The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1902, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1902 FLAMES AND FALLING TIMBERS IMPERIL LIVES: OF PRINGE GAZES AT THE STARS Son of Siam’s King Visits the Lick Obser- vatory.' Young Royal Dignitary Rices. Amid Santa Clara Blossoms. LSRN Special Dispatch to The Call. EAN JOSE, Nov. 20.—Crown Prince Majavajira of Siam and his party arrived sere at about € o'clock this morning by pecial train, and to-day and to-morrow 1 be spent in seeing the sights in this vicinity. This evening the Prince gazed st the heavens through the great Lick telescope. The Wonte B¢ came here direct from Del The presence of a royal person- in San Jose is a novelty, and early morning a number of the curious gathered at the depot to catch a glimpse he Prince. It was 10 o'clock before the Prince made his appearance. Saddle vorses had been ordered for the party to ke a ride. These had been waifing quite s while when the Crown Prince, followed P! by other members of his party, left the train and tiptoed across Bassett street, -« h was rather, muddy. Some of the party rode in carriages. His Royal Highness appeared in a light tweed suit and a pair of leggings, and on #is head was a wide sombrero. He is short and sturdily buik, and instead of earing as a man of 22 years, which he 18, he looks more like a boy of 17. He rode orse with an American saddle and ap- at éase. He chat- with the secret service men m and with members of his party. The er Siamese of the party were dressed in the latest English riding costumes and rode on English saddles. The Crown Prince and his party rode through the business part of the city, the e portion and then out into the ds of the suburbs. They returned their train for luncheon. This afterncon the entire, party in three coaches went to Mount Hamilton to see the great Lick telescope. The observa- tory was reached about § o'clock, and a stay of two hours was made there. A re- turn was made to Smiths Creek, where the night was spent at the hotel. The party will return to San Jose early in the morning, and at 11 o'clock will go to the Senta Cr big trees, and from there to San Francisco. to DECISION OF A COURT AFFECTS “DESERT” LANDS Judge Noyes of Riverside Renders Important Jud; tin a Southern Case. RIVERSIDE, Nov. 20.—Judge Noyes hended down an important decision to- a in the case of Robinson vs. Eberhardt that directly or indirectly affects every acre of so-called desert land in the county The suit was brought to quiet title to 640 acres of land, which the defendant ciaimed through a filing under the desert land act. The plaintiff attempted to “jump” the claims, alleging that the lands are sultable for cultivation and not distinctly desert land. Judgment is for the defendant, the court holding that the land in question is not capable of culti- vetion when it was to be reclaimed .be- fore it is arable. The land in dispute has been sold for $32,000, the title being de- pendent on Judge Noyes' decision. —_———— Special Notice. Owing to the destruction of the Ala- meda mole and buildings, connections on Narrow Gauge from San Francisco to points south of Ban Jose, as Boulder Creek, Santa Crug, etc., will be made at Eanta Clara by Broad Gauge trains leav- ing Third and Townsepd-street depot as follows: $ a. 1. with Narrow Gauge No, 102 at 10:45 a. m. 2 p. m. with Narrow Gauge No. 104 at 4:08 p. m.; daily except Sunday. . 4:30 p. m. with Narrow Gauge No. 106 at 12 p. m. We will run Narrow Gauge boats to Oakland pler at 4:45 p. m., 5:15 p. m. and §:45 p. m., and run special trains to con- nect, one goifg to Oak street, Oakland, @nd the other to Park street, Alameda. Insane Chinese Kills Himself. TACOMA, Nov. 20.—Jung Clong Kung, @ Chinese held as a witness, hanged him- self in his cell in the County Jail last night by twisting his queue around his neck and fastening it to the iron grating. ¥Ee was put aboard the steamer Victoria &t Seattle last night for deportation, but later it was found he was wanted as a witness, and the United States Marshal’s office at Tacoma was notified. He was taken from the steamer about midnight end placed in jail. One of the Chinese with him insisted he was crazy. —_————— Norwegian Killed on a Ship. SAN PEDRO, Nov. 20.