The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1903, Page 1

'Y OF taken from the Library.++++ VOLUME XCIII-NO. PRICE FIVE CENTS. POPE’S HEART IS TOUCHED BY A MAGNIFICENT TRIBUTE OF LOVE FROM HIS PEOPLE iy RONA Twenty-Fifth Anni h The twenty- of the cor XIIT was c Ma ebrated v with all the grandeur ar associated he with Cath- ceremonies of t » part of the e within w such s the ous demonstrations frection for the aged | the sacred edifices in Rome convents, seminaries— n! also houses were nated in commemoration of the event, the T ever quarter and the Leonine City ally presenting a blaze -of the general effect was heigh burning of bengal firts threughout Pope Leo, who supported ad- fatigue and excitement of ceremony, after having retir arose from his couch, and, going to the window of his bedroom, gazed for a while por scene of illumination. PONTIFF DEEPLY TOJCHED. e view from the Vatican embracing P tch of seven miles brilliant with | marvelous one, and the Pon- as he withdrew from the ndeed, be a pleasant thing P in 8t. Peter's Cathedral irs and a ‘quarter and, al- noticeable that Pope Leo | 1 ’ f his receut cold, all| w see he seem- . s & gestures heering which departure gave rought a faint r”l h | OPLE IN MANY LANDS JOINED IN CELEBRATING THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNI- 4‘ ) D TYPICAL SCENES ATTENDING ASSEMBLED MULTITUDE. % | | | + 1 HIS ENTRY TO ST. PETER'S th ration r" e Vatican could be formed by the fact it was utterly impossible to get a he ay, especially as it was rain- age if advance. ent. There were assembled undreds of 1 rious modern uniforms, making a stri s Papal Guards on duty at the bronze doors of the cathedral. The vrowds which gathered before the st cordon of troops were impatient, as stood dripping under the persistent There was a great clasping of um- llas and a general feeling of discom- rt among the waiting sightseers, who ded many women in varied attire, comprising foreigners of all nationalities and Italians from all parts of the coun- . the uniformity of the crowd being Jleasantly broken by groups of sisters In the different gowns of their orders, Cath- students and picturesquely attired triars. When finally the doors of St. Peter's were opened an almost indescribable struggle occurred, in which all present forgot the rules of holiness and strove hard with push of elbows and feet to reach the interfor of the sacred edifice, while on all sides were heard erles of fear and imprecations not very well suit- ed to the spot where a notable religious ceremony was about to begin. CATHEDRAL SOON CROWDED. Once inside the cathedral the ladies who wore lace gowns found them to be In a much mutilated conditicn and some of | the women were carried away fainting. < h ce. After the i er £ 0 o . x condition | v a found him we for the fatigue he had i ve rdered him to res last visit, up to the um RCME ASTIR AT SUNRISE, ail Rome was on rom sunrise to-¢ dlert and showing unusual animation Mnd’ interest. | Crown The tribunes were soon crowded to over- flowing and all the best standing pldces were taken. A period of comparative calm succeed- ed this great rush and the attention of the people was attracted to the gilded throne near the high altar and to the.im- mense pillars 8f the basilica hung with red silken draperies. Some cf the tribunes on cach side of the altar were filled with men and women blazing with decortitions in a group of royal personages were the Princess Victoria of Sweden and Norway, the Countess Mathilde of Trani, of the Bourbon-Naples family; the Grand This was especially notice- | Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, Duke Robert able at the large hotels, which were il | Of Parma, the Grand Duchess of Meck- luminated as though for a ball. An idea .of e numer of persons congregated at Continued on Page 5, Colunm 4. versary of the Coronation of Leo XIii Is Made the Occasion of a Display of Reverence. vehicle had not been or- | the prices charged for those | on the plazza of St. Peter's | 551550 with lighted candles throughout ~ | and above the altar the decorations con- | crowned by the Popg coat-ot-arms. ITH joyous song and prayer the coronation jubilee of his Holiness Pope Leo XIII was celebrated the, whole of yes- terday at St. Anthony's Chtrch. The altar was the hours of worship and thanksgiving, sisted of white and yellow silken scarfs At 8 o’clock in the morning Rev. Father Raphael Fuhr, rector of St. Anthon: led the ministerial procession to the al- tar. Rev. Father M. P. Smith of St. Mary’s (Paullst) Church was celebrant of the solemn high mass, assisted by Rev. Father Lunney and Rev. Father Simeonl of the Salesian Brothers. The Rev. Father Smith preached the sermon, taking his Holiness Pope Leo XI1II as his subject. He laid stress upon the extraordinary fact of Pope Leo cele- brating the silver jubilee of his pontifi- cate, his golden jubilee as Cardinal and his diamond jubllee as a Bishop. TELLS OF POPE’S YOUTH. Father Smith said that Leo was born In Carpinetg in March, 1810, and was of no- ble “family. After distinguishing himself in an extraordinary course of studies he becdme a priest 4t an unusually early age. Father Smith said that the children of the congregation’ which