The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1902, Page 9

THE v SAN ERANCIECO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1902 (o} * LEMGUE LSTENS |[FIRE CHIEF SAYS UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS 10 600D ADVIC John P. Young Talks to Women Who Would Improve City. S—— EF OF = Anticipates That Success Will Surely Crown Their Effort. H | { members of the Outdoor Art | : yesterday at the rooms of the | | b, when a paper entitled “Making a City Beautiful” was read by P. Young. members were deeply interested in iggestions set forth in the paper and em reg epplanded Mr. Young in the < o of the read we were to make our city beautiful, 4 Mr. Young, we must substitute work r Sl 'We must scr us weil & plan for all to do, and i, he said, could ing the ground for much there was to a city beautiful the 1gue well knew. He at- e and vast improve dressing of the store ved condition of the their former bad rchitecture of the es and drew a picture of was “Queen Anne” in Ann” in the rear. He J¢! methods beautifying San ded the league of the the doing telegraph poles he 1 such things un terment of thesne- said Mr. Young ul and to keep it in has been male beaut 1 hopes express . however, t! e efforts c crowned with succes ARMY OFFICER'S SON TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Nathaniel Whipple Shoots Himself | Through the Heart at the Hotel Renton. years heart e morning in 712 Sutter street. and of age with a rmerly empioyed at s been without a posi robably ———p e RICHARD DEY FORSAKES RANKS OF BACHELORS OBSERVATORY Mrs. Elliott and Departs for Del Monte to Pass = oon Honeym and Berkeley tled by Kennedy's Sen- sational Report. S b e ’ust‘.i ,Df Snsiching W‘,",, B ERKELEY, Dec The bulld- s v % et ngs : ity of Califor- Al F iz are practically without pro ps ir n from fire; there Is noth- s B £ 1ld vent the com- < e fon of any one bullding = 4 tart therein, and the entire t L dversity bulldings would be hain, and ran ned to the ground if a fire secured the was pursued by Hen headway with a wind to fan fits ™ ertook him and h | breath and scatter its sparks. Not only Wali and Policeman iz the uniy ¥ itself without protectio: The vatch was found | Lut the town of Berkeles is almost pow. . . "1 | eriess to help the State institution be- | g cause of the lack of fire aparatus supplied ed ¢ 5 | by the municipality 2l ){".;3 following | THS 18 the essence of a report presented | » were issued to-day: |10 the Board of Town Trustees to-night N & r 21, and Teresa | by James Kenney. the energetic new Spightiz, 2 h of Oakland; Fred- | chief of the Berkeley Fire Department, kK ¥ Fahs 2. and Susie 8. Congdon, | who is trying to help his town and his | Sy - e David B.| department in every way possible *| This is a condition of a D. Wedekind, Y,‘lf:"“"}"” Interest to the whole State, and not to ¥ Phil 21, ana | Berkeley alone. It is a matter that will M b of Berkeley; | Probably become the subject of action by | J Ruby D, is, | the State Legislature d not alone by » ¢ Oakiand E. Palfreeman, | the Board of Trustees of the town of % Marguerite ke, 21, both of | Berkeley, for the conditions that confront Abe and Lottie | this latter body are unique in the State f Oak | Within the town limits of Berkeley is sit- CRE uated a group of buildings, mostly wood The Scottish Rite en and all inflammable, for which the s Sitens Ciomsiath o | tewn is expected to furnish the bulk of EEnil Bacres. tha the fire protection, ard yet which bring ¢ and Accepted no tax money into the town treasury 3 Under these conditions the Town Trus- i tees are very properly looking to the ©7® for the | grate for some help .| PROTECTION INADEQUATE. kadosh But be this as it may, and no matter upon whom the responsibility may rest, the university fs without adequate pro- “hief Kenney b Our holiday SPECIALS are worth while taking advantage of - - - They consist of high-grade Office and Library Desks, dis- played on our lower floor and marked in plain figures, at spe- UYDRANTS INDICATED BY ¢ Trustees Star-| re that Is of | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BUILLDINGS CHEITISTRY BUILDING } ! 3 oo L o PR ’ CrEiens St N TR TP +- ! UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BUILDINGS AND LOCATION OF FIRE HYDRANTS ON GROUNDS. 2 e ‘ ! | this the subject of a complete and, ex- | attend ft—almos{ half of the whole uf is bringing to her halls men of letters and distant. Botany bullding—Two hydrants, 225 | haustive report to the Town Trustees. He dlll‘I;.x :;lm,:‘on;;r\:fillfi‘:r‘g' o proot walls and | scientific experts from all of the older fn- {,‘;‘n,"‘?