The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1903, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1903. DELVE FOR GOLD IN CHARRED RUINS, BUT MAKE NO SEARCH FOR BODIES| \NNUAL REPORT Losers Through Burning of the Arcata Lodging-House Search for Valuables Among Smoldering Embers, but Fire and Police Authorities Are Satisfied With Landlady's Statement That All Roomers Escaped > . E ¥ w k eat and K e. Henderson & and thick smoke, | - o ng sure wa in the < t Captain v T e during PREVENT FATALITIES. well-d cted ef- . James Smith 8 severely in for . fought with the patro B the building. Smith xcited woman away K the flames’ reach g she i, her smal! A istant gine ¢ and ed by the falling s . Fireman Parker, was A 5" Sorn ped . was more r will be on eld to-morrow GRAPE-NUTS. HE HAD STRENGTH, But Lacked Mental Power, and gthen the albumen and which the .deli- n and nerves must be ri these elements s wasted tissue, as trial of 1 of 1599 I entered the Indiana College Indianapolis after a of hard work, during which time as much bread, the average human being nd although I felt well physi- utterly incapable of hard 1 on warm afternoons during lec- 1 hardly keep awake. I could at night at all and would wake rning with heavy headaches. this continued until one ut the food Grape-Nuts and t it was what I needed. I do not knowledging also that I wanted a food, r my resources were al- exhausted. To my surprise every bad conditions resulting from r food 1 had been eating dis- entirely and in a few days my 4 clear and strong, with no sleep- s= after meals, no headaches in the ng, and 1 feit better in every way d ever felt before. that entire term Grape-Nuts principal diet and my general of %.6 I firmly believe is due to As a brain food Grape-Nuts at sumed etc., as was its er a wonder.” Name given by Postu Battle Creek, Mich. ,',:‘ 2 for particulars by mail of exten- time on the $7,500 00 cooks’ contest Lr 7% money prizes brain | meats, pota- | RUINS HOLU BRAVE 1 OF THE ME ARCATA OF THE or of will r the rtment. rly Church be u Dep. rdere 1 large dele tion tment to act rt. | in Mountain View Cem- speculation concerning | he cause of he fire Chief Ball is in- vestigating, 1d Chief of Police Hodgkins has detailed Detectives Quigley and Hol- land to rou 1 up the facts concerning the | ¢ reak idence appears to point to ! the rear of an Pablo Avenue restau- | rant, situated on the street floor of the Arcata e, as the scene of the out- | Mich was 1 Ljubrobr: away when ich, the the fire pro-, been attracted by the flames on lower Webster street. The rests ir was standing at Eleventh street roadway when his place blazed and the cook, Louis Ljubro- Lratich, was at t | e restaurant door, cording to the cook’s story, Detecti tiames Ac- related to Holland and Quigley, he saw break out in the back restaurant part of the [ GIVES THE ALARM. | As soon as he saw the flames he rushed nto the restaurant closed the safe and pstairs, giving the alarm soaked and old, the frame struct- as in a of flames, the rear all afire from basement to roof in redibly short time. It was unfor- that the fire should e started the centraliy located apparatus was | at the Webster-stre-t fire, Only seventeen minutes eclapsed between the time the first for the Webster-street fire was sounded and the sending in of | the first box for the Arcata House. 1 Engine No. 1 and Hose No. 1. whoge ~ | house is on Fifteénth street, not one hun- | dred feet from the scene of the Arcata House fire, were at Webster street, as | | also was Chemical Company No. 1, which Thirteenth and blocks distant. avenue and located on streets, three | 56, San Pabl a When box Sixteenth street, in frem the fire department ters the nearest apparatus was En- at Market and Milton streets, and e 3, Truck 3 and Hose 3, at Eighth and Willow streets. These responded, but | by the time they could get to work the lodging-house was all in' flames. Chief Ball sounded a general alarm as soon as | he arrived from the Webster-street fire | that brought out the entire department except one chemical engine in East Oak- land and an engine he left at Webster and Second streets to handle that fire. It was excellent work on the part of the | Gepartment that saved the long row of one-story buildings on San Pablo avenue north of the Arcata House from destruc- | tion and kept the threatening flames from sweeping the entire block in that direc- tion. It was during the firemen’s fight against the flames on the north side