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

VOLUME XCIII—NO. 2. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GREAT FINANCIAL INTERESTS FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, DE’CEM]iER 2, 1902. ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. ARE RALLYING AT WASHINGTON TO ENDEAVOR TO DEFEAT ROOSEVELT'S PLAN OF PUBLICITY AS REMEDY FOR TRUSTS BALE DRNES STEAMER O ROCKY SHORE. DEWEY BOES 10 GOMMAND GREAT FLEET Terrific Seas Soon| Dash Vessel to | Pieces. Crew of Thirteen Men and Woman Cook Are Missing. Small Schooner Also Disap-| pears and Is Given Up for Lost. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Dec. 1—In | the terrible west gale on Lake Superior | Safurday night the steamer Charles He- baré was driven on the rocky shore at | Point Mamainse and was soon dashed to pleces by the seas. Her crew, consisting | of thirteen men, and a woman cook, have not been heard from and it is feared all have perished. The schooner Aloha, one | of the consorts which the Hebard had in | tow, broke away from the steamer Lake | Superior and has not been heard of since. ‘When last sighted she was laboring heav- 1ly in the trough of the sea. Little hope is entertained for her safety. The schoon- ers Warmington and Francomb, the other vessels of the tow, ran before the gale af- ter breaking away from the steamer and finally succeeded in reaching an anchor- age at Copper Mine Point. To-night the tuge General and Philadelphia were dis- patched from this port to bring the !wo“ schooners here and to search for some trace of the Aloha. The four boats had loaded lumber at West Superior and were bound for Lake | Brie points. When in the middle of Lake | Superior Saturday night they were struck | by the gale and soon after the Aloha, the rear vessel of the tow, parted her tow line and went adrift. When last seen she was rolling in the trough, with none of | her canvas set. The remaining two con- sorts either broke away or were set adrift soon afterward. Before daylight Sunday morring the Francomb reached Copper | Mine Point, at the east end of the lake. When the day dawned the wreck of the Hebard was seen on the shore, with only the smokestack and the pilothouse stick- | ing out of the water, but by 5:30 o’clock | everything had disappeared and the ship | ané cargo were being strewn along the | beach by the breakers. A shore at that point is very rugged and rocky it is feared that even if ihe crew had attempted to leave the stezmer wh e struck their boat must have been dashed to pieces. The first news the disaster was | brought here at to-day by the noon f | at Christmas time will be spent in battle | target practice at sea, all of which will Hero of Manila Bay Sails for Carib- | . bean Sea. | Admiral of the Navy Joyously Faces an Arduous Task. Combined Fleet for Maneu- vers Largest to Assemble in American Waters. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON. Dec. L—With his four-starred flag at the masthead of the Mayflower, Admiral George Dewey to-day sailed for the Caribbean Sea to command in the elaborate maneuvers of the great- est fleet of war vessels ever assembled n | American waters. | As the trim white yacht slipped down the Potomac the victor of Manila Bay chatted enthusiastically with members of i the ship'sstaff onthe quarterdeck, and dis- | played in the forthcoming arduous work | of battie exercises and fieet evolutions as | ltvely an interest as could have been ex- pected from a newly commissioned en- sign. In compliance with a previous request Rear Admiral Terry, commandant of the yard, gave orders that there should be no salute or ceremony when Admiral Dewey, ‘aftived in civillan's costume, arrived at the yard. As he went on board he was received by Lieutenant Commander Al- bert Cleaves, commanding the Mayflower: the members of Admiral Dewey's staff; Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the bureau of Navigation, who will act as chief of staff; Captain William Swift of the gen- eral board, Captain John E. Pillsbury and Commander Nathan Sargent, who had already arrived and were aboard the Mayflower. No stop-will be made by the Mayflower until she arrives about De- cember 7 at St. Thomas, D. W. L, within sight of the hills of Culebra, where the North and South Atlantic and European squadrons will assemble for the combined fleet maneuvers under Admiral Dewey’s command. The maneuvers will be so extensive and | so prolonged that the trip of Admiral Dewey is anything but a pleasurable junket. It will be well toward the latter part of January before he retlirns to ithe United States, and all but a short period exercises, fleet evolutions, inspections and steamer Ossifrage, which arrived from |be directly under the eye of the com- Michipocoten. Mrs. McArthur, wife of | mander in chief of the combined fieet. the captain of the Francomb, came down | In Rear Admiral Taylor Admiral Dewey on the Ossifrage. | has a chief of staff who ranks as one of The list of the members of the crew |the foremost theorists in the navy, and of the Hebard according to the last trip | the other ‘officers of the staft bear high sheet is as follows: George G. Ryan, cap- | reputations. Captain Pillsbury command. tain, Detroit; William Schumaker, first|ed tho attacking fleet In the search prob- engineer, Detroit; Joseph Roy, sécond en- | gineer, Detroit; T. F. Correll, first mate, Detroit; A. Jackson, second mate, De- troit; Charles Barton, wheelman, Mount Clemens; C. Eastman, wheelman; John Kortas, watchman, Detroit; Neil Fay, watchman; William Egan, fireman; | George Turpin, deckhand; Matthew Hud- eon, deckhand; Mrs. Barnes, cook, Buf- falo. | The crew of the Aloha on her last trip | was as follows: Peter Johnson, master, Tonswanda; Benjamin Berry, mate; Mrs. Olsen, cook; C. Anderson, seaman; Wil- lam Much, seaman; S. G. Miller, sea- man; R. Ag Bell, seaman. The steamer Hebard was owned by Holland & Graves of Buffalo. She was bullt in 1888 and registercd 763 tons. The Aloha was owned by the same firm. She registered 521 ton KING SOLOMON’S THRONE SAID TO HAVE BEEN FOUND Lord Curzon, It Is Reported, Will Sit | on It During the Coronation Durbar. CALCUTTA, Dec. 1.