The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCIII-NO. 8. HE first piece of the Trans-Pacific ‘rable, which is to connect the Hawasian Islands with San Francisco, was laid yesterday at the ocean beach. The wire-was stretched from a hut at a point on Forty-seventh avenue to the ocean beach at tidewater. The cable was encased in an iron pipe and forms the first link of the 2413 nautical miles of wire which the steamer Silvertouwn will begin to lay SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1902. FIRST LINK OF TRANS-PACIFIC CABLE IS LAID A1 1HE OCEAN BEACH PRICE FIVE CENTS. in the Pacific Ocean next Friday. An official of the Pacific Commercial.Cable Company declares that the entire cable will be laid in time for San Francisco and Honolulu to exchange Christmas greetings. Thearrival of Clarence Mackqy, president of the company, was another important incident of the laying of the cable, he having come to expedite the work. Mackay stated that the proposed cable from Honolulu to Shanghai, by way of Manila and Guam, for which the United States Government has contributed soundings, ‘II}IF be completed and in active operation by July 30, 1903. PREPARATORY TO CONNECTING HAWAII AND 1HE UNITED STATES P REED'S LIFE ENDS WITH CARTOONI ST NAST DIES IN ECUADOR Succumbs to Yellow Fever After Brief lllness at His Post as Cpnsul General at Guayaquil THE TOAST Dramatic Incident at Gridiron Club Banquet. I News of Death the Fi- nale to Tribute to || Ex-Speaker. | . i | APFAL [e—— ! \ A Sad Message Comes While His Favorite SonglIs || Being Rendered. ' Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—There was a dramatic incident in the death of Thomas | B. Reed. The Gridiron Club of Washing- | ton was giving its first dinmer for the | | season. Reed was to have been a guest, | | where he had so often been the center | wit and Intellectual cross-fire. The | | banquet-room was filled with old friends | | of the ex-Speaker. Members of the Cab- inet, Senators and Representatives were | | there. i The president of the club brought the | | fun to an end with a fitting allusion to | the regret they all felt over the lbsencc" of Tom Reed, one of the oldest members | of the club. Major Carson, who WAd [ known him for thirty years, proposed a | toast to the great Speaker. The company | arose and lifted their glasses to drink | the toast in tearful silence, and then | “Uncle Joe” Cannon, lifting his glass | high, spoke the feelings of all: | “I have been in the House of Represen- tatives thirty years,” sald Mr. Cannon In | solemn tone, “'and in all that time I never knew a greater intellect crossed with of greater courage than that of Tom Reed.” —— - The toast was drunk in silence, old | : = friends, stald Senators and Representa- | ,';‘;slqé:;:“;::‘;nz“’“:; tives mingling their tears with wine. The | R e song that Reed loved so well and had thres ey e o listened to a score of times at the close tovir, e R O of Gridiron dinners, “The Song That| , - Reached My Heart,” was sung, and as o'clock this afternoon. The funeral @ “Home, Sweet Home.” echoed | ®23 attended by - the Governor, the throug great banquet hall a mes- | CODsular corps, the American colony senger appeared with the announcement | 274 Dy many friends. The coffin was Shak Bend was Senll. | wrapped in the Stars and Stripes. The He had died at the moment “Uncle | British Consul recited a prayer in the tered that feeling tribute | cemetery. to him as combining the greatest intellect | The death of Mr. Nast is deeply.lament- and the greatest courage that ever pre- | € by the natives, who held him in high sided over the House of Representatives. | esteem. ———— ‘ INTERMENT ON TUESDAY. Thomas Nast was by long odds the | most famous cartoonist of his time and Body of the Great Speaker Is Sent to | from his pencil came some of the most His Maine Home. | eTective political arguments ever ad- WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—The body of | vanced in American politics. Perhaps his Hon. Thomss Brackett Reed, formerly | most noteworthy conception was that of Epeaker of the House of Representatives, | the Tammany tiger. who Gled last night, left here this after- | Mr. Nast was born in Landau, Bavaria, noon for Portland, Maine, his former |In 1840, and came to this country in 1846. home, where the interment will take place | After a short preparation in drawing and on Tuesday afternoon. It was placed | painting he went to work at the age of aboard a special train