The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 9, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIII-NO. 160. AN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1908, PRICE FIVE CENTS. FLORAL DISPLAY AND GRANDEUR OF CITIES OF THE SOUTHLAND DEEPLY IMPRESS CHIEF EXECUTI RUSSIA RETURNS FORWAR Czar's Troops Are Now Fortifying Newchwang. vernment'sSudden Move Startles Nations. huria t the Rus- ategic points fan naval en- in the Gulf of ant t within rted the Rus- buy- the river from 2 g the term ilroad. It is rmed the Chinese officials tract was needed for a Russian ground. The selection of the site ble, because all the | w quartered on the oppo- | the river, several miles djs- plenty of land was available « ese officials describe the Dow- being great that the Russ anti-foreign demonstra- n retaliation on the part and the introduction of ; distressed excite gner Continued on Page 4, Column 4, E3 an aggres- | i Met at Railroad Sta- tions by Cheering Crowds. Grand Army Veterans Listen to Words. of Praise. BY JOHN PAUL COSGRAVE, Staff Correspondent of The Call. their way they k ill-directed kindr b been here twenty- e Presider in the mornin, \ out wa 1 fil w perfume of the groves. President regretted to leave River- o indeed, the regret was but na: s lover of nature. There ara ed oral districts in beautiful as that of River: | es is as clean as a well-swept , with not a weed in sight or even a dead leaf to jar the wonderful harmony al neatness. As he stood on rear step of his car for one last look th at the lovely breath, inhaling the fragrance of the blossoms, remarked to Secretary | Loeb, who stood beside him, *This place is a paradise on earth.” BIDS ADIEU TO RIVERSIDE. The people the soldiers pre- sented arms and over the tops tie houses could be seen the deep embrasures of the yellow tavern of Glenwood, a-fiut- and cheered, of ter with 1 chiefs in fair bands bidding him good-by and good luck and God bless him, too. The first stop was made at Claremont at 9 o'clock, where Pomona College was | visited. On the way the President was pelted with roses by school children | wn up in line on both sides of the street. The Harvard yvell was given him with a will by the students. Here the President made a speech replete with good common sense and wholesome ad- vice, He said: “Mr, President, men and women: Even in a distinctly college and school gath- cring 1 know yvou will not grudge my | saying my first word of greeting to those whom, before all others, we Monor for .| what they did, to those because of whom | we have a country or a President or any | method of moving forward along: the path of greatness—the men of the Grand Army. 1 always envy you men of the Grand Army because you do not have to preach | —vou practiced. All we have got to do . |is to try to come up to the standard in peace which you set alitke in war and in peace the | e the ground in the groves and along | landscape he drew a deep | OF DURING THE ‘ADDRES LANDS AFTER HIS ARRIVAL I | | A. ROGERS, CUTIVE OF T THE GOLDEN STATE. STAF N P PHOTOGRAPHER - OF THE HE NATION TO THE 'CIT!ZE.\'S OF RED- CALL, |Journey From Riverside to Lbs Angeles Brings Roosevelt Face to| Face With Fair Nature in All Her Glory. el | round about. | \ | “It 1s & very good combination to have | the red with the white and blue. You | can see over there that Harvard, which |is my college, has the red, and then comes the blue and white of yours. It did me good to get into a circle of the | higher education, and listening to you I thought at once of football. My friends and fellow citizens, it is such a pleasure | 10 be in’ this college town to-day. PRAISES COLLEGE TOWN. “So ‘wonderful a thing to look -at tHe country through which realize that the site of this college but a few short yvears ago was exactly as the rest of the plain was, to realize that of the cultivation that I see, all of the agricultural work that has been done that has so completely changed the face of the country has been done within this brief space of time; to see the two things | | | | | | | | T have come, to California are laying broad and deep by your industry and intelligence the foun- dation of material prosperity, and that upon that foundation of material pros- | perity you are erecting the superstructure of intellectual, moral and spiritual well- being, without which the foundation would never be anything but a base with no building upon it. “Of course we have to have material prosperity, as underlying our life. The first thing that the individual man has to do is to pull his own weight, to earn his own way, not to.be a drag on the community. And the individual who wants to do a tremendous amount in life, but who will not start to earn his own way in life, is not apt to be of much us® in 1 the world. He is akin to those admirable together and realize that you people of | KR people from ‘61 to '65 who were willing to begin as brigadier generals.” NEED OF EDUCATION. “There is not much need of educating the body if one pursues certain-occupa- tlons, but