The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1902, Page 29

*PIGKETT'S DUPES ‘ olo. THE F€AN FRANCIECO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1902. 60 IN TRODPS Victims Besiege Fake Promoter’s Hotel Door. Advertisements and Flaming | Literature Charm Away Suspicions. { Ozkiand Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Dec. 27. Mr. Sam Pickett, whose present addre=e is the City Prison, seems to have fooled | & great many people with his mvlhl(‘nl\ extravaganza company. Down at the | Brunswick Hotel, where Pickett made his headquarters, and at the Hotel Oak Lawn, where K. L. Barker, Pickett's pri- vate secretary, received applications for positions in the ethereal company, they | say that troops of credulous people be- | sieged the doors of these two gentlemen every day that they held out there. They | came singly and in pairs and sometimes in | 1rios, all hoping to be taken into Pickett’s | “company.” They were taken in, but in a2 way they @id not bargain for. How many of them got fooled and how much they parted with, only Pickett and his private secretary know. It was in answer to the following adver- tisement that the gullible ones, with more money than foresight, trooped down or | over to the place of rendezvous, where | they met Pickett in all his majesty: WANTED—Traveling advertising collector, $15 week and expenses; $150 cash security re- quired; long engagement; commence at once 9 & m. and 2 p. M., room 7, Bruns- [ itk Hotel, Osidang. kett was at the Brunswick thre weeks, and not a day passed in all that time that he did not receive ten or a| dozen people, all attracted by the flatter- g offer. He was suave and unctuous and invariably began his discourse with: ~Now, the scheme is this. I'm a man of business and I talk business only.” Then he would go on and tell how good th prospects were and how neces! for him to have that $150 security. times he voluntarily increased the salary, according as he thought the victim re- | celved the proposals, and the bait always | ok. In this way he not only filled up his pockets, but filled all the positions in the a n times over, from mana- L. Rivers of San Mnteo had the most | rilling time of those dupes whose names e become public. It was he that as- sisted so materially in the arr of Pick- | ett and his secretary. Rivers tells his ry as follows: | I replied to Pickett's advertisement by spe- | h anoth He gt nd he responded He engaged me as ug agent and t Friday I kton. He aid $40 that I had advanced Dt on the $150 Geposit and paid all my other ad 10,000 ha ife had it were aro W hen sed he e would friend Barker n Francisco to keep an 1 was in company we succeeded in decoying of Detective Kyte at the Rivers exhibited the letter with which Pickett had replied to his speclal commu- nication. It an elaborate document emblazoned with blue and gold trimming: &nd having a sce from “Aladdin Jr.” at occupies half the space. The reading | shows what a wonderful imagination | Pickett must have, for another George Ferna dupes to the tune got caught in the same way that Rivers did, only he trjed to get even by staying with the game. He began by losing $100, which sum was increased from time to time by small loans. Fernau was to have been the manager of the company, an office for which he is fitted by rience. After | things had been go for some time Fernau demanded something definite from Pfckeft and got the frank statement | that the company was a fake. “To save myself,” said Fernau, “I tried | to organize a company, and did get to- | gether about forty people, with the un-| derstanding that Pickett was to raise $3%0 | to float it. After I got the company Pick- [ ett told me he couldn’t raise the money, ! and that was the end of it.” The worst treated victim is J. Alvin| of Pickett's Kroh of Stockton, who swore to the com- | Tiaint against Pickett. He deposited $300 | wi!h Pickett, who promised him a salary | of $25 & week and 2ll expenses for filling | 2, the advance agent’s position. Out of t..s 5300 Pickett paid Kroh’s salary and ex- penses at the Hotel Oak Lawn while he Wwaited for the mythical company to start out on the road. The three victims, Rivers, Fernau and Kroh, held a consolation party this after. noon in the Hotel Brunswick. The ex- pose of Pickett seems to have inspired Fernau to form a company of his own, In which he proposes to hire his fellow- a in the same positions that they would have filled in the fake company. Pickett’'s preliminary examination was set to-day by Judge Smith for next! Wednesday. Barker, against whom no complaint has been or is lkely to be is- sued, will be allowed to go, as there is no direct evidence ageinst him, though Pickett’s victims say that he has acted as the agent for his employer in several chady matters. Honor Memory of Wreck’s Victim. | ; MARYSVILLE, Dec. 27.