that Parker, | Sicotte and Barr were caught. They had led in a stream through C. W. Kohl's sa- loon to attack the fire and to make an effort to check its epread through the wooden block adjoining, when the crash of burning timbers caught them. NO SEARCH FOR BODIES. Crowds of the curious hung about the scene to-day wondering whether bodies of unfortunate victims were buried be- neath the debris, blackened timbers and charred remains of the structure. Noth- ing was done by Chief Ball toward dig- ging into the ruins after he had been in- formed by Mrs. Evans that all her room- ers were safe. Individual losers by the fire started on their own account to search for theif val- uables. First on the scene was Ljubro- bratich, the restaurant man, who took a force of men into the lot and after locat- ing his safe dug it out and had the warped steel door cut open. The contents of the strong -box, includ broke' | Webster | g P $160 in coin and greenbacks, private | Papers and some jewelry, were found un- injured save for the damage done by the | heat to a watch. This work was done under the eve of Police Detectives Quigley and Holland | and Capeain of Police Wilson. | Ljubrobratich had been ordered to va- | cate the burning building on July 1, but | nleaded with Woodward, Watson & Co., the agents, to be allowed to remain until after the Fourth of July. They granted the reque: The restaurant man | d $1000 to $1500 insurance. There | was $1000 on Mrs. Evans’ furniture. 1 Benefits for the families of the dead | fireman and of his less unfortunate com- | rades will be held Wednesday afternoon nd evening at Peck’s Theater and on hursday afternoon and evening at the Ity. The Street Fair Association has | | been compelled to abandon its plan to | keep the fair open two days for the fire- | | men’s fund because of the dismantled con- | \(m.u of the grounds. | | O e | UN IVERSITY EVENTS ¥ | he 6.—Lloyd Womble, who \d captain of the foot- | d a position as assist- | | ant manager of a mine near Ladysmith, South | Africa, and will leave soon for that place. | Womble's tmpetuosity on the football fleld won for him t “Wreck.” He was ca- when it piled up a score | ® ¥ July has acc ing for the sum- Wednesday afternoon mer sc | at 4 o'clock In st Hall. The speakers will | | be two Easte mbers of the faculty—Pro- | | fessor George Rice Carpenter of Columbia and | | Professor Albert B. Hart of Chicago. Professor W. J. V. Ost | lead | |ewalk a the campus to-morrow afternoon, 4 Shas o cations will be made in nature | study e party will start from the Botany | butiding | Professor B nin P Bourland of tha West- | ern Reserve U'niversity and a member of the | | summer “school factulty will lecture to-mor- | row evening in the bullding on | ““The Cid in Spanish L | Mr and Mre. Harry A. Cramer celebrated | the twenty-ifth aniversary of their wedding | Friday, June at their home at Fitchburg. | | 1t was an afterncon affair that was attended | by fifty of their friends, who brought with | them many silver presents. Luncheon | was | sts on the fawn fronting th ramer home and afterward, hy wayeof diver- elor, host and hostess were remarried under a great florsl bell hanging from the center of summer-house. Among the guests were ner and Mrs. Van der Naillen | spread for the ! | Park Co: n Francisco. Anthony Galindo. Mr. and W. J. Field, Lucille Field, Rose Fieid, Ya Field, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Nye and Mr. Mrs. William Shackelton OAKLAND, July 8 | Metealf left Oakland for a trip to the count several weeke. e AERRSRE R N SR Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, July 6.—The following mar- riage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: John Kraft, over 21, and May Naismith, over 18, both of Oakland; | | Johr: 1. Souther, 25, Newman, and Loske M. Liilard, 23, Vallejo; John Hoffman, over 21, San Francisco, and Erin O'Con- nor, over 18 Oakland; Carl O. Johnson, 21, and Olga Lindstrom, 18, both of Berke- ley; Willlam H. Alexander, 25, Berkeley, and Marion W. Kirby, 20, Oakland; Wil- liam J. M. Dennis, over 21, San Francis- co, and Elsie M. Horton, over 18, Liver- more; John C. McLeod, over 21, and Mar- garet 1. Brown, over 18, both of Oakland; Adolph Pederson, 29, and Hedvie Ingel- brightsen, 23, both of Oakland; Charles M. Kurtz, over 21, Ogden, and Mary C, Vernon, over 18, Oakland. —_————— Pension Board Retires Officers. The Police Commissioners, sitting as a Pension Board yesterday afternoon, re- tired