the minute that you come to people who pursue a sedentary life there is a gredt need for educating the 'body. All of us recognize that if we come to think of .it. The man that is the ideal good citizen is the man who in the event of trial, in the event of a call from his country, can respond to that call as you responded in’ the great war. “When _that call is made you need not only fiery en- thusiasm, but you need the body contain- ing that flery —enthusiasm to be suffi- ciently hardy to bear it up, to bear it up on the march, to bear it up in the camp, | to bear it into battle; you need a sound | body, then you need a sound mind, and | a trained mind: “Of course there has got to be a capac- | ity for. intellectual develapment there to | train, but It is a great error and an error | into which in the past we as a nation have been prone to fall, to believe that you can trust' to that intellectual capac- ity without training. You cannot. There are wholly exceptional people who will make the greatest success with insuffi- clent training. We cannot judge by those wholly exceptional 'people. | i | i tellectual side, . from the standpoint, to add to the sum of produc- tive scholarship of the nation: and T trust that - this collége, tHat all ‘colleges Iike this, In these great new States, will add to the purely American type of American scholarship. By - purely American, I"do not mean that you should self-consciously ‘And every college should strive to bring “Every college should aim from its in-| intellectual | — | strive in your scholarship to have little points of unimportant, differences. GOOD AUGURY FOR REPUBLIC. “I mean that you should turn your at- tention to the thing that you find natur- ally at hand, or to which your "~ minds naturally turn, and-try in dealing with that to deal in so fresh a way that the net income shall be an addition to the world's stock of wisdom and knowledge, to ‘development among the students the capacity to do good original work. That is important. Even more important, how- | ever, than anything you can do for vour | intellect, or anything that can be done for ‘the intellect in the schodls, for the children whom I see over there, is what can be done for that which counts for more than body, for more than mind, for character; that is what 'ultimately counts. “I hail the chance of being met by such a gathering as this, because it Is a good augury for the republic to see in this mighty Western State this typically American State, the things of the body and the things of the soul equally cared | for. 1 greet and thank you.” After a two hours’ stop at Pasadena, | during which time the President delivered an address to the assembled citizens and paid a visit to the widow of the late Pres- ident Garfield, the train pulled out from the depot and started tor this city. In Los Angeles the President received a typical California welcome. * It was the occasion of La Fiesta de las Flores and the streets were thronged as they had ‘mever been thronged before. Aad . the | shown Beauteous Pasadena Extends a Glad dreeting. i | | Distinguished Visitor Calls on Mrs. _(iarfield, BY JOHN PAUL COSGRAVE, Staff Correspondent of The Call. ASADENA, May 8.—TI cial train bearing Pr Roosevelt and party dre » the depot here at 10:30 o'clock this morning and | was the signal for a grand and joyous demonstration. Dr . wo hot of the distinguished itor al f business remained closed and nopulation. was on the streets d the in holidz nation’s chief to this among the rolling hills. ken on a driv the pretty town The party was through the place and interest The all 1Z nool | President called upon the widow of James with her for then addressed Garfield and chatted out fifteen minutes. He the people from the reviewing stand at He to the High School. “I not going taik to you very long this morning, because I am too much interested in your community. I want to see all- I can s a: ! am wonderful feats of our countrymen in those days, but we are llving, right in the_middle of them only we are living under pleasanter To think of the well-nigh in- redible fact that all of this that I have been looking at, the city, the development of the country, that it has all occurred within twenty years; that twenty years has separated the sheep pasture from thisg city and the fertile irrigated region It is hard to belleve it. A GARDEN OF THE LORD. “You have done this great work of building up a new community; you have built: up the new community, and yet have preserved all the charm, all the re- finement, of: the oldest civillzations. It is all-so striking. that it is difficult for me to know what to comment upon. Yesterday and to-day I have been traveling through what is literally a garden of the Lord, in sight of the majestic and wonderful scen- ery of themountains, going over a plain tilled by the hand of man as you have auspic |-tilled’ it. that has blossomed like the rose —Dblossomed as I never dreamed in my life that the rose could blossom until I came here. «“From the beginning+of time