—An extraordinary rumor is circulating in/the bazaars in cemnection with the archeological re- searches of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India. peen searching for the throme of King Solemon. It is now rencrted that it has been found and it is stated Lord Curzon will #it on it during the coronation Dur- bar. It is expected that some astonish- ing supernatural event wili occur. TURES ARE COMMITTING EHORRIBLE ATROCITIES Macedonian Children Are Put to the Torture and Some Are Roasted Alive. LONDON, Dec. L—According to dis- patches received here the Bulgarian newspapers are publishing stories of hor- rible atrocities by the Turks in Mace- donfa. Children are reported to have been roasted alive and others tortured with redhot molds placed on their beads. Many peasants are said to have been starved to death. / | two weeks ago, It is believed he has i lem of the maneuvers off the New Eng- land coast last summer. Captain Swift was one of the board of arbitrators of the combined army and navy maneuvers on the eastern approach to New York City. Commander Sargent 1is Admiral Dewey’s aid. ; LARGE FORTUNE AWAITS THREE YOUNG CHILDREN Father Who Deserted Them Two Years Ago Dies, Leaving Them a Rich Mine. OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 1.—The three small children of William Hager, who deserted them two years ago in North Platte, are now being searched for to be placed in possession of a million dollar gold mine | at Cripple Creek, which their father dis- covered after their desertion. Hager died Jeaving the mine to his children. The children are 7, 5 and 3 years of age, and were taken in charge of by the Ne- breska Children’s Home Soclety and by them given to farmers In different parts of the State. They will be hunted up im- mediately and sent to Colorado, where they will have a guardian appointed. S et SIMULTANEOUS EVACUATION 0T SHANGHAT NOT POSSIBLE | French and Lacking in tue Necessary Trans- port Facilities. | PARIS, Dec. 1L.—The Foreign Office has | received advices showing that it is impos- | sible to carry out the plans for a simul- | taneous evacuation of Shanghal by the | troops of the powers. After arranging the terms of the evacuation the date for the embarkation of the forces was left | open and the officials here are now adyis- | ed that the British commander has order. | ed his detachment to evacuate Shanghat December 20. The French and German | forces are not prepared for such an early | move, as they are lacking in transports | and other facilitles, t it is sald the German forces Are|” French forces will be dmbarked as soon as transportation is available after De- camber . & ROBERT HEMINGRAY ORDERED i OFF THE INGLEESIDE TRACK| & < Tells S tory of, Dead Girl's Shame. President Wil- lvams Grives Order. OBERT HEMINGRAY, turf- man, will never again race his horses on the Ingleside track. He has been peremptorily or- dered to remove his horses from the inclosure and the gatekeepers have been mnotified that he must not be allowed to again enter the grounds. Hemingray has been ordered off in dis- grace because it was deemed he had tra- duced the nfime of a dead woman. ' The turfman admitted yesterday that he was not the husband of the girl known as Carlotta Hemingray, but whose real name is Charlotte Steffin and who.com- mitted suiclde at the Hotel Knickerbdcker on Saturday evening last. H Not onlf did he admit that the girl had beer living as his mistress, bat he also gald that, having heard of her. beauty while she was in Indianapolis, he traveled there to obtain possession of her and in- Guced her to accompany him to San Fran- cisco, where she was supposed to be his wife. IWhen Thomas H. Willlams, president of the New California Jockey Club, heard of Hemingray’s shameful confession last night, his Southern blood was aroused to a beiling point. He declared that no man who would traduce the name of a dead wwoman should ever race a horse on any track of which he was in charge or shou'd ever be allowed to enter the inclosure of such a track. Mr. Williams lost no time in making his declaration good and.acting upon his principles. TelepHones and messengers were busy at once and neither Heming- ray, his horses, nor any of his jockeys or trainers will be inside the inclosure when racing begins to-day and they will never be there again. & Horace Egbert, clerk of the scales, was notified that the disgraced turfman and all belonging to him must henceforth keep outside the gates of the Ingleside inclo- ure. L Hemingray's career as a turfman is closed so far as California is concerned, and Mr. Willlams' action will have its influence on every other track in the country. Robert Hemingray was ready yesterday to make a