—The funeral of Miss Birdie Elliott, who was killed in the | Southern Pacific wreck at Byron, took | ace this morning at Oroville, ghe lived until a year ago. The town turned out to honor her memory. |5 Many went from here and other near by towns. — Grows Desperate When Jilted. CEDAR RAPIDS, Jowa, Dec. 27.—Dr. 0. B. Beller, 2 prominent physician of | Garrison, has been arrested on the charge | of threatening to kill his former financee, | & Miss/Hall of Vinton, who married on ristmas day Dr. Park of Fort Morgan, ey ot Judge Davis Adjourns Court. | MARYSVILLE, Dec. 27.—Judge E. A. : Davis adjourned court this afternoon out | of respect to the memory of Justice Jack- | son Temple, whose connection with the enti-hydraulic mining cases made him exceptionally well known in this section. | admiration for the | Congregational | of Eighth, where | 5 entre | i GOVERNOR-ELECT PARDEE GUEST OF HONOR AT A CAMPFIRE GIVEN BY OLD COMRADES SEES SUPREMACY OF OUR TRADE | | A Belgian Teacher Asks Commercial Data of University. | M. Jottrand Says That Old ‘World Scholars Should Seek the West. = F LT SR BERKELEY, Dec. 27.—Powerful evi- dence of the fact that the nations of Eu- rope are turning to America for instruc- tion in commercial methods was received at the University of California to-day in the form of a letter from M. Emil Jot- trand, principal of a state commercial school at Hainault, Belgium, asking for advice upon the formation of a commer- cial museum and the introduction of American commercial methods into the curriculum of the college over which he has charge. M. Jottrand, who was formerly legal adviser to the King of Slam, paid ‘the university a visit during a recent trip through this country and expressed great speclal commercial branch of the college course. He further promised that some of his countrymen in Belgium should be sent to take post | graduate courses in the American schools of commerce, as he recognized-that™ this country leads the world in its trade and finance. METHODISTS PLAN SCHOOL AT BERKELEY Seminary Is to Be Located in College Town the :Tear Future. BERKELEY, Dec. 27.—As a result of a meeting of the educational committee of the Methodist Conference at Santa Rosa on the 15th of the present- month, at which time it was decided to move the Pacific Methodist College to Berkeley, a site on the corner of Durant and Tele- graph avenue was to-day purchased for the erection of the projected school. The price paid for the lot was $17,500, and a $10,000 building will be constructed upon it. The superior educational advantages offered by the State University was the strong inducement which led to the pres- ent move of the Methodist body, Berk- eley being thought a superior location for a school of the character contemplated. The Pacific Theological Seminary of the church has had its lo- cation in the college town for several vears. ————————— FOOTPADS HOLD UP BERKELEY MERCHANT George Hendnck Is Robbed by Brace of Road Agents While on Way Home. BERKELEY, Dec. 27.—George Hendrick, proprietor of the University fruit store, was held up by two highwaymen to-night | at.10 o'clock on Allston way, near Grove street, and robbed of $53. Hendrick had closed up his place of bysiness and was on his way the day in his pocket. the High hool the pair of footpad wearing long overcoats with the colla turned up to better conceal their features, confronted Hendrick and commanded him to throw up his hands. One of the rob- As he approached bers emphasized the order by holding a | | pistol at the merchant’s head. Hendrick ys he handed over what coin he had on ! his person and offered no resistance to | the thieves. He was unable to give Mar- skal C. T. Kerns a very accurate de- scription of the brace of road agents. m el e Licensed to Marry. OAKLAND, Dec. 21.