leaving Washing- | 15 for Frank Leslie in an office in Frank- ton at 4:50 o'clock and running as the sec- | fort street, near the Sun bullding, then cnd section of the Fe: 1 express. Ac- | Tammany Hall. He left Leslle four companying the body were Mrs. Reed, the | years later to work for the Illustrated widow; Miss Catherine Reed, the former News, which sent him up to Canada to Speaker's daughter; Hor Amos L. Allen, | get pictures of the Morrissey-Heenan Mr. Reed’s successor in the House of prize fight. He afterward went to Eng- Representatives; Asher Hin Mr. |land for prize fight pictures, but went Reed’s parliamentary clerk while Speaker, | s0on to Italy to follow Garibaldl. and Augustus G. Payne of New York, a | Nast landed again In New York, it is lifelong friend. At Mrs. Reed's request | #ald, with just $211 in his pocket and there were no ceremonies of any kind went to work for Harper's Weekly. He bere, and at Portland they will be of a | was soon sent to the Clvil War battle- simple character. fields and camps. After the war he During the entire day there was a |found in Andrew Johnson an object for stream of sympathetic callers at the Ar- | [ lington Hotel, where the body of Mr, lay swalting Saimuusl &9 fhe rafiroad | body bearers. Then, without ceremony | or display of any kind, it was removed to station. They included President and | the raiiroad;station. On the casket rested Mrs. Roosevelt and members of the Cab- fait, Ghe Semste and Sienss Saf the 4- | ror, gorer ?rm;-. one trora the widow, | and the otfler, inclosed ia a long paste- Jomatic corps. Many persons in private board box, from Mrs. Roosevelt. life aiso called. Neither Mrs. Reed nor he: daughter raw any of the visitors, who | . Reedis offering was a large wreath of violets, American Beauty roses and or- simply left their cards. | | chide, sprinkled with llles of the valley, G. COURTESY OF PRESIDENT. It was not generally known that the | while in the box which came from the body of the deceased would be taken from | White House were an assortment. of the city to-day and President Roosevelt | white and pink roses, with maldenhair bad invited Mrs. Reed and her daughter | ferns loosely thrown together, for use on 1o be his guests at the White House pend. | the casket when the Interment 1s made. irg its removal, which invitation, under | PLANS FOR THE 1UNERAL. the l;-'rl’:cum"‘neu- they were compelled 0 | g,on atter the body left the hotel Mrs, ecline. The body was inclosed in a ccsket with izexi: ‘::; h;rr.d:i\::‘d‘:.";vhnor‘-::o,ur::‘anfo; heavy oxydized extension handies and on | i1, 1ody fo Portland, were driven to the the top was & solid silver plate on which | \,001a1 trashi in walting, A those ‘at following simple | 50 et g . had been engraved the & simple | the stationtwhen the train departed wers inscription: Benator and Mrs. Lodge, Justice McKen- na, General Draper of Massachusetts | and Representatives Hitt and Littlefield, | The special train carrying the funeral | party was*made up of the compésite car . Brutus, the sleeper Harvard and g day coach. Mr, Littlefield expects to go to Portland | to attend the funeral and Representative Burleigh, who is there al; ly, 18 expect- ed ‘to be present. Tke nmtmnu for THOMAS BRACKETT REED. OCTOBER 18, 1529, DECEMBER 7, 1902 The casket remained at the hotel unge about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when it was brought downstairs and lifted iInto | the obsequies at Portland have been left the Learse, the undertaker's assistants |in the hands of Hon. Joseph W, Bymonds and the employes of the hotel acting as | an' John CBmall, an old neighbor of Mr, it ool el el el e @ | - | 1l | FAMOUS. ARTIST WHO HAS FALLEN VICTIM TO YELLOW FEVER. _—_ his caricatures. Then he *“salled Into” the Tweed ring. According to Mr. Nast's statement, he never had any. trouble thinking of sub- Jects. On the other hand, one of his best known cartoons was of himself, as ‘“‘our artist trying to think of something fun- ny.” It represented him seated at a ta- ble In perspiring despair. Besldes his work with a pencil he paint- ed in oil and water colors. One of his pictures in ofl was done for Sir Henry Irving. At one time Mr. Nast was fairly weli- to-do, bus he lost much df his savings In the Grant & Ward fallure. After that he went around the country lecturing and making rapid sketches for his audiences. In May he accepted the post of Consul General at Guayaquil, Ecuador. Mr. Nast's home was in Morristown, N. J. Mrs. Nast, who