The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1902, Page 1

Srzarag = T e, i .SAN FRAN CISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1 902. Sm—— PRICE FIVE CENTS. STEAMSHIP SILVERTOWN, HAVING ON BOARD PACIFIC OCEAN N CABLE, ARRIVES OFF COAST OF OAHU AND CONNECTION WITH SHQRE END IN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS IS NEAR ACCOMPPISHMEN T RODSEVELT NTTOBE ARBITRATOR Venezuelan Dis- pute Will Go to The Hague. Washington Scores a New Triumph in Diplomacy. Great Britain Assists Overcoming the Opposi- tion of Germany. in Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 146 G STREET, N W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—President Roosevelt has apparently succeeded - in his efforts to persuadle the powers to ac- Hague tribunal as the eourt o of the consister d actuated o by highest motives, not only for pe ment of the present T t e purpese of establis a situa- is re- laration has been made 10 tha. dispute- haye The Hague tribunal, but agreeme has rtain conditions attached process of being elim ted on the autho been the removal of likely to prove not yet ready ement. There 1 on in. official circles silent the finite statement on ry X reaking down mpossible condition whose attitude was the as last night, it s sajd t Brit- e diplomats of eir efforts es, who were the President, e been an im- agreement of England those under the this purpose d t Germany, been dis- posed all along to A mere gl € ous stages that have Jed up t t situation due to Pres- ed will show 1h 1dent t gry Roosev Government the entire controver 1t for it States BRITONS DISAPPEJINTED. Would Rather Entrust Their to the Justice of Roosevel NDON, Dec, 21 the 1 def Cause ixcept Governmen of wh nd as disc the M ry, the latest phase of t ezue trouble has been welcc Arb! tion by Presi t Ro s been anticipated as de; ue from a difficult business that which . is regarded ‘as final, keen disappointment. It is if satisfactory conditions on of the disputes to The Hague coprt od will , With » dent C; 1 endless.and wearisome de. assurance that at the end stro still will be in power r Venezuela in the mood to abide by the decision of The Hague. In short, element of guarantee which would sccompanied . President Roosevelt's ~ ceptance of the office of arbitr now lacking. At the same readily admittec point view scted wisely The drift ing time it is of President Roosevelt in deeliping to act. foregoing represents the of newspaper comment this The only paper which really wel- comes the decision to refer the Ver an matter to The Hague is the radical Daily News, which sees a chance of mak- ng arbitration once more a reputable the- Paying a tribute to the coolness of ’ President Roosevelt and the correct at- tude of the United States during this * the Daily News says: “The Veneguelan crisis has done much enhance Mr. Roosevelt's reputation o bring home, to Englishmen the es- has rry busines: Con'.i;nled on Page 2, Column 3. s concern to Washington | with | ughout | n be arranged, this meth. | 1 | take | the sea "Is! that, from the American { by Chief Engineer Benest from the 1 fathoms. News of Spltcmg of Strands Is Expected to Arrive With Little Delay. HE deep sea portion of the|it is evident that about 100 miles of| may attend the operation in Hawaii cable that will unite San Fran- | cisco and the Hawaiian Islands slack have been drawn into the ocean, to lie on submarine mountains and val- has been laid. Yesterday | leys. The deep sea portion is about one morning at 4 o'clock the|inch in diameter. The shore end is steamship Silvertown and the | three inc in diameter, being thicker first great stretch of sea cable parted | to enable it to withstand the shore rocks company, about thirty-five miles from | and reefs. Honoluly, preliminary to the laying of & 2 T, the shore ond. Buogs were placed . to| Lb@nding Cable in Hawaii. the place where the work of the | ing the sea and the shore strands t take place. Within a few hours, the congratulatory . messages will signal the completion of the stage of a great enterprise will pass ider the Pacific Ocean. When this will ce depends on the condition of end weather. San Francisco is near the realization of the dream of di- rect commuirication with the Hawaiian witlr the certainty of the early | f such communication to the | Superintendent Harrington, who will | have charge of the new cable for the company, says that special means will | have to be adopted to land the cable, { He went down to the islands and per- | sonally supervised the laying of | underground tube to connect the’ line [ | | with Honolulu. He is therefore con- versant with the attending conditions. An extraordinarily long swell sweeps in through the channel between Oahu and Molokai. The breakers seem to have vertical fronts just before they thunder on the coral reef that separates ocean from the calm waters that ripple | on the shining Waikiki beach. Light- ers would find it difficult to keep right side up there. ers rush over- these ‘breakers with tle speed of tobog: Through the reef important information was sent | He is in charge of the cable ter his cablegram o Y communication with | fl‘u: bfl.