Detective Sergeant Thomas Dillon and Sergéant G. B. Griffiths from active duty. Corporal Thomas Boland, who has long filled the position of assistant hack inspector, will undoubtedly be retired at the nieeting of the board to-night. The vacancy in the detective department has already been filled by the appointment of William Armstrong, and Edward Ward and Phillip Fraher, who are on the civil service list of eligibles, will be chosen to fill the vacancies in the rank of corporal. Hazen S. Dearborn will also be retired at the meeting this evening. e ——————— Donahue Case Is Postponed. The hearing of the petition of the Bar- oness von Schroeder for letters of guar- dianship over the person and estate of her cousin, Peter James Donahue, was postponed yesterday morning in Judge Bloss’ court. A clerk from Attor- ney McEnerney's office asked that the matter go over a week and, there being no objection, the court made the order. Attorneys Galpin and Bolton will repre- sent Peter James Donahue. e Late Shipping Intelligence. DOMESTIC PORTS. ABERDEEN—Salled July 6—Schr Annie M Campbell, for San Pedro. Arrived July 6—Schr Alcalde, hence Jne 25, TATOOSH—Passed in July 6—Ship Hecla, from Honolulu, for Port Townsend, ‘ongressman Yictor H. ith his family to-day | where he will spend RS3EaaUR FILES Value of Property in This City Placed at $427,452,110. Advance in Realty Helps Swell Roll and Lower Tax Rate. The assessment roll for the ensuing fis- cal year for the city and county of San Francisco was presented to the Board of Supervisors yesterday by Dr. Washington Dodge, City and County Assessor. More than 100 ponderous books were brought into the chamber of the Board of Supervisors by clerks of the Assessor. These volumes represent the work of four years and the records wiil be open to the public who desire to inspect the figures of Dr. Dodge's office. The Board of Superviscrs will sit as a board of equalization and hear all appli- cations that may be made for a reduction of the assessment on real and personal property. The communication of Assessor Dodge that was presented to the Mayor and Su- pervisors yesterday is as follows: SAN FRANCISCO, Juiy 6, 1908. To_the Honorable Board of Supervisors of tha City and County of San Francisco Gentlemen: In accordance with the law I turn over to your Honorable Board to-day the assessment roil of this city for the ensuing together with this, my fifth annual re- e total of this year's roll is $427,452,110. This is a_net galn “of $7,483,466 over the amount of the roll of 1902. To secure this net gain required, however, the addition of aver $20,000,000 of assessable property to last year’s roll. This is explained by the fact that the losses on certain classes of personal prop- erty this year, together with the reductions made by me on old dwellings, amounted to over $13,000,000. These losses and vains are shown in detall in the following tuble: Roll of 1902...... .$419,968, 466 LOSSES— Reductions made on old dwellings . .$5,351,000 Losses on National Bank Stock ........ 2,378,000 Losses on State Banks. 2,374,000 Losses on Estates Dis- tributed ... «..-. 1,515,000 Losses on other Per- sonal Property....... 1,874,060 Total Loss 813,492,060 nents in Per Roll, 1003 R ¢ increased value of realty in sections has been the chief factor this year in producing an enlarged assessment roll; the large sum of $16,586,000 having been added to the assessment.of real estate and improve- ments. CHANGES IN ASSESSMENT. As this report Is the last to be made by me Total certain The during my term of office, and as the assess- ment of this year marks the completion of vast amount of revislonary work undertaken by me three vears ago, 1 beg leave at this time to give a brief summary of the changes made in the city's assessment. Soon after assuming this office it was discovered that there e ossest inequality in | the ssmen 'ge; many old buildings, especially being assessed in excess value. of their f A complete revision of the nt of all such proverty was refore u aken. This work has taken ars to complete, as every building in ¥ has been inspect and r»\-;;um he. necgssity far sigh.a re tion is shown by ihe Bmount of tie reductighs which were found to be warranted. THese reduetions in the assessed valuation of dwellings have in ree years amounted in the aggiegate to 10,000, and such reductions bave been granted on over 23,000_buildings. AN INCREASE OF REVENUE. During the first years of my term out-lying real estate and that in