each being divided into six- teen portions. From Sunday, the day they were wrecked, until Thursday, when they were rescued, the survivors drifted sixty mfles on the half-submerged raft. Several at- tempts were made to land on the Three Kings Islands. | Three men died on Monday night from drinking salt water. All of the survivors suffered the tortures of thirst, and four other men and the stewardess died of ex- haustion before they were picked up by the Penguin. They had a cruel disappointment on Tuesday night. A steamer was sighted in the distance and frantic shouts were raised by those on the raft to attract at- tention. The steamer lowered a boat. which passed within fifty yards of them, | but the boat's crew apparently did not | sec the raft and returned to their vessel. When the Penguin was sighted only one | of the survivors was able to stand and all | were terribly emaciated MISTAKE OF A FLAGMAN CAUSES FATAL ACCIDENT | | CcHICAGO, Nov. 16.—One man was killed and a dozen men, women and children | more or less seriously injured in a col- | Hision to-night between a Western avenus | electric train and a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy freight train at the Eighteenth- | | street crossing. | | The motor and trailer, which made up the electric train, were crowded with pas- « sengers, and It seems a miracle that so | . | o —— — 3 5 ?‘ | many escaped instant death. The dead: | : n | 7 [T V. 3 3 y | | HUGH CURRAN, passenger on street ‘ HEARST MEMORIAL MINING BUILDING, THE CORNER STCNE OF WHICH WILL BE LAID TO-MIORROW AFTERNOON. || X J : i = L | The injured: Joseph Dedick, severely | — - = = 2 oy * | injured and left leg badly crushed; Mrs. ITH the impressive dignity of The ceremony to-morrow afternoon | has endeavored to express the essential whi;;‘era{mu alla are l':! 2— u;ahdnrl'rfld and | height, flzn}(edfl h_vThmp s!r:xel!sz”furnac‘Ti! “'fi‘ Ecd‘lcl;. ;ct:phag:;lckbrgl:cnlef:[mdm:;:lde.\; academ) ali - % % B _ i} - | overtopped by a roof of red Spanish tile. | copper.and lea e gold and silver mill wi ruised; Jose: , I, sl academic regalia, of mortar | marks the commencement of’ a .new :,E'"V"“:r-‘qf “:,"‘,’-b"cas mrf”"gh ‘h‘e Tl':» The general plan of the building is to be | be located to the right of the tower. The re- | gislocated and sealp wounds; Frank Ded- | board and flowing robe, (e |epoch for the University of California, \;‘}“m g l’fl o M‘:!-t = Y;g‘c':l'x‘:g o ite | that of a gridiron with four - interlor courts | maining portion of the bullding is devoted 1< | joic ‘padly brulsed and cut about head and | s & bty | , scheme ‘of - architécture e d_in 8 v plac e light o | recitation rooms and r ch laboratories. . . . | faculty and students of the | an epoch of bullding wherein the present | STheme of- architecture: cm X e hole e The S prmeial cntrance | - Allwing for the possisie peeds of expanston, | Dody; Mamie Dedick, face lacerated and | University of California will | unsightly structures of brick and wooa | e ®iil:be from, tre.center of the south facade. | .the architect has wisely provided for such con- | body bruised; T. Brown, back injured, assemble to-morfow afternoon at 2:30|will give war eventually to noble piles WILL EXPRESS POWER. Thie admits udivect to a large interior hall |tingencies. The bulldinz may be extended tn- | serious; Frank Gayle, motorman, bruised | o ¥ g * otession 6O some- | Which is" to used as a museum of mining | definitely mnorthward withou estroying 5 % h . o'clock to see the formal inauguration of | of steel, granite and marble. The new |, The protéesion ofiiinine has about it some- | SICE 5 10 e o Symmetry. | With this view the laboratories are | N e e (e e work upon the stupendous scheme of the | mining building, significantly ~enough, [ mordial. It bas to dé with the very body and | Beyond this great central hall Is the labara- | constructed with stecl supports, which render g Iy cut and" il ahont Badls greater University, the final completion | marks the very center of the whole |Done’of the earth, and itd expression in archi- | tory, a large central court 113 feet in length of the interfor walls. | and severely cut an out body; of which it will be the province of a fu- ture generation to witness. With the set- ting into place of the cornerstone of the Hearst memorial mining building, the marvelous architectural vision of Ber- nard, the French architect, first takes unto itself semblance of reality. tions vary method which from month to month. The only has ever given satisfaction at the company’s workings, it is said, is payment for cut for ng coal by the lineal yard. The rat- of ‘ment be determined ogly in each particular case between the superintendent ana the miner. Som: influence, believed to be that of the union, has led the men to reduce the produc- tion, but notwithstanding this difficulty it re- mains true that the only way In which wages can be satisfactorily measured is by contract for the work donme, which necessarily varies | from mine to mine. | The company emphatically protests against the miners’ demand that there shall be an agreement with the United Mine Workers of America, and in this case the answer says: The _conditions of mining in the Lehigh and Schuylkill regions are quite different from those which exist in the Wyoming and Scran- ton districts. While this company has no ob- , therefo to its own employes organ izing among themselves, it has always ob- jected and does object cven to an organization which Includes other anthracite flelds, working under a different system of compensation, as a | result of which its men are ordered upon strikes | by reason of controversies in which they have no interest. | It would be still more inexcusable that any outside authority should assume to interfere | in the discharge of an employve. Every free | man has e right to work when and as he | chooses and the employer must possess and be able to exercise the right of discharge if he is to maintain discipline. ARBITRATORS TAEKE A REST. | Members of the Strike Commission Fittingly Observe the Sabbath. SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 16.