-c‘rtown was lost and will prob- | : ably not be reg ed until the shore and | there is a bre: and here the cable will sea ends of the cable are ready to be | enter. - In Mr. Harrington’s opinion: the spliced. The first messages probably will | Silvertown will lie not far from the reef be from Governor Dole Hawaii to | and pay out the cable. The plan will be P\'P‘Sldcl!l Clarence M v of the |adopted of employing small steamers ral‘uc company and to President Roose- | and possx]y lighters to assist the cable velt. ; : ‘ landing. Between San Francisco and the spot| A few days may possibly elapse before where the buoys'are floating off Oahu | the Silvertown is again heard from. At 2238 nautical miles of cable weré paid | this port some time was necessary to] out by the Silvertown. The distance | have the shore cable pass through the from San Francisco being 2099 miles, | Custom-house. A similar experience et vertown. was on the way of the | the | The boats of the island- | Through the channel the water is quite rough, and a chopping sea might retard operations con: ably. ton said vesterday that he hoped the messages might' be received as early as Sunday, but he did not Jook for on. much earlier. The Silvertown has succeeded far bet ter than was expected. The average rate of speed that she was expected to make was about 160 knots per day. The record gives the, following credits in knots by days: 71, 182, 106, 207, 203, 189, 215, 211, 197, 217, 215, 129. The first of the days intluded in this review was December 15. an idea may be formed concerning. the future progress that can fairly be anti- cipated. The Silvertown encountered some rough weather and-also one. gale going to the Hawaiian Islands, but the | conditions have been quite favorable on the whole. . The last advices concerninz; the weather before the cable was ciit yesterday were favorable, but the con- ditions may have changed. At the Shore End. The cable company has a station at| Sans Souci; several miles from Hono- Inlu. The cable will cross the coral reef hali a milé from that point. end, will run - through a tube that has been laid from Honolulu to ‘Waikiki.© The shore cable may be al- .ready drawn through the tube, but there is no information here on that point. As near as can be judged by Superinte dent Harrington the sea end avas cut off | at Kako Point, in the channel, in water that is about half a mile deep. The dis- Mr. Harring- | that | From these figures | The shore | | { ' i | { ' (ON BOARD THE STEAMSHIP SILVERTOWN, OFF OAHU, DECEMBER 26.-*-Now about to buoy cable off Oahu in about 450 Cable paid out, 2238 nautical miles. | BENEST. .| HARRINAN BY SETTLE Prepare Greetings to Send at Earliest Minute. THE STAIKe ‘Summons Leaders of Shopmen to New York. PR, L iMen Hope to Return to | Work by End of : - Year. Ny { Union Pacific's Rolling Stock | Shows Effects of Long Neglect. Special Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA_ Dec. 2.—Representatives of the 20 striking shopmen on the Union | Pacific are now en route to New York at the request of E. H. Harriman to confer with him and President Burt in the Sew York office on Monday in regard to .set= tlement. This action was precipitated by Jobn McNeil, president of the Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders, declaring that if the strika were not at once settled every boiler- maker in Southern Pacific ‘shops would be ordered out. President Burt asked for time and hurried to New York to confer with Harriman, and now Harriman has | asked for negotiations. s ithin thirty miles of Omaha, on side- tracks, are eight through freight trains of the Unlon Pactfic road, unable to get into Omaha because there are no locomotives te bring them in. The trains have been at their present places for three days and probably three days more will elapse be- fore they arrive here. The trouble is with the motive power of the Union Pa- cifle, brought to its present inefficient con- ditifon through the strike. Several of the freight engines ““died” with their trains. Other engines were taken by fast mail trains and through passengers whose lo- comotives had become unfit for use through neglect. This condition extends throughout the system, and, while it can- not be said that the proportion of “degd™ | | trains is as great at other places as m | | Omaha, this is a fair sample of the cons tion of the motive power of the Union Pa- | cific. 