he addressed might liye to be as old as his Holiness, whose age was 93 vears, and never again. see a_ceremony such as they had met to celebrate. In 1900 years, he said, there had been only three who had reigned as Pope for twenty-five years—St. Peter, Pius IX and Leo XIII. In consideration of his high office the Pope was always dear to Catholics, and he was obeyed, said Father Smith, because he was the successor of St. Peter, to whom Christ gave subreme power to teach and to rule. ‘When it happened, as in the present case, that one filled the office who had such a charming personality, such great natural | powers and one whq had manifested such speclal love for America, their devotion became increased. Father Smith asked his hearers to pray for the continued lifs of his Holiness, and that ‘hen it pleased God to call Leo XIII he would be crowned with glory for his long life of labor. CROWD AT SERVICE. At T:45 o'clock In the evening there was a service in the church attended by a congregation which filled every part of the edifice. The worshipers even throng- pay the taxes on the lots, REGORD TELL TALE OF CRIME Forged Deed Foist- ed Upon Buyer of Realty. State Prison Doors May Open for Con- spirators, Detectives on Trail and Arrests Are Hourly Expected. For some weeks detectives connected with the San Francisco Police Depart- ment have been trying to land behind prison bars a person or persons respon- sible for one of the most daring attempts to steal realty through forgery and per- jury that has ever been perpetrated in San Francisco. The crime ranks with the celebratédl looting of the Sullivan estate, which resulted in Attorney John M. Chre- tfen donning prison stripes. There appears in the case a “dummy”” with a State prison record, upon whom there is a frantic effort to shift the re- sponsibility for the crime. This myste- rious person is especially being sought. The police investigation will eventually determine who Is responsible for the erime, and arrests are expected. The “dummy” appeared on the scene as a convict of twenty years who had just heen released from 8San Quentin. He claimed to own the realty in question, and posing as the owner and giving the name of the man who in fact owned it, though that man had been dead six months, fixed his assumed name to a deed conveying it to another. The realty in question consists of three lots in South San Francisco and is worth about $1500. DISCOVERS CRIME. The property belongs te the estate of the late Luke McCarty of Mountain View, Santa Clara County. He died on July 23, 1901, leaving an orchard worth $15,000 and the realty In San Francisco, lots 9 and 10, block 1, Railroad and Salinas avenues, and lot 34, block 3, Starr street and Paul avenue. These lots he left by will to his three minor chéidren to go to them when they should be of age. Mrs. Delia Mc- Carty, widow of the deceased, applied for letters of administration, 'with the will annexed. She died on February 1902, J. J. Clarke, the well-known grocer of 2604 Mission street, thilf city, who was Mrs. McCarty's brother, was then granted letters of guardianship upon the estates of the orphans by the Santa Clara County Superior Court and was made administra- tor of the estate. Mr. Clarke called at the San Francisco ax Collector’s office in November, 1902, to He was great- ly surprised when informed that they were the property of Thomas J. Me- Naughton of 911% Harrison street. They had been sold to McNaughton by Luke McCarty, a Deputy Tax Collector said, on February 5, 1902, the same day that Mrs. McCarty had been laid at rest. “But Luke McCarty was dead months before that date,” Clarke in bewilderment. He went to the Recorder's office and found that a deed purporting to convey the lots described from Luke McCarty to Thomas J. McNaughton had been re- corded there on February 5, 1902. Inves- tigation showed that the sale had been made through Joost, Fisher & Co., real estate agents, with Charles C. Fisher as witness and Holland Smith as notary. The title was guaranteed by the Califor- nla Title, Insurance and Trust Company. CLARKE IS AMAZED. Filled with amazement at the bold crime that he saw unraveled before him, Clarke went to the Title Insurance Company and laid his discoveries before Manager Spotts, Mr. Spotts saild at once that if what Mr. Clarke sald, was true he would spare no effort to have the gullty persons pun- ished, and told the guardian of the Mc- Carty orphans to call again soon. Mr. Clarke was taken 1ill about that time and was in bed till near the end of January, this year. He was sent for at that time by the Title Insurance Com- pany and informed that the deed to Me- Naughton was a forgery and that the company had paid him’back the sum he had paid for the lots, about $500, the price itself being calculated to arouse suspi- clon, as it was only one-third of what the lots were worth. “I demanded an explanation of Fisher,” said Mr. Clarke last night, “and he claimed that a Luke McCarty did exist and that he could produce him. He claim- ed to believe that the ‘dummy’ used in the transaction was the real Luke Mc- Carty. “The lots were secured by Luke Mec- Carty through the Garden Tract Home- stead Assoclation in 1872, Isaac L. Bailey of 