The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIII=-NO. 107. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, ARCH 17, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. USEa PIATOL GTREET GAR [0 GET BACK ' EMPLOYES iER MONEY WAIT REPLY Widow Coerces Chi- Present Their Full cago Clubmanin = Demands Upon His Office. Company. Sensational Sequel to Expect Answer From a Romance Begun Manager Chapman | in London, During Week. | l United Railroads Seems Ready to Resist and Strike | May Come. Qwen Burns, Well Known "rancisco, a Principal. Dan oyes of the United Ralilroads committee, presented railway corporation emed an ultimatum. The 1 declare that they wish to avoid , but say also that they will not m any demands made. ive statement to the action oration would be gi n out of ed Rallroads, there is that demands heir yes- the the as at but the made company and At 1 w e the accept the result. forenoon a ancisco division of | ociation of Street | erica called clock in the f he San F Amalzam As com- ted on - s Manager the street railway . corporatio: ed the formal de- ds of mb a lengthy, » . man mbraced in a lengthy - 2 typewr ment in the form of an a youn A - f 3 = agreemer e committee consisted of Va first meet- - A the following named members of the ex- > | Cornel presi- She was then the P < P 2 Vicd Skt vice president; A. E I . J Mason and of admir- ands presented are as follows: | rns’ suggestion Artic Section 1 r of the discuss the question t par rough its properly edited offi- | s - will at es treat with the Amalga- | a owed her. While | matg Association of Str Employes | America, Division No. co, ugh 118 properly accredited officers. The properly accredited officers of | of discassion De- had been summoned ik r, entered the room. e | the a t 11 have power to adjust IGNORES THE OFFICER. . |5 ieociation shail bavegomer 58 St bt | “Whe that man™ demanded Mrs | Parties herelo with the properly aveicfited witia | s | cers of the company, subject to the approval of | « R the assoclation. = | m a police officer, madam,” volub- | g 3 In case of failure to adjust said dif- ‘ I'm here to keep the | ferences the matter may be referred to the have been dis- | president and board of directors of the com- 3 this office.” pany M £y T 2 . business arising between 2 . e it pow® 224 | the arties hereto shall be transcted dicectly o 0 L | by the properly accredited officers of the com- 1 ing a stormy | pany and the properly accredited officers of the | asting 1 2. m. 10 2 o'clock in | association, respectively r Bec 11 men when employed by the company B i v S term of thirty da. said thirty days, said employes’ be discharged by the | e be retained in had service a check for before e discharged, a ye s retained said employe, 4 it become a member this assoclation, and no such employe shall ned foe of the company un- septed as a member of this assoclation; however. t members of the A. A. | of A. in good standing shall be given ference in securing employment Se hat any member of this association who has been or shall hereafter be elected to ¥ office of this assogiation which requires his his dutles with the company shall m said office be reinstated ith the company. i FULL LIBERTY ASKED. 7. Employes of this company shall have led, of course, ot unfit themselves for the discharge ties of their respective positions Employes of this company shall ride within the limits of the city n Franclsco upon showing employes shall be fu ished A : with a badge entitling them to free transporta- eman of Kentucky - | o Astor crowned as | Sec. 9. All general rules of the company New | shall be uniform in character and be kept post- od n the carhouses or yeporting offioss s lons and hey remai w York, claimed 10. In case the association suspends a »man. The | member who is an employe of the ‘company for e in the Bast | any violat f the association's laws or rules s > boon sans. | the upon written notification L e accredited officers of the as- | & : ediately suspend sald member | : 3 e 3 _ | without pay such time as the assoclation 201l ed one of | requests his reinstatement. ghters of Afong, the mifllionaire| Sec. 11. In all cases where a member or ’ slul. ' He divorced his bers of this associa are diecharged om the service of the company a copy of the charges and evidence against sald member or | members shall furnished the secretary of the association within twenty-four hours of his o n was divorced