\"‘.’}' fe i\““;‘"n':\lv"e Chemain o has not spoken without a complete | NIt BOUNAE, 10, NUISEDY i 18 Boe e ooks | Stitutions of the Kast to add to her glory, | dTjnt. ffty feet distant. Chemistry knowledge of his subject, and his report | und papers, and coal is stuffed under the stair- | She 18 each day in danger of being ruth- | yyqrase, seventy-five feet distant. ng | 15 worthy of the most careful legislative | ways. lessly checked in her career by the fire | bullding—Two hvdrants, fitty feet distant; orie attention at the coming session. Bhould u fre get starfed in North Hall it | fiend. hydrant, 800 feet distant. Philosophy bulld: | e = 5 H _ | would be bevond control in fifteen minutes an ing-—One hydrant, 100 feet distant. Mechanics' P 1ths ago, when Mr. Kenney be- | (V0 fig“would be carried from its roof to| MORE ESCAPES ARE NEEDED. | puiiaing. Two nydrants, 100 feet distant Ob- | tion of the Berkeley t us its first regular fire siruck with the lack of fire At chief, he was | protection surrounding the university. that time he made a short report to Pres- | tdent Wheeler upon the condition of | North Hall. That report caused wide- spread consternztion among the friends versity, and now Mr. Kerfney his work with a report upon from fire that threatens the | State center of learning and his inabiiity te do much for its protection. Here Is Mr. Kenney's report in full: | BERKELEY, Dec. 19, | To the Board of Trustces—Gentlemen: I have the to make u report to you upon the very Jack of fire protection at the d 1o sukgest some plan for mak- give the warning that some a great fire at the univer- rry away thousands of doj- te property and ruin for a the whole college. With the wind just nt if a fire should ket started in one of the group of bulldinks nothing could save all of the most important bulldings from going up fn smole. HELPLESS BEFORE BIG FIRE. Three fires in the university bulldings with- in the past three months make this question come before us and we must have some action taken. Our local fire department i entirely unfit to try and fight any big fire at the university, and the only help we could get would be from Oakland, six miles away, and it would take their department an hour to reach us it calied. All of the buildings are built without mny protection against fire. The three brick bulld- ings would burn as easily as the wooden ones, for with the exception of one they have beeh anding for more than twenty years. North Hall especially is a fire trap and ought not to be used another day. 1t was never intended for the large classes which now @ il RUNAWAY ENGINE KILLS TWO AND INJURES OTHERS Defective Machinery Causes Loss of Life and Wrecks Two Trains. LIBERTY, Ind., Dec. 22.—A helper en- gine on the Monon Rallroad got beyond control to-day, made two wild runs be- cial reduced prices. Call and examine them. Geo. H. Fuller Desk Co. : 646-648-650 Mission St. tween Connersville and this _ place, wrecked two. freight trains, demolished four engines, killed two men and injured two others. Engineer Callahan of the helper ran to College Grove, helping a freight, He was South Hall and on the Agricultural bullding without doubt. In case @ fire should break oat In this bullding: while students were in it there would « great loss of life. All of the doors swing inward, those on the third floor being only three and a half feet wide. A crowd trying to cxcape would lock Itself in. The staircases are narrow and twisted and the balustrades are low and rotten, #0 that in a rush many would hed over Into the well beneath. The ter supply would not/furnish more than two falr streams to hose In case of a are fifteen four-inch hydrants ranged near most of the buildings, but they are all off one main, and without a steam fire engine not a single stream could be carried to the top of the highest of the bulldings. All of the bulldings except the observatory are provided with from two to six hose reels, each provided with not more than seventy-five feet of howe. Upon a recent inspection made by Superintendent of the Grounds A. Bolton and myself it was found that in almost every instance the hose had been rotted from leaky velyes and would be vssless in case of fire. FIRE CHIEF FOR BUILDINGS. The town fire department is called upon to guard all of this dangerous territory. It is now not strong enough to guard the town properiy. It should appeal to the Legislature to look after the fire protection of the uni- versity since It cannpt do it. Nothing short of a pernmanent fire chief for the college build- ings and an engige stationed on the grounds can be sure ||rotfim JAMES KENNEY. This means that the first time the north wind sweeping over the Berkeley - hills finds a blaze {n one of the bufldings of the University of California, be it never s0 small and flickering, such a furnace of flame will be set roaring that not one ARE AT MERCY OF DESTROYING ELEMENT o KILLS-HI3 D0 THEN HIMSELF Julian Borde Could Not Leave Faithful Ca- nine. Despairing Old Man Burns Home From Which He Was to Be Evicted. ALAMEDA, Dec. 22.