The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1903, Page 1

YOLUME XCIII-NO. 55, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1903. .~ Y. . “RRICE FIVE CENTS. SAN CARLOS GARRISON HOLDS OUT AGAINST GERMAN BOMBARDMENT Y STABS WIFE HURL BREAD TO.DEATH IN | AT SON CF h QUARREL Insult German Broker. Carries Dying Victim Berlin War Minister’s to His Room on Heir the Object His Back. of Attack. UnfriendlyToastsAre Drunk and He Is Pelted With Edibles. to The Call Murders Woman on Street. Charlotte Molin Witnesses Bloody Deed and Fiend Is Arrested. 23.—Henry he German Min- r, who came to America to be man and who is now a curb as the center of a ation ear! ugly anti- “ lled “Hum- z begun thelr ¢ x - ed. On his o f the “Birds” rose, and, high in the air, pointed t drinking unfriendly, toasts .and opped, thunderstruck, for o his nation 4 a *“bird” hurled a hand- m. Insta there was buns, b ued He ate a untit few and he y again OIL FLOODS FLOORS OF REDONDO'S HOMES DONDO, Jan. ~Twenty-nine thou- f ol rushed upon the beach of tén minutes this moi six Inches deep on iron between the first sheet of the blg Standard Oil broke out, making an ur feet in diameter, through rolled out in a shining il the last gallon was gone y's loss is said to be e the damage to cottages erty will be $5000 more. rict which is flooded with sarded against fire, which - most disastrous. The dis- ed at an old tank which was close months ago. —— . PRIVATE fENS!ON BILLS ARE PASSED IN THE HOUSE WASHINGTON, CAGNI TO APPEAR LOCAL PLAYHOUSE AT A Jan. 22.—The House private pension bills ns to the widow of t 310 a month, the is Negley at $50 Admiral Henry Engagement in d Leaves Chi- laskan Delegate bill was passed. s for the representation of the v of Alaska in the House of Rep- es by a Delegate. It also de- hip and the qualification nd creates the machinery for the date of which shall be ay in September. The first e ig to be elected next autumn 1d a seat in the Fifty-eighth statement question ¢ vanced in completion and used on vessels if necessary. “I am. of course,a believer in the most thorough inspection of workman- e I S RSSO S sk - S IOV SOSELER: Richard Fitzgerald Wall - Street Men" the whole assemblage was on | 1 of hie father’s proud | but regard the affair | While he | cracked | SHIPS’ GUNNERS ARE BUSILY BOMBARDING VENEZUELAN FORT M ARACAIBO, Jan. 23 —At 2o’clock this afternoon Fort San Caries was in the possession of the Government forces, and the bombardment by the German warships was still going on. situation. inside the bar. There has been no material change in the The gunboat Panther was the only vessel to come Communication with the fort is very difficult. Great excitement prevails in Maracaibo. von | to-day at a | | by the curb brokers at | -sixth street and Colum- | for purposes of eat- | Humming | ing, ;Rifle Bullets Cause | War Vessel to Retire. B | boat Restaurador, now in posses i sion of the Germans, arrived at | LLa Guaira at 2 o'clock this after- | noon from Puerto Cabello and | | anchored near the shore. Her | | | < | | | San on ARACAS, Jan, 23.—Ad- vices which day from both Carlos, Lake Maracaibo. cruisers Vineta Wednesday, and continued came to- Maracaibo, official and pri- vate, agree in declaring that the Venezuelan garrison commanded by General Bello still holds Fort at the entrance to The German Gazelle, which began to bombard the fort to | presence caused great popular Commander of Kaiser’s Fleet Sends Gun- | indignation. At 3 o'clock several boat Close to La Guaira to invite Attack From the Shore. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1903, by the Herald Publishing Company. | rifle shots were heard in the dis- taurador left her anchorage and moved to a position outside the { harbor and under the protection | of the guns of the British cruiser | five | imiles distance. The stonework Enf the fort has been broken into | fragments by the German shells| the Germans since the capture. |and pulverized into the earth- Her anchoring close in to shore works. The Venezuelan Gov-|was taken by the populace, in ernment now believes that Gen- | view of the Maracaibo occur- eral Bello can maintain his posi- | rences, as a direct provocation to tion in the fort—this despite the | retaliation. It is not known where fact that it has had no direct ne\\‘si the rifle shots of this afternoon 1 i shell it to-day, firing at Tribune. The