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9 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 190 GOMEZ REACHES GIOAD BOLIVAR Confers With Revolu-| tionists on Board His Flagship. Women and Children Leave Town at Approach of Troops. ooty | SOLEDAD, Venezuela, July 14, 6 p. m.— Yesterday morning the remainder of the Government war vessels with four small craft in tow arrived off Ciudad Bolivar without accident. The torpedoes placed by the revolutionists in the Orinoco River did not explode the fleet passed when presents an extraor- On all of the Govern- jonists, is hoisted, and more American, German, French, Brit- tsh and other ensigns are flying over pri- vate houses. From a distance the city eppears to have been decorated for a hol- ida At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon firing was heard nc of Ciudad Bolivar, and immediately afterward five river steamers recently captured by the revolutionists, the x of which are the property of the Orinoco Steamship Company, the oth- owned by the American Croco- Bird Hunter Company, hoisted the American flag. Ten minutes after- ward. however, the = were lowered by At x afternoon the teamer Socorro, playing a flag of r left Ciudad Bolivar and went aslongside the Venezuelan warship Bolivar, the flagsh » of General Gomez, command- f of the Government forces, on which vessel a conference took ace between the priest who left Cludad jvar and visited La Soleina, on the op- nk the Orinoco, Saturday American flag and a flag of n other personages. At 9 o’clock the Socorro returned to Ciudad Bol- with & letter from General Gomez. e same hour heavy artillery and of ifie firing was heard south of Ciudad Bol- before § o'clock this (Tuesday) rtly ing the Government troops com- d by General Rives, the first lieu- Gomez. were under nmiinutes’ march from ivar veady to begin an attack ong battery of guns ed on a hill overlook- Bolivar and was preparing to on that part of the city where » ammunition received recently by General Rolande, the revolutionary com- mander, is stored t has been learned that many women childrer aped from Ciudad Boli- var yesterfay before the arrival of the Government troops. Among these were many foreigners. BLAINE'S WIDOW PASSES TO REST Worn With Illness She Dies at Family Home in Maine. AUGUSTA, Me., July Mrs. James died at the Blaine homestead G was 76 years of age. From time ago she came residence on State in an enfeebled condi- ad been under almost constant ttention since. During the past week she failled rapidly. Her condition to & general breakdown of the ne's maiden She was ame was Harriet daughter of a tate of Maine. She husband while both of them r hey were married at Pittsburg and later to Augusta, where Mr. Blaine be- ditor of the Kenebec Journal. She leaves one son, James G. Blaine, and two daughters, Mrs. Harriet Beale and Mrs Walter Damrosch of New York, who were at her bedside during her last sick ness. The funeral service will occur on Fri- day an t will be buried at Wash- ington. ot Scope of Anglo-Persian Treaty. LONDON, J —The treaty between Great Britain and Persia which was hint- ed at by the Marouis of Lansdowne in his speech in the House of Lords on May 7. when he proclaimed the “British Mon- doctrine in the Persian Guli, is the ject of a blue book issued to-dey. The treaty was concluded at Teheran on Feb- ruary 9 and was ratified on May 27. It grants reciprocally the most favored na- tion treatment to each country and un- dertakes to allow British merchandise any peduction conceded to merchandise imported from Russia ADVERTIEEMENTS. KELLER'S Half-Price Sale. Men’sSuitingsat Half Price In making clothing to order one-hal? the cost is labor, the other half is ma- terial . We've decided to cut the prige of materigl on a line of suitings to one- balf of original price in order to close them out before fall goods arrive. Some of these sults were originally $80.00. Price of material $15.00. A e wae price of st 92 2e00 U fortllor G 1028-1080 MARKET STREET, 2157-1150 WASHINGTON STREET; Vakiend. eachers in a school in Kentucky. 