—The following mar- enses were issued to-day: John J. aged 23, and Valentine Nunes, 23, mm of Oakland; Roland Geva, 27, and ionza, 20, both of Hay- ds; Ludwig Leithoff, over 21, and Mrs. Anna Plummer, over 18, both of Oakland; and Maria Barber, y; Hector Orrock, over herine Lynch, over 18, Bennett, 31, and Cath- both of Oakland. REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. AY, I m to ¥y street, MBER 27. urelius B. Buckingham, 137:6 W of Lyon, Company (corporation) to lot on W line of Guerrero G of Fourteenth, S 25 by W 131; $2300. Eilla M. Heim (wife of J. F. H.) to A. S. Wil- W line of Valencla street, 114 N of N 114 by W 135; $10. , William H., John J., George M. and Lawrence A. Donovan to Thoraas M. Wil liam J. and James F. Welch, lot on § iine of Twent; LA t, 175 E of Guerrero, E 25 &%t o Hoftman avenne, 15 5011 by & 118 $10, Marin Western Real Estats and Investment Company to Samuel P. Blumenberg, lot on B line o Stockton street, 33:6 S of Pacific, 8 by E 90; also ali interest in 117 leases, E 4 o crden 351y 31 1900, and refers to prop- erty described in assignment of lease below, surrender of lease and quitclaim deed; $10. V. Wilcox to same, lot on_E line of tockton street, 33:6 S of Pacific, S 25:6% by Stoc E 90; $10. 1 Ester Dotta to Bernardo Fernan- Celso and P 202:8 W of Powell street, W 88 by N 18 Millie E. and Orville D. Baldw!n to Mary merson, lot on W line of Powell street, 103:11%, S of O'Farrell, S 84:4% by W 36 Hetnrich and Aususta Nicborger to Joseph I owyer. lot on XW line of Minna street, 65 NE 20 by NW 80; §10. kede to Thomas J. Rowan, avenue and K ae: lot on street, E a Sarah Getz to Solomon Getz, un- rn lot on E line of Twenty- thlrd aves : to beginning; rellish to Alfred Olson, lot 30 SW of v , SB 123:6%, %, lots 15 and 16 of fots 409 to 416, Precita on Tw N ion, [ to Pietro Belluomini, n street, 161 NW lot on NW line % SW of Twenty-ninth 100; also lot on S line 1 416, Prec stina Hansen to Louis G line of Twi 1 and Francis Patterson to Francls tus Jay and American Security Harriet zabeth P. and Trust Company of District of C {trustees for Kate La Montagne, Harriar s low and Elizabeth P. Patterson’ (equal shares all property of first p; , Whether derived | from estate of Bliza Patterson cor other- lr’g—mer‘::\ u)‘ Dlhng(:nf Columbia ana of San Francisco and State Gead 3k trut: 81 of California, J. Frank and Marea Walters to George A. Turper, lot on W line of Asbury street, i3 N of Seventeenth, N 50 by W 90, lots 6 and 7 block I, Park Lane Tract 7; $10. 2 Bernhard and Rose Getz {o Solomon Gets, lot on NW line of Lisbon street, 215 NE of China avenue, NE 50 by NW 100, block 17, Bxcelsior Homestead; §10, * home with the proceeds of | -fe State’s New Executive Becomes a Boy Again With National Guard Veterans He Once Commanded and Says His Head Was Bigger When He Was Their Captain Than It Will Be at Sacramento o — heads again, fellows that were old when Me- thuselah was born, and to retell stories that were told before the flood. But there's one thing, boys, I want to say to you, and that is this:' When I stepped out in front of Company A the first time I was more fmportant and my head was bigger than it will be when I am commander in chief of the National Guard of California. They tell us the National Guard is of no benefit—that it is all fuss and feathers and sgold lace and tomfoolery, but I want to recall those times when the country need® defenders —men to go and fight for us—it was the meu of the Natlonal Guard who responded to the call. Many of them went to the Philippines and found a grave there. They were good #oldiers and patriots, every one of them. The men of the National Guard are always ready and prepared to carry the flag on to victory, and when 1 hear them talk against it, it goes agalnst the grain. NOT FUN TO BE GOVERNOR. Now, maybe vyou think it is fun to become Governor of California. In the language of the street you probably think it is a “‘soft snap.’’ But it isn’t. It is the hardest kind of work. There are more things to be dodged and more to be denied than you ever could imagine. A fellow ought to have somebody to do nothing eise for him but set things right, but thanks to the boys who have stood by us, like ‘‘Sore- foot” Billy Wilkens and others, who went up and down saying “it's a lie,” We managed to make victory. ity THE ARMORY IN OAKLAND. AKLAND, Dec. 27.