—Before taking ‘his own life last night.by shooting himself with a revolver, aged Julian Borde took the life of his faithful dog, which had | been his sole companion for several years. ! Borde first set fire to the house which was his home for a third of a century, and from which he was to be evicted this morning. Then, while the flames crackled and enveloped his humble abode, the de- spairing old man deliberately sat down on a bed lounge in one of the rooms of the blazing structure, sped a bullet into the body of his trusting canine friend and another into his own. Borde had evi- dently decided that when he went out of the world, which looked drear to him, he would take with him all that he loved best—his old home and his faithful dog. When the firemen discovered the charred bodies of the man and the beast both were close together. Between them was a /7ECHANICS BUILDING TO LEFT, /X The university has no fire-fighting ap- paratus on the grounds whatsoever. It has no trained body of men who know the dangerous points and would be able to render effective service at the critical moment of a fire's first appearance. Fire drills, which are enforced in every public school building, are unknown to the stu- dents, who crowd the recitation rooms to overflowing. Three of the bulldings only are provided with fire escapes—-North Hall has two, East Hall two and the mining bullding one. Those on North Hall, where the need for them Is greagest, are of such an- tiquated pattern that to descend one must needs climb over the ralling to reach the ladder, a feat which no woman student in & moment of excitement would dare at- tempt. Other dangers "to students In North Hgll in case of a conflagration are neted In the report of Chief Kenney. A constant menace of fire exists at all times In the varfous chemical and mining laboratories. The mining bullding con- tains assay laboratories and smelting fur- naces. The chemistry, mechanics, agri- cultural and physical laboratories contain varfous burners and furnaces, which sometimes have to be kept burning day and night for several days. It was from these burners that in Apri), 1897, the agri- cultural bullding was completely stroyed by fire, with a loss of $12,000. From a Bunsen burner also the chemistry bulld- ing was set ablaze on Thanksgiving day last, with a loss of $3000. alone, but all of the main bulldings of the instituion will be reduced to smolder- ing heaps of ruins. While the University of Californla is taking the third place among all the unl- versities of the United States, while she L verse part of the machinery would not respond and the engine got beyond' his «control. Near Liberty it collided with a frelght. Ingome way the helper was re- versed and started back, running through Liberty at the rate of seventy milés an hour. ~ It dashed into another freight train which was being hauled by two en- glaes, Those killed were Mike Foley of In- dianapolis, brakeman, and Rounton' Os- borne of Connersville, fireman on helper engine. gt {95 e TR Bucceeds Finally at Suicide. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 22-—A well- to take a slding east of Liberty. When he reached the switch and attempted to re- dressed woman, 19 years of age, giv- ing , her name as Mrs. W. C. Hazel of Covington, Ky., was taken Hydrants in the university grounds are located as follows: North Hall—Two hydrants, fifty feet Gistant. South_Hall—Two hydrants, fifty fect distant. East Hall—One hydrant. tienty-five feet dis- tant. Library—One hydrant, (wenty-five feet el g to the City Hospital from’ the Mor- ton Hotel In an unconsclous condition from morphine and wounds In her wrist, infiicted with a palr of scissors, and she dled at 9 o'clock..8he was Mrs. Clarence Hazel, who figured in the papers through- out the Central States last week because of her efforts to kill herself in the La- tonia Hotel in Covington, Ky. Mrs. Hazel came to Indianapolls last Friday. ————— Picturesque Papeteries. A useful and pretty gift. A beautitull} decorated box filled with useful writin; Zn er from b0c to $4.50 at Banborn, fl 0.'s, 141 Market street, Open evenings, —————— Two million persons are malaria every year in Italy. < attacked by de- | servatory—One hydrant. 