—The mem- bers of the arbitration commission ob- served Sunday to-day and refrained from doing any work whatever. Most of them, as is their rule, attended services at ckurches in the forenoon, and this after- noon they took . either long walks or drives through the valley. To-night they heard Bishop Spalding lecture on the sub- ject of “Success” at the. Lyceum Thea- ter for the benefit of the House of the Good Shepherd. President Mitchell, the first witness of the miners, who was on the stand Friday and Baturday, will again be in the wit- ness box to-morrow. So far the attorney | of only one company, David Wilcox, gen- | eral counsel of the Delaware and Hudson, has cross-examined him, and Wayne MacVeagh, who is representing the Penn- sylnavnia Coal Company and the Hillside al and Iron Company, is still engaged in carrying on his examination. Next to Mitchell the most important witness for the miners will probably’ be Thomas D. b Miners’ Union, which takes in all of the mining territory Wilkesbarre. S sl et Central Government for Labor. DENVER, Nov. 16.—Should a movement instituted by the Colorado State Federa- tion of Labor be favorably recelved by lubor federations of other States a na- tional convention of delegates from these organizations will be called to meet in Denver to consider and act upon the plan of the Colorado federation, which has for its purpose the adoption of a system of government modeled after the National Government of this country. Secretary H. B. Waters of the Colorado State Fed- eration is now busy sending out letters embodying the proposed scheme to the various State federations. Each federa- tion is urged to appoint delegates to the proposed convention to be called in the future. —_— More Pay for Switchmen. DENVER, Nov. 16.—Under an agreement which has been reached between Manager sonstitutes @ distinct problem and the condi- | Herbert of the Rio Grande railroad sys- Nicolls, president of District No. 1 of the | around Scranton and | scheme of buildings, for it s to be erected at the intersection of the longitudinal and transverse axes of the grand plan of buildings. The stone wili be guided into place by the hand of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. In his execution of the plan of the new edifice Architect John Galen Howard SCIALIST VOTE SHOWS' GAING Third Party Casts Al- most Half-Million Ballots. PSR Special Dispatch to The Call. YORK, Nov. NEW 16.—Sociallsm has increased its mational vote from - 86,000 cast for Eugene V. Debs in 1800 to more than 400,000 cast this year. Officlal re- turns, when tabulated, may swell this to a half-million. Only once since 1860. has | a third party made so strong a showing. Conservative Massachusetts political students were astonished a few years ago when the Socialists cast their percent- mge of the vote of the State. A year ago the Scclalist vote in the Old Bay State was 10,761. - Returns from 291 cities .and towns show that the new party has polled 82,105, an increase of 300 per cent. Com- plete returns promise a total of 40,000 for Chase, Soclalist- candidate . for Governor. While Massachusetts seems to show the greatest increase in the Soclalist vote, the result in Western States possesses more political importance. Those who ‘have ig- ncred the growth and ‘possibilities - of political socialism will glance with sur- prise at the returns from Milwaukee, "foledo, Chicago, Evansville and other citles in that belt of States which often decides national electfons. - * In Milwaukee the vote. for Lieutenant Governor was as - follows; . Republican 26.118, Democratic 20,762 .and ‘Soclalist 31. The Soclalist vote in Chicago. ex- ceeded 12,000, an increase of 400 per cent. The same story domes from Indiana. The Socialists cast ‘nearly '1500 votes in Evansville, ‘against 300 1n*1900. ' Thelr vote in the State exceeds 20,000. Minneapolis cast' 2000 Stcialist votes and St. Paul about 1600. The party claims 15, 000 in Minnesota, Returns from Pennsylvania are not yet tabulated, but the indications are that it has become the banner State for Soclalist votes. From such returns as are now available it appears , that. the ineréased Soclalist vete is drawn from the Democrats in the cities and from “Republicans in thé coun- iry districts. While the most startling in- creases have been made in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, no section of thé coun- try'is exempt from an invasion by this new political force. Maine casts 3000 and Texas twice that. number of Soclalist votes, while California ‘more than dou- bled its vote of 1900. A corresponding rate of 'increase will give Soclalism more than 1,000,000 votes in 1904 oa 2 tem and the ‘Brotherhood, of Rallroad Trainmen, the members of that order who are employed as switchmén in the various yards of the company aréigranted An in- crease of pay, based on ‘the Chicago schedule, 'which - was ‘recently - adopted. The Increase amounts to 3 and 4 cehts'an houris .7 PR P : e tecture must have something of the rude, the Cyclopean. - - The emotion aroused must’ be a sense of power rather than of grace. Following this' dictum, the architéct has given to the new: bullding a decidedly brusque and distinctive style of architecture. The ex- terfor treatment, of a decidedly simple and dja- nified character, is based upon classic’ tradi- tion, ' but modified by the -introduction of a strong tone of the Spanish mission type. The FLAMES CONSUME PAGKING HOUSES Loss of the Armours in Sioux City Nearly a Million, SIOUX CITY, Towa, Nov. 16.