statement that would place the whole matter of his relationship with | the dead girl before the public. ILooking ill and in an extremely nerv- t =P i | ) | | | | i A\ REPUTED HUSBAND OF THE GIRL WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE SAT- URDAY NIGHT, WHO ADMITS THEY. WERE NOT MARRIED, AND HIS BROTHER AND SISTER-IN-LAW. o “I have made a statement that the little girl. was my wife, but she was not. I have done all in my power for the dead sirl's sake to avold saying this. When, Lowever, her mother goes back on her child, then I cannot hide the true facts ®nger and am called upon to admit what I would under other circumstances have kept a profound secret. So far was this my intention that I had prepared to write and inform my mother that Carlotta was my wife. “The girl's mother having spoken, the world knows that-Carlotta was not my wife and any’ further® restraint, in con: sequence, would be useless. - “I had heard of Carlotta’s extreme beauty when I was in Chicago from a friend, whose name I would on no ac- count divulge. - She was living with a girl friend in Indianapolis. This must have been about five weeks ago. I had never seen the girl and my friend -himself - tel- egraphed to her to come to Chicago. She replied that it was not convenient for her to take the journey and requested my friend, who had spoken of her to me, to visit her in Indianapolis and he was to take me with him. I went there and that evening I asked her if she would go to San Francisco with me. She thought that I was joking and I im- pressed her with my earnestness, where- upon she consented to leave Indianapolis with me. We left and went to Chicago, where we remained a couple of weeks £nd then came on to San Francisco, put- ting up at the Palace Hotel for two or three days, after which we went to the Knickerbocker apartment house on Pine street. 3 NEVER HAD QUARREL. “We never -had a’ quarrel and Carlotta was never despondent. On one occasion when I had had some slight argument with her about her gossiping she jumped from the bed and said she would shoot herself. ous condition,, Hemingray received his callers at the Palace Hotel. It was apparent from the beginning of an interview with him that there 'was to be no more reserve ‘and that any details which would bear upon the death of the girl, known as Carlotta would be re- hearsed fully. 2 Hemingray, throwing off ‘all reserve, said: 3 -4 Since the time that I enlisted in the cav- alry for service in the Spanish-American war 1 have carried a pistol in my valise. Well, on the occasion to which I allude I thought she was joking, but -as the re- volver was loaded I also jumped from my bed and took the weapon from her hand. I unloaded it and handing it to her said laughingly, ‘If you want to shoot — % ter in the lightest possible manner and also laughed when I took the cartridges out and said, ‘Do you think I would take my life for any man? I was only fool- ing.’ *I had been talking seriously to her about her gossiping and I pointed out to her that gossiping would grow on her. That was on Saturday. I had saild something about my brother’s wife and she repeat- ed the conversation to Mrs. Hemingray, which led to an argument and my taking her to task for gossiping and retailing what I had sald. ~ “I had come home from the races. Car- lotta had also been there, but on that occasion, Saturday, she did not accom- pany me. One rather strange thing she sald that day to Miss Cora Westphal, a companion of my brother's wife, was that she would not need the race track badge Bgain. ALWAYS GAVE HER MONEY. “After dinner my brother and I went out and purchased-a number of maga- zines. On going to the room on our re- turn and just as I turned the handle of the door I heard the report of the pistol. I naturally felt that something serious had happened and yet I could not think that Carlotta had committed suicide. There had been no reason for her to do so. Yet there was a fear in me. She was not a girl who suffered from remorse for anything that she had done or was doing. Shé had no fear so {ar as money was con- cerned, for she could have called on me for whatever money she needed. Since her mother has spoken I may say that her friends were many and if I men- tioned the men who cared for her it would create a surprise. There are four gentlemen in high station in this country, two of them prominent politicians, who were deeply infatuated with her. _ “Before leaving for San Francigco I told her that she was going a long way from home and that whenever she feit she did not care to remain with me she could always call upon me for money with which to return. Hence I can see nio reason for her act. T don’t belfeve she was in love with me, or cared much about ‘me. Her affection was'not. strong. She knew well that she was beautiful. _ “Some days ago she read a letter to me you can do 50 now." She'treated the mat- | ~Continued on Page 5. Column 5. Battle Wili Occur on the Bill to Compel an Accounting by the Interstate Combinations. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASH- INGTON, Dec. 1.