'Opening Session of | wville Full of Spect | Promise of Some | | | 'KENTUCKY REPUBLICANS INDORSE 'ADMINISTRATION OF ROOSEVELT Convention at Louis- r———— b Dying Patient in the Datican Rests Badly cmfinugq From Page 1, Column 7. The total number of dispatches inquir- ing about the Pope's health received at the Vatican yesterday reached 26,000, in- cluding some lengthy cables from half around the world. The total cost of these telegrams is estimated at $3,000. This enormous deluge taxes t6 the utmost the resources of the Vatican administration. A large force of priests and seminarians is temporarily aiding the officials In mak- ‘Ing _responses, which bear the signature of Cardinal Rampolla. Dr. Lapponi, being shown a dispatch | published in the United States to-day to the effect that a bacteriological examina- tion of the liquid from the pleura revealed evidences of cancer in the pleura, replied that there was not a word of truth in the report. acular Surprises With' Further Pyrotechnics LA CARDINAL GIBBONS’ STRENGTH. Will Wield a Powerful Influence in the Coming Conclave. Spfi:lll Cable to The Call and New York erald. _ Copyright, 1903, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. ROME, July 15.—1 to-day had an inter- view with a monseignor who is a friend of the United States apropos of the com- ing conclave and the interests of Ameri- can Catholics. He said: “Cardinal Gibbons is on the point of arriving in Rome. This is very impor- tant, as it will be the first time that an American Cardinal will take part in the election of a Rope. Cardinal McCloskey, on the last occasion, arrived too late to take part in the conclave. He heard of the election of Leo XIII on his arrival at Queenstown. “If it had not been that a number of Cardinals favorable to him have died {lately Cardinal Gibbons would have had | a very good chance of being elected Pope. | The Jate Cardinal Siciliano de Rende, who | was formerly papal nunclo in Paris, | would have done all he could to have i him elected. | *“Cardinal Gibbons, however, will have | great influence in the next conclave. His | Eminence has very great authority with | all members of the sacred college and | will impress upon that assembly the pow- er which he possesses as representative of the United States. He will prove to them that the United States has a right to be no longer considered as a simple colony, with a single Cardinal. It has |a right to have proportionately as many | Cardinals as Spain. If this right were | admitted there would be twelve Ameri- can Cardinals. ““The conclave, in view of the authority which Cardinal Gibbons will exercise, will | CHARLES M | ZARNETT | | | | | - -~ | || THREE PROMINENT FIGURES | | IN THE KENTUCKY REPUB- | | LICAN CONVENTION. + ] | MOB AGTS WHEN LAW TEMPORIZES Kentucky Citizens Hang Perpetrator of Brutal | Murder. ; MAYVILLE, Ky., July 15.—Enraged at | he courts, a mob broke into the Flem- | | ingsburg jail early to-day and hanged | ‘Wiliam Thacker, a white man, who had | been given a life sentence for the mur- | der of John Gordon two years ago. | Thacker in a quarrel with Gordon shot | and killed him, then sat on the body, rifle | in hand, while he smoked his pipe and | dared any one to attempt to arrest him. | At the time Thacker escaped, but was | later arrested. After two trials he was | sentenced to life imprisonment. | Gordon was a good citizen and an in- | offensive man. After being sentenced Thacker appealed to the Court of Ap- peals and was waiting for another tri Thacker had some money and was abl | to command the support of some infiuen- | tial men and it was feared that he might escape punishment altogether. The mob collected at Mount Carmel, | where Gordon once lived, and came into | Flemingsburg by twos and threes in order | not to arouse suspicion. They advanced | upon the jail shortly after midnight. The | | jaller refused to surrender the keys. He | was overpowered and the Kkeys taken | from him. Thacker was hurried to a tree | near the ,jail and was given time In which to say his prayers, which he.re- | fused to do, but begged for his life. To hush his cries he was hit on the head | with & rock and his unconscious body strung up until life had become extinct. - SAVED FROM MOB. | Sherift’s Posse Prevents Lynching of | a New Baltimore Negro. | ALBANY, N. Y., July 15.—James Little, | the gegro who attacked a little girl near New Baltimore yesterday and who was removed to the Catskill fail for fear a mob would lynch him, was laken back to New Baltimore to-day for arraignment before a local justice. He was guarded by-an especially strong Sheriff’s ‘posse in anticipation of trouble. At New Baltimore a mob composed of | tarmers, striking molders from Soxsacié and Bothans had gathered. Among them was Joseph Cole, the father of the 11- year-old girl assaulted. Cole drew a re- Volver, but was disarmed by a deputy sheriff. The prisoner was taken safely to the jail. The favorable condition of the | child has somewhat allayed the excite- | an outbreak. Little pleaded not guilty and was held to the Grand Jury. —————— More Than Mile and a Half a Minute. NEWARK, N. July 15.