is an invalld, lives there with her son, Cyril. Another son, Thomas Nast Jr., is now on the road sketching on the stage, as his father once did. Mr. Nast leaves two daughters, one of whem {s Mrs. Fitzjohn Porter Jr. of Mont Clalr. Reed. As far as arranged here, the fu- neral will take place some time on Tues- day afternoon from the First Unitarian, Church, of which the Rev. John Carroll Perkins is pastor. Interment will be at Evergreen Cemetery. —————— GREAT MEN PAY TRIBUTE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—John T. Mor- 8an, the veteran Senafor from Alabama, said on learning of the death of Mr. Reed: ‘There is none other like him. He was a very powerful man physically, intellectually and in the strength of his character. He was a credit to the Amer- fcan people—decided, firm and aggressive in the enforcement of his views wherever he had any opportunity to act and re- markably successful in the control of nen.'” Benator Hale ‘of Maine said: ‘Mr, Reed’s death has removed a very great figure in life and politics. He was great in ability and in courage, & man of wide accomplishments, and he was easily the most masterful man of his day, Benator Hoar of Massachusetts g “His sincerity, his simplicity, his inflex- ible honesty, his courage and his saga- aty, as. well as his wit, of a kind that has been pecullar to New England from & time before Dr. Franklin down to Ho- sea Biglow, just suited the taste of New land’ people. When went to Eu- some years ago I gave him & letter T | with Senator Perkins of.California and | termined to put up the strongest possible | | for army transportation across the Pa- | HULL 3AFS ROOT LACKS AUTHORITY Congress to Take| Up Transport Affair, Trouble in Sight for Secretary of War Root. Harriman ‘Enters Actively in the Fight for S8an Franeisco. R Special Dispateh to The Call. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—President E. H. Harriman of the Southern Pacific Company and Vice President Paul Morton | of the Santa Fe Rallroad, in connection | the merchants of San Francisco, are de- | fight against the awarding of the contract | cific to the Boston Steamship Company by the War Department. Hill of the Great Northern and tie business men of Seattle have been doing everything In | their power to promote this award. The question bas taken on an even more serious aspect by drawing to it the passi- ble interferénce of Congress. Represent- ative Hull, chairman of the House Com- mittee on Military Affairs, says that, in his opinion, it is beyond the authority of the Becretary of War to make the pro- posed transfer of the service, and it is | probable that, if such an attempt be | made, Congress will say on the subject. Hull is of the personal bellef that, al- though greater expense is incurred by the Government's handling of the service, the men and stores receive much better care than they would in the hands of a private company. Hull also says he is not alone in this opinion and tkat several members of his committee concur in his view. Vice President Morton had an Inter- view with Ludington, quartermaster gen- cral, at the War Department yesterday in an effort to prevent the awarding of the contract. Morton wished to see Sec- retary Root, but was told the Secretary was In New York and had the papers re- lating to the contract with him. He wiil not return until Wednesday and no ac- tion will be taken until then. James J. Hill will come to Washington on Tuesday and so will President Wins- low of the Boston Steamship Company ard several prominent men from Seattle. Frank Waterhouse, managing agent of the steamship company in Seattle, is now here, but is seriously fll. President Harriman has been in confer- ence In New York with J. C. Stubbs, traffic manager of his system, and R. P. Schwerin, vice president of the Pacific Mall, and early in the week will come to Washington. Harriman, on the Southern Pacific side of the fight, hopes to induce the War De- partment to reopen the question and al- low new bids to be made. If this be done representatives of the rallroads and mer- chants of San Francisco will join in the formation of a company to underbid any concern that may enter iInto the competi- tion. e o S e e e S to Embassador Jamecs Russell Lowell. They sat up together late Into the morn- ing hours and I heard from both of the delight which each of them took in that mght's talk. People liked to hear him on public questions better than any other man, not excepting