—Governor-elect Pardee was the guest of honor to- night. at a campfire gives by his comrades of “The Old Guard,” the veteran organization of Company A, Na- real good old times, where everybody called everybody else by thelr first name and sat down to camp fare of hardtack, beans and coffee, served with thick crock- and tin spoons. Dr. Pardee shook hands with all his old friends, showed that he had not forgotten any of their ristian names and was in the very midst of all the fun. He got into a scuf- fle with one of the old, old fellows in an zttempt to expose his bald head to the general gaze and succeeded in putting his man on the floor. Dr. Pardee sat next to Captain A. W. Burrell, the toastmaster, at the head of the table, and nearly suffocated him with smoke from a big corncob pipe. He was described on the programme as “Comrade George C. Pardee, the prodigal returned.” In introducing him Toastmaster Burrell likened him to the voung man of the Scripture, saying: Our comrade left his home many months ago to go out among the strange peoples of the land. He went to do politics, and he did it so0 well that we are glad to weicome him home with open arms, like the old father in the biblical story. Behold the prodigal son. Dr. Pardee might have been drowned in the deluge of applause that followed his ‘Water Front Litigation. OAKLAND, Dec. 27.—The litigation be- tween this city and the Oakland Water Front Company, involving elghteen blocks of water front, is in a fair way to be re- sumed. The water front company to-day filed 903 typewritten pages of amendments to a statement of the city asking for a new trial. It is expected the question of a new trial will be passed on within sixty days. — e — Commence New Car Line. BERKELEY, Dec. completed to-day for the Scenic Tract di- vision of the Telegraph avenue car line, be commenced immediately. The branch line will begin at the corner of Oxford street and Hearst avenue and run along the latter thoroughfare to Euclid, down Euclid to Hilgard avenue, thence to Arch street. —————— Chamber of Commerce Directors. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 27.—The Chamber of Commerce to-day elected- the following directors: ‘W. F. Frevert, J. S. Anter- man, G. W. Marston, L. L. Boone, IL. Mendelson, W. S. Waterman, H. L. Titus, N. Newkirk, D. F. Garretson, E. Strahi- man, A. F. Dill, C. F. Henking, L. S. Mc- Lure, I. L Irwin and F. B. Burnham. b The Board of Works has recommended to the Supervisors that Nineteenth ave- nue, from W street to Ocean avenue, be macadamized at a cost of $6000 to ‘the city. —————————— Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. Saturday, December 27. Stmr Geo W_Elder, Randall, 96 hours from Portland, via Astorla 63 hours. SAILED. Stmr Brunswick, Hammar, Fort Bragg. Saturday, December 2T. DOMESTIC PORT. GRAYS HARBOR—Salled Dec Santa Monica, for San Francisco, 27—Stmr tional Guard of California, of which Dr. | Pardee was once captain. It was of those | 27.—Surveys were | and the actual work of construction will | introduction. The whole company arose and gave three cheers and then drank his health. In acknowledgment Dr. Pardee straight to the soldler heart, saying: Boys—because for to-night you're all boys, even down to you old fellows who were boys When old Harry Morse was an old man, down to the newest recruit of Company A—I thank you. 1 hope yow'll all be boys all your lives, because there’s not half the joy and glory in casting off the years as in staying just as you are, having the best times of your lives right now. I remember the joy and pride I felt when all these bald heads nuw around me were boys like many of vou. I remember that we first met in Brown's old barn on Sixth street. The company was only eleven years old then, and we couldn’t afford a better armory. I remember how swelled up I was when I first shouldered a gun and stood in front of Com- pany A. Those were good times, the best we aver had or ever will have again. Those were the times when we knew nothing of the re- sponsibilities of life and hadn’t a dollar to our names, though we knew where to get one if we needed it. \HIS PROUDEST MOMENT. I remember the times we used to have in that old_armory. I remember the times, &ol- emn and impressionable, when, with muffled drums and reversed arms, we went out to the foothills escorting some dead comrade and do- ing the last sad rytes in his honor. I remem- ber how eager we were to go out there on Decoration day to fire the salute and decorate the graves of our comrades, who lle under the god and the rain and the dew. Now, it's good for us to gather around the campfire to tell stories and call each other by our first names. It's g0od even to hear Harry Morse's storles that are threadbare with use and age. It's good to meet these old bald TRUSTEES FIND THEY ARE ALONE University Authorities Decline to Back Movement. BERKELEY, Dec. 27.