twice. order to do affair with an | discharge, and in all cases the party or parties urice, He was | Making complaint shall appear before the ac- the time and his | Ci%td member and approve their charges in g perso: | n to Europe in order | se member of this association who ight be broken off. shall y time while a case of complaint r that Owenybor- | asain is being investigated shall, upon | wdon was a serious f*‘! id not at fault, be paid for all time o ant more than the | 4, 150 of an extra man being under Investi- . cause I had laid | gation and found not at fault he shall be paid = on my property in Vir- | an amount equal to the average carnings of the " W sold on laxv:fi’x‘ on dlh;m‘n“ u{l\\-t\ while such member is failure to pay. Since | ™ TO BE } many serious losses. | ' WAGES e - oo v Saiot Sec. 13. That any employe a member of this | Y| association who shall by act or word interfers with or disturb the course of negotiations be- | gly beautiful | eween the properly accredited officers of the | and the properly accredited officers ociation, respectively, upon any sub- PUEBLO POLICE FIND jeet whatsoever contrary to the conditions of Sai R aas this agreement shall be dismissed from tne NO TRACE OF ROBBERS | service. Sec. 14. 1t shall be optional with the mem- pers of this association to belong or not to belong to any hospital or insurance assoctatinn Second of the Citizens Shot by Them ir Cafe Dies From the ’ or company. Wound Soc. 15. Provided: the company shall con- BIA March 15 &, | tinue to require & deposit of $25 of car men, se i of the ¢ " cach man shall be entitled to a receipt for tiw W citizens | . shall e Louistes | same, and the compavy pay 5 per ceqt g @U's cafe jast | per annum on sald devosit. a 4 draughts- | = Sec. 16. All money turned in by conductors teel 4 a wife in | must be counted in conductors' presence and end his relatives ry ide in Arj- | receipted for. i dy of Dr. J. H. Turner, Wbo' Sec. 17. Space for a bulletin board shall be and killed af the table where| S el in each carbarn for the exclusive use of ssoclatie it is now thought there were three | hours and mot robb nstead of two, as supposéa last .-"""“,h"g“','; - 7 night, and that one stood on the outside | lowed é ‘one-hal! of the restaurant, The police are works ing on a number of clews. | the completion of the waterway. | voting as solidly against it. | other Democratic Senators, all favoring | intervention of the United States in case { until to-morrow at 11 o’clock, with the un- | | derstanding that | wide as the “law west of the Pecos,” {a briet LONG FIGHT FOR GANAL BRITAIN'S ARISTOCRACY IS SHAKEN BY ARREST OF J.WWHITAKER IDRIGHT Pmsecuh’on Likely to Result in Revelations in Which Even AT_.M [NI] the Royal Family May Not Be Spared. Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyright, 1903, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. ONDON, March 16.—Now promi- nently before the public, the Lon- don and Globe smash is likely to supply the greatest expose of | financial methods that has yet oc- | curred. The struggle between those who Republlcan Majority desire to hide themselves and their trans® actions from the eye of the law and VOteS DOWI] EVGI‘y those who demand that everything shall Amendment. Treaty Will BeRat- ified by Senate To-Day. be laid bare is Titanic in its immensity. The influence that is brought to bear on one side or the other is so great as to be almost immeasurable. But the public | wants to know what became of the mil- | lions invested in the companies managed | by Whitaker Wright Law officers of the crown examined into the case and decided that the law did not Colombia’s Favorable Action Will Remove the Last | | cover the case sufficiently to justify Obstacle. | proseaution. Then the matter was taken into Parliament. It almost precipitatea e st o et B | a crisis in the Commons | The Solicitor General informed: the CAL HEADQI 1406 G | House that the issue of a fraudulent bal- STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, March | ance sheet did not render a man’ liable 16.