—A company, capitalized at $125,000, has been organized here to build a line of rallroad from New York to Buffalo, which it is proposed shall be operated by compressed air. The projectors assert a speed of ninety-five miles an hour will be achiev: ————— SAN JOSE, July 15.—The Borrelly comet is northwestward about five degrees tra daily instead of southwestward, as was pre- wiously announced in the press dispatches, | and the situation is full of possibilities | tions of several shrewd leaders, who, it | | | point in the platforny, and what amounted | nounced candidate, after Colonel Morris probably pave the way for a more just representation of the United States in the sacred college, which will bear its opening session of the Kentucky | fruits in the next conclave. But even now Republican State Convention In;';““ Cfl"'l’l""": "" ';“"“"“‘" "r"‘llf‘: | States will not permit that a monarchica the Auditorium this afternoon |, ,n ‘ghould intervene in the coming conclave with its veto and thus affirm its historical right to have at the Vatican an ally of European monarchies. “For the moment, while awaliting the forthcoming transformation of the sacred college In their favor, the Catholics of the United States demand a new Pope with modern ideas—ideas which will lead him to approve the action of American Catholicism; a Pope who will maintain most friendly relations with the Presi- dent of the United States, as Leo XIIL showed his great admiration and sym- pathy for the personal qualities of Mr. OUISVILLE, Ky., July 15.—Spec- tacular in the extreme was the for more pyrotechnics before final ad- journment is taken. The salient features | of the afternoon gathering were an in- dorsement of President Roosevelt's can- didacy in 1904, which upset the caicula- is charged, were figuring on ignoring that almost to a stampede to former Governor | Willlam O. Bradley, who is not an an- | are three candidates for Governor, Colonel | ment, although there is still danger of ¥ B. Belknap had, on a test vote for tem- porg¥y chairman, apparently shown that | he could win hands down on the first ballot. Roosevelt. “Leo XIIT did much of the United States. He put an ‘end to for the Catholics The convention was called to order by | State Chalrman C. M. Barnett. There Morris B. Belknap, Hon. Augustus E. | Wilson and Attorney General Clifton B. | Pratt. Chairman Barnett announced that | the State Central Committee would waive | its right to arbitrarily name the tem- porary chairman and called for nomina- tions. Major Willlam C. Owens was named by the Belknap forces, while Charles Blanford recelved a large part of the combined strength of the Wilson and Pratt forces. The result was a vote of 1571 to 675 in favor of Owens. This vote cast in the contest for Governor would | enable Belknap to win even should he | lose the contested Louisville delegation of 249 votes. INDORSE ROOSEVELT. Former Governor Bradley then offered ! the following resolution: Resolved, That we, the Republicans of Ken- | tucky, express our heartfelt approval and ad- miration of the administration of Theodore Roosevelt_and that we heartily indorse him | for the Republican nomination for President in 1604. The resolution was read by ex-Governor Bradley without having first obtained consent, but it was unanimously adopted by a rising vote. Immediately afterward Mr. Bradley was given a tremendous ovation. He made an address, in which he appealed for honest elections and honest conven- tions and referred indirectly to the con- test over the Louisville delegation by pleading that the delegates nominate only a man whose methods had been fair and *honest and one who could command united support. The speech was power- fully put and there immediately began what threatened to pecome a stampede to Bradley. Hundred ered about him and admonished him that he was the man who most nearly resem- bled the picture he had himself drawn. 1f Bradley had been placed in nomination then he would have received an almost unanimous vote. Bradley has been supporting Hon. A, E. Wilson, who is contesting the entire Loulsville delegation. After half an hour of steadily growing excitement the convention was suddenly adjourned unJll to-night. STILL WANT BRADLEY. At the night session the report of the committee on credentials was not quite ready and an adjournment was taken un- til to-morrow. The delay in the conven- tion was caused by the contest over the Loulsville delegation, the Wilson forces developing unexpected strength. While waiting for news of yhat the committee would do, the delegates called incessant- ly for Bradley, showing that the effects of the outburst of the afternoon had not been dissipated. The Bradley sentiment, so suddenly but strongly developed, un- settled the calculations of the politicians. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Yerkes made a speech during the evening indicating his preference for Belknap. —_— % HIGHLAND CATTLE. NEXT SUNDAY’S ART SUPPLEMENT. Framed closely with three or four inch plain Flemish Browa Osk will make a beautiful pic- ture for your study. Highland Cattle is by that celebrated Scotch artist, WIL- of delegates gath- | the stupid polemics of certain French Catholic writers against so-called Ameri- canism; he created the Catholic Univer- sity in Washington and Instituted an apostolic delegation by which he put an end to conflicts between Catholics of the United States. But one of his most im- portant acts was making Mgr. Gibbons a Cardinal e ELOPEMENT IS FOLLOWED BY A DOUBLE TRAGEDY Married Man Kills Girl Who Ran Away With Him and Then Commits Suicide. BAKER CITY, Or.,, July 15.—A double tragedy occurred three miles east of Dur- kee, in this county, to-day. A. A. Ear! of Caldwell, Idaho, killed young girt a | known as Blossom and then committed suicide to avold arrest by pursuing offi- cers. Earl, who was a married man about 35 years of age, with a wife and two children, eloped with the girl, who was between 15 and 16 years of age, Tuesday. They came to Huntington early to-day and walked west on the Oregon Raflroad and Navigation track toward this city. Sheriff Watkins of Canyon County, Idaho, followed Earl and his companion with a warrant for their ar- rest and at Huntington was joined by Deputy Sheriff Hanna of this county. The officers struck the trail of the man and girl and overtook them on the raflroad track three miles east of Durkee. When the eloping couple discovered the officers were following them they left the rail- road and hid in the brush. Shortly after- ward the officers heard two shots in quick | succession and found that the man had shot the girl and himself. The girl lived about fifteen minutes. Karl lived three and a half hours. —_——————— SUPPORT OF PLURAL WIFE NOT A LEGAL OBLIGATION Supreme Court of Utah Decides That Only Moral Law Governs Illegal ages. SALT LAKE, July 15.—According to a decision of the State Supreme Court, a man is under moral, but not legal obli- gation to support his plural wives and educate his children by such unfons. The decision was rendered in the case on ap- peal from the Utah County District Coart in a sult for separate maintenance brought by Mary Caroline Riddle, a plural wife of Isaac Riddle. The Supreme Court is of the opinion that, “notwith- standing celestial or plural marriage is one of the essential tenets of the Mor- mon church, the legal status of marriage exists between parties who in Utah, be- fore the enactment of any statute upon the subject, though members of that church have made a contract of mar- riage in which they mutually agree to as- sume and observe the legal obligations of that relation, and in pursuance of that agreement openly cohabit as man and wife and hold themselves out to the pub- lic as such. But in the absence of such an agrecment the legal status of mar- riage cannot arise. ————————— PRESIDENT WRITES TO NEGRO SOCIETY Says Colored Man Must Show Ability to Take Care of Him- self. ‘WASHINGTON, July 15.—A large hall, LIAM WATSON. _— & Say They Were Swindled. J. W. Schouten and M. J. Savage each filed a suit for $3000 damages yesterday against G. B. Baker, T. Hodge, W. 8. Pardy, W. A. Jacobs and Claus Kruger. They charge the defendants with entering into a conspiracy to defraud them out of the amount sued for and falsely repre- senting to them the conditions under which the Savage Oll Company was in- corporated. o ———— California souvenirs. Great variety Sanborn & Vail's, 741 Market street. recently erected by the United Order of True Reformers, a fraternal and bene- ficlal organization composed and man- aged entirely by negroes, was dedicated here to-day with elaborate ceremonies. President Roosevelt sent a letter regret- :ln‘ his inability to be present and say- ng: 1 Mn‘flgt':l earnestly believe in all industrial and organizations of this character, wh purposes are to teach |hclunun{4nr|?lt,. and self: economy, industry, self-de) No one can watch with more zealous interest Dprogress of colored race, and how e de- PRESIDENT HOLLAND. Continued From Page 1, Column 3. they will be placed on the stand and a sworn statement read by them, and if counsel from the other side wish to redirect examine them he may do #0 at the conclusion of their state- have s the ment. President Holland was then called to the stand and read the following