—Though the com- mittee of the Town Trustees appointed to confer with President Wheeler upon the lack of fire protection at the university miatter before the notice of the Legisla- ture has not as yet met in conference with him, it has been unofficially learnéd that the university authorities are not in sympathy with the movement inaugu- rated at the last meeting of that body. They are inclined to discredit Fire Chief Kenny’s report upon the unsafe condition of the various buildings from a fireman's point of view and to maintain that the force of janitors and workingmen about the ‘grounds is sufficient as a fire-fighting ferce. The lack of co-operation from the uni- versity authorities has paralyzed to a large degree the measures which were being set on foot to seek assistance from the lawmakers toward rendering the col- lege bulldings more safe from possible destruction from fire. It is the general feeling among the Trustees that no move- delivered himself of an address that went. and seek his co-operation in bringing the ! ment_can be made toward influencing the THE GUEST OF HONOR AND TWO OF THE SPEAKERS AT THE CAMPFIRE WHICH WAS GIVEN BY THE VETERANS OF THE “OLD GUARD” COMPANY, NATIONAL GUARD OF CALIFORNIA, LAST NIGHT AT I 1 | —— s Now, boys, I don't want to tell all the sto- ries. General Burrill has some. I know ‘em all, because I've heard them so many times. And old Harry Morse has a lot of chestnuts, and so bas old bald-headed Jerry Tyrrel stories that would bear telling even once again. Captain W. J. Petersen of the Police Department responded to the toast, *“The Mar Behind the Gun.” .He spoke of the policeman, the sailor and the soldier be- hind the gun and their usefulness and ther. of the good offices of arbitration, but the man behind-the ballot-box, he sald, was the greatest of all. He said: FITTED FOR HONOR The great gun of America is the ballot-box, rifled with freedom and charged with the solid shot of pubilc opinion. In the use of the bal- lot-box at the recent election the people made no mistake in electing Dr. Pardee to the high- est office, placing him in the Governor's chair to guide the State and Keep in the vam of progress for the future. We have tried him in the past and have always found him capable, consistent and honest and we are assured that in the future his eminent gualifications have fitted him for the honor the people of the State have accorded him. The other speakers were veterans, who had stories to tell of the past, and the young men, who hdd predictions for the future. The toasts and speakers were: ““The Old Guard,” Harry N. Morse; “Our Country—Right or Wrong,” A. L. Smith; “The Young Guard,” Major Charles Poul- ter; “The Man Behind the Book,” Lowell J. Hardy; “Running the Guard,” W. J. Downie; “The Native Sons,” J. Nagle; “©ompany A,” Captain E. G. Hunt Ladles,” G. B. Daniels. ‘The [] ’*%%'X*IWW%MWMMWMP e Train Kills Sectiqn Hand. PALO ALTO, Deec. 27.—Michael Burke, 2 section hand employed near San Jose, was struck by the northbound express a mile south of this place last night at 9:45 o'clock and died as a result of his in- Juries yesterday morning. When found on the track the man was still conscious. His right leg was entirely severed from his body. No other injuries were appar- ent. A check for $35 was found in his pccket, and it is thought that he had quit work and was probably making his way to San Francisco. @ iieliieidlelelein oo @ Legislature without the sanction and co- cperation of the authorities of the State ipstitution. The contention of the town fathers Is that the local volunteer fire department is not strong enough to give the coilege buildings the adequate protection which they need and that the State should make some effort to assist them in the same. Redmond C. Staats, one of the Trustees appointed on the committee to confer with President Wheeler, thus voices the sentiment of his colleagues: ‘We undertook this movement for the good of the university and not for what the town could get out of it. We did it because we did not feel that the town could go on trying to do a task which is manifestly too great for