—The great conte fc the Panama | to criminal prosecution and this informa- canal is at an end. To-morrow the treaty | , with the republic of Colombia will be rat- | ™ B ifiled by the Serate without a change. | | Then will come ratification by the Con- | s of Colombia, and the way will have | ed for the consummation of the pur- from the Panama Company, and | | | The Senate spent six hours in executive | session to-day in its efforts to pass on| | the amendments to the canal treaty, in | preparation for the final vote. The great- | er part of the day was devoted to debate | | on the question of insuring American de- | fense of the canal, the Democrats con- | tending that the United States should be | | given the initiative in that respect and | | the Republicans urging that the interests of this country were sufficiently safe- guarded by the terms of the treaty as it stood. | A substitute for the provision of the | treaty placing the defense of the canal| primarily in the hands the Govern- ment of Colombia resulted in a test vote. The Democrats cast a solid vote in sup- port of the amendment, the Republicans The vote was 24 for the Democratic amendment to 40 against chase of | ‘ B ‘ i 3 | | 4 S5 A Tnimediapiy after the Senate went inte executive session the order of presentation of amendments,, with fifteen-minute speeches upon them, went into effect. There was a large attendance of Senators, both political parties having summoned their adherents in the Senate to be present with the view of making the best show- ing in case of a division on party lines. Consequently the roll calls were well re- sponded to and the vote cast was larger than had been expected. The first vote was taken about forty minutes after the doors were closed and it came upon an amendment suggested by enator Pettus, providing that the treaty hould not go into effect until it should be approved by Congress. This amendment was voted down by a large majority, all of the Republicans and some of the Dem- o THE L ZATE. TTARQUTS . O~ D UF7 ocrats enrolling themselves against it. amendment was in the language of the amendment of similar purport re-|to many of the Government's most sturdy ported by the Committee on Foreign Re- | supporters. But the attack on the Gov- lations to be added to the Cuban reciproc- | ernment got so hot and the prospect of ity treaty. The vote the Pettus | gafeat was so threatening that Balfour amendment dted 9 for to 60 against. | jumped up and declared they all detested Morgan offered a number of the amend- | Whitaker Wright and thought him a very ments of which he had given previous no- | bad man. They would like to prosecute tice, but they were passed upon adverse- | him, but the law was defective, So he ly and without roll calls, The second roil | promised thkt the law would be at once call of the day was upon an amendment | altered. offered by Morgan providing for the ac-| yygrem UPON PROSECUTING. quisition| of the ¢anal zone on perpetuity | | on re: &nd not| by remewing after ninety-nine | This was not sufficient. The sharehold- years, as provided In the treaty. It was | ers’ committee, which is gathering funds voted down. to carry on the prosecufion, persisted in BACON’S AMENDMENT FAILS. “T endeavors and should Whitaker | Wright be brought into court the trial The Senate then took up Bacon’s amend- ment for absolute control by the United | . > 2 Wright's methods were well thought of. States and Bacon addressed the Senate | 17, was first to’ get people to h:y!"ock in support of it. Bacon was followed by | i i ¥ PP ollowed by | 4ng to do this it was necessary to in- spire the public with confidence. He ac- complished this by obtaining men whose names stood high in the affection and re- gard of the British people to join the board of directors of his company. The Marquis of Dufferin, one of the best and noblest sons of the empire, was in- the language of article 23 as it stands, ex- cept the words “with the consent of Co- e e e lombia” in the provision permitting the | will be a tremendous sensation. the amendment. Republican Senators warmly defended the treaty as it stands, contending that it afforded ample protec- tion to American interests. The Bacon amendment, when put to a vote, was lost, 46 to 24, a strict party vote. nocent and unreflecting instrument. Lord | Loch, whose name was one to conjure Colombia should prove unequal to the | task of defending the canal, but it Iike. | F i Hv-also died when a :*’?“‘“'2" came e Wes Thtes ik Mito to him of the purposgs for which his The Senate, at 6:05 o'clock, adjoutneq | “20° had been used. KING EDWARD HIS GUEST. ‘With the confidénce of the shareholders, procured by reason of the standing of the directors, Wright began the big gamble which ended so disastrously. SQUIRE BEAN OF TEXAS The London and Globe blossomed forth TRIES HIS LAST CASE | as the greatest of all promotion agencies. | Mine after mine was floated, property “Law West of the Pécos” Answers | after property was obtainedand companies the Summons of Death After with big jssues of shares formed to de- a Brief Illness. “telop them. The shares df the parent EL PASO, Tex., March 16.