—Armour & Co.’s packing plant, which occupied four acres of the stockyards and was valued at $200,000, was destroyed early this morning by a fire which started on the second floor of the fertilizer butld- ing and is thought by Manager Lennon | to have been due either to spontaneous combustion or to an imperfect dryer. The loss is partly covered by $721,000 in- surence. Five hundred men are thrown out of employment. Within an hour after the fire was dis- covered. by a watchman six streams of water were being thrown upon the flames in the fertilizer building, /but the pres- sure was inadequate. The floors and con- tents of the building burned like chaff. The ‘roof soon fell and the fire burst through Into the beef-killing house. At the same time the cattle chute ignited and in flve minutes fell with a crash. Once in the -beef-killing house the flames be- gan to dance madly. From this house to the oleomargarine building was’ only a step.and when the oils started to burn the fire presented a most spectacular ap- pearance. The big beefhouse, containing 500 car- cugses, next caught fire and the whole plant, except the hoghouse, was a lake of fire. The roar was terrible. The coun- try for miles around was lighted up. Suddenly there was a terrific detona- tion, followed quickly by, another, then another. ~ Twenty-four 'drums, of 100 pounds, of ammonia each, exploded before the reserve supply in the ammonia cistern was reached. That explosion almost razed the entire plant. The flames were blown through the firewall which separated the hoghouse from the other buildings. The hoghouse contained 3500 dressed hogs and 2,500,000, pounds of pork products. Steadily the fire crept against the wind and -through 'the: office building. Not a scrap-of paper was saved. When the last of the ammonia 'drums was-exploded a burning chute fell upon a bunch of .live hogs and their squeals were added to'the appalling chorus. After the fire got good headway, in the hog- house the shops, chicken-packing plant, fcehouses ‘and ice runways and smaller department /houses. were consumed in quick succession. e The terriblé roaring continued unabated, the high brick walls crumbled and crash- ed one by one and the conflagration grad- uvally ate its way through building after bullding. The -fire ‘department was:help- less, as its apparatus was inadequate. The ressure was: hardly strong enough to hrow water to the-roof of the porkhouse. ‘When the walls of this department burst the firemen played 'their streams on the buildings until daylight. P The fire_burned /all:day and this after- noon there was another terrific explosion, which threw, bricks and pieces of irén for hundreds of yards. No one was hurt. KANSAS ' CITY, "Mo., Nov. 16.—C." W. by 46 feet in width. Herein will be established all ‘of the latest appliances for crushing angd miliing ores and an electric traveling crane will' be: in pesition to transport weighty arti- cles. This laboratory is to be surrounded by galleries at the heights of the three stories. PROVIDES FOR EXPANSION. In the central portion-of the building is lo- cdted the dry crushing tower, three stories in J. E. Egan, conductor motor car, right leg broken. A mistake of the flagman at the cross- ing was responsible for the accident. The freight, which consisted of forty-two cars, with an engine at either end, broke in two as it neared Western avenue. The front part of the train passed the cross- ing and the flagman not noticing the re- maining portion of the train coming at full speed, half a block away, pulled up the gates and gave the signal that the crossing was clear. The eiectric train, which had been waiting for the train to pass, started to cross the tracks and was The programme for -to-morrow’s cere- monfes. will be extremely simpie. The ceremonies will consist of a procession of the academic senate, followed by the Mining students in costume of overalls and jumpers.. Brief addresses will be made by the president and Protessor S. B. Cristy of the mining department. € e e e e o S ) Armour of the Armour Packing Company stated to-day that the. plant at Sioux City,i destroyed by fire last night, would be rebuilt at once. The new plant will be track and allowing a train to run over his ‘body. “Puring the evening he entered the Methodist Church and bade the pas- | tor:good-by, telling him he,hoped no one much larger and finer than the one| would be permitted to speak ill of him. hit square in the middle by the last half of E.‘urned. ‘;rr;e .c!omxlzgny wlli(,eltn g:e T:!atr]l; —_— the freight train. Both of the street cars me, ‘remain in-the market, the - in t i = Durchised Tt0 be. salatellutad ipstween| Smallpox Case on a Schooner. were overturned in the ditch by the col lision. Several of the passengers noticed the danger In time to jump before the accident happened, but the greater por- tion were jammed in the doors of the cars unable to get out. When the two trains came together the passengers were thrown in every direction. The flagman and the men in charge of the street car have been placed under ar- rest. SAN DIEGO, Nov. 16.—The three-mast- ed schooner Una, Captain Haskins, is lald up at quarantine with a case of smallpox on board, the disease having developed when the schooner was three days out from San Francisco on her way to Panama. The victim is a sallor who came from Oregon only a day before the schooner left San Francisco. ,Omaha, Kansas City and Chicago. Kills Himself on a Railroad Track. 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