it. We are therefore sorry to learn that the university authorities are not with us, as we can do nothing without them, Fire Chief James Kenny lmd the fol- lowing to say to-day: ‘There is nothing in the report which I made to the Town Board which is not substantiated by fact, as I made a careful h lon of the college bnlldlnn and noted the glaring lack of fire protection in all of the buildings. The college authorities are so anxious to get new buildings that they do not care to make an agitation about the old omes. I see that a movement will be put on foot at the Legis- lature to insure the buildings, but will they insure the lives of the students who attend the present fire traps dally? SV LYLE'S EXIT REVEALS FRAUDS Creditors of Secretary Claim His Checks ) Are Bogus. Leaves Berkeley and Two of Its Citizens Hold His Paper. e BERKELEY, Dec. 21.—H. C. Lyle, ex- army officer, typewriter agent and sten- ographer, after a brief stay of two weeks in the college town stood not upon the order of his going when doubts began to arise as to the value of his checks. A boarding-house keeper and a real estate agent claim they are the losers by the hasty departure on Sunday last of the man of many trades. Representing himself as a West Point graduate and an ex-army officer from Maniila, Lyle was given a position as stenographer for President Benjamin Ide ‘Wheeler of the University of California two weeks ago, and he took up his resi-, dence with his wife and little son at the home of Mrs. Marion Lessey, 2107 HearsL avenue. He then rented a house from the real estate firm of Staats & Juster, though he did not occupy it. To his landlady Lyle gave a check for $20 and to the realty agents one for $30. Now thgt he has suddenly left the town it is claimed that the pleces of paper are worthless. CHRISTMAS SERVICES AT ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH In- Excellent Musical Programmes clude a Cantata to Be Sung in the Evening. OAKLAND, Dec. 27.—Christmas ser- vices, both morning and evening, at the First English Lutheran Church to-mor- row, will be unusually interestifig because of the excellent musical programmes to be rendered. These include several solos and a cantata. The latter is the work of Thomas O. Shepard and is to be sung un- der the direction of Choirmaster John C. Walling in the evening. The members of the choir of the First English Lutheran Church are: Sopranos—Miss Eugenia Eubank, Miss Katie Knutsen, Mrs. John C. Walling and Miss A. L. Miller. Altos—Mrs. W. H. Collins, Mrs. Alex Young; Mrs. Willlam Kelly and Miss M. B. Mauerhan, Tenors—Dr. O. 8. Dean and John Coombs. Bassos—O. J. Willlams and John C. ‘Walling. TELEGRAPH COMPANY SUES TO RECOVER TAXES Says Assessment of Franchise in Alameda County by Dalton Is Illegal. OAKLAND, Dec. 27. — The Western Union Telegraph Company to-day brought suit against the county of Alameda to recover $156 taxes paid on the company’s franchise in this county. The complaint alleges the franchise is not subject to local taxation, as it was issued by the United States Government under the act of Congress «of 1865, which provides that the Government shall in times of peace and war have precedence over all others. To help sustain this point the complaint recites that the franchise covers nearly 904,000 miles of wire in the United States, over 200,000 miles in the State of Califor- nia and 81,000 miles in the county of Ala- meda. y SEA CAPTAIN INSANE FROM BEING SHIPWRECKED OAKLAND, Dec. 27.—F. P. Anderson, a retired sea captain, is confined at the County Jail, pending an examination of his sanity on Monday next. According to the story of the aged mariner’s wife, her husband was shipwrecked in Oriental wa- ters a number of years ago and endured hardships which at the time unhinged his mind. He recovered his sanity, but since has been subject to periodical attacks. Last Saturday Captain Anderson made an attack upon his wife and another wo- man. He was arrested on the charge of disturbing the peace. Anderson, since his arrest, hasstalked in a rambling way. He resides near Fruitvale. —_———— PRAISES THE UNITED STATES. Baron de Constant Sends Strong Con- gratulations to the President. PARIS, Dec. 27.