—-Squire Roy | company went up and the shares of the the other caucus amendment, that should be disposed of first Democratie article 4, to | Bean of Langtry, Tex., noted far ang |allled concerns did likewise. Whitaker Wright' was a Napoleon of finance. He was pulling strings in every | airection. The King (then the Prince of Wales) ! went on board Wright's yacht and took ea. THat made Wright more solid than | ever with the public. But underneath - the ' surface things were not working smoothly. Nearly al of the store or more companies with which tbe London and Globe was in- volved weré'in bad shape. The London | and Globe was in distress itself. Then ecame the issue of the fraudulent London and Globe balance sheet on' December 5, 1900, John Flower, chairman of the sharé- holders' committee, which instigated tHe died at an early hour this morning after illness. Squire Bean bad for twenty years or more been the subject of humorous- stoties in the Eastern dailfes and_many anecdotes have been. relateq concerning him. He had been' a Jugtice of the Peace since’early days, and there being no other court within g radfus of 300 miles, he furnizhed nearly all the law vequired by the inhabitants of a large but sparsely settled region, and there wag no appeal from his decislons. Ife was at all _times found willing to try any case | froin larceny to manslaughter and to per- form any judicial ceremony from marry- ing a couple to granting a divorce. For that -reason he gained the sobriquet of “the law west of the Pecos,” accompllshment of which he was an in- | | tion was very soothing and encouraging | prosecution of Whitaker Wright, the di- | rector of the London and Globe Fina | Corporation, who was arrested yesterday on his arrival at New York from France, sald to-da “I see Wright is quoted as saylng he | has a powerful protector in an exalted | quarter. That statement is not new to | us. It is the keynote of the whole case. | Prior to the faflure of the London and Globe, certain persons maintain, Wright | had In his possession letters from lead- ing members of the English royal famll | showing that they were mixed up in I | transactions. We have | proof of this { the only man in the world who | prove it. If he has such letters | ought now to be in the pos | New York police, as we suppos searched his effects, and Wright is | likely to let s fense out of his personal keeping. Within a few weeks the chief issue in the W) case will be the question of the complicity or otherwise of the most exalted persons in the empire in Wright's scheme. We | 'do not expect any difficulty in obtairing his extradition, but if what Wright's friends maintain turns out to be true, his genuine prosecution will become an ex- ¥ tremely difficult matter. We believe, how- ever, that the lawyers at present engaged will sift the affair to the bottom regard- less of any considerations.” TREACHERY CAUSED FAILURE. Referring to the Interview with Wright no documentary could they the Herald to-day Flower said: “I quite sympathize with Wright when he says the fallure of the London and Globe was due to the treachery of othcr: There is no doubt of that. But it must | bo remembered that for three months prior to the failure the London and Glube had not a cent in its lockers, yet it was doing more than a half million pounds in speculation at every settlement. as a body could not be proceeded against factor in the rotten conditions which ex- | isted before the failure, being made to | take the responsibility. of Commons this afternoon, said = {he crown would pay the cost of the extradi- tion of Wright and the payment by the crown of the whole expenses of the pro- ceedings would be considered. His prose- cution, however, would be ieft in the hands of the official receiver of the Lon- don and Globe corporation. Comptroller Orders Bank to Close. WASHINGTON, March 16—The First National Bank of Florida, at Jacksonville, has been closed by order of the Comptrol- ler of the Currency. Wright himself is probably | fon of the | ch powerful weapons of de- | published in The Call and the New York | The | Government’s decision that the directors | does not prevent Wright, as the prime | Attorney General Finlay, in the House | J | | WHITAKER WRIGHT ENTRY IO TITLED WOMAN WHO GAV XCLUSIVE BRITISH CIRCILES, OFFICIAL WHO WILL PROSECUTE | HIM AND ONE OF THE LOSERS BY GLOBE COMPANY FAILURE. EW YORK, March 16.