911% Harrison street owns property adjoining them, and McNaughton, who bought them, rooms at Bailey's house. The lots have lain unoccupied, but the taxes have been paid on them each year. Bailey knew this, for he subsequently told me so. WAS ADVISED BY BAILEY. “Fisher came out to see me once after my discovery of the forgery and I told him that it loked bad for some one. He seemed scared and said it was a bad fix and he didn’t care to gét mixed in it any further. He went away, saying he'd six exclaimed Continued on Page 5, Column 5. Continued on Page 4, Column 1, JAN FRANCISCO MEN INCORPORATE ‘TQ BUILD ROAD TO SALT LAKE Scheme Is Capitalized at Fifty Million Dollars and Large Amount Now ‘ Stands as Subscribed. Projector :S'ays Eastern Money Is Behind | Select Beckwith Pass for the Route Over GRIFFITN FHOTO - SOME OF THE CALII-‘:ORNIA MEN O MO EY WHO ARE ASSOCIATED IN THE NEWLY LAUNCHED BEN- TERPRISE TO GIVE THIS CITY ANOTHER RAIL CONNECTION' WITH THE TRA) THAT TERMINATE AT SALT LAKE CITY. SCONTINENTAL LINES HE Western Paclfic Rallway { Company was incorporated in this city yesterday for the pur- pose of buflding a transconti- nental rafiway from San Fran- cisco, via Oakland, Stockton, Marysville, Oroville, along the North Fork of the Feather River, through Sierra Valley.in Plumas County, through ‘the Beckwith Pass in the Sterra Nevada Mountains and | across Nevada to Salt Lake City; also to build branch lines to San Jose from Hay- wards, to San Leandro, to Berkeley, to Centerville from Dumbarton Point, to San Jose along the San Francisco peninsula and the intervening counties of San Ma- teo and Santa Clara, to Sacramento from Oakland; from Point Richmond to a point twenty-seven miles distantion the branch line to Sacramento, to Fresno from Stock- ton, to Chico from Oroville, from the junction of the East Fork of the Feather River and Spanish Creek, to Big Mead- ows, in Plumas County; from Beckwlth to a point on the Truckee River in Ne- vada County, and other branches to cities, towns and villages adjacent to the main line and branch lines. ¢ The total length of the main line it is said in the articles of incorporation will be 810 miles. The total length of the proposed branch lines brings the trackage provided for up to 1250 miles. The capitalization is fixed at $50,000,000. The articles set forth that there has been actually subscribed $1,500,000. The names of the subscribers and the amounts set against thelr names as stock subscrip- tions are: Henry F. Fortmann, $1000; J. Dalzell Brown, $1000; A. C. Kains, $1000; John Treadwell, $1000; F. M. West, $1000; Walter J. Bartnett, $1,490,000; James Treadwell, $1000; David F. Walker, §1000; George A. Batchelder, $100; John Lloyd, $1000; C. A. Gray, $1000. The capital stock is divided into 500,000 shares of the par value of $100 each. Walter J. Bartnett, who has been con- cerned in the formation of the San Fran- cisco Terminal Railway and Ferry Com- pany and the Stockton and Beckwith Pass Rallway Company and who is the largest subscriber for stock in the new corpora- tion, said yesterday that the fcorporators repredent Eastern interests. Beyond this he would make no statement. THE INCORPORATORS. The incorporators are well knpwn in this Stfte. Henry F. Fortmann is the president of the Alaska Packers' Asso- ciation. J. Dalzell Brown is general man- ager of the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company. A. C. Kains is officially connected with the Pacific Coast branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. prominently identified with ' mining in Alasffa. F. M. West is the president of the Stockton Savings and Loan Society. Walter J. Bartnett is an attorney, presi- dent of the San Francisco and San Joa- quin Coal Company and is connected with the California. Safe Deposit and Trust Company. David F. Walker is a banker and capitalist, with large interests at Salt Lake, now a resident of San Mateo County. George A. Batchelder is the Pa- John Treadwell and James Treadwell are | cific Coast representative of E. H. Rol- lins & Co. John.Lloyd is president of the German Savings and Loan Soclety of San Francisco. C. A. Gray is an assistant of Mr. Bartnett. His interest, Mr. Bart- nett says, will be taken by other parties later. Tmmediately preceding the incorporation ment was made that Bartnett and Brown | were concerned in purchasing for some- | thing like $1,000,000 eight acres of land south of the tract bought by the Santa Fe Raflway Com- pany for terminal purposes at the Potrero in this city. Bartnett and Brown de- cline to bel interviewed concerning this purchase. - The connection between this and the new railway project seems to be clear, however. The purposes of the Western Pacific Raflway Company -are set forth in. the | articles of incorporatign to be to con- | struct, purchase, lease, own, acquire, op- erate and maintain lines of raflroad with- |in the States of California, Nevada and Utah; to purchasé and hold terminal etc.; to build and maintain docks, wharves, warehouses, carshops, coal chutes and coal bunkers, steamships, barges, trans- ports, ferry-boats and tugs; to acquire by purchase the property and franchises of the Alameda and San Joaquin Railroad Company, the San Francisco Terminal