anarchy in all ‘its forms has been the handmaiden, the harbinger of despotism and tyranny. We must remember ever that the surest way to overturn republican institutions, the surest way to do away with the es- sential democratic liberty that we enjoy, is to permit any one under any excuse to put the gratification of his passions over the law. The law, the supreme law of the land, must be obeyed by every man, rich or poor alike. Ours is a government of equal rights under the law, guarantee. ing those rights to each man so long as he in his turn refrains from wronging his brother. We cannot exist as a republic unless we are true to the fundamental principles of those who founded the re- public in '76, and those who perpetuated it in the years from 61 to '65. And if we remain true to the philosophy preached and practiced by Washington and Lin- coln we cannot go far wrong. SCORE HURT attire to greet | We speak often of the | | 01 pioneer days and the VE OF THE AMERICAN NATION - - INEXPLOSION AT STOCKTON 'One Man Will Die of Frightful | Injury. : Fire D&tr&s Most | of a Business ? Block. {Burning Street Decoration Is Origin of Costly Conflagration. May heavy explo- leaping tongues of flame was this evening the beginning f one of the of this eity | has experienced. conflagration ate out the heart of th ness block o | the south side of Ma i Dorado and H were inj a treet between E Twenty-five people e, G. Solari, pggba- | bly will die 7 | The explosion occurred at ten minutes | past 8 o’clock. At that hour Fred Ger- ch of the firm of Gerlach & Morat} » was | passing his tore and noticed that ome | of the street fair decorations above the | door were on fire. He reached up with s cane and ti the cloth from its | enings. A plece of the burning di pery dropped through the grating into the cellar below. A heavy ex ost 1 tly. It shook blogks. Gerl was thrown into th street with a broken leg and cuts and bruises from head to foot and with the clothing almost stripped from his hod +.G. Solari, who was passing the stors was struck by a heavy piece of glass and e top of his head torn off, exposing the | brain. He was taken from the debris and | removed to the hospital in a dying con- | dition. | WOUNDED ARE MANY. The list of injured follows: | Fred W. Gerlach, right leg broken, i badly cut : G. Solari, French | Carhp. sku by glass, will dle; Pitts, William F' anciseo, left col- lar bone broken, and hands lacer- i ated; John face and hands burned; Thomas Crawford, left 3 | badly buw 1 cut, serious; Cha | Roderick lacerated and burned; | Rolle top of head and hands ;;(hnw Willie right lacerated; hands side and arms n cut abov Tipp, and hands lacerated; ace and back injuged. | badly lacerated about | hands by gk I ¢ [ Sacramento bu face; George Will about the and hands, not Frank Crowley, slightly burned; Jack Heard, firemar slight cuts; Jack Lawrence, fireman, | by falling glass: Miss Sellman, slightly bruised by explosion and shock; Mr John Morrison, brulsed and injt b shock; Mrs. K Quinn, cut on ch serious: Frank Gianelli, cuts on face and hands; Henry K cut about face and hands; De Walker, ankle injureg w well, severely shaken by explo: J. K. Quinn, a merchant, was w wife and child sitting across the str and the three were most miraculou: lifted up and thrown back into the st with only a few brulses. In a building above the explosion M Dr. Devinney had the floor torn out from under her and she came down through the opening, almost on top of Willia: Pitts, a Western Union operator, wh was working In the company's office be- Jow. Percy Green, who was in the offic also fell under the debris. All were res- cued a little later. ESCAPE THE FLAMES. F. Kuhn, a watchsmith, empioyed In the jewelry store of Haas & Son, was at the rear of the store with his wife. They were hemmed in by the wreckage, so th for a time he despaired of escape. He finally made a narrow opening and they | clambered out into a back' alley just as the flames reached the rear of the sto In a very short time the fire destro: the jéwelry store, the shoe store Jach & Morath, a barber shop, an Western Union office. This brought flames uifto the Sen Joaquin Valley Bank, adjoining the Stockton Savings and Loan Society Bank. The fire department suc- ceeded in stopping the fire at the bank bullding on the east and at the larg three-story Wilsen building, about the center of the block, on the west. By the time the flames were under control noth- ing remained of the buildings but the front walls. The contents of the stores and of the apartments above were totally destroyed. A conservative estimate places the losses at $150,000. Insurance was car- ried. Large crowds were in the vicinity where the street carnival vas in progress, and it was with great difficulty that the offi- cers kept them behind iae ropes. It was feared for @ while that the banks would be destroyed. In the third story of the bank block the Knights of Pythias lodge wt * Continued on Page 3, Column 2. - Continued on Page 5, Column 6. i Conuzmedicn r-és 4, Columna 7.