state- ment: I was chosen president of the United Rail- roads of San Francisco on May 22, 1902, hav- ing been acting president since March 31, 1002, when I assumed the duties of the office. At that time the wage scale in effect upon the several divisions of the United Rallroads | varied somewhat. The United Rallroads on April 1, 1902, assumed the management -ndl ownership of the several street raflw op- ertis known as the Market Bmgl way system, the main portion of the Sutter Street Rallway system, the Sutro Railroad and the | 8an Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railwaf | system. On these lines motdrmen, gripmen, drivers and conductors were. receiving the fol lowing rates of pay: The Market street system—22c per hour for the first five years, 23c per hour for the second | five years, 24c per hour for the third five years, 25c per hour for the fourth five years and there. after. Sutter street system—21c per hour flat. The Sutro system—22c per hour flat. The San Francisco and San Mateo system— 22c per kour flat. ATl of which on May 1, 1802, were t teen placed on the same wage basis Market street system. WAGES TOO HIGH. It was not the policy of the new manage- ment to make any radical or sudgen change in the personnel of the operating department of the raflway, nor was it the Intention of the | company to reduce wages, although the wage | scales in effect were high by comparison with | wage scales in effect in other large cities on | this coast d elsewhere. i) | economical consolidation of the physical prop- | erties and to give to the public the improved | ;elr\‘l& that consolidation would render possi- | | e. Before the detalls of reorganization were | well under way, viz., on the 19th day of | April, 1902, less than three weeks after taking | over the properties, a strike was declared and | all_of the company's lines were “tied up.’” | The company gave the most careful consid- | eration of ull of the carmen's demands. The ! wage demand of 25 cents per hour was con- | sidered exorbitant. We were unable to find a simflar high scale prevailing on any large system of street raflways in America for men | in similar employment. At that time, to-wit, | in April, 1502, T made or caused to be made, an inquiry of other street rallway companies on this coast as to the rates of ages then prevailing on their respective lines. The fol- | lowing summary sets forth the replies received | nies in answer to euch in- | the wage scales then | nes: At Los Angeles. Cal—The Los Angeles Rail- | way Company paid the following rates: Un- | der three ars, 20c per hour: over three and years, 2ic per hour: over five yi The Los Angeles Traction ¢ pany paid the same tes. i At Oakland, Cal.—The Oakland Transit Com- | pany paid the following Y Under three years, 2lc per hour: over three years, 22c per | hour; work from 10 to 11 hours per day | At Sacramento, Cal.—The Sacramento Elec- tric, Gas and Railway Company paid the fol- lowing rates: First two years. 18c per hour; | next three years, 18c per hour: next three | years, 20c per hour; after eight years’ service, | 2le per hour. At San Diego, Cal.—San Diego Electric | Rallway Company paid its carmen 20c per hour. | At Fresno, Cal.—The Fresno, Belmonj and Yosemite Railroad Compapy paid its carmen $2 per day. r At Portland, Ore.—The City and Sdburban Rallway Company paid ite regular men 223c | per hour, and its extra men 20c per hour. At Seattle, Wash.—The Seattle Elenrlc! Company paid its men 22¢ per hour. At Spokane, Wash.—The Washington Water | Power Company vald its men for the first six | months 18c per hour: 12 months 20c per hour; | 2 months 2lc per hour; then 22%c until 1 years' service; after which 250 per hour. Max- | imum hours 12 to 13, according to_run. One day off per week without pay. No expres limit as to time within which swing runs shall be comnleted. At Tacoma, Wash.—The Tacoma Railwa: and Power Company paid their men a_ sliding scale according to character of runs and length | of service. New men have single truck run and old men have cable and double truck runs. Base rates: Single truck, 18c; cable and dou- ble truck, 20c for city runs; long distance hizh epeed suburban passenger and freight, 223ac. | To above rate they add lc an hour for every five years' service. Average of runs about 2i. Old men have choice of runs according to sen- lority. "% FILES OBJECTION. At this juncture Livernash objected to the introduction of any testimony rela- tive to the wages paid carmen in other cities. He sald in part: | On behalf of the union which is & party to this arbitration, 1 enter a formal objection to | the testimony