3 The strike has reaclied a critical stage. The strikers deciare the company is anx- ious to make terms with them and that the strike will come to an end before or by the end of the years The machinists have declared from the first that as soon | as winter came the poor condition of the | motive power would show itself and that traffic would become so congested that the Union Pacific would be forced to make terms with its men or quit hauling trains. The strikers believe that the conference | between E. H. Harriman, President Burt | and the strike representatives on Monday | will start negotiations that will bring the | conflict to an end in favor of the men. The strikers have reports from their agents at Laramie that five locomotives are “dead” on the tracks at that place, four at Sidney, four at Denver and scat~ tering ones at stations along the line. |MINER AND HIS HELPER MEET FRIGHTFUL DEATHS Dynamite Bomb Explodes in Bottom of Shaft and Literally Blows Them to Pieces. SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 26.—Word Fas been received here of an appailing ac- cident at the Dunn-Jackson group of mines in the Ojo Mountains, which result- ed in the death of George Bridge, a well known miner, and Ffed Goldstine, his Mexican helper. Bridge and Goldstine wers working at the bottom of a forty-five-foot shaft in | the Lena mine and placed a heavy charge | of dynamite.: A short fuse was lighted and the men climbed from the shaft and sought safety some distance away, where they waited for more than an hour for rand R ! patch. from the Silvertown places the depth under the buoys at 450 fathoms. Joining_the ends will be a very much more difficult task than making® the splice’on the ocean beach at this port. In addition to the very heavy billows the coral reef, which is as sharp as a knife, must be counted in. Of course all the difficulties will be overcome as speedily as possible. Manager Storror of the Postal Telegraph'Company says that there is no longer any danger to the cable. : A constant watch has been maintained at this end of the line ever since the Silvertown steamed away from . the coast pi California on its long and mo- mentous-voyage. The capitalists in the East who are financially interested have | | been kept in touch by frequent " tele- grams. The operators at the station on the beach ‘'have conmtinually seen the flashes at intervals of a few minutes each that told that all was going well. These signals began when the Silvertown start- ed on its voyage, and they were con- tinued, night and day, until the steam- - ship finally cut away from the cable. Had anything gone wrong the fact would have been known in a very short time.. Clarence Mackay has been able to trace the' progress of the cable as well as if it had been on land. The. steamship Silvertown is sup- the discharge of the blast. The fuse burned slowly and belleving it had be- come extinguished, the men re-entered the shaft. As they reached the bottom & terrific explosion occurred. Bridge was literally blown to atoms and Goldstine | frightfully mangled, the dynamite having been discharged directly beneath them. Goldstine, who was not instantly killed, posed to have been engaged yesterday in |lay in the shaft until the following day, reconnoitering, although it may have|when his frightful condition was discov- proceeded immediately to Honolulu, At | ered by the owners of the mine. He dled Honolult: the news of the nearness of |# few hours after being brought to tix the cable.must be known, and public re. | Surface. < P ¥ “h 1. Saciug ‘Nas. probubly ek pluce. v | b:fli‘g’rls sald to have relatives in Bis- the added commercial facilities that will | have the immediate effect ' of rescuing | the islands and their’ commerce from KESWICK, Dec. %.—Barney Shanks, in isolation. - | Siskiyou County, is an angry Indian. He The Silvertown’s movements will un- | was released from the County Jail, where doubtedly be-arranged to meet any|he' had been confined some wmonths to emergency that may arise. The care of | 2Wait trial for the alleged murder of an the contractors who are laying the cable | 19128 Pov- It becominz evident to the for the company was manifested off the prosecution that sufficient testimony could . not be secured to insure conviction, beach of San Francisco. when a sea that | gnanks was released from custody. What was not .very rough or thratemng! 2 B ks so angry is that he shor caused them to change their original makes Shanks s gry shotild . have been arrested at all, since, he plan for ome that was more feasible and claims, he had arranged the Mmatter sat factorily with the boy's father by paying him $400. Murder Charge Is Dismissed. Continued on Page 2, Column 1.