Rallway and Ferry Company, the Stock- ton and Béckwith Pass Railway Company and the Sacramento and Oakland Rail- way Company. The properties of these several companies, it is set forth, ‘“are or may be so situated and located as to convenlently and - approprigtely become and be made a part of the sald main line of rallroad described in these articles of incorporation or branch lines thereof and connecting with said main line.” These provisions contemplate taking In the lines under which rights of 'way have been obtained on the east shore of the bay in Oakland and at various places on the way to Beckwith Pass. The right of way is reported to have been secured from Oakland to Stockton and for a large part of the distance to Beckwith Pass. The description of the direction to be tak- en by the mainline is as follows: MAIN LINE ROUTE. Commencing at the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, running thence in and through the said city and county of San Francisco, and along, over and across the streets, alleys and squares thereof; thence by ferry and barge system to the city of Oakland, Alameda County, California; thence in. and through said city of Oakland and along, over and across the streets, alleys and squares thereof; thence southeasterly and easterly by a convenient, practical and feasible route to a point on the boundary line between the said county of Alameda and the county of San Joaquin, State of California; thence in a gen- eral easterly, northeasterly and northerly di- Lm,u.,.. by a convenient, practical and feasible route to the cify of Stockton, said® county of 'San Joaquin: tfence in a general northwesterly and northerly direction by a convenient, prac- tical amd feasible route to the city of. Sacra- of the Western Pacific Railway announce- | a tract of seventy- | property, real éstate und other property, | nia: thence in and through said city of Sacra mento and along, over and across the stree alley® and squares thereof; thence in a genera northerly direction by a convenlent, practical and ' feasible route to the city of Marysville, | county of Yuba, State of California; thence in a general mortherly. direction by a comvenfent practical and feasible route to the town Oroville, county of Butte, State of Calffornia thence by a convenient, practical and feasibls | route nosthierly and northeasterly slong the north fork of the. Feather River, easterly and northeasterly along ‘the east branch the morth fork of Feather River; . southerly and southeasterly along Spanish Creek and Spring Garden Creek, southeasterly and mortheasterly along the middle fork of the Feather River to a point in Slerra Valley, county of Plumas, State of Calffornia; thence easterly by a con- venient, practical and feasible. route across said Slerra Valley and through Beckwith Pass to'a point on the boundary line between the States of California and Nevada: thence in a general northeasterly and easterly direction by a convenient, practical and feasible route across said State of Nevada to a point om the boun dary line between the States of Nevada and Utah: thence In a general easterly direction by a conventent, practical and feastble route to a point in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, sald State of Utah. The principal branch lines provided for are those to San Jose, to Sacramento and way points and to Fresno and way points It will be noticed that provision is also made for a local service to the large cities and towns on the bay in Alameda County The routes of the longer branch lines are described as follows: PRINCIPAL BRANCHES. An Intermediate branch line, having fts in- itial point on the sald main line in the city and county of San Francisco, running thence in and through sald city and county of San Francisco and along, over and across the streets, alleys and squares thereof; thence In a general southerly and southeasterly direction along the San Francisco Peninsula to and /®hrough the city of San Jose. The estimated length of said branch line is forty-nine miles, An iIntermediate branch line, having its in- itial point on the sald main line at or near the sald ‘city of Oakland, and rumning thence In a general easterly and northeasterly direc. tion through the countles of Alameda, Contras @osta, Solano, Yolo and Sacramento to and through the sald city of Sacramento. The esti- mated length of said branch line ia ninety-five miles, An Intermediate branch line, having its In. ftial point on the sald main line &t or near the town of Haywards in Alameda County, California, and running thence southerly to and through the city of San Jose. The estl- mated length of sald branch line s twenty. five miles. An intermediate branch line, having its In. itfal point on the said main !ine near the city of Stockton, running thence in a general south. Lnnn’ly direction to and through the city of Fresno, county of Fresno, State of Cali. fornfa. The estimated length of said branch line is 113 miles, An intermediate branch line, having its in. itial point on the said rgain line in, at or near the sald town of Oroville, thence in a general northwesterly direction to, In and through the mento, county of Sacraments, State of Califor-| Continued on Page 2, Columa 1.