—Fritz Hultberg, aged 34 years, a Norwegian sailor em- ployed on the schooner Mildred, died last night from injuries received in the after- noon. The Mildred was towed to sea at neon yesterday bound for Ballard, Wash., and while Hultberg was hoisting sail he fell from the “house” to the deck, a dis- tance of fifteen feet, lan@ling on the back of his neck. The schooner is delayed awaiting the Coroner’s inquest. e —— DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS. VERY ANNOYING This Hardly Expresses What Francisco People Say of It. Any itchiness of the skin is annoying. Little danger in itching skin diseases, But they make you miserable. Doan’s Ofntment is a never failing cure For piles, eczema, all itching troubles. n Francisco citizens indorse it. Thomas Christal, inspector, of 426 Twen- y-seventh street, savs: “I know of & case of eczema or skin disease where Doan’s Ointment undoubtedly cured. It broke out on the back of the ears and on the scalp and it resisted the treat- ment of several doctors who tried un- successfully for a year and a half to stop it. In addition to physicians’ treatment everything said to be 200d for such ail- ments was used—in fact, all the knowl- odge of every one aware of the eczema was exhausted. Doan’s Ointment acted just as represented. In a comparatively sort time the area of the sores com- menced to contract completely dried up. For sale by all gealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. about | 'MEN C HE Séuthern Pacific €om- pany’'s loss by the fire yes- | terday morning at the west- erly end of the Alameda mole is placed by Jullus Kruttschnitt at $280,000. Thirty- two marrow gamge and sixteen broad gauge were | { burned, their value being half of the total loss. The Southern Pacific earries mo insurance. No Jives were lost. Work has al- ready begun on a make-shift at Alameda Point to accommodate the freight and passcnger traffic until the partially burned freight slip of Alameda mole can Ve rebuilt and made to do dou- ble service temporarily. ~ o 1 { | A UGHT IN FIRETRAP AT ALATMEDA < THRE- STEAMER i cAPTAITL N JOH 3 >~ ) CHARLES smmort wWHO MIRACULOVS! ESCAPETD FEOta THE BusnMIN& 4 TMOLE AR = i ITH a swiftness and in- tensity that defled all human effort, the fire which broke out at 1:15 o’clock yesterday morning at the Alameda narrow gatge depot of the Southern Pacific Com- pany swept out of existence five acres of buildings, plers and wharves and de- stroyed practically every vestige of the big raflroad properties at the western end of the Alameda mole.”With a wind blow- ing at gale pitch, nothing could with- stand the furious flames, which in an in- credibly short period wiped out nearly $300,000 worth of property, including half of the passepger rolling stock of the nar- row gauge local system. In the big depot sheds were standing forty-two passenger coaches, broad and narrow gauge. These were licked up like tinder. AN of the massive timber work of the new freight slip recently completed to the north of the depot was destroyed. A charred mass of embers, smoldering piles and uprights, twisted iron and rails in fantastic confusion mark the scene of blackened ruins. A few tons of rails, warped and heat-riven; a few battered car trucks, the upperworks of which burned and dropped into the bay, and a few clusters of stumps of piles are all that remain. - Wonder it was that human lives were not sacrificed as well in the rapid rush of smoke and flame that en- veloped the structures. FERRY-BOAT BARELY ESCAPES. That the ferry-boat Oakland was saved was due to/the quick action of Captain John Leale, her master, in getting the big beat out of the danger line. The steamer had been taKing on ‘ofl for fuel, and all hands except Andrew Anderson, a deck- hand, who was swabbing down and put- ting things to rights, had retired for the night. Anderson saw the sudden flash of and by and by they |fire in the depot and gave the alarm. Captain Leale hurried to the pilot-house in his pajamas éafter getting the en- gineer's department at work. There was Remember the name, Doan's, and take | 5team enough in the bollers to move the Lo substitute. \ boat, but so fast did the fire spread that — Forty-Eight Passenger Coaches Are Destroyed and the Charred "Tops of Piles Alone Mark the Site of Depot and Wharves and Ferry Slip---Origin of the