Blalne or McKinley. He had a very tender and affectionate heart, as well as a very clear and cool head. He could state the point of a de- bute In which the whole country seemed engaged with wondertul felicity and per- scasive power. His friends had hoped that after he had gained a modest com-] petence, which would have been all he needed for his moderate wants and for providing for his family, he would have obeyed the call that was certain to come to him from his countrymen, summoning and larger service. Peace to Senator Gorman sald: “Mr. Reed was a man of pronounced partisanship. When he first came to Washington so intense was hts partisan’ view that he seemed to have th: impression that government could be properly administered only by tne Republican party. Toward the close of his career his views broadened to the extent of recognizing that all of the po- litical virtues were not conflned to the Republican party. He was an able and brilliant man, possessing a keen sense of humor, which he employed effectively tn debate, ‘and a strong personality,” Repgesentative Joseph G. Cannon sata: “I my somewhat extended acquaintance with men in Congressional and public lite, among them al was the stron- st intellectual, force, crossed with the best courage. Thomas B. Reed | Shore End of Line Is Ready to Be Spliced. WQ important events 4n the proposed laying of the trans- Pucific submarine cable, which is to connect San Francisco and the Hawallan Islands, occurred yesterday. One was the arrival at the Palace Hotel of Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Pacific Com- merclal Cable Company, and a party of officlals of the company, who have come to witness the beginning of the stretching of the cable which will bind the mainland with the mid-ocean territory. The other was the Installation of the first plece of steel wire at what is termed the “shore end,” from a hut situ- ated at Forty-seventh avenue in this city to the ocean’s edge. In the party of prominent officials be- sides Mr. Mackay are George G. Ward, vice president and general manager of the Pacific-Commercial Company, with head- quarters at New York, and Willlam H. Baker and E. C. Bradley, vice presidents of the Postal Tclegraph Company. The party was met by General Superintendent L. W. Storror of the Postal Telegraph Company and Chiet Electriclan C. Cut- triss of the Cable Company, Captain D. Morton of the Silvertown. Captain G. Pat- terson and Francisco H. Benest, super- intendent of the cable laying.. They will hold a conference some time to-day for the purpose of détermining ex- actly when the .iritish steamer Silver- town, In whose hold lies the 2413 nautical miles of steel cable, shall start on her journey. No definite date has yet. been set as to when operations will begin, but Superintendent Storror said it would in all probability be on next Friday and he thoughts that the cable would be lald in time for Honolulu and San Francisco to exchange Christmas gheetings. MACKAY SAYS LITTLE. Clarcnce Mackay had little to say ree garding the laying of the cable to Hono- lulu. He stated that he was here to ex- pedite the work in order that commercial interests might reap the benefits of bring- ing the islands and the United Btates into close telegraphic communication. Mackay's most important utterance was that the extension of the cable from Hon- olulu to Shanghal by way of Guam and Manile would be laid and ' in working or- der by July 30 of next year. “The presentation b the United States of the soundings from Honolulu to Shang. hat,” sald Mr. Mackay, “will make it pos- sible to have the cable between the . two places in operation by the middie of the' year 1903. All that ia necessary is- to pro- cure the cable necessary for the purpose, and that will be . forthcoming in ' the course of a few months. It will then be only & question of transporting: the wire to {ts point of destination and submerging it in the connecting waters. ““So far as the laying of the cable from here to Honolulu is concerned, all T have to say is that the wire is in the hold of | ' the Silvertown, and it is our intentlon | —_— -8 - % CLARENCE H. MACKAY, WHO COMES TO -EXPEDITE LAY- ING OF CABLE. D Clarence Mackay Ar- rives to Expe- dite Work. a— — to take it out of there and put it where 1t belongs as soon as we possibly can.” General “"Manager Storror stated = that there would be no particular ceremony attached to the beginning of the Siiver- town's voyage towagd the latter part of this