certain sections, which had been previously over-assessed, together with such real estate as had actually depre- ciated in value, was reduced in_ the AgEregate cver $8,500,000. This makes the total reduc- tions in the assessment roll granted during five years on over-assessed property $22,000,- 000. This large reduction has been over- | come Dy the increases made in the assessment of real estate in favored sections, and by the assessment of newly constructed bulldings Notwithstanding these rge red amounting, as stated, to $22,000,000, sessment roll has been increased during my | term $74.000,000. This has increased the rev- enue of the city $740,000 a vear, and assisted in securing for San Francisco the lowest tax rate of any large city in the United States. The greater part of the $74,000,000 added to the rell represents personal property, which had previously escaped assessment. There is thus produced a large extra revenue for the city without an increase of the burden of tax- ation fo the many. For six years prior to my incumbency of this of the personal prop- ty assessment of this cily showed practica During thes it no increase. six year aver aged $70,000,000; to-day ft is 127,200,560, giv ing our city a leading position among Amer- jcan cities in the percentage of personal prop- v assessed, as compared with that of real estate. LARGE SUMS COLLECTED. In addition to the assessment of property, this office has, during the past ninety days, collected and turned In to the city treasury on unsecured personal property, the sum . 000. The collections to d vear amount to $107. oll taxes for this This is the largest sum ever collécted from this source and will enrich the city treasury to the amount of this sum being the fees allowed by e for collection and formerly enjoyed ess Tn ronclusion. I desire to express my grati- fleation at the peacefnl relations now existing hetwaen this department and the city's largest taxpayers—notably, ~ our quasi-public cor- porations. Peace has been secured during the past year with the last contestant, and taxes will now he paid without litigation or pro- test and without the city having lost any of the rights for which we have contended. Such relations, when possible. between a municipal- ity and aggregate capital, without a sacrifice of the rights of either. are most desirable and beneficial. Very respectfully vours, WASHINGTON DODGE, Assessor. The Supervisors, after hearing the reading of the Assessor's letter, ‘decided to take up the matter of the assessment on Tuesday evening, July 14, at § o'clock, and to sit at that time as a board of equalization. — Captured the Town. Yesterday, Kelly & Liebes, the first day of their great removal sale, really cap- tured the town. All day the store was crowded with buyers, but it is no wonder when the stock is nearly given away. $75,000 worth must be sold and it will be sold before they occupy the new store. * ———— Birmingham's sewage-works are the Jargest in the world, after those of Paris and Berlin. C 9 —_ s —————————————— | EDWARDS DAVIS SIGNS CONTRACT | TO TREAD BOARDS IN HOME CITY Preacher Who Turned Actor Says It Is “Better to ‘Be True Unto a Mask Than Untrue to a Cross” | and Gives Other Reasons for Forsaking Ministry R AKLAND, July6.—Edwards Davis, formerly the pastor of the First Christian Church of this city and an Oakland boy born and reared, has just closed a contract with the Mordant-Humphries Company, and two weeks from to-night will appear on the stage in his home city, where he once | preached, as the leading man in a play | of his own writing. FORMER OAKLAND MINISTER, [ in this city several years ago, Mr. Davis - “ WHO IS NOW A FULL- | has taken up the stage as his profession. | A short time ago he returned to Oakland to visit his parents, who still reside here. He has now closed his contract with Ed- win Mordant, whose company opened. at the Macdonough Theater to-night in “The FLEDGED ACTOR. Christian.” Mr. Mordant will present % upon the pages “The Wife” next week, and the week e s ot following will be the first performanc tified with a moral be the players’ of “The Unmasking,” which is the title | Mr. Davis has given to his play. The play has been pronounced excellent, but upon that point the Oakland friends of Mr. Davis will have an opportunity to judge | for themselves. ten the poem of part in_the hall play the world | Meanwhile the people are talking about | with the cross. the sword, the beacon and the , A 5 scepter. The