—Representatives of the great finan- cial interests of this country are gathering early in Washington to oppose President Roosevelt's plan of publicity as a remedy for the trust evil. No less a financier than J. Pierpont Morgan and his associates have engaged a large suite of rooms at a leading hotel for the session, to watch and prevent publicity legislation in particular, and all other bills to regulate great combinations of capital in general. And no less a lawyer than Thomas B. Reed, ex-Speaker of the House, who is now in Washington, is said to be on the ground in the interest of great corporations which fear adverse legislation. The bill now pending in the Judiciary Committee looking to publicity, will, in an amended form, be the measure on which the contest will be waged. It will be brought forward at once. It is known as the Littlefield publicity .bill, which the Maine member failed to get out of the committee at the last session. Some changes will be made in this measure at the suggestion of prominent members of the administration, and it will then be pressed for consideration. On this account all eyes are now turned on the Judiciary Committee of the House, of which Rep- resentative Jenkins of Wisconsin® will be made chairman. The vote of the full committee referred this bill to a subcommittee. CALLS FOR SWORN RETURNS FROM ALL CORPORATIONS. The original Littlefield bill called for the returns of every corporation engaged in interstate commerce to be filed with the Secretary of the Treasury on or before the 1st of September of each year. An attempt will be made to amend this so that the figures of such corporations shall be submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission instead of the Secretary of the Treasury, giving this commission jurisdiction over interstate corporations. This, it is understood, is the most important change to be made. The measure requires all the facts relating to interstate corpora- tions to be placed before the Government authorities, and if coa- solidated, the names of constituent companies, where and when organized, are also to be submitted. Othier facts and figures to be filed relate to the amount of atithorized capital stock, shares into which it is divided, the par value, whether common or pre- ferred, the amount issued and outstanding, the amount paid in, whether in cash or property, the total indebtedness, mortgages, notes, debentures and other obligations and the time when pay=- able. A statement is also to be filed of the assets, at their pres- ent cash market value, and liabilities, total earnings and in- come, operating expenses, interest, taxes, maintenance, net earn~ ings and dividends declared, salaries of officials and wages of employes are also to be made known. Government officials, either of the Treasury Department or _ the Interstate Commerce Commission, whichever may be decided on by those interested in the publicity measure, are to prepare blank returns which the corporations are to fill out, disclosing their true financial condition. The treasurer or other officer of such corporation having knowledge shall answer on oath all in- quiries that may be made in writing relative to the financial con- dition, and the treasurer of such corporation shall make oath that the returns made are true. S Persons making false returns shall be deemed guilty of per- jury. The taxation feature in the bill, which provides for a levy on watered stock, will be retained, as this is thought to meet the requirements of the proposition made by Representative Hep- burn, in behalf of which he has already endeavored to enlist the leadership. The section provides “that all corporations engaged in interstate commerce whose outstanding capital stock is not fully paid in in cash, or other property at its cash market value, shall pay annually, on the first day of September of each year, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, a tax equal to 1 per centum of its capital stock issued and outstanding.” NEW MEMBER MAY HAVE THE BALANCE OF POWER. Strong efforts will be made in committee to eliminate the feature of the bill which provides that returns shall be made on oath, ‘and a sharp contest is expected on this. The Judiciary Committee which will pass-on this bill consists of these mem- bers: Jenkins of Wisconsin, Parker of New Jersey, Overstreet of Indiana, Alexander of New York, Warner of Illinois, Little- field of Maine, Kahn of California, Thomas of Iowa, Powers of Massachusetts, Nevin of Qhio, Republicans, and De Armond of Missouri, Lanham of Texas, Elliott of South Carolina, Smith of Kentucky, Fleming of Georgia, Clayton of Alabama, Democrats. The six Democrats of the committee, which, until a new member is appointed, consists of sixteen, will vote for the pub- licity bill. Littlefield is a Republican who is already committed to vote for such a measure and Kahn of California is under= stqod also to be in favor of it. The attitude of the qther Re- publicans is at present unknown, and great importance is at- tached to the new member to be appointed by Speaker Hender- son. It is possible that he may hold the balance of power. Former Speaker Reed was the central figure of the group at the Capitol to-day. “What are you going to do this session?” asked Reed of one of the House leaders. The reply was that nothing would be done beyond ‘passing appropriation bills. “What,” drawled the former Speaker, with well simulated surprise, “are you going to miss your golden opportunity te amend the constitution?” “What do you mean?”’ the House leader asked. “Well, an indefinable something is to be done in a way no=~ body knows how and at a time nobody knows when. That, as "I understard, is the programme against the trusts. The oppor- tunity is so” broad I should think you could not miss it.” P S