600 feet distant. Gym- nasium—One hydrant, fitty feet distant. Hose reels, all one and three-fourths | Inches in diameter, are located as fol- | lows: | Library, 3: East Hall | Ing, 6 and 1 hand hose 4; Philosophy buflding, South Hall rth Hall, 6; gymnasium, Potany bullding, 2. Agricultural buildin echanics’ bullding. 3 and fire e g Hall, 2; Mining bufiding. 1. s TRUSTEES ARE ANXIOUS. The report of Fire Chief Kenney created great excitement in the Board of Trus- tees. Trustee Staats called attention to the unfortunate position that the town of Berkeley occupied toward the univer- sity, when the town was expected to fur- nish fire protéction while the university | @id not pay a cent of taxes into the town | treasury. “There 'is no question as to the im- | portance of Chiet Kenney's report,” said | President Marston of the board, ‘but it | 18 not in the power of the town to fur- :nlnh all that is mecessary. The Legis- | lature should be appealed to and the least 4: Chemistry build- rt: Mining butlding, Observatory, none engine upon the university grounds with a trained fire brigade of students for use | in_case of an emergency.” { The report Was discussed i most thoroughly and all of the trustees agrecd decided that the town could not do much and the Legislature should be called upon for aussistance. Upon motion of Trustee Staats a special committee was created to confer with As- semblyman Waste of Berkeley. President | Marston appointed upon that committee Trustees Staats and Dowd. LITTLE GIRL STAMPS ON EMPEROR'S PICTURE that it could do would be to place a steam | pay ordinary” | upon fts great importance and value, but | pistol with five chambers exploded and one loaded. Residents in the vicinity heard revolver reports after the alarm of fire was given. Borde was at one time fairly well to do and was prominent in the local French colony. Fortune frowned upon him and he lost money In stocks. His wife died eighteen months ago. Previous to her demise he was forced to mortgage his home. The mortgage was recently fore- closed by a San Francisco bank and the former owner was ordered to vacate the premises. When an agent of the bank no- tifiled Borde Saturday that he must leave the place within forty-eight hours or be evicted, the aged tenant asked to be al- | lowed to stay until Monday morning. “T | will get out then,” said Borde, “but it will | not do the bank any good when I go.™ This statement he made good by destroy- | ing the house when he destroyed himseif. | Borde was a native of France, 67 years of | age. | PRIMATE OF ENGLAND ‘| JOINS SILENT MAJORITY | Most Rev. Frederick Temple, Arch« bishop- of Canterbury, Dies After | LONDON, Dec. 22.—The Most = Rev. | Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Can- | terbury and primate of ail England, wha | has been ill for some time past, is dead. | —_— | Resigns From Northwest League. | PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 2—The Port- | 1and Baseball Club to-night tendered its | resignation to the Pacific Northwest | League. The Portland Baseball Associa- | ticn, recently incorporated, will take over ! the Portland Baseball Club and will then | join the Pacific Coast League, which will be composed of San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle. { ‘ ADVERTISEMENTS. OMOMOWOWOOWWWWM O _— BamimoRre WhLananan 5 BALTIMOR Hospitality’s Charm. § From its maturity, purity flavor, quality, Hunter Baltimore Rye $ is hospitality’s charm. Itis American Gentleman's Whiskey. SIS commmon o, Telephoune oo | ARTIFICIAL TEETH For the cost_of tn-rm for_those t office prices. Teeth Fillings and crowns for cost ot g huu-.n lnhoh’- “Gnm POST-GRADUATE DENTAL COLLEGE, 3 Taylor st., cor. Golden Gate ave, 8. 973 Washington st., cor. Tenth, Oakland visir DR. JORDAN MUSEUM OF ANATOMY 1081 KARZETCT. bot- G227, 8.1 Cal. For Such a Crime She Is Committed ~ to Serve a Term in Prison. BERLIN, Dec. 22—A Polish schoolgirl named Kopec has been sentgnced to four- tecen days’ imprisonment at Inowraslau, province of Posen, for lese majeste in throwing a brooch with Emperor Wil- llam’s picture in it to the floor and stamp- ing upon it. Such brooches were present- ed to the puplls of the schools when the Emperor visited Posen. Bridle your tongue an” you saddle your temper.