sought to be adduced by the | question_just put. As the ground of the ob- | jection I represent that this testimony competent, irrelevant and immateri would be inherently unjust, un-American and industrially unsafe and unsound for the Ar- | bitration Commission to indulge the standard ' contended for by the United Railroads, under | cover of the question put, as a right standard | for fixing wages of members of our union. i The standard, 1 take it, contended for as against the union is such standard as might be ascertained If the old Ricardo law of supply | and demand were to be given free play. And we urge that conditions in San Francisco and | conditions generally in America physically for- ! bid the free play of the law of supply and de- | mand in the labor market; and that the high- | est demands of American civilization will re- quire that this Arbitration Commission should | do nothing tending to substitute the law of | supply and @emand for the law invoked by our unfon. 1 shall not at this time engage in any argu- merit upon this subject-matter, but when I am in the presemce of the arbitrators themselves | 1 shall supvort my objection by both parole | and written plea. FIRST IMPULSE. Continuing at the close of the objection of Livernash, President Holland stated: | The first Impulse was to resist this demand | or compromise it, but, being assured that to | concede a substantial advance upon the highest | wages pald on any large system on this coast | or elsewhere in America would permanently | put labor troubles behind us, and, wishing the | £00d will of our men and the public, the com- | pany practically granted every demand- made | by the men, except one, which has since been | granted, to-wit: The company declined to | Fecognize the union, but agreed to treat with ‘committees of its own employes. The settle- ment was adjusted April 26, 1002. President Holland then read the agree- | ment entered into between the United | Ratflroads and the Carmen’s Union. Continuing. President Holland said: In less than four months another controversy was threatened, and 1 am advised that new demands were prepared to be served upon the | company fn August last, but that wiser coun- sel advised a postponement of such demands until the presentation of those now under con- sideration. COMPANY’S SCHEDULE. On March 16, 1903, the demands in contro- versy were served upon the company and these demands with the subsequent replies and cor- respondence constitiite the basis of the present arbitration under which this company has presented for the consideration of the arbiters the following scale of wages: % cents per hour for the first year, 23 cents per hour for the second year, 23% cents per hour for the third year, 24 cents per hour for thé fourth year, 25 cents per hour for the fitth year. The legal rate of fare in San Francisco is 5 cents. This rate is fixed by law and cannot be increased by the company, nor is any addi- tional charge made for transgrs. The franchises held by the company are not perpetual, as I8 tly case in other communities. They were originally granted to our predecessors in interest for a term of fifty years between twenty and thirty years ago. Under the present charter of the city and county of San Francisco street railway fran- chises may only be granted for the period of twenty-five years. At the expiration of such franchises the roadbed, ralls, superstructures and all fixtures on the public streets become the property of the city. During the twenty- five-vear lfie of the franchise the company re- celving the same must pay into the city treas- ury the following percentages of its grosa re- ceipts: Three per cent for the first five years, 4 per cent for the next ten years, 5 per cent for the pext ten years. HIGHEST WAGES. On behalf of the United Railroads of San Francisco, I may say that this company will well and ‘faithfully carry out the terms and live up to the true spirit and intent of such contract as may be finally entered imto be. tween itself on the one hand and the Carmen’ Union on the other hand. Grav of this A But above and certain |MMI°‘ or system on the coast will bring about for similar changes on every West. Indeed, its effect woul still, (wllflho!m cents upward must I America who are recei to basten. ‘When President Holland goncluded read- ! | first reason Is that with the exception of | Butte, Mont., no street car men are pald { that I think they are paid too much.” ADVERTISEMENTS. THREE DAYS ON SANSOME TREET On Saturday night we lcave forever the scene of forty years’ active busincss life. Early next week we will occupy our mag- nificent