drama is not demoralized; It is the change of profe 1 of Mr. Davis. [fcepter. T B S Dewaikd st This is the unique statement that Mr. |lapses from d will be cut out when its Davis himself makes upon this point: make-up of character is on Such m - s “‘The Second Mrs. It is never too late to change professions | Tanqueray,” “Iris.”” ““The Joy of Living'' and we change @ bad one for a good one, or, | “The Climbers’ and hos! are as potent | it bad.in @ good eme, we change to become rmons as ever fel! from the lips of tie dom- | better in a bad one. A poet might well change | infe. Thus the might of Melpomene has not | | his vocation to become a plowtman, if so late | been guessed. She shall become » handmaid of {in life he should find out that he could lay | th od of gods, the ministering angel of the | a deeper furrow than a thought. I have ex- | sorrowing and the cherubim of joy changed a cross for a n more truth-behind a m sk, but there may be k, which appears to SINCERITY OF PURPOSE. | be naught but a sham, than behind a face| The drama is not a thing of froth. It Is | which seems to be aglow with glory, when, | an art of fact as vitalized as life. The world | if_the truth were known, it is but a calefum | needs m And 1 s eve that the world light effect of godliness. I deem It etter to | wants men who are y tn be true unto a sham than to sham a truth; | tensity purpose Is a synonym better to be true unto a mask than to be un. | Flippancy Is cue for failure. Modesty true to a cross. » me from saying that I am proud of m | | sincerity i 1 am sine ly in earnest in my NO DEVIL’S WORKSHOP. i S M Bl S B had recelved my collegiate degree befora | dramatic counstruction than in matic ex- | and found myself, before 1 had | pression. 1 a n advocate of the play with d my majority, preaching.” With my in- | a purpese—the problem play. Mediocrity ta the drama; ft I'came to realize that the | b in very characteristics which would tend to pro- | pretty—1 voke antagonism so long as I remained in the In" ‘my “The Unma: | pulpit—the very methods which would ma have striven pict _ soclety, a ing_to me, from an orthodox standpoint, a failurs the present impossible and imperious criterion the ministry would serve 1o secure a success | of morality, as that deifically magnanimous upon the stage. Fortunately for my present | man of Nazareth declared: ‘“Whoso is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. As for myself, I feel quite safe within my house of there Is not one to cast a stone. 1 have n to depict the comparative in professional career 1 had left my former pro- | fession before I was 25, and in the past five years I have at least passed the period of ap- prenticeship. striv The stage is not a devil's workshop, but a | consequence of sin and the incomparable con- | | Goa’s playhouse—nay, not a playhouse, hut a | sequentiality of forgiveness. | place of toil, of triumph and of tears. Some | I would far rather be a sinner and be sir- men go to the stage with ulterior motive, some | cere than a einner whose sin has not been | men go to it for art’s sake alone, some men | found out; for the only sin I know of is the | B0 to it for sheer reason of a real conviction— | thought of sin, and therefore I deny it that | a moral hope to be of benefit unto the world. | it Is a sin to do that which I may desire to |~ Hence Job and John, Chrysostom the golden- | do, which hurts no self or thing. If I let every | mouthed, Peter the Hermit. and Thomas a | other entity than mine alone I will be at peace Kempis and Luther are sainted among the | with all the world. L L i e a a R T OLD MARKSMEN RECALL THEIR FORMER TRIUMPHS Survivors of Centennial Champion- ship Team Meet at Banquet to Celebrate Anniversary. LIA CLAIMS HE DID NOT | INTEND TO MURDER HER Italian Fisherman Arrested for Shooting at Mrs. Romani Says | He Was Celebrating. | To commemorate the twenty-seventh| Luigi Lia, the Italian fisherman, living anniversary of their victory at the Cen- | At 23 Jansen street, who was suspected of Setinial Werlls dhosthng’ contaet i 1 having fired three shots from a rifle Sat- | urday night at Mrs. L. Romani of Sl | Montgomery avenue, wife of the proprie- tor of restaurant, while she was seated at a window, was surrendered to the po- the four surviving members of the cham- plon team from the California Schuetzen Club held reunion and banquet last A. Strecker, A. Rahwyler and William | oo 0 F, T8 O e and fired three night at a downtown resort. The