Fire Is a Mystery to Railroad Men SCENES AROUND THE CHARRED RUINS OF THE BURNED ALAMEDA MOLE, THE DEPOT BUILDING AS IT LOOKED BEFORE THE FIRE, THE FERRY-BOAT THAT NARROWLY ESCAPED DESTRUCTION, HER CAP- TAIN AND TWO MEN WHO HAD THRILLING ADVENTURES. the upper scorched. The railroad people are at a loss to find a cause for the destructive conflagration. Several theories are afloat. It seems pretty well settled that the fire started near the northeast corner of the depot, or clase to the new freight slip. Watch- man Stroemer thinks a Jamp in a small house-at the land approach to the freight slip exploded. Other railroad men believe that sparks from a locomotive settled in a dry nook in the timbering, being fanned into flames by the high wind. Still others attribute it to a cigar or cigarette stump thrown carelessly into a corner and set- ting fire to rubbish. Yardmaster Wasgott, who was with narrow-gauge engine No. 11, says the fire started about 1:15 o'clock in the north wing of the passenger slip, beyond the depot. In a few moments the wind had swept the flames into the depot and by 2 o'clock the whole structure was a mass of flames. The=last locomotive that switched out over the tracks that ex- tend over the plank wharf on the north wing of the passenger slip passed the point where the fire started at 11:58, and it is scarcely credible that a spark from its smokestack would have caused a fire that was not discovered till an hour and fifteen minutes later. The railroad officials admit that they are at a loss to account for the fire's origin, but they scout the idea of incen- diarism. There was a great deal of oil-soaked woodwork about the buildings and slips. The new freight slip was built of creo- soted material. MANY COACHES DESTROYED. There were thirty-two narrow-gauge cars and sixteen broad-gauge coaches in the depot shed. Among them were two parlor cars and the better part of the narrow-gauge rolling stock for passenger service. It was hard work yesterday morning for Trainmaster A. H. Walker to make up a train for the regular trip to Santa Cruz. He had to substitute box-{ cars for use as baggage carriers. The fite wipes out not only the oid structures, but a large amount of new work is destroyed. Besides the new freight slip, constructed at a cost of §75,000, the company had completed a large works were considerably — amount of improvement to the main depot on the south side and had installed many new tracks to provide standing room for the cars that were burned. Among the minor losses were those of C. W. Haywood, owner of \the narrow- gauge depot news stand, whose place was wiped out at a loss of $1800, insured, and the Denison News Company, which lost its’ train supplies stored at the pier. TRAFFIC IS CONGESTED. The destruction of the terminal stops tke lccal narrow gauge traffic and throws ail of the burden of the commuter pas- senger travel belonging to the narrow gauge from Alameda upon the broad gauge system to the Oakland mole. This means more than 10,000 additional persons to accommodate daily. The company has been sorely pressed in handling the or- dirary daily commuter travel of late. As a result there was a congestion last night at the broad gauge pler that caused great delay in the operation of trains. The Alameda broad gauge trains were doubled in the number of cars and the ‘work thrown on that branch means heavy burdens until the system can be relieved. The Southern Pacific Company carries its own insurance. The corporation will therefore meet its loss on account of the fire. The big depot was erected in 1883 by James G. Fair as the western terminus of the Bouth Pacific Coast Raflroad. Tt cost originally $50,000. Since the property passed into the hands of the Southern Pacific Company the purchasers expend- ed more than $100,000 in improvements, aside from the new freight siips. The company, during the last five years, has built a stone breakwater on the south side of the mole and has filled in the old trestle from Alameda Point to the pier, making solid ground for its tracks the en- tire distance to the Government bulk- head line. This morning’s fire was stop- red on the east by the earth fill. Every- thing west of that line was swept away. The burned depot was a wooden shell- like structure, 500 by 800 feet in dimen- sions. Its dryness, age and drafty in- terior rendeved it an easy prey tq the ROCKLAND, Me., Nov. 20.