—Baron d'Estournelies de Constant, the French Deputy, who was one of the delegates of France to thé in- ternational peace conference and who is a meémber of The Hague arbitration tri- bunal, has written a strong congratula- tory letter to President Roosevelt on the submission of the Venezuelan arbitration to The Hague court. The letter expresses the view widely prevailing in official and diplomatic circles here that the American course not only adjusts the immediate is- sue, but saves The Hague tribunal from practical extinction. The Baron says in part: A great_number of Frenchmen and Euro- peans are happy to join with me in expressing o you their sratitude for the generous, um- yielding firmness you have displayed in’ sup- port of International justice. Europe is con- stantly speaking of ~American competition, which has its meterial advantages in stimu- lating our energies, but you have inaugurated a moral_comoetition more effective than the other. Twice you haveememinded the govern- ments of their duty, pointing out amid the difficulties resulting from the transformatiorn of the globe that the court of arbitration of- fered the governments its resources and the Jurisdiction_instituted by all and that it was always ready. This surisdiction had been boycotted. By a silent, senile understanding the governments thought to abandon The Hague tribunal. Oa the morrow of its official creation it was about to perish through ill-willewhen you came to protest against the attempt which was threat- ening the liberties of the world. To two republics of the worli—the United States and Mexico—belong the honor of open- ing In the face of passive Europe the gates of The Hague tribunal. This first lesson ought to have been sufficient, but it was humiliating to find recently that not a single authorized voice was raised to remind the powers of their duty, plainly assumed under article 17, only three The Initiative of the United States, compared with the paralysis of Europe, is a sign of the times which a European must have the courage to recognize. Honor to your Government, which has un- derstood that amid the generai abstention some one had to awzken the others from their leth- argy and lead them forward In the way of justice and progress. Marietta Is Recalled. CARACAS, Dec. 27.—In order to avoid any embarrassment through a wrong in- ierpretation being placed. on her presence at La Guaira, the United Sthtes gunboat Marletta’ will leave to-morrow for Wil- lemstad, Curacao, where she will remain subject to a call from Mipister Bowen. ——— PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 2T—The United States crulser Panther sailed to-day ekl g Adm!fl[ League Island Dl'wcy'l fleet at Culehrl Ifl.lnd. 'X'M Panther 250 seamen for Dowey s bl UNGLE oM CREDIT FOR IT ALL Castro Learns Through The Call That Peace Is at Hand. Thanks the United States for Having Arranged Arbitration. BY STEPHEN BONSAL. smm leo to ‘l'lu ,&u !ort Hmld Publishing Comm:’- 5 N" LA VICTORIA, Venezuela, Dee. 27.-I arrived at President Castro's headquar- ters in this town at noon to-day, bearing a cablegram from The Call and the Herald, which was the first news that reached this country that the Venezuelan difficul- ty had been referred to The Hague tri- bunal for final settlement. President Castro was evidently greatly gratifled at the course which events had taken. Concerning the subject of arbi- tration President Castro sald: “We would have preferred to have Pres- ident Roosevelt as arbitrator rather than a foreign tribunal, but we are convinced of the justice of our cause and of the sin- cerity of oug,good friends in Washington. “We adopt with great willingness the course which they -wish us to pursue in this matter. “When the facts of the whole incident with the forelgn governments are placed before this august tribunal, all the world will see that we have acted well within our rights and with a coolness of de- meanor not generally looked for in a trop- ical people. “On the other hand, we regret to say tbat the violent conduct of Germany ane to a less degree, that of England, h: tended to bring international and older civilizations into disrepute in South Amer- jea. For this I am sorry. “I am much gratified that the danger- ous phase of the crisis has apparently passed and that the question has entered | upon a legal stage. “For this result and for their wise counsel Venezuela thanks her geod friends iIn Washington.” TEXT OF PRESIDENT'S NOTE. Gives Reasons “for Declining the Position of Mediator. ROME, Dec. 27.