week. CITY WILL BE INVITED. “The whole city will be invited to wit- ness the starting of the work,” said Stor- ror. “The Stivertown will be anchored about’ three-quarters of a mile from the shore at the ocean beach when she will commence the unreeling of the wire con- Stituting her cargo. When she pays out the cable it will be brought in and con- nected with thd shore end, which' was lald’ yesterday. After that the Silver- town will have plain sailing, we hope.” ; The Jaying of the shore end from Forty- seventh avenue to the edge of the ocean was unattended by any ceremony yester- day. There were present Superintendents of Cable Laying Patterson and Benest, General Manager Storror, Captain Mor- ton.otf the Silvertown, Local Representa- tive H. F. Harrington, Charles Cuttriss, electrical engineer of the Mackay Com- pany; Chiet Electriclan J. Rymer Jones, Chiet Engineer J, Stoddart and Hydro- grapher C. R.'Wylle. A trench had pre- viously been dug by workmen from the hut which is to be the first station of the land cable to the beach. Into this tnne.h the cable, incased in an iron pipe three Inches in diameter, was placed for a distance of 1800 feet. It is the Intention to ‘'splice the cable now In the Silver- town’s hold with the land end on the ocean beach. When this is done the lay- ing of the submarine cable proper will commence at once. . The connection of the cable In the Sil- vertown with the shore end is by no means the least important part of the en- tire’ work.” ‘When the Silvertown, deep with the weight of 4807 tons of cable and 500 | tons more of grappling apparatus, deck machinery and buoys, leaves the harbor. to begin the paying out of the line, she will come to an anchorage a short distance from the proposed termi- nus at. the beach, and complicated gear will be put in operation in making the landing, consisting of hauling ropes, huge shears, floats and" other apparatus. ‘BOATS WILL BE VUSED. —_— Extension From Hon- olulu to Manila Assured. — e lines, to which thé"cable is bent on and hove on shore by means of an endless line taken to the picking-up machinery on board or by a direct pull with the mo- tive power on shore, consisting of a steam | engine and winch. After the Silvertown has made the con- | nection and starts on her journey the work will be carried on night and day, under the direction of the engineer in charge, who supervises all details regard- ing the speed of the ship, weight applied to brakes and other matters relating to the work. In the testing room the same close attention Is devoted to the teSting { of the wire by the chief electrician and his assistants. Signals will be exchanged with the shore at brief intervals during the entire voyage, the ship's position at neon of each day being telegraphed to headquarters by means of that portion of the cable already laid in the ocean. The commercial organizations recogniz- ing the magnitude of the laying of the cable from a commercial point of view will devise plans. for the purpose of mak~ ing some public recognition of of the Pacific Ocean cable on steamer Silvertown. A reception tendered some day this week to ficers of the Pacific Cable Company arrived last night.” The reception will take place at the Palace and will be un- der the auspices of all the commerciai or- ganizations of this eity. ST. LOUIS WOMAN TAKES A RIP VAN WINKLE SLERP Efforts of Physicians to Arouse Her From Her Somnolen: State ST. LOUIS, Dec. 7.—Mrs. J. R. Abere . nathy, who suddenly dropped to sleep while reading & newspaper aloud. to her husband Friday morning, is still in a somnolent state. The attending i clan this afternoon again applied an elec- tric battery and for a moment the sleep~ er's eyes opened, she made a slight ef- | | fort to sit up, then sighed and fell back asleep without having uttered a word. Her breathing Is deep and her heart action is pronounced good. The physi- clan belleves her. condition is due to cere- bral hemorrhage and thinks she should awaken of her own accord about next : Thursday, after a period of six days. “The alternative 1s, he said, “‘that it blood instead of serum has congested In the brain, she may pass away while asleep. The principal symptom i3 a swell- ing of the arachnoid, one of the three principal membranes of the drain. How- ever, I belleve her chances for recovery are favorable.” Mrs. Abernathy is a bellever In apirit- uvallsm and many devotees of the cuit gathered at her home to-day and sur- bed, belleving she is In a uuunmdhummk