—An American schooner, which will be registered in the Phil- ippines, was sold here to-day. She is a three- ‘master and Is ready for launch’ % REPAIRING THE- BLISTERED LIPE®BOATS .ON THE TERRYBOAT THE BUCKET BRIGADE PASTOR MAKES - SOME GHARGE Episccpal Clergyman in San Jose Issues a Circular. : T WORK. i Thrilling Escapes From Fire’s. Wrath g EXT to falling naked, menaced by timbers and hemmed in by roaring flames and blinding smoke, the crew of the ferryboat Oakland had as thrilling an escape from death vesterday morning during the disastrous fire at /Alameda mole as anything ever pictured in the palpitating pages of un- fettered fiction. / Shortly before 1 a. m. thie Oakland had been made fast in the slip and discharged her few belated passengers, who were speedily followed ashore by the cooks and waiters of the commissary crew. These latter entered a crude bunkhouse on the pler and were soon sound asleep. ‘Mean- while Captain Leale and his mates sought shelter in the cabin from the biting bigst of the norther that lashed the waves into an angry foam. ' The shivering deckhands were still busy making things snug and shipshape for the night when a slight crash was heard, followed by a flare of light on the north- ern arm of the passenger pier.. -Then with bewlldering swiftness a great yellow "quivering tongue of flame leaped high into the blackness of the night danced merrily and shoreward, wrapping ahout rafter, rail and planking as it went. In an incredibly short space of time the whole end of the pier was blaz- ing like some giant torch, lighting up land and sea for a mile around with the brilliance of day. . That first burst of flame caught the eye of Night Watchman J. Rushing to the bunkhouse he awakened the sleepers there and then fought his way through the suffocating smoke and Tying fragments of burning wood to the slip where the Oakland was moored. He Just -managed to stagger on board when he fell exhausted to the deck with hair and clothes and face blackened and ‘scorched by the flames. THE OAKLAND ESCAPES, * Stroemer’s warning, however, was un- necessary. Captain Leale and his men were already working like beavers to cast off moorings and back out to safety in the bay. Fortunately steam was still up in the boilers’'and the big vessel present- ly glided out of that caldron of death and headed for the other side, but not be- fore the hot lips of the baffled flames had scarred and blackened pilot house, deck and lifeboats. The suddenly awakened cooks, walters and stewards in the bunkhouse did not escape so easily. The first Intimation they had of their danger was when Stroemer burst open the single door of thelr quarters and let in the light and roar of the blazing pier. Harry Anthony, one of the waliters, was the only one who had ,presence of mind to catch up a few articles of clothing Continued on Page 5, Column 3 Fugitives Tell of Their| W. Stroemer. | + { Kruttschnitt Talks of Losses” and of the ‘Plans for the Future e ULIUS KRUTTSCHNITT, ant to the pr ern Pacific Company, ces the loss at approximately $250,600. He 3 said yesterday afternoon in_a short interview at the close of an’‘arduous day's work Wwithout even a pause for Tunchéoit: | assist- South- There were thirty-two narrow gauge and six- teen broad gauge passenger coaches burned. We | haven't the number of all of these yet, but L | have estimated their value at $140,060. T | value of the:depst, ferry: slips, wharfs, | offices, etc., destroyed, fizuring on | of what it "will | at abou | .Our engineers were at work by 9 o’clock this | morning on plans for temporary structures and | makeshifts to take cara of the freight and pas | senger traffic. Of nccessity tiiere will be con- | | slderable detay, for driving piles is slow work, | But just as scon as arrangements have been | made to take care of th raffic | row gauge mole again work will | the permanent structur to replace | the property destroyed. - will be as'little | delay and “inconvenience to the public as is | ossible. The narrow gauge coaches will be rfl):lam road gauge cars, and when the trains on the old chedules . the will be broad gauge. Fortunately we ad orders in for new rolling stock in meda. locals