—Embassador Meyer to- day presented to the Foreign Office Prest- dent Roosevelt’s note on the subject of Venezuelan arbitration. The President says that, although he is very much gratified at the confidence the powers have shown in him by choosing him as arbitrator, which position he would have accepted if there were no other means of golving the question, he believes it better to submit the case to The Hague tribunal, especially as all of the powers concerned are willing. The President adds that, as there is no cuestion of national homor or cession of territory involved, after thorough con- sideration and in accord with all the powers concerned, who have shown an Eonorable spirit of mutual consideration and moderation, he is glad to be informed that they all have agreed to submit the question to The Hague tribunal. ACCEPTS THE SITUATION. Germany Prepares to Submit Her Case to The Hague. BERLIN, Dec. 27.—The German Govern- ment is disappointed by President Rogse- velt’s declination to be arbitrator in the Venezuelan dispute, but in pursuance of his decision will correspond at once with Great Britain and Italy on the subsidiary questions that must now be agreed upon, such as the raising of the blockade and the definite form of request whereby Ven- ezuela on one side and Germany, Great Britain and Italy on the other, will ask The Hague tribunal to adjust the dis- pute. The interchange of views on these and other requirements probably will take place at Washington, where the Embas- sadors could confer freely with Secretary Hay and obtain through him President Castro’s assent to the precise proposi- tions. The Lokal Anzeiger's Caracas corre~ spondent says: President Castro is one of the Venezuelans who do_not distrust the Yankees, Minister Bowen has his confidence fully. The Ger- man wholesale merchants- would regret arbl tration if it tends to American financial con- trol instead of international. Some of them have declared emphatically that if American control is established it would be better to transfer their business relations forthwith from Hamburg to New York. President Castro intends conflscating the property of British, German and Italian sub- jects whenever the blockade exhausts his re- sources. - The Foreign Office officials hers deciine to indicate what Germany will do regard- ing President Castro’s reported demand that the powers raise the blockade and restore the Venezuelan fleet before Ven- ezuela will accept The Hague arbitration. ity DR AMERICA AS “GOOD FRIEND” Assists in ll’ognthm as to Arbi- tration Methods. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—There is now in progress an active exchange of notes between the allied powers, Venezuela and the United States respecting the method of submitting to arbitration the issues’ which have arisen between Venezuela and the allies. It is explained at the State Department that the part of the United States Government just nmow is that of “good friend’ to all parties; that it is not underaking to draw up protocols or im- pose limitations upon the parties, but is confining its offices to getting them to- gether and keeping them so. In this view it will not be necessary for our Govern- ment to prescribe how the Monroe doc- trine skall or shall not figure in the prctocols; it will jpdge for itself by re- sults how our interests are affected and will not indulge in premature or uncalled for protg The ght of official opinion here this afternoon was that several days at least must elapse before anything in the nature of a preliminary protocol could be made ready for signature. German insirtence upon a prepayment of 10 per cent of her fuil claims before submitting her case to arbitration, and, perhaps, President Cas- tro's resistance to meeting what the al- hes regard as the obligations of honor, are believed to be now the pohl(! but it is to be hoped that these ean within the next few days, and it. is further hoped that some arrange- ment will be made in the preliminary protoeol for the raising of the blockade, though it is intimated that the allied ships will be kept ready to remnew it in case of the . default on the part of Venezuela in her obligations. ‘Washington having beea the pivot about which all the negotiations have turned up to this period, it is surmised that it may alsc be the scene of the finalact—the sign- ing of the protocol, either by the resident representatives here of those interested or by special agents sent to this newssed zround for the purposey 5