Restaurador had been armed, equipped and manned by from him to-day. were fired, but it is believed that The former Venezuelan gun-|the precaution of the Restaura- | tance. Shortly afterward the Res- | S NIXON of the shipbuilding trust, when interviezwed by a rep- > 0f The Call last night and asked hozw fast the yards of the States could turn out warships in case of emergency; how:soon wld be built on special call; if private work would interfere, and les, if any exist, might be removed, gave the following signed nging a staff of competent inspectors at cach plant that every be instantly settled without reference to the department, and by accepting material as it came from the mills without doing other than insure attention as would produce uniformly good material, I believe a battleship i be built in fourteen months. The army has a number of guns in process | of building at Bethlehem. While not knowing the exact state of the orders, by using the gun plants of the Govermment to supplement they could be greatly ad- BATTLESHIPS COULD BE BUILT RAPIDLY IN CA ship and material under ordinary circumstances, where time is really not of great importance, but in emergency much of this must be dispensed with. “Once I built fourteen steel vessels, several of them steamers, using in all sixteen engines, and ran trials before loading them, in eighty-five working days. Under ordinary circumstances I should have asked for a year. During the last war [ built two water boats in one-half the time that I had ordinarily thought 1 could do it. “We have during the past few years developed a superb shipbuilding per- sonnel here, and there are a number of plants where work can be done, and 1n- der the conditions above mentioned e could easily produce in this country twen- ty battleships in the time stated. This would mean that the steel plants should rise, as of course they would, to the patriotic demands of the occasion and tirn their great resources to the production of the material needed. “Private work would not interfere, as of course under such circumstances it would have to give precedence to the naval work. The interference of private —_—m m VN €" - be given. call of any mand now terial, they furnaces. SE OF EMERGENCY | work is not really hurtful in the work as usually carried on. nien must be employed and kept available as needed, and sometimes worked on private work when it might seem possible to work them on some part of war vessels, when as a matter of fact the builder has looked ahcad and ar- ranged to employ them so that all parts may progress in such way as to secure the carliest completion of the whole vessel. Many concrete examples of this can “The Government should always kecp at least six months ahead of the measure all forms of construction, and especially those where delay is occa- sioned by very rigid inspection. T, Vor, CAKON | ON RiICETHOFEN. } ! f | ! | —p | Time for American Interference Not Yet at Hand. R to The Call. ] | | Geyera H %/77.'05. I ALL BUREAU, 4% @ | STREET. N. W., WASHING- i TON, Ja —*“The bombard- rman warships of | % " the Venezuelan forts is mo || Two FoEs oF casTro AND concern of the United States BIRDSEYE VIEW OF WAR | | Government—yet. The time has not yet DISTRICT. come for intervention. But the situation | is very annoying. | %= o A This is the very significant statement made to-day by an official of the State Department, whose opinions are conserv- tive and whose utterances notably so. urthermore, this may be regarded as practically official. The Venezuelan situation was discussed at iength at the Cabinet meeting. The consensus of opinion was practically the same as the statement just given. The consideration in the Cabinet is described | dor in moving, from the shore | { was timely, as the hungry unem- | | ployed populace of La Guaira, | excited by recent events and| driven to desperation by their| condition, had applied to the lo- cal authorities for arms and pro- | Continued on Page 3, Column 4. -+ | Continued on Page 3, Column 3. ! All classes of they are possible emergency in the projectiles and ammunition. The great de- existing for every sort of structural material obstructs in a great Zvery one being after the makers of raw ma- naturally aim to please those whose orders can be most casily filled and in whose production they can realize the maximum output of their mills and LEWIS NIXON.” e