from nar- otherwise we would at the nar- Alameda by grave hes cannot be b atter broad ga Our orders wiil ‘Those coaches and some take | visions where they can con cannot be be our salvation rom various di- pared will form a | sutficient equipment to e the place of the burned roiling st The ne ill be much better adapted to its pu s than the old ome. There was much more room than the traffic required, the arrangement was not what it should been for the convenience of the hea kL Y D travel. Though there will be temporary dis- | comfort. people who travel via the Alameda | mole will in the end gain new comforts as a result of the conflagration. ENGINEER AT WORK ON PLANS B.°A. Worthington, superintendent of the coast division, -in which is inciuded | the narrow gauge line, was aroused socn |after the fire was discovered. He got |down to the freight siips by an owl car | and took the first freight boat across the bay. He remained at the scene of the conflagration throughout the day, return- ing to his office at Third and Townsend | streets late in the afternoon, when there was nothing more to be done on the Ala- meda side. ‘He at once went into confer- ence with Resident Engineer Farley of the coast division, who will'have imme- diate charge of putting in makeshifts to accommodate the traffic ‘and also the re- building of the slips and depot. Engineer Farley went across to Ala- meda Point last night, and with the con- struction crews called in from various points on the line hégan the reinforce- ment of the slips of the old landing there, as it is planned that resumption of trafiic on the Alameda lines shall be by“way of that superannuated slip. e Farley promises that he will have the Alameda Point slip ready for freight traf- fic by to-morrow night or Sunday mori- ing. A day or two more, at most, will suffice to prepare the wharf there for the safe handling of passengers. Meanwhile -work will proceed on the freight slip at the end of the long Ala- meda mole. The north wing of the freight slip was saved by the dashing waves, whipped into fury by the high wind. Engineer Farley says that within thirty days this slip can be made ready for temporary accommodation of. passen- ger traffic. Temporary sheds will be built to shelter the passengers and coaches. Freight will continue to be sent via the Alameda Point slip. While this work is under way the rebuilding of the main de- pot will proceed with as great rapidity as possible. NEW TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS Superintendent Worthington announees the following arrangements for taking e of the narrow gauge passenger traf- 134 Until Saturdhy night or Sunday morni; will start main lin e Torktemtih it ¢ Narrow gauge trains from t depot, Oakiand. piei OUtgoINg passengers from the Al'anfed‘:mgm‘;g e rushed on | but | Vestrymen Alleged to Have Opposed the Rev. Mr. Mockridge. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Nov. 0.—The dissension which has existed in| Trinity Episcopal Church, the most fashionable congrega- tion in San Jose, for the past year is rap- idly reaching a stage when one or the other faction must retie. Around the Rev. Charies H. Mockridge, the rector, al| this internal strife of the communicants arose. Now it has been added to by a letter issued by the Rev. Dr. Mockridge. For nearly a year the vestryme have been trying to oust Mr. Mogkridge. Trin- ity Church has 600 members, and 49 of these have taken sides with the pastor and have passed resolutions indorsing him. The rector was called here tearly two years ago from Watertown, N. Y. From ithe beginning he and Choirmaster Clar- ence Urmy did not get along. Last June the vestry asked for his resignation. This the Rev. Mr. Mockridge declined'to give. He has now issued a circular, dated ) vember 17, in which he charges Balon, senior warden, with sayi unkind and damaging things. The pastor says Bacon admitted saying he (Mockridge) had thrown a book at seme boy or person somewhere in the chureh; that the rector had quarreled with the late Bishop Sullivar of Canada amd that he had been short 3600, or sev- eral hundred dollars, in account with a Canadian missionary society. Mr. Mockridge says Bacon refuses to give authority for the statements and de- clares them false. Mr. Mockridge asserts that Bacon and other vestrymen have tried to force him to resign by withhold- ing his salary since June 1 last, during which time they have paid him no salary, and he has received nothing but $14 do- nated to him by parishioners. Overdue German Bark Arrives. VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 20.