new establishment at 514-516-518 Market Strect. Come down before we 20. You can’t fail to be suited, and our prices mean mongey in your pocket. Fine Clothing for Man, Boy and Child MILL TO MAN BROWNES: ety -123 SANSOME.ST! 10.YoU get other men?" “No, I simply got this information so as to be informed concerning the labor market,” replied Holland. “We could supply the demand in three days.” ?'h ll suppose if there were no immi- gration laws to stop youw, you could 10,000 Japs from Japan,” n’mpped uvfif nash. Continuing Livernash said, “I certainly know that should you attempt to ship out trainloads of men from the East you would not be allowed to run your cars.” At this stage Moore jumped into the fray with, “Well, now, as an American citizen, I am glad te know just how you stand. I suppose you would stop these men by force of arms.” WHOLE- SALE CLOTHIERs 12§ ing his statement Attorney Moore wheeled around sharply to Livernash and said, “Take the witness.” From then on until the close of the ses. sion Livernash and President Holland went at it hammer and tongs. “I see the company has presented to the board of arbitration a new schedule of wages,” saild Livernash. “They are lower than the present rate of wages, are they not, Mr. Holland? Would you ke to see them adopted?” PAID TOO MUCH. “Yes, T should like to see them adopt- ed,” replied Holland. “I think the present wages of the carmen are too high. Yes, we want to see the wages reduced.” ‘What are your reasons for wishing to see the carmen’s wages reduced?” contin- WOULD NOT USE FORCE. ued Livernash. - “Oh. {bore are many reasons. Tthought| T did not say anything about force ot arms. I do say, though,” sald Livernash, “that there are*.000 union men here and they would prevent any such steps being taken. There was a car strike here re- cently and there was no disorder.” “No, there was no disorder,” said Moore, “but a vast amount of intimida tion. You should go over to Oakland now and see what I mean. When a linenan goes out to fix a wire one or two mer fol- /@ow on bicycles shouting ‘scab’ or prate,” at the close of the strike that the men were presenting a very extreme rate. My as high wages as in San Francisco. My second reason is that the climatic condi- tions are so favorable to the carmen here “Well, Mr. Holland, do you think that the carmen’'s wages should be governed by the studying of a thermometer?” Liv- ernhsh asked or something of that nature. We have " "t come to a climax, Mr. Livernash, and T No, 1 don't mean that—that is putting can plainly see your views. You dom't What I mean is the matter too severely. that a carman who has to wear three or | four coats to keep warm in the depth of winter in the East is entitled to more money than a man working in San Fran- cisco. The conditions of life are easy here, and we can get all the men we want to work,” he added. “Well, then, Mr. Holland, you also think that wages should be governed by supply | and demand; and I ask whether you think ! you can get men to work for less money on the cars?”’ Livernash asked. “T have no doubt of it,” promptly re- plied Holland. GET PLENTY OF MEN. “Where can you get the men?” asked Livernash. think it is right for an American © go to work if the unions won't allow him to work. ILet me congratulate you; I am glad to see you so sincere.” A few minutes before recess Cqaduetor Quinn of the Union street line was re- called. He said that he went out to the races about once a month in the season and that he was always given a ticket by a friend of Tom Williams. He did not know whether the carmen of the, Califor- nia street line did or did not play, the races. He did not consider that it was his business to know. The case will be resumed at 10 o’clock this morning. e —-— Airship Ready for Trial Trip. “Many places—New Jersey, for instance. David Young has Informed me that he could get all the men he wanted to come from there and work for less, and be glad to get the work. 1 am informed that there were 2000 men obtainable.” “Oh, then, you have looked around to WASHINGTON, July 15.—Professor §. P. Langley’s new airship was towed down the Potomac River to-day to a secluded point on the Lower Potomac, where it will be given its initial trial as soon as some few detalls”can be arranged. ADVERTISEMENTS. ~ Furniture, carpets, curtainsl Cash treatment without cash This is the proposition: You want to fur- nish a home. You haven’t enough ready cash to pay in full when the goods are delivered, aence you're compelled to buy “on time.” Yet you dislike trading in an out-and-out install- ment store. 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