—J. Whit- | Maurice Untermeyer appeared before aker Wright, the London pro- | Commissioner Alexander for the prisoner. moter, was taken from his cell | Asked whetl he walved examination in the Ludlow-street Jail to the Untermeyer replied | Federal building to-day, be| *My client states that personally he | arraigned before Commissioner Alexander. | would take a steamer immediately for The hearing was adjourned until Wednes day. ‘Wright's counsel announced that he was willing to return to England, but would insist upon an examination here | before going back to face his accusers | there. On his way to the Federal building Wright made a statement in which he | said: | “I shall walve all extradition formali- | ties to go back to England as soon as the | Government matures arrangements. |~ “The story about the amount of money | lost is all bosh,” he continued. “The amount. lost altogether did not exceed £4,000,000. This all turns toward the time | when the crash came. The dividends patd | out under a secured capital, consisting of mining property, were more than the capi- | tal itself of the Globe Company. The Boer war, with its financial irregularities, contributed largely and was chiefly re- | sponsible for destroying the value of min- ing property at that time, whenever as- | sets were invested. plan. to destroy for the time being the ! market values of mining properties. CAUSE OF THE COLLAPSE. “The Globe Company to-day would way, or underground road in London, but unfortunately in an unwise moment the | Globe became interested In that and the | crash came. The money was legitimately lost. This occurred two years ago. [ | went over the books carefully myself | with the receiver and the matter was [ 1aid in all its entirety before Parliament. ““The Attorney General for the crown told ‘me himself that I had a clean ot “health and was not culpable in rwuy_ 1 am an Englishman by birth, but |1 am an American citizen, I have three | children living with my wife in England | and three - are buried in Philadeiphia. | Miss Browne is my niece and is my sis | ter’'s ehild. She came here to visit friend. in Philadelphia. I came here to examine l mining: properties.” This is a scheme or | be | onits feet had it not been for the sub- | bill | any | England and answer these charges, but the advice of counsel he will await further proceedings on the part of the British Government. Mr. Wright also | denies that he is a fugitive from justice. He has been absent from England for three weeks In Paris, but insists he is not a fugitive from Jjustice.” A motion was made before Commise sioner Alexander to-fay to permit th@ Marshal to turn over to Miss Browne & large part of the money found on Wright when he was arrested. Miss Browne claimed that £100 was her own money and that a large sum In addition had been in- trusted to her by her aunt and she in turn had stven it to Wright for safe keep- ing. The Marshal decided to turn over £100 to Miss Browne for her immediate needs and the numbers of the larger notes are to be cabled to England at once to see if they are wanted there im connection with any of the alleged swindles with which Wright is charged. Miss Browne, while she repeatedly asked to be excused from answering ques- | tions, made partial repiles when ques- tioned by representatives of the press She said she was the niece of Whitaker Wright, but knew nothing about his fmancial affairs. Mr. Wright, sald she, did not bring a large sum of money with him. “It is not the custom of English people to travel with large sums,” she said. ““They procure letters of credit or drafts instead. I have only a small sum with me—enough to carry me along—but of course I am able to obtain any amount I need for any purpose.” | Miss Browne said she would return to England very shortly on Irish Retains His Office WASHINGTO March 16.—It is now conceded by the interests that were op- posing Colonel John P. Irish, naval of- ficer of the port of San Francisco, that he will not be disturbed in that positio | Colonel Irish, it is understood. will be re- | tained In office during the entire imcum- | bency of. Mr. Roosevelt as President