—The over- due German bark - Edith, eighty-eight @ from Hongkong, China, is coming up the straits, bound in. the Coast aad Town: 24, leaving Third at 9 o'clock, at Santa Clara. ment persons on this side of the bay who desire to reach marrow gauge points below Santa Clara can take No. 24 from Third and Townsend streets and trans- fer to the narrow gauge train No. 102 at Santa Clara. On the Oakland side people desiring to reach broad' gauge points below Santa Clara can take the narrow sauge traln, starting from and be sure of conmecting a Clara. y narrow gauge train. No. auge train No. eav- Line train No. nd_streets, 104 will meet broad ing Third and Townsend streets at 2 p. m., at Santa Clara; and narrow gauge train No. 108 will meet broad gauge train No. 42 at the same place. No. 104 is the former 2:15 p. m. and No. the 4:15 narrow gauge . train. They will both start for the present from Fourteenth street, Oakland, | Superintendent Worthington says the | plan of the new depot will resemble in a general way that of the depot at the Oak- {land mole. There will be upstairs wait- ng-rooms for women and thelr escorts, and *he offices will also be on the second floor. ——————————————— ADVERTISEMENTS. AN EASY WAY To Keep Well. Tt is easy to keep well if we would only observe each day a few simple rules of health. The all important thing is to keep the stomach right and to do this it is not Decessary to diet or to follow a set rule or bill of fare. Stch pampering simply makes a capricious appetite and a feeling that certain. favorite articles of food must be avoided. Professor Wiechold gives pretty good advice on this subject. He says: “T am 68 years old and have never had a serious illness, and at the same time my life has been largely an indoor onme, but I early discovered that the way to keep healthy was to keep a healthy stomach, not by eating bran crackers or dieting of any sort; on the contrary, I always eat what my appetite craves, but daily for the past eight years' I have made jt a practice to take one or two of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after each meal and I attribute my robust’ health for a man of my age to the regular daily use of Stuart’s Tab- lets “My physician first advised me to use them because he said they were perfect- ly harmless and were not a secret patent medicine, but contained only the naturai digestives, peptones and diastase, and aftér using them a few weeks I have never ceased to thank him for his advice. “I h believe the habit of taking Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets after meals is the real health habit, because their use brings health to the sick and ailing and Preserves health to the well and strong.” Men arnd women past 3 years of age need a safe digestive after meals to in- sure a perfect digestion and to ward off disease and the safest, best known and most widely used is Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. They are found in every well regulated household from Maime to California and in Great Britain and Australia are rapidly pushing their way into popular favor. All drugsgists sell* Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. full sized packages, at 30 cents, and for a weak stomach a 50 cent package will often do $0 worth of good. Dr.Talcott §Co. SPECIALISTS—MEN ONLY. Our Motto and Guaran- tee: No Money Accepted Till Cure Is Effected. Colored chart of the male anatomy sent sealed to men only. Home cure. Consultation free. Fauge train at First and Webste - land Returning Tarfow giuge passcnsers e sfer to_the t First_and Webster streata. “a o line at Commencing to-morrow I will send trains out so that the narrow gauge trains will meot those running down the broad gauge Coast Line at Santa Clara. . Train No. 102, which has been leaving this side at 5:15 a. m., will leave Fourteenth street at 9 o clock, and will meet “Dr. Alden’s Electric Belt.” Warrauted genaine. Not 8 toy. No humbug. 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