old|lice yesterday by Attorney Glover. | marksmen who gathered to recall the| He denies that he fired the shots at Mrs, | oS < were Philo Jacoby, | Romani. He says he had been drinking, | onys of thilf intiptiere T8 | and as he wanted to celebrate Indepen- | | | Ehrenpfort, G. L. Maverhofer and G. B. [ (rhee S¥ he fook T rifte - shots at the fe separating his yard Faktor being the guests of honor. | i > S8R o These surviving marksmen, together | 0 the yard of Mrs. Romani's resi- dence. He had never spoken to Mrs. Ro- mani and bad no reason for desiring to kill her. He also denies that he had been guilty of insulting conduct toward Mrs. | Romani. | Detectives Bunner and Reilly, who have | with three who have since passed away. | composed the team from the (‘-’lllfnrlll'd; Schuetzen Club, then in its infaney. | which surprised all of the world's lvpsl: | | | marksmen at the Philadelphia Exposition v y t terna | B Ahosting by the score of & | Peen working on the case, are inclined to | rings, thereby winning (he champlonship | :ell;\e |‘:|,n the shots were deliberately cup, which has since remained in the pos- | fired at Mrs. Romanl. She was seated at session of the local club. | a window in the lower dat when the first ‘At the banquet Jast night the memories | Pullet crashed thrqugh it, close to her of the old times were refreshed by the | Nead: and when she ran upstairs to look presence of the original targets on which | 9"t 0f the window to see who had fired the winning shots were recorded at Phil e 5}-‘“ = two other bullets crashed delphia. Philo Jacoby, the founder of tie | {PFOush the ‘;m'lu“- E % successful club, acting os toastmaster, | 142 Was taken out of the “tanks” last made the evening slip swiftly by with his | M8ht and charged with malicious mischiet reminiscences of the early days of the | 2Nd discharging firearms within the city organization, which has achleved a con- | IImits. The case will come up in the Po- lice Court to-day. If the heari . ciderable degree of loca\ fame. ¥ .o ety sider: e \ rants, a charge of assault to murder will be placed against his name. ! summer months, l served to them a branch office and made. 3 | otice to Subscribers! We take pleasure in notifying our pa- i trons who are going to the countr that THE CAL t ANY POINT either by mail or through local carriers. Give address to your carrier or any prompt service will be ————————— Arm Mangled in Woolen Carder. Barbara Stoker, 19 years of age, who is employed in the Golden Gate Waolen Mills at Nineteenth and Bryant streets, had her right arm badly mangled in a woolen carder yesterday. The accident occurred while the young woman was in the act of feeding wool into the machine. She was removed to the City and County Hospital for treatment and later to her home at 102 Hampshire street. ——————— Child Injured by Fall Hazel Tyson, the i-year-old daughter of Charles H. Tyson, a hoseman in the city Fire Department and residing at 59 Tre- mont avenue, had the bone of her right thigh badly fractured yesterday while playing in Golden Gate ParM. The acci- dent was caused by the child falling from one of the swings in the children’s play- ground. The child was removed to the Park Emergency Hospital for treatment. ————— CAIRO, Egypt, July 6.—The Assouan reser- voir has been emptied of its_winter's store ' ‘! of water for the first time. The results are most satisfactory. The area of cotton fs largely increased and the success of the ‘sugh- mer crops is as.ured in the entire area trib- utary t9”tbe dam, & for the can be 3 | about h: | the | of one year's ice early in February. LAST T0 GREET THE DISCOVERY Captain Colbeck of the Relief Ship Morning in the City. British Commander En Route to London to Report to Government. Wl Captain William Colbeck, commander of the British steamship Morning, which was dispatched on a mission of relief to the exploration steamer Discovery and eventually found her firmly bound in the ice near the southerly extremity of Cape Armitage,, from where he carried Lieu- tenant Shaeckelton back to Lyttelton on March 25 last, was a passerger on the steamer Sonoma, which arrived here vesterday. Captain Colbeck is bound for London_to report to the Royal Geograph- ical S ty and his Government on the feasibility of making another visit to the Discovery next December. Parliament has already approved an appropriation of £40,000 for the trip. Nothing definite has been heard from the Discovery since the Morning left her early in the year in her winter quarters, but Captain. Colbert says that there is every reason for belleving that her litflle band of explorers will not suffer for want before another expedition reaches them. The Morning left the Discovery well pro- visioned and her people in good heaith. The story of the experierces of the Dis- covery party was fully told in The Call a month ago, when Lieutenant Shackelton passed through here on his way to London, bearing the first report of\the expedition. Meéanwhile the Morning has been lying at anchor at Christchurch, N. Z., awalt- ing the British Parliament’s action on the question of another relief expedition to Cape Armitage. Consequently Captain Colbeck is able to furnish no further de- tails of the icebound Discovery than have already been published. On June 2 last, shortly after Lieutenant Shackelton | passed through San Francisco, the Ger- man Antarctic exploration vessel Gauss | arrived at Cape Town, after being ice- bound for a year, and reported having reached 60 degrees 30 minutes south and | communicated with the Discovery. Con- cerning this report Captain Colbeck sald last evening that he seriously doubted the news. The German station in the South Pole exploration, he explained, was in east longitude, between Victoria Land, the ction assigned to the British expedition, and the Weddell Sea, the Scottish section. To the west of the German portion are the Kemp Land and Enderby Land both on the Antarctic Circle, and to the east is Knox Land, which is also on the circle. It may be, sald the captain, that the land discovered by the Gérman expe- | dition will be found to be continuous with the three points mentioned already. Said on that it is highly improbabie could be got around to the Discovery was lying. If the cablegram concerning the Gauss were true, it would mean that the Discovery was free from the ice, and such being the case you would have heard of her at Lyttelton before ow. At the time we left her the Discovery i had communication with no vessel other n the Morning. When we left her Captain ott was confident that he would be able to_free his vessel this season. The theory that communication might bave been effected by land I also regard as unreasonable. A siedge journey over 1400 miles of ice would have to be made inatde of two months, and, moreover, even SupposIng Gauss had been farther south, as was re- ported, the Discovery is hidden on the west by mountains, and as the Germans could not have known just where the British were win- tering, it is hard to imagine that the former could have reached the Discovery by land. I have several Jimes thousht that the Gauss fell in with tM® Scotch exploring vessel Scotia and mistook her for the Discovery. Possibly the vessel supposed to be the Discovery was only sighted instead of spoken and in this way ber name was not learned As to the claim of the Germans that they had reached 60 degrees 30 minutes as reported in the cablegram from Cape- town, Captain Colbeck sald: that pokition where t The stcamer Morning, which returned to Lyttelton on March 25 with Lieutenant Shak ton, conveyed to the world the news that Cap- tain Scott, Dr. Wilson and Lieutenant Shakel- tom, after many hardships. had reached lati tude & rees 17 minutes south, longitude 163 grees west, which is 84 miles south of th ‘manent location ' of the Discovery. The party returned to its vessel on January 28, 1903, thus penetrating farther south than ar <xpiorers. The record of Herr Bore vinck at Southern Cross was 78 degrees minutes couth, The winter quarters of the Discovery are at Cape Armitage in latitude longitude 183 de- was cleared Captain that the ice this year we hoped to eventually 4 minutes 48 seconds south minutes west.s The spot to me Scott reported but was muen later, free his ship. Captain Colbeck says that he expects to return to the Discovery about the second week in December. He reports that the Swedish Antarctic expedition has gone to Terra del Fuego, where it will winter and carry on its selentific work. Falls From an Open Window. George Beattie, who reEides at 5l surth street, fell from his bedroom win- w early yesterday morning while walk- ing in his sleep. He was picked up in an unconscious condition and removed to the 2 Central Emergency Hospital, where it | was found he was suffering